Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of Partially Closed Meeting, 12705-12706 [2025-04490]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• Bureau of Industry and Security

[Federal Register Volume 90, Number 52 (Wednesday, March 19, 2025)]
[Notices]
[Pages 12705-12706]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2025-04490]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security


Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee; Notice of 
Partially Closed Meeting

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Notice of partially closed meeting.

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SUMMARY: The Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee 
(METAC) advises and assists the Secretary of Commerce and other Federal 
officials on matters related to export control policies; the METAC will 
meet to review and discuss these matters. The meeting will be partially 
closed to the public pursuant to the exemptions under the Federal 
Advisory Committee Act (FACA) and the Government in the Sunshine Act.

DATES: The meeting will be held on April 3, 2025, from 10 a.m. to 3 
p.m., Eastern Time. The open session will start at 10 a.m. and end at 
approximately 12 p.m. The closed session will start at approximately 1 
p.m. and end no later than 3 p.m. Individuals requiring special 
accommodations to access the public meeting should contact 
[email protected] no later than Thursday, March 27, 2025, so that 
appropriate arrangements can be made. Individuals interested in 
participating virtually should contact [email protected] no later than 
11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on April 1, 2025.

ADDRESSES: The meeting will be held in Room 3884 of the Herbert C. 
Hoover Building, 1401 Constitution Avenue NW, Washington, DC (enter 
through the Main Entrance on 14th Street between Constitution and 
Pennsylvania Avenues). The public session will be accessible via 
teleconference.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tara Gonzalez, Committee Liaison 
Officer, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce. 
For additional information, contact (202) 482-4933 or [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Materials and Equipment Technical Advisory Committee (METAC) 
advises and assists the Secretary of Commerce (Secretary) and other 
Federal officials and agencies with respect to actions designed to 
carry out the policy set forth in Section 1752 of the Export Control 
Reform Act. The purpose of the meeting is to have the METAC members and 
U.S. Government representatives mutually review the updated technical 
data and policy-driving information that has been gathered.

Agenda

    The public session will include working group reports, open 
business discussions, and industry presentations. The closed session 
will include discussion of matters determined to be exempt from the 
open meeting and public participation requirements found in sections 
1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3) of the Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA) 
(5 U.S.C. 1001-1014).

Open Session Attendance

    The open session will be accessible via teleconference. To 
participate virtually, submit inquiries to [email protected]. 
Registration in advance is required to receive the meeting invite for 
virtual attendance. Individuals interested in participating virtually 
should contact [email protected] no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on 
April 1, 2025. A limited number of seats will be available for members 
of the public to attend the open session in person on a first-come 
basis. Reservations to attend in person are not accepted. Registration 
in advance is not required for in-person attendance, but you will be 
asked to sign an attendance log when you arrive.

Special Accommodations

    Individuals requiring special accommodations to access the public 
meeting should contact [email protected] no later than 11:59 p.m. Eastern 
Time on Thursday, March 27, 2025, so that appropriate arrangements can 
be made.

Public Participation

    To the extent that time permits during the open session, members of 
the public may present oral statements to the METAC. The public may 
submit written statements at any time before or after the

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meeting. However, to facilitate distribution of materials to the METAC 
members, the METAC suggests that members of the public forward their 
materials prior to the meeting via email to [email protected]. Material 
submitted by the public will be made public; therefore, submissions 
should not contain confidential information. Meeting materials from the 
public session will be accessible via the Technical Advisory Committee 
(TAC) site at: https://tac.bis.doc.gov, within 30 days after the 
meeting.

Closure Determination

    A Senior Advisor, performing the Non-Exclusive Functions and Duties 
of the Chief Financial Officer and Assistant Secretary for 
Administration, with the concurrence of the delegate of the General 
Counsel, formally determined, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 1009(d), that the 
portion of the meeting dealing with pre-decisional changes to the 
Commerce Control List and the U.S. export control policies shall be 
exempt from the provisions relating to public meetings found in 5 
U.S.C. 1009(a)(1) and 1009(a)(3). The remaining portions of the meeting 
will be open to the public. The exemption is authorized by section 
1009(d) of the FACA, which permits the closure of advisory committee 
meetings, or portions thereof, if the head of the agency to which the 
advisory committee reports determines such meetings may be closed to 
the public in accordance with subsection (c) of the Government in the 
Sunshine Act (5 U.S.C. 552b(c)). In this case, the applicable 
provisions of 5 U.S.C. 552b(c) are subsection 552b(c)(4), which permits 
closure to protect trade secrets and commercial or financial 
information that is privileged or confidential, and subsection 
552b(c)(9)(B), which permits closure to protect information that would 
be likely to disclose information the premature disclosure of which 
would be likely to significantly frustrate implementation of a proposed 
agency action. The closed session of the meeting will involve committee 
discussions and guidance regarding U.S. Government strategies and 
policies.

Meeting Cancellation

    If the meeting is cancelled, a cancellation notice will be posted 
on the TAC website at: https://tac.bis.doc.gov.

Tara Gonzalez,
Committee Liaison Officer.
[FR Doc. 2025-04490 Filed 3-18-25; 8:45 am]
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