---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 8154"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "8154"
heading: "Rule of construction"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/8154"
units:
  - "Chapter 88 — Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty—united States Additional Protocol Implementation"
  - "Subchapter V — Environmental Sampling"
---

# §8154. Rule of construction


As used in this subchapter, the term “necessary to increase the capability of the [IAEA](/usc/22/8102.md?p=6) to detect undeclared nuclear activities in the territory of a [non-nuclear-weapon State Party](/usc/22/8102.md?p=10)” shall not be construed to encompass proposed uses of environmental sampling that might assist the [IAEA](/usc/22/8102.md?p=6) in detecting undeclared nuclear activities in the territory of a [non-nuclear-weapon State Party](/usc/22/8102.md?p=10) by—

- (1) setting a good example of cooperation in the conduct of such sampling; or
- (2) facilitating the formation of a political consensus or political [support](/usc/22/7432.md?p=12) for such sampling in the territory of a [non-nuclear-weapon State Party](/usc/22/8102.md?p=10).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 109–401, title II, § 254, Dec. 18, 2006, 120 Stat. 2751.)