EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ENERGOCASCAD,

UNCLAS MOSCOW 000669 SIPDIS SIPDIS USDOC FOR 532/OEA/MHAMES/LRITTER USDOC FOR 3150/USFCS/OIO/CEENIS/MCOSTA USDOC FOR 532/OEE/MO'BRIEN E.O. 12958: N/A TAGS: BEXP ETRD ETTC RS SUBJECT: EXTRANCHECK: PRE-LICENSE CHECK: ENERGOCASCAD, MOSCOW, RUSSIA, LICENSE NO. D370399 REFTEL: USDOC 00749 ¶1. Unauthorized disclosure of the information provided below is prohibited by Section 12C of the Export Administration Act. ¶2. Reftel requested a Pre-license check to determine the legitimacy and reliability of the end-user, Energocascad, Moscow, Russia. The company is listed on BIS license application D370399 as the ultimate consignee of eclipse model E75FL pumps. These items are controlled for chemical or biological warfare reasons under ECCN 2B350. The licensee is Pulsafeeder, Inc., a unit of IDEX Co, 2883 Brighton-Henrietta Town Line Rd, Rochester, NY 14623. ¶3. On February 6, 2007, Export Control Attache Donald Pearce and FSN Natalya Shipitsina conducted the requested pre-license check at the offices of Energocascad, nab. Akademika Tupoleva 15/5, Moscow, Russia. The export control team met with Lyudmila Suleimanova, Head of Purchasing Department. ¶4. Energocascad is a contractor specializing in the design, construction and service of chemical-water purification systems and thermal energy/heating stations. The company employs 600 at its Moscow headquarters and a Research and Development facility in Tula. Energocascad only works on projects located in Russia. ¶5. Energocascad is not the ultimate end user of the commodities in reftel. Energocascad will utilize the commodities in the construction of a wastewater purification system at the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant located in Nizhny Tagil, Russia. Ms. Suleimanova described the end user as a large metallurgical plant and works. The commodities will be transferred to the plant and installed in the wastewater purification plant. Prior to installation on site, the equipment in reftel will be stored a warehouse rented by Energocascad in Elektrostal, an industrial center located in a town just north of Moscow. The equipment will be moved to the worksite by truck. It is expected that upon Customs clearance, it will take approximately one week to get the commodities from Elektrostal to Nizhny Tagil. Once installed, security will be the responsibility of the plant. ¶6. According to the company website, The Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant (Russian acronym NTMK) is a group of industrial enterprises comprising of metals mining, processing and rolling operations. The corporation is one of the largest Russian manufactures of ferrous metal wares, construction honeycomb rolling, and pipe stock. The group is also a major supplier of steel products for the railway transport industry, producing rails, wheels, axels and other fittings for carriages and locomotives. Further information can be found at the company website: http://www.midural.ru/. Contact information is as follows: NIZHNY TAGIL METALLURGICAL PLANT (PC NTMK) Nizhny Tagil, Sverdlovsk region Postal code: 622025 Russia Phone: (3435) 29-21-94, 29- 21-95 Fax: (3435) 29-26-94 Director: Anatoliy Leonidovich Shevtsov. ¶7. Recommendations: Post recommends Energocascad, Moscow, Russia, as reliable recipients of sensitive U.S. origin commodities. It is requested that post be notified of final disposition of the application, and of any shipments for this organization in order to conduct appropriate FCS follow-up and statistical reporting. In addition, post recommends a post- shipment verification for the actual ultimate consignee, the Nizhny Tagil Metallurgical Plant, upon delivery of the commodities in reftel to the ultimate end user. (FCS MOSCOW/ SBOZEK/DPEARCE) BURNS