[Congressional Record Volume 162, Number 84 (Thursday, May 26, 2016)]
[Senate]
[Pages S3325-S3326]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4313. Mr. PETERS submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by 
him to the bill S. 2943, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 
2017 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

       At the end of subtitle I of title X, add the following:

     SEC. 1097. REPORT ON DEFENSE NUCLEAR NONPROLIFERATION 
                   RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) The Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) provides 
     for the long term presence of the International Atomic Energy 
     Agency (IAEA) in Iran using modern technologies in Annex I, 
     section N.
       (2) The JCPOA allows the IAEA to utilize on-line enrichment 
     measurement and electronic seals as well as other 
     internationally accepted modern technologies for inspection 
     and verification of compliance.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Deputy Administrator for Defense 
     Nuclear Nonproliferation shall submit to Congress a report 
     that contains at a minimum the following elements:
       (1) A description of ongoing, planned, and anticipated 
     defense nuclear nonproliferation research and development 
     projects and activities.
       (2) A strategy for improving arms control agreement 
     verification capabilities, including improving the capability 
     and accuracy of nonproliferation verification technologies 
     that comply with the JCPOA.
       (c) Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action Defined.--The term 
     ``Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action'' means the Joint 
     Comprehensive Plan of Action signed at Vienna on July

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     14, 2015, by Iran and by France, Germany, the Russian 
     Federation, the People's Republic of China, the United 
     Kingdom, and the United States.
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