Sec. 1303. Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities with Russian Federation
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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2015 for Cooperative Threat Reduction may be obligated or expended for cooperative threat reduction activities with the Russian Federation until the date that is 30 days after the date on which the Secretary of Defense certifies, in coordination with the Secretary of State, to the appropriate congressional committees that— the armed forces of the Russian Federation are no longer illegally occupying Ukrainian territory; the Russian Federation is no longer acting inconsistently with the INF Treaty; and the Russian Federation is in compliance with the CFE Treaty and has lifted its suspension of Russian observance of its treaty obligations.
The Secretary of Defense may waive the limitation in subsection
(a)if— the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, submits to the appropriate congressional committees— a notification that such a waiver is in the national security interest of the United States and a description of the national security interest covered by the waiver; and a report explaining why the Secretary of Defense cannot make the certification under subsection (a); and a period of 30 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits the information in the report under paragraph (1)(B). The certification requirement specified in paragraph
(1)of subsection
(a)shall not apply to military bases of the Russian Federation in Ukraine’s Crimean peninsula operating in accordance with its 1997 agreement on the Status and Conditions of the Black Sea Fleet Stationing on the Territory of Ukraine. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate. The term CFE Treaty means the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe, signed at Paris November 19, 1990, and entered into force July 17, 1992. The term INF Treaty means the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles, commonly referred to as the Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces
(INF)Treaty, signed at Washington December 8, 1987 and entered into force June 1, 1988. This section takes effect on the date of the enactment of this Act and applies with respect to funds described in subsection
(a)that are unobligated as of such date of enactment.