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112TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1326 
To underscore the importance of international nuclear safety cooperation 
for operating power reactors, encouraging the efforts of the Convention 
on Nuclear Safety, supporting progress in improving nuclear safety, 
enhancing the public availability of nuclear safety information, and for 
other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 1, 2011 
Mr. FORTENBERRY (for himself and Mr. SCHIFF) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To underscore the importance of international nuclear safety 
cooperation for operating power reactors, encouraging 
the efforts of the Convention on Nuclear Safety, sup-
porting progress in improving nuclear safety, enhancing 
the public availability of nuclear safety information, 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 ‘‘Furthering Inter-
national Nuclear Safety Act of 2011’’. 
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SEC. 2. PURPOSES. 
The purposes of this Act are as follows: 
(1) To recognize the paramount importance of 
international nuclear safety cooperation for oper-
ating power reactors. 
(2) To further the efforts of the Convention on 
Nuclear Safety as a vital international forum on nu-
clear safety. 
(3) To support progress in improving nuclear 
safety for countries that currently have or are con-
sidering the development of a civilian nuclear power 
program. 
(4) To enhance the public availability of nuclear 
safety information. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS. 
In this Act: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—The term ‘‘appropriate congressional com-
mittees’’ means— 
(A) the Committee on Foreign Relations of 
the Senate; 
(B) the Committee on Environment and 
Public Works of the Senate; 
(C) the Committee on Homeland Security 
and Governmental Affairs of the Senate; 
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(D) the Committee on Foreign Affairs of 
the House of Representatives; 
(E) the Committee on Energy and Com-
merce of the House of Representatives; 
(F) the Committee on Oversight and Gov-
ernment Reform of the House of Representa-
tives; and 
(G) the Committee on Natural Resources 
of the House of Representatives. 
(2) CONVENTION.—The term ‘‘Convention’’ 
means the Convention on Nuclear Safety, done at 
Vienna September 20, 1994, and ratified by the 
United States April 11, 1999. 
(3) MEETING.—The term ‘‘meeting’’ means a 
meeting as described under Article 20, 21, or 23 of 
the Convention. 
(4) NATIONAL
REPORT.—The term ‘‘national 
report’’ means a report as described under Article 5 
of the Convention. 
(5) PARTY.—The term ‘‘party’’ means a nation 
that has formally joined the Convention through 
ratification or other means. 
(6) SUMMARY REPORT.—The term ‘‘summary 
report’’ means a report as described under Article 
25 of the Convention. 
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SEC. 4. UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO FURTHER INTER-
NATIONAL NUCLEAR SAFETY. 
The President shall instruct the United States official 
serving as the delegate to the meetings of the Convention 
on Nuclear Safety pursuant to Article 24 of the Conven-
tion to use the voice, vote, and influence of the United 
States, while recognizing that these efforts by parties are 
voluntary, to encourage, where appropriate— 
(1) parties to more systematically assess where 
and how they have made progress in improving safe-
ty, including where applicable through the incorpora-
tion of performance metric tools; 
(2) parties to increase the number of national 
reports they make available to the public by posting 
them to a publicly available Internet Web site of the 
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); 
(3) parties to expand public dissemination of 
written answers to questions raised by other parties 
about national reports by posting the information to 
a publicly available Internet Web site of the IAEA; 
(4) the IAEA to further its support of the Con-
vention, upon request by a party and where funding 
is available, by— 
(A) providing assistance to parties pre-
paring national reports; 
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(B) providing additional assistance to help 
prepare for and support meetings, including 
language translation services; and 
(C) providing additional technical support 
to improve the safety of civilian nuclear power 
programs; 
(5) all countries that currently have or are con-
sidering the establishment of a civilian nuclear 
power program to formally join the Convention; 
(6) parties to create standard practices for pro-
viding accurate and timely information regarding 
nuclear accidents and to cooperate on the develop-
ment of emergency response plans, and to post this 
information to a publicly available Internet Web site 
of the IAEA; and 
(7) parties to expand cooperation on prediction 
and analysis capability for earthquakes, tsunamis, 
and on radiation as it is transported away from nu-
clear sites, and to post this information to a publicly 
available Internet Web site of the IAEA. 
SEC. 5. STRATEGIC PLAN. 
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in cooperation 
with the heads of other relevant United States Govern-
ment agencies, shall submit to the appropriate congres-
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sional committees the United States Government’s stra-
tegic plan and prioritized goals for international nuclear 
safety cooperation for operating power reactors. 
SEC. 6. REPORTS. 
(a) REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF STRATEGIC 
PLAN.— 
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 
after the issuance of each of the first two summary 
reports of the Convention that are issued after the 
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
State, in cooperation with the heads of other rel-
evant United States Government agencies, shall sub-
mit to the appropriate congressional committees a 
report that— 
(A) describes the status of implementing 
the strategic plan and achieving the goals speci-
fied in section 5; and 
(B) enumerates the most significant con-
cerns of the United States Government regard-
ing worldwide nuclear safety and describes the 
extent to which the strategic plan addresses 
these concerns. 
(2) FORM.—The report required under para-
graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form, 
but may contain a classified annex. 
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(b) REPORT ON UNITED STATES EFFORTS TO FUR-
THER INTERNATIONAL NUCLEAR SAFETY.—Not later 
than 180 days after the issuance of each of the first two 
summary reports of the Convention issued after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the United States official 
serving as the delegate to the meetings of the Convention 
shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
a report providing the status of achieving the actions set 
forth in section 4. 
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