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 112 STAT. 2681-201 PUBLIC LAW 105-277—OCT. 21, 1998 Relations Committees of the Senate and the Appropriations and International Relations Committees of the House of Representatives. KOREAN PENINSULA ENERGY DEVELOPMENT ORGANIZATION SEC. 582. (a) of the funds made available under the heading "Nonproliferation, Anti-terrorism, Demining and Related Programs", not to exceed $35,000,000 may be made available for the Korean Peninsula Energy Development Organization (hereafter referred to in this section as "KEDO"), notwithstanding any other Erovision of law, only for the administrative expenses and heavy lel oil costs associated with the Agreed Framework: Provided, that none of these funds may be made available until March 1, 1999. (b) Of the funds made available for KEDO, up to $15,000,000 may be made available prior to June 1, 1999, if, thirty days prior to such obligation of funds, the President certifies and so reports to Congress that— (1)(A) the parties to the A^eed Framework have taken and continue to take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the implementation of the January 1, 1992, Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula in which the government of North Korea has committed not to test, manufacture, produce, receive, possess, store, deploy or use nucleeir weapons; (B) the parties to the Agreed Framework have taken and continue to take demonstrable steps to assure that progress is made on the implementation of the North-South dialogue; and (C) North Korea is complying with all provisions of the Agreed Framework and with the Confidential Minute between North Korea and the United States; (2) North Korea is cooperating fully in the canning and safe storage of all spent fuel from its graphite-moderated nuclear reactors; (3) North Korea has not significantly diverted assistance provided by the United States for purposes for which it was not intended; and (4) the United States is fully engaged in efforts to impede North Korea's development and export of ballistic missiles; and (c) Of the funds made available for KEDO, up to $20,000,000 may be made available on or after June 1, 1999, if, thirty days prior to such obligation of funds, the President certifies and so reports to Congress that: (1) the United States has initiated meaningful discussions with North Korea on implementation of the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula; (2) the United States has reached agreement with North Korea on the means for satisfying U.S. concerns regarding suspect underground construction; and; (3) the tmited States is making significant progress on reducing and eliminating the North Koresin ballistic missile threat, including its ballistic missile exports. (d) The President may waive the certification requirements of subsections (b) and (c) if the President determines that it is vital to the national security interests of the United States and

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