50 U.S.C. § 4814: Administration of export controls

The President shall rely on, including through delegations, as appropriate, the Secretary, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of National Intelligence, and the heads of other Federal agencies as appropriate, to exercise the authority to carry out the purposes set forth in subsection (b). identifying specific threats to the national security and foreign policy that the authority of this subchapter may be used to address; and exercising the authority under this subchapter to implement policies, regulations, procedures, and actions that are necessary to effectively counteract those threats; criteria for including items on, and removing such an item from, a list of controlled items established under this subchapter; an interagency procedure for compiling and amending any list described in subparagraph (A); criteria for including a person on a list of persons to whom exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of items are prohibited or restricted under this subchapter; standards for compliance by persons subject to controls under this subchapter; and policies and procedures for the end-use monitoring of exports, reexports, and in-country transfers of items controlled under this subchapter; and benefit from the inherent equities, experience, and capabilities of the Federal officials described in subsection (a). It is the sense of Congress that the administration of export controls under this subchapter should be consistent with the procedures relating to export license applications described in Executive Order 12981 (1995).