S 1754 · 99th Congress · Energy
Sino-American Nuclear Verification Act of 1985
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Introduced2
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House5
EnactedLatest: Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.(1985-10-09)
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Sino-American Nuclear Verification Act of 1985 - Prohibits issuing a license for the export to China of any nuclear equipment, materials, or technology and prohibits approving the transfer or retransfer to China of such equipment, materials, or technology until 30 days after the President has certified to the Congress that: (1) the verification of peaceful uses on exported items covered by the Agreement for Cooperation Between the United States and China will be essentially equivalent to that provided by the International Atomic Energy Agency; (2) China has communicated its recognition that the Agreement neither favorably nor unfavorably disposes the United States toward approving any alteration of material transferred pursuant to the Agreement or material used in or produced through the use of any material or facility transferred pursuant to the Agreement; (3) China has provided a statement of its nuclear nonproliferation policies, and those policies correspond to the description of such policies contained in a specified State Department document relating to China's nuclear nonproliferation policy; and (4) China has communicated its recognition that all proposed exports of nuclear…
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6 Democrats4 Republicans