FINAL RULES PUBLISHED IN THE FEDERAL REGISTER DURING 1999
TREASURY DEPARTMENT, OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSET CONTROL
FOREIGN ASSET CONTROL REGULATIONS
(31 CFR Part 500 et seq.)

NOTE: CHANGES TO THE FOREIGN ASSET CONTROL REGULATIONS LISTED BELOW ARE NUMBERED CONSECUTIVELY, BEGINNING IN JANUARY OF THE NEW YEAR.

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1. Reporting and Procedures Regulations: Procedure for Requests for Removal List of Blocked Person, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorists Organizations, Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers, and Blocked Vessels (64 FR 5614 on February 4, 1999)

Commentary: The Treasury Department is amending the Reporting and Procedures Regulations by modifying the procedures for removal of names of blocked persons or vessels from the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s various lists.

2. Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations: Implementation of Executive Order 13094 (64 FR 8715 on February 23, 1999)

Commentary: The Office of Foreign Assets Control is issuing the Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations to implement additional sanctions with respect to the proliferation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons of mass destruction and of missiles capable of delivering such weapons. This rule adds a new Part 539 to the Code of Federal Regulations, implementing Executive Order 13094. It authorizes imposition of penalties on parties outside the United States that engage in proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. Such penalties may include a prohibition on the procurement by the United States government of goods from the foreign party, and a prohibition on importation into the United States of goods produced by the foreign party.

3. Iran Transactions Regulations; Implementation of Executive Order 13059 (64 FR 20168 on April 26, 1999)

Commentary: The Office of Foreign Assets Control is amending the Iranian Transaction Regulations to implement Executive Order 13059, which clarifies the steps taken in Executive Orders 12957 and 12959 with respect to the declaration of national emergency and imposition of new and additional sanctions against Iran. In summary, it substantially increases the controls on the importation of goods and information from Iran and exports and reexports of goods and information to Iran.

4. Cuban Assets Control Regulations: Sales of Food and Agricultural Inputs; Remittances; Educational, Religious, and Other Activities; Travel-Related Transactions; U.S. Intellectual Property (64 FR 25808 on May 13, 1999)

Commentary: Pursuant to the President's announcement of January 5, 1999, the Treasury Department is amending the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (31 CFR 515) to modify certain provisions with respect to remittances and travel-related transactions and to make other clarifying and conforming amendments to the regulations. The regulations also implement a statutory provision excluding from an existing general license transactions involving certain intellectual property used in connection with a business or assets that were confiscated.

5. Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers: Additional Designations and Removals and Supplementary Information on Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers; Removal of Appendix B; Redesignation of Appendix C (64 FR 34984 on June 30, 1999)

 Commentary: The Treasury Department is amending Appendix A to 31 CFR Chapter V by adding the names of 8 individuals and 41 entities and supplementing information concerning 44 individuals who have been designated as specially designated narcotics traffickers. The entries for four individuals previously listed as specially designated narcotics traffickers are being removed from Appendix A. In addition, appendix B to 31 CFR Chapter V is being removed and Appendix C is being redesignated as Appendix B.

6. Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers: Designations of Senior UNITA Officials (64 FR 349991 on June 30, 1999)

Commentary: The Treasury Department is amending the Appendix A to 31 CFR Chapter V by adding the names of 10 individuals who have been determined to be senior officials of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (“UNITA”).

7.  Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers: Additional Sudanese Government Designations and Supplementary Information, and Removal of One Individual  (64 FR 35575 on July 1, 1999)

Commentary:  The Treasury Department is amending Appendix A to 31 CFR chapter V by adding the names of 60 entities and providing additional identifying information on 3 entities that have been determined to act for or on behalf of, or to be owned or controlled by, the Government of Sudan, and by adding the names of one organization and 3 individuals who are specially designated terrorists.  In addition, the name of one specially designated national of the Government of Iraq is being removed because the Office of Foreign Assets Control has determined that this individual no longer meets the criteria for designation as an SDN. 

 8. Proposed Collection; Cuba Travel Declaration (64 FR 38235 on July 15, 1999 and 41189 on July 29, 1999)

 Commentary:  The Treasury Department, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the Office of Foreign Asset Control’s Cuba Travel Declaration information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506 (c)(2)(A)). In the initial publication on July 15, comments were due by September 13.  The subsequent publication extended the date for comments to September 27.  

9. Proposed Collection; Electronic License Application Form (64 FR 38235 on July 15, 1999 and 41189 on July 29, 1999)

Commentary:  The Treasury Department, as part of its continuing effort to reduce paperwork and respondent burden, invites the general public and other Federal agencies to take this opportunity to comment on the Office of Foreign Assets Control’s Electronic License Application Form information collection, as required by the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995, Public Law 104-13 (44 U.S.C. 3506 (c)(2)(A)). In the initial publication on July 15, comments were due by September 13.  The subsequent publication extended the date for comments to September 27.  

Commentary: The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is amending the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations, the Libyan Sanctions Regulations, and the Iranian Transactions Regulations to add statements of licensing policy with respect to commercial sales of agricultural commodities and products, medicine, and medical equipment under both general and specific licenses. The effective date of this rule is July 27, 1999.

Commentary: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is amending the UNITA (Angola) Sanctions Regulations to implement Executive Order 13069 of December 12, 1997, and Executive Order 13098 of August 18, 1998, prohibiting certain transactions with respect to the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola ("UNITA") and to make other technical and conforming changes.

12. Sudanese Sanctions Regulations; Libyan Sanctions Regulations; Iranian Transactions Regulations: Licensing of Commercial Sales, Exportation and Reexportation of Agricultural Commodities and Products, Medicine, and Medical Equipment; Iranian Accounts on the Books of U.S. Depository Institutions; Informational Materials; Visas (64 FR 58789 on November 1, 1999)

Commentary: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control is amending provisions relating to the financing of agricultural and medical sales appearing in the Sudanese Sanctions Regulations (31 CFR part 538), the Libyan Sanctions Regulations (31 CFR part 550), and the Iranian Transactions Regulations (31 CFR part 560). While general licenses continue to prohibit financing of sales by entities of the Governments of Sudan, Libya or Iran, the amendments remove language prohibiting the issuance of specific licenses authorizing financing by entities of those governments.

New appendices are added to identify approved eligible procurement bodies of the Governments of Libya and Iran. Technical changes are made in all three sets of regulations with respect to licensing requirements of other Federal agencies. Technical changes are made in the Iranian Transactions Regulations concerning debits and credits to Iranian accounts on the books of U.S. depository institutions and concerning eligible purchasers. Finally, technical changes are made to the Iranian Transactions Regulations to revise language on informational materials and language on informational materials and on "H" (temporary worker) visas. This rule is effective October 27, 1999.

13. Blocked Persons, Specially Designated Nationals, Specially Designated Terrorists, Foreign Terrorist Organizations, and Specially Designated Narcotics Traffickers: Addition of Persons Blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13088 (64 FR 60660 on November 8, 1999)Commentary: The Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control is adding to Appendix A to 31 CFR chapter V the names of persons determined to be state- or socially-owned entities organized or located in the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and of individuals determined to be acting for or on behalf of the Government of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) and/or the Government of the Republic of Serbia because of senior positions such individuals hold in those governments. Names of blocked persons appearing in section II of Appendix A and blocked vessels appearing in Appendix B pursuant to part 585 of 31 CFR chapter V are removed. This rule is effective November 3, 1999.

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