Notice of Update to Advance Consent List, 38880 [2024-09961]

Agencies

• DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
• National Nuclear Security Administration

[Federal Register Volume 89, Number 90 (Wednesday, May 8, 2024)]
[Notices]
[Page 38880]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 2024-09961]


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DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY

National Nuclear Security Administration


Notice of Update to Advance Consent List

AGENCY: National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy.

ACTION: Notice of update to advance consent list.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Energy's National Nuclear Security 
Administration is providing notice of an update to the advance consent 
list of countries or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from 
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of byproduct 
material, non-nuclear material, unirradiated low enriched uranium, 
unirradiated source material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the 
Agreement between the Government of the United States of America and 
the Government of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern 
Ireland for Cooperation in Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at 
Washington May 4, 2018, entered into force December 31, 2020 (``U.S.-UK 
123 Agreement'').

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Ms. Andrea Ferkile, Director, Office 
of Nonproliferation Policy, National Nuclear Security Administration, 
Department of Energy, 1000 Independence Avenue SW, Washington, DC 
20585, telephone: (202) 586-8868 or email: [email protected].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Article 6 of the U.S.-UK 123 Agreement 
permits retransfers of the following beyond the territory, 
jurisdiction, or control of the recipient party if the U.S. and the UK 
agree in writing: material, equipment, sensitive nuclear facilities, or 
major critical components transferred pursuant to the U.S.-UK 123 
Agreement, and special fissionable material produced through the use of 
nuclear material, non-nuclear material, equipment, sensitive nuclear 
facilities, or major critical components so transferred. Subsection A 
of Section 4 of the Agreed Minute of the U.S.-UK 123 Agreement permits 
the United States and the UK to retransfer material, other than 
irradiated nuclear material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the 
Agreement to third countries or destinations identified in advance 
(``advance consent lists''). To be eligible for inclusion on the 
advance consent lists, third countries or destinations must have made 
effective non-proliferation commitments and, for countries on the U.S. 
advance consent list, must be a party to a civil nuclear cooperation 
agreement with the United States. Such agreements are entered into 
under the authority of section 123 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as 
amended (``123 agreement''). Subsection C of Section 4 permits either 
the United States or the UK to delete third countries or destinations 
from either list temporarily or permanently following consultations 
with the other Party.
    The Agreement for Cooperation between the Government of the United 
States of America and the Government of the Arab Republic of Egypt 
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, signed at Washington June 
29, 1981, expired December 29, 2021. The Agreement for Cooperation 
between the United States of America and the Republic of South Africa 
Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy, done at Pretoria August 25, 
1995, entered into force December 4, 1997, expired December 4, 2022. In 
the absence of 123 agreements with Egypt and South Africa, these 
countries are being deleted from the advance consent list of countries 
or destinations eligible to receive retransfers from the United Kingdom 
of Great Britain and Northern Ireland of byproduct material, non-
nuclear material, unirradiated low enriched uranium, unirradiated 
source material, and equipment subject to Article 6 of the U.S.-UK 123 
Agreement.

Signing Authority

    This document of the Department of Energy was signed on April 26, 
2024, by Corey Hinderstein, Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear 
Nonproliferation, National Nuclear Security Administration, pursuant to 
delegated authority from the Secretary of Energy. That document with 
the original signature and date is maintained by DOE. For 
administrative purposes only, and in compliance with requirements of 
the Office of the Federal Register, the undersigned DOE Federal 
Register Liaison Officer has been authorized to sign and submit the 
document in electronic format for publication, as an official document 
of the Department of Energy. This administrative process in no way 
alters the legal effect of this document upon publication in the 
Federal Register.

    Signed in Washington, DC, on May 2, 2024.
Treena V. Garrett,
Federal Register Liaison Officer, U.S. Department of Energy.
[FR Doc. 2024-09961 Filed 5-7-24; 8:45 am]
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