**(a) System for seeking assistance** The President may authorize the Secretary to establish a system to provide United States persons with assistance in complying with this subchapter, which may include a mechanism for providing information, in classified form as appropriate, to persons who are potential customers, suppliers, or business partners with respect to items controlled under this subchapter, in order to further ensure the prevention of the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of items that may pose a threat to the national security or foreign policy of the United States.
**(b) Security clearances** In order to carry out subsection (a), the President may issue appropriate security clearances to persons described in that subsection who are responsible for complying with this subchapter.
**(c) Assistance for certain businesses**
(1) **In general** — Not later than 120 days after August 13, 2018, the President shall develop and submit to Congress a plan to assist small- and medium-sized United States businesses in export licensing and other processes under this subchapter.
(2) **Contents** — The plan shall include, among other things, arrangements for the Department of Commerce to provide counseling to businesses described in paragraph (1) on filing applications and identifying items controlled under this subchapter, as well as proposals for seminars and conferences to educate such businesses on export controls, licensing procedures, and related obligations.
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**(a) System for seeking assistance** The President may authorize the Secretary to establish a system to provide United States persons with assistance in complying with this subchapter, which may include a mechanism for providing information, in classified form as appropriate, to persons who are potential customers, suppliers, or business partners with respect to items controlled under this subchapter, in order to further ensure the prevention of the export, reexport, or in-country transfer of items that may pose a threat to the national security or foreign policy of the United States.
**(b) Security clearances** In order to carry out subsection (a), the President may issue appropriate security clearances to persons described in that subsection who are responsible for complying with this subchapter.
**(c) Assistance for certain businesses**
(1) **In general** — Not later than 120 days after August 13, 2018, the President shall develop and submit to Congress a plan to assist small- and medium-sized United States businesses in export licensing and other processes under this subchapter.
(2) **Contents** — The plan shall include, among other things, arrangements for the Department of Commerce to provide counseling to businesses described in paragraph (1) on filing applications and identifying items controlled under this subchapter, as well as proposals for seminars and conferences to educate such businesses on export controls, licensing procedures, and related obligations.
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§ 4817. Requirements to identify and control the
export of emerging and foundational tech-
nologies
(a) Identification of technologies
(1) In general
The President shall establish and, in coordi-
nation with the Secretary, the Secretary of
Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Sec-
retary of State, and the heads of other Federal
agencies as appropriate, lead, a regular, ongo-
ing interagency process to identify emerging
and foundational technologies that—
(A) are essential to the national security
of the United States; and
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(B) are not critical technologies described
in
clauses
(i)
through
(v)
of
section
4565(a)(6)(A) of this title.
(2) Process
The interagency process established under
subsection (a) shall—
(A) be informed by multiple sources of in-
formation, including—
(i) publicly available information;
(ii) classified information, including rel-
evant information provided by the Direc-
tor of National Intelligence;
(iii) information relating to reviews and
investigations of transactions by the Com-
mittee on Foreign Investment in the
United States under section 4565 of this
title; and
(iv) information provided by the advi-
sory committees established by the Sec-
retary to advise the Under Secretary of
Commerce for Industry and Security on
controls under the Export Administration
Regulations, including the Emerging Tech-
nology and Research Advisory Committee;
(B) take into account—
(i) the development of emerging and
foundational technologies in foreign coun-
tries;
(ii) the effect export controls imposed
pursuant to this section may have on the
development of such technologies in the
United States; and
(iii) the effectiveness of export controls
imposed pursuant to this section o