    [Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: George W. Bush (2008, Book II)]
    [December 30, 2008]
    [Pages 1510-1511]
    [From the U.S. Government Publishing Office www.gpo.gov]

    Letter to Congressional Leaders Certifying Actions Related to the
    Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the United States of
    America and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application
    of Safeguards in the United States of America
    December 30, 2008

    Dear _____ :
        I have considered the Protocol Additional to the Agreement between
    the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy Agency
    for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America, with
    Annexes, signed at Vienna on June 12, 1998 (the ``U.S.-IAEA Additional
    Protocol'') (T. Doc. 107-7), along with the views, recommendations, and
    statements of all interested executive branch agencies. In accordance
    with the first condition of the March 31, 2004, Senate resolution of
    advice and consent to ratification of the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol,
    I hereby certify that not later than 180 days after the deposit of the
    United States instrument of ratification:
         1. all necessary regulations will be promulgated and will be in
            force regarding the use of the National Security Exclusion under
            Article 1.b of the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol, and

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            such regulations shall be made in accordance with the principles
            developed for the application of the National Security
            Exclusion;
         2. the managed access provisions of Articles 7 and 1.c of the U.S.-
            IAEA Additional Protocol shall be implemented in accordance with
            the appropriate and necessary interagency guidance and
            regulation regarding such access; and
         3. the necessary security and counterintelligence training and
            preparation will have been completed for any declared locations
            of direct national security significance.
        In accordance with the second condition of the March 31, 2004,
    Senate resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the U.S.-IAEA
    Additional Protocol, I hereby certify that the necessary site
    vulnerability assessments regarding activities, locations, and
    information of direct national security significance to the United
    States will be completed not later than 180 days after the deposit of
    the United States instrument of ratification for the initial United
    States declaration to the International Atomic Energy Agency under the
    U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol.
             Sincerely,

                                                              George W. Bush

    Note: Identical letters were sent to Ike Skelton, chairman, and Duncan
    Hunter, ranking member, House Committee on Armed Services; Howard L.
    Berman, chairman, and Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, ranking member, House
    Committee on Foreign Affairs; Carl Levin, chairman, and John McCain,
    ranking member, Senate Committee on Armed Services; and Joseph R. Biden,
    Jr., chairman, and Richard G. Lugar, ranking member, Senate Committee on
    Foreign Relations.