---
kind: "section"
citation: "50 U.S.C. § 3734"
title: "50"
title_heading: "War and National Defense"
number: "3734"
heading: "Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities with Russian Federation"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/50/3734"
units:
  - "Chapter 48 — Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction"
  - "Subchapter II — Restrictions and Limitations"
---

# §3734. Limitation on availability of funds for Cooperative Threat Reduction activities with Russian Federation

- (a) **Sense of Congress—** It is the sense of Congress that—
  - (1) the United States should carry out activities under the [Program](/usc/50/3701.md?p=3) in the Russian Federation only if those activities are consistent with and in support of the security interests of the United States; and
  - (2) in carrying out any such activities after December 19, 2014, the Secretary of Defense should focus on only those activities that—
    - (A) are in support of the arms control obligations of the United States and the Russian Federation; or
    - (B) will reduce the threats posed by weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technology to the United States and countries in the Euro-Atlantic and Eurasian regions.
- (b) **Completion of Cooperative Threat Reduction activities in Russian Federation—** [Cooperative Threat Reduction funds](/usc/50/3701.md?p=2) made available for a fiscal year after fiscal year 2015 may not be obligated or expended for activities in the Russian Federation unless such activities in Russia are specifically authorized by law.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 113–291, div. A, title XIII, § 1334, Dec. 19, 2014, 128 Stat. 3603.)