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50 U.S.C. § 2357 — Comprehensive preparedness program
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**(a) Program required** The President, acting through the Committee on Nonproliferation established under [section 2352 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section2352&num=0&edition=prelim), shall develop a comprehensive program for carrying out this chapter.
**(b) Content of program** The program set forth in the report shall include specific plans as follows:
(1) Plans for countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(2) Plans for training and equipping Federal, State, and local officials for managing a crisis involving a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction, including the consequences of the use of such a weapon.
(3) Plans for providing for regular sharing of information among intelligence, law enforcement, and customs agencies.
(4) Plans for training and equipping law enforcement units, customs services, and border security personnel to counter the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(5) Plans for establishing appropriate centers for analyzing seized nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and related materials and technologies.
(6) Plans for establishing in the United States appropriate legal controls and authorities relating to the exporting of nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and related materials and technologies.
(7) Plans for encouraging and assisting governments of foreign countries to implement and enforce laws that set forth appropriate penalties for offenses regarding the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(8) Plans for building the confidence of the United States and Russia in each other’s controls ove
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**(a) Program required** The President, acting through the Committee on Nonproliferation established under [section 2352 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title50-section2352&num=0&edition=prelim), shall develop a comprehensive program for carrying out this chapter.
**(b) Content of program** The program set forth in the report shall include specific plans as follows:
(1) Plans for countering proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(2) Plans for training and equipping Federal, State, and local officials for managing a crisis involving a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction, including the consequences of the use of such a weapon.
(3) Plans for providing for regular sharing of information among intelligence, law enforcement, and customs agencies.
(4) Plans for training and equipping law enforcement units, customs services, and border security personnel to counter the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(5) Plans for establishing appropriate centers for analyzing seized nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and related materials and technologies.
(6) Plans for establishing in the United States appropriate legal controls and authorities relating to the exporting of nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and related materials and technologies.
(7) Plans for encouraging and assisting governments of foreign countries to implement and enforce laws that set forth appropriate penalties for offenses regarding the smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and technologies.
(8) Plans for building the confidence of the United States and Russia in each other’s controls over United States and Russian nuclear weapons and fissile materials, including plans for verifying the dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
(9) Plans for reducing United States and Russian stockpiles of excess plutonium, reflecting—
(A) consideration of the desirability and feasibility of a United States-Russian agreement governing fissile material disposition and the specific technologies and approaches to be used for disposition of excess plutonium; and
(B) an assessment of the options for United States cooperation with Russia in the disposition of Russian plutonium.
(10) Plans for studying the merits and costs of establishing a global network of means for detecting and responding to terroristic or other criminal use of biological agents against people or other forms of life in the United States or any foreign country.
**(c) Report**
(1) At the same time that the President submits the budget for fiscal year 1998 to Congress pursuant to [section 1105(a) of title 31](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title31-section1105/a&num=0&edition=prelim), the President shall submit to Congress a report that sets forth the comprehensive program developed under subsection (a).
(2) The report shall include the following:
(A) The specific plans for the program that are required under subsection (b).
(B) Estimates of the funds necessary, by agency or department, for carrying out such plans in fiscal year 1998 and the following five fiscal years.
(3) The report shall be in an unclassified form. If there is a classified version of the report, the President shall submit the classified version at the same time.
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**(a) Notification with respect to nonproliferation activities** The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall keep the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives informed with respect to—
(1) any activities undertaken by any such Secretary or the Commission to carry out the purposes and policies of the Secretaries and the Commission with respect to nonproliferation programs; and
(2) any other activities undertaken by any such Secretary or the Commission to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or the means of delivery of such weapons.
**(b) Notification with respect to proliferation activities in foreign nations**
(1) **In general** — The Director of National Intelligence shall keep the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to any activities of foreign nations that are significant with respect to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or the means of delivery of such weapons.
(2) **Fully and currently informed defined** — For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “fully and currently informed” means the transmittal of credible information with respect to an activity described in such paragraph not later than 60 days after becoming aware of the activity.
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**(a) Authority to pursue options for strengthening export control programs** The Secretary of Energy, in coordination with the Secretary of State, may pursue in the region of the former Soviet Union and other regions of concern options for accelerating programs that assist the countries in such regions in improving their domestic export control programs for materials, technologies, and expertise relevant to the construction or use of a nuclear or radiological dispersal device.
**(b) Amount for activities** Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 3101(a)(2) 11 See References in Text note below. for the Department of Energy for the National Nuclear Security Administration for defense nuclear nonproliferation, up to $5,000,000 may be available for carrying out this section.
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 2357a
(10) Plans for studying the merits and costs
of establishing a global network of means for
detecting and responding to terroristic or
other criminal use of biological agents against
people or other forms of life in the United
States or any foreign country.
(c) Report
(1) At the same time that the President sub-
mits the budget for fiscal year 1998 to Congress
pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, the Presi-
dent shall submit to Congress a report that sets
forth the comprehensive program developed
under subsection (a).
(2) The report shall include the following:
(A) The specific plans for the program that
are required under subsection (b).
(B) Estimates of the funds necessary, by
agency or department, for carrying out such
plans in fiscal year 1998 and the following five
fiscal years.
(3) The report shall be in an unclassified form.
If there is a classified version of the report, the
President shall submit the classified version at
the same time.
(Pub. L. 104–201, div. A, title XIV, § 1443, Sept. 23,
1996, 110 Stat. 2728.)
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REFERENCES IN TEXT
This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the
original ‘‘this title’’, meaning title XIV of div. A of
Pub. L. 104–201, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2714, which is
classified principally to this chapter. For complete
classification of title XIV to the Code, see Short Title
note set out under section 2301 of this title and Tables.
§ 2354. Termination
After September 30, 1999, the President—
(1) is not required to maintain a National
Coordinator
for
Nonproliferation
Matters
under section 2351 of this title; and
(2) may terminate the Committee on Non-
proliferation established under section 2352 of
this title.
(Pub. L. 104–20
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