Presidential Documents

3957 

Federal Register 

Vol. 74, No. 12 

Wednesday, January 21, 2009 

Title 3— 

The President 

Presidential Determination No. 2009–11 of January 15, 2009 

Limited Waiver of Certain Sanctions Imposed by, and Delegation of Certain Authorities Pursuant to, the Tom Lantos 

Block Burmese JADE (Junta’s Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 

2008 

Memorandum for the Secretary of State [and] the Secretary of the Treasury 

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

of the United States, including the Tom Lantos Block Burmese JADE (Junta’s 

Anti-Democratic Efforts) Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–286) (JADE Act) and 

section 301 of title 3, United States Code, in order to ensure that the 

United States Government’s sanctions against the Burmese leadership and 

its supporters continue to be implemented effectively, to allow the reconciliation of measures applicable to persons sanctioned under the JADE Act 

with measures applicable to the same persons sanctioned under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), and 

to allow for the implementation of additional appropriate sanctions: 

(1) I hereby waive, pursuant to section 5(i) of the JADE Act, the provisions 

of section 5(b) of the JADE Act with respect to those persons described 

in section 5(a)(1) of the JADE Act who are not included on the Department 

of the Treasury’s List of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons. 

Because the imposition of effective and meaningful blocking sanctions requires the identification of those individuals and entities targeted for sanction 

and the authorization of certain limited exceptions to the prohibitions and 

restrictions that would otherwise apply, I hereby determine and certify that 

such a limited waiver is in the national interest of the United States. 

(2) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury the waiver authority 

set forth in section 5(i) of the JADE Act, including the authority to invoke 

or revoke the waiver with respect to any person or persons or any transaction 

or category of transactions or prohibitions by making the necessary determination and certification regarding the national interest of the United States 

set forth in that section. I hereby direct the Secretary of the Treasury, 

after consultation with the Secretary of State and with necessary support 

from the Intelligence Community, as defined in section 3(4) of the National 

Security Act of 1947, as amended (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)), to continue to target 

aggressively the Burmese regime and its lines of support. I further delegate 

to the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to take such actions as may 

be necessary to carry out the purposes of section 5(b) of the JADE Act. 

The Secretary of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions to 

other officers and agencies of the United States Government consistent with 

applicable law. The authorities delegated to the Secretary of the Treasury 

under this memorandum shall be exercised after consultation with the Secretary of State. 


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(3) I authorize the Secretary of State, after consultation with the Secretary 

of the Treasury, to take such actions as may be necessary to make the 

submissions to the appropriate congressional committees pursuant to section 

5(d) of the JADE Act. 

I hereby authorize and direct the Secretary of the Treasury to report this 

determination to the appropriate congressional committees and to publish 

it in the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, January 15, 2009 

[FR Doc. E9–1362 

Filed 1–16–09; 11:15 am] 

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