83 FR 6949 - Russian Sanctions: Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity List

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 33 (February 16, 2018)

Page Range		6949-6956
FR Document		2018-03234

The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with this final rule amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-one entities to the Entity List. The twenty-one entities that are added to the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. Government to be acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. BIS is taking this action to ensure the efficacy of existing sanctions on the Russian Federation (Russia) for violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine. These entities will be listed on the Entity List under the destinations of Georgia, Poland and Russia.

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

15 CFR Part 744

[Docket No. 180112034-8034-01]
RIN 0694-AH48


Russian Sanctions: Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity 
List

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) with this final rule 
amends the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-one 
entities to the Entity List. The twenty-one entities that are added to 
the Entity List have been determined by the U.S. Government to be 
acting contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests of 
the United States. BIS is taking this action to ensure the efficacy of 
existing sanctions on the Russian Federation (Russia) for violating 
international law and fueling the conflict in eastern Ukraine. These 
entities will be listed on the Entity List under the destinations of 
Georgia, Poland and Russia.

DATES: This rule is effective February 16, 2018.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Chair, End-User Review Committee, 
Office of the Assistant Secretary, Export Administration, Bureau of 
Industry and Security, Department of Commerce, Phone: (202) 482-5991, 
Email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    The Entity List (Supplement No. 4 to Part 744 of the EAR) 
identifies entities and other persons reasonably believed to be 
involved in, or that pose a significant risk of being or becoming 
involved in, activities that are contrary to the national security or 
foreign policy of the United States. The EAR imposes additional 
licensing requirements on, and limits the availability of most license 
exceptions for, exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) to those 
persons or entities listed on the Entity List. The license review 
policy for each listed entity is identified in the License Review 
Policy column on the Entity List and the impact on the availability of 
license exceptions is described in the Federal Register notice adding 
entities or other persons to the Entity List. BIS places entities on 
the Entity List based on certain sections of part 744 (Control Policy: 
End-User and End-Use Based) and part 746 (Embargoes and Other Special 
Controls) of the EAR.
    The End-user Review Committee (ERC) is composed of representatives 
of the Departments of Commerce (Chair), State, Defense, Energy, and 
where appropriate, the Treasury. The ERC makes decisions to add an 
entry to the Entity List by majority vote and to remove or modify an 
entry by unanimous vote. The Departments represented on the ERC have 
approved these changes to the Entity List.

Entity List Additions

Additions to the Entity List

    This rule adds twenty-one entities to the Entity List. These 
twenty-one entities are being added on the basis of Sec.  744.11 
(License requirements that apply to entities acting contrary to the 
national security or foreign policy interests of the United States) of 
the EAR. The twenty-one entities being added to the Entity List consist 
of one entity in Georgia, one entity in Poland and ninteteen entities 
in Russia.
    Under Sec.  744.11(b) (Criteria for revising the Entity List) of 
the EAR, persons for whom there is reasonable cause to believe, based 
on specific and articulable facts, have been involved, are involved, or 
pose a significant risk of being or becoming involved, in activities 
that are contrary to the national security or foreign policy interests 
of the United States and those acting on behalf of such persons may be 
added to the Entity List. The entities being added to the Entity List 
have been determined to be involved in activities that are contrary to 
the national security or foreign policy interests of the United States. 
Specifically, in this rule, BIS adds entities to the Entity List for 
violating international law and fueling the conflict in eastern 
Ukraine. These additions ensure the efficacy of existing sanctions on 
Russia. The particular additions to the Entity List and related 
authorities are described below.

A. Entity Additions Consistent With Executive Order 13660

    Four entities are added based on activities that are described in 
Executive Order 13660 (79 FR 13493), Blocking Property of Certain 
Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine, issued on March 6, 
2014. As described in the Executive Order, the actions and policies of 
persons who have asserted governmental authority in Crimea without the 
authorization of the Government of Ukraine undermine democratic 
processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten its peace, security, 
stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; and contribute to 
the misappropriation of its assets, and thereby constitute an unusual 
and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of 
the United States.
    Executive Order 13660 blocks all property and interests in property 
that are in the United States, that come within the United States, or 
that are or come within the possession or control of any United States 
person (including any foreign branch) of any person determined by the 
Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly 
or indirectly, misappropriation of state assets of Ukraine or of an 
economically significant entity in Ukraine, among other activities. 
Under Section 8 of the Order, all agencies of the United States 
Government are directed to take all appropriate measures within their 
authority to carry out the provisions of the Order.
    The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(OFAC), pursuant to Executive Order 13660, has designated the following 
four entities as being within the scope of the Order: Doncoaltrade SP Z 
O O; Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans; Ugolnye Tekhnologii, OOO; and ZAO 
Vneshtorgservis. In conjunction with that designation, the Department 
of Commerce adds all four entities to the Entity List under this rule 
and imposes a license requirement for exports,

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reexports, or transfers (in-country) of all items subject to the EAR to 
these blocked persons. This license requirement implements an 
appropriate measure within the authority of the EAR to carry out the 
provisions of Executive Order 13660.

B. Entity Additions Consistent With Executive Order 13661

    Two entities are added based on activities that are described in 
Executive Order 13661 (79 FR 15533), Blocking Property of Additional 
Persons Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine, issued on March 16, 
2014. This Order expanded the scope of the national emergency declared 
in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014 (79 FR 13493). As described 
in Executive Order 13661, the actions and policies of the Government of 
the Russian Federation with respect to Ukraine--including the 
deployment of Russian military forces in the Crimea region of Ukraine--
undermine democratic processes and institutions in Ukraine; threaten 
its peace, security, stability, sovereignty, and territorial integrity; 
and contribute to the misappropriation of its assets, and thereby 
constitute an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security 
and foreign policy of the United States.
    Executive Order 13661 includes a directive that all property and 
interests in property that are in the United States, that hereafter 
come within the United States, or that are or thereafter come within 
the possession or control of any United States person (including any 
foreign branch) of the following persons are blocked and may not be 
transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise dealt in: Persons 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State to have either materially assisted, sponsored or 
provided financial, material or technological support for, or goods and 
services to or in support of a senior official of the government of the 
Russian Federation or operate in the defense or related materiel sector 
in Russia. Under Section 8 of the Order, all agencies of the United 
States Government are directed to take all appropriate measures within 
their authority to carry out the provisions of the Order.
    The Department of the Treasury's OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order 
13661, on behalf of the Secretary of Treasury, and in consultation with 
the Secretary of State, has designated the following two entities as 
being within the scope of the Order: Evro Polis Ltd. and Instar 
Lodzhistiks, OOO. BIS is also adding these entities to the Entity List 
pursuant to Executive Order 13661. The two entities added to the Entity 
List under Executive Order 13661 meet the criteria of Section 1, 
subparagraph B of the Executive Order 13661 because they operate in 
Russia's arms or related materiel sector. With respect to these two 
entities, BIS imposes a license requirement for exports, reexports, or 
transfers (in-country) of all items subject to the EAR to these 
entities. This license requirement implements an appropriate measure 
within the authority of the EAR to carry out the provisions of 
Executive Order 13661.

C. Entity Additions Consistent With Executive Order 13662

    Twelve entities are added to the Entity List based on activities 
that are described in Executive Order 13662 (79 FR 16169), Blocking 
Property of Additional Persons Contributing to the Situation in 
Ukraine, issued on March 20, 2014. This Order expanded the scope of the 
national emergency declared in Executive Order 13660 of March 6, 2014 
and expanded in Executive Order 13661 of March 16, 2014.
    Specifically, Executive Order 13662 expanded the scope to include 
sectors of the Russian economy as may be determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, such as 
financial services, energy, metals and mining, engineering, and defense 
and related materiel. Under Section 8 of the Order, all agencies of the 
United States Government are directed to take all appropriate measures 
within their authority to carry out the provisions of the Order.
    The Department of the Treasury's OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order 
13662, on behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, has designated the following twelve 
entities as operating in the energy sector of Russia and owned or 
controlled by, or have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, 
directly or indirectly, a person whose property and interests are 
blocked pursuant to the Order: Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO; Kinef OOO; 
Kirishiavtoservis OOO; Lengiproneftekhim OOO; Media-Invest OOO; 
Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO; Pskovnefteprodukt OOO; SNGB AO; SO 
Tvernefteprodukt OOO; Sovkhoz Chervishevski PAO; Strakhovove 
Obshchestvo Surgutneftegaz OOO; and Surgutmebel OOO. In conjunction 
with that designation, BIS adds all twelve of the entities to the 
Entity List under this rule and imposes a license requirement for 
exports, reexports, or transfers (in-country) of all items subject to 
the EAR to these blocked persons, when the exporter, reexporter or 
transferor knows that the item will be used directly or indirectly in 
exploration for, or production of, oil or gas in Russian deepwater 
(greater than 500 feet) or Arctic offshore locations or shale 
formations in Russia, or is unable to determine whether the item will 
be used in such projects. This license requirement implements an 
appropriate measure within the authority of BIS to carry out the 
provisions of Executive Order 13662.

D. Entity Additions Consistent With Executive Order 13685

    Three entities are added based on activities that are described in 
Executive Order 13685 (79 FR 77357), Blocking Property of Certain 
Persons and Prohibiting Certain Transactions with Respect to the Crimea 
Region of Ukraine, issued on December 19, 2014. In order to take 
additional steps to address the Russian occupation of the Crimea region 
of Ukraine with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive 
Order 13660 of March 6, 2014, and expanded in Executive Order 13661 of 
March 16, 2014, and Executive Order 13662 of March 20, 2014, certain 
additional prohibitions with respect to the Crimea region of Ukraine 
were imposed. In particular, Executive Order 13685 prohibits the 
export, reexport, sale or supply, directly or indirectly, from the 
United States or by a U.S. person, wherever located, of any goods, 
services, or technology to the Crimea region of Ukraine. Under Section 
10 of the Order, all agencies of the United States Government are 
directed to take all appropriate measures within their authority to 
carry out the provisions of the Order.
    The Department of the Treasury's OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order 
13685, on behalf of the Secretary of the Treasury and in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, has designated the following three 
entities as operating in the Crimea region of Ukraine: Limited 
Liability Company Foreign Economic Association Technopomexport; PJSC 
Power Machines; and VAD, AO. In conjunction with these designations, 
BIS adds all three of these entities to the Entity List under this rule 
and imposes a license requirement for exports, reexports, or transfers 
(in-country) of all items subject to the EAR to these blocked persons. 
This license requirement implements an appropriate measure within the 
authority of the EAR to carry out the provisions of Executive Order 
13685.

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    For the twenty-one entities added to the Entity List based on 
activities that are described in Executive Order 13660, 13661, 13662 or 
13685, BIS imposes a license requirement for all items subject to the 
EAR and a license review policy of presumption of denial. The license 
requirements apply to any transaction in which items subject to the EAR 
are to be exported, reexported, or transferred (in-country) to any of 
the entities or in which such entities act as purchaser, intermediate 
consignee, ultimate consignee, or end-user. In addition, no license 
exceptions are available for exports, reexports, or transfers (in-
country) to the entities being added to the Entity List in this rule.
    The acronym ``a.k.a.'' (also known as) is used in entries on the 
Entity List to help exporters, reexporters and transferors to better 
identify listed persons on the Entity List.
    This final rule adds the following twenty-one entities to the 
Entity List:

Georgia

(1) ZAO Vneshtorgservis,
    1 Geroyev Street, Tskhinval, South Ossetia, Georgia.

Poland

(1) Doncoaltrade SP Z O O,
    Ul. Barbary 21, Katowice, woj. Slaskie, pow. M. Katowice 40-053, 
Poland.

Russia

(1) Evro Polis Ltd., a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Evro Polis, OOO; and
    --Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Evro Polis.
    d. 1A pom. 9.1A, Shosse Ilinskoe, Krasnogorsk, Krasnogorski Raion, 
Moskovskaya Obl. 143409, Russia;
(2) Instar Lodzhistiks, OOO, a.k.a., the following one alias:
    --Instar Logistics.
    d. 20 str., 7 ofis 102V, ul. Elektrozavodskaya, Moscow 1072023, 
Russia;
(3) Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Kaliningradnefteprodukt LLC;
    --Limited Liability Company Kaliningradnefteproduct; and
    --LLC Kaliningradnefteproduct.
    22-b Komsomolskaya Ulitsa, Central District, Kaliningrad, Russia;
(4) Kinef OOO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Kinef, LLC;
    --Limited Liability Company Production Association 
Kirishinefteorgsintez; and
    --LLC Kinef.
    d. 1 Shosse Entuziastov, Kirishi, Leningradskaya Oblast 187110, 
Russia;
(5) Kirishiavtoservis OOO, a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Kirishiavtoservis; and
    --LLC Kirishiavtoservis.
    lit A, 12 Smolenskaya Ulitsa, St. Petersburg 196084;
(6) Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Company Gaz-Alliance LLC;
    --Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO; and
    --Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Kompaniya Gaz-
Alyans.
    15 Ul., Svobody, Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhegorodskaya Obl. 603003, 
Russia;
(7) Lengiproneftekhim OOO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Institut Po Proektirovaniyu Predpriyaty Neftepererabatyvayuschey 
I Neftekhimicheskoy Promyshlennosti, Limited Liability Company;
    --Limited Liability Company Oil Refining and Petrochemical 
Facilities Design Institute; and
    --LLC Lengiproneftekhim.
    d. 94, Obvodnogo Kanala, nab, St. Petersburg 196084, Russia;
(8) Limited Liability Company Foreign Economic Association 
Technopromexport, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Obschestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvestvennostyu Vneshneekonomicheskoe 
Obedinenie Tekhnopromeksport;
    --OOO VO Technopromexport; and
    --OOO VO TPE.
    Novyi Arbat Str. 15, Building 2, Moscow 119019, Russia;
(9) Media-Invest OOO, a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Media-Invest; and
    --LLC Media-Invest.
    17 Bld 1 Zubovsky Blvd., Moscow 119847, Russia;
(10) Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Novgorodnefteproduct;
    --LLC Novgorodnefteproduct; and
    --Novgorodnefteprodukt LLC.
    d. 20 Germana Ulitsa, Veliky Novgorod, Novgorodskaya Oblast 173002, 
Russia;
(11) PJSC Power Machines, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Open Joint Stock Company Power Machines--ZTL, LMZ, Electrosila, 
Energomachexport;
    --Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Silovye Mashiny--ZTL, LMZ, 
Elektrosila, Energomasheksport; and
    --Silovye Mashiny, PAO.
    3A Vatutina St., St. Petersburg 195009, Russia;
(12) Pskovnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Marketing Association 
Pskovnefteproduct; and
    --LLC Pskovnefteproduct.
    4 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, Pskov 180000, Russia;
(13) SNGB AO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --Closed Joint Stock Company Surgutneftegasbank (ZAO SNGB);
    --Joint Stock Company Surgutneftegasbank; and
    --JSC BANK SNGB.
    19 Kukuyvitskogo Street, Surgut 628400, Russia;
(14) SO Tvernefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Marketing Association Tvernefteproduct; 
and
    --LLC MA Tvernefteproduct.
    6 Novotorzhskaya Ulitsa, Tver, Russia;
(15) Sovkhoz Chervishevski PAO, a.k.a., the following three aliases:
    --OJSC Sovkhoz Chervishevsky;
    --Open Joint Stock Company Sovkhoz Chervishevsky; and
    --Sovkhoz Chervishevsky, JSC.
    d. 81 Sovetskaya Ulitsa, S. Chervichevsky, Tyumensky Rayon, 
Tyumensky Oblast 625519, Russia;
(16) Strakhovove Obshchestvo Surgutneftegaz OOO, a.k.a., the following 
three aliases:
    --Insurance Company Surgutneftegas, LLC;
    --Limited Liability Company Insurance Company Surgutneftegas; and
    --LLC Insurance Company Surgutneftegas.
    9/1 Lermontova Ulitsa, Surgut 628418, Russia;
(17) Surgutmebel OOO, a.k.a., the following four aliases:
    --Limited Liability Company Syrgutmebel;
    --LLC Surgutmebel;
    --LLC Syrgutmebel; and
    --Surgutmebel, LLC.
    Vostochnaya Industrial 1 Territory 2, Poselok Barsovo, Surgutsky 
District, Yugra, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomos Okrug, Russia;
(18) Ugolnye Tekhnologii, OOO, a.k.a., the following two aliases:
    --Coal Technologies; and
    --Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu ``Ugolnye 
Tekhnologii''.
    d. 25 ofis 13, 14, per. Avtomobilny, Rostov-on-Don, Rostovskaya 
Oblast 344038, Russia;

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(19) VAD, AO, a.k.a, the following seven aliases:
    --Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo VAD;
    --AO, VAD;
    --CJSC VAD;
    --Joint Stock Company VAD;
    --JSC VAD;
    --ZAO VAD; and
    --High-Quality Highways.
    133, ul. Chernyshevskogo, Vologda, Vologodskaya Obl 160019, Russia; 
and 122 Grazhdanskiy Prospect, Suite 5, Liter A, St. Petersburg 195267, 
Russia.

Export Administration Act of 1979

    Although the Export Administration Act of 1979 expired on August 
20, 2001, the President, through Executive Order 13222 of August 17, 
2001, 3 CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 783 (2002), as amended by Executive Order 
13637 of March 8, 2013, 78 FR 16129 (March 13, 2013) and as extended by 
the Notice of August 15, 2017, 82 FR 39005 (August 16, 2017), has 
continued the Export Administration Regulations in effect under the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act. BIS continues to carry out 
the provisions of the Export Administration Act of 1979, as appropriate 
and to the extent permitted by law, pursuant to Executive Order 13222, 
as amended by Executive Order 13637.

Rulemaking Requirements

    1. Executive Orders 13563 and 12866 direct agencies to assess all 
costs and benefits of available regulatory alternatives and, if 
regulation is necessary, to select regulatory approaches that maximize 
net benefits (including potential economic, environmental, public 
health and safety effects, distributive impacts, and equity). Executive 
Order 13563 emphasizes the importance of quantifying both costs and 
benefits, of reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, and of promoting 
flexibility. This rule has been determined to be not significant for 
purposes of Executive Order 12866. This rule is not an Executive Order 
13771 regulatory action because this rule is not significant under 
Executive Order 12866.
    2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is 
required to respond to nor be subject to a penalty for failure to 
comply with a collection of information, subject to the requirements of 
the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1995 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.) (PRA), 
unless that collection of information displays a currently valid Office 
of Management and Budget (OMB) Control Number. This regulation involves 
collections previously approved by OMB under control number 0694-0088, 
Simplified Network Application Processing System, which includes, among 
other things, license applications and carries a burden estimate of 
43.8 minutes for a manual or electronic submission.
    Total burden hours associated with the PRA and OMB control number 
0694-0088 are not expected to increase as a result of this rule. You 
may send comments regarding the collection of information associated 
with this rule, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to 
Jasmeet K. Seehra, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), by email to 
[email protected], or by fax to (202) 395-7285.
    3. This rule does not contain policies with Federalism implications 
as that term is defined in Executive Order 13132.
    4. The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 
553) requiring notice of proposed rulemaking, the opportunity for 
public comment and a delay in effective date are inapplicable because 
this regulation involves a military or foreign affairs function of the 
United States. (See 5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1)). BIS implementation of this 
rule is necessary to protect U.S. national security or foreign policy 
interests by preventing items from being exported, reexported, or 
transferred (in country) to the entities being added to the Entity 
List. If this rule were delayed to allow for notice and comment and a 
delay in effective date, the twenty-one entities being added to the 
Entity List by this action would continue to be able to receive items 
without a license and to conduct activities contrary to the national 
security or foreign policy interests of the United States. In addition, 
publishing a proposed rule would give these parties notice of the U.S. 
Government's intention to place them on the Entity List and would 
create an incentive for these persons to either accelerate receiving 
items subject to the EAR to conduct activities that are contrary to the 
national security or foreign policy interests of the United States, 
and/or to take steps to set up additional aliases, change addresses, 
and other measures to try to limit the impact of the listing on the 
Entity List once a final rule was published. Further, no other law 
requires that a notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for 
public comment be given for this rule.
    5. Because a notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for 
public comment are not required to be given for this rule by 5 U.S.C. 
553, or by any other law, the analytical requirements of the Regulatory 
Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., are not applicable. Accordingly, 
no regulatory flexibility analysis is required and none has been 
prepared.

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 744

    Exports, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements, Terrorism.

    For the reasons stated in the preamble, the Bureau of Industry and 
Security amends part 744 of the Export Administration Regulations (15 
CFR parts 730-774) as follows:

PART 744--[AMENDED]

0
 1. The authority citation for 15 CFR part 744 is revised to read as 
follows:

     Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; 22 
U.S.C. 3201 et seq.; 42 U.S.C. 2139a; 22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.; 22 
U.S.C. 7210; E.O. 12058, 43 FR 20947, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp., p. 179; 
E.O. 12851, 58 FR 33181, 3 CFR, 1993 Comp., p. 608; E.O. 12938, 59 
FR 59099, 3 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 950; E.O. 12947, 60 FR 5079, 3 CFR, 
1995 Comp., p. 356; E.O. 13026, 61 FR 58767, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 
228; E.O. 13099, 63 FR 45167, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p. 208; E.O. 13222, 
66 FR 44025, 3 CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 783; E.O. 13224, 66 FR 49079, 3 
CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 786; Notice of August 15, 2017, 82 FR 39005 
(August 16, 2017); Notice of September 18, 2017, 82 FR 43825 
(September 19, 2017); Notice of November 6, 2017, 82 FR 51971 
(November 8, 2017); Notice of January 17, 2018, 83 FR 2731 (January 
18, 2018).

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2. Supplement No. 4 to part 744 is amended:
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a. By adding, in alphabetical order, a heading for Georgia and one 
Georgian entity;
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b. By adding, in alphabetical order, a heading for Poland and one 
Polish entity; and
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c. By adding under the destination of Russia, in alphabetical order, 
nineteen Russian entities.
    The additions read as follows:

Supplement No. 4 to Part 744--Entity List

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                                                                              License review    Federal Register
        Country                     Entity             License requirement        policy            citation
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GEORGIA................  ZAO Vneshtorgservis, 1        For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          Geroyev Street, Tskhinval,    subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          South Ossetia, Georgia.       EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                                                        744.11 of the
                                                        EAR).
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POLAND.................  Doncoaltrade SP Z O O, Ul.    For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          Barbary 21, Katowice, woj.    subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          Slaskie, pow. M. Katowice     EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          40-053, Poland.               744.11 of the
                                                        EAR).
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RUSSIA.................                                         * * * * * *
                         Evro Polis Ltd., a.k.a., the  For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          following two aliases:        subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Evro Polis, OOO; and         EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Obshchestvo S                744.11 of the
                          Ogranichennoi                 EAR).
                          Otvetstvennostyu Evro
                          Polis.
                         d. 1A pom. 9.1A, Shosse
                          Ilinskoe, Krasnogorsk,
                          Krasnogorski Raion,
                          Moskovskaya Obl. 143409,
                          Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Instar Lodzhistiks, OOO,      For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following one     subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          alias:                        EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Instar Logistics.            744.11 of the
                                                        EAR).
                         d. 20 str., 7 ofis 102V, ul.
                          Elektrozavodskaya, Moscow
                          1072023, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO,  For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following three   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Kaliningradnefteprodukt      744.11 of the
                          LLC;                          EAR).
                         --Limited Liability Company
                          Kaliningradnefteproduct;
                          and
                         --LLC
                          Kaliningradnefteproduct.
                         22-b Komsomolskaya Ulitsa,
                          Central District,
                          Kaliningrad, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Kinef OOO, a.k.a., the        For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          following three aliases:      subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Kinef, LLC;                  EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Limited Liability Company    744.11 of the
                          Production Association        EAR).
                          Kirishinefteorgsintez; and
                         --LLC Kinef.
                         d. 1 Shosse Entuziastov,
                          Kirishi, Leningradskaya
                          Oblast 187110, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Kirishiavtoservis OOO,        For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following two     subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Limited Liability Company    744.11 of the
                          Kirishiavtoservis; and        EAR).
                         --LLC Kirishiavtoservis.
                         lit A, 12 Smolenskaya
                          Ulitsa, St. Petersburg
                          196084.
                         Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO,    For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following three   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Company Gaz-Alliance LLC;    744.11 of the
                         --Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO;   EAR).
                          and
                         --Obshchestvo S
                          Ogranichennoi
                          Otvetstvennostyu Kompaniya
                          Gaz-Alyans.
                         15 Ul., Svobody, Nizhni
                          Novgorod, Nizhegorodskaya
                          Obl. 603003, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *

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                         Lengiproneftekhim OOO,        For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following three   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Institut Po                  744.11 of the
                          Proektirovaniyu Predpriyaty   EAR).
                          Neftepererabatyvayuschey I
                          Neftekhimicheskoy
                          Promyshlennosti, Limited
                          Liability Company;
                         --Limited Liability Company
                          Oil Refining and
                          Petrochemical Facilities
                          Design Institute; and
                         --LLC Lengiproneftekhim.
                         d. 94, Obvodnogo Kanala,
                          nab, St. Petersburg 196084,
                          Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Limited Liability Company     For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          Foreign Economic              subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          Association                   EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          Technopromexport, a.k.a.,     744.11 of the
                          the following three           EAR).
                          aliases:
                         --Obschestvo S Ogranichennoi
                          Otvestvennostyu
                          Vneshneekonomicheskoe
                          Obedinenie
                          Tekhnopromeksport;
                         --OOO VO Technopromexport;
                          and
                         --OOO VO TPE.
                         Novyi Arbat Str. 15,
                          Building 2, Moscow 119019,
                          Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Media-Invest OOO, a.k.a.,     For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          the following two aliases:    subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Limited Liability Company    EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          Media-Invest; and             744.11 of the
                         --LLC Media-Invest.            EAR).
                         17 Bld 1 Zubovsky Blvd,
                          Moscow 119847, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO,     For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following three   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Limited Liability Company    744.11 of the
                          Novgorodnefteproduct;         EAR).
                         --LLC Novgorodnefteproduct;
                          and
                         --Novgorodnefteprodukt LLC .
                         d. 20 Germana Ulitsa, Veliky
                          Novgorod, Novgorodskaya
                          Oblast 173002, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         PJSC Power Machines, a.k.a.,  For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          the following three           subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Open Joint Stock Company     744.11 of the
                          Power Machines--ZTL, LMZ,     EAR).
                          Electrosila,
                          Energomachexport;
                         --Publichnoe Aktsionernoe
                          Obshchestvo Silovye
                          Mashiny--ZTL, LMZ,
                          Elektrosila,
                          Energomasheksport; and
                         --Silovye Mashiny, PAO.
                         3A Vatutina St., St.
                          Petersburg 195009, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Pskovnefteprodukt OOO,        For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following two     subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Limited Liability Company    744.11 of the
                          Marketing Association         EAR).
                          Pskovnefteproduct; and
                         --LLC Pskovnefteproduct.
                         4 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, Pskov
                          180000, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         SNGB AO, a.k.a., the          For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          following three aliases:      subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Closed Joint Stock Company   EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          Surgutneftegasbank (ZAO       744.11 of the
                          SNGB);                        EAR).
                         --Joint Stock Company
                          Surgutneftegasbank; and
                         --JSC BANK SNGB.

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                         19 Kukuyvitskogo Street,
                          Surgut 628400, Russia.
                         SO Tvernefteprodukt OOO,      For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following two     subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Limited Liability Company    744.11 of the
                          Marketing Association         EAR).
                          Tvernefteproduct; and
                         --LLC MA Tvernefteproduct.
                         6 Novotorzhskaya Ulitsa,
                          Tver, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Sovkhoz Chervishevski PAO,    For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following three   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --OJSC Sovkhoz                 744.11 of the
                          Chervishevsky;                EAR).
                         --Open Joint Stock Company
                          Sovkhoz Chervishevsky; and
                         --Sovkhoz Chervishevsky,
                          JSC.
                         d. 81 Sovetskaya Ulitsa, S.
                          Chervichevsky, Tyumensky
                          Rayon, Tyumensky Oblast
                          625519, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Strakhovove Obshchestvo       For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          Surgutneftegaz OOO, a.k.a.,   subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          the following three           EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          aliases:                      744.11 of the
                         --Insurance Company            EAR).
                          Surgutneftegas, LLC;
                         --Limited Liability Company
                          Insurance Company
                          Surgutneftegas; and
                         --LLC Insurance Company
                          Surgutneftegas.
                         9/1 Lermontova Ulitsa,
                          Surgut 628418, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Surgutmebel OOO, a.k.a., the  For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          following four aliases:       subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Limited Liability Company    EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          Syrgutmebel;                  744.11 of the
                         --LLC Surgutmebel;             EAR).
                         --LLC Syrgutmebel; and
                         --Surgutmebel, LLC.
                         Vostochnaya Industrial 1
                          Territory 2, Poselok
                          Barsovo, Surgutsky
                          District, Yugra, Khanty-
                          Mansiysky Autonomos Okrug,
                          Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         Ugolnye Tekhnologii, OOO,     For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          a.k.a., the following two     subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                          aliases:                      EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                         --Coal Technologies; and       744.11 of the
                         --Obshchestvo S                EAR).
                          Ogranichennoi
                          Otvetstvennostyu ``Ugolnye
                          Tekhnologii''.
                         d. 25 ofis 13, 14, per.
                          Avtomobilny, Rostov-on-Don,
                          Rostovskaya Oblast 344038,
                          Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
                         VAD, AO, a.k.a, the           For all items        Presumption of     83 FR [INSERT FR
                          following seven aliases:      subject to the       denial.            PAGE NUMBER] 2/
                         --Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo     EAR. (See Sec.                          16/2018.
                          VAD;                          744.11 of the
                         --AO, VAD;                     EAR).
                         --CJSC VAD;
                         --Joint Stock Company VAD;
                         --JSC VAD;
                         --ZAO VAD; and
                         --High-Quality Highways.
                         133, ul. Chernyshevskogo,
                          Vologda, Vologodskaya Obl
                          160019, Russia; and 122
                          Grazhdanskiy Prospect,
                          Suite 5, Liter A, St.
                          Petersburg 195267, Russia.
                                                                * * * * * *
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    Dated: February 12, 2018.
Richard E. Ashooh,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2018-03234 Filed 2-15-18; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 3510-33-P

6949

Rules and Regulations Federal Register
Vol. 83, No. 33

Friday, February 16, 2018

This section of the FEDERAL REGISTER of the United States. The EAR imposes violating international law and fueling
contains regulatory documents having general additional licensing requirements on, the conflict in eastern Ukraine. These
applicability and legal effect, most of which and limits the availability of most additions ensure the efficacy of existing
are keyed to and codified in the Code of license exceptions for, exports, sanctions on Russia. The particular
Federal Regulations, which is published under reexports, and transfers (in-country) to additions to the Entity List and related
50 titles pursuant to 44 U.S.C. 1510.
those persons or entities listed on the authorities are described below.
The Code of Federal Regulations is sold by Entity List. The license review policy
for each listed entity is identified in the A. Entity Additions Consistent With
the Superintendent of Documents. Executive Order 13660
License Review Policy column on the
Entity List and the impact on the Four entities are added based on
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE availability of license exceptions is activities that are described in Executive
described in the Federal Register notice Order 13660 (79 FR 13493), Blocking
Bureau of Industry and Security adding entities or other persons to the Property of Certain Persons Contributing
Entity List. BIS places entities on the to the Situation in Ukraine, issued on
15 CFR Part 744 Entity List based on certain sections of March 6, 2014. As described in the
[Docket No. 180112034–8034–01] part 744 (Control Policy: End-User and Executive Order, the actions and
End-Use Based) and part 746 policies of persons who have asserted
RIN 0694–AH48 (Embargoes and Other Special Controls) governmental authority in Crimea
Russian Sanctions: Addition of Certain of the EAR. without the authorization of the
The End-user Review Committee Government of Ukraine undermine
Entities to the Entity List
(ERC) is composed of representatives of democratic processes and institutions in
AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and the Departments of Commerce (Chair), Ukraine; threaten its peace, security,
Security, Commerce. State, Defense, Energy, and where stability, sovereignty, and territorial
ACTION: Final rule. appropriate, the Treasury. The ERC integrity; and contribute to the
makes decisions to add an entry to the misappropriation of its assets, and
SUMMARY: The Bureau of Industry and Entity List by majority vote and to thereby constitute an unusual and
Security (BIS) with this final rule remove or modify an entry by extraordinary threat to the national
amends the Export Administration unanimous vote. The Departments security and foreign policy of the United
Regulations (EAR) by adding twenty-one represented on the ERC have approved States.
entities to the Entity List. The twenty- these changes to the Entity List. Executive Order 13660 blocks all
one entities that are added to the Entity property and interests in property that
List have been determined by the U.S. Entity List Additions
are in the United States, that come
Government to be acting contrary to the Additions to the Entity List within the United States, or that are or
national security or foreign policy come within the possession or control of
This rule adds twenty-one entities to
interests of the United States. BIS is any United States person (including any
the Entity List. These twenty-one
taking this action to ensure the efficacy foreign branch) of any person
entities are being added on the basis of
of existing sanctions on the Russian determined by the Secretary of the
§ 744.11 (License requirements that
Federation (Russia) for violating Treasury, in consultation with the
apply to entities acting contrary to the
international law and fueling the Secretary of State, to be responsible for
national security or foreign policy
conflict in eastern Ukraine. These or complicit in, or to have engaged in,
interests of the United States) of the
entities will be listed on the Entity List directly or indirectly, misappropriation
EAR. The twenty-one entities being
under the destinations of Georgia, of state assets of Ukraine or of an
added to the Entity List consist of one
Poland and Russia. economically significant entity in
entity in Georgia, one entity in Poland
DATES: This rule is effective February and ninteteen entities in Russia. Ukraine, among other activities. Under
16, 2018. Under § 744.11(b) (Criteria for Section 8 of the Order, all agencies of
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: revising the Entity List) of the EAR, the United States Government are
Chair, End-User Review Committee, persons for whom there is reasonable directed to take all appropriate
Office of the Assistant Secretary, Export cause to believe, based on specific and measures within their authority to carry
Administration, Bureau of Industry and articulable facts, have been involved, out the provisions of the Order.
Security, Department of Commerce, are involved, or pose a significant risk The Department of the Treasury’s
Phone: (202) 482–5991, Email: ERC@ of being or becoming involved, in Office of Foreign Assets Control
bis.doc.gov. activities that are contrary to the (OFAC), pursuant to Executive Order
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: national security or foreign policy 13660, has designated the following four
interests of the United States and those entities as being within the scope of the
Background acting on behalf of such persons may be Order: Doncoaltrade SP Z O O;
The Entity List (Supplement No. 4 to added to the Entity List. The entities Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans; Ugolnye
daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with RULES

Part 744 of the EAR) identifies entities being added to the Entity List have been Tekhnologii, OOO; and ZAO
and other persons reasonably believed determined to be involved in activities Vneshtorgservis. In conjunction with
to be involved in, or that pose a that are contrary to the national security that designation, the Department of
significant risk of being or becoming or foreign policy interests of the United Commerce adds all four entities to the
involved in, activities that are contrary States. Specifically, in this rule, BIS Entity List under this rule and imposes
to the national security or foreign policy adds entities to the Entity List for a license requirement for exports,

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reexports, or transfers (in-country) of all pursuant to Executive Order 13661. The country) of all items subject to the EAR
items subject to the EAR to these two entities added to the Entity List to these blocked persons, when the
blocked persons. This license under Executive Order 13661 meet the exporter, reexporter or transferor knows
requirement implements an appropriate criteria of Section 1, subparagraph B of that the item will be used directly or
measure within the authority of the EAR the Executive Order 13661 because they indirectly in exploration for, or
to carry out the provisions of Executive operate in Russia’s arms or related production of, oil or gas in Russian
Order 13660. materiel sector. With respect to these deepwater (greater than 500 feet) or
two entities, BIS imposes a license Arctic offshore locations or shale
B. Entity Additions Consistent With
requirement for exports, reexports, or formations in Russia, or is unable to
Executive Order 13661
transfers (in-country) of all items subject determine whether the item will be used
Two entities are added based on to the EAR to these entities. This license in such projects. This license
activities that are described in Executive requirement implements an appropriate requirement implements an appropriate
Order 13661 (79 FR 15533), Blocking measure within the authority of the EAR measure within the authority of BIS to
Property of Additional Persons to carry out the provisions of Executive carry out the provisions of Executive
Contributing to the Situation in Ukraine, Order 13661. Order 13662.
issued on March 16, 2014. This Order
expanded the scope of the national C. Entity Additions Consistent With D. Entity Additions Consistent With
emergency declared in Executive Order Executive Order 13662 Executive Order 13685
13660 of March 6, 2014 (79 FR 13493). Twelve entities are added to the Three entities are added based on
As described in Executive Order 13661, Entity List based on activities that are activities that are described in Executive
the actions and policies of the described in Executive Order 13662 (79 Order 13685 (79 FR 77357), Blocking
Government of the Russian Federation FR 16169), Blocking Property of Property of Certain Persons and
with respect to Ukraine—including the Additional Persons Contributing to the Prohibiting Certain Transactions with
deployment of Russian military forces Situation in Ukraine, issued on March Respect to the Crimea Region of
in the Crimea region of Ukraine— 20, 2014. This Order expanded the
Ukraine, issued on December 19, 2014.
undermine democratic processes and scope of the national emergency
In order to take additional steps to
institutions in Ukraine; threaten its declared in Executive Order 13660 of
address the Russian occupation of the
peace, security, stability, sovereignty, March 6, 2014 and expanded in
Crimea region of Ukraine with respect to
and territorial integrity; and contribute Executive Order 13661 of March 16,
the national emergency declared in
to the misappropriation of its assets, and 2014.
Specifically, Executive Order 13662 Executive Order 13660 of March 6,
thereby constitute an unusual and
expanded the scope to include sectors of 2014, and expanded in Executive Order
extraordinary threat to the national
the Russian economy as may be 13661 of March 16, 2014, and Executive
security and foreign policy of the United
determined by the Secretary of the Order 13662 of March 20, 2014, certain
States.
Executive Order 13661 includes a Treasury, in consultation with the additional prohibitions with respect to
directive that all property and interests Secretary of State, such as financial the Crimea region of Ukraine were
in property that are in the United States, services, energy, metals and mining, imposed. In particular, Executive Order
that hereafter come within the United engineering, and defense and related 13685 prohibits the export, reexport,
States, or that are or thereafter come materiel. Under Section 8 of the Order, sale or supply, directly or indirectly,
within the possession or control of any all agencies of the United States from the United States or by a U.S.
United States person (including any Government are directed to take all person, wherever located, of any goods,
foreign branch) of the following persons appropriate measures within their services, or technology to the Crimea
are blocked and may not be transferred, authority to carry out the provisions of region of Ukraine. Under Section 10 of
paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise the Order. the Order, all agencies of the United
dealt in: Persons determined by the The Department of the Treasury’s States Government are directed to take
Secretary of the Treasury, in OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order all appropriate measures within their
consultation with the Secretary of State 13662, on behalf of the Secretary of the authority to carry out the provisions of
to have either materially assisted, Treasury, and in consultation with the the Order.
sponsored or provided financial, Secretary of State, has designated the The Department of the Treasury’s
material or technological support for, or following twelve entities as operating in OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order
goods and services to or in support of the energy sector of Russia and owned 13685, on behalf of the Secretary of the
a senior official of the government of the or controlled by, or have acted or Treasury and in consultation with the
Russian Federation or operate in the purported to act for or on behalf of, Secretary of State, has designated the
defense or related materiel sector in directly or indirectly, a person whose following three entities as operating in
Russia. Under Section 8 of the Order, all property and interests are blocked the Crimea region of Ukraine: Limited
agencies of the United States pursuant to the Order: Liability Company Foreign Economic
Government are directed to take all Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO; Kinef Association Technopomexport; PJSC
appropriate measures within their OOO; Kirishiavtoservis OOO; Power Machines; and VAD, AO. In
authority to carry out the provisions of Lengiproneftekhim OOO; Media-Invest conjunction with these designations,
the Order. OOO; Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO; BIS adds all three of these entities to the
The Department of the Treasury’s Pskovnefteprodukt OOO; SNGB AO; SO Entity List under this rule and imposes
OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order Tvernefteprodukt OOO; Sovkhoz a license requirement for exports,
13661, on behalf of the Secretary of Chervishevski PAO; Strakhovove reexports, or transfers (in-country) of all
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Treasury, and in consultation with the Obshchestvo Surgutneftegaz OOO; and items subject to the EAR to these
Secretary of State, has designated the Surgutmebel OOO. In conjunction with blocked persons. This license
following two entities as being within that designation, BIS adds all twelve of requirement implements an appropriate
the scope of the Order: Evro Polis Ltd. the entities to the Entity List under this measure within the authority of the EAR
and Instar Lodzhistiks, OOO. BIS is also rule and imposes a license requirement to carry out the provisions of Executive
adding these entities to the Entity List for exports, reexports, or transfers (in- Order 13685.

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For the twenty-one entities added to Russia; —Silovye Mashiny, PAO.
the Entity List based on activities that (5) Kirishiavtoservis OOO, a.k.a., the 3A Vatutina St., St. Petersburg
are described in Executive Order 13660, following two aliases: 195009, Russia;
13661, 13662 or 13685, BIS imposes a —Limited Liability Company (12) Pskovnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the
license requirement for all items subject Kirishiavtoservis; and following two aliases:
to the EAR and a license review policy —LLC Kirishiavtoservis. —Limited Liability Company
of presumption of denial. The license lit A, 12 Smolenskaya Ulitsa, St. Marketing Association
requirements apply to any transaction in Petersburg 196084; Pskovnefteproduct; and
which items subject to the EAR are to (6) Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO, a.k.a., —LLC Pskovnefteproduct.
be exported, reexported, or transferred the following three aliases: 4 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, Pskov 180000,
(in-country) to any of the entities or in —Company Gaz-Alliance LLC; Russia;
which such entities act as purchaser, —Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO; and (13) SNGB AO, a.k.a., the following
intermediate consignee, ultimate —Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi three aliases:
consignee, or end-user. In addition, no Otvetstvennostyu Kompaniya Gaz- —Closed Joint Stock Company
license exceptions are available for Alyans. Surgutneftegasbank (ZAO SNGB);
exports, reexports, or transfers (in- 15 Ul., Svobody, Nizhni Novgorod, —Joint Stock Company
country) to the entities being added to Nizhegorodskaya Obl. 603003, Surgutneftegasbank; and
the Entity List in this rule. Russia; —JSC BANK SNGB.
The acronym ‘‘a.k.a.’’ (also known as) (7) Lengiproneftekhim OOO, a.k.a., the 19 Kukuyvitskogo Street, Surgut
is used in entries on the Entity List to following three aliases: 628400, Russia;
help exporters, reexporters and —Institut Po Proektirovaniyu (14) SO Tvernefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a.,
transferors to better identify listed Predpriyaty the following two aliases:
persons on the Entity List. Neftepererabatyvayuschey I —Limited Liability Company
This final rule adds the following Neftekhimicheskoy Marketing Association
twenty-one entities to the Entity List: Promyshlennosti, Limited Liability Tvernefteproduct; and
Company; —LLC MA Tvernefteproduct.
Georgia —Limited Liability Company Oil 6 Novotorzhskaya Ulitsa, Tver,
(1) ZAO Vneshtorgservis, Refining and Petrochemical Russia;
1 Geroyev Street, Tskhinval, South Facilities Design Institute; and (15) Sovkhoz Chervishevski PAO, a.k.a.,
Ossetia, Georgia. —LLC Lengiproneftekhim. the following three aliases:
d. 94, Obvodnogo Kanala, nab, St. —OJSC Sovkhoz Chervishevsky;
Poland Petersburg 196084, Russia; —Open Joint Stock Company Sovkhoz
(1) Doncoaltrade SP Z O O, (8) Limited Liability Company Foreign Chervishevsky; and
Ul. Barbary 21, Katowice, woj. Economic Association —Sovkhoz Chervishevsky, JSC.
Slaskie, pow. M. Katowice 40–053, Technopromexport, a.k.a., the d. 81 Sovetskaya Ulitsa, S.
Poland. following three aliases: Chervichevsky, Tyumensky Rayon,
—Obschestvo S Ogranichennoi Tyumensky Oblast 625519, Russia;
Russia Otvestvennostyu (16) Strakhovove Obshchestvo
(1) Evro Polis Ltd., a.k.a., the following Vneshneekonomicheskoe Surgutneftegaz OOO, a.k.a., the
two aliases: Obedinenie Tekhnopromeksport; following three aliases:
—Evro Polis, OOO; and —OOO VO Technopromexport; and —Insurance Company Surgutneftegas,
—Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi —OOO VO TPE. LLC;
Otvetstvennostyu Evro Polis. Novyi Arbat Str. 15, Building 2, —Limited Liability Company
d. 1A pom. 9.1A, Shosse Ilinskoe, Moscow 119019, Russia; Insurance Company Surgutneftegas;
Krasnogorsk, Krasnogorski Raion, (9) Media-Invest OOO, a.k.a., the and
Moskovskaya Obl. 143409, Russia; following two aliases: —LLC Insurance Company
(2) Instar Lodzhistiks, OOO, a.k.a., the —Limited Liability Company Media- Surgutneftegas.
following one alias: Invest; and 9/1 Lermontova Ulitsa, Surgut
—Instar Logistics. —LLC Media-Invest. 628418, Russia;
d. 20 str., 7 ofis 102V, ul. 17 Bld 1 Zubovsky Blvd., Moscow (17) Surgutmebel OOO, a.k.a., the
Elektrozavodskaya, Moscow 119847, Russia; following four aliases:
1072023, Russia; (10) Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., —Limited Liability Company
(3) Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO, the following three aliases: Syrgutmebel;
a.k.a., the following three aliases: —Limited Liability Company —LLC Surgutmebel;
—Kaliningradnefteprodukt LLC; Novgorodnefteproduct; —LLC Syrgutmebel; and
—Limited Liability Company —LLC Novgorodnefteproduct; and —Surgutmebel, LLC.
Kaliningradnefteproduct; and —Novgorodnefteprodukt LLC. Vostochnaya Industrial 1 Territory 2,
—LLC Kaliningradnefteproduct. d. 20 Germana Ulitsa, Veliky Poselok Barsovo, Surgutsky District,
22-b Komsomolskaya Ulitsa, Central Novgorod, Novgorodskaya Oblast Yugra, Khanty-Mansiysky
District, Kaliningrad, Russia; 173002, Russia; Autonomos Okrug, Russia;
(4) Kinef OOO, a.k.a., the following (11) PJSC Power Machines, a.k.a., the (18) Ugolnye Tekhnologii, OOO, a.k.a.,
three aliases: following three aliases: the following two aliases:
—Open Joint Stock Company Power
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—Kinef, LLC; —Coal Technologies; and
—Limited Liability Company Machines—ZTL, LMZ, Electrosila, —Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi
Production Association Energomachexport; Otvetstvennostyu ‘‘Ugolnye
Kirishinefteorgsintez; and —Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Tekhnologii’’.
—LLC Kinef. Obshchestvo Silovye Mashiny— d. 25 ofis 13, 14, per. Avtomobilny,
d. 1 Shosse Entuziastov, Kirishi, ZTL, LMZ, Elektrosila, Rostov-on-Don, Rostovskaya Oblast
Leningradskaya Oblast 187110, Energomasheksport; and 344038, Russia;

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(19) VAD, AO, a.k.a, the following seven et seq.) (PRA), unless that collection of once a final rule was published. Further,
aliases: information displays a currently valid no other law requires that a notice of
—Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo VAD; Office of Management and Budget proposed rulemaking and an
—AO, VAD; (OMB) Control Number. This regulation opportunity for public comment be
—CJSC VAD; involves collections previously given for this rule.
—Joint Stock Company VAD; approved by OMB under control 5. Because a notice of proposed
—JSC VAD; number 0694–0088, Simplified Network rulemaking and an opportunity for
—ZAO VAD; and Application Processing System, which public comment are not required to be
—High-Quality Highways. includes, among other things, license given for this rule by 5 U.S.C. 553, or
133, ul. Chernyshevskogo, Vologda, applications and carries a burden by any other law, the analytical
Vologodskaya Obl 160019, Russia; estimate of 43.8 minutes for a manual or requirements of the Regulatory
and 122 Grazhdanskiy Prospect, electronic submission. Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601 et seq., are
Suite 5, Liter A, St. Petersburg Total burden hours associated with not applicable. Accordingly, no
195267, Russia. the PRA and OMB control number regulatory flexibility analysis is required
Export Administration Act of 1979 0694–0088 are not expected to increase and none has been prepared.
as a result of this rule. You may send
Although the Export Administration comments regarding the collection of List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 744
Act of 1979 expired on August 20, 2001, information associated with this rule,
the President, through Executive Order Exports, Reporting and recordkeeping
including suggestions for reducing the requirements, Terrorism.
13222 of August 17, 2001, 3 CFR, 2001 burden, to Jasmeet K. Seehra, Office of
Comp., p. 783 (2002), as amended by Management and Budget (OMB), by For the reasons stated in the
Executive Order 13637 of March 8, email to Jasmeet_K._Seehra@ preamble, the Bureau of Industry and
2013, 78 FR 16129 (March 13, 2013) and omb.eop.gov, or by fax to (202) 395– Security amends part 744 of the Export
as extended by the Notice of August 15, 7285. Administration Regulations (15 CFR
2017, 82 FR 39005 (August 16, 2017), 3. This rule does not contain policies parts 730–774) as follows:
has continued the Export with Federalism implications as that
Administration Regulations in effect term is defined in Executive Order PART 744—[AMENDED]
under the International Emergency 13132.
Economic Powers Act. BIS continues to 4. The provisions of the ■ 1. The authority citation for 15 CFR
carry out the provisions of the Export Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. part 744 is revised to read as follows:
Administration Act of 1979, as 553) requiring notice of proposed Authority: 50 U.S.C. 4601 et seq.; 50 U.S.C.
appropriate and to the extent permitted rulemaking, the opportunity for public 1701 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 3201 et seq.; 42 U.S.C.
by law, pursuant to Executive Order comment and a delay in effective date 2139a; 22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 7210;
13222, as amended by Executive Order are inapplicable because this regulation E.O. 12058, 43 FR 20947, 3 CFR, 1978 Comp.,
involves a military or foreign affairs p. 179; E.O. 12851, 58 FR 33181, 3 CFR, 1993
13637. Comp., p. 608; E.O. 12938, 59 FR 59099, 3
function of the United States. (See 5 CFR, 1994 Comp., p. 950; E.O. 12947, 60 FR
Rulemaking Requirements U.S.C. 553(a)(1)). BIS implementation of 5079, 3 CFR, 1995 Comp., p. 356; E.O. 13026,
1. Executive Orders 13563 and 12866 this rule is necessary to protect U.S. 61 FR 58767, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 228; E.O.
direct agencies to assess all costs and national security or foreign policy 13099, 63 FR 45167, 3 CFR, 1998 Comp., p.
benefits of available regulatory interests by preventing items from being 208; E.O. 13222, 66 FR 44025, 3 CFR, 2001
alternatives and, if regulation is exported, reexported, or transferred (in Comp., p. 783; E.O. 13224, 66 FR 49079, 3
necessary, to select regulatory country) to the entities being added to CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 786; Notice of August
approaches that maximize net benefits the Entity List. If this rule were delayed 15, 2017, 82 FR 39005 (August 16, 2017);
(including potential economic, to allow for notice and comment and a Notice of September 18, 2017, 82 FR 43825
delay in effective date, the twenty-one (September 19, 2017); Notice of November 6,
environmental, public health and safety
2017, 82 FR 51971 (November 8, 2017);
effects, distributive impacts, and entities being added to the Entity List by Notice of January 17, 2018, 83 FR 2731
equity). Executive Order 13563 this action would continue to be able to (January 18, 2018).
emphasizes the importance of receive items without a license and to
quantifying both costs and benefits, of conduct activities contrary to the ■ 2. Supplement No. 4 to part 744 is
reducing costs, of harmonizing rules, national security or foreign policy amended:
and of promoting flexibility. This rule interests of the United States. In ■ a. By adding, in alphabetical order, a
has been determined to be not addition, publishing a proposed rule heading for Georgia and one Georgian
significant for purposes of Executive would give these parties notice of the entity;
Order 12866. This rule is not an U.S. Government’s intention to place ■ b. By adding, in alphabetical order, a
Executive Order 13771 regulatory action them on the Entity List and would heading for Poland and one Polish
because this rule is not significant under create an incentive for these persons to entity; and
Executive Order 12866. either accelerate receiving items subject ■ c. By adding under the destination of
2. Notwithstanding any other to the EAR to conduct activities that are Russia, in alphabetical order, nineteen
provision of law, no person is required contrary to the national security or Russian entities.
to respond to nor be subject to a penalty foreign policy interests of the United The additions read as follows:
for failure to comply with a collection States, and/or to take steps to set up
of information, subject to the additional aliases, change addresses, Supplement No. 4 to Part 744—Entity
List
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requirements of the Paperwork and other measures to try to limit the
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$Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2018 / Rules and Regulations 6953 Country Entity License requirement License review policy Federal Register citation * * * * * * * GEORGIA ......... ZAO Vneshtorgservis, 1 Geroyev For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE Street, Tskhinval, South Ossetia, the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. Georgia. of the EAR). * * * * * * * POLAND ........... Doncoaltrade SP Z O O, Ul. Barbary For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE 21, Katowice, woj. Slaskie, pow. M. the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. Katowice 40–053, Poland. of the EAR). * * * * * * * RUSSIA ............ * * * * * * Evro Polis Ltd., a.k.a., the following two For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Evro Polis, OOO; and of the EAR). —Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu Evro Polis. d. 1A pom. 9.1A, Shosse Ilinskoe, Krasnogorsk, Krasnogorski Raion, Moskovskaya Obl. 143409, Russia. * * * * * * Instar Lodzhistiks, OOO, a.k.a., the fol- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE lowing one alias: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Instar Logistics. of the EAR). d. 20 str., 7 ofis 102V, ul. Elektrozavodskaya, Moscow 1072023, Russia. * * * * * * Kaliningradnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE the following three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Kaliningradnefteprodukt LLC; of the EAR). —Limited Liability Company Kaliningradnefteproduct; and —LLC Kaliningradnefteproduct. 22-b Komsomolskaya Ulitsa, Central District, Kaliningrad, Russia. * * * * * * Kinef OOO, a.k.a., the following three For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Kinef, LLC; of the EAR). —Limited Liability Company Production Association Kirishinefteorgsintez; and —LLC Kinef. d. 1 Shosse Entuziastov, Kirishi, Leningradskaya Oblast 187110, Rus- sia. * * * * * * Kirishiavtoservis OOO, a.k.a., the fol- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE lowing two aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company of the EAR). Kirishiavtoservis; and —LLC Kirishiavtoservis. lit A, 12 Smolenskaya Ulitsa, St. Pe- tersburg 196084. Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO, a.k.a., For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE the following three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Company Gaz-Alliance LLC; of the EAR). —Kompaniya Gaz-Alyans, OOO; and —Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with RULES Otvetstvennostyu Kompaniya Gaz- Alyans. 15 Ul., Svobody, Nizhni Novgorod, Nizhegorodskaya Obl. 603003, Rus- sia. * * * * * * VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:46 Feb 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00005 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\16FER1.SGM 16FER1$

$6954 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2018 / Rules and Regulations Country Entity License requirement License review policy Federal Register citation Lengiproneftekhim OOO, a.k.a., the fol- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE lowing three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Institut Po Proektirovaniyu of the EAR). Predpriyaty Neftepererabatyvayuschey I Neftekhimicheskoy Promyshlennosti, Limited Liability Company; —Limited Liability Company Oil Refin- ing and Petrochemical Facilities De- sign Institute; and —LLC Lengiproneftekhim. d. 94, Obvodnogo Kanala, nab, St. Pe- tersburg 196084, Russia. * * * * * * Limited Liability Company Foreign Eco- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE nomic Association the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. Technopromexport, a.k.a., the fol- of the EAR). lowing three aliases: —Obschestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvestvennostyu Vneshneekonomicheskoe Obedinenie Tekhnopromeksport; —OOO VO Technopromexport; and —OOO VO TPE. Novyi Arbat Str. 15, Building 2, Mos- cow 119019, Russia. * * * * * * Media-Invest OOO, a.k.a., the following For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE two aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company Media-In- of the EAR). vest; and —LLC Media-Invest. 17 Bld 1 Zubovsky Blvd, Moscow 119847, Russia. * * * * * * Novgorodnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE following three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company of the EAR). Novgorodnefteproduct; —LLC Novgorodnefteproduct; and —Novgorodnefteprodukt LLC . d. 20 Germana Ulitsa, Veliky Novgorod, Novgorodskaya Oblast 173002, Rus- sia. * * * * * * PJSC Power Machines, a.k.a., the fol- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE lowing three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Open Joint Stock Company Power of the EAR). Machines—ZTL, LMZ, Electrosila, Energomachexport; —Publichnoe Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo Silovye Mashiny—ZTL, LMZ, Elektrosila, Energomasheksport; and —Silovye Mashiny, PAO. 3A Vatutina St., St. Petersburg 195009, Russia. * * * * * * Pskovnefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the fol- For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE lowing two aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company Marketing of the EAR). Association Pskovnefteproduct; and —LLC Pskovnefteproduct. 4 Oktyabrsky Prospekt, Pskov 180000, Russia. * * * * * * daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with RULES SNGB AO, a.k.a., the following three For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Closed Joint Stock Company of the EAR). Surgutneftegasbank (ZAO SNGB); —Joint Stock Company Surgutneftegasbank; and —JSC BANK SNGB. VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:46 Feb 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00006 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\16FER1.SGM 16FER1$

$Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 33 / Friday, February 16, 2018 / Rules and Regulations 6955 Country Entity License requirement License review policy Federal Register citation 19 Kukuyvitskogo Street, Surgut 628400, Russia. SO Tvernefteprodukt OOO, a.k.a., the For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE following two aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company Marketing of the EAR). Association Tvernefteproduct; and —LLC MA Tvernefteproduct. 6 Novotorzhskaya Ulitsa, Tver, Russia. * * * * * * Sovkhoz Chervishevski PAO, a.k.a., For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE the following three aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —OJSC Sovkhoz Chervishevsky; of the EAR). —Open Joint Stock Company Sovkhoz Chervishevsky; and —Sovkhoz Chervishevsky, JSC. d. 81 Sovetskaya Ulitsa, S. Chervichevsky, Tyumensky Rayon, Tyumensky Oblast 625519, Russia. * * * * * * Strakhovove Obshchestvo For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE Surgutneftegaz OOO, a.k.a., the fol- the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. lowing three aliases: of the EAR). —Insurance Company Surgutneftegas, LLC; —Limited Liability Company Insurance Company Surgutneftegas; and —LLC Insurance Company Surgutneftegas. 9/1 Lermontova Ulitsa, Surgut 628418, Russia. * * * * * * Surgutmebel OOO, a.k.a., the following For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE four aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Limited Liability Company of the EAR). Syrgutmebel; —LLC Surgutmebel; —LLC Syrgutmebel; and —Surgutmebel, LLC. Vostochnaya Industrial 1 Territory 2, Poselok Barsovo, Surgutsky District, Yugra, Khanty-Mansiysky Autonomos Okrug, Russia. * * * * * * Ugolnye Tekhnologii, OOO, a.k.a., the For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE following two aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Coal Technologies; and of the EAR). —Obshchestvo S Ogranichennoi Otvetstvennostyu ‘‘Ugolnye Tekhnologii’’. d. 25 ofis 13, 14, per. Avtomobilny, Rostov-on-Don, Rostovskaya Oblast 344038, Russia. * * * * * * VAD, AO, a.k.a, the following seven For all items subject to Presumption of denial ...... 83 FR [INSERT FR PAGE aliases: the EAR. (See § 744.11 NUMBER] 2/16/2018. —Aktsionernoe Obshchestvo VAD; of the EAR). —AO, VAD; —CJSC VAD; —Joint Stock Company VAD; —JSC VAD; —ZAO VAD; and —High-Quality Highways. 133, ul. Chernyshevskogo, Vologda, Vologodskaya Obl 160019, Russia; and 122 Grazhdanskiy Prospect, Suite 5, Liter A, St. Petersburg daltland on DSKBBV9HB2PROD with RULES 195267, Russia. * * * * * * VerDate Sep<11>2014 17:46 Feb 15, 2018 Jkt 244001 PO 00000 Frm 00007 Fmt 4700 Sfmt 4700 E:\FR\FM\16FER1.SGM 16FER1$

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Dated: February 12, 2018. Terminated Single-Employer Plans (29 the assumptions can reflect current
Richard E. Ashooh, CFR part 4022) prescribes actuarial market conditions as accurately as
Assistant Secretary for Export assumptions—including interest possible.
Administration. assumptions—for paying plan benefits Because of the need to provide
[FR Doc. 2018–03234 Filed 2–15–18; 8:45 am] under terminated single-employer plans immediate guidance for the payment of
BILLING CODE 3510–33–P covered by title IV of the Employee benefits under plans with valuation
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. dates during March 2018, PBGC finds
The interest assumptions in the that good cause exists for making the
PENSION BENEFIT GUARANTY regulation are also published on PBGC’s assumptions set forth in this
CORPORATION website (http://www.pbgc.gov). amendment effective less than 30 days
PBGC uses the interest assumptions in after publication.
29 CFR Part 4022 appendix B to part 4022 to determine
whether a benefit is payable as a lump PBGC has determined that this action
sum and to determine the amount to is not a ‘‘significant regulatory action’’
Benefits Payable in Terminated Single-
pay. Appendix C to part 4022 contains under the criteria set forth in Executive
Employer Plans; Interest Assumptions
interest assumptions for private-sector Order 12866.
for Paying Benefits
pension practitioners to refer to if they Because no general notice of proposed
AGENCY: Pension Benefit Guaranty wish to use lump-sum interest rates rulemaking is required for this
Corporation. determined using PBGC’s historical amendment, the Regulatory Flexibility
ACTION: Final rule. methodology. Currently, the rates in Act of 1980 does not apply. See 5 U.S.C.
appendices B and C of the benefit 601(2).
SUMMARY: This final rule amends the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation’s payment regulation are the same. List of Subjects in 29 CFR Part 4022
The interest assumptions are intended
regulation on Benefits Payable in
to reflect current conditions in the Employee benefit plans, Pension
Terminated Single-Employer Plans to
financial and annuity markets. insurance, Pensions, Reporting and
prescribe interest assumptions under
Assumptions under the benefit recordkeeping requirements.
the regulation for valuation dates in
payments regulation are updated In consideration of the foregoing, 29
March 2018. The interest assumptions
monthly. This final rule updates the CFR part 4022 is amended as follows:
are used for paying benefits under
benefit payments interest assumptions
terminating single-employer plans
for March 2018.1 PART 4022—BENEFITS PAYABLE IN
covered by the pension insurance The March 2018 interest assumptions
system administered by PBGC. TERMINATED SINGLE-EMPLOYER
under the benefit payments regulation PLANS
DATES: Effective March 1, 2018. will be 0.75 percent for the period
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: during which a benefit is in pay status ■ 1. The authority citation for part 4022
Daniel S. Liebman (liebman.daniel@ and 4.00 percent during any years continues to read as follows:
pbgc.gov), Acting Assistant General preceding the benefit’s placement in pay
Counsel for Regulatory Affairs, Pension Authority: 29 U.S.C. 1302, 1322, 1322b,
status. In comparison with the interest 1341(c)(3)(D), and 1344.
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, 1200 K assumptions in effect for February 2018,
Street NW, Washington, DC 20005, 202– these assumptions are unchanged. ■ 2. In appendix B to part 4022, Rate Set
326–4400 ext. 6510. (TTY/ASCII users PBGC has determined that notice and 293 is added at the end of the table to
may call the Federal relay service toll- public comment on this amendment are read as follows:
free at 1–800–877–8339 and ask to be impracticable and contrary to the public
connected to 202–326–4400, ext. 6510.) interest. This finding is based on the Appendix B to Part 4022—Lump Sum
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: PBGC’s need to determine and issue new Interest Rates For PBGC Payments
regulation on Benefits Payable in interest assumptions promptly so that * * * * *

For plans with a valuation Deferred annuities
Immediate
date (percent)
Rate set annuity rate
(percent)
On or after Before i1 i2 i3 n1 n2

* * * * * * *
293 3–1–18 4–1–18 0.75 4.00 4.00 4.00 7 8

■ 3. In appendix C to part 4022, Rate Set
293 is added at the end of the table to
read as follows:
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1 Appendix B to PBGC’s regulation on Allocation benefits under terminating covered single-employer ERISA section 4044. Those assumptions are
of Assets in Single-Employer Plans (29 CFR part plans for purposes of allocation of assets under updated quarterly.
4044) prescribes interest assumptions for valuing

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Document Created: 2018-02-16 00:55:23
Document Modified: 2018-02-16 00:55:23

Category		Regulatory Information
Collection		Federal Register
sudoc Class		AE 2.7: GS 4.107: AE 2.106:
Publisher		Office of the Federal Register, National Archives and Records Administration
Section		Rules and Regulations
Action		Final rule.
Dates		This rule is effective February 16, 2018.
Contact		Chair, End-User Review Committee, Office of the Assistant Secretary, Export Administration, Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce, Phone: (202) 482-5991, Email: [email protected]
FR Citation		83 FR 6949
RIN Number		0694-AH48
CFR Associated		Exports; Reporting and Recordkeeping Requirements and Terrorism

83 FR 6949 - Russian Sanctions: Addition of Certain Entities to the Entity List

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCEBureau of Industry and Security

Federal Register Volume 83, Issue 33 (February 16, 2018)

DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
Bureau of Industry and Security