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Memorandum of October 11, 2017 

Delegation of Certain Functions and Authorities Under the 

Countering America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 

2017 

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

and] the Secretary of Homeland Security 

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

laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3, 

United States Code, I hereby order as follows: 

Section 1. (a) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State the functions 

and authorities vested in the President by section 110 of the Countering 

America’s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act of 2017 (Public Law 115– 

44) (the ‘‘Act’’) 

(b) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State, in consultation with the 

Secretary of the Treasury, the functions and authorities vested in the President by the following provisions of the Act: 

(i) section 104(b), with respect to a determination under the standard 

set forth in section 104(b)(1); 

(ii) section 107(a), with respect to a determination under the standards 

set forth in section 107(a)(1) and (a)(2); 

(iii) section 107(d), with respect to making the certification described 

therein; 

(iv) section 108(b)(2); 

(v) section 109; and 

(vi) section 112. 

(c) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury the functions and 

authorities vested in the President by the following provisions of the Act: 

(i) section 104(c)(1); and 

(ii) section 107(b)(1). 

(d) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 

with the Secretary of State, the functions and authorities vested in the 

President by the following provisions of the Act: 

(i) section 104(b), with respect to a determination under the standards 

set forth under section 104(b)(2) through (b)(6); 

(ii) section 104(e); 

(iii) section 106(b)(1); 

(iv) section 108(a)(1); and 

(v) section 108(b)(1). 

(e) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State and the Secretary of the 

Treasury the functions and authorities vested in the President by the following sections of the Act: 

(i) section 105(b), to be exercised in consultation with each other and 

commensurate with their respective areas of responsibility set forth in 

previous Presidential actions under the International Emergency Economic 

Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), including Executive Order 13224 


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of September 23, 2001 (Blocking Property and Prohibiting Transactions 

With Persons Who Commit, Threaten To Commit, or Support Terrorism); 

(ii) section 108(a)(2), to be exercised in consultation with each other 

and commensurate with their respective areas of responsibility set forth 

in Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005 (Blocking Property of Weapons 

of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters) and Executive 

Order 13224; and 

(iii) section 111(b), to be exercised commensurate with their respective 

areas of responsibility set forth in this memorandum. 

(f) I hereby delegate to the Secretary of State, the Secretary of the Treasury, 

and the Secretary of Homeland Security the functions and authorities vested 

in the President by the following sections of the Act: 

(i) section 104(b), to be exercised commensurate with their respective 

areas of responsibility or delegated authority under section 104(c), with 

respect to the imposition of sanctions following a determination under 

section 104(b); and 

(ii) section 107(a), to be exercised commensurate with their respective 

areas of responsibility or delegated authority under section 107(b), with 

respect to the imposition of sanctions following a determination under 

section 107(a). 

Sec. 2. The delegations in this memorandum shall apply to any provisions 

of any future public laws that are the same or substantially the same as 

those provisions referenced in this memorandum. 

Sec. 3. The Secretary of State is authorized and directed to publish this 

memorandum in the Federal Register. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, October 11, 2017 

[FR Doc. 2017–23617 

Filed 10–26–17; 11:15 am] 

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