[Federal Register Volume 63, Number 31 (Tuesday, February 17, 1998)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 7699-7700]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 98-3905]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Export Administration

15 CFR Parts 732, 740, 742, 743, 744, 746, 762 and 774

[Docket No. 971006239-7239-01]
RIN 0694-AB35


Implementation of the Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use 
Items: Revisions to the Commerce Control List and Reporting Under the 
Wassenaar Arrangement

AGENCY: Bureau of Export Administration, Commerce.

ACTION: Interim final rule; conforming saving clause dates.

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SUMMARY: The Bureau of Export Administration (BXA) is conforming the 
dates identified in the savings clause of the interim rule implementing 
the Wassenaar Arrangement published in the Federal Register on January 
15, 1998 (63 FR 2452). Shipments of items removed from eligibility for 
export or reexport under a particular License Exception authorization 
or the designator NLR may now be exported or reexported under that 
License Exception authorization or designator until (and including) 
April 15, 1998. This action should minimize industry's concerns about 
implementing the new licensing requirement provisions of the interim 
rule by the original date of February 17, 1998. Note that this rule 
does not affect the reporting requirements of Section 743.1 of the 
Export Administration Regulations, and any item removed from License 
Exception or NLR eligibility as a result of the January 15 rule may be 
subject to reporting requirements. As this rule conforms the saving 
clause dates, the April 15 date concerning submission of license 
applications identifying the new Export Control Classification Numbers 
(ECCNs) as a result of revisions to the numbering and structure of 
certain entries on the

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Commerce Control List remains unchanged.

DATES: This correction is effective February 17, 1998.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Patricia Muldonian, Office of Exporter 
Services, Regulatory Policy Division, Bureau of Export Administration, 
telephone: (202) 482-2440.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: On January 15, 1998, the Bureau of Export 
Administration published in the Federal Register an interim rule that 
made changes to the Commerce Control List necessary to implement the 
Wassenaar Arrangement List of Dual-Use Items. The rule also removed 
License Exception availability for certain items controlled for missile 
technology reasons and for certain other items controlled for national 
security reasons for which the U.S. has agreed to license with extreme 
vigilance.
    BXA has received many industry comments on the date of February 17, 
1998, for submission of license applications for items removed from 
eligibility for export or reexport under a particular License Exception 
authorization or the designator NLR, stating that more time is required 
to determine how the rule affected their products and to develop and 
revise export compliance software necessary to implement the provisions 
of the Export Administration Regulations. To ensure that industry has 
adequate time to review and implement the changes to the EAR published 
on January 15, BXA is conforming the saving clause dates identified in 
the January 15 interim rule implementing the Wassenaar Arrangement. 
Shipments of items removed from eligibility for export or reexport 
under a particular License Exception authorization or NLR as a result 
of the January 15 rule may now be exported or reexported under that 
License Exception authorization or NLR until (and including) April 15, 
1998. Note that this rule does not affect the reporting requirements of 
Section 743.1 of the Export Administration Regulations, and any item 
removed from License Exception or NLR eligibility as a result of the 
January 15 rule may be subject to reporting requirements. The April 15, 
1998 date concerning submission of license applications identifying the 
new Export Control Classification Numbers (ECCNs) as a result of 
revisions to the numbering and structure of certain entries on the 
Commerce Control List is not changed by this rule.
    Therefore, in rule FR Doc. 98-1, published on January 15, 1998 (63 
FR 2452), on page 2454, in the third column, in the Saving Clause 
paragraph, last line, ``February 17, 1998'' is revised to read ``April 
15, 1998''.

    Dated: February 11, 1998.
William V. Skidmore,
Acting Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 98-3905 Filed 2-13-98; 8:45 am]
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