[Federal Register Volume 79, Number 175 (Wednesday, September 10, 2014)]
[Notices]
[Pages 53823-53824]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2014-21574]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice: 8863; Docket No. DOS-2014-0022]
Notice of Meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
There will be a meeting of the Cultural Property Advisory Committee
October 7-9, 2014 at the U.S. Department of State, Annex 5, 2200 C
Street NW., Washington, DC. Portions of this meeting will be closed to
the public, as discussed below.
During the closed portion of the meeting, the Committee will review
the proposal to extend the Memorandum of Understanding Between the
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the
Republic of El Salvador Concerning the Imposition of Import
Restrictions on Certain Categories of Archaeological Material from the
Prehispanic Cultures of the Republic of El Salvador (``MOU'') [Docket
No. DOS-2014-0022]. An open session to receive oral public comment on
the proposal to extend the MOU with El Salvador will be held on
Tuesday, October 7, 2014, beginning at 10:30 a.m. EDT.
Also, during the closed portion of the meeting, the Committee will
conduct interim reviews of the Memorandum of Understanding between the
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the
Republic of Bolivia Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on
Archaeological Material from the Pre-Columbian Cultures and Certain
Ethnological Material from the Colonial and Republican Periods of
Bolivia and the Memorandum of Understanding between the Government of
the United States of America and the Government of the Hellenic
Republic Concerning the Imposition of Import Restrictions on Categories
of Archaeological and Byzantine Ecclesiastical Ethnological Material
through the 15th Century A.D. of the Hellenic Republic. Public comment,
oral and written, will be invited at a time in the future should these
Memoranda of Understanding be proposed for extension. In closed
session, the Committee will also continue its review of the request
from the Arab Republic of Egypt to enter into a bilateral agreement
The Committee's responsibilities are carried out in accordance with
provisions of the Convention on Cultural Property Implementation Act
(19 U.S.C. 2601 et seq.; ``Act''). The text of the Act and MOUs, as
well as related information, may be found at http://culturalheritage.state.gov. If you wish to attend the open session on
October 7, 2014, you should notify the Cultural Heritage Center of the
Department of State at (202) 632-6301 no later than 5:00 p.m. (EDT)
September 29, 2014, to arrange for admission. Seating is limited. When
calling, please specify if you need reasonable accommodation. The open
session will be held at 2200 C St. NW., Washington, DC 20037. Please
plan to arrive 30 minutes before the beginning of the open session.
If you wish to make an oral presentation at the open session you
must request to be scheduled by the above-mentioned date and time, and
you must submit written comments, ensuring that they are received no
later than September 29, 2014, at11:59 p.m. (EDT), via the eRulemaking
Portal (see below), to allow time for distribution to Committee members
prior to the meeting. Oral comments will be limited to five (5) minutes
to allow time for questions from members of the Committee. All oral and
written comments must relate specifically to the determinations under
19 U.S.C. 2602, pursuant to which the Committee must make findings.
This statute can be found at the Web site noted above.
If you do not wish to make oral comment but still wish to make your
views known, you may send written comments for the Committee to
consider. Again, your comments must relate specifically to the
determinations
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under 19 U.S.C. 2602. Submit all written materials electronically
through the eRulemaking Portal (see below), ensuring that they are
received no later than September 29, 2014 at 11:59 p.m. (EDT). Our
adoption of this procedure facilitates public participation; implements
Section 206 of the E-Government Act of 2002, Public Law 107-347, 116
Stat. 2915; and supports the Department of State's ``Greening
Diplomacy'' initiative which aims to reduce the State Department's
environmental footprint and reduce costs.
Please submit comments only once using one of these methods:
Electronic Delivery. To submit comments electronically, go
to the Federal eRulemaking Portal (http://www.regulations.gov), enter
the Docket No. DOS-2014-0022, and follow the prompts to submit a
comment. Comments submitted in electronic form are not private. They
will be posted on the site http://www.regulations.gov. Because the
comments cannot be edited to remove any identifying or contact
information, the Department of State cautions against including any
information in an electronic submission that one does not want publicly
disclosed (including trade secrets and commercial or financial
information that is privileged or confidential pursuant to 19 U.S.C.
2605(i)(1)).
Regular Mail or Delivery. If you wish to submit
information that you believe to be privileged or confidential, and
submitted in confidence pursuant to 19 U.S.C. 2605(i)(1), you may do so
via regular mail, commercial delivery, or personal hand delivery to the
following address: Cultural Heritage Center (ECA/P/C), SA-5, Floor C2,
U.S. Department of State, Washington, DC 20522-05C2. Only comments that
you believe to be privileged or confidential will be accepted via those
methods. Comments must be postmarked by September 29, 2014.
Comments submitted by fax or email are not accepted. All comments
must be submitted via the eRulemaking Portal only. All comments will be
viewable by the public, so do not include any information that you
consider privileged or confidential.
The Department of State requests that any party soliciting or
aggregating comments received from other persons for submission to the
Department of State inform those persons that the Department of State
will not edit their comments to remove any identifying or contact
information, and that they therefore should not include any information
in their comments that they do not want publicly disclosed.
As noted above, portions of the meeting will be closed pursuant to
5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) and 19 U.S.C. 2605(h), the latter of which
stipulates that ``The provisions of the Federal Advisory Committee Act
shall apply to the Cultural Property Advisory Committee except that the
requirements of subsections (a) and (b) of sections 10 and 11 of such
Act (relating to open meetings, public notice, public participation,
and public availability of documents) shall not apply to the Committee,
whenever and to the extent it is determined by the President or his
designee that the disclosure of matters involved in the Committee's
proceedings would compromise the government's negotiation objectives or
bargaining positions on the negotiations of any agreement authorized by
this chapter.'' Pursuant to law, Executive Order, and Delegation of
Authority, I have made such a determination.
Personal information regarding attendees is requested pursuant to
Public Law 99-399 (Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of
1986), as amended; Public Law 107-56 (USA PATRIOT Act); and Executive
Order 13356. The purpose of the collection is to validate the identity
of individuals who enter Department facilities. The data will be
entered into the Visitor Access Control System (VACS-D) database.
Please see the Security Records System of Records Notice (State-36) at
http://www.state.gov/documents/organization/103419.pdf for additional
information.
Dated: September 3, 2014.
Evan Ryan,
Assistant Secretary, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs, U.S.
Department of State.
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