The State Department's Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List

Document Headings Document headings vary by document type but may contain the following: the agency or agencies that issued and signed a document the number of the CFR title and the number of each part the document amends, proposes to amend, or is directly related to the agency docket number / agency internal file number the RIN which identifies each regulatory action listed in the Unified Agenda of Federal Regulatory and Deregulatory Actions See the Document Drafting Handbook for more details. Department of State [Public Notice 11217] AGENCY: Department of State. ACTION: Initial publication of list of properties; notice. SUMMARY: The Department of State is publishing the Cuba Prohibited Accommodations List identifying properties subject to additional prohibitions with respect to certain lodging-related transactions under the Cuban Assets Control Regulations (CACR). DATES: Effective on September 28, 2020. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Emily Belson, Office of Economic Sanctions Policy and Implementation, tel.: 202-647-6526; Robert Haas, Office of the Coordinator for Cuban Affairs, tel.: 202-453-8456, Department of State, Washington, DC 20520. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Background On June 16, 2017, the President signed National Security Presidential Memorandum 5, “Strengthening the Policy of the United States Toward Cuba” (NSPM-5). As part of its implementation of NSPM-5, on September 28, 2020 the Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) published a final rule in the Federal Register [FR 2020-21084] amending the CACR, 31 CFR part 515 . The regulatory amendment to the CACR, among other things, adds new § 515.210, which generally prohibits persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction from lodging, paying for lodging, or making any reservation for or on behalf of a third party to lodge, at any property in Cuba that the Secretary of State has identified as a property that is owned or controlled by the Cuban government, a proh…