5 February 1998
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[Federal Register: February 5, 1998 (Volume 63, Number 24)]
[Notices]
[Page 5928]
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration


Information Systems; Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of
Partially Closed Meeting

    A meeting of the Information Systems Technical Advisory Committee
will be held February 19 & 20, 1998, Room 1617M-2, in the Herbert C.
Hoover Building, 14th Street between Constitution and Pennsylvania
Avenues, N.W., Washington, D.C. This Committee advises the Office of
the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration with respect to
technical questions that affect the level of export controls applicable
to information systems equipment and technology.

February 19

General Session 9:00 a.m.

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairman.
    2. Solicitation of public comments on Composite Theoretical
Performance as the appropriate performance metric for future chip
designs.
    3. Discussion of ECCN 4E001, paragraph for License Exception TSR
(Technology and Software Restricted).
    4. Bureau of Export Administration update on encryption licensing
initiatives.
    5. Other comments or presentations by the public.

February 19 & 20

Closed Session

    6. Discussion of matters properly classified under Executive Order
12958, dealing with U.S. export control programs and strategic criteria
related thereto.
    The General Session of the meeting is open to the public and a
limited number of seats will be available. To the extent time permits,
members of the public may present oral statements to the Committee.
Written statements may be submitted at any time before or after the
meeting. However, to facilitate distribution of public presentation
materials to the Committee members, the Committee suggests that public
presentation materials or comments be forwarded at least one week
before the meeting to the address listed below: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter,
OAS/EA MS: 3886C, Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of
Commerce, Washington, D.C. 20230.
    The Assistant Secretary for Administration, with the concurrence of
the delegate of the General Counsel, formally determined on October 3,
1997, pursuant to section 10(d) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act,
as amended, that the series of meetings or portions of meetings of
these Committees and of any Subcommittees thereof, dealing with the
classified materials listed in 5 U.S.C. 552(c)(1) shall be exempt from
the provisions relating to public meetings found in section 10(a)(1)
and (a)(3), of the Federal Advisory Committee Act. The remaining series
of meetings or portions thereof will be open to the public. A copy of
the Notice of Determination to close meetings or portions of meetings
of these Committees is available for public inspection and copying in
the Central Reference and Records Inspection Facility, Room 6020, U.S.
Department of Commerce, Washington, D.C. For further information or
copies of the minutes call Lee Ann Carpenter, 202-482-2583.
    Dated: January 30, 1998.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 98-2755 Filed 2-4-98; 8:45 am]
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