[Congressional Record Volume 147, Number 81 (Tuesday, June 12, 2001)]
[Senate]
[Page S6122]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




REPORT ON THE CONTINUATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO PROPERTY OF THE 
   RUSSIAN FEDERATION RELATING TO THE DISPOSITION OF HIGHLY ENRICHED 
URANIUM EXTRACTED FROM NUCLEAR WEAPONS--MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT--PM 
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  The PRESIDING OFFICER laid before the Senate the following message 
from the President of the United States, together with an accompanying 
report; which was referred to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and 
Urban Affairs.

To the Congress of the United States:
  Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), 
provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, 
prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the President 
publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the Congress a 
notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the 
anniversary date. I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal 
Register for publication. This notice states that the emergency 
declared with respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-
usable fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation is 
to continue beyond June 21, 2001.
  It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 
ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 
pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is 
dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and 
protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The 
accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in 
the territory of the Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual 
and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of 
the United States. For this reason, I have determined that it is 
necessary to maintain in force these emergency authorities beyond June 
12, 2001.
                                                      George W. Bush.  
The White House, June 11, 2001.

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