[Federal Register Volume 78, Number 38 (Tuesday, February 26, 2013)]
[Notices]
[Page 13142]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2013-04425]
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DEPARTMENT OF STATE
[Public Notice 8199]
Designation of the Center for Innovation and Technology
Cooperation (CITC), Pentane Chemistry Industries (PCI), and Hossein
Tanideh Pursuant to Executive Order 13382
AGENCY: Department of State.
ACTION: Designation of the Center for Innovation and Technology
Cooperation (CITC), Pentane Chemistry Industries (PCI), and Hossein
Tanideh Pursuant to E.O. 13382.
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SUMMARY: Pursuant to the authority in section 1(ii) of Executive Order
13382, ``Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators
and Their Supporters,'' the State Department, in consultation with the
Secretary of the Treasury and the Attorney General, has determined that
the Center for Innovation and Technology Cooperation (CITC), Pentane
Chemistry Industries (PCI), and Hossein Tanideh, have engaged, or
attempted to engage, in 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.
DATES: The designation by the Acting Under Secretary of State for Arms
Control and International Security of the entity identified in this
notice pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is effective on July 12, 2012.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Director, Office of
Counterproliferation Initiatives, Bureau of International Security and
Nonproliferation, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520, tel.: 202-
647-5193.
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 30, 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 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.
Information on the additional designee is as follows:
Center for Innovation and Technology Cooperation, A.K.A. CITC, A.K.A.
Technology Cooperation Office, A.K.A. TCO, A.K.A. Office of Scientific
and Technical Cooperation, F.K.A. Presidency Office of Scientific and
Industrial Studies (POSIS), F.K.A. Office of Scientific and Industrial
Studies (OSIS). Location: Tehran, Iran.
Pentane Chemistry Industries, A.K.A. PCI, A.K.A. Pentane Chemistry
Industries Company. Location: 5th Floor, No. 192, Darya and Paknejad
Blv. Cross Section, Shahrak Gharb, Tehran, Iran.
Hossein Tanideh, D.O.B. 9 June 1964, passport number H13781445;
expiration: 9 June 2013.
Dated: July 9, 2012.
Rose Gottemoeller
Acting Under Secretary for Arms Control and International Security,
Department of State.
[FR Doc. 2013-04425 Filed 2-25-13; 8:45 am]
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