Sec. 3120. Limitation on availability of funds for nonproliferation activities between the United States and the 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 the National Nuclear Security Administration may be used for any contact, cooperation, or transfer of technology between the United States and the Russian Federation until the Secretary of Energy, in consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that— the armed forces of the Russian Federation are no longer illegally occupying Ukrainian territory; the Russian Federation is respecting the sovereignty of all 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 Energy may waive the limitation in subsection

(a)if— the Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense, submits to the appropriate congressional committees— a notification that such a waiver is in the national security interests of the United States and a description of the national security interests covered by the waiver; and a report explaining why the Secretary of Energy cannot make a certification for such under subsection (a); and a period of 30 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary 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. The limitation in subsection

(a)applies with respect to funds described in such subsection that are unobligated as of the date of the enactment of this Act. In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means the following: The congressional defense committees. The Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. 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.