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109TH CONGRESS 
2D SESSION 
H. R. 5066 
To provide for a ‘‘gold standard’’ for the security of nuclear materials 
worldwide, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 30, 2006 
Mr. NADLER (for himself, Mr. MARKEY, and Mr. GRIJALVA) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on International Rela-
tions, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To provide for a ‘‘gold standard’’ for the security of nuclear 
materials worldwide, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Nuclear Gold Standard 
Act of 2006’’. 
SEC. 2. GLOBAL ALLIANCE AGAINST NUCLEAR TERRORISM. 
The Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of State, and 
the Secretary of Defense shall develop a framework to cre-
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ate a new global alliance against nuclear terrorism that 
would incorporate the ‘‘gold standard’’ for the security of 
nuclear materials developed under section 3. 
SEC. 3. SECRETARY OF ENERGY COOPERATION WITH RUS-
SIAN COUNTERPART TO DEVELOP ‘‘GOLD 
STANDARD’’ FOR SECURITY OF NUCLEAR MA-
TERIALS WORLDWIDE. 
The Secretary of Energy shall work with the Sec-
retary’s counterpart in Russia to develop a formal set of 
verifiable and enforceable standards to which all United 
States and Russian nuclear materials shall be secured and 
against which inspectors can test. The Secretary of En-
ergy shall work with the International Atomic Energy 
Agency to extend those standards through binding agree-
ments to all other countries with nuclear materials. 
SEC. 4. SECRETARY OF ENERGY AND SECRETARY OF STATE 
ASSISTANCE TO OTHER COUNTRIES TO IM-
PLEMENT UNITED NATIONS SECURITY COUN-
CIL RESOLUTION 1540. 
(a) AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ASSISTANCE.—The Sec-
retary of Energy and the Secretary of State shall, sepa-
rately and jointly, provide assistance to other countries to 
help those countries implement the measures required by 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1540 of April 
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28, 2004. The assistance shall include incentives developed 
under subsection (b) and counsel to foreign leaders. 
(b) INCENTIVES REQUIRED.—The Secretary of En-
ergy and the Secretary of State shall jointly develop a set 
of incentives for use in carrying out subsection (a). 
SEC. 5. REPORT TO CONGRESS. 
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 180 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Energy shall submit to the congressional committees 
specified in subsection (b) a report on the activities carried 
out under sections 3 and 4, including an assessment of 
the progress made. 
(b) SPECIFIED COMMITTEES.—The committees re-
ferred to in subsection (a) are— 
(1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Energy and Commerce, and the Com-
mittee on International Relations of the House of 
Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 
Committee on Commerce, and the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate. 
SEC. 6. CONDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS. 
(a) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS FOR CERTAIN DOE AND 
DOD PROGRAMS.— 
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(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
Subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be 
appropriated a total of $2,500,000,000 for fiscal 
years 2007 through 2011 for the purpose of car-
rying out the following programs: 
(A) In the Department of Energy: 
(i) The Elimination of Weapons 
Grade Plutonium Production program. 
(ii) The Global Threat Reduction Ini-
tiative. 
(iii) The Reduced Enrichment for Re-
search and Test Reactors program. 
(iv) The Russian Research Reactor 
Fuel Return program. 
(v) The Foreign Research Reactor 
Spent Nuclear Fuel Return program. 
(vi) The BN–350 Spent Fuel Security 
program. 
(vii) The Materials Protection, Con-
trol, and Accounting program, to be used 
only to specifically ensure that measures 
are sustained after they are installed. 
(B) In the Department of Defense: 
(i) the Nuclear Weapons Storage Se-
curity program. 
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(ii) the Nuclear Weapons Transpor-
tation Security program. 
(2) CONDITION.—Paragraph (1) applies only if 
the Secretary of Energy submits to Congress the 
Secretary’s certification that a nuclear ‘gold stand-
ard’ has been developed under section 3. 
(b) ADDITIONAL AMOUNTS TO SECURE NUCLEAR 
MATERIALS IN RUSSIA.— 
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.— 
Subject to paragraph (2), there are authorized to be 
appropriated a total of $100,000,000 for fiscal years 
2007 through 2011 for the purpose of securing nu-
clear materials in Russia. 
(2) CONDITION.—Paragraph (1) applies only if 
the Secretary of Energy submits to Congress the 
Secretary’s certification that Russia has agreed to a 
plan for the accelerated blend-down of the highly en-
riched uranium in Russia. 
(c) TREATMENT
AS
ADDITIONAL
AMOUNTS.— 
Amounts authorized to be appropriated under this section 
are in addition to any other amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated for the purposes specified in subsections (a) 
and (b). 
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