§8152 Application of National Security Exclusion to Wide-area Environmental Sampling

Summary

Under Article 1(b) of the Additional Protocol, the President must not allow the IAEA to do wide-area environmental sampling at any specified site in the United States under Article 9 unless the President tells the relevant congressional committees three things. First, the sampling is needed to help the IAEA find undeclared nuclear activities in the territory of a non-nuclear-weapon State Party. Second, the sampling will not give the IAEA access to locations, activities, or information that are directly important to U.S. national security. Third, either the United States had a chance to consult with the IAEA if the IAEA asked for complementary access that includes wide-area sampling, or the United States itself asked the IAEA for such complementary access under Article 8.