82_FR_6698 82 FR 6686 - Additional Designation of Syrian Entity Pursuant to E.O. 13382

82 FR 6686 - Additional Designation of Syrian Entity Pursuant to E.O. 13382

DEPARTMENT OF STATE

Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 12 (January 19, 2017)

Page Range6686-6687
FR Document2017-01223

Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of E.O. 13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters'', the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and International Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that the Syrian entity Organization for Technological Industries (OTI) has engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by any person or foreign country of proliferation concern.

Federal Register, Volume 82 Issue 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017) 
[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 12 (Thursday, January 19, 2017)]
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[FR Doc No: 2017-01223]


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DEPARTMENT OF STATE

[Public Notice 9858]


Additional Designation of Syrian Entity Pursuant to E.O. 13382

ACTION: Designation of the Organization for Technological Industries 
(OTI) Pursuant to E.O. 13382.

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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of E.O. 13382, 
``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and 
Their Supporters'', the Under Secretary of State for Arms Control and 
International Security, in consultation with the Secretary of the 
Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that the Syrian 
entity Organization for Technological Industries (OTI) has engaged, or 
attempted to engage, in activities or transactions that have materially 
contributed to, or pose a risk of materially contributing to, the 
proliferation of weapons of mass destruction or their means of delivery 
(including missiles capable of delivering such weapons), including any 
efforts to manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer 
or use such items, by any person or foreign country of proliferation 
concern.

DATES:  Effective Dates: The designation of and additional identifying 
information for the entity identified in this notice pursuant to E.O. 
13382 is effective upon publication of this notice.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of 
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and 
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.

Background

    On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter 
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued E.O. 13382 (70 FR 38567, July 1, 2005) 
(the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on June 
30, 2005. In the Order the President took additional steps with respect 
to the national emergency described and declared in E.O. 12938 of 
November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1) 
The persons listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of 
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, 
acquire, possess, develop, transport, transfer or use such items, by 
any person or foreign country of proliferation concern; (3) any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, 
to have provided, or attempted to provide, financial, material, 
technological or other support for, or goods or services in support of, 
any activity or transaction described in clause (2) above or any person 
whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to the 
Order; and (4) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, 
in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and 
other relevant agencies, to be owned or controlled by, or acting or 
purporting to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any 
person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to 
the Order.
    Information on the additional designee is as follows:

(U) Organization for Technological Industries
(U) Name: Organization for Technological Industries
(U) AKA: The Organization for Technical Industries
(U) Address: Sham Algadida OTip Box Damascus-11037, Syrian Arab 
Republic


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    Dated: January 12, 2017.
Thomas M. Countryman,
Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security, 
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2017-01223 Filed 1-18-17; 8:45 am]
 BILLING CODE 4710-27-P

6686 Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 / Notices • Respondents: U.S. citizens, U.S. for all stages of financial processing Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701–1706) non-citizen nationals, lawful permanent including the Department of State’s debt (‘‘IEEPA’’), issued E.O. 13382 (70 FR residents, and third country nationals collection process. Due to the potential 38567, July 1, 2005) (the ‘‘Order’’), applying for emergency loan assistance for serious conditions during crisis effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight during an evacuation. events that often affect electronic and time on June 30, 2005. In the Order the • Estimated Number of Respondents: internet infrastructure systems, the President took additional steps with 525. electronic form will not replace the respect to the national emergency • Estimated Number of Responses: paper form. Rather, the paper form will described and declared in E.O. 12938 of 525. still be maintained and used in the November 14, 1994, regarding the • Average Time per Response: 20 event that applicants are unable to proliferation of weapons of mass minutes. submit forms electronically. destruction and the means of delivering • Total Estimated Burden Time: 175 them. annual hours. Michelle Bernier-Toth, Section 1 of the Order blocks, with • Frequency: On Occasion. Managing Director, Bureau of Consular certain exceptions, all property and • Obligation to Respond: Required to Affairs, Overseas Citizens Services, interests in property that are in the Obtain Benefit. Department of State. United States, or that hereafter come We are soliciting public comments to [FR Doc. 2017–01079 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] within the United States or that are or permit the Department to: BILLING CODE 4710–06–P hereafter come within the possession or • Evaluate whether the proposed control of United States persons, of: (1) information collection is necessary for The persons listed in the Annex to the the proper functions of the Department. DEPARTMENT OF STATE Order; (2) any foreign person • Evaluate the accuracy of our [Public Notice 9858] determined by the Secretary of State, in estimate of the time and cost burden for consultation with the Secretary of the this proposed collection, including the Additional Designation of Syrian Entity Treasury, the Attorney General, and validity of the methodology and Pursuant to E.O. 13382 other relevant agencies, to have assumptions used. engaged, or attempted to engage, in • Enhance the quality, utility, and ACTION: Designation of the Organization activities or transactions that have clarity of the information to be for Technological Industries (OTI) materially contributed to, or pose a risk collected. Pursuant to E.O. 13382. of materially contributing to, the • Minimize the reporting burden on proliferation of weapons of mass those who are to respond, including the SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in destruction or their means of delivery use of automated collection techniques section 1(ii) of E.O. 13382, ‘‘Blocking (including missiles capable of delivering or other forms of information Property of Weapons of Mass such weapons), including any efforts to technology. Destruction Proliferators and Their manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, Please note that comments submitted Supporters’’, the Under Secretary of transport, transfer or use such items, by in response to this Notice are public State for Arms Control and International any person or foreign country of record. Before including any detailed Security, in consultation with the proliferation concern; (3) any person personal information, you should be Secretary of the Treasury and the determined by the Secretary of the aware that your comments as submitted, Attorney General, has determined that Treasury, in consultation with the including your personal information, the Syrian entity Organization for Secretary of State, the Attorney General, will be available for public review. Technological Industries (OTI) has and other relevant agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in provided, or attempted to provide, Abstract of Proposed Collection activities or transactions that have financial, material, technological or The purpose of the DS–5528 is to materially contributed to, or pose a risk other support for, or goods or services document the evacuation of persons of materially contributing to, the in support of, any activity or transaction from abroad when their lives are proliferation of weapons of mass described in clause (2) above or any endangered by war, civil unrest, or destruction or their means of delivery person whose property and interests in natural disaster; document issuance of a (including missiles capable of delivering property are blocked pursuant to the crisis evacuation loan; obtain a Privacy such weapons), including any efforts to Order; and (4) any person determined Act Waiver to share information about manufacture, acquire, possess, develop, by the Secretary of the Treasury, in the welfare of a U.S. citizen or U.S. transport, transfer or use such items, by consultation with the Secretary of State, lawful permanent resident consistent any person or foreign country of the Attorney General, and other relevant with the Privacy Act of 1974; and, to proliferation concern. agencies, to be owned or controlled by, facilitate debt collection. DATES: Effective Dates: The designation or acting or purporting to act for or on of and additional identifying behalf of, directly or indirectly, any Methodology information for the entity identified in person whose property and interests in An electronic version of the Evacuee this notice pursuant to E.O. 13382 is property are blocked pursuant to the Manifest and Promissory Note was effective upon publication of this notice. Order. created, allowing applicants to type FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Information on the additional their information into the form, print it, Director, Office of Counterproliferation designee is as follows: and present it to a consular officer at the Initiatives, Bureau of International (U) Organization for Technological evacuation point. Continued software mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES Security and Nonproliferation, Industries development will provide the capability Department of State, Washington, DC (U) Name: Organization for to electronically submit signed loan 20520, tel.: 202–647–5193. Technological Industries applications for adjudication. The final (U) AKA: The Organization for stage of software development will not Background Technical Industries only allow the applicant to enter his/her On June 28, 2005, the President, (U) Address: Sham Algadida OTip Box information and submit the form, but invoking the authority, inter alia, of the Damascus-11037, Syrian Arab will also make the information available International Emergency Economic Republic VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:20 Jan 18, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00205 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JAN1.SGM 19JAN1

Federal Register / Vol. 82, No. 12 / Thursday, January 19, 2017 / Notices 6687 Dated: January 12, 2017. CFR 1150.41 to acquire by lease from DATES: December 1–30, 2016. Thomas M. Countryman, WCC, LLC, and operate approximately ADDRESSES: Susquehanna River Basin Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and 3.5 miles of rail line in Hudson Falls, Commission, 4423 North Front Street, International Security, Department of State. Washington County, NY (the Line). Harrisburg, PA 17110–1788. [FR Doc. 2017–01223 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] According to SMS, there are no milepost FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: BILLING CODE 4710–27–P designations on the Line. Jason E. Oyler, General Counsel, SMS certifies that its projected annual telephone: (717) 238–0423, ext. 1312; revenues as a result of this transaction fax: (717) 238–2436; email: joyler@ SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD will not result in the creation of a Class srbc.net. Regular mail inquiries may be II or Class I rail carrier and will not sent to the above address. [Docket No. AB 290 (Sub-No. 387X)] exceed $5 million. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: This SMS further certifies that the Chesapeake Western Railway— notice lists the projects, described transaction does not include a provision Discontinuance of Service below, receiving approval for the or agreement that may limit future Exemption—in Rockingham and consumptive use of water pursuant to interchange commitments. Shenandoah Counties, VA. the Commission’s approval by rule The transaction may be consummated process set forth in 18 CFR 806.22(f) for AGENCY: Surface Transportation Board. on February 4, 2017, the effective date the time period specified above: ACTION:Correction to notice of of the exemption (30 days after the exemption. exemption was filed). Approvals By Rule Issued Under 18 If the notice contains false or CFR 806.22(f) On June 27, 2016, Chesapeake misleading information, the exemption 1. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, Pad Western Railway (CW) filed a verified is void ab initio. Petitions to revoke the ID: WGC, ABR–201205014.R1, Albany notice of exemption under 49 CFR 1152 exemption under 49 U.S.C. 10502(d) Township, Bradford County, Pa.; subpart F—Exempt Abandonments and may be filed at any time. The filing of Consumptive Use of Up to 7.5000 mgd; Discontinuances of Service to a petition to revoke will not Approval Date: December 2, 2016. discontinue service over an automatically stay the transaction. 2. Chesapeake Appalachia, LLC, Pad approximately 15.1-mile rail line Petitions for stay must be filed no later ID: Iceman, ABR–201205016.R1, Wilmot between milepost CW 84.4 at Mt. than January 27, 2017 (at least 7 days Township, Bradford County, Pa.; Jackson, Va., and milepost CW 99.5 at before the exemption becomes Consumptive Use of Up to 7.5000 mgd; Broadway, Va., in Rockingham and effective). Approval Date: December 2, 2016. Shenandoah Counties, Va. (the Line). An original and 10 copies of all 3. SWEPI LP, Pad ID: Cotton Hanlon On July 15, 2016, notice of the pleadings, referring to Docket No. FD 595, ABR–201612001, Sullivan exemption was served and published in 36088, must be filed with the Surface Township, Tioga County, Pa.; the Federal Register (81 FR 46,152). Transportation Board, 395 E Street SW., Consumptive Use of Up to 4.0000 mgd; On September 23, 2016, CW filed a Washington, DC 20423–0001. In Approval Date: December 2, 2016. letter stating that the starting point of addition, one copy of each pleading 4. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC, Pad the Line at milepost CW 84.4 was must be served on Robert A. Klein, 629 ID: COP Tract 356 Pad E, ABR– inadvertently incorrect and should have B Swedesford Rd., Malvern, PA 19355. 201112029.R1, Cummings Township, been CW 84.0. As a result, CW states According to SMS, this action is Lycoming County, Pa.; Consumptive that the total length of the Line is categorically excluded from Use of Up to 4.0000 mgd; Approval approximately 15.5 miles as opposed to environmental review under 49 CFR Date: December 5, 2016. 15.1 miles. This notice corrects the 1105.6(c). 5. Anadarko E&P Onshore, LLC, Pad description of the milepost and total Board decisions and notices are ID: Larrys Creek F&G Pad E, ABR– length of the Line. All other information available on our Web site at 201112030.R1, Cummings Township, in the July 15, 2016 notice is correct. WWW.STB.GOV. Lycoming County, Pa.; Consumptive Board decisions and notices are Decided: January 12, 2017. Use of Up to 4.0000 mgd; Approval available on our Web site at Date: December 5, 2016. By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, ‘‘WWW.STB.GOV.’’ Director, Office of Proceedings. 6. SWN Production Company, LLC, Decided: January 12, 2017. Rena Laws-Byrum, Pad ID: TONYA WEST, ABR– By the Board, Rachel D. Campbell, Clearance Clerk. 201201026.R1, New Milford Township, Director, Office of Proceedings. Susquehanna County, Pa.; Consumptive [FR Doc. 2017–01195 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] Rena Laws-Byrum, BILLING CODE 4915–01–P Use of Up to 4.9990 mgd; Approval Clearance Clerk. Date: December 5, 2016. [FR Doc. 2017–01165 Filed 1–18–17; 8:45 am] 7. SWN Production Company, LLC, BILLING CODE 4915–01–P Pad ID: WATTS, ABR–201202028.R1, SUSQUEHANNA RIVER BASIN New Milford Township, Susquehanna COMMISSION County, Pa.; Consumptive Use of Up to SURFACE TRANSPORTATION BOARD Projects Approved for Consumptive 4.9990 mgd; Approval Date: December Uses of Water 6, 2016. [Docket No. FD 36088] 8. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Pad Susquehanna River Basin ID: KielarD P1, ABR–201112002.R1, mstockstill on DSK3G9T082PROD with NOTICES SMS Rail Lines of New York, LLC— AGENCY: Acquisition and Operation Commission. Lathrop Township, Susquehanna Exemption—Rail Line of WCC, LLC, in ACTION: Notice. County, Pa.; Consumptive Use of Up to Hudson Falls, NY 3.5750 mgd; Approval Date: December SUMMARY: This notice lists the projects 12, 2016. SMS Rail Lines of New York, LLC approved by rule by the Susquehanna 9. Cabot Oil & Gas Corporation, Pad (SMS), a Class III rail carrier, has filed River Basin Commission during the ID: CareyR P1, ABR–201112023.R1, a verified notice of exemption under 49 period set forth in DATES. Harford Township, Susquehanna VerDate Sep<11>2014 21:20 Jan 18, 2017 Jkt 241001 PO 00000 Frm 00206 Fmt 4703 Sfmt 4703 E:\FR\FM\19JAN1.SGM 19JAN1


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PublisherOffice of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
SectionNotices
ActionDesignation of the Organization for Technological Industries (OTI) Pursuant to E.O. 13382.
DatesEffective Dates: The designation of and additional identifying information for the entity identified in this notice pursuant to E.O. 13382 is effective upon publication of this notice.
ContactDirector, Office of Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202- 647-5193.
FR Citation82 FR 6686 
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