[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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