22 USC § 8153 - Application of national security exclusion to location-specific environmental sampling

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identifier: "/us/usc/t22/s8153"
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legal_status: "official_prima_facie"
title: "22 USC § 8153 - Application of national security exclusion to location-specific environmental sampling"
title_number: 22
title_name: "FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE"
section_number: "8153"
section_name: "Application of national security exclusion to location-specific environmental sampling"
chapter_number: 88
chapter_name: "NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION TREATY—UNITED STATES ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL IMPLEMENTATION"
subchapter_number: "V"
subchapter_name: "ENVIRONMENTAL SAMPLING"
positive_law: false
currency: "119-84"
last_updated: "2026-03-26"
format_version: "1.1.0"
generator: "[email protected]"
source_credit: "(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 253, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2750.)"
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# § 8153. Application of national security exclusion to location-specific environmental sampling

In accordance with Article 1(b) of the Additional Protocol, the United States shall not permit any location-specific environmental sampling in the United States under Article 5 of the Additional Protocol unless the President has determined and reported to the appropriate congressional committees with respect to that proposed use of environmental sampling that—

**(1)** the proposed use of location-specific environmental sampling is necessary to increase the capability of the IAEA to detect undeclared nuclear activities in the territory of a non-nuclear-weapon State Party;

**(2)** the proposed use of location-specific environmental sampling will not result in access by the IAEA to locations, activities, or information of direct national security significance; and

**(3)** with respect to the proposed use of environmental sampling, the United States—

**(A)** has been provided sufficient opportunity for consultation with the IAEA if the IAEA has requested complementary access involving location-specific environmental sampling; or

**(B)** has requested under Article 8 of the Additional Protocol that the IAEA engage in complementary access in the United States that involves the use of location-specific environmental sampling.

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**Source Credit**: (Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 253, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2750.)