[Federal Register Volume 77, Number 143 (Wednesday, July 25, 2012)]
[Notices]
[Pages 43659-43660]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2012-18188]
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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
Office of Foreign Assets Control
Actions Taken Pursuant to Executive Order 13382
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control
(``OFAC'') is publishing on OFAC's list of Specially Designated
Nationals and Blocked Persons (``SDN List'') the names of five
entities, 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.'' The
designations by the Director of OFAC, pursuant to Executive Order
13382, were effective on July 18, 2012.
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 (www.treasury.gov/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 the 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
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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, 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 July 18, 2012, the Director of OFAC, in consultation with the
Departments of State, Justice, and other relevant agencies, designated
five entities whose property and interests in property are blocked
pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
The list of additional designees is as follows:
Entities
1. BUSINESS LAB, Maysat Square Al Rasafi Street Bldg. 9, PO Box 7155,
Damascus, Syria [NPWMD].
2. HANDASIEH (a.k.a. ORGANIZATION FOR ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES), PO Box
21120 Baramkeh, Damascus, Syria; PO Box 2849, Al Moutanabi Street,
Damascus, Syria; PO Box 5966, Abou Bakr Al Seddeq St., Damascus, Syria
[NPWMD].
3. INDUSTRIAL SOLUTIONS, Baghdad Street 5, PO Box 6394, Damascus, Syria
[NPWMD].
4. MECHANICAL CONSTRUCTION FACTORY, PO Box 35202, Industrial Zone, Al-
Qadam Road, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD].
5. SYRONICS (a.k.a. SYRIAN ARAB CO. FOR ELECTRONIC INDUSTRIES), Kaboon
Street, PO Box 5966, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD].
Dated: July 18, 2012.
Adam J. Szubin,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2012-18188 Filed 7-24-12; 8:45 am]
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