THE WHITE HOUSE

                     Office of the Press Secretary
________________________________________________________________________
For Immediate Release                                      June 29, 2000


                  TEXT OF A LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT
                 TO THE CHAIRMAN OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE
             ON INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS AND TO THE CHAIRMAN
                   OF THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON SCIENCE
          AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE ON FOREIGN
           RELATIONS AND THE CHAIRMAN OF THE SENATE COMMITTEE
                ON COMMERCE, SCIENCE AND TRANSPORTATION
               AND SELECTED REPRESENTATIVES AND SENATORS


                                    June 29, 2000



Dear Mr. Chairman: (Dear Senator:) (Dear Representative:)

The NASA Administrator has informed me of his intent to proceed with an
extraordinary payment of $14 million to the Russian Aviation and Space
Agency for the purchase of the pressure dome for the Interim Control
Module and the Androgynous Peripheral Docking Adapter and related
hardware for the United States Propulsion Module for the International
Space Station.  This payment is subject to the provisions of section
6(g) of the Iran Nonproliferation Act of 2000 (Public Law 106-178) (the
"Act").

I hereby notify the Congress that, upon the expiration of the 5-day
period specified in section 6(g)(1)(A) of the Act, the payment described
above will be made.  I have also concluded that the conditions described
in section 6(g)(1)(B) and (C) of the Act have been satisfied.
Specifically, no report has been made under section 2 of the Act; I have
no credible information of any activity that would require such a
report; and, the United States will receive goods of value to the United
States commensurate with the value of the extraordinary payment.

                              Sincerely,



                              WILLIAM J. CLINTON



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