Six amendments to be debated in House before voting on the N-deal

Washington, July 26 (UNI) Six amendments have been offered by Congressmen, which would be debated for about an hour as the House of Representatives takes up for consideration today the legislation pertaining to H R 5682 - India-US Nuclear Cooperation Promotion Act of 2006.

An hour-long debate has been allocated on legislation and an hour for the amendments according to the Rules Committee of the House.

Following is the text of the amendments (derived from information provided by the sponsors) 1. Henry Hyde (R-IL) /Tom Lantos (D-CA): Contains technical and conforming changes to the text. Also makes one substantive change removing an amendment adopted during the full committee markup relating to subsection 4(b)(7). (10 minutes) 2. Cliff Stearns (R-FL): Reinforces the intent of Congress that the nuclear cooperation into which the governments of the United States and India would enter is for peaceful, productive purposes, not military. (10 minutes) 3. Jackson-Lee (D-TX)/Dan Burton (R-IN): Sense of Congress declaring the importance of the South Asia region and urging the continuation of the United States' policy of engagement, collaboration, and exchanges with and between India and Pakistan.

(10 minutes) 4. Brad Sherman (D-CA): Requires that, before any nuclear cooperation with India can go forward, and every year thereafter, the President must certify that during the preceding year India has not increased the level of domestic uranium it sends through its weapons program. Baseline for the determination under the amendment is the 365 day period preceding the July 18, 2005 Bush-Singh declaration on nuclear cooperation. (10 minutes) 5. Howard Berman (D-CA): Restricts exports of uranium and other types of nuclear reactor fuel (defined as ''source material'' and ''special nuclear material'' in the Atomic Energy Act of 1954) to India until the President determines that India has halted the production of fissile material (i.e. plutonium and highly enriched uranium) for use in nuclear weapons. (10 minutes) 6. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE): Provides Congress with the ability to assess, to the extent possible, whether annual levels of India's nuclear fissile production may imply a possible violation of Article I of the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. (10 minutes) UNI XC PR HS1939