[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 2]
[Senate]
[Page 1835]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




    AUTHORIZING EXTENSION OF THE NUCLEAR ENERGY AGREEMENT WITH KOREA

  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I ask unanimous consent that the Senate 
proceed to the immediate consideration of Calendar No. 295, S. 1901.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will report the bill by title.
  The legislative clerk read as follows:

       A bill (S. 1901) to authorize the President to extend the 
     term of the nuclear energy agreement with the Republic of 
     Korea until March 19, 2016.

  There being no objection, the Senate proceeded to consider the bill.
  Mr. DURBIN. Mr. President, I further ask that the bill be read a 
third time and passed and the motions to reconsider be considered made 
and laid upon the table, with no intervening action or debate.
  The PRESIDING OFFICER. Without objection, it is so ordered.
  The bill (S. 1901) was ordered to be engrossed for a third reading, 
was read the third time, and passed, as follows:

                                S. 1901

       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 ``Support for United States-
     Republic of Korea Civil Nuclear Cooperation Act''.

     SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

       Congress makes the following findings:
       (1) In the 60th year of the alliance, the relationship 
     between the United States and the Republic of Korea could not 
     be stronger. It is based on mutual sacrifice, mutual respect, 
     shared interests, and shared responsibility to promote peace 
     and security in the Asia-Pacific region and throughout the 
     world.
       (2) North Korea's nuclear weapons programs, including 
     uranium enrichment and plutonium reprocessing technologies, 
     undermine security on the Korean Peninsula. The United States 
     and the Republic of Korea have a shared interest in 
     preventing further proliferation, including through the 
     implementation of the 2005 Joint Statement of the Six-Party 
     Talks.
       (3) Both the United States and Republic of Korea have a 
     shared objective in strengthening the Treaty on the Non-
     Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at London, Moscow, and 
     Washington July 1, 1968, and a political and a commercial 
     interest in working collaboratively to address challenges to 
     their respective peaceful civil nuclear programs.
       (4) The nuclear energy agreement referred to in section 3 
     is scheduled to expire on March 19, 2014. In order to 
     maintain healthy and uninterrupted cooperation in this area 
     between the two countries while a new agreement is being 
     negotiated, Congress should authorize the President to extend 
     the duration of the current agreement until March 19, 2016.

     SEC. 3. EXTENSION OF NUCLEAR ENERGY AGREEMENT WITH THE 
                   REPUBLIC OF KOREA.

       Notwithstanding section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 
     1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), the President is authorized to take 
     such actions as may be required to extend the term of the 
     Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the 
     United States of America and the Government of the Republic 
     of Korea Concerning Civil Uses of Atomic Energy, done at 
     Washington November 24, 1972 (24 UST 775; TIAS 7583), and 
     amended on May 15, 1974 (25 UST 1102; TIAS 7842), to a date 
     that is not later than March 19, 2016.

     SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS ON PROGRESS OF NEGOTIATIONS 
                   BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND REPUBLIC OF 
                   KOREA.

       Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, and every 180 days thereafter until a new Agreement 
     for Cooperation between the Government of the United States 
     of America and the Government of the Republic of Korea 
     Concerning Civil Uses of Nuclear Energy is submitted to 
     Congress, the President shall provide to the Committee on 
     Foreign Relations and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee 
     on Appropriations of the House of Representatives a report on 
     the progress of negotiations on a new civil nuclear 
     cooperation agreement.

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