110 STAT. 2726 PUBLIC LAW 104-201—SEPT. 23, 1996 (2) Sections 38 and 40 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778 and 2780). (3) The International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.). (4) Section 309(c) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 (22 U.S.C. 2156a(c)). 50 USC 2333. SEC. 1424. INTERNATIONAL BORDER SECURITY. (a) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE RESPONSIBILITY.— The Secretary of Defense, in consultation and cooperation with the Commissioner of Customs, shall carry out programs for assisting customs officials and border guard officials in the independent states of the former Soviet Union, the Baltic states, and other countries of Eastern Europe in preventing unauthorized transfer and transportation of nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons and related materials. Training, expert advice, maintenance of equipment, loan of equipment, and audits may be provided under or in connection with the programs. (b) FUNDING.— Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated by section 301, $15,000,000 is available for carrying out the programs referred to in subsection (a). (c) ASSISTANCE TO STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION.— Assistance under programs referred to in subsection (a) may (notwithstanding any provision of law prohibiting the extension of foreign assistance to any of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union) be extended to include an independent state of the former Soviet Union if the President certifies to Congress that it is in the national interest of the United States to extend assistance under this section to that state. Subtitle C—Control and Disposition of Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Materials Threatening the United States SEC. 1431. COVERAGE OF WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE MATERIALS IN COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAMS ON EUMINATION OR TRANSPORTATION OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS. Section 1201(b)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 469; 22 U.S.C. 5955 note) is amended by inserting ", fissile material suitable for use in nuclear weapons," after "other weapons". 50 USC 2341. SEC. 1432. ELIMINATION OF PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION. (a) REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.— The Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall develop a cooperative program with the Government of Russia to eliminate the production of weapons grade plutonium by modifying or replacing the reactor cores at Tomsk-7 and Krasnoyarsk-26 with reactor cores that are less suitable for the production of weapons-grade plutonium. (b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.— (1) The program shall be designed to achieve completion of the modifications or replacements of the reactor cores within three years after the modification or replacement activities under the program are begun.
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