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ADDRESSES: A copy of this Notice is 

available at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/ 

fr. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

D. Michael Linder, Director, Division of 

Program Administration, Office of 

Retail Securities, Bureau of the Public 

Debt, at (304) 480–6319 or 

<mike.linder@bpd.treas.gov>. 

Ann Fowler, Attorney-Adviser, Brian 

Metz, Attorney-Adviser, Dean Adams, 

Assistant Chief Counsel, or Edward 

Gronseth, Deputy Chief Counsel, 

Office of the Chief Counsel, Bureau of 

the Public Debt, at (304) 480–8692 or 

<ann.fowler@bpd.treas.gov>. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Beginning 

October 1, 1988, Treasury permitted 

paying agents to transmit and receive 

settlement for redeemed definitive 

savings bonds and savings notes 

through the EZ CLEAR system. The EZ 

CLEAR system required paying agents to 

manually sort and mail definitive 

savings bonds and savings notes to the 

appropriate Federal Reserve Bank or 

Branch. Treasury paid paying agents a 

30-cent fee for each redeemed definitive 

savings bond or savings note presented 

through the EZ CLEAR system. 

Effective April 11, 2012, paying 

agents will begin to transition the 

submission of redeemed definitive 

savings bonds and savings notes from 

the EZ CLEAR process to an existing 

image-based process through the 

Federal Reserve. This simple and 

modern process allows paying agents to 

electronically transmit images of 

redeemed definitive savings bonds and 

savings notes to a Federal Reserve 

Processing Site for payment. Because 

the new process removes the manual 

sorting and mailing required by the 

former process, Treasury is eliminating 

the fee that it paid to paying agents for 

submitting redeemed definitive savings 

bonds and notes. The elimination of 

paying agent fees will result in 

significant program savings. 

This fee change is consistent with 31 

CFR 321.23, which makes discretionary 

Treasury’s payment of fees to paying 

agents for the processing of redeemed 

definitive savings bonds and savings 

notes. Therefore, notice is hereby given 

that, effective April 11, 2012, Treasury 

will no longer pay fees to paying agents 

for the redemption of definitive savings 

bonds and savings notes. 

Richard L. Gregg, 

Fiscal Assistant Secretary. 

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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

Designation of 4 Individuals and 2 

Entities Pursuant to Executive Order 

13224 of September 23, 2001, 

‘‘Blocking Property and Prohibiting 

Transactions With Persons Who 

Commit, Threaten To Commit, or 

Support Terrorism’’ 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice. 

SUMMARY: The Treasury Department’s 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

(‘‘OFAC’’) is publishing the names of 

four individuals and two entities whose 

property and interests in property are 

blocked pursuant to Executive Order 

13224 of September 23, 2001, ‘‘Blocking 

Property and Prohibiting Transactions 

With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To 

Commit, or Support Terrorism.’’ 

DATES: The designations by the Director 

of OFAC of the 4 individual(s) and 2 

entit(ies) in this notice, pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224, are effective on 

March 27, 2012. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Assistant Director, Compliance 

Outreach & Implementation, Office of 

Foreign Assets Control, Department of 

the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, 

tel.: 202/622–2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic and Facsimile Availability 

This document and additional 

information concerning OFAC are 

available from OFAC’s Web site 

(www.treas.gov/ofac) or via facsimile 

through a 24-hour fax-on-demand 

service, tel.: 202/622–0077. 

Background 

On September 23, 2001, the President 

issued Executive Order 13224 (the 

‘‘Order’’) pursuant to the International 

Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 

U.S.C. 1701–1706, and the United 

Nations Participation Act of 1945, 22 

U.S.C. 287c. In the Order, the President 

declared a national emergency to 

address grave acts of terrorism and 

threats of terrorism committed by 

foreign terrorists, including the 

September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks in 

New York, Pennsylvania, and at the 

Pentagon. The Order imposes economic 

sanctions on persons who have 

committed, pose a significant risk of 

committing, or support acts of terrorism. 

The President identified in the Annex to 

the Order, as amended by Executive 

Order 13268 of July 2, 2002, 13 

individuals and 16 entities as subject to 

the economic sanctions. The Order was 

further amended by Executive Order 

13284 of January 23, 2003, to reflect the 

creation of the Department of Homeland 

Security. 

Section 1 of the Order blocks, with 

certain exceptions, all property and 

interests in property that are in or 

hereafter come within the United States 

or the possession or control of United 

States persons, of: (1) Foreign persons 

listed in the Annex to the Order; (2) 

foreign persons determined by the 

Secretary of State, in consultation with 

the Secretary of the Treasury, the 

Secretary of the Department of 

Homeland Security and the Attorney 

General, to have committed, or to pose 

a significant risk of committing, acts of 

terrorism that threaten the security of 

U.S. nationals or the national security, 

foreign policy, or economy of the United 

States; (3) persons determined by the 

Director of OFAC, in consultation with 

the Departments of State, Homeland 

Security and Justice, to be owned or 

controlled by, or to act for or on behalf 

of those persons listed in the Annex to 

the Order or those persons determined 

to be subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 

1(d)(i) of the Order; and (4) except as 

provided in section 5 of the Order and 

after such consultation, if any, with 

foreign authorities as the Secretary of 

State, in consultation with the Secretary 

of the Treasury, the Secretary of the 

Department of Homeland Security and 

the Attorney General, deems 

appropriate in the exercise of his 

discretion, persons determined by the 

Director of OFAC, in consultation with 

the Departments of State, Homeland 

Security and Justice, to assist in, 

sponsor, or provide financial, material, 

or technological support for, or financial 

or other services to or in support of, 

such acts of terrorism or those persons 

listed in the Annex to the Order or 

determined to be subject to the Order or 

to be otherwise associated with those 

persons listed in the Annex to the Order 

or those persons determined to be 

subject to subsection 1(b), 1(c), or 1(d)(i) 

of the Order. 

On March 27, 2012 the Director of 

OFAC, in consultation with the 

Departments of State, Homeland 

Security, Justice and other relevant 

agencies, designated, pursuant to one or 

more of the criteria set forth in 

subsections 1(b), 1(c) or 1(d) of the 

Order, four individuals and two entities 

whose property and interests in 

property are blocked pursuant to 

Executive Order 13224. 

The listings for these individuals and 

entities on OFAC’s list of Specially 

Designated Nationals and Blocked 

Persons appear as follows: 

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Individual(s) 

1. AGHAJANI, Hosein (a.k.a. ADHAJANI, 

Azim; a.k.a. AGAJANY, Azimi; a.k.a. 

AGHAJANI, Azimi; a.k.a. AGHAJANI, 

Azim; a.k.a. AGHAJANI, Asim; a.k.a. 

AQAJANI, Azim); DOB 1967; nationality 

Iran (individual) [SDGT] 

2. TABATABAEI, Sayyid Ali Akbar (a.k.a. 

TABATABAEE, Sayyed Ali; a.k.a. 

TABATABAEI, Ali Akbar; a.k.a. 

TABATABAEI, Syed; a.k.a. 

TABATABAEI, Seyed Akbar; a.k.a. 

TABATABA’I, Seyed Akbar; a.k.a. 

TABATABA’IE, Sayyed Ali; a.k.a. 

TAHMAESEBI, Seyed Akbar; a.k.a. 

TAHMASEBI, Seyed; a.k.a. 

TAHMASEBI, Akbar); nationality Iran; 

Passport 6620505; alt. Passport 9003213 

(individual) [SDGT] 

3. GHANI, Esmail (a.k.a. AKBARNEJAD, 

Esmaeil Ghaani; a.k.a. GHAANI, Esmail; 

a.k.a. GHA’ANI, Esma’il; a.k.a. NEZHAD, 

Ismail Akbar; a.k.a. QA’ANI, Esma’il; 

a.k.a. QANI, Esmail); DOB 8 Aug 1957; 

POB Mashhad, Iran; Passport D9003033 

(Iran); alt. Passport D9008347 (Iran) 

issued 18 Jul 2010 expires 18 Jul 2015 

(individual) [SDGT] 

4. JEGA, Ali Abbas Usman (a.k.a. HASSAN, 

Ali Abbas Othman; a.k.a. JEGA, Abbas), 

6B Nouakchott Street, Wuse Zone 1, 

Abuja, Nigeria; DOB 1965; nationality 

Nigeria (individual) [SDGT] 

Entities 

1. YAS AIR (a.k.a. YAS AIR KISH; a.k.a. 

YASAIR CARGO AIRLINE), Mehrabad 

International Airport, Next to Terminal 

No. 6, Tehran, Iran [SDGT] 

2. BEHINEH TRADING, Tehran, Iran [SDGT] 

Dated: March 27, 2012. 

Adam J. Szubin, 

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control. 

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