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[CITE: 22USC6305]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
              CHAPTER 72--NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION PREVENTION
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--SANCTIONS FOR NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION
 
Sec. 6305. Definitions

    For purposes of this subchapter--
        (1) the term ``foreign person'' means--
            (A) an individual who is not a citizen of the United States 
        or an alien admitted for permanent residence to the United 
        States; or
            (B) a corporation, partnership, or other nongovernment 
        entity which is created or organized under the laws of a foreign 
        country or which has its principal place of business outside the 
        United States;

        (2) the term ``goods or technology'' means--
            (A) nuclear materials and equipment and sensitive nuclear 
        technology (as such terms are defined in section 3203 of this 
        title), all export items designated by the President pursuant to 
        section 2139a(c) of title 42, and all technical assistance 
        requiring authorization under section 2077(b) of title 42, and
            (B) in the case of exports from a country other than the 
        United States, any goods or technology that, if exported from 
        the United States, would be goods or technology described in 
        subparagraph (A);

        (3) the term ``IAEA safeguards'' means the safeguards set forth 
    in an agreement between a country and the International Atomic 
    Energy Agency, as authorized by Article III(A)(5) of the Statute of 
    the International Atomic Energy Agency;
        (4) the term ``nuclear explosive device'' means any device, 
    whether assembled or disassembled, that is designed to produce an 
    instantaneous release of an amount of nuclear energy from special 
    nuclear material that is greater than the amount of energy that 
    would be released from the detonation of one pound of 
    trinitrotoluene (TNT);
        (5) the term ``non-nuclear-weapon state'' means any country 
    which is not a nuclear-weapon state, as defined by Article IX (3) of 
    the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, signed at 
    Washington, London, and Moscow on July 1, 1968;
        (6) the term ``special nuclear material'' has the meaning given 
    that term in section 2014(aa) of title 42;
        (7) the term ``United States person'' means--
            (A) an individual who is a citizen of the United States or 
        an alien admitted for permanent residence to the United States; 
        or
            (B) a corporation, partnership, or other nongovernment 
        entity which is not a foreign person; and

        (8) the term ``unsafeguarded special nuclear material'' means 
    special nuclear material which is held in violation of IAEA 
    safeguards or not subject to IAEA safeguards (excluding any quantity 
    of material that could, if it were exported from the United States, 
    be exported under a general license issued by the Nuclear Regulatory 
    Commission).

(Pub. L. 103-236, title VIII, Sec. 830, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 521.)

                       References in Text

    This subchapter, referred to in text, was in the original a 
reference to this part, meaning part B of title VIII of Pub. L. 103-236, 
which is classified principally to this subchapter. For complete 
classification of part B to the Code, see Effective Date note set out 
under section 6301 of this title and Tables.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 262d, 2593a, 2708, 2753, 
2780, 2799aa-2, 6301, 6324 of this title; title 12 section 635.
