[Weekly Compilation of Presidential Documents Volume 44, Number 5 (Monday, February 11, 2008)]
[Page 150]
[Online from the Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]

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Executive Order 13458--Implementation of the Protocol Additional to the 
Agreement Between the United States and the International Atomic Energy 
Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America

February 4, 2008

    By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and 
the laws of the United States of America, including the United States 
Additional Protocol Implementation Act (the ``Act'')(Public Law 109-401) 
and section 301 of title 3, United States Code, and in order to 
facilitate implementation of the Act and the Protocol Additional to the 
Agreement between the United States and the International Atomic Energy 
Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America 
(the ``Additional Protocol''), it is hereby ordered as follows:
    Section 1. The Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, 
the Attorney General, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and heads of 
such other agencies as appropriate, each shall issue, amend, or revise, 
and enforce such regulations, orders, directives, instructions, or 
procedures as are necessary to implement the Act and United States 
obligations under the Additional Protocol.
    Sec. 2. The Secretary of Commerce, with the assistance, as 
necessary, of the Attorney General, is authorized to obtain and to 
execute warrants pursuant to section 223 of the Act for the purpose of 
gaining complementary access to locations subject to regulations issued 
by the Department of Commerce pursuant to section 1 of this order.
    Sec. 3. The Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the 
Attorney General, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and heads of such 
other departments and agencies as appropriate, are authorized to carry 
out, consistent with the Act and in accordance with subsequent 
directives, appropriate functions that are not otherwise assigned in the 
Act and are necessary to implement the Act and United States obligations 
under the Additional Protocol. The Secretary of State shall perform the 
function of providing notifications or information to the Congress when 
required by the Act.
    Sec. 4. This order shall be implemented consistent with applicable 
law and subject to the availability of appropriations.
    Sec. 5. This order is not intended to, and does not, create any 
right or benefit, substantive or procedural, enforceable at law or in 
equity, by any party against the United States, its departments, 
agencies, instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, employees, or 
agents, or any other person.
                                                George W. Bush
 The White House,
 February 4, 2008.

 [Filed with the Office of the Federal Register, 11:55 a.m., February 5, 
2008]

Note: This Executive order was released by the Office of the Press 
Secretary on February 5, and it was published in the Federal Register on 
February 6.