34826 Federal Register / Vol. 83, No. 141 / Monday, July 23, 2018 / Notices 

1The Regulations are currently codified in the 

Code of Federal Regulations at 15 CFR parts 730– 

774 (2018) (available at https://www.govinfo.gov/ 

app/collection/CFR). The Regulations issued under 

the authority of the Export Administration Act of 

1979, as amended. 50 U.S.C. 4601–4623 (Supp. III 

2015). Since August 21, 2001, the Act has been in 

lapse and the President, through Executive Order 

13222 of August 17, 2001 (3 CFR, 2001 Comp. 783 

(2002)), which has been extended by successive 

Presidential Notices, the most recent being that of 

August 16, 2017 (82 FR 39,005 (Aug. 15, 2017)), has 

continued the Regulations in effect under the 

International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 

U.S.C. 1701, et seq.) (2012). 

2ZTE satisfied $361,000,000 of this civil penalty 

amount through the payment made by ZTE on or 

about May 19, 2017, following issuance of the 

March 23, 2017 Order. 

admitted by ZTE and set forth in the 

Proposed Charging Letter attached to 

and incorporated in the March 2017 

Settlement Agreement and the March 

23, 2017 Order.1

On March 6, 2018, ZTE notified BIS 

that it had made false statements in 

letters it sent to BIS on November 30, 

2016 and July 20, 2017, respectively, 

regarding the discipline of 39 employees 

involved in the violations that led to 

proposed charges settled through the 

March 2017 Settlement Agreement. 

After providing notice to ZTE and an 

opportunity to respond pursuant to the 

Regulations, I issued an order on April 

15, 2018 (the ‘‘April 15, 2018 Order’’), 

activating the suspended denial of 

export privileges set forth in the March 

2017 Settlement Agreement and the 

March 23, 2017 Order. See 83 FR 17,644 

(April 23, 2018). 

On June 8, 2018, I issued a 

Superseding Order approving a 

superseding settlement agreement 

between BIS and ZTE (the ‘‘Superseding 

Settlement Agreement’’), whereby the 

parties agreed to additional and 

enhanced settlement terms and 

conditions, including, inter alia, the full 

and timely payment by ZTE of 

$1,000,000,000 to the Department of 

Commerce within 60 days of the date of 

the Superseding Order, and the full and 

timely placement of $400,000,000, 

within 90 days of the date of the 

Superseding Order, in an escrow 

account with a bank located and 

headquartered in the United States to be 

selected by ZTE and approved by BIS. 

The $400,000,000 escrow amount is the 

suspended portion of the 

$1,761,000,000 civil penalty imposed 

pursuant to the Superseding Settlement 

Agreement and the Superseding Order.2

The Superseding Order also provided, 

as agreed to by the parties, that BIS 

would terminate the denial of export 

privileges set forth in the April 15, 2018 

Order and remove ZTE from the Denied 

Persons List upon ZTE’s full and timely 

payment of the $1,000,000,000 

referenced above and compliance with 

the escrow requirements relating to the 

$400,000,000 suspended portion of the 

civil penalty. 

ZTE has made full and timely 

payment of the $1,000,000,000 and has 

complied with the escrow requirements 

relating to the $400,000,000 suspended 

portion of the civil penalty. Therefore, 

BIS is hereby terminating the April 15, 

2018 Order, and BIS will remove ZTE 

from the Denied Persons List. 

This Order does not modify any 

provision of the Superseding Order or 

the Superseding Settlement Agreement. 

Under the terms of the Superseding 

Settlement Agreement and Superseding 

Order, if ZTE does not fully and timely 

comply with all other probationary 

conditions set forth in the Superseding 

Settlement Agreement and Superseding 

Order during the ten-year probationary 

period, the $400,000,000 suspended 

portion of the BIS civil penalty may 

immediately become due and owing in 

full or in part, at BIS’s discretion, and 

the suspended denial order may be 

modified or revoked by BIS and a denial 

order including a ten-year denial period 

activated against ZTE from the date that 

it is determined that ZTE has failed to 

comply. 

This Order is effective immediately 

and shall be served on ZTE and shall be 

published in the Federal Register. 

Issued this day of July 13, 2018. 

Richard R. Majauskas, 

Acting Assistant Secretary of Commerce for 

Export Enforcement. 

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Bureau of Industry and Security 

Notice of Partially Closed Meeting: 

Materials Processing Equipment 

Technical Advisory Committee 

The Materials Processing Equipment 

Technical Advisory Committee 

(MPETAC) will meet on August 7, 2018, 

9:00 a.m., Room 3884, in the Herbert C. 

Hoover Building, 14th Street between 

Pennsylvania and Constitution 

Avenues, NW, Washington, DC. The 

Committee advises the Office of the 

Assistant Secretary for Export 

Administration with respect to technical 

questions that affect the level of export 

controls applicable to materials 

processing equipment and related 

technology. 

Agenda 

Open Session 

1. Opening remarks and 

introductions. 

2. Discussions on results from last, 

and proposals from last Wassenaar 

meeting. 

3. Report on proposed and recently 

issued changes to the Export 

Administration Regulations. 

4. TAC Membership. 

5. Proposed Cyber Rule circulated 

6/12/18. 

6. TAC Meeting Attendance. 

7. Coordinate TAC Project—Draft 

Announcement. 

8. Industry 4.0 and New 

Technologies. 

Closed Session 

9. Discussion of matters determined to 

be exempt from the provisions relating 

to public meetings found in 5 U.S.C. 

app. 2 §§ 10(a)(1) and 10(a)(3). 

The open session will be accessible 

via teleconference to 20 participants on 

a first come, first serve basis. To join the 

conference, submit inquiries to Ms. 

Joanna Lewis at Joanna.Lewis@

bis.doc.gov, no later than July 31, 2018. 

A limited number of seats will be 

available for the public session. 

Reservations are not accepted. To the 

extent that time permits, members of the 

public may present oral statements to 

the Committee. The public may submit 

written statements at any time before or 

after the meeting. However, to facilitate 

the distribution of public presentation 

materials to the Committee members, 

the Committee suggests that presenters 

forward the public presentation 

materials prior to the meeting to Ms. 

Lewis via email. 

The Assistant Secretary for 

Administration, with the concurrence of 

the delegate of the General Counsel, 

formally determined on February 13, 

2018, pursuant to Section 10(d) of the 

Federal Advisory Committee Act, as 

amended (5 U.S.C. app. 2 § 10(d)), that 

the portion of the meeting dealing with 

matters the premature disclosure of 

which would be likely to frustrate 

significantly implementation of a 

proposed agency action as described in 

5 U.S.C. 552b(c)(9)(B) shall be exempt 

from the provisions relating to public 

meetings found in 5 U.S.C. app. 2 

§§ 10(a)(1) and 10(a)(3). The remaining 

portions of the meeting will be open to 

the public. For more information, call 

Joanna Lewis at (202) 482–6440. 

Joanna Lewis, 

Committee Liaison Officer. 

[FR Doc. 2018–15675 Filed 7–20–18; 8:45 am] 

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