[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38878-38879]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09962]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

National Nuclear Security Administration


Notice of Update to Advance Consent List

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of update to advance consent list.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security 
Administration is providing notice of an update to the advance consent 
list of countries eligible to receive retransfers from the European 
Atomic Energy Community (``Euratom'') of low enriched uranium, non-
nuclear material, equipment, and source material transferred pursuant 
to Article 8.1(C)(i) of the Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful 
Uses of Nuclear Energy between the United States of America and the 
European Atomic Energy Community, signed at

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Brussels November 7, 1995 and March 29, 1996, entered into force April 
12, 1996 (``U.S.-Euratom 123 Agreement'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Andrea Ferkile, Director, Office 
of Nonproliferation Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 
20585, telephone: (202) 586-8868 or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 8.1(C)(i) of the U.S.-Euratom 123 
Agreement permits retransfers of the following to third countries: low 
enriched uranium, non-nuclear material, equipment, and source material 
transferred pursuant to the U.S.-Euratom 123 Agreement or of low 
enriched uranium produced through the use of nuclear material or 
equipment transferred pursuant to the U.S.-Euratom 123 Agreement, for 
nuclear fuel cycle activities other than the production of high 
enriched uranium. Paragraph B.2 of the Agreed Minute to the U.S.-
Euratom 123 Agreement requires the United States and Euratom to 
exchange lists of third countries to which retransfers pursuant to 
Article 8.1(C)(i) of the Agreement may be made (``advance consent 
lists''). To be eligible for inclusion on the advance consent lists, 
third countries must have made effective non-proliferation commitments 
and, for countries on the U.S. advance consent list, must be a party to 
a civil nuclear cooperation agreement with the United States. Such 
agreements are entered into under the authority of section 123 of the 
Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (``123 Agreement''). Paragraph 
B.4 of the Agreed Minute provides that either the United States or 
Euratom may delete third countries from its lists following 
consultations with the other Party.
    The Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt 
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy (with annex and agreed 
minute), signed at Washington June 29, 1981, expired December 29, 2021. 
The Agreement for Cooperation between the United States of America and 
the Republic of South Africa Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear 
Energy, done at Pretoria August 25, 1995, entered into force December 
4, 1997, expired December 4, 2022. In the absence of 123 agreements 
with Egypt and South Africa, these countries are being deleted from the 
advance consent list of countries eligible to receive retransfers from 
Euratom of low enriched uranium, non-nuclear material, equipment, and 
source material transferred, and low enriched uranium produced through 
the use of nuclear material or equipment transferred for nuclear fuel 
cycle activities other than the production of high enriched uranium.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 29, 
2024, by Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, pursuant to 
delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with 
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For 
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of 
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the 
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document 
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way 
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-09962 Filed 5-7-24; 8:45 am]
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