ML20148G662
| ML20148G662 | |
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| Issue date: | 06/08/1987 |
| From: | NRC |
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| NUDOCS 8803290198 | |
| Download: ML20148G662 (2) | |
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3/M W SAQUEST/ South Africa l
POSSIBLE QUESTIONS FOR EXECUTIVE BRANCH l
l AT JUNE 8 COMMISSION BRIEFING l
f Does the Treasury Department intend to make its interim regulations final on July 1,
19877 If a decision, has not been reached, does the Treasury Department intend to advise the l
Commission of its oosition *.rior to July 17 Please summari:e the legal arguments underlying the Treasury Department's interim regulations?
l What weight would a court likely accord the purported I
Lugar-Ford-McConnell colloquy that suggests that uranium are and uranium oxide can be brough't it for processing and subsequent export? Would a. court likely accord it more weight than the post-enactment statement to the contrary that Senator Kennedy
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made on the Senate floor? Would a court accord it more weight than the Committee reports which do not mention a re-export exception?
It is our understanding that if one adopts the Lugar-Ford-McConnell view, that virtually no South African uranium or uranium oxide imports would be barred, since 8803290198 880329 PDR MISC
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g virtually no South African uranium ore or oxide i s brought in for domestic consumption.
If our understanding correct?
4 If our understanding is correct, is it reasonable to interpret legislation so that it has no effect?
The Lugar-Ford-McConnell purported. colloquy does not mention uranium explicitly.
Therefore does their interpretation also cover coal and textile imports which are also barred by the same Section 309(a) of the Anti-Apartheid Act?
In interpreting the statute to what extent is it permissible to take into account the potential economic effects that various interpretations of the Anti-Apartheid Act could have on the Department of Energy and the Treasury of the United States?
Does Section 603 of the Anti-Apartheid Act give the President or his designe:e the exclusive ' authority to interpret Section 309(a),
or does the NRC also have the authority to adopt its own interpretation of the law?
,1 2 The Anti-Apartheid Act bars all imports from South Africa's parastatal organi:ations.
What assurance does the Commission have that any South Africa-origin uranium that is permitted to be imported does not come from a parastatal organi:ation?