S.Amdt. 1629

SA 1629. Mr. COTTON (for himself and Mr. Rubio) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 1463 proposed by Mr.
McCain to the bill H.R. 1735, to authorize appropriations for fiscal
year 2016 for military activities of the Department of Defense and for
military construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for
such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on
the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle B of title XXXI, add the following:

SEC. 3124. ENSURING UNITED STATES CIVIL NUCLEAR COMPONENTS
ARE NOT ILLEGALLY DIVERTED TO NUCLEAR NAVAL
PROPULSION PROGRAMS.

Section 57 of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C.
2077) is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
``(f)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Secretary
may not make an authorization under subsection b.(2) with
respect to a foreign country with a nuclear naval propulsion
program unless--
``(A) the Director of National Intelligence and the Chief
of Naval Operations jointly submit to the appropriate
congressional committees an assessment of the risks of
diversion, and the likely consequences of such diversion, of
the technology and material covered by such authorization;
and
``(B) following the date on which such assessment is
submitted, the Administrator for Nuclear Security certifies
to the appropriate congressional committees that--
``(i) there is sufficient diversion control as part of the
authorization; and
``(ii) the authorization presents a minimal risk of
diversion of such technology and material to a military
program that would degrade the technical advantage of the
United States.
``(2) The limitation under paragraph (1) shall not apply
with respect to France or the United Kingdom.
``(3) In this subsection, the term `appropriate
congressional committees' means the following:

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``(A) The congressional defense committees (as defined in
section 101(a)(16) of title 10, United States Code).
``(B) The Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate
and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the
House of Representatives.
``(C) The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and
the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives.''.
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