Notice2024-09961
Notice of Update to Advance Consent List
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Published
May 8, 2024
Issuing agencies
Energy DepartmentNational Nuclear Security Administration
Abstract
The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security Administration is providing notice of an update to the advance consent list of countries or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of byproduct material, non-nuclear material, unirradiated low enriched uranium, unirradiated source material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at Washington May 4, 2018, entered into force December 31, 2020 ("U.S.-UK 123 Agreement").
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[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 38880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [<a href="http://www.gpo.gov">www.gpo.gov</a>]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09961]
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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
National Nuclear Security Administration
Notice of Update to Advance Consent List
AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.
ACTION: Notice of update to advance consent list.
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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security
Administration is providing notice of an update to the advance consent
list of countries or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of byproduct
material, non-nuclear material, unirradiated low enriched uranium,
unirradiated source material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the
Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and
the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern
Ireland for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at
Washington May 4, 2018, entered into force December 31, 2020 (``U.S.-UK
123 Agreement'').
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Andrea Ferkile, Director, Office
of Nonproliferation Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration,
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC
20585, telephone: (202) 586-8868 or email: <a href="/cdn-cgi/l/email-protection#3d5c53594f585c135b584f565451587d53534e5c13595258135a524b"><span class="__cf_email__" data-cfemail="a8c9c6ccdacdc986cecddac3c1c4cde8c6c6dbc986ccc7cd86cfc7de">[email protected]</span></a>.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 6 of the U.S.-UK 123 Agreement
permits retransfers of the following beyond the territory,
jurisdiction, or control of the recipient party if the U.S. and the UK
agree in writing: material, equipment, sensitive nuclear facilities, or
major critical components transferred pursuant to the U.S.-UK 123
Agreement, and special fissionable material produced through the use of
nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment, sensitive nuclear
facilities, or major critical components so transferred. Subsection A
of Section 4 of the Agreed Minute of the U.S.-UK 123 Agreement permits
the United States and the UK to retransfer material, other than
irradiated nuclear material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the
Agreement to third countries or destinations identified in advance
(``advance consent lists''). To be eligible for inclusion on the
advance consent lists, third countries or destinations must have made
effective non-proliferation commitments and, for countries on the U.S.
advance consent list, must be a party to a civil nuclear cooperation
agreement with the United States. Such agreements are entered into
under the authority of section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as
amended (``123 agreement''). Subsection C of Section 4 permits either
the United States or the UK to delete third countries or destinations
from either list temporarily or permanently following consultations
with the other Party.
The Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United
States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, signed at Washington June
29, 1981, expired December 29, 2021. The Agreement for Cooperation
between the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at Pretoria August 25,
1995, entered into force December 4, 1997, expired December 4, 2022. In
the absence of 123 agreements with Egypt and South Africa, these
countries are being deleted from the advance consent list of countries
or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from the United Kingdom
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of byproduct material, non-
nuclear material, unirradiated low enriched uranium, unirradiated
source material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the U.S.-UK 123
Agreement.
Signing Authority
This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 26,
2024, by Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear
Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, pursuant to
delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the
Federal Register.
Signed in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-09961 Filed 5-7-24; 8:45 am]
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