§3261 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The United States will work with other countries, international groups, and private organizations to set up programs that help develop non-nuclear energy, protect the global environment from pollution caused by nuclear and non-nuclear energy, and help developing countries meet energy needs with non-nuclear technologies that fit their economies, resources, and environmental needs. The United States will also ask other industrialized nations to make similar commitments. The President must report to Congress each year on how much other nations or groups have committed under these programs and how those commitments compare to U.S. efforts. When giving help, the United States will give priority to countries that are parties to the Treaty.

Title 22, §3261

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The United States shall endeavor to cooperate with other nations, international institutions, and private organizations in establishing programs to assist in the development of non-nuclear energy resources, to cooperate with both developing and industrialized nations in protecting the international environment from contamination arising from both nuclear and non-nuclear energy activities, and shall seek to cooperate with and aid developing countries in meeting their energy needs through the development of such resources and the application of non-nuclear technologies consistent with the economic factors, the material resources of those countries, and environmental protection. The United States shall additionally seek to encourage other industrialized nations and groups of nations to make commitments for similar cooperation and aid to developing countries. The President shall report annually to Congress on the level of other nations’ and groups of nations’ commitments under such program and the relation of any such commitments to United States efforts under this title. In cooperating with and providing such assistance to developing countries, the United States shall give priority to parties to the Treaty.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

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. Termination of Reporting RequirementsFor termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in this section requiring the President to report annually to Congress, see section 3003 of Pub. L. 104–66, as amended, set out as a note under section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 126 of House Document No. 103–7.

Executive Documents

Delegation of Functions Secretary of State responsible for performing functions vested in President under this section, see section 2(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out as a note under section 3201 of this title.

§3261 Congressional Declaration of Policy; Presidential Report to Congress