[Federal Register Volume 74, Number 128 (Tuesday, July 7, 2009)]
[Notices]
[Pages 32222-32223]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E9-15926]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Designation of an Entity Pursuant to Executive Order 13382

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is publishing the name of one newly-designated entity whose 
property and interests in property are blocked pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass 
Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters.''

DATES: The designation by the Director of OFAC of the entity identified 
in this notice, pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is effective on June 
30, 2009.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Assistant Director, Compliance 
Outreach & Implementation, Office of Foreign Assets Control, Department 
of the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: (202) 622-2490.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (http://www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac) or via facsimile through a 24-hour fax-on demand 
service, tel.: (202) 622-0077.

Background

    On June 28, 2005, the President, invoking the authority, inter 
alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 
1701-1706) (``IEEPA''), issued Executive Order 13382 (70 FR 38567, July 
1, 2005) (the ``Order''), effective at 12:01 a.m. eastern daylight time 
on June 29, 2005. In the Order, the President took additional steps 
with respect to the national emergency described and declared in 
Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, regarding the proliferation 
of weapons of mass destruction and the means of delivering them.
    Section 1 of the Order blocks, with certain exceptions, all 
property and interests in property that are in the United States, or 
that hereafter come within the United States or that are or hereafter 
come within the possession or control of United States persons, of: (1) 
The persons listed in an Annex to the Order; (2) any foreign person 
determined by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 
Secretary of the Treasury, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, to have engaged, or attempted to engage, in activities or 
transactions that have materially contributed to, or pose a risk of 
materially contributing to, the proliferation of weapons of mass 
destruction or their means of delivery (including missiles capable of 
delivering such weapons), including any efforts to manufacture, 
acquire, possess, develop,

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transport, transfer or use such items, by any person or foreign country 
of proliferation concern; (3) any person determined by the Secretary of 
the Treasury, in consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney 
General, and other relevant agencies, to have provided, or attempted to 
provide, financial, material, technological or other support for, or 
goods or services in support of, any activity or transaction described 
in clause (2) above or any person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to the Order; and (4) any person 
determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation with the 
Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant agencies, 
to be owned or controlled by, or acting or purporting to act for or on 
behalf of, directly or indirectly, any person whose property and 
interests in property are blocked pursuant to the Order.
    On June 30, 2009, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the 
Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated 
the following entity whose property and interests in property are 
blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The designee is listed as follows:
    Hong Kong Electronics (a.k.a. Hong Kong Electronics Kish Co.), 
Sanaee St., Kish Island, Iran [NPWMD].

    Dated: June 30, 2009.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E9-15926 Filed 7-6-09; 8:45 am]
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