2016-27509. Proposed Subsequent Arrangement

AGENCY:

Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, Department of Energy.

ACTION:

Proposed subsequent arrangement.

SUMMARY:

This document is being issued under the authority of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended. The Department is providing notice of a proposed subsequent arrangement under the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States of America and the Republic of Kazakhstan Concerning Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy and the Agreement for Cooperation in the Peaceful Uses of Nuclear Energy Between the United States of America and the European Atomic Energy Community.

DATES:

This subsequent arrangement will take effect no sooner than December 1, 2016.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:

Mr. Richard Goorevich, Office of Nonproliferation and Arms Control, National Nuclear Security Administration, Department of Energy. Telephone: [phone] or email: [e-mail].

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:

This subsequent arrangement concerns the retransfer of 2,794,512g of U.S.-origin enriched uranium oxide (UO2), containing 114,692g of the isotopeU-235 (less than five percent enrichment), from Ulba Metallurgical Plant in Ust-Kamengorsk, Kazakhstan, to Westinghouse Springfields Fuels Limited in Salwick, United Kingdom. The material has already been retransferred from Ulba to Westinghouse Springfields for storage.

In accordance with section 131a. of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended, it has been determined that this subsequent arrangement concerning the retransfer of nuclear material of United States origin will not be inimical to the common defense and security of the United States of America.

Dated: October 27, 2016.

For the Department of Energy.

Anne M. Harrington,

Deputy Administrator, Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation.