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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73not60

§3222 Uranium Enrichment Capacity

Title 22 › Chapter 47— NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION › Subchapter I— UNITED STATES INITIATIVES TO PROVIDE ADEQUATE NUCLEAR FUEL SUPPLY › § 3222

Last updated Apr 5, 2026|Official source

Summary

The Secretary of Energy must begin planning, designing, building, and operating expanded uranium-enrichment capacity where other law allows. The Secretary of Energy, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, and the Secretary of State must set up and follow procedures that, as far as possible under this chapter, let them handle later export agreements and export licenses in an orderly way and with as little delay as possible.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §3222

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The Secretary of Energy is directed to initiate construction planning and design, construction, and operation activities for expansion of uranium enrichment capacity, as elsewhere provided by law. Further the Secretary as well as the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and the Secretary of State are directed to establish and implement procedures which will ensure to the maximum extent feasible, consistent with this chapter, orderly processing of subsequent arrangements and export licenses with minimum time delay.

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in text, 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

Short Title

note set out under section 3201 of this title and Tables.

Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–277 substituted “and the Secretary of State” for “, the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency”.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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

Effective Date

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.

Reference

Citations & Metadata

Citation

22 U.S.C. § 3222

Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 5, 2026

Release point: 119-73not60