---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8151"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8151"
heading: "Notification to Congress of IAEA Board approval of wide-area environmental sampling"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8151"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—united States Additional Protocol Implementation"
  - "Subchapter V — Environmental Sampling"
---

# §8151. Notification to Congress of IAEA Board approval of wide-area environmental sampling

- (a) **In general—** Not later than 30 days after the date on which the Board of Governors of the [IAEA](/usc/22/8102.md?p=6) approves [wide-area environmental sampling](/usc/22/8102.md?p=14) for use as a safeguards verification tool, the President shall notify the [appropriate congressional committees](/usc/22/8102.md?p=2).
- (b) **Content—** The notification under [subsection (a)](#a) shall contain—
  - (1) a description of the specific methods and sampling techniques approved by the Board of Governors that are to be employed for purposes of wide-area sampling;
  - (2) a statement as to whether or not such sampling may be conducted in the [United States](/usc/22/8102.md?p=13) under the [Additional Protocol](/usc/22/8102.md?p=1); and
  - (3) an assessment of the ability of the approved methods and sampling techniques to detect, identify, and determine the conduct, type, and nature of nuclear activities.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 251, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2749.)