treaties: 106-48
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| id | congress | number | title | topic | transmitted_date | in_force_date | countries | index_terms | resolution_text |
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| 106-48 | 106 | 48 | Joint Convention on Safety of Spent Fuel and Radioactive Waste Management | International Law | 2000-09-13T00:00:00Z | 106-48, Radioactive Waste, Spent Fuel, T.Doc. 106-48 | <!DOCTYPE html><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en"><head><meta name="dc:title" content="[108] TreatyRes. 8 for Treaty Doc.106 - 48" /><meta name="Content-Type" content="application/rtf" /><title>[108] TreatyRes. 8 for Treaty Doc.106 - 48</title></head><body><p><b>As approved by the Senate:</b></p><p><b>Resolved (two-thirds of the Senators present concurring therein),</b></p><p><b>SECTION 1. SENATE ADVICE AND CONSENT SUBJECT TO CONDITIONS.</b></p><p><b>The Senate advises and consents to the ratification of the Joint Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, done at Vienna on September 5, 1997 (Treaty Document 106-48), subject to the conditions of section 2.</b></p><p><b>SEC. 2. CONDITIONS.</b></p><p><b>The advice and consent of the Senate to ratification of the Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management is subject to the following conditions, which shall be binding upon the President:</b></p><p><b>(1) Commitment to request and review reports.- Not later than 45 days after the deposit of the United States instrument of ratification, the President shall certify to the appropriate committees of Congress that the United States will:</b></p><p><b>(A) request copies of all national reports submitted pursuant to Article 32 of the Convention; and</b></p><p><b>(B) comment in each review meeting held pursuant to Article 30 of the Convention (including each meeting of a subgroup) upon aspects of safety significance in any report submitted pursuant to Article 32 of the Convention by a Contracting Party that is receiving United States financial or technical assistance relating to the improvement of its nuclear and radiological safety and security practices.</b></p><p><b>(2) Complete review of information by the legislative branch of government.- </b></p><p><b>(A) Understanding.- The United States understands that neither Article 36 nor any other provision of the Convention shall be construed as limiting the access of the legislative branch of the United States Government to any information relating to the operation of the Convention, including access to information described in Article 36 of the Convention. </b></p><p><b>(B) Protection of information.- The Senate understands that the confidentiality of information provided by other Contracting Parties that is properly identified as protected pursuant to Article 36 of the Convention will be respected. </b></p><p><b>(C) Certification.- Not later than 45 days after the deposit of the United States instrument of ratification, the President shall certify to the appropriate committees of Congress that the Comptroller General of the United States shall be given full and complete access to- </b></p><p><b>(i) all information in the possession of the United States Government specifically relating to the operation of the Convention that is submitted by any other Contracting Party pursuant to Article 32 of the Convention, including any report or document; and</b></p><p><b>(ii) information specifically relating to any review or analysis by any department, agency, or other entity of the United States, or any official thereof, undertaken pursuant to Article 30 of the Convention, of any report or document submitted by any other Contracting Party.</b></p><p><b>(D) Reports to congress.- Upon the request of the chairman of either of the appropriate committees of Congress, the President shall submit to the respective committee an unclassified report, and a classified annex as appropriate, detailing- </b></p><p><b>(i) how the objective of a high level of nuclear and radiological safety and security has been furthered by the operation of the Convention; </b></p><p><b>(ii) with respect to the operation of the Convention on an Article-by-Article basis- </b></p><p><b>(I) the situation addressed in the Article of the Convention;</b></p><p><b>(II) the results achieved under the Convention in implementing the relevant obligation under that Article of the Convention; and</b></p><p><b>(III) the plans and measures for corrective action on both a national and international level to achieve further progress in implementing the relevant obligation under that Article of the Convention; and</b></p><p><b>(iii) on a country-by-country basis, for each Contracting Party that is receiving United States financial or technical assistance relating to nuclear or radiological safety or security improvement- </b></p><p><b>(I) a list of all nuclear facilities within the country, including those installations operating, closed, and planned, and an identification of those nuclear facilities where significant corrective action is found necessary by assessment;</b></p><p><b>(II) a review of all safety or security assessments performed and the results of those assessments for existing nuclear facilities;</b></p><p><b>(III) a review of the safety and security of each nuclear facility using facility-specific data and analysis showing trends of safety or security significance and illustrated by particular issues at each facility;</b></p><p><b>(IV) a review of the position of the country as to the further operation of each nuclear facility in the country;</b></p><p><b>(V) an evaluation of the adequacy and effectiveness of the national legislative and regulatory framework in place in the country, including an assessment of the licensing system, inspection, assessment, and enforcement procedures governing the safety and security of nuclear facilities;</b></p><p><b>(VI) a description of the country's on-site and off-site emergency preparedness; and</b></p><p><b>(VII) the amount of financial and technical assistance relating to nuclear or radiological safety or security improvement expended as of the date of the report by the United States, including, to the extent feasible, an itemization by nuclear facility, and the amount intended for expenditure by the United States on each such facility in the future.</b></p><p><b>(3) Treaty interpretation.- The Senate reaffirms condition (8) of the resolution of ratification of the Document Agreed Among the States Parties to the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) of November 19, 1990 (adopted at Vienna on May 31, 1996), approved by the Senate on May 14, 1997, relating to condition (1) of the resolution of ratification of the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces (INF) Treaty, approved by the Senate on May 27, 1988.</b></p><p><b>SEC. 3. DEFINITIONS.</b></p><p><b>As used in this resolution:</b></p><p><b>(1) Appropriate committees of congress.- The term ``appropriate committees of Congress'' means the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives.</b></p><p><b>(2) Contracting party.- The term ``Contracting Party'' means any nation that is a party to the Convention.</b></p><p><b>(3) Convention.- The term ``Convention'' means the Convention on the Safety of Spent Fuel Management and on the Safety of Radioactive Waste Management, done at Vienna on September 5, 1997 (Treaty Document 1060948).</b></p><p><b>(4) Nuclear facility.- The term ``nuclear facility'' has the meaning given the term in Article 2(f) of the Convention.</b></p><p><b>(5) United states instrument of ratification.- The term ``United States instrument of ratification'' means the instrument of ratification of the United States of the Convention. </b></p><p></p><p></p></body></html> |
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