[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 193 (Friday, October 4, 2024)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 80741-80742]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-22935]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control

31 CFR Part 587


Publication of Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions 
Regulations Web General License 8H

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Publication of a web general license.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets 
Control (OFAC) is publishing one general license (GL) issued pursuant 
to the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations: GL 8H, 
which was previously made available on OFAC's website.

DATES: GL 8H was issued on October 25, 2023. See SUPPLEMENTARY 
INFORMATION for additional relevant dates.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OFAC: Assistant Director for 
Licensing, 202-622-2480; Assistant Director for Regulatory Affairs, 
202-622-4855; or Assistant Director for Compliance, 202-622-2490 or 
https://ofac.treasury.gov/contact-ofac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available on OFAC's website: https://ofac.treasury.gov.

Background

    On October 25, 2023, OFAC issued GL 8H to authorize certain 
transactions otherwise prohibited by the Russian Harmful Foreign 
Activities Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 587. GL 8H was made 
available on OFAC's website (https://ofac.treasury.gov) when it was 
issued. The text of this GL is provided below.

OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL

Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations

31 CFR Part 587

GENERAL LICENSE NO. 8H

Authorizing Transactions Related to Energy

    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (c) of this general license, 
all transactions prohibited by Executive Order (E.O.) 14024 involving 
one or more of the following entities that are related to energy are 
authorized, through 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time, May 1, 2024:
    (1) State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic 
Affairs Vnesheconombank;
    (2) Public Joint Stock Company Bank Financial Corporation Otkritie;
    (3) Sovcombank Open Joint Stock Company;
    (4) Public Joint Stock Company Sberbank of Russia;
    (5) VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company;
    (6) Joint Stock Company Alfa-Bank;
    (7) Public Joint Stock Company Rosbank;
    (8) Bank Zenit Public Joint Stock Company;
    (9) Bank Saint-Petersburg Public Joint Stock Company;
    (10) Any entity in which one or more of the above persons own, 
directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, a 50 percent 
or greater interest; or
    (11) the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
    (b) For the purposes of this general license, the term ``related to 
energy'' means the extraction, production, refinement, liquefaction, 
gasification, regasification, conversion, enrichment, fabrication, 
transport, or purchase of petroleum, including crude oil, lease 
condensates, unfinished oils, natural gas liquids, petroleum products, 
natural gas, or other products capable of producing energy, such as 
coal, wood, or agricultural products used to manufacture biofuels, or 
uranium in any form, as well as the development, production, 
generation, transmission, or exchange of power, through any means, 
including nuclear, thermal, and renewable energy sources.
    (c) This general license does not authorize:
    (1) Any transactions prohibited by Directive 1A under E.O. 14024, 
Prohibitions Related to Certain Sovereign Debt of the Russian 
Federation;
    (2) The opening or maintaining of a correspondent account or 
payable-through account for or on behalf of any entity subject to 
Directive 2 under E.O. 14024, Prohibitions Related to Correspondent or 
Payable-Through Accounts and Processing of Transactions Involving 
Certain Foreign Financial Institutions;
    (3) Any debit to an account on the books of a U.S. financial 
institution of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation; or
    (4) Any transactions otherwise prohibited by the Russian Harmful 
Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 587 (RuHSR), 
including transactions involving any person blocked pursuant to the 
RuHSR other than the blocked persons described in paragraph (a) of this 
general license, unless separately authorized.
    (d) Effective October 25, 2023, General License No. 8G, dated May 
5, 2023, is replaced and superseded in its entirety by this General 
License No. 8H.

    Note to General License No. 8H.  This authorization is valid 
until May 1, 2024, unless renewed.

Bradley T. Smith,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.


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    Dated: October 25, 2023.

Lisa M. Palluconi,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2024-22935 Filed 10-3-24; 8:45 am]
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