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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2290 
To provide for the application of measures to foreign persons who transfer 
to Iran, Syria, or North Korea certain goods, services, or technology 
that could assist Iran, Syria, or North Korea to extract or mill their 
domestic sources of uranium ore. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 6, 2009 
Mr. SHERMAN (for himself, Mr. ROYCE, and Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN) introduced 
the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide for the application of measures to foreign persons 
who transfer to Iran, Syria, or North Korea certain 
goods, services, or technology that could assist Iran, 
Syria, or North Korea to extract or mill their domestic 
sources of uranium ore. 
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 ‘‘International Uranium 
Extraction and Milling Control Act of 2009’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
The Congress finds the following: 
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(1) Uranium is a naturally occurring element 
found around the world in low levels in rock, soil, 
and water. 
(2) Uranium ore extracted through mining and 
other methods is the principal component of the con-
centrate known as yellowcake, a precursor to the 
production of highly enriched uranium. 
(3) Uranium is a necessary element in any fuel 
cycle capable of producing fissile material usable for 
a nuclear explosive device, whether such device uti-
lizes uranium or plutonium. 
(4) According to the World Nuclear Associa-
tion, over 40,000 metric tons of uranium ore were 
produced worldwide in 2007. 
(5) The wide availability of naturally occurring 
uranium, a favorable commercial environment, and 
the growing demand for nuclear power may lead to 
a significant expansion of the production of uranium 
ore worldwide, including in countries with nuclear 
weapons programs such as Iran and North Korea, 
which maintain that their production is intended for 
peaceful purposes. 
(6) Over the past two decades, Iran has opened 
as many as 10 uranium mines. The ore from these 
mines is estimated to contain concentrations of ura-
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nium too low to be suitable for legitimate commer-
cial use. 
(7) During the 1980s and 1990s, Syria, with 
technical assistance from the International Atomic 
Energy Agency, studied the feasibility of uranium 
extraction and conducted preliminary extraction ac-
tivities. Like Iran, Syria’s uranium ore was found to 
be unsuitable for commercial use. 
(8) Iran and Syria can make use of their do-
mestic sources of uranium ore for military purposes 
only if they have access to extraction and milling 
goods, services, and technology from other countries. 
(9) The significant reserves of uranium ore in 
North Korea are a potential source for other coun-
tries with covert nuclear weapons programs. 
(10) Unlike other nuclear materials and facili-
ties, the processes of extracting uranium ore and 
milling it into yellowcake are not subject to safe-
guards by the International Atomic Energy Agency. 
(11) Iran, North Korea, and Syria have been 
sanctioned by the United States and other countries 
as a result of their nuclear and other programs in-
volving weapons of mass destruction. 
(12) Transfers of nuclear and certain other sen-
sitive goods, services, or technology to Iran, North 
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Korea, and Syria are prohibited by the laws of the 
United States. 
(13) Foreign persons that make such transfers 
may be sanctioned by the United States pursuant to 
the Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation 
Act. 
(14) Denying Iran, North Korea, and Syria ac-
cess to the goods, services, and technology needed to 
utilize their domestic sources of uranium ore for 
their nuclear weapons programs should be a signifi-
cant nonproliferation goal of the United States and 
like-minded countries. 
SEC. 3. STATEMENT OF POLICY. 
It shall be the policy of the United States— 
(1) to oppose the transfer to Iran, North 
Korea, and Syria of goods, services, or technology 
relevant to their capability to extract or mill ura-
nium ore; and 
(2) to work with like-minded countries to im-
pose restrictions on such transfers internationally. 
SEC. 4. REPORTING REQUIREMENTS UNDER THE IRAN, 
NORTH KOREA, AND SYRIA NONPROLIFERA-
TION ACT. 
Section 2(a) of the Iran, North Korea, and Syria 
Nonproliferation Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is amended— 
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(1) in paragraph (1), by redesignating subpara-
graphs (A) through (E) as clauses (i) through (v), 
respectively; 
(2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; 
(3) in subparagraph (B), as redesignated— 
(A) by striking ‘‘paragraph (1)’’ and in-
serting ‘‘subparagraph (A)’’; and 
(B) by striking the period at the end and 
inserting ‘‘; or’’; 
(4) by striking all that precedes subparagraph 
(A), as redesignated, and inserting the following: 
‘‘(a) REPORTS.—The President shall, at the times 
specified in subsection (b), submit to the Committee on 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and the 
Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report 
identifying every foreign person with respect to whom 
there is credible information indicating that person— 
‘‘(1) on or after January 1, 1999, transferred 
to or acquired from Iran, on or after January 1, 
2005, transferred to or acquired from Syria, or on 
or after January 1, 2006, transferred to or acquired 
from North Korea—’’; and 
(5) by adding at the end the following new 
paragraph: 
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‘‘(2) on or after January 1, 2009, transferred 
to Iran, Syria, or North Korea goods, services, or 
technology that could assist efforts to extract or mill 
uranium ore within the territory or control of Iran, 
North Korea, or Syria.’’. 
SEC. 5. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS. 
The Iran, North Korea, and Syria Nonproliferation 
Act (50 U.S.C. 1701 note) is further amended by striking 
‘‘Committee on International Relations’’ each place it ap-
pears and inserting ‘‘Committee on Foreign Affairs’’. 
Æ 
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