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[CITE: 22USC3261]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                  CHAPTER 47--NUCLEAR NON-PROLIFERATION
 
    SUBCHAPTER III--UNITED STATES ASSISTANCE TO DEVELOPING COUNTRIES
 
Sec. 3261. Congressional declaration of policy; Presidential 
        report to Congress
        
    The United States shall endeavor to cooperate with other nations, 
international institutions, and private organizations in establishing 
programs to assist in the development of non-nuclear energy resources, 
to cooperate with both developing and industrialized nations in 
protecting the international environment from contamination arising from 
both nuclear and non-nuclear energy activities, and shall seek to 
cooperate with and aid developing countries in meeting their energy 
needs through the development of such resources and the application of 
non-nuclear technologies consistent with the economic factors, the 
material resources of those countries, and environmental protection. The 
United States shall additionally seek to encourage other industrialized 
nations and groups of nations to make commitments for similar 
cooperation and aid to developing countries. The President shall report 
annually to Congress on the level of other nations' and groups of 
nations' commitments under such program and the relation of any such 
commitments to United States efforts under this title. In cooperating 
with and providing such assistance to developing countries, the United 
States shall give priority to parties to the Treaty.

(Pub. L. 95-242, title V, Sec. 501, Mar. 10, 1978, 92 Stat. 148.)


                             Effective Date

    Subchapter effective Mar. 10, 1978, except as otherwise provided and 
regardless of any requirements for the promulgation of implementing 
regulations, see section 603(c) of Pub. L. 95-242, set out as a note 
under section 3201 of this title.


                  Termination of Reporting Requirements

    For termination, effective May 15, 2000, of provisions in this 
section requiring the President to report annually to Congress, see 
section 3003 of Pub. L. 104-66, as amended, set out as a note under 
section 1113 of Title 31, Money and Finance, and page 126 of House 
Document No. 103-7.

                         Delegation of Functions

    Secretary of State responsible for performing functions vested in 
President under this section, see section 2(a) of Ex. Ord. No. 12058, 
May 11, 1978, 43 F.R. 20947, set out as a note under section 3201 of 
this title.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in section 3262 of this title; title 12 
section 635.
