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69–011 2016

114th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 114–190 

TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT MALICIOUS CYBER-ENABLED ACTIVITIES 

COMMUNICATION 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT MALICIOUS CYBER-ENABLED 

ACTIVITIES AS DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 13694 OF 

APRIL 1, 2015, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b); PUBLIC LAW 95– 

223 SEC. 204(b); (91 STAT. 1627) 

DECEMBER 30, 2016.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and 

ordered to be printed 


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THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, December 28, 2016. 

Hon. PAUL D. RYAN, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Pursuant to the International Emergency 

Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) (IEEPA), I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order (the ‘‘order’’) that takes 

additional steps to address the increasing use of significant malicious cyber-enabled activities to undermine democratic processes or 

institutions. These steps have been taken with respect to the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 

2015. 

The order amends section 1(a) of Executive Order 13694 by providing authority for blocking the property and interests in property 

of any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, to 

be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly 

or indirectly, cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed 

by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the 

United States that are reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, 

foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the 

United States and that have the purpose or effect of tampering 

with, altering, or causing a misappropriation of information with 

the purpose or effect of interfering with or undermining election 

processes or institutions. The order also blocks the property and interests in property of the persons listed in the Annex to the order. 

I have delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority, 

in consultation with the Attorney General and Secretary of State, 

to take such actions, including the promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ all powers granted to the President by 

IEEPA as may be necessary to carry out the purposes 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. 

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. 

Sincerely, 

BARACK OBAMA. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER

TAKING ADDITIONAL STEPS TO ADDRESS THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY

WITH RESPECT TO SIGNIFICANT MALICIOUS CYBER-ENABLED AC- TIVITIES

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 

(IEEPA), the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) 

(NEA), and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, 

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, 

in order to take additional steps to deal with the national emergency with respect to significant malicious cyber-enabled activities 

declared in Executive Order 13694 of April 1, 2015, and in view of 

the increasing use of such activities to undermine democratic processes or institutions, hereby order: 

Section 1. Section 1(a) of Executive Order 13694 is hereby 

amended to read as follows: ‘‘Section 1. (a) All property and interests in property that are in 

the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, 

or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of 

any United States person of the following persons are blocked and 

may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, or otherwise 

dealt in: 

(i) the persons listed in the Annex to this order; 

(ii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 

consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State, 

to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged in, directly 

or indirectly, cyber-enabled activities originating from, or directed 

by persons located, in whole or in substantial part, outside the 

United States that are reasonably likely to result in, or have materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, 

foreign policy, or economic health or financial stability of the 

United States and that have the purpose or effect of: 

(A) harming, or otherwise significantly compromising the 

provision of services by, a computer or network of computers 

that support one or more entities in a critical infrastructure 

sector; 

(B) significantly compromising the provision of services by 

one or more entities in a critical infrastructure sector; 

(C) causing a significant disruption to the availability of a 

computer or network of computers; 

(D) causing a significant misappropriation of funds or economic resources, trade secrets, personal identifiers, or financial 

information for commercial or competitive advantage or private 

financial gain; or 


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(E) tampering with, altering, or causing a misappropriation 

of information with the purpose or effect of interfering with or 

undermining election processes or institutions; and 

(iii) any person determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in 

consultation with the Attorney General and the Secretary of State: 

(A) to be responsible for or complicit in, or to have engaged 

in, the receipt or use for commercial or competitive advantage 

or private financial gain, or by a commercial entity, outside the 

United States of trade secrets misappropriated through cyberenabled means, knowing they have been misappropriated, 

where the misappropriation of such trade secrets is reasonably 

likely to result in, or has materially contributed to, a significant threat to the national security, foreign policy, or economy 

of the United States; 

(B) to have materially assisted, sponsored, or provided financial, material, or technological support for, or goods or services 

to or in support of, any activity described in subsections (a)(ii) 

or (a)(iii)(A) of this section or any person whose property and 

interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; 

(C) to be owned or controlled by, or to have acted or purported to act for or on behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to this order; or 

(D) to have attempted to engage in any of the activities described in subsections (a)(ii) and (a)(iii)(A)–(C) of this section.’’ 

Sec. 2. Executive Order 13694 is further amended by adding as 

an Annex to Executive Order 13694 the Annex to this order. 

Sec. 3. Executive Order 13694 is further amended by redesignating section 10 as section 11 and adding a new section 10 to read 

as follows: ‘‘Sec. 10. The Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 

Attorney General and the Secretary of State, is hereby authorized 

to determine that circumstances no longer warrant the blocking of 

the property and interests in property of a person listed in the 

Annex to this order, and to take necessary action to give effect to 

that determination.’’ 

Sec. 4. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 

right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 

equity by any party against the United States, its departments, 

agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other 

person. 

Sec. 5. This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern standard time 

on December 29, 2016. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, December 28, 2016. 


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