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Publication of Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations Web General License 132

Rule published January 20, 2026 · 91 FR 2302

Document number
FR Doc. 2026-00952
Type
Rule
Published
January 20, 2026
Citation
91 FR 2302 (pages 2,302–2,303)
Action
Publication of a web general license.
Dates
GL 132 was issued on November 21, 2025. See SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION for additional relevant dates.
Official sources
PDF (govinfo.gov) · federalregister.gov

Summary

The Federal Register's summaryThe Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) is publishing a general license (GL) issued pursuant to the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations: GL 132, which was previously made available on OFAC's website.

Regulations cited

OFAC has reused some part numbers, so today's heading can name a different regulation from the one this document concerned.

Executive orders cited

Text

As the Government Publishing Office publishes it. Pages OFAC printed as images (in recent notices, the lists of names) are in the official PDF.

[Federal Register Volume 91, Number 12 (Tuesday, January 20, 2026)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 2302-2303]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2026-00952]


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DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY

Office of Foreign Assets Control

31 CFR Part 587


Publication of Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions
Regulations Web General License 132

AGENCY: Office of Foreign Assets Control, Treasury.

ACTION: Publication of a web general license.

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SUMMARY: The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets
Control (OFAC) is publishing a general license (GL) issued pursuant to
the Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations: GL 132,
which was previously made available on OFAC's website.

DATES: GL 132 was issued on November 21, 2025. See SUPPLEMENTARY
INFORMATION for additional relevant dates.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: OFAC: Assistant Director for
Regulatory Affairs, 202-622-4855; or https://ofac.treasury.gov/contact-ofac.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

Electronic Availability

    This document and additional information concerning OFAC are
available on OFAC's website: https://ofac.treasury.gov/.

Background

    On November 21, 2025, OFAC issued GL 132 to authorize certain
transactions otherwise prohibited by the Russian Harmful Foreign
Activities Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 587. This GL was made
available on OFAC's website (https://ofac.treasury.gov) when it was

[[Page 2303]]

issued. The text of this GL is provided below.

OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL

Russian Harmful Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations

31 CFR Part 587

GENERAL LICENSE NO. 132

Authorizing Certain Transactions Involving Paks II Civil Nuclear Power
Plant

    (a) Except as provided in paragraph (b) of this general license,
all transactions prohibited by Executive Order (E.O.) 14024 involving
the Paks II civil nuclear power plant project in Hungary (Paks II),
including Paks II. Nuclear Power Plant Private Limited Company, or any
successor project to the Paks II, that involve one or more of the
following entities are authorized:
    (1) Gazprombank Joint Stock Company;
    (2) State Corporation Bank for Development and Foreign Economic
Affairs Vnesheconombank;
    (3) Public Joint Stock Company Bank Financial Corporation Otkritie;
    (4) Sovcombank Open Joint Stock Company;
    (5) Public Joint Stock Company Sberbank of Russia;
    (6) VTB Bank Public Joint Stock Company;
    (7) Joint Stock Company Alfa-Bank;
    (8) Public Joint Stock Company Rosbank;
    (9) Bank Zenit Public Joint Stock Company;
    (10) Bank Saint-Petersburg Public Joint Stock Company;
    (11) National Clearing Center (NCC);
    (12) Any entity in which one or more of the above persons own,
directly or indirectly, individually or in the aggregate, a 50 percent
or greater interest; or
    (13) the Central Bank of the Russian Federation.
    (b) This general license does not authorize:
    (1) The opening or maintaining of a correspondent account or
payable-through account for or on behalf of any entity subject to
Directive 2 under E.O. 14024, Prohibitions Related to Correspondent or
Payable-Through Accounts and Processing of Transactions Involving
Certain Foreign Financial Institutions;
    (2) Any debit to an account on the books of a U.S. financial
institution of the Central Bank of the Russian Federation, the National
Wealth Fund of the Russian Federation, or the Ministry of Finance; or
    (3) Any transactions otherwise prohibited by the Russian Harmful
Foreign Activities Sanctions Regulations, 31 CFR part 587 (RuHSR),
including transactions involving any person blocked pursuant to the
RuHSR other than the blocked persons described in paragraph (a) of this
general license, unless separately authorized.

Bradley T. Smith,

Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.

    Dated: November 21, 2025.

Bradley T. Smith,
Director, Office of Foreign Assets Control.
[FR Doc. 2026-00952 Filed 1-16-26; 8:45 am]
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