Sec. 3113. Limitation on acceleration of dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons

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(b)and (c), none of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for any of fiscal years 2017 through 2021 for the National Nuclear Security Administration may be obligated or expended to accelerate the dismantlement of the nuclear weapons of the United States to a rate faster than the rate mandated by the total projected dismantlement schedule included in table 2–7 of the annex to the stockpile stewardship and management plan for fiscal year 2016 submitted to Congress in March 2015 under section 4203 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2523 ). The limitation under subsection

(a)shall not apply with respect to a fiscal year if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a certification that the President has— requested, in the budget of the President for that fiscal year submitted to Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code, sufficient amounts to fulfill for that fiscal year all commitments related to nuclear modernization funding, capabilities, and schedules that the President made to the Senate during the consideration by the Senate of the resolution of advice and consent to ratification of the New START Treaty, as described in— the document entitled, Message from the President on the New START Treaty , dated February 2, 2011; and the fiscal year 2012 update to the report required by section 1251 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2010 ( Public Law 111–84 ; 123 Stat. 2549), submitted to Congress in February 2011; and except as provided in paragraph (2), fulfilled all such commitments. If, for any fiscal year covered by the limitation under subsection (a), an appropriations Act is enacted that appropriates amounts that are insufficient for the President to fulfill the commitments described in paragraph (1)(A), the President may certify under paragraph (1)(B) that the President has fulfilled such commitments to the extent possible with available funds. The limitation under subsection

(a)shall not apply if the President submits to the appropriate congressional committees a written certification that the funds described in subsection

(a)are required for activities necessary to obtain critical components that could not reasonably be acquired elsewhere for use in life extension, weapon alteration, or weapon modification programs as described in the stockpile stewardship and management plan for fiscal year 2016 submitted to Congress in March 2015 under section 4203 of the Atomic Energy Defense Act ( 50 U.S.C. 2523 ). In this section: The term appropriate congressional committees means— the congressional defense committees; the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives. The term New START Treaty means the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8, 2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011.

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50 USC 2523
Pub. L. 111-84
123 Stat. 2549

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Sec. 3113

Limitation on acceleration of dismantlement of retired nuclear weapons

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Pub. L.Pub. L. 111-84

Stat.123 Stat. 2549

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