[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 36, Number 26 (Monday, July 3, 2000)]
[Page 1548]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Letter to Congressional Leaders Reporting on an Extraordinary Payment to 
the Russian Aviation and Space Agency

June 29, 2000

Dear __________:

    The NASA Administrator has informed me of his intent to proceed with 
an extraordinary payment of $14 million to the Russian Aviation and 
Space Agency for the purchase of the pressure dome for the Interim 
Control Module and the Androgynous Peripheral Docking Adapter and 
related hardware for the United States Propulsion Module for the 
International Space Station. This payment is subject to the provisions 
of section 6(g) of the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 (Public Law 
106-178) (the ``Act'').
    I hereby notify the Congress that, upon the expiration of the 5-day 
period specified in section 6(g)(1)(A) of the Act, the payment described 
above will be made. I have also concluded that the conditions described 
in section 6(g)(1)(B) and (C) of the Act have been satisfied. 
Specifically, no report has been made under section 2 of the Act; I have 
no credible information of any activity that would require such a 
report; and, the United States will receive goods of value to the United 
States commensurate with the value of the extraordinary payment.
     Sincerely,
                                            William J. Clinton

 Note:  Identical letters were sent to Benjamin A. Gilman, chairman, 
House Committee on International Relations; F. James Sensenbrenner, Jr., 
chairman, House Committee on Science; Jesse Helms, chairman, Senate 
Committee on Foreign Relations; John McCain, chairman, Senate Committee 
on Commerce, Science, and Transportation; and selected Representatives 
and Senators.