The phrase "are explicitly exempted" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where you want to clarify that certain items or individuals are clearly excluded from a rule or requirement.
Example: "Employees who have completed their training are explicitly exempted from the mandatory refresher course."
Alternatives: "are clearly excluded" or "are specifically exempted".
But small banks with less than $10 billion in assets are explicitly exempted from the new fee limits by the financial reform bill.
However, all banks and credit unions with less than $10 billion in assets are explicitly exempted from the pending fee caps.
But here's the rub: Banks with less than $10 billion in assets are explicitly exempted from the new swipe fee rules anyway -- they will continue to be able to charge whatever they want once the Fed's new rules go into effect.
Physicians' receipt of drug samples, however, are explicitly exempted from Sunshine Act reporting, even though the pharmaceutical industry invests >$5 billion yearly in the practice.
In the 2005 energy bill, largely crafted by Vice-President Dick Cheney, fracking was explicitly exempted from federal review under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
In Comment this week, Elizabeth Kolbert writes about hydraulic fracturing — fracking, for short — the process by which shale gas is extracted from the earth: In the 2005 energy bill, largely crafted by Vice-President Dick Cheney, fracking was explicitly exempted from federal review under the Safe Drinking Water Act.
The newspaper said that while prime contractors were explicitly exempted by law from taxation on aid contracts, the Afghan government was sending tax notices to subcontractors, many of them American and other foreign companies, claiming they were not covered by that provision.
While the American Historical Association (Jones 2008) has argued that such research be "explicitly exempted" from review board oversight, the use of the Internet could complicate such a stance if such data became available in public settings or available "downstream" with potential, unforeseeable risks to reputation, economic standing, or psychological harm, should identification occur.
In Los Angeles, for example, body camera footage is explicitly exempted from public records laws.
Last Monday, the State Department declared that American non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in parts of Somalia controlled by al-Shabaab, a militant group designated as a terrorist organization by the U.S., would be explicitly exempted from prosecution if some of their funds inadvertently benefited al-Shabaab.
Non-profit organizations that shelter women in danger are not always aware that they are explicitly exempt from verifying immigration status as a condition for providing services and may deny services to the victims.
