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    <AgencyName>Bureau of Industry and Security</AgencyName>
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        <Address>Department of Commerce, Washington, DC 20230</Address>
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          <Footer>[For the Bureau of Industry and Security statement of organization, see the Federal Registers of June 7, 1988, 53 FR 20881, and April 26, 2002, 67 FR 20630]</Footer>
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            <NameColumnValue>Eric L. Hirschhorn</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Daniel O. Hill</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>Kevin J. Wolf</NameColumnValue>
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            <NameColumnValue>David W. Mills</NameColumnValue>
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              <Paragraph>The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is to advance U.S. national security, foreign policy, and economic objectives by ensuring an effective export control and treaty compliance system and promoting continued U.S. strategic technology leadership. BIS activities include regulating the export of sensitive goods and technologies in an effective and efficient manner; enforcing export control, antiboycott, and public safety laws; cooperating with and assisting other countries on export control and strategic trade issues; assisting U.S. industry to comply with international arms control agreements; monitoring the viability of the U.S. defense industrial base; evaluating the effects on national security of foreign investments in U.S. companies; and supporting continued U.S. technology leadership in industries that are essential to national security.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Export Administration</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration is responsible for export licenses, treaty compliance, treaty obligations relating to weapons of mass destruction, and the defense industrial and technology base. The Office regulates the export of dual-use items requiring licenses for national security, nonproliferation, foreign policy, and short supply; ensures that approval or denial of license applications is consistent with economic and security concerns; promotes an understanding of export control regulations within the business community; represents the Department in interagency and international forums relating to export controls, particularly in multilateral regimes; monitors the availability of industrial resources of national defense; analyzes the impact of export controls on strategic industries; and assesses the security consequences of certain foreign investments.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Export Enforcement</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Enforcement enforces dual-use export controls. This enables exporters to take advantage of legal export opportunities while ensuring that illegal exports will be detected and either prevented or investigated and sanctioned. The Office also ensures prompt, aggressive action against restrictive trade practices; reviews visa applications of foreign nationals to prevent illegal technology transfers; and conducts cooperative enforcement activities on an international basis.</Paragraph>
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              <Paragraph>For information on the Export Enforcement field offices, visit our Web site at www.bis.doc.gov/about/programoffices.htm.</Paragraph>
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          <Heading>Management and Policy Coordination</Heading>
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              <Paragraph>The Management and Policy Coordination (MPC) unit establishes and evaluates the Bureau's overall policy agenda, priorities, goals, unit objectives, and key metrics. MPC performs oversight of program operations and expenditures; executes or supervises the President's Management Agenda; and adjudicates appeals of licensing and enforcement decisions as part of an extended legal process involving administrative law judges and the Office of General Counsel. MPC provides guidance and coordination for the Bureau's participation in the Export Control and Related Border Security Assistance Program, which provides technical assistance to strengthen the export and transit control systems of nations that are identified as potential locations for the exporting of weapons of mass destruction, missile delivery systems, or the commodities, technologies, and equipment that can be used to design and build them.</Paragraph>
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          <WebAddress>http://www.bis.doc.gov</WebAddress>
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        <Header>Business Information</Header>
        <Paragraph>Information for the U.S. business community, including export news, updates to Export Administration regulations, export license and enforcement information, compliance and training information, Bureau program information, e-FOIA information, export seminar event schedules, and information on the Denied Persons List, can be found on the Bureau's Web site.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Enforcement</Header>
        <Paragraph>For enforcement-related questions, contact the partnership-in-security hotline. Phone, 800-424-2980.</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Outreach and Educational Services</Header>
        <Paragraph>The Outreach and Educational Services Division has offices in Washington, DC (phone, 202-482-4811; fax, 202-482-2927) and on the West Coast (phone, 949-660-0144 or 408-998-8806; fax, 949-660-9347 or 408-998-8677).</Paragraph>
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        <Header>Publications</Header>
        <Paragraph>Publications available on the Bureau's Web site include the Bureau's annual report, the foreign policy export controls report, and the Exporter User Manual and Licensing FAQ.</Paragraph>
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      <Footer>For further information, contact the Office of Public Affairs, Bureau of Industry and Security, Room 3895, Fourteenth Street and Constitution Avenue NW., Washington, DC 20230. Phone, 202-482-2721.</Footer>
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