[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Pages 38879-38880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09963]


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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 or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from 
the Republic of Korea (ROK) of unirradiated low enriched uranium, 
unirradiated source material, equipment, and components subject to 
paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the Agreement for Cooperation between the 
Government of the United States of America and the Government of the 
Republic of Korea Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at 
Washington June 15, 2015, entered into force November 25, 2015 (``U.S.-
ROK 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: Paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the U.S.-ROK 
123 Agreement permits retransfers of the following to areas beyond the 
territorial jurisdiction of the receiving party if the United States 
and the ROK agree: nuclear material, moderator material, equipment, and 
components transferred pursuant to the U.S.-ROK 123 Agreement, and any 
special fissionable material produced through the use of any such 
nuclear material, moderator material, or equipment. Subsection 1.a. of 
Section 3 of the Agreed Minute to the U.S.-ROK 123 Agreement permits 
the United States and the ROK to retransfer unirradiated low enriched 
uranium, unirradiated source material, equipment, and components 
subject to paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the U.S.-ROK 123 Agreement to 
third countries or destinations. The United States and ROK exchanged 
lists of third countries or destinations for which retransfers of 
unirradiated low enriched uranium, unirradiated source material, 
equipment, and components subject to paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the 
U.S.-ROK 123 Agreement could be made by the other Party (``advance 
consent lists''). Subsection 1.a. of Section 3 permits either the 
United States or the ROK to delete third countries or destinations from 
either list temporarily or permanently following consultations with and 
written notice to 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, 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 
or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from the ROK of 
unirradiated low enriched uranium, unirradiated source material, 
equipment, and components subject to

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paragraph 2 of Article 10 of the U.S.-ROK 123 Agreement.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 16, 
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. 2024-09963 Filed 5-7-24; 8:45 am]
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