---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6322"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6322"
heading: "IAEA internal reforms"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6322"
units:
  - "Chapter 72 — Nuclear Proliferation Prevention"
  - "Subchapter II — International Atomic Energy Agency"
---

# §6322. IAEA internal reforms


In order to promote the early adoption of reforms in the implementation of the safeguards responsibilities of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2), the Congress urges the President to negotiate with other nations and groups of nations, including the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) [Board](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=4) of Governors and the Nuclear Suppliers Group, to—

- (1) improve the access of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) within nuclear [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) that are capable of producing, processing, or fabricating [special nuclear material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=6) suitable for use in a [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/2780.md?p=l-4);
- (2)
  - (A) facilitate the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2)’s efforts to meet and to maintain its own goals for detecting the diversion of nuclear materials and equipment, giving particular attention to [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) in which there are bulk quantities of plutonium; and
  - (B) if it is not technically feasible for the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to meet those detection goals in a particular [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8), require the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to declare publicly that it is unable to do so;
- (3) enable the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to issue fines for violations of safeguards procedures, to pay rewards for information on possible safeguards violations, and to establish a “hot line” for the reporting of such violations and other illicit uses of weapons-grade nuclear material;
- (4) establish safeguards at [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) engaged in the manufacture of equipment or material that is especially designated or prepared for the processing, use, or production of [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4) or, in the case of [non-nuclear-weapon states](/usc/22/6324.md?p=6), of any [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/2780.md?p=l-4);
- (5) establish safeguards over nuclear research and development activities and [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8);
- (6) implement special inspections of undeclared nuclear [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8), as provided for under existing safeguards procedures, and seek authority for the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) to conduct challenge inspections on demand at suspected nuclear sites;
- (7) expand the scope of safeguards to include tritium, uranium concentrates, and nuclear waste containing [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4), and increase the scope of such safeguards on heavy water;
- (8) revise downward the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2)’s official minimum amounts of nuclear material (“significant quantity”) needed to make a [nuclear explosive device](/usc/22/2780.md?p=l-4) and establish these amounts as national rather than [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) standards;
- (9) expand the use of full-time resident [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) inspectors at sensitive fuel cycle [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8);
- (10) promote the use of [near real time material accountancy](/usc/22/6324.md?p=3) in the conduct of safeguards at [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) that use, produce, or store significant quantities of [special fissionable material](/usc/22/6324.md?p=4);
- (11) develop with other [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) member nations an [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) on procedures to expedite approvals of visa applications by [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) inspectors;
- (12) provide the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) the additional [funds](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=9), technical assistance, and political support necessary to carry out the goals set forth in this subsection;[^1] and
- (13) make public the annual safeguards implementation report of the [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2), establishing a public registry of commodities in international nuclear commerce, including dual-use goods, and creating a public repository of current nuclear trade control laws, [agreements](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7), regulations, and enforcement and judicial actions by [IAEA](/usc/22/6324.md?p=2) member nations.

## Footnotes

[^1]: So in original. Probably should be “section;”.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 103–236, title VIII, § 842, Apr. 30, 1994, 108 Stat. 523.)