PART 781—GENERAL INFORMATION AND OVERVIEW OF THE ADDITIONAL PROTOCOL REGULATIONS (APR) Authority: United States Additional Protocol Implementation Act of 2006, Pub. Law No. 109-401, 120 Stat. 2726 (December 18, 2006) (to be codified at 22 U.S.C. 8101-8181); Executive Order 13458 (February 4, 2008). Source: 73 FR 65128, Oct. 31, 2008, unless otherwise noted. § 781.1 Definitions of terms used in the Additional Protocol Regulations (APR). The following are definitions of terms used in parts 781 through 786 of this subchapter (collectively known as the APR), unless otherwise noted: Access Point of Contact (A-POC). Act (The). Additional Protocol. Additional Protocol Regulations (APR). Agreement State. et seq. Beneficiation. Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS). Complementary Access. Complementary Access Notification. Host Team. Host Team Leader. International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). ITAR. Location. location specified by the IAEA Location-specific environmental sampling. Location-specific subsidiary arrangement. “subsidiary arrangement” Location specified by the IAEA. (1) Verify the absence of undeclared nuclear material or nuclear activities; or (2) Obtain information that the IAEA needs to amplify or clarify information contained in the U.S. declaration. Managed access. National Security Exclusion (NSE). NRC. Nuclear fuel cycle-related research and development. (1) Conversion of nuclear material; (2) Enrichment of nuclear material; (3) Nuclear fuel fabrication; (4) Reactors; (5) Critical facilities; (6) Reprocessing of nuclear fuel; or (7) Processing (not including repackaging or conditioning not involving the separation of elements, for storage or disposal) of intermediate or high-level waste containing plutonium, high enriched uranium or uranium-233. Nuclear Material. (1) Source material (2) Special fissionable material Person. Report Point of Contact (R-POC). Reportable Location. Initial Report, Annual Update Report, No Changes Report Reporting Code. Subsidiary Arrangement (or General Subsidiary Arrangement). “location-specific subsidiary arrangement” United States. Uranium Hard-Rock Mine. (1) An area of land from which uranium is extracted in non-liquid form; (2) Private ways and roads appurtenant to such an area; and (3) Lands, excavations, underground passageways, shafts, slopes, tunnels and workings, structures, facilities, equipment, machines, tools, or other property including impoundments, retention dams, and tailings ponds, on the surface or underground, used in, or to be used in, or resulting from, the work of extracting such uranium ore from its natural deposits in non-liquid form, or if in liquid form, with workers underground, or used in, or to be used in, the concentration of such uranium ore, or the work of the uranium ore. Uranium Hard-Rock Mine (Closed-down). Uranium Hard-Rock Mine (Operating). Uranium Hard-Rock Mine (Suspended). U.S. declaration. United States Government locations. Wide-area environmental sampling. You. “person” § 781.2 Purposes of the Additional Protocol and APR. (a) General. http://www.iaea.org/Publications/Documents/Infcircs/index.html (b) Purposes of the Additional Protocol. (c) Purposes of the Additional Protocol Regulations. § 781.3 Scope of the APR. The Additional Protocol Regulations or APR implement certain obligations of the United States under the Protocol Additional to the Agreement Between the United States of America and the International Atomic Energy Agency Concerning the Application of Safeguards in the United States of America, known as the Additional Protocol. (a) Persons and locations subject to the APR. except (1) Locations that are subject to the regulatory authority of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC), pursuant to the NRC's regulatory jurisdiction under the Atomic Energy Act of 1954, as amended (42 U.S.C. 2011 et seq. (2) The following United States Government locations (i) Department of Energy locations; (ii) Department of Defense locations; (iii) Central Intelligence Agency locations; and (iv) Department of State locations. (b) Activities subject to the APR. § 781.4 U.S. Government requests for information needed to satisfy the requirements of the APR or the Act. From time-to-time, one or more U.S. Government agencies (i.e., the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, the NRC, or BIS) may contact a location to request information that the U.S. Government has determined to be necessary to satisfy certain requirements of the APR or the Act (e.g., clarification requests or vulnerability assessments). If the manner of providing such information is not specified in the APR, the agency in question will provide the location with appropriate instructions. § 781.5 Authority. The APR implement certain provisions of the Additional Protocol under the authority of the Additional Protocol Implementation Act of 2006 (Pub. L. 109-401, 120 Stat. 2726 (December 18, 2006)). In Executive Order 13458 of February 4, 2008, the President delegated authority to the Department of Commerce to promulgate regulations to implement the Act, and consistent with the Act, to carry out appropriate functions not otherwise assigned in the Act, but necessary to implement certain declaration and complementary access requirements of the Additional Protocol and the Act.