*Administration of Barack Obama, 2012 *

**Memorandum on the Delegation of Reporting Functions Specified in the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 and the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on the Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms **

*March 16, 2012 *

*Memorandum for the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Energy *

*Subject:* Delegation of Reporting Functions Specified in Section 1045 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, and Condition 9 of the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on the Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms (the "New START Treaty")

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including section 301 of title 3 of the United States Code, I hereby delegate to the Secretaries of Defense and Energy the reporting functions conferred upon the President by section 1045 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112–81), and by section (a)(9)(B) of the Resolution of Advice and Consent to Ratification of the New START Treaty. Subsection (a)(9)(B)(iv) of the Resolution shall be fulfilled in coordination with the Secretary of State.

The Secretary of Defense is authorized and directed to publish this memorandum in the *Federal Register*.

BARACK OBAMA

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:15 a.m., March 20, 2012]

NOTE: This proclamation was published in the *Federal Register* on March 21.

*Categories:* Communications to Federal Agencies : National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012, memorandum on delegation of reporting functions; Communications to Federal Agencies : Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START), memorandum on delegation of reporting functions*.*

*Subjects:* Defense and national security : National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2012; Russia : Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) with U.S., expansion.

*DCPD Number:* DCPD201200187.