U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE

WASHINGTON : 

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29–011 2004

108th Congress, 2d Session – – – – – – – – – – – – House Document 108–194 

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY 

WITH RESPECT TO THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION 

MESSAGE 

FROM

THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES 

TRANSMITTING

NOTIFICATION STATING THAT THE EMERGENCY DECLARED WITH 

RESPECT TO THE ACCUMULATION OF A LARGE VOLUME OF 

WEAPON-USABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRITORY OF THE 

RUSSIAN FEDERATION IS TO CONTINUE BEYOND JUNE 21, 2004, 

PURSUANT TO 50 U.S.C. 1622(d) 

JUNE 16, 2004.—Message and accompanying papers referred to the 

Committee on International Relations and ordered to be printed 


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To the Congress of the United States: 

Section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 

1622(d)) provides for the automatic termination of a national emergency unless, prior to the anniversary date of its declaration, the 

President publishes in the Federal Register and transmits to the 

Congress a notice stating that the emergency is to continue in effect beyond the anniversary date. In accordance with this provision, 

I have sent the enclosed notice to the Federal Register for publication, stating that the emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material in 

the territory of the Russian Federation is to continue beyond June 

21, 2004. The most recent notice continuing this emergency was 

published in the Federal Register on June 12, 2003 (68 Fed. Reg. 

35149). 

It remains a major national security goal of the United States to 

ensure that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons 

pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is 

dedicated to peaceful uses, subject to transparency measures, and 

protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. The 

accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable fissile material 

in the territory of the Russian Federation continues to pose an unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and foreign 

policy of the United States. For this reason, I have determined that 

it is necessary to continue the national emergency declared with respect to the accumulation of a large volume of weapons-usable 

fissile material in the territory of the Russian Federation and 

maintain in force these emergency authorities to respond to this 

threat. 

GEORGE W. BUSH. 

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 16, 2004. 

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NOTICE

CONTINUATION OF THE NATIONAL EMERGENCY WITH RESPECT TO

THE RISK OF NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION CREATED BY THE ACCUMU- LATION OF WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE MATERIAL IN THE TERRI- TORY OF THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION

On June 21, 2000, the President issued Executive Order 13159 

(the ‘‘Order’’) blocking property and interests in property of the 

Government of the Russian Federation that are in the United 

States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are 

or hereinafter come within the possession or control of United 

States persons that are directly related to the 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’’). The 

HEU Agreements allow for the downblending of highly enriched 

uranium derived from nuclear weapons to low enriched uranium 

for peaceful commercial purposes. The Order invoked the authority, 

inter alia, of the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, 50 

U.S.C. 1701 et seq., and declared a national emergency to deal with 

the unusual and extraordinary threat to the national security and 

foreign policy of the United States posed by 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. 

A major national security goal of the United States is to ensure 

that fissile material removed from Russian nuclear weapons pursuant to various arms control and disarmament agreements is dedicated to peaceful uses (such as downblending to low enriched uranium for peaceful commercial uses), subject to transparency measures, and protected from diversion to activities of proliferation concern. Pursuant to the HEU Agreements, weapons-grade uranium 

extracted from Russian nuclear weapons is converted to low enriched uranium for use as fuel in commercial nuclear reactors. The 

Order blocks and protects from attachment, judgment, decree, lien, 

execution, garnishment, or other judicial process the property and 

interests in property of the Government of the Russian Federation 

that are directly related to the implementation of the HEU Agreements and that are in the United States, that hereafter come within the United States, or that are or hereafter come within the possession or control of United States persons. 

The national emergency declared on June 21, 2000, must continue beyond June 21, 2004, to provide continued protection from 

attachment, judgment, decree, lien, execution, garnishment, or 

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other judicial process for the property and interests in property of 

the Government of the Russian Federation that are directly related 

to the implementation of the HEU Agreements and subject to U.S. 

jurisdiction. Therefore, in accordance with section 202(d) of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1622(d)), I am continuing for 1 

year the national emergency with respect to weapons-usable fissile 

material in the territory of the Russian Federation. This notice 

shall be published in the Federal Register and transmitted to the 

Congress. 

GEORGE W. BUSH.

THE WHITE HOUSE, June 16, 2004. 

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