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10 U.S.C. § 1505 — Further review
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**(a) Subsequent Review.—** The Secretary concerned shall conduct subsequent inquiries into the whereabouts and status of any person determined by the Secretary under [section 1504 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1504&num=0&edition=prelim) to be in a missing status.
**(b) Frequency of Subsequent Reviews.—** The Secretary concerned shall conduct inquiries into the whereabouts and status of a person under subsection (a) upon receipt of information that may result in a change of status of the person. The Secretary concerned shall appoint a board to conduct such inquiries.
**(c) Action Upon Discovery or Receipt of Information.—**
(1) Whenever any United States intelligence agency or other element of the Government finds or receives information that may be related to a missing person, the information shall promptly be forwarded to the Secretary of Defense.
(2) Upon receipt of information under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall as expeditiously as possible ensure that the information is added to the appropriate case file for that missing person and notify (A) the designated missing person’s counsel for that person, and (B) the primary next of kin and any previously designated person for the missing person of the existence of that information.
(3) The Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the missing person’s counsel notified under paragraph (2), shall determine whether the information is significant enough to require a board review under this section.
**(d) Conduct of Proceedings.—** If it is determined that such a board should be appointed, the appointment of, and activities before, a board appointed under this section shall be governed by the provisions of [section 1504 of this title](https://us
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**(a) Subsequent Review.—** The Secretary concerned shall conduct subsequent inquiries into the whereabouts and status of any person determined by the Secretary under [section 1504 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1504&num=0&edition=prelim) to be in a missing status.
**(b) Frequency of Subsequent Reviews.—** The Secretary concerned shall conduct inquiries into the whereabouts and status of a person under subsection (a) upon receipt of information that may result in a change of status of the person. The Secretary concerned shall appoint a board to conduct such inquiries.
**(c) Action Upon Discovery or Receipt of Information.—**
(1) Whenever any United States intelligence agency or other element of the Government finds or receives information that may be related to a missing person, the information shall promptly be forwarded to the Secretary of Defense.
(2) Upon receipt of information under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall as expeditiously as possible ensure that the information is added to the appropriate case file for that missing person and notify (A) the designated missing person’s counsel for that person, and (B) the primary next of kin and any previously designated person for the missing person of the existence of that information.
(3) The Secretary of Defense, with the advice of the missing person’s counsel notified under paragraph (2), shall determine whether the information is significant enough to require a board review under this section.
**(d) Conduct of Proceedings.—** If it is determined that such a board should be appointed, the appointment of, and activities before, a board appointed under this section shall be governed by the provisions of [section 1504 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1504&num=0&edition=prelim) with respect to a board appointed under that section.
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**(a) Responsibility for Missing Persons.—**
(1)
(A) The Secretary of Defense shall designate a single organization within the Department of Defense to have responsibility for Department matters relating to missing persons from past conflicts, including accounting for missing persons and persons whose remains have not been recovered from the conflict in which they were lost.
(B) The organization designated under this paragraph shall be a Defense Agency or other entity of the Department of Defense outside the military departments and is referred to in this chapter as the “designated Defense Agency”.
(C) The head of the organization designated under this paragraph is referred to in this chapter as the “designated Agency Director”.
(2) Subject to the authority, direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, the responsibilities of the designated Agency Director shall include the following:
(A) Policy, control, and oversight of the program established under [section 1509 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1509&num=0&edition=prelim).
(B) Responsibility for accounting for missing persons from past conflicts, including locating, recovering, and identifying missing persons from past conflicts or their remains after hostilities have ceased.
(C) Coordination for the Department of Defense with other departments and agencies of the United States on all matters concerning missing persons from past conflicts.
(D) Dissemination of appropriate information on the status of missing persons from past conflicts to authorized family members.
(E) Establishment of a means for communication between officials of the designated Defense Agency and family members of missing persons from past conflicts, veterans
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**(a) Preliminary Assessment and Recommendation by Commander.—** After receiving information that the whereabouts and status of a person described in [section 1501(c) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1501/c&num=0&edition=prelim) is uncertain and that the absence of the person may be involuntary, the commander of the unit, facility, or area to or in which the person is assigned shall make a preliminary assessment of the circumstances. If, as a result of that assessment, the commander concludes that the person is missing, the commander shall—
(1) recommend that the person be placed in a missing status; and
(2) not later than 10 days after receiving such information, transmit a report containing that recommendation to the Secretary concerned in accordance with procedures prescribed under [section 1501(b) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1501/b&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(b) Transmission of Advisory Copy to Theater Component Commander.—** When transmitting a report under subsection (a)(2) recommending that a person be placed in a missing status, the commander transmitting that report shall transmit an advisory copy of the report to the theater component commander with jurisdiction over the missing person.
**(c) Safeguarding and Forwarding of Records.—** A commander making a preliminary assessment under subsection (a) with respect to a missing person shall (in accordance with procedures prescribed under [section 1501 of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim)) safeguard and forward for official use any information relating to the whereabouts and status of the missing person that result
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**(a) Additional Board.—** If information that may result in a change of status of a person covered by a determination under [section 1503(i) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1503/i&num=0&edition=prelim) becomes available within one year after the date of the transmission of a report with respect to the person under [section 1502(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1502/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim), the Secretary concerned shall appoint a board under this section to conduct an inquiry into the information.
**(b) Date of Appointment.—** The Secretary concerned shall appoint a board under this section to conduct an inquiry into the whereabouts and status of a missing person on or about one year after the date of the transmission of a report concerning the person under [section 1502(a)(2) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1502/a/2&num=0&edition=prelim).
**(c) Combined Inquiries.—** If it appears to the Secretary concerned that the absence or status of two or more persons is factually related, the Secretary may appoint one board under this section to conduct the inquiry into the whereabouts and status of such persons.
**(d) Composition.—**
(1) A board appointed under this section shall be composed of at least three members as follows:
(A) In the case of a board that will inquire into the whereabouts and status of one or more members of the armed forces (and no civilians described in subparagraph (B)), the board shall be composed of officers having the grade of major or lieutenant commander or above.
(B) In the case of a board that will inquire into the whereabouts and status of one or more civi
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**(a) Program Required; Covered Conflicts.—** The Secretary of Defense shall implement a comprehensive, coordinated, integrated, and fully resourced program to account for persons described in subparagraph (A) or (B) of [section 1513(1) of this title](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1513/1&num=0&edition=prelim) who are unaccounted for from the following conflicts:
(1) World War II during the period beginning on December 7, 1941, and ending on December 31, 1946, including members of the armed forces who were lost during flight operations in the Pacific theater of operations covered by section 576 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 (Public Law 106–65; [10 U.S.C. 1501](https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title10-section1501&num=0&edition=prelim) note).
(2) The Cold War during the period beginning on September 2, 1945, and ending on August 21, 1991.
(3) The Korean War during the period beginning on June 27, 1950, and ending on January 31, 1955.
(4) The Indochina War era during the period beginning on July 8, 1959, and ending on May 15, 1975.
(5) The Persian Gulf War during the period beginning on August 2, 1990, and ending on February 28, 1991.
(6) Such other conflicts in which members of the armed forces served as the Secretary of Defense may designate.
**(b) Implementation.—**
(1) The Secretary of Defense shall implement the program within the Department of Defense through the designated Agency Director.
(2)
(A) The Secretary shall assign or detail to the designated Defense Agency on a full-time basis a senior medical examiner from the personnel of the Armed Forces Medical Examiner System. The primary duties of the medical examiner so assigned or detailed shall inc
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TITLE 10—ARMED FORCES
§ 1505
Subsec. (d)(4). Pub. L. 105–85, § 599(a)(3)(B), substituted
‘‘section 1503(c)(4)’’ for ‘‘section 1503(c)(3)’’.
Subsec. (f)(1). Pub. L. 105–85, § 599(d)(1), inserted at
end ‘‘The identity of counsel appointed under this para-
graph for a missing person shall be made known to the
missing person’s primary next of kin and any other pre-
viously designated person of the person.’’
Subsec. (i)(1). Pub. L. 105–85, § 1073(a)(30), substituted
‘‘this section’’ for ‘‘this subsection’’.
1996—Subsec. (d)(1). Pub. L. 104–201, § 578(a)(3)(A),
added text of par. (1) and struck out former text of par.
(1) which read as follows: ‘‘A board appointed under
this section shall be composed of at least three mem-
bers as follows:
‘‘(A) In the case of a board that will inquire into
the whereabouts and status of one or more members
of the armed forces (and no civilians described in sub-
paragraph (B)), the board shall be composed of offi-
cers having the grade of major or lieutenant com-
mander or above.
‘‘(B) In the case of a board that will inquire into the
whereabouts and status of one or more civilian em-
ployees of the Department of Defense or contractors
of the Department of Defense (and no members of the
armed forces), the board shall be composed of—
‘‘(i) not less than three employees of the Depart-
ment of Defense whose rate of annual pay is equal
to or greater than the rate of annual pay payable
for grade GS–13 of the General Schedule under sec-
tion 5332 of title 5; and
‘‘(ii) such members of the armed forces as the
Secretary considers advisable.
‘‘(C) In the case of a board that will inquire into the
whereabouts and status of both one or more members
of the armed forces and one or more civilians de-
scribed in subparagraph
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