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COMPREHENSIVE NUCLEAR THREAT REDUCTION AND 
SECURITY PLAN 
SEC. 699P. (a) Not later than 180 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to 
Congress a comprehensive nuclear threat reduction and se-
curity plan, in classified and unclassified forms— 
(1) for ensuring that all nuclear weapons and 
weapons-usable material at vulnerable sites are secure 
by 2012 against the threats that terrorists have shown 
they can pose; 
(2) for working with other countries to ensure 
adequate accounting and security for such materials 
on an ongoing basis thereafter; and 
(3) for making security improvements to ensure, 
to the maximum extent feasible, that the existing 
United States nuclear weapons stockpile and weap-
ons-usable material be protected from the threats ter-
rorists have shown they can pose. 
(b) For each element of the accounting and security 
effort described under subsection (a)(2), the plan shall— 
(1) clearly designate agency and departmental 
responsibility and accountability; 
(2) specify program goals, with metrics for meas-
uring progress, estimated schedules, and specified 
milestones to be achieved; 
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(3) provide estimates of the program budget re-
quirements and resources to meet the goals for each 
year; 
(4) provide the strategy for diplomacy and re-
lated tools and authority to accomplish the program 
element; 
(5) provide a strategy for expanding the finan-
cial support and other assistance provided by other 
countries, particularly Russia, the European Union 
and its member states, China, and Japan, for the 
purposes of securing nuclear weapons and weapons- 
usable material worldwide; 
(6) outline the progress in and impediments to 
securing agreement from all countries that possess nu-
clear weapons or weapons-usable material on a set of 
global nuclear security standards, consistent with 
their obligation to comply with United Nations Secu-
rity Council Resolution 1540; 
(7) describe the steps required to overcome im-
pediments that have been identified; and 
(8) describe global efforts to promulgate best 
practices for securing nuclear materials. 
(c) SENSE OF THE SENATE. The Administration shall 
not sign any agreement with the Russian Federation on 
low enriched uranium that does not include a requirement 
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that a portion of the low enriched uranium be derived from 
highly enriched uranium. 
RULE OF LAW AND BORDER SECURITY IN EGYPT 
SEC. 699Q. (a) The Senate makes the following find-
ings: 
(1) Fighting in Gaza during the summer of 2007 
demonstrated that the terrorist organization Hamas, 
which unlawfully seized control over Gaza in June 
2007, has been able to achieve a dramatic increase in 
the quantity and sophistication of arms at its dis-
posal. 
(2) Without these arms, the terrorist organiza-
tion would not have been able to seize control over the 
Gaza territory. 
(3) There is substantial evidence that a signifi-
cant proportion of these arms were smuggled across 
the border between Gaza and Egypt. 
(4) The Egyptian military is a capable force, 
made possible in substantial part by a close relation-
ship with the United States. 
(5) Concurrent with the escalation of dangerous 
arms smuggling across the border between Egypt and 
Gaza has been a retrogression in the rule of law in 
Egypt. 
(6) This loss of hard-earned ground has been 
characterized by reports of harsh reaction by the Gov-
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ernment of Egypt to dissent, including the jailing of 
political opponents. 
(7) The United States has provided aid to Egypt 
in excess of $28,000,000,000 over the past three dec-
ades. 
(b) The Senate— 
(1) reaffirms its long-standing friendship with 
the people of Egypt; 
(2) believes that our friendship with Egypt re-
quires the Senate to address such vital policy con-
cerns; 
(3) urges the Government of Egypt to make con-
crete and measurable progress on restoring the rule of 
law, including improving the independence of the ju-
diciary and improving criminal procedures and due 
process rights and halting the cross-border flow of 
arms to Gaza; 
(4) believes it is the best interest of Egypt, the 
region, and the United States that Egypt takes 
prompt action to demonstrate progress on these mat-
ters; and 
(5) urges the Department of State to work vigor-
ously and expeditiously with the Government of 
Egypt and the Government of Israel to bring the bor-
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der between Egypt and Gaza border under effective 
control. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Department of State, 
Foreign Operations, and Related Programs Appropriations 
Act, 2008’’. 
Passed the House of Representatives June 22 (legis-
lative day, June 21), 2007. 
Attest: 
LORRAINE C. MILLER, 
Clerk. 
Passed the Senate September 6, 2007. 
Attest: 
NANCY ERICKSON, 
Secretary. 
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