Amendment to the International Arms Traffic in Arms Regulations: The United States Munitions List; Correction

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title: "Amendment to the International Arms Traffic in Arms Regulations: The United States Munitions List; Correction"
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title_name: "Federal Register"
section_number: "E9-9291"
section_name: "Amendment to the International Arms Traffic in Arms Regulations: The United States Munitions List; Correction"
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currency: "2009-04-24"
last_updated: "2009-04-24"
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document_number: "E9-9291"
document_type: "rule"
publication_date: "2009-04-24"
agencies:
  - "State Department"
cfr_references:
  - "22 CFR Part 121"
fr_citation: "74 FR 18628"
fr_volume: 74
docket_ids:
  - "Public Notice 6589"
effective_date: "2009-04-24"
fr_action: "Correcting amendment."
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#  General. The United States Munitions List.

**AGENCY:**

Department of State.

**ACTION:**

Correcting amendment.

**SUMMARY:**

The Department of State published a final rule in the *Federal Register* on May 21, 2004 (69 FR 29222), revising Category XII(c) of the United States Munitions List. A technical error in that rule resulted in the unintended removal of language in a note after Category XII paragraph (c). This document corrects the final regulations by restoring the language in the note.

**DATES:**

Effective on April 24, 2009.

**FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:**

Director Charles B. Shotwell, Office of Defense Trade Controls Policy, Department of State, Telephone (202) 663-2792 or Fax (202) 261-8199; e-mail *[email protected].* ATTN: Regulatory Change, Category XII.

**SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:**

The Department of State published a final rule (Public Notice 4723) in the *Federal Register* of May 21, 2004, amending Category XII of the United States Munitions List. This document restores the language in the note after Category XII(c).

**List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 121**

Arms and munitions, Exports, U.S. Munitions List.

**22 CFR Part 121**

Accordingly, 22 CFR part 121 is corrected by making the following correcting amendment:

**PART 121—THE UNITED STATES MUNITIONS LIST**

1. The authority citation for part 121 continues to read as follows:

**Authority:**

Secs. 2, 38, and 71, Public Law 90-629, 90 Stat. 744 (22 U.S.C. 2752, 2778, 2797); E.O. 11958, 42 FR 4311; 3 CFR, 1977 Comp. p. 79; 22 U.S.C. 2651a; Public Law 105-261, 112 Stat. 1920.

**22 CFR Part 121**

2. In § 121.1(c), Category XII, amend after paragraph (c) by adding a note to read as follows:

§ 121.1

(c) * * *

**Category XII—Fire Control, Range Finder, Optical and Guidance and Control Equipment**

(c) * * *

**Note:**

*Special Definition.* For purposes of this subparagraph, *second and third generation image intensification tubes* are defined as having:

A peak response within the 0.4 to 1.05 micron wavelength range and incorporating a microchannel plate for electron image amplification having a hold pitch (center-to-center spacing) of less than 25 microns and having either:

(a) An S-20, S-25 or multialkali photocathode; or

(b) A GaAs, GaInAs, or other compound semiconductor photocathode.

Dated: April 13, 2009.

Frank J. Ruggiero,

Acting Assistant Secretary for Political Military Affairs, Department of State.