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50 U.S.C. § 1522 — Conduct of chemical and biological defense program
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**(a) General** The Secretary of Defense shall carry out the chemical and biological defense program of the United States in accordance with the provisions of this section.
**(b) Management and oversight** In carrying out his responsibilities under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall do the following:
(1) Assign responsibility for overall coordination and integration of the chemical and biological warfare defense program and the chemical and biological medical defense program to a single office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
(2) Take those actions necessary to ensure close and continuous coordination between (A) the chemical and biological warfare defense program, and (B) the chemical and biological medical defense program.
(3) Exercise oversight over the chemical and biological defense program through the Defense Acquisition Board process.
**(c) Coordination of program**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall designate the Army as executive agent for the Department of Defense to coordinate and integrate research, development, test, and evaluation, and acquisition, requirements of the military departments for chemical and biological warfare defense programs of the Department of Defense.
(2) The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may conduct a program of basic and applied research and advanced technology development on chemical and biological warfare defense technologies and systems. In conducting such program, the Director shall seek to avoid unnecessary duplication of the activities under the program with chemical and biological warfare defense activities of the military departments and defense agencies and shall coordinate the activities under the program with those of the military departments and defense agencies.
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**(a) General** The Secretary of Defense shall carry out the chemical and biological defense program of the United States in accordance with the provisions of this section.
**(b) Management and oversight** In carrying out his responsibilities under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall do the following:
(1) Assign responsibility for overall coordination and integration of the chemical and biological warfare defense program and the chemical and biological medical defense program to a single office within the Office of the Secretary of Defense.
(2) Take those actions necessary to ensure close and continuous coordination between (A) the chemical and biological warfare defense program, and (B) the chemical and biological medical defense program.
(3) Exercise oversight over the chemical and biological defense program through the Defense Acquisition Board process.
**(c) Coordination of program**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall designate the Army as executive agent for the Department of Defense to coordinate and integrate research, development, test, and evaluation, and acquisition, requirements of the military departments for chemical and biological warfare defense programs of the Department of Defense.
(2) The Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may conduct a program of basic and applied research and advanced technology development on chemical and biological warfare defense technologies and systems. In conducting such program, the Director shall seek to avoid unnecessary duplication of the activities under the program with chemical and biological warfare defense activities of the military departments and defense agencies and shall coordinate the activities under the program with those of the military departments and defense agencies.
**(d) Funding**
(1) The budget for the Department of Defense for each fiscal year after fiscal year 1994 shall reflect a coordinated and integrated chemical and biological defense program for the Department of Defense.
(2) Funding requests for the program (other than for activities under the program conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under subsection (c)(2)) shall be set forth in the budget of the Department of Defense for each fiscal year as a separate account, with a single program element for each of the categories of research, development, test, and evaluation, acquisition, and military construction. Amounts for military construction projects may be set forth in the annual military construction budget. Funds for military construction for the program in the military construction budget shall be set forth separately from other funds for military construction projects. Funding requests for the program may be included in the budget accounts of the military departments.
(3) The program conducted by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency under subsection (c)(2) shall be set forth as a separate program element in the budget of that agency.
(4) All funding requirements for the chemical and biological defense program shall be reviewed by the Secretary of the Army as executive agent pursuant to subsection (c).
**(e) Management review and report**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall conduct a review of the management structure of the Department of Defense chemical and biological warfare defense program, including—
(A) research, development, test, and evaluation;
(B) procurement;
(C) doctrine development;
(D) policy;
(E) training;
(F) development of requirements;
(G) readiness; and
(H) risk assessment.
(2) Not later than May 1, 1994, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report that describes the details of measures being taken to improve joint coordination and oversight of the program and ensure a coherent and effective approach to its management.
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**(a)** Whoever, if one of the circumstances described in subsection (c) of this section occurs—
(1) without lawful authority, intentionally receives, possesses, uses, transfers, alters, disposes of, or disperses any nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material and—
(A) thereby knowingly causes the death of or serious bodily injury to any person or substantial damage to property or to the environment; or
(B) circumstances exist, or have been represented to the defendant to exist, that are likely to cause the death or serious bodily injury to any person, or substantial damage to property or to the environment;
(2) with intent to deprive another of nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material, knowingly—
(A) takes and carries away nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material of another without authority;
(B) makes an unauthorized use, disposition, or transfer, of nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material belonging to another; or
(C) uses fraud and thereby obtains nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material belonging to another;
(3) without lawful authority, intentionally carries, sends or moves nuclear material into or out of a country;
(4) knowingly—
(A) uses force; or
(B) threatens or places another in fear that any person other than the actor will imminently be subject to bodily injury;
and thereby takes nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material belonging to another from the person or presence of any other;
(5) intentionally intimidates any person and thereby obtains nuclear material or nuclear byproduct material belonging to another;
(6) with intent to compel any person, international organization, or governmental entity to do or refrain from doing any act, knowingly threatens to engage in conduct described in paragraph
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TITLE 50—WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
§ 1521a
I, § 153(a), Feb. 10, 1996, 110 Stat. 215; Pub. L. 104–201, div.
A, title X, § 1073(d), Sept. 23, 1996, 110 Stat. 2658; Pub. L.
110–181, div. A, title IX, § 921, Jan. 28, 2008, 122 Stat. 282;
Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title IX, § 921, Oct. 14, 2008, 122
Stat. 4573; Pub. L. 111–84, div. A, title X, § 1073(c)(8), Oct.
28, 2009, 123 Stat. 2475, which directed the Secretary of
the Army to establish a Chemical Demilitarization
Citizens’ Advisory Commission in each State in which
there existed a low-volume chemical weapons storage
site in order to receive citizen and State concerns re-
garding the program for the disposal of lethal chemical
agents and munitions, and provided for termination of
each such commission after completion of closure ac-
tivities or upon request of the State’s Governor, was re-
pealed by Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title XIV, § 1421(b)(2),
Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4420.
ALTERNATIVE DISPOSAL PROCESS FOR LOW-VOLUME
SITES; REVISED DISPOSAL CONCEPT PLAN
Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title I, §§ 174, 175, Oct. 23, 1992,
106 Stat. 2344, as amended by Pub. L. 103–160, div. A,
title I, § 155(b), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1579, which re-
lated to use of an alternative technology process for
the destruction of chemical weapons at low-volume
sites and required a revised chemical weapons disposal
concept plan incorporating such process if employed,
was repealed by Pub. L. 111–383, div. A, title XIV,
§ 1421(b)(2), Jan. 7, 2011, 124 Stat. 4420.
SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING INTERNATIONAL
CONSULTATION AND EXCHANGE PROGRAM
Pub. L. 102–484, div. A, title I, § 178, Oct. 23, 1992, 106
Stat. 2346, provided that: ‘‘It is the sense of Congress
that the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the
Secre
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