What are the potential hurdles in rapid approval?
There are two potential sets of hurdles to rapid approval of the U.S.-India draft nuclear cooperation agreement. The first has to do with the completion of the seven actions specified in the Hyde Act. The second is the congressional calendar. India has not filed a formal declaration regarding its civil nuclear facilities and materials with the IAEA. Its safeguards agreement, approved by the Board of Governors on August 1st, did not contain a list of facilities or materials to be placed under IAEA safeguards. Although it circulated its March 2006 separation plan to IAEA member states, it is under no legal obligation to apply safeguards until those facilities and/or materials are listed in an inventory. Such an action is not likely to occur until the safeguards agreement is formally approved in India, which Indian officials have previously stated would come after the approval of the U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement. Also, it is unclear whether India has yet made “substantial prog
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