    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 30, Number 12 (Monday, March 28, 1994)]
    [Pages 640-641]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Memorandum on the Purchase of Highly Enriched Uranium From Russia

    March 25, 1994

    Presidential Determination No. 94-19

    Memorandum for the Secretary of the Treasury, the Chair of the Board of
    Directors of the United States Enrichment Corporation

    Subject: Authorization to Make an Advance Payment for the Purchase of
    Highly Enriched Uranium from Russia

        On February 18, 1993, the Government of the United States and the
    Government of the Russian Federation entered into an agreement to
    arrange the safe and prompt disposition for peaceful purposes of highly
    enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons as a result of the
    reduction of nuclear weapons in accordance with existing agreements in
    the area of arms control and disarmament. On January 14, 1994, the
    United States Enrichment Corporation, as Executive Agent of the United
    States, entered into the initial implementing contract pursuant to the
    February 18, 1993, agreement for the purchase of low-enriched uranium
    derived from highly enriched uranium extracted from nuclear weapons.
        Pursuant to the authority vested in me by the Constitution and
    section 3324(b) (2) of title 31 of the United States Code, and having
    decided that an advance of public money is necessary to carry out both
    the duties of the disbursing official promptly and faithfully and the
    obligation of the United States Government pursuant to the initial
    implementing contract executed on January 14, 1994, I authorize an
    advance of public money to be made to the disbursing official for the
    purpose of providing payment to the Government of the Russian Federation
    or its designated agent, pursuant to the terms and conditions of the
    initial implementing contract.
        The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to publish
    this determination in the Federal Register.
                                                William J. Clinton

    Note: An original was not available for the verification of the content
    of this memorandum.

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