[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1948 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1948

  To reduce the threat from nuclear facilities located in the former 
                             Soviet Union.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 29, 1993

     Mr. Stark (for himself, Mr. Evans, Mr. Dicks, and Mr. Berman) 
   introduced the following bill; which was referred jointly to the 
            Committees on Foreign Affairs and Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
  To reduce the threat from nuclear facilities located in the former 
                             Soviet Union.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Former Soviet Union Nuclear Threat 
Reduction Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. PROGRAM TO REDUCE NUCLEAR THREAT IN FORMER SOVIET UNION.

    (a) Establishment of Program.--The President shall establish a 
program to reduce the environmental and national security threats from 
nuclear facilities located in the former Soviet Union, specifically the 
threat from nuclear facilities located in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, 
and Ukraine.
    (b) Conduct of Program.--In carrying out the program established 
under subsection (a), the President shall meet the following 
requirements:
            (1) Provision of assistance.--Subject to section 3, the 
        President shall provide assistance to Belarus, Kazakhstan, 
        Russia, and Ukraine to--
                    (A) accelerate the retirement of plutonium 
                production and chemical separation facilities;
                    (B) accelerate the closure of Chernobyl-type 
                nuclear reactors;
                    (C) establish alternative energy sources and 
                promote energy conservation measures;
                    (D) identify, assess, and set priorities for the 
                cleanup of nuclear contaminated sites;
                    (E) establish training and technology development 
                programs for environmental restoration and waste 
                management activities at nuclear contaminated sites;
                    (F) deactivate and safely dispose of decommissioned 
                nuclear-powered submarines;
                    (G) store and dispose of spent fuel and other 
                radioactive materials; and
                    (H) strengthen nuclear materials accounting and 
                security systems, and foster cooperative means of 
                verifying reciprocal data exchanges covering past 
                fissile material production and current inventories.
            (2) Establishment of technical working groups.--Not later 
        than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
        President shall establish with the appropriate independent 
        states of the former Soviet Union and with other nations 
        capable of producing nuclear weapons material bilateral or 
        multilateral technical working groups in accordance with 
        section 3151(c) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
        Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484).

SEC. 3. CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENTS.

    The President may provide assistance under section 2(b)(1) to a 
country specified in such section only if the President certifies to 
the Congress that such country--
            (1) has ratified the Treaty on the Reduction and Limitation 
        of Strategic Offensive Arms (START I);
            (2) has acceded to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of 
        Nuclear Weapons;
            (3) is eligible for assistance under section 1412(d) of the 
        Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992 (section 
        1412(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
        Year 1993; 22 U.S.C. 5902(d)) and section 502 of the Freedom 
        for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open Markets 
        Support Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-511; 22 U.S.C. 5852); and
            (4) will not use assistance under section 2(b)(1) to 
        support the continued operation or enhancement of plants for 
        chemical separation of plutonium from the fission products in 
        spent nuclear fuel.

SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS.

    (a) Prior Notice to Congress of Obligation of Funds.--The reporting 
requirements under section 1431 of the Former Soviet Union 
Demilitarization Act of 1992 (section 1431 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993; 22 U.S.C. 5921) and section 
3121(a)(2) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
1993 (Public Law 102-484) shall apply with respect to the obligation or 
use of funds for the program established under section 2(a).
    (b) Quarterly Reports on Programs.--Not later than 30 days after 
the last fiscal quarter of fiscal year 1993 and not later than 30 days 
after the end of each fiscal year quarter of fiscal year 1994, the 
President shall transmit to the Congress a report on the activities 
carried out under the program established under section 2(a) in 
accordance with section 1432 of the Former Soviet Union 
Demilitarization Act of 1992 (section 1432 of the National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993; 22 U.S.C. 5922).
    (c) Report on Nuclear Stockpile Information.--Not later than 180 
days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall 
submit to the Congress a report containing a description of the 
specific actions that have been taken and are planned to be taken to 
comply with the condition described in subsection (a)(8) (concerning 
nuclear stockpile weapons arrangement) of the Senate resolution of 
ratification of START I (Treaty Doc. 102-20 and 102-32).

SEC. 5. ADMINISTRATION.

    (a) Executive Agent.--The Office of Defense Programs or the Office 
of Intelligence and National Security of the Department of Energy shall 
serve as the executive agent for the program established under section 
2(a) and shall carry out such program in coordination with other 
appropriate Federal agencies.
    (b) Coordination.--The President shall provide for the coordination 
of the program established under section 2(a) with other programs that 
provide assistance to the independent states of the former Soviet Union 
in accordance with the program coordination provisions of section 102 
of the Freedom for Russia and Emerging Eurasian Democracies and Open 
Markets Support Act of 1992 (Public Law 102-511; 22 U.S.C. 5812).

SEC. 6. FUNDING.

    The President shall transfer to the appropriate accounts for 
national security programs of the Department of Energy from amounts 
appropriated to the Department of Energy for years prior to fiscal year 
1993 for such programs such amounts as are available up to $500,000,000 
to carry out section 2(a).

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