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Federal Register 

Vol. 87, No. 78 

Friday, April 22, 2022 

Title 3— 

The President 

Proclamation 10371 of April 21, 2022 

Declaration of National Emergency and Invocation of Emergency Authority Relating to the Regulation of the Anchorage 

and Movement of Russian-Affiliated Vessels to United States 

Ports 

By the President of the United States of America 

A Proclamation 

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the 

laws of the United States of America, including the National Emergencies 

Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) and section 1 of title II of Public Law 65– 

24, ch. 30, June 15, 1917, as amended (Magnuson Act) (46 U.S.C. 70051), 

I, JOSEPH R. BIDEN JR., President of the United States of America, hereby 

find and proclaim that: 

The policies and actions of the Government of the Russian Federation to 

continue the premeditated, unjustified, unprovoked, and brutal war against 

Ukraine constitute a national emergency by reason of a disturbance or threatened disturbance of international relations of the United States. In order 

to address this national emergency and secure the observance of the rights 

and obligations of the United States, I hereby authorize the Secretary of 

Homeland Security (Secretary) to make and issue such rules and regulations 

as the Secretary may find appropriate to regulate the anchorage and movement of Russian-affiliated vessels, and delegate to the Secretary my authority 

to approve such rules and regulations, as authorized by the Magnuson Act. 

Section 1. I hereby prohibit Russian-affiliated vessels from entering into 

United States ports. 

Sec. 2. The prohibition of section 1 of this proclamation applies except: 

(a) to Russian-affiliated vessels used in the transport of source material, 

special nuclear material, and nuclear byproduct material for which, and 

for such time as, the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary 

of State and the Secretary of Commerce, determines that no viable source 

of supply is available that would not require transport by Russian-affiliated 

vessels; and 

(b) to Russian-affiliated vessels requesting only to enter United States 

ports due to force majeure, solely to allow seafarers of any nationality 

to disembark or embark for purposes of conducting crew changes, emergency 

medical care, or for other humanitarian need. 

Sec. 3. For the purposes of this proclamation: 

(a) the term ‘‘Russian-affiliated vessels’’ means: 

(i) vessels of Russian registry (i.e., the vessel is Russian flagged); 

(ii) vessels that are Russian owned (i.e., the legal title of ownership of 

the vessel that appears on the ship’s registration documents is the Government of the Russian Federation or a Russian company, citizen, or permanent resident); or 

(iii) vessels that are Russian operated (i.e., a Russian company, citizen, 

or permanent resident is responsible for the commercial decisions concerning the employment of a ship and decides how and where that asset 

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(b) the term ‘‘byproduct material’’ has the same meaning given to that 

term in section 11(e) of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (AEA) 

(42 U.S.C. 2014(e)). 

(c) the term ‘‘source material’’ has the same meaning given to that term 

in section 11(z) of the AEA (42 U.S.C. 2014(z)). 

(d) the term ‘‘special nuclear material’’ has the same meaning given to 

that term in section 11(aa) of the AEA (42 U.S.C. 2014(aa)). 

Sec. 4. The prohibition set forth in this proclamation shall be effective 

as of 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time on April 28, 2022, and shall be 

immediately transmitted to the Congress and published in the Federal Register. 

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twenty-first 

day of April, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-two, and of 

the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and 

forty-sixth. 

[FR Doc. 2022–08872 

Filed 4–21–22; 2:00 pm] 

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