Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73
§3282 Reports by departments and agencies
Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 47— - NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER IV— - EXECUTIVE REPORTING › § 3282
Summary
Agencies must add their views and recommendations on how the United States should prevent the spread of weapons to their yearly reports to Congress. The Department of Energy must give a detailed look at how advanced enrichment, reprocessing, advanced reactors, and other fuel cycles affect the risk of spreading nuclear weapons. That DOE analysis must have a full classified version and a shorter unclassified summary. These reports are extra to any other reports the agencies must give. Any classified parts go to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. The Departments of State, Defense, Commerce, and Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and (for foreign activity) the Director of Central Intelligence must keep the Senate Committees on Foreign Relations and Governmental Affairs and the House Committee on International Relations fully and quickly informed about their anti‑proliferation work and about foreign actions that matter for proliferation. "Fully and quickly" means sending credible information no later than 60 days after learning of the activity. The Secretary of Defense must also get timely access to all relevant proliferation information held by State or Energy, except purely internal State or Energy documents that are confidential advice for interagency policy talks.
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Title 22, §3282
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(a)The annual reports to the Congress by the Commission and the Department of Energy which are otherwise required by law shall also include views and recommendations regarding the policies and actions of the United States to prevent proliferation which are the statutory responsibility of those agencies. The Department’s report shall include a detailed analysis of the proliferation implications of advanced enrichment and reprocessing techniques, advanced reactors, and alternative nuclear fuel cycles. This part of the report shall include a comprehensive version which includes any relevant classified information and a summary unclassified version.
(b)The reporting requirements of this subchapter are in addition to and not in lieu of any other reporting requirements under applicable law.
(c)(1)The Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, the Commission, and, with regard to subparagraph (B), the Director of Central Intelligence, shall keep the Committees on Foreign Relations and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to—
(A)their activities to carry out the purposes and policies of this chapter and to otherwise prevent proliferation, including the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons, or their means of delivery; and
(B)the current activities of foreign nations which are of significance from the proliferation standpoint.
(2)For the purposes of this subsection with respect to paragraph (1)(B), the phrase “fully and currently informed” means the transmittal of credible information not later than 60 days after becoming aware of the activity concerned.
(d)Any classified portions of the reports required by this chapter shall be submitted to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee.
(e)
(f)(1)The Secretary of Defense shall have access, on a timely basis, to all information regarding nuclear proliferation matters which the Secretary of State or the Secretary of Energy has or is entitled to have. Such access shall include access to all communications, materials, documents, and records relating to nuclear proliferation matters.
(2)This subsection does not apply to any intradepartmental document of the Department of State or the Department of Energy, or any portion of such document, that is solely concerned with internal, confidential advice on policy concerning the conduct of interagency deliberations on nuclear proliferation matters.
Legislative History
Notes & Related Subsidiaries
Editorial Notes
References in Text
This chapter, referred to in subsecs. (c)(1)(A) and (d), was in the original “this Act”, meaning Pub. L. 95–242, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 120, known as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see
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note set out under section 3201 of this title and Tables. Codification Subsec. (e) directed that, three years after Mar. 10, 1978, the Comptroller General complete a study and report to Congress on the implementation and impact of this chapter on the nuclear non-proliferation policies, purposes, and objectives of this chapter, with such recommendations as deemed necessary to support the nuclear non-proliferation policies, purposes, and objectives of this chapter.
Amendments
1999—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 106–113 amended subsec. (c) generally. Prior to amendment, subsec. (c) read as follows: “The Department of State, the Department of Defense, the Department of Commerce, the Department of Energy, and the Commission shall keep the Committees on Foreign Relations and Governmental Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to their activities to carry out the purposes and policies of this chapter and to otherwise prevent proliferation, and with respect to the current activities of foreign nations which are of significance from the proliferation standpoint.” 1998—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 105–277, § 1225(e)(6)(A), struck out “the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency,” after “the Department of Defense,”. Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 105–277, § 1225(e)(6)(B), struck out “and the Director” after “and the Commission” in subsec. (e), which had previously been omitted from the Code. See Codification note above. 1994—Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 103–437 substituted “Foreign Affairs” for “International Relations”. 1986—Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 99–661, § 1370(1), inserted “the Department of Defense,”. Subsec. (f). Pub. L. 99–661, § 1370(2), added subsec. (f).
Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries
Change of Name
Committee on Governmental Affairs of Senate changed to Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs of Senate, effective Jan. 4, 2005, by Senate Resolution No. 445, One Hundred Eighth Congress, Oct. 9, 2004. Reference to the Director of Central Intelligence or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Director’s capacity as the head of the intelligence community deemed to be a reference to the Director of National Intelligence. Reference to the Director of Central Intelligence or the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency in the Director’s capacity as the head of the Central Intelligence Agency deemed to be a reference to the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency. See section 1081(a), (b) of Pub. L. 108–458, set out as a note under section 3001 of Title 50, War and National Defense.
Effective Date
of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–277 effective Apr. 1, 1999, see section 1201 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as an
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note under section 6511 of this title.
Effective Date
Section effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing
Regulations
, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95–242, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title. Provision of Certain Information to Congress Pub. L. 106–113, div. B, § 1000(a)(7) [div. B, title XI, § 1134], Nov. 29, 1999, 113 Stat. 1536, 1501A–494, provided that: “(a) Requirement to Provide Information.—The head of each department and agency described in section 602(c) of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 (22 U.S.C. 3282(c)) shall promptly provide information to the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations [now Committee on Foreign Affairs] of the House of Representatives in meeting the requirements of subsection (c) or (d) of section 602 of such Act [22 U.S.C. 3282(c), (d)]. “(b) Issuance of Directives.—Not later than February 1, 2000, the Secretary of State, the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of Central Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall issue directives, which shall provide access to information, including information contained in special access programs, to implement their responsibilities under subsections (c) and (d) of section 602 of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978 (22 U.S.C. 3282(c) and (d)). Copies of such directives shall be forwarded promptly to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations [now Committee on Foreign Affairs] of the House of Representatives upon the issuance of the directives.”
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22 U.S.C. § 3282
Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
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Apr 6, 2026
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