[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 39, Number 3 (Monday, January 20, 2003)]
[Pages 62-63]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Memorandum on Waiver of Conditions on Obligation and Expenditure of 
Funds for Planning, Design, and Construction of a Chemical Weapons 
Destruction Facility in Russia

January 10, 2003

 Presidential Determination No. 2003-10

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Presidential Determination on Waiver of Conditions on 
Obligation and Expenditure of Funds for Planning, Design, and 
Construction of a Chemical Weapons Destruction Facility in Russia

    Pursuant to the authority vested in me by section 8144 of the 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act for Fiscal Year 2003 (Public 
Law 107-248) (the ``Act''), I hereby certify that waiving the conditions 
described in section 1305 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2000 (Public Law 106-65) is important to the national 
security interests of the United States, and include herein, for 
submission to the Congress,

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the statement, justification, and plan described in section 8144(a) of 
the Act.
    You are authorized and directed to transmit this certification, 
including the statement, justification, and plan to the Congress and to 
arrange for its publication in the Federal Register.
                                                George W. Bush

[Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 8:45 a.m., January 16, 
2003]

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on January 14, and it was published in the Federal Register on January 
17.