Unblocking of Specially Designated National Pursuant to Executive Order 13382, 4561-4562 [E7-1548]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
• Office of Foreign Assets Control
• Foreign Assets Control Office

[Federal Register Volume 72, Number 20 (Wednesday, January 31, 2007)]
[Notices]
[Pages 4561-4562]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Printing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: E7-1548]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control


Unblocking of Specially Designated National Pursuant to Executive 
Order 13382

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Notice.

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SUMMARY: The Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
(``OFAC'') is removing the name of one person from the list of 
Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons whose property and 
interests in property have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 
13382 of June 28, 2005, Blocking Property of Weapons of Mass 
Destruction Proliferators and Their Supporters. The entity, GREAT WALL 
AIRLINES COMPANY LIMITED, was designated pursuant to Executive Order 
13382 on August 15, 2006.

DATES: The removal of the person from the list of Specially Designated 
Nationals and Blocked Persons whose property and interests in property 
have been blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382 is effective as of 
December 12, 2006.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Jennifer Houghton, Assistant Director, 
Designation Investigations, Office of Foreign Assets Control, 
Department of

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the Treasury, Washington, DC 20220, tel.: 202/622-2420.

SUPPLEMENTARY IMFORMATION:

Electronic and Facsimile Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are 
available from OFAC's Web site (https://www.treas.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 an 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.
    On August 15, 2006, the Secretary of the Treasury, in consultation 
with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General, and other relevant 
agencies, designated one person whose property and interests in 
property are blocked pursuant to Executive Order 13382.
    The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control 
has determined that this person no longer continues to meet the 
criteria for designation under the Order and is appropriate for removal 
from the list of Specially Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons.
    The following designation is removed from the list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons:

    GREAT WALL AIRLINES COMPANY LIMITED (a.k.a GREAT WALL AIRLINES; 
a.k.a. CHANGCHENG HANGKONG), 1600 Century Road, Shanghai 200122, 
China; C.R. No. 001144 (China) Issued 20 Oct 2005 expires 19 Oct 
2035

    The removal of the person's name from the list of Specially 
Designated Nationals and Blocked Persons is effective as of December 
12, 2006. All property and interests in property of the person that are 
in or hereafter come within the United States or the possession or 
control of United States persons are now unblocked.

    Dated: January 25, 2007.
J. Robert McBrien,
Acting Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. E7-1548 Filed 1-30-07; 8:45 am]
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