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persons are generally prohibited from 

engaging in transactions with them. 

DATES: See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION

section for effective date(s). 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

OFAC: Andrea Gacki, Director, tel.: 

202–622–2490; Associate Director for 

Global Targeting, tel.: 202–622–2420; 

Assistant Director for Licensing, tel.: 

202–622–2480; Assistant Director for 

Regulatory Affairs, tel.: 202–622–4855; 

or the Assistant Director for Sanctions 

Compliance & Evaluation, tel.: 202–622– 

2490. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: 

Electronic Availability 

The Specially Designated Nationals 

and Blocked Persons List and additional 

information concerning OFAC sanctions 

programs are available on OFAC’s 

website (https://www.treasury.gov/ofac). 

Notice of OFAC Action 

On August 23, 2021, OFAC 

determined that the property and 

interests in property subject to U.S. 

jurisdiction of the following person are 

blocked under the relevant sanctions 

authority listed below. 

Individual 

1. WOLDEYOHANNES, Filipos (a.k.a. 

WELDEYOHANES, Philipos; a.k.a. 

WELDEYOHANNES, Filipos; a.k.a. 

WELDEYOHANNES, Fillipos; a.k.a. 

WELDEYOHANNES, Philipos; a.k.a. 

WOLDEYOHANES, Filipos; a.k.a. 

WOLDEYOHANES, Phillipos; a.k.a. 

WOLDEYOHANNES, Philipos), Shire, 

Tigray, Ethiopia; Eritrea; DOB 1955; POB 

Ts’elot, Asmara, Eritrea; nationality Eritrea; 

Gender Male (individual) [GLOMAG]. 

Designated pursuant to section 

1(a)(ii)(C)(1) of Executive Order 13818 of 

December 20, 2017, ‘‘Blocking the Property of 

Persons Involved in Serious Human Rights 

Abuse or Corruption,’’ 82 FR 60839, 3 CFR, 

2018 Comp., p. 399, (E.O. 13818) for being a 

foreign person who is or has been a leader 

or official of an entity, including any 

government entity, that has engaged in, or 

whose members have engaged in, serious 

human rights abuse relating to the leader’s or 

official’s tenure. 

Dated: August 23, 2021. 

Bradley T. Smith, 

Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets 

Control. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18839 Filed 8–31–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Office of Foreign Assets Control 

[Docket Number OFAC–2021–0003] 

Effectiveness of Licensing Procedures 

for Exportation of Agricultural 

Commodities, Medicine, and Medical 

Devices to Sudan and Iran; Comment 

Request 

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets 

Control, Treasury. 

ACTION: Request for comments. 

SUMMARY: The Department of the 

Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets 

Control (OFAC) is soliciting comments 

on the effectiveness of OFAC’s licensing 

procedures for the exportation of 

agricultural commodities, medicine, and 

medical devices to Sudan and Iran for 

the time period between October 1, 

2016, to September 30, 2018. Pursuant 

to the Trade Sanctions Reform and 

Export Enhancement Act of 2000, OFAC 

is required to submit a biennial report 

to the Congress on the operation of 

licensing procedures for such exports. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before October 1, 2021, 

to be assured of consideration for the 

report. 

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments 

by any of the following methods: 

Federal eRulemaking Portal: 

www.regulations.gov. Follow the 

instructions for submitting comments. 

Email: OFACreport@treasury.gov with 

Attn: Request for Comments (TSRA). 

Instructions: All submissions received 

must include the agency name and refer 

to Docket number OFAC–2021–0003. 

All comments, including attachments 

and other supporting materials, will 

become part of the public record and 

subject to public disclosure. Sensitive 

personal information, such as account 

numbers or Social Security numbers, 

should not be included. Comments 

generally will not be edited to remove 

any identifying or contact information. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information 

about these licensing procedures should 

be directed to the Assistant Director for 

Licensing, 202–622–2480. Additional 

information about these licensing 

procedures is also available at 

www.treasury.gov/tsra. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The 

current procedures used by OFAC 

pursuant to the Trade Sanctions Reform 

and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 

(Title IX of Pub. L. 106–387, 22 U.S.C. 

7201 et seq.) (the ‘‘Act’’) for authorizing 

the export and reexport of agricultural 

commodities, medicine, and medical 

devices to Iran are set forth in 31 CFR 

560.530, 560.532, and 560.533. Between 

October 22, 2012, and December 23, 

2016, OFAC issued a series of general 

licenses and published amendments to 

the Iranian Transactions and Sanctions 

Regulations, 31 CFR part 560, to expand 

the scope of these authorizations and to 

issue new or expanded authorizations, 

including authorizations related to 

training, replacement parts, software, 

and services for the operation, 

maintenance, and repair of medical 

devices, and items that are broken or 

connected to product recalls or other 

safety concerns to Iran. See 31 CFR 

560.530(a)(2) through (6). Accordingly, 

specific licenses are no longer required 

for these exports and related activities. 

Effective October 12, 2017, sections 1 

and 2 of Executive Order (E.O.) 13067 

of November 3, 1997, ‘‘Blocking 

Sudanese Government Property and 

Prohibiting Transactions With Sudan’’ 

(62 FR 59989, November 5, 1997), and 

E.O. 13412 of October 13, 2006, 

‘‘Blocking Property of and Prohibiting 

Transactions With the Government of 

Sudan’’ (71 FR 61369, October 17, 

2006), were revoked, pursuant to E.O. 

13761 of January 13, 2017, ‘‘Recognizing 

Positive Actions by the Government of 

Sudan and Providing for the Revocation 

of Certain Sudan-Related Sanctions’’ (82 

FR 5331, January 18, 2017), as amended 

by E.O. 13804 of July 11, 2017, 

‘‘Allowing Additional Time for 

Recognizing Positive Actions by the 

Government of Sudan and Amending 

Executive Order 13761’’ (82 FR 32611, 

July 14, 2017). As a result of the 

revocation of these sanctions provisions, 

U.S. persons are no longer prohibited 

from engaging in transactions that were 

previously prohibited under these 

provisions, and the Sudanese Sanctions 

Regulations, 31 CFR part 538, were 

revoked (83 FR 30539, June 29, 2018). 

However, pursuant to the Act, an OFAC 

license was required for exports and 

reexports to the Government of Sudan 

or any other entity in Sudan of 

agricultural commodities, medicine, and 

medical devices prior to the Secretary of 

State’s December 14, 2020, recission of 

the designation of Sudan as a State 

Sponsor of Terrorism (85 FR 82565, 

December 18, 2020). 

Under the provisions of section 906(c) 

of the Act, OFAC must submit a 

biennial report to the Congress on the 

operation, during the preceding twoyear period, of the licensing procedures 

required by section 906 of the Act for 

the export of agricultural commodities, 

medicine, and medical devices to Sudan 

and Iran. This report is to include: 

(1) The number and types of licenses 

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(2) The number and types of licenses 

approved; 

(3) The average amount of time 

elapsed from the date of filing of a 

license application until the date of its 

approval; 

(4) The extent to which the licensing 

procedures were effectively 

implemented; and 

(5) A description of comments 

received from interested parties about 

the extent to which the licensing 

procedures were effective, after holding 

a public 30-day comment period. 

This document solicits comments 

from interested parties regarding the 

effectiveness of OFAC’s licensing 

procedures for the export of agricultural 

commodities, medicine, and medical 

devices to Sudan and Iran for the time 

period between October 1, 2016 and 

September 30, 2018. Interested parties 

submitting comments are asked to be as 

specific as possible. In the interest of 

accuracy and completeness, OFAC 

requires written comments. All 

comments received on or before October 

1, 2021, will be considered by OFAC in 

developing the report to the Congress. 

Consideration of comments received 

after the end of the comment period 

cannot be assured. 

All comments made will be a matter 

of public record. OFAC therefore will 

neither accept nor consider comments 

accompanied by a request that part or 

all of the comments be treated 

confidentially because of their business 

proprietary nature or for any other 

reason. Copies of past biennial reports 

may be obtained from OFAC’s website: 

https://home.treasury.gov/system/files/ 

126/tsra.pdf. 

Dated: August 27, 2021. 

Bradley T. Smith, 

Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets 

Control. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18852 Filed 8–31–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4810–AL–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Requesting 

Comments on Form 8849 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

federal agencies to take this opportunity 

to comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting 

comments concerning Form 8849, Claim 

for Refund of Excise Taxes. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before November 1, 2021 

to be assured of consideration. 

ADDRESSES: Direct all written comments 

to Kinna Brewington, Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224. 

You must reference the information 

collection’s title, form number, 

reporting or record-keeping requirement 

number, and OMB number in your 

comment. 

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: 

Requests for additional information or 

copies of the form and instructions 

should be directed to Jon Callahan, 

(737) 800–7639, at Internal Revenue 

Service, Room 6526, 1111 Constitution 

Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20224, or 

through the internet at jon.r.callahan@

irs.gov. 

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The IRS is 

currently seeking comments concerning 

the following information collection 

tools, reporting, and record-keeping 

requirements: 

Title: Claim for Refund of Excise 

Taxes. 

OMB Number: 1545–1420. 

Form Number: Form 8849 and 

Schedules 1, 2, 3, 5, 6, and 8. 

Abstract: IRC sections 6402, 6404, 

6511 and sections 301.6402–2, 

301.6404–1, and 301.6404–3 of the 

regulations allow for refunds of taxes 

(except income taxes) or refund, 

abatement, or credit of interest, 

penalties, and additions to tax in the 

event of errors or certain actions by IRS. 

Taxpayers use Form 8849 to claim 

refunds of excise taxes. 

Current Actions: There is no change to 

the existing collection. 

Type of Review: Extension of a 

currently approved collection. 

Affected Public: Business or other forprofit organizations, individuals or 

households, and not-for-profit 

institutions, farms, and Federal, state, 

local or tribal governments. 

Estimated Number of Responses: 

111,147. 

Estimated Time per Respondent: 8 

hours, 31 minutes. 

Estimated Total Annual Burden 

Hours: 946,827. 

The following paragraph applies to all 

of the collections of information covered 

by this notice: 

An agency may not conduct or 

sponsor, and a person is not required to 

respond to, a collection of information 

unless the collection of information 

displays a valid OMB control number. 

Books or records relating to a collection 

of information must be retained as long 

as their contents may become material 

in the administration of any internal 

revenue law. Generally, tax returns and 

tax return information are confidential, 

as required by 26 U.S.C. 6103. 

Request for Comments: Comments 

submitted in response to this notice will 

be summarized and/or included in the 

request for OMB approval. All 

comments will become a matter of 

public record. Comments are invited on: 

(a) Whether the collection of 

information is necessary for the proper 

performance of the functions of the 

agency, including whether the 

information shall have practical utility; 

(b) the accuracy of the agency’s estimate 

of the burden of the collection of 

information; (c) ways to enhance the 

quality, utility, and clarity of the 

information to be collected; (d) ways to 

minimize the burden of the collection of 

information on respondents, including 

through the use of automated collection 

techniques or other forms of information 

technology; and (e) estimates of capital 

or start-up costs and costs of operation, 

maintenance, and purchase of services 

to provide information. 

Approved: August 26, 2021. 

Chakinna B. Clemons, 

Supervisory Tax Analyst. 

[FR Doc. 2021–18889 Filed 8–31–21; 8:45 am] 

BILLING CODE 4830–01–P 

DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY 

Internal Revenue Service 

Proposed Collection; Requesting 

Comments for Regulation Project. 

AGENCY: Internal Revenue Service (IRS), 

Treasury. 

ACTION: Notice and request for 

comments. 

SUMMARY: The Internal Revenue Service, 

as part of its continuing effort to reduce 

paperwork and respondent burden, 

invites the general public and other 

federal agencies to take this opportunity 

to comment on proposed and/or 

continuing information collections, as 

required by the Paperwork Reduction 

Act of 1995. The IRS is soliciting 

comments concerning information 

collection requirements related to the 

guidance regarding the qualified 

severance of a trust for generationskipping transfer (GST) tax purposes. 

DATES: Written comments should be 

received on or before November 1, 2021 

to be assured of consideration. 


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