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Conference Report on the FY93 National Defense Authorization Act

Public Law 103-337

October 5, 1994

TITLE XII--COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION WITH STATES OF FORMER SOVIET UNION

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS

LEGISLATIVE PROVISIONS ADOPTED

COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION WITH STATES OF THE FORMER SOVIET UNION (SECS. 1201-1209)

The budget request contained $400.0 million for cooperative threat reduction (CTR) with states of the former Soviet Union.

The Senate bill included a provision (sec. 1013) that would authorize the requested amount and extend the authorities and reporting requirements contained in the Cooperative Threat Reduction Act of 1993 (title XII of Public Law 103-160; 22 U.S.C. 5951 et seq.). The Senate bill also contained a provision (sec. 1041) that would require a report on offensive biological warfare programs of states of the former Soviet Union.

The House amendment contained a provision (sec. 1048) that would authorize the requested amount and extend the semiannual CTR report. Additionally, the House amendment contained a provision that would express the sense of Congress on the safe and secure dismantlement of the Soviet nuclear arsenal (sec. 1046); require a report on the coordination of military-to-military programs (sec. 1047); require Presidential certification that Russia has terminated its offensive biological warfare program (sec. 1049); require a report accounting for CTR assistance (sec. 1201); require a report on the accountability and control of fissile and chemical materials (sec. 1202); require a report on allied support for CTR programs and annual reports on multiyear planning for CTR programs (sec. 1203); and place specific limitations on all CTR programs for fiscal year 1995 (sec. 1204).

The conferees agree to combine the provisions of the Senate bill and the House amendment.

The conferees reiterate that the main focus of cooperative threat reduction must be on activities directly related to the safety, dismantlement, and nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction. The conferees direct that any environmental restoration or housing activities proposed to be carried out in fiscal year 1995 may be funded only from the subaccount established in paragraph (a)(6) of section 1206 of this act and may be conducted only in accordance with the authorities established in sections 1203(b)(6) and (b)(7) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994. The conferees note that the limitations established in section 1206 of this act would apply only to the $400.0 million authorized to be appropriated in section 301(21) of this act.

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