[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 40, Number 49 (Monday, December 6, 2004)]
[Page 2874]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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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

November 29, 2004

 Presidential Determination No. 2005-07

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

    Consistent with the authority vested in me by section 1303 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108-
375) (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), as amended, is important to the 
national security interests of the United States, and include herein, 
for submission to the Congress, the statement, justification, and plan 
described in section 1303 of the Act. This waiver shall apply through 
the remainder of calendar year 2004 and for all of calendar year 2005.
    You are authorized and directed to transmit this certification, 
including the statement, justification, and plan, to the Congress and to 
arrange for the publication of this certification in the Federal 
Register.
                                                George W. Bush

Note: This memorandum was released by the Office of the Press Secretary 
on November 30.