BXA Meet in Portland OR

Any chance someone NW can attend this and report?

Federal Register: August 25, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 164)
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory Committee; Notice
of Open Meeting

    A meeting of the Regulations and Procedures Technical Advisory
Committee will be held September 23, 1997, 9:00 a.m., in the Plaza Room
of the Portland World Trade Center, 25 S.W. Salmon, Portland, Oregon.
The Committee advises the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export
Administration on implementation of the Export Administration
Regulations (EAR) and provides for continuing review to update the EAR
as needed.

Agenda

    1. Opening remarks by the Chairwoman.

    2. Presentation of papers or comments by the public.

    3. Update on Bureau of Export Administration initiatives:

    <bullet> Draft encryption regulation.

    <bullet> Status of Wassenaar Arrangement implementation regulation.

    <bullet> Efforts to harmonize the Foreign Trade Statistics
Regulations and the Export Administration Regulations in regards to the
filing of Shipper's Export Declarations.

    4. Discussion of European, Japanese, and U.S. export controls in
regards to ``catch-all'' proliferation controls, Wassenaar Arrangement
controls, encryption items, and the hiring of foreign nationals.

    The meeting will be 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 Committee
members, the Committee suggests that presenters forward the public
presentation materials, two weeks prior to the meeting date, to the
following address: Ms. Lee Ann Carpenter, TAC Unit/OAS-EA, MS: 3886C,
Bureau of Export Administration, U.S. Department of Commerce,
Washington, D.C. 20230.

    For further information or copies of the minutes, contact Lee Ann
Carpenter on (202) 482-2583.

    Dated: August 19, 1997.
Lee Ann Carpenter,
Director, Technical Advisory Committee Unit.
[FR Doc. 97-22425 Filed 8-22-97; 8:45 am]

On Mon, 25 Aug 1997, John Young wrote:

> Date: Mon, 25 Aug 1997 08:10:03 -0400
> From: John Young <jya@pipeline.com>
> To: cypherpunks@toad.com
> Subject: BXA Meet in Portland OR
> 
> 
> Any chance someone NW can attend this and report?
> 
> Federal Register: August 25, 1997 (Volume 62, Number 164)

I am going to try very hard to be there.  It claims that statements will
be taken on the EAR.  Anyone want to help write a statement to be read to
the commitee?

(I wonder if you have to declare "I am not, nor have I ever been, a member
of the Cypherpunk party." before reading a statement.)

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