[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 31, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2004]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 31CFR592.604]

[Page 929-930]
 
                  TITLE 31--MONEY AND FINANCE: TREASURY
 
 CHAPTER V--OFFICE OF FOREIGN ASSETS CONTROL, DEPARTMENT OF THE TREASURY
 
PART 592_ROUGH DIAMONDS CONTROL REGULATIONS--Table of Contents
 
                           Subpart F_Penalties
 
Sec. 592.604  Penalty imposition or withdrawal.

    (a) No violation. If, after considering any response to the 
prepenalty notice and any relevant facts, the Director of the Office of 
Foreign Assets Control determines that there was no violation by the 
respondent named in the prepenalty notice, the Director shall notify the 
respondent in writing of that determination and of the cancellation of 
the proposed monetary penalty.
    (b) Violation. (1) If, after considering any written response to the 
prepenalty notice, or default in the submission of a written response, 
and any relevant facts, the Director of the Office of Foreign Assets 
Control determines that there was a violation by the respondent named in 
the prepenalty notice, the Director is authorized to issue a written 
penalty notice to the respondent of the determination of the violation 
and the imposition of the monetary penalty.
    (2) The penalty notice shall inform the respondent that payment or 
arrangement for installment payment of the assessed penalty must be made 
within 30 days of the date of mailing of the penalty notice by the 
Office of Foreign Assets Control.

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    (3) The penalty notice shall inform the respondent of the 
requirement to furnish the respondent's taxpayer identification number 
pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 7701 and that such number will be used for 
purposes of collecting and reporting on any delinquent penalty amount.
    (4) The issuance of the penalty notice finding a violation and 
imposing a monetary penalty shall constitute final agency action. The 
respondent has the right to seek judicial review of that final agency 
action in federal district court.