[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 41, Number 51 (Monday, December 26, 2005)]
[Page 1913]
[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 for Calendar Year 2006

December 22, 2005

 Presidential Determination No. 2006-06

Memorandum for the Secretary of State

Subject: Waiver of Conditions on Obligation and Expenditure of Funds for 
Planning, Design, and Construction of a Chemical Weapons Destruction 
Facility in Russia for Calendar Year 2006

    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 for 
calendar year 2006.
    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