22 U.S.C. § 8102 — Definitions
submitted 20 years ago by Pub. L. 109-401 to r/title-22-FOREIGN-RELATIONS-AND-INTERCOURSE · 518 words · no verdicts yet
This section defines key terms used in the law implementing the U.S.-IAEA Additional Protocol, like "IAEA," "facility," "location," and "person." It also defines "United States" broadly to include territories, aircraft, and vessels. These definitions set the scope for nuclear inspection and reporting rules.
In this chapter:
The term “Additional Protocol”, when used in the singular form, means the Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America, with Annexes, signed at Vienna June 12, 1998 (T. Doc. 107–7).
The term “appropriate congressional committees” means the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on International Relations, the Committee on Science, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.
The term “complementary access” means the exercise of the IAEA’s access rights as set forth in Articles 4 to 6 of the Additional Protocol.
The term “executive agency” has the meaning given such term in section 105 of title 5.
The term “facility” has the meaning set forth in Article 18i. of the Additional Protocol.
The term “IAEA” means the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The term “judge of the United States” means a United States district judge, or a United States magistrate judge appointed under the authority of chapter 43 of title 28.
The term “location” means any geographic point or area declared or identified by the United States or specified by the International Atomic Energy Agency.
The term “Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty” means the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, done at Washington, London, and Moscow July 1, 1968, and entered into force March 5, 1970 (21 UST 483).
The terms “nuclear-weapon State Party” and “non-nuclear-weapon State Party” have the meanings given such terms in the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty.
The term “person”, except as otherwise provided, means any individual, corporation, partnership, firm, association, trust, estate, public or private institution, any State or any political subdivision thereof, or any political entity within a State, any foreign government or nation or any agency, instrumentality, or political subdivision of any such government or nation, or other entity located in the United States.
The term “site” has the meaning set forth in Article 18b. of the Additional Protocol.
The term “United States”, when used as a geographic reference, means the several States of the United States, the District of Columbia, and the commonwealths, territories, and possessions of the United States and includes all places under the jurisdiction or control of the United States, including—
the territorial sea and the overlying airspace;
any civil aircraft of the United States or public aircraft, as such terms are defined in paragraphs (17) and (41), respectively, of section 40102(a) of title 49; and
any vessel of the United States, as such term is defined in section 70502(b) of title 46.
The term “wide-area environmental sampling” has the meaning set forth in Article 18g. of the Additional Protocol.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 203, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2742.)
- 2006Enacted · Pub. L. 109-401 · 120 Stat. 2742
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