HR 4974 109th Congress House International Affairs Armed Forces and National Security Arms control Arms control agreements Ballistic missiles Congress Congress and foreign policy Congressional reporting requirements Energy Export controls Fissionable materials Foreign Trade and International Finance Government Operations and Politics Guided missiles India International cooperation Nuclear energy Nuclear exports Nuclear nonproliferation Nuclear reactors

To authorize the President to waive the application of certain requirements under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 with respect to India.

Introduced: March 16, 2006 See on congress.gov

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Mar 16, 2006

Referred to the Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committee on Rules, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

Mar 16, 2006

Introduced in House

Plain-English summary Congressional Research Service

Authorizes the President, upon making specified determinations, to exempt a certain proposed cooperation agreement with India from requirements of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (AEC) regarding: (1) mandatory maintenance of International Atomic Energy Agency safeguards for nuclear materials in peaceful nuclear activities; (2) certain additional export criteria and procedures; and (3) conduct resulting in termination of nuclear exports.

Renders any such determinations without effect if the President finds that India has detonated a nuclear explosive device after enactment of this Act.

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