    [Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 42, Number 25 (Monday, June 26, 2006)]
    [Pages 1183-1184]
    [Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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    Notice--Continuation of the National Emergency With Respect to the Risk
    of Nuclear Proliferation Created by the Accumulation of Weapons-Usable
    Fissile Material in the Territory of the Russian Federation

    June 19, 2006

        On June 21, 2000, the President issued Executive Order 13159 (the
    ``order''), blocking property and interests in property of the
    Government of the Russian Federation that are in the United States, that
    hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come
    within the possession or control of United States persons that are
    directly related to the implementation of the Agreement Between the
    Government of the United States of America and the Government of the
    Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium
    Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, dated February 18, 1993, and related
    contracts and agreements (collectively, the ``HEU Agreements''). The HEU
    Agreements allow for the downblending of highly enriched uranium derived
    from nuclear weapons to low enriched uranium for peaceful commercial
    purposes. The order invoked the authority, inter alia, of the
    International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq., and
    declared a national emergency to deal with the unusual and extraordinary
    threat to the national security and foreign policy of the United States
    posed by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation
    of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of
    the Russian Federation.
        The national emergency declared on June 21, 2000, must continue
    beyond June 21, 2006, to provide continued protection from attachment,
    judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial
    process for the property and interests in property of the Government of
    the Russian Federation that are directly related to the implementation
    of the HEU Agreements and subject to U.S. jurisdiction. Therefore, in
    accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50
    U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 year the national emergency with
    respect to weapons-usable fissile material in the territory of the
    Russian Federation. This notice shall be published in the Federal
    Register and transmitted to the Congress.
                                                    George W. Bush
    The White House,
    June 19, 2006.

    [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:43 a.m., June 19,
    2006]

    Note: This notice was published in the Federal Register on June 20.

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