S.Amdt. 333

SA 333. Mr. MERKLEY submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
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 appropriate place in title XII, insert the
following:

SEC. __. REQUIREMENTS FOR CIVILIAN NUCLEAR COOPERATION
AGREEMENT WITH SAUDI ARABIA.

The United States may not enter into a civilian nuclear
cooperation agreement under section 123 of the Atomic Energy
Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2153), commonly known as a ``123
Agreement'', unless the agreement--

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(1) prohibits the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from enriching
uranium or separating plutonium on Saudi Arabian territory in
keeping with the strongest possible nonproliferation ``gold
standard''; and
(2) requires the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia to bring into
force the Additional Protocol with the International Atomic
Energy Agency.
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