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U.S.-Russia II: U.S. Congress Keeps Nonproliferation Funds By Kerry Boyd Global Security Newswire Negotiators from the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives allotted $226 million this week for Energy Department nonproliferation programs. The compromise legislation, which reconciles different versions of the fiscal 2002 defense appropriations bills from each house, is expected to be passed by Congress soon—the Senate could even vote today, said Steve LaMontagne, of the Council for a Livable World Education Fund (see GSN, Dec. 14). The legislation that the Senate passed in early December included an attached emergency supplemental package that allocated $226 million for Energy Department nonproliferation programs, but the House bill, passed in November, did not (see GSN, Dec. 10). LaMontagne said the $226 million would be divided as follows: * $120 million for material protection, control and accounting * $78 million for nonproliferation, verification, research and development, * $15 million for the Russian transition initiative, * $10 million for international nuclear safety and * $3 million for program direction. Negotiators also gave $403 million to the Defense Department’s threat reduction programs for the former Soviet Union, an amount that had been included in both the Senate and House versions (see GSN, Dec. 19).
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