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114th Congress, 1st Session – – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 114–41 

TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO 

THE RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED 

BY THE ACCUMULATION OF A LARGE VOLUME 

OF WEAPONS-USEABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE 

TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

COMMUNICATION 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

THE TERMINATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARED IN 

EXECUTIVE ORDER 13617 OF JUNE 25, 2012, PURSUANT TO 50 

U.S.C. 1703(b) 

MAY 26, 2015.—Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs and ordered 

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THE WHITE HOUSE, 

Washington, May 26, 2015. 

Hon. JOHN BOEHNER, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives, 

Washington, DC. 

DEAR MR. SPEAKER: Consistent with subsection 204(b) of the 

International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 U.S.C. 1703(b), 

I hereby report that I have issued an Executive Order that terminates the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13617 of 

June 25, 2012, and revokes that Executive Order. I have determined that the situation that gave rise to this national emergency 

has been significantly altered by the successful implementation of 

the Agreement Between the Government of the United States of 

America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted 

from Nuclear Weapons, dated February 18, 1993, and related contracts and agreements (collectively, the ‘‘HEU Agreements’’). 

I issued Executive Order 13617 to deal with the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign policy of the 

United States constituted by the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of weapons-usable fissile material in the 

territory of the Russian Federation. Executive Order 13617 and its 

predecessor, Executive Order 13159 of June 22, 2000, helped to ensure the preservation and proper and complete transfer to the Government of the Russian Federation of all payments due to it under 

the HEU Agreements, thereby protecting those assets from attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or other judicial process, which would have had the effect of jeopardizing the 

full implementation of the HEU Agreements to the detriment of 

U.S. national security and foreign policy. 

With the successful conversion of 500 metric tons of highly enriched uranium extracted from Russian nuclear weapons into low 

enriched uranium, the transfer to the United States of that low enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors, and 

the completion of all payments to the Russian Federation, there is 

no further need for the protective blocking imposed by Executive 

Order 13617. For this reason I have determined that it is necessary 

to terminate the national emergency declared in Executive Order 

13617 and revoke that order. 

I am enclosing a copy of the Executive Order I have issued. 

Sincerely, 

BARACK OBAMA. 


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EXECUTIVE ORDER

TERMINATION OF EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO THE RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMULATION OF A

LARGE VOLUME OF WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE

TERRITORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution 

and the laws of the United States of America, including the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 et seq.) 

and the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1601 et seq.) (NEA), 

I, BARACK OBAMA, President of the United States of America, 

find that the situation that gave rise to the declaration of a national emergency in Executive Order 13617 of June 25, 2012, with 

respect to the risk of nuclear proliferation created by the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material resulting 

from the reduction of nuclear weapons in accordance with agreements in the area of arms control and disarmament and located in 

the territory of the Russian Federation, has been significantly altered by the successful implementation of the Agreement Between 

the Government of the United States of America and the Government of the Russian Federation Concerning the Disposition of 

Highly Enriched Uranium Extracted from Nuclear Weapons, dated 

February 18, 1993, and related contracts and agreements. Accordingly, I hereby terminate the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13617, revoke that order, and further order: 

Section 1. Pursuant to section 202(a) of the NEA (50 U.S.C. 

1622(a)), termination of the national emergency declared in Executive Order 13617 shall not affect any action taken or proceeding 

pending not finally concluded or determined as of the date of this 

order, any action or proceeding based on any act committed prior 

to such date, or any rights or duties that matured or penalties that 

were incurred prior to such date. 

Sec. 2. 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, or entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other 

person. 

BARACK OBAMA. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, May 26, 2015. 

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