PROHIBITION ON FUNDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACTIVITIES WITH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

SEC. 3137. PROHIBITION ON FUNDING NUCLEAR WEAPONS ACTIVITIES WITH PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA. (a) Funding Prohibition.— No funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise available to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 1997 may be obligated or expended for any activity associated with the conduct of cooperative programs relating to nuclear weapons or nuclear weapons technology, including stockpile stewardship, safety, and use control, with the People’s Republic of China. (b) Report.— (1) The Secretary of Energy shall prepare, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, a report containing a description of all discussions and activities between the United States and the People’s Republic of China regarding nuclear weapons matters that have occurred before the date of the enactment of this Act and that are planned to occur after such date. For each such discussion or activity, the report shall include— (A) the authority under which the discussion or activity took or will take place; (B) the subject of the discussion or activity; (C) participants or likely participants; (D) the source and amount of funds used or to be used to pay for the discussion or activity; and (E) a description of the actions taken or to be taken to ensure that no classified information or unclassified controlled information was or will be revealed, and a determination of whether classified information or unclassified controlled information was revealed in previous discussions. (2) The report shall be submitted to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives not later than January 15, 1997.