EXECUTIVE
ORDER
EO 13458
Effective Date: February 06, 2008

Responsible Office: Office of External Relations
Subject: Implementation of the Protocol Additional to the Agreement between the US & the International Atomic Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the US of America

By the authority vested in me as President by the 
                Constitution and the laws of the United States of 
                America, including the United States Additional 
                Protocol Implementation Act (the ``Act')(Public Law 
                109-401) and section 301 of title 3, United States 
                Code, and in order to facilitate implementation of the 
                Act and the Protocol Additional to the Agreement 
                between the United States and the International Atomic 
                Energy Agency for the Application of Safeguards in the 
                United States of America (the ``Additional Protocol'), 
                it is hereby ordered as follows:

                Section 1. The Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, 
                and Energy, the Attorney General, the Nuclear 
                Regulatory Commission, and heads of such other agencies 
                as appropriate, each shall issue, amend, or revise, and 
                enforce such regulations, orders, directives, 
                instructions, or procedures as are necessary to 
                implement the Act and United States obligations under 
                the Additional Protocol.

                Sec. 2. The Secretary of Commerce, with the assistance, 
                as necessary, of the Attorney General, is authorized to 
                obtain and to execute warrants pursuant to section 223 
                of the Act for the purpose of gaining complementary 
                access to locations subject to regulations issued by 
                the Department of Commerce pursuant to section 1 of 
                this order.

                Sec. 3. The Secretaries of State, Defense, Commerce, 
                and Energy, the Attorney General, the Nuclear 
                Regulatory Commission, and heads of such other 
                departments and agencies as appropriate, are authorized 
                to carry out, consistent with the Act and in accordance 
                with subsequent directives, appropriate functions that 
                are not otherwise assigned in the Act and are necessary 
                to implement the Act and United States obligations 
                under the Additional Protocol. The Secretary of State 
                shall perform the function of providing notifications 
                or information to the Congress when required by the 
                Act.

                Sec. 4. This order shall be implemented consistent with 
                applicable law and subject to the availability of 
                appropriations.

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                Sec. 5. This order is not intended to, and does not, 
                create any right or benefit, substantive or procedural, 
                enforceable at law or in equity, by any party against 
                the United States, its departments, agencies, 
                instrumentalities, or entities, its officers, 
                employees, or agents, or any other person.
                
                
                    President, George Bush

                THE WHITE HOUSE,

                    February 4, 2008.
 

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