[Federal Register Volume 85, Number 197 (Friday, October 9, 2020)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 64078]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2020-22443]


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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE

Bureau of Industry and Security

15 CFR Parts 742 and 774

[Docket No. 201002-0264]
RIN 0694-AH80


Identification and Review of Controls for Certain Foundational 
Technologies; Correction

AGENCY: Bureau of Industry and Security, Commerce.

ACTION: Advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM); correction and 
extension of comment period.

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SUMMARY: On August 27, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 
published the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), 
Identification and Review of Controls for Certain Foundational 
Technologies. This document makes a correction to the August 27 ANPRM 
to clarify that it is permissible to submit confidential business 
information in response to the August 27 ANPRM, provided the submitter 
follows the submission requirements included in the ADDRESSES section 
of this document. The August 27 ANPRM specified that comments must be 
received on or before October 26, 2020. This document extends the 
ANPRM's comment period for fourteen days, so comments must now be 
received on or before November 9, 2020.

DATES: The comment period for the ANPRM published at 85 FR 52934 on 
August 27, 2020, is extended. Submit comments on or before November 9, 
2020.

ADDRESSES: You may submit comments through either of the following:
     Federal eRulemaking Portal: http://www.regulations.gov. 
The identification number for this rulemaking is BIS-2020-0029.
    All filers using the portal should use the name of the person or 
entity submitting comments as the name of their files, in accordance 
with the instructions below. Anyone submitting business confidential 
information should clearly identify the business confidential portion 
at the time of submission, file a statement justifying nondisclosure 
and referring to the specific legal authority claimed, and provide a 
non-confidential version of the submission.
    For comments submitted electronically containing business 
confidential information, the file name of the business confidential 
version should begin with the characters ``BC.'' Any page containing 
business confidential information must be clearly marked ``BUSINESS 
CONFIDENTIAL'' on the top of that page. The corresponding non-
confidential version of those comments must be clearly marked 
``PUBLIC.'' The file name of the non-confidential version should begin 
with the character ``P.'' The ``BC'' and ``P'' should be followed by 
the name of the person or entity submitting the comments or rebuttal 
comments. Any submissions with file names that do not begin with a 
``BC'' or ``P'' will be assumed to be public and will be made publicly 
available through http://www.regulations.gov.
     Address: By mail or delivery to Regulatory Policy 
Division, Bureau of Industry and Security, U.S. Department of Commerce, 
Room 2099B, 14th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 
20230. Refer to RIN 0694-AH80. If you seek to submit business 
confidential information, you must use the portal. BIS does not accept 
confidential business information by mail or delivery.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tongele Tongele, Office of 
Nonproliferation and Treaty Compliance, Bureau of Industry and 
Security, Department of Commerce by: phone (202) 482-0092; fax (202) 
482-3355; or email Tongele.Tongele@bis.doc.gov.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Background

    On August 27, 2020, the Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) 
published the advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPRM), 
Identification and Review of Controls for Certain Foundational 
Technologies (85 FR 52934). See the August 27 ANPRM for a description 
of the scope of this rulemaking and the public comments that are being 
requested.

Submission of Confidential Business Information and Extension of Public 
Comment Period

    FR Doc. 2020-18910, published in the August 27, 2020, issue of the 
Federal Register, beginning on page 52934, is corrected by clarifying 
that it is permissible to submit confidential business information in 
response to the August 27 ANPRM, provided the submitter follows the 
submission requirements included in the ADDRESSES section of this 
document.
    The August 27 ANPRM specified that comments must be received on or 
before October 26, 2020. This document extends the ANPRM's comment 
period for fourteen days, so comments must now be received on or before 
November 9, 2020. BIS is extending the comment period to allow 
commenters that have already submitted comments, or that are interested 
in submitting comments in response to the August 27 ANPRM, to have 
additional time to submit confidential business information. Commenters 
wishing to submit confidential business information must submit both a 
public version and a business confidential version in accordance with 
the instructions described in the ADDRESSES section of this document--
even if the commenter has already submitted comments in response to the 
August 27 ANPRM prior to this document.

Matthew S. Borman,
Deputy Assistant Secretary for Export Administration.
[FR Doc. 2020-22443 Filed 10-6-20; 4:15 pm]
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