Wassenaar Arrangement 2008 Plenary Agreements Implementation: Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Parts I and II, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Commerce Control List, Definitions, Reports; Correction

Federal Register: March 23, 2010 (Volume 75, Number 55)

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security 15 CFR Part 774

Docket No. 0908041218-91220-01

RIN 0694-AE58

Wassenaar Arrangement 2008 Plenary Agreements Implementation:

Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Parts I and II, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Commerce

Control List, Definitions, Reports; Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce.

ACTION: Final rule; correcting amendment.

SUMMARY: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) published a final rule in the Federal Register on Friday, December 11, 2009, that revised the Export Administration Regulations (EAR) by amending entries for certain items that are controlled for national security reasons in

Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Part I (telecommunications), 5 Part II

(information security), 6, 7, 8, and 9; adding new entries to the

Commerce Control List, revising reporting requirements, and adding and amending EAR Definitions. That final rule contained errors that affected Export Control Classification Numbers 1A004 and 5A001. This document corrects these errors.

DATES: Effective Date: This rule is effective March 23, 2010.

ADDRESSES: Written comments on this rule may be sent to the Federal

Register eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov, or by e-mail to publiccomments@bis.doc.gov. Include RIN 0694-AE58 in the subject line of the message. Comments may be submitted by mail or hand delivery to Sharron Cook, Office of Exporter Services, Regulatory Policy

Division, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, 14th St., & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room H2705, Washington, DC 20230,

ATTN: RIN AE58; or by fax to (202) 482-3355.

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Send comments regarding the collection of information to Jasmeet

Seehra, Office of Management and Budget (OMB), by e-mail to jseehra@omb.eop.gov, or by fax to (202) 395-7285; and to the Regulatory

Policy Division, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of

Commerce, 14th St. & Pennsylvania Avenue, NW., Room H2705, Washington,

DC 20230.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Sharron Cook, Office of Exporter

Services, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce; by telephone: (202) 482-2440; or by fax: 202-482-3355.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

On December 11, 2009, the final rule, ``Wassenaar Arrangement 2008

Plenary Agreements Implementation: Categories 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 Parts I and

II, 6, 7, 8 and 9 of the Commerce Control List, Definitions, Reports'' was published in the Federal Register (74 FR 66000). The December 11th rule inadvertently removed two technical notes after 1A004.d. This rule adds these technical notes back to 1A004.d. In addition, in the LVS paragraph of the License Requirement section of ECCN 5A001, this rule replaces the phrase ``and .d through .h'' with ``and .d, .f, .g, .h.'' in order to make it clear that only the referenced paragraphs are eligible for license exception LVS. The phrase ``and .d through .h'' suggested that paragraph .e was eligible for LVS and it is not.

Although the Export Administration Act expired on August 20, 2001, the President, through Executive Order 13222 of August 17, 2001, 3 CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 783 (2002), as extended by the Notice of August 13. 2009

(74 FR 41325 (August 14, 2009)), has continued the Export

Administration Regulations in effect under the International Emergency

Economic Powers Act.

Rulemaking Requirements 1. This final rule has been determined to be not significant for purposes of E.O. 12866. 2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person is required to respond to, nor shall any person be subject to a penalty for failure to comply with a collection of information, subject to the requirements of the Paperwork Reduction Act, unless that collection of information displays a currently valid Office of Management and Budget

Control Number. This final rule involves a collection of information subject to the Paperwork Reduction Act of 1980 (44 U.S.C. 3501 et seq.). This collection has been approved by the Office of Management and Budget under control number 0694-0088, ``Multi-Purpose

Application,'' which carries a burden hour estimate of 58 minutes for a manual or electronic submission. This final rule is expected to have a minimal increase on the total number of license applications submitted to BIS. Send comments regarding these burden estimates or any other aspect of these collections of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Jasmeet Seehra, Office of Management and Budget

(OMB), and to the Regulatory Policy Division, Bureau of Industry and

Security as indicated in the ADDRESSES section of this rule. 3. This rule does not contain policies with Federalism implications as that term is defined under E.O. 13132. 4. The provisions of the Administrative Procedure Act (5 U.S.C. 553) requiring notice of proposed rulemaking, the opportunity for public participation, and a delay in effective date, are inapplicable because this regulation involves a military and foreign affairs function of the United States (5 U.S.C. 553(a)(1)). Further, no other law requires that a notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for public comment be given for this final rule. Because a notice of proposed rulemaking and an opportunity for public comment are not required to be given for this rule under the Administrative Procedure

Act or by any other law, the analytical requirements of the Regulatory

Flexibility Act (5 U.S.C. 601 et seq.) are not applicable. Therefore, this regulation is issued in final form. Although the formal comment period closed on June 17, 2008, public comments on this regulation are welcome on a continuing basis. Comments should be submitted to one of the addresses listed in the ADDRESSES section of the preamble of this final rule.

List of Subjects in 15 CFR Part 774

Exports, Reporting and recordkeeping requirements. 0

Accordingly, part 774 of the Export Administration Regulations (15 CFR parts 730-774) is corrected by making the following correcting amendment:

PART 774--[CORRECTED] 0 1. The authority citations for part 774 continue to read as follows:

Authority: Authority: 50 U.S.C. app. 2401 et seq.; 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.; 10 U.S.C. 7420; 10 U.S.C. 7430(e); 22 U.S.C. 287c, 22

U.S.C. 3201 et seq., 22 U.S.C. 6004; 30 U.S.C. 185(s), 185(u); 42

U.S.C. 2139a; 42 U.S.C. 6212; 43 U.S.C. 1354; 15 U.S.C. 1824a; 50

U.S.C. app. 5; 22 U.S.C. 7201 et seq.; 22 U.S.C. 7210; E.O. 13026, 61 FR 58767, 3 CFR, 1996 Comp., p. 228; E.O. 13222, 66 FR 44025, 3

CFR, 2001 Comp., p. 783; Notice of August 13, 2009, 74 FR 41325

(August 14, 2009).

Supplement No. 1 to Part 774--Commerce Control List [CORRECTED] 0 2. Supplement No. 1 to Part 774 (the Commerce Control List), Category 1, Export Control Classification Number (ECCN) 1A004 is corrected by adding two new technical notes to the end of paragraph d in the items paragraph of the List of Items Controlled section, to read as follows: 1A004 Protective and detection equipment and components, not specially designed for military use, as follows (see List of Items Controlled).

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List of Items Controlled

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Items:

* * * * * d. * * *

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Technical Notes: 1. 1A004 includes equipment and components that have been identified, successfully tested to national standards or otherwise proven effective, for the detection of or defense against radioactive materials ``adapted for use in war'', biological agents

``adapted for use in war'', chemical warfare agents, 'simulants' or

``riot control agents'', even if such equipment or components are used in civil industries such as mining, quarrying, agriculture, pharmaceuticals, medical, veterinary, environmental, waste management, or the food industry. 2. 'Simulant': A substance or material that is used in place of toxic agent (chemical or biological) in training, research, testing or evaluation.

* * * * * 0 3. Supplement No. 1 to Part 774 (the Commerce Control List), Category 5, Part I, ECCN 5A001 is corrected by removing the phrase ``and .d through .h'' and adding in its place ``and .d, .f, .g, .h.'' in the LVS paragraph of the License Requirement section.

Dated: March 17, 2010.

Kevin J. Wolf,

Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.

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