Justification

Justification

The final rule entitled, “Technical Corrections to Export Administration Regulations based upon a Systematic Review of the Commerce Control List," adds instructions to one item on the back of form BIS-748P (OMB Control No. 0694-0088).

In Supplement No. 1 to Part 748 (BIS-748P and BIS-748P-A, Item Appendix; and BIS-748P-B, End-User Appendix; Multipurpose Application Instructions), this rule amends the instructions for "Block 6: Documents submitted with application", to provide guidance to applicants who wish to include foreign availability support material for items not controlled for national security reasons. This new instruction guidance under Block 6 explains the procedure applicants should follow for submitting this information. The guidance also makes it clear that applicants should be aware that this foreign availability information would have no impact on the review of the license application. The only purpose of submitting this foreign availability information would be to make the U.S. Government more aware of the foreign availability of items not controlled for national security reasons.

BIS estimates that it will receive approximately 32 voluntary submissions of foreign availability information for items not controlled for national security purposes as a result of this change.

BIS also estimates that it will require about 30 minutes to collect and mark the foreign availability information. The total annual estimate of the increase in burden is therefore:

32 x 30 minutes = 16 hours