BIS Sends Critical Technologies Controls IFR to OMB

 Yesterday, the OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA) announced that  it had received an interim final rule from DOC’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) on “Critical Technologies Controls”. Data Privacy, Data Security, and Cybersecurity Technologies 

According to the Spring 2025 Unified Agenda entry for this rulemaking:  

“Section 1758 of the Export Control Reform Act of 2018 (ECRA), as codified under 50 U.S.C. 4817 [link added], authorizes BIS to establish appropriate controls on the export, reexport or transfer (in-country) of emerging and foundational technologies. This rule proposes changes based on Section 1758 technology controls.” 

It is too early to tell if this rulemaking will be covered in any detail, because the scope described above is so vague. The BIS web site lists the following technologies of potential interest here as being on the OSTP Critical and Emerging Technologies List (2024) 

• Biotechnologies,  

• Data Privacy, Data Security, and Cybersecurity Technologies,  

• Human-Machine Interfaces,  

• Quantum Information and Enabling Technologies, and  

• Space Technologies and Systems.