Office of Foreign Assets Control, U.S. Department of the Treasury NONPROLIFERATION: WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT TREASURY RESTRICTIONS A summary of Executive Order 13382, "Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters"; the Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations (Part 539 of Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations); and the Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Agreement Assets Control Regulations (Part 540 of Title 31, Code of Federal Regulations) INTRODUCTION - The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) implements three distinct sanctions programs designed to combat the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction (WMD). The requirements under each of the programs are different. Each program is described in further detail in this brochure, but they can be summarized as follows: - Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005, blocks the property of persons engaged in proliferation activities and their support networks. OFAC administers this blocking program, which initially applied to eight organizations in North Korea, Iran, and Syria. Treasury, together with the Department of State, is authorized to designate additional WMD proliferators and their supporters under the new authorities provided by this Executive Order. - OFAC's Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 539, implement a ban on imports into the United States, pursuant to Executive Order 12938. Under this program, the Secretary of State may name as subject to the ban foreign persons determined to have engaged in proliferation-related activities. - OFAC's Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Agreement Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 540, implement Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000, "Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons." These regulations and Executive Order 13159 are directed at the property used to carry out international agreements between the United States and the Russian Federation for the conversion of highly enriched uranium extracted from Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium for use in commercial nuclear reactors. The three WMD sanctions programs administered by OFAC are described in greater detail below. EXECUTIVE ORDER 13382, "BLOCKING PROPERTY OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION PROLIFERATORS AND THEIR SUPPORTERS" SUMMARY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER - Executive Order 13382 of June 28, 2005 (E.O. 13382), takes additional steps to deal with the national emergency declared in Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994 (see below), with respect to the proliferation of WMD and the means of delivering them. The Executive Order blocks the property of specially designated WMD proliferators and members of their support networks. The action effectively denies those parties access to the U.S. financial and commercial systems. The program is administered by OFAC. PROHIBITED TRANSACTIONS -U.S. persons, meaning any U.S. citizen, permanent resident alien, U.S. company (including their foreign branches) and any person or company in the United States, are prohibited from engaging in any transaction or dealing with any party designated under Executive Order 13382. In addition, all property within the possession or control of any U.S. person in which a target has an interest is blocked and must be reported to OFAC within ten days. The names of those actually listed in the Annex to E.O. 13382, and any parties named subsequent to the Executive Order, are incorporated into OFAC's Specially Designated Nationals (SDN) list. The parties blocked under this program are: The following names were listed in the Annex of Executive Order 13382 and have been incorporated into the SDN list with the program designation “[NPWMD].” They are listed here in OFAC’s SDN list format. AEROSPACE INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION (a.k.a. SAZMANE SANAYE HAVA FAZA; a.k.a. “AIO”), Langare Street, Nobonyad Square, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN (a.k.a. SAZEMAN-E ENERGY ATOMI), P.O. Box 14144-1339, End of North Karegar Avenue, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] KOREA MINING DEVELOPMENT TRADING CORPORATION (a.k.a. CHANGGWANG SINYONG CORPORATION; a.k.a. EXTERNAL TECHNOLOGY GENERAL CORPORATION; a.k.a. NORTH KOREAN MINING DEVELOPMENT TRADING CORPORATION; a.k.a. “KOMID”), Central District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA RYONBONG GENERAL CORPORATION (a.k.a. KOREA YONBONG GENERAL CORPORATION; f.k.a. LYONGAKSAN GENERAL TRADING CORPORATION), Pot’onggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North; Rakwon-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] SCIENTIFIC STUDIES AND RESEARCH CENTER (a.k.a. CENTRE D’ETUDES ET RECHERCHES; a.k.a. “SSRC”), P.O. Box 4470, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD] SHAHID BAKERI INDUSTRIAL GROUP (a.k.a. “SBIG”), Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] SHAHID HEMMAT INDUSTRIAL GROUP (a.k.a. “SHIG”), Damavand Tehran Highway, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] TANCHON COMMERCIAL BANK (f.k.a. CHANGGWANG CREDIT BANK; f.k.a. KOREA CHANGGWANG CREDIT BANK), Saemul 1-Dong Pyongchon District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] In addition, the following have been designated: ENTITIES: ARIAN BANK (a.k.a. ARYAN BANK), House 2, Street Number 13, Wazir Akbar Khan, Kabul, Afghanistan [NPWMD] BANK KARGOSHAEE (a.k.a. KARGOSA'I BANK), 587 Mohammadiye Square, Mowlavi St., Tehran 11986, Iran [NPWMD] BANK MELLAT, 327 Taleghani Avenue, Tehran 15817, Iran; P.O. Box 11365-5964, Tehran 15817, Iran; all offices worldwide [NPWMD] BANK MELLI IRAN ZAO, Number 9/1, Ulitsa Mashkova, Moscow 103064, Russia [NPWMD] BANK MELLI, Ferdowsi Avenue, P.O. Box 11365-171, Tehran, Iran; all offices worldwide [NPWMD] BANK SEPAH INTERNATIONAL PLC, 5-7 Eastcheap, London EC3M 1JT, United Kingdom [NPWMD] BANK SEPAH, Imam Khomeini Square P.O. Box 11364-9569, Tehran, Iran; all offices worldwide [NPWMD] BEIJING ALITE TECHNOLOGIES CO., LTD. (a.k.a. ALCO; a.k.a. BEIJING HAILI LIANHE KEJI YOUXIAN GONGSI), 12A Beisanhuan Zhong Road, P.O. Box 3042, Beijing, China; and all other locations worldwide [NPWMD] CHINA GREAT WALL INDUSTRY CORPORATION (a.k.a. CGWIC; a.k.a. ZHONGGUO CHANGCHENG GONGYE ZONGGONGSI), No. 30 Haidian Nanlu, Beijing, China; Moscow, Russia; and all other locations worldwide [NPWMD] CHINA NATIONAL PRECISION MACHINERY IMPORT/EXPORT CORPORATION (a.k.a. CHINA NATIONAL PRECISION MACHINERY I/E CORP.; a.k.a. CHINA PRECISION MACHINERY IMPORT/EXPORT CORPORATION; a.k.a. CPMIEC; a.k.a. ZHONGGUO JINGMI JIXIE JINCHUKOU ZONGGONGSI), No. 30 Haidian Nanlu, Beijing, China; and all other locations worldwide [NPWMD] DEFENSE INDUSTRIES ORGANIZATION (a.k.a. DEFENCE INDUSTRIES ORGANISATION; a.k.a. DIO; a.k.a. SASEMAN SANAJE DEFA; a.k.a. SAZEMANE SANAYE DEFA; a.k.a. "SASADJA"), P.O. Box 19585-777, Pasdaran Street, Entrance of Babaie Highway, Permanent Expo of Defence Industries Organization, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] ELECTRONICS INSTITUTE, P.O. Box 4470, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD] FAJR INDUSTRIES GROUP (a.k.a. FADJR INDUSTRIES GROUP; a.k.a. IFP; a.k.a. INDUSTRIAL FACTORIES OF PRECISION-MACHINERY; a.k.a. INSTRUMENTATION FACTORIES OF PRECISION MACHINERY; a.k.a. INSTRUMENTATION FACTORY PLANT; a.k.a. MOJTAME SANTY AJZAE DAGHIGH; a.k.a. NASR INDUSTRIES GROUP), P.O. Box 1985-777, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] FARAYAND TECHNIQUE (a.k.a. FARAYAND TECHNIC), End of North Karegar Avenue, Shomali, Tehran, Iran; P.O. Box 14155-1339, Tehran, Iran; Esfahan, Iran; Isfahan, Iran [NPWMD] FUTURE BANK B.S.C., P.O. Box 785, City Centre Building, Government Avenue, Manama, Bahrain; Block 304, City Centre Building, Building 199, Government Avenue, Road 383, Manama, Bahrain; Business Registration Document # 54514-1 (Bahrain) expires 9 Jun 2009; Trade License No. 13388 (Bahrain); All branches worldwide [NPWMD] G.W. AEROSPACE, INC. (a.k.a. GREAT WALL AEROSPACE, INC.), 21515 Hawthorne Blvd., Suite 670, Torrance, CA 90503; California Corporate Number C1458237 (United States) [NPWMD] GHARARGAHE SAZANDEGI GHAEM (a.k.a. GHARARGAH GHAEM), No. 25, Valiasr St., Azadi Sq., Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] GHORB KARBALA (a.k.a. GHARARGAH KARBALA; a.k.a. GHARARGAH SAZANDEGI KARBALA-MOASSESEH TAHA), No. 2 Firouzeh Alley, Shahid Hadjipour St., Resalat Highway, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] GHORB NOOH, P.O. Box 16765-3476, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] HARA COMPANY (a.k.a. HARA INSTITUTE), Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] HESONG TRADING CORPORATION, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] HIGHER INSTITUTE OF APPLIED SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY (a.k.a. HIAST; a.k.a. INSTITUT DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES ET DE TECHNOLOGIE; a.k.a. INSTITUT SUPERIEUR DES SCIENCES APPLIQUEES ET DE TECHNOLOGIE; a.k.a. ISAT; a.k.a. ISSAT), P.O. Box 31983, Barzeh, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD] ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS (a.k.a. AGIR; a.k.a. IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARD CORPS; a.k.a. IRG; a.k.a. IRGC; a.k.a. ISLAMIC REVOLUTIONARY CORPS; a.k.a. PASDARAN; a.k.a. PASDARAN-E ENGHELAB-E ISLAMI; a.k.a. PASDARAN-E INQILAB; a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY GUARD; a.k.a. REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS; a.k.a. SEPAH; a.k.a. SEPAH PASDARAN; a.k.a. SEPAH-E PASDARAN-E ENQELAB-E ESLAMI; a.k.a. THE ARMY OF THE GUARDIANS OF THE ISLAMIC REVOLUTION; a.k.a. THE IRANIAN REVOLUTIONARY GUARDS), Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] KALAYE ELECTRIC COMPANY (a.k.a. KALA ELECTRIC COMPANY), 33 Fifteenth (15th) Street, Seyed-Jamal-Eddin-Assad Abadi Avenue, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] KAVOSHYAR COMPANY (a.k.a. KAAVOSH YAAR; a.k.a. KAVOSHYAR), P.O. Box 19395-1834, Tehran, Iran; Vanaq Square, Corner of Shiraz Across No. 71, Molla Sadra Ave., Tehran, Iran; No. 86, 20th St., North Karegar Ave., Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] KHATAM OL ANBIA GHARARGAH SAZANDEGI NOOH (a.k.a. GHORB KHATAM; a.k.a. KHATAM AL-ANBYA; a.k.a. KHATAM OL ANBIA), No. 221, Phase 4, North Falamak-Zarafshan Intersection, Shahrak-E-Ghods, Tehran 14678, Iran [NPWMD] KOHAS AG, Route des Arsenaux 15, Fribourg, FR 1700, Switzerland; C.R. No. CH-217.0.135.719-4 (Switzerland) [NPWMD] KOREA COMPLEX EQUIPMENT IMPORT CORPORATION, Rakwon-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL JOINT VENTURE COMPANY (a.k.a. CHOSON INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS JOINT OPERATION COMPANY; a.k.a. CHOSUN INTERNATIONAL CHEMICALS JOINT OPERATION COMPANY; a.k.a. INTERNATIONAL CHEMICAL JOINT VENTURE CORPORATION), Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, Korea, North; Man gyongdae-kuyok, Pyongyang, Korea, North; Mangyungdae-gu, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA KWANGSONG TRADING CORPORATION, Rakwon-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA PUGANG TRADING CORPORATION, Rakwon-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA RYONGWANG TRADING CORPORATION (a.k.a. KOREA RYENGWANG TRADING CORPORATION), Rakwon-dong, Pothonggang District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] KOREA RYONHA MACHINERY JOINT VENTURE CORPORATION (a.k.a. CHOSUN YUNHA MACHINERY JOINT OPERATION COMPANY; a.k.a. KOREA RYENHA MACHINERY J/V CORPORATION; a.k.a. RYONHA MACHINERY JOINT VENTURE CORPORATION), Central District, Pyongyang, Korea, North; Mangungdae-gu, Pyongyang, Korea, North; Mangyongdae District, Pyongyang, Korea, North [NPWMD] LIMMT ECONOMIC AND TRADE COMPANY, LTD. (a.k.a. LIMMT (DALIAN FTZ) METALLURGY AND MINERALS CO., LTD.; a.k.a. LIMMT (DALIAN FTZ) MINMETALS AND METALLURGY CO., LTD.; a.k.a. LIMMT (DALIAN) METALLURGY AND MINERALS CO., LTD.), 2501-2508 Yuexiu Mansion, No. 82 Xinkai Road, Dalian, Liaoning 116011, China; and all other locations worldwide [NPWMD] MELLAT BANK SB CJSC (a.k.a. "MELLAT BANK DB AOZT"), P.O. Box 24, Yerevan 0010, Armenia [NPWMD] MELLI BANK PLC, 1 London Wall, London EC2Y 5EA, United Kingdom [NPWMD] MESBAH ENERGY COMPANY (a.k.a. "MEC"), 77 Armaghan Gharbi Street, Valiasr Blve., Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] MINISTRY OF DEFENSE FOR ARMED FORCES LOGISTICS (a.k.a. MINISTRY OF DEFENSE AND SUPPORT FOR ARMED FORCES LOGISTICS; a.k.a. MODAFL; a.k.a. MODSAF), located on the west side of Dabestan Street, Abbas Abad District, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] MIZAN MACHINE MANUFACTURING GROUP (a.k.a. 3MG), P.O. Box 16595-365, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] NATIONAL STANDARDS AND CALIBRATION LABORATORY (a.k.a. NATIONAL CALIBRATION CENTRE; a.k.a. NSCL), P.O. Box 4470, Damascus, Syria [NPWMD] NOVIN ENERGY COMPANY (a.k.a Energy Novin; a.k.a. Noveen Energy Company), End of North Karegar Avenue, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] OMRAN SAHEL, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] ORIENTAL OIL KISH, Second Floor, 96/98 East Atefi St., Africa Blvd., Tehran, Iran; Dubai, United Arab Emirates [NPWMD] PARS TRASH COMPANY (a.k.a. PARS TARASH; a.k.a. PARS TERASH; a.k.a. PARS TRASH), 33 Fifteenth (15th) Street, Seyed-Jamal-Eddin-Assad Abadi Avenue, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] PERSIA INTERNATIONAL BANK PLC, #6 Lothbury, London EC2R 7HH, United Kingdom [NPWMD] PIONEER ENERGY INDUSTRIES COMPANY (a.k.a. PISHGAM ENERGY INDUSTRIES DEVELOPMENT; a.k.a. "PEI"), P.O. Box 81465-361, Isfahan, Iran [NPWMD] SAHEL CONSULTANT ENGINEERS, P.O. Box 16765-34, Tehran, Iran; No. 57, Eftekhar St., Larestan St., Motahhari Ave, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] SEPASAD ENGINEERING COMPANY, No. 4 Corner of Shad St., Mollasadra Ave., Vanak Square, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] SANAM INDUSTRIAL GROUP (a.k.a. Sanam Industries Group) Pasdaran Road 15, Tehran, Iran [NPWMD] TOSONG TECHNOLOGY TRADING CORPORATION, Pyongyang, Korea [NPWMD] YA MAHDI INDUSTRIES GROUP (a.k.a. Ya Mahdi Industrial Research Complex; a.k.a. Ya Mahdi Industrial Complex; a.k.a. "YMA") PO Box 19395-4797, Tehran, Iran INDIVIDUALS: AHMADIAN, Ali Akbar (a.k.a. AHMADIYAN, Ali Akbar); DOB circa 1961; POB Kerman, Iran; citizen Iran; nationality Iran (individual) [NPWMD] BAHMANYAR, Bahmanyar Morteza; DOB 31 Dec 1952; POB Tehran, Iran; Passport I0005159 (Iran); alt. Passport 10005159 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] DASTJERDI, Ahmad Vahid (a.k.a. VAHID, Ahmed Dastjerdi); DOB 15 Jan 1954; Diplomatic Passport A0002987 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] DERAKHSHANDEH, AHMAD, c/o BANK SEPAH, No. 33 Hormozan Building, Pirozan St., Sharak Ghods, Tehran, Iran; DOB 11 Aug 1956; POB Iran (individual) [NPWMD] ESMAELI, Reza-Gholi; DOB 3 Apr 1961; POB Tehran, Iran; Passport A0002302 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] HEJAZI, Mohammad; DOB circa 1959; citizen Iran; nationality Iran (individual) [NPWMD] LEILABADI, ALI HAJINIA (a.k.a. LAILABADI, ALI HADJINIA), c/o MESBAH ENERGY COMPANY, Iran; DOB 19 Feb 1950; POB Tabriz, Iran; citizen Iran; nationality Iran; Passport E4710151 (Iran) issued 15 Oct 2000 expires 15 Oct 2005 (individual) [NPWMD] QANNADI, MOHAMMAD (a.k.a. GHANNADI MARAGHEH, MOHAMMAD; a.k.a. GHANNADI, MOHAMMAD; a.k.a. QANNADI MARAGHEH, MOHAMMAD), c/o ATOMIC ENERGY ORGANIZATION OF IRAN, Iran; DOB 13 Oct 1952; POB Maragheh, Iran; citizen Iran; nationality Iran; Passport 20694 (Iran); alt. Passport A0003044 (Iran) (individual)[NPWMD] REZAIE, Morteza (a.k.a. REZAI, Morteza); DOB circa 1956; citizen Iran; nationality Iran (individual) [NPWMD] SALIMI, Hosein (a.k.a. SALAMI, Hoseyn; a.k.a. SALAMI, Hossein; a.k.a. SALAMI, Hussayn); citizen Iran; nationality Iran; Passport D08531177 (Iran) (individual) [NPWMD] SOLEIMANI, Qasem (a.k.a. SALIMANI, Qasem; a.k.a. SOLAIMANI, Qasem; a.k.a. SOLEMANI, Qasem; a.k.a. SOLEYMANI, Ghasem; a.k.a. SOLEYMANI, Qasem; a.k.a. SULAIMANI, Qasem; a.k.a. SULAYMAN, Qasmi; a.k.a. SULEMANI, Qasem); DOB 11 Mar 1957; POB Qom, Iran; citizen Iran; nationality Iran; Diplomatic Passport 008827 (Iran) issued 1999 (individual) [NPWMD] STEIGER, Jakob, c/o KOHAS AG, Fribourg, FR, Switzerland; DOB 27 Apr 1941; POB Altstatten, SG, Switzerland (individual) [NPWMD] PENALTIES - Criminal penalties for willful violations of E.O. 13382, or of any license, rule or regulation issued under it, range up to 20 years in prison, $500,000 in fines for a corporation and $250,000 for an individual. In addition, civil penalties of up to $50,000 per violation may be imposed administratively. WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION TRADE CONTROL REGULATIONS, 31 C.F.R PART 539 SUMMARY OF EXECUTIVE ORDER 12938, AS AMENDED - In Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, President Clinton declared a national emergency with respect to the proliferation of nuclear, biological and chemical weapons (weapons of mass destruction or WMD) and the means of delivering them. E.O. 12938 provides that the Secretary of the Treasury shall prohibit the importation into the United States of goods, technology, or services produced or provided by foreign persons on which the Secretary of State has determined to impose an import ban because of their WMD proliferation activities. (Information or informational materials within the meaning of section 203(b)(3) of IEEPA, 50 U.S.C. 1702(b)(3), are exempt from this prohibition.) IMPORT BAN - OFAC issued the Weapons of Mass Destruction Trade Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 540 (the Regulations), to implement the import ban imposed under Executive Order 12938. The Regulations prohibit the direct or indirect importation into the United States, including for transshipment or transit, of any goods, technology, or services produced or provided by the foreign persons on which the Secretary of State has determined to impose an import ban pursuant to E.O. 12938 (designated foreign persons). The importation into the United States of goods or technology from third countries is also prohibited if undertaken with knowledge or reason to know that those goods contain raw materials, components, or technology produced or provided by a designated foreign person. In addition to banning imports, the Regulations prohibit U.S. persons from financing, acting as a broker for, transporting or otherwise participating in the importation into the United States of any goods, technology or services produced or provided by a designated foreign person. The term designated foreign person means any foreign person on which the Secretary of State has determined to impose an import ban pursuant to E.O. 12938 and any entities owned or controlled by that foreign person, including any subsidiaries and branches, successors, and persons acting or purporting to act for or on behalf of any of them. Services are considered to be imported into the United States where either the services or their benefit are received in the United States, regardless of where such services may be performed. The benefit of services performed is received in the United States if the services are: (1) performed on behalf of or for the benefit of a person located in the United States; (2) received by a person located in the United States; (3) received by a person located outside the United States on behalf of or for the benefit of an entity organized in the United States; or (4) received by an individual temporarily located outside the United States for the purpose of obtaining such services for use in the United States. FOREIGN PERSONS COVERED BY THE IMPORT BAN - The following foreign persons (with name variations as shown) have been determined by the Secretary of State to be subject to the import ban. The applicable effective date with respect to each designated foreign person and the citation to the State Department’s Federal Register notice appear in brackets following each entry. The import ban also applies to any entitiy owned or controlled by the named entitities. It is important to note that the parties determined to be subject to the import ban are not necessarily designated under Executive Order 13382. Therefore, the assets of parties that are subject to the import ban, but not Executive Order 13382, are not blocked. However, the importation into the United States of goods, technology, or services produced or provided by such persons, as well as related transactions, are prohibited. BALTIC STATE TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, wherever located, including 1/21, 1-ya Krasnoarmeiskaya Ul., 198005 St. Petersburg, Russia [63 FR 42089, July 30, 1998] CHINA PRECISION MACHINERY IMPORT/EXPORT CORPORATION (a.k.a. CPMIEC), wherever located, including 3/F, Minxing Building No. 190, 817 (North) Road, Fuzhou City, Fujan Province, China [July 30, 2003] [NOTE: This entity has been added to OFAC's SDN list pursuant to E.O. 13382 on June 13, 2006. See the above section for more information.] D. MENDELEYEV UNIVERSITY OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY OF RUSSIA, wherever located, including 9 Miusskaya Sq., Moscow 125047, Russia [64 FR 2935, January 8, 1999] GLAVKOSMOS, wherever located, including 9 Krasnoproletarskaya St., 103030 Moscow, Russia [63 FR 42089, July 30, 1998] MOSCOW AVIATION INSTITUTE (a.k.a. MAI), wherever located, including 4 Volokolamskoye Shosse, Moscow 125871, Russia [64 FR 2935, January 8, 1999] _______________________________________________________________________ HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM (HEU) AGREEMENT ASSETS CONTROL REGULATIONS, 31 C.F.R PART 540 A major national security goal of the United States is to ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated to peaceful uses and protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. In 1993, the United States and the Russian Federation entered into an international agreement for the conversion of highly enriched uranium (HEU) extracted from Russian nuclear weapons into low-enriched uranium for use in commercial nuclear reactors. Under this and related contracts and agreements (collectively, the HEU Agreements), 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium – the equivalent of 20,000 nuclear warheads – will be converted to low enriched uranium over a 20-year period. On June 21, 2000, President Clinton issued Executive Order 13159, “Blocking Property of the Government of the Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons.” This order, explicitly directed at the property used to implement the HEU Agreements, prevents attachment or garnishment in the United States. It is meant to protect a very specific set of assets, defined by regulations, orders, directives, or licenses issued by the U.S. Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Assets Control. The order does not block any property or interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation that are not directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements. The Office of Foreign Assets Control issued the Highly Enriched Uranium (HEU) Agreement Assets Control Regulations, 31 C.F.R. Part 540, to implement Executive Order 13159. This document is explanatory only and does not have the force of law. The Executive Orders and implementing regulations relating to the proliferation of WMD contain the legally binding provisions governing the sanctions and this document does not supplement or modify those Executive Orders or regulations. The actual legal documents can be found in the Legal Documents section of OFAC’s website at www.treas.gov/offices/enforcement/ofac/legal/wmd.shtml. OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL U.S. Department of the Treasury Washington, D.C. 20220 202/622-2490 03-12-08