[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 187 (Thursday, September 26, 2024)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 78836]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22145]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

15 CFR Parts 736, 744, and 774

[Docket No. 240923-0250]
RIN 0694-AI35


Export Administration Regulations: Crime Controls and Expansion/
Update of U.S. Persons Controls; Extension of Comment Period

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Department of Commerce.

ACTION: Proposed rule; extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On July 29, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 
published in the Federal Register a proposed rule, ``Export 
Administration Regulations: Crime Controls and Expansion/Update of U.S. 
Persons Controls'' with comments originally due September 27, 2024. 
This notification extends the deadline for written comments to October 
15, 2024. This extension is being made to allow for commenters to have 
additional time to review the proposed rule and to benefit from the 
significant amount of public outreach that BIS is conducting on the 
rule in preparing their comments. Extending the public comment period 
will not in any way undermine the rule or national security of the 
United States.

DATES: The comments period for the proposed rule published July 29, 
2024, at 89 FR 60998 is extended. Comments must be received by BIS no 
later than October 15, 2024.

ADDRESSES: Comments on this rule may be submitted to the Federal 
rulemaking portal (www.regulations.gov). The regulations.gov ID for the 
rule entitled ``Export Administration Regulations: Crime Controls and 
Expansion/Update of U.S. Persons Controls'' is BIS-2023-0006. Please 
refer to RIN 0694-AI35 in all comments.
    All filers using the portal should use the name of the person or 
entity submitting the comments as the name of their files, in 
accordance with the instructions below. Anyone submitting business 
confidential information should clearly identify the business 
confidential portion at the time of submission, file a statement 
justifying nondisclosure and referring to the specific legal authority 
claimed, and provide a non-confidential version of the submission. For 
comments submitted electronically containing business confidential 
information, the file name of the business confidential version should 
begin with the characters ``BC.'' Any page containing business 
confidential information must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS 
CONFIDENTIAL'' on the top of that page. The corresponding non-
confidential version of those comments must be clearly marked 
``PUBLIC.'' The file name of the non-confidential version should begin 
with the character ``P.'' Any submissions with file names that do not 
begin with either a ``BC'' or a ``P'' will be assumed to be public and 
will be made publicly available through https://www.regulations.gov. 
Commenters submitting business confidential information are encouraged 
to scan a hard copy of the non-confidential version to create an image 
of the file, rather than submitting a digital copy with redactions 
applied, to avoid inadvertent redaction errors which could enable the 
public to read business confidential information.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: For questions specific to the human 
rights or foreign-security end-user provisions set forth in the rule 
entitled, ``Export Administration Regulations: Crime Controls and 
Expansion/Update of U.S. Persons Controls'' contact Anthony Christino, 
Director Human Rights and Embargoes Division, 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#c988a7bda1a6a7b0e78aa1bba0babda0a7a689aba0bae7ada6aae7aea6bf"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="4b0a253f232425326508233922383f2225240b292238652f2428652c243d">[email protected]</span></a>, Phone: (202) 482-3241. For general 
questions, contact Hillary Hess, Director Regulatory Policy Division, 
<a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#4c3e3c287e0c2e253f6228232f622b233a"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="750705114735171c065b111a165b121a03">[email protected]</span></a>. Include, ``Human Rights End Users'' on subject line 
of emails. Phone: (202) 482-2440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On July 29, 2024, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 
published in the Federal Register a proposed rule entitled, ``Export 
Administration Regulations: Crime Controls and Expansion/Update of U.S. 
Persons Controls'' (89 FR 60998), which proposed to establish certain 
Foreign-Security End User (FSEU) and ``U.S. persons'' activities 
controls and Commerce Control List-based (CCL) controls. The proposed 
additions of the foreign-security end user control and ``U.S. persons'' 
activities controls would implement expanded authority under the Export 
Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), as amended, to control certain 
``U.S. persons'' activities under the EAR. BIS is proposing amendments 
to control ``support'' furnished by ``U.S. persons'' to identified 
FSEUs. In addition, BIS is proposing to add to the CCL two new 
unilateral item controls on facial recognition technology.
    In response to requests from the regulated community, the 
Department of Commerce is extending the comment period for 15 days.
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Thea D. Rozman Kendler,
Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2024-22145 Filed 9-24-24; 4:15 pm]
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