Document ID: BIS-2020-0044-0004
Agency: bis
Document Type: Rule
Title: Expansion of Certain End-Use and End-User Controls and Controls on Specific Activities of United States Persons; Correction
Posted Date: 2021-03-17T04:00Z

[Federal Register Volume 86, Number 50 (Wednesday, March 17, 2021)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Page 14534]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2021-05623]

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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

15 CFR Part 744

[Docket No. 210312-0056]
RIN 0694-AI38

Expansion of Certain End-Use and End-User Controls and Controls 
on Specific Activities of U.S. Persons; Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce.

ACTION: Interim final rule; correction.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS), Department of 
Commerce, is correcting an interim final rule, ``Expansion of Certain 
End-Use and End-User Controls and Controls on Specific Activities of 
U.S. Persons,'' that appeared in the Federal Register of January 15, 
2021 (hereinafter referred to as the January 15 rule) by revising an 
incorrect instruction that would have resulted in the inadvertent 
deletion of two subparagraphs of the Export Administration Regulations' 
(EAR) restrictions on certain rocket systems and unmanned aerial 
vehicles.

DATES: Effective date: March 16, 2021.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Philip Johnson, Senior Advisor, Export 
Enforcement, Bureau of Industry and Security, Phone: (202) 482-3685, 
Philip.Johnson@bis.doc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On January 15, 2021, BIS published an interim final rule expanding 
certain end-use and end-user controls and controls on specific 
activities of U.S. persons (86 FR 4865) (hereinafter the January 15 
rule). Due to an instruction error, which directed the revision of 
paragraph (a)(3) of Sec.  744.3 of the EAR, rather than only the 
introductory text of that paragraph, upon its effective date, the 
January 15 rule would have resulted in the inadvertent deletion of 
Sec.  744.3(a)(3)(i) and (ii) of the EAR, which describe the license 
requirements that apply when an exporter, reexporter, or transferor 
cannot determine the range capabilities of a rocket system or unmanned 
aerial vehicle (UAV) in certain countries of missile technology concern 
(Country Group D:4) (see Supplement No. 1 to part 740 of the EAR), or 
whether such rocket system or UAV will be used in connection with the 
delivery of certain weapons of mass destruction. This was a technical 
error and BIS did not intend to remove the existing restrictions on 
exports, reexports, and transfers (in-country) applicable to certain 
rocket systems and UAVs in D:4 countries currently set forth in Sec.  
744.3(a)(3)(i) and (ii) of the EAR. To remediate this error, BIS is 
correcting the instruction in the January 15 rule to revise only the 
introductory ``text of Sec.  744.3(a)(3), rather than the entire 
paragraph.

Correction

    Accordingly, in FR Doc. 2021-00977, appearing on page 4865 in the 
Federal Register of Friday, January 15, 2021, the follow correction is 
made:

Sec.  744.3  [Correction]

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1. On page 4871, first column, instruction 9 is corrected to read 
``Section 744.3 is amended by revising paragraphs (a)(1) and (2), the 
introductory text to paragraph (a)(3), and paragraphs (d)(2)(ii) and 
(v) to read as follows:''

Matthew S. Borman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2021-05623 Filed 3-15-21; 4:15 pm]
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