[Federal Register Volume 65, Number 123 (Monday, June 26, 2000)]
[Presidential Documents]
[Pages 39279-39280]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 00-16252]


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 Title 3--
 The President

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                Executive Order 13159 of June 21, 2000

                
Blocking Property of the Government of the 
                Russian Federation Relating to the Disposition of 
                Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted From Nuclear Weapons

                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 (IEEPA) (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.), the 
                National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.), and 
                section 301 of title 3, United States Code.

                I, WILLIAM J. CLINTON, President of the United States 
                of America, in view of the policies underlying 
                Executive Order 12938 of November 14, 1994, and 
                Executive Order 13085 of May 26, 1998, find that 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 constitutes an unusual and extraordinary 
                threat to the national security and foreign policy of 
                the United States, and hereby declare a national 
                emergency to deal with that threat.

                I hereby order:

                Section 1. A major national security goal of the United 
                States is 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. As reflected in Executive Order 13085, the 
                full 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'') is essential to the attainment of this 
                goal. The HEU Agreements provide for the conversion of 
                approximately 500 metric tons of highly enriched 
                uranium contained in Russian nuclear weapons into low-
                enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear 
                reactors. In furtherance of our national security 
                goals, all heads of departments and agencies of the 
                United States Government shall continue to take all 
                appropriate measures within their authority to further 
                the full implementation of the HEU Agreements.

                Sec. 2. Government of the Russian Federation assets 
                directly related to the implementation of the HEU 
                Agreements currently may be subject to attachment, 
                judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or 
                other judicial process, thereby jeopardizing the full 
                implementation of the HEU Agreements to the detriment 
                of U.S. foreign policy. In order 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, and except to the 
                extent provided in regulations, orders, directives, or 
                licenses that may hereafter be issued pursuant to this 
                order, all property and interests in property of the 
                Government of the Russian Federation directly related 
                to the implementation of the HEU Agreements that are in 
                the United States, that hereafter come within the 
                United States, or that are or hereafter come within the 
                possession or control of United States persons, 
                including their overseas branches, are hereby blocked 
                and may not be transferred, paid, exported, withdrawn, 
                or otherwise dealt in. Unless licensed or authorized 
                pursuant to this order, any attachment, judgment, 
                decree, lien, execution,

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                garnishment, or other judicial process is null and void 
                with respect to any property or interest in property 
                blocked pursuant to this order.

                Sec. 3. For the purposes of this order: (a) The term 
                ``person'' means an individual or entity;

                    (b) The term ``entity'' means a partnership, 
                association, trust, joint venture, corporation, or 
                other organization;
                    (c) The term ``United States person'' means any 
                United States citizen; permanent resident alien; 
                juridical person organized under the laws of the United 
                States or any jurisdiction within the United States, 
                including foreign branches; or any person in the United 
                States; and
                    (d) The term ``Government of the Russian 
                Federation'' means the Government of the Russian 
                Federation, any political subdivision, agency, or 
                instrumentality thereof, and any person owned or 
                controlled by, or acting for or on behalf of, the 
                Government of the Russian Federation.

                Sec. 4. (a) The Secretary of the Treasury, in 
                consultation with the Secretary of State, the Secretary 
                of Energy, and, as appropriate, other agencies, is 
                hereby authorized to take such actions, including the 
                promulgation of rules and regulations, and to employ 
                all powers granted to me by IEEPA, as may be necessary 
                to carry out the purposes of this order. The Secretary 
                of the Treasury may redelegate any of these functions 
                to other officers and agencies of the United States 
                Government. All agencies of the United States 
                Government are hereby directed to take all appropriate 
                measures within their statutory authority to carry out 
                the provisions of this order.

                    (b) Nothing contained in this order shall relieve a 
                person from any requirement to obtain a license or 
                other authorization from any department or agency of 
                the United States Government in compliance with 
                applicable laws and regulations subject to the 
                jurisdiction of the department or agency.

                Sec. 5. This order is not intended to create, nor does 
                it create, any right, benefit, or privilege, 
                substantive or procedural, enforceable at law by a 
                party against the United States, its agencies, 
                officers, or any other person.

                Sec. 6. (a) This order is effective at 12:01 a.m. 
                eastern daylight time on June 22, 2000.

                    (b) This order shall be transmitted to the Congress 
                and published in the Federal Register.

                    (Presidential Sig.)

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    June 21, 2000.

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