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PUBLIC LAW 95-000—MMMM. DD, 1978

92 STAT. 122

PUBLIC LAW 95-242—MAR. 10, 1978 authorize the export of nuclear materials and equipment when all the applicable statutory requirements are met. U R A N I U M E N R I C H M E N T CAPACITY

22 USC 3222.

SEC. 102. The Secretary of Energy is directed to initiate construction planning and design, construction, and operation activities for expansion of uranium enrichment capacity, as elsewhere provided by law. Further the Secretary as well as the Nuclear Eegulatory Commission, the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency are directed to establish and implement procedures which will ensure to the maximum extent feasible, consistent with this Act, orderly processing of subsequent arrangements nnd export licenses with minimum time delay. REPORT

Study. 22 USC 3222 note. Report to Congress.

SEC. 103. The President shall promptly undertake a study to determine the need for additional United States enrichment capacity to meet domestic and foreign needs and to promote United States nonproliferation objectives abroad. The President shall report to the Congress on the results of this study within twelve months after the date of enactment of this Act. INTERNATIONAL UNDERTAKINGS

Discussions and negotiations. 22 USC 3223.

SEC. 104. (a) Consistent with section 105 of this Act, the President shall institute prompt discussions with other nations and groups of nations, including both supplier and recipient nations, to develop international approaches for meeting future worldwide nuclear fuel needs. In particular, the President is authorized and urged to seek to negotiate as soon as practicable with nations possessing nuclear fuel production facilities or source material, and such other nations and groups of nations, such as the IAEA, as may be deemed appropriate, with a view toward the timely establishment of binding international undertakings providing for— (1) the establishment of an international nuclear fuel authority (INFA) with responsibility for providing agreed upon fuel services and allocating agreed upon quantities of fuel resources to ensure fuel supply on reasonable terms in accordance with agreements between INFA and supplier and recipient nations; (2) a set of conditions consistent with subsection (d) under which international fuel assurances under INFA auspices will be provided to recipient nations, including conditions which will ensure that the transferred materials will not be used for nuclear explosive devices; (3) devising, consistent with the policy goals set forth in section 403 of this Act, feasible and environmentally sound approaches for the siting, development, and management under effective international auspices and inspection of facilities for the provision of nuclear fuel services, including the storage of special nuclear material; (4) the establishment of repositories for the storage of spent nuclear reactor fuel under effective international auspices and inspection; (5) the establishment of arrangements under which nations placing spent fuel in such repositories would receive appropriate