[House Document 114-41]
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     TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE RISK OF NUCLEAR 
PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMULATION OF A LARGE VOLUME OF 
WEAPONS-USEABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

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 THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN EXECUTIVE ORDER 
         13617 OF JUNE 25, 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1703(b)

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May 26, 2015.--Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered 
                             to be printed
                                           The White House,
                                          Washington, May 26, 2015.
Hon. John Boehner,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,
Washington, DC.
    Dear Mr. Speaker: Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the 
International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), 
I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order that 
terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 
13617 of June 25, 2012, and revokes that Executive Order. I 
have determined that the situation that gave rise to this 
national emergency has been significantly altered by the 
successful implementation of the Agreement Between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government 
of the Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly 
Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, dated February 
18, 1993, and related contracts and agreements (collectively, 
the ``HEU Agreements'').
    I issued Executive Order 13617 to deal with the unusual and 
extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 
policy of the United States constituted by the risk of nuclear 
proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable 
fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation. 
Executive Order 13617 and its predecessor, Executive Order 
13159 of June 22, 2000, helped to ensure the preservation and 
proper and complete transfer to the Government of the Russian 
Federation of all payments due to it under the HEU Agreements, 
thereby protecting those assets from attachment, judgment, 
decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial 
process, which would have had the effect of jeopardizing the 
full implementation of the HEU Agreements to the detriment of 
U.S. national security and foreign policy.
    With the successful conversion of 500 metric tons of highly 
enriched uranium extracted from Russian nuclear weapons into 
low enriched uranium, the transfer to the United States of that 
low enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear 
reactors, and the completion of all payments to the Russian 
Federation, there is no further need for the protective 
blocking imposed by Executive Order 13617. For this reason I 
have determined that it is necessary to terminate the national 
emergency declared in Executive Order 13617 and revoke that 
order.
    I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued.
            Sincerely,
                                                      Barack Obama.
                            Executive Order

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     Termination of Emergency With Respect to the Risk of Nuclear 
Proliferation Created by the Accumulation of a Large Volume of Weapons-
   Usable Fissile Material in the Territory of the Russian Federation

    By the authority vested in me as President by the 
Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, 
including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 
U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) and the National Emergencies Act (50 
U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA),
    I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, 
find that the situation that gave rise to the declaration of a 
national emergency in Executive Order 13617 of June 25, 2012, 
with respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by 
the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile 
material resulting from the reduction of nuclear weapons in 
accordance with agreements in the area of arms control and 
disarmament and located in the territory of the Russian 
Federation, has been significantly altered by the successful 
implementation of the Agreement Between the Government of the 
United States of America and the Government of the Russian 
Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched 
Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, dated February 18, 
1993, and related contracts and agreements. Accordingly, I 
hereby terminate the national emergency declared in Executive 
Order 13617, revoke that order, and further order:
    Section 1. Pursuant to section 202(a) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 
1622(a)), termination of the national emergency declared in 
Executive Order 13617 shall not affect any action taken or 
proceeding pending not finally concluded or determined as of 
the date of this order, any action or proceeding based on any 
act committed prior to such date, or any rights or duties that 
matured or penalties that were incurred prior to such date.
    Sec. 2. This order is not intended to, and does not, create 
any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at 
law or in equity by any party against the United States, its 
departments, agencies, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person.

                                                      Barack Obama.
    The White House, May 26, 2015.

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