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[CITE: 10USC2557]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
        CHAPTER 152--ISSUE OF SUPPLIES, SERVICES, AND FACILITIES
 
Sec. 2557. Excess nonlethal supplies: humanitarian relief

    (a) The Secretary of Defense may make available for humanitarian 
relief purposes any nonlethal excess supplies of the Department of 
Defense.
    (b) Excess supplies made available for humanitarian relief purposes 
under this section shall be transferred to the Secretary of State, who 
shall be responsible for the distribution of such supplies.
    (c) This section does not constitute authority to conduct any 
activity which, if carried out as an intelligence activity by the 
Department of Defense, would require a notice to the intelligence 
committees under title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
413 et seq.).
    (d) In this section:
        (1) The term ``nonlethal excess supplies'' means property, other 
    than real property, of the Department of Defense--
            (A) that is excess property, as defined in regulations of 
        the Department of Defense; and
            (B) that is not a weapon, ammunition, or other equipment or 
        material that is designed to inflict serious bodily harm or 
        death.

        (2) The term ``intelligence committees'' means the Select 
    Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Permanent Select 
    Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

(Added Pub. L. 99-145, title XIV, Sec. 1454(a), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 
761, Sec. 2547; amended Pub. L. 100-26, Sec. 7(k)(2), Apr. 21, 1987, 101 
Stat. 284; Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIII, Sec. 1322(a)(10), Nov. 
5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1671; Pub. L. 102-88, title VI, Sec. 602(c)(3), Aug. 
14, 1991, 105 Stat. 444; renumbered Sec. 2557, Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 
[[div. A], title X, Sec. 1033(b)(1)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 
1654A-260.)

                       References in Text

    The National Security Act of 1947, referred to in subsec. (c), is 
act July 26, 1947, ch. 343, 61 Stat. 495, as amended. Title V of the Act 
is classified generally to subchapter III (Sec. 413 et seq.) of chapter 
15 of Title 50, War and National Defense. For complete classification of 
this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 401 of 
Title 50 and Tables.


                               Amendments

    2000--Pub. L. 106-398 renumbered section 2547 of this title as this 
section.
    1991--Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 102-88 struck out par. (1) which read as 
follows: ``a finding under section 662 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
1961 (22 U.S.C. 2422); or'', struck out par. (2) designation, and 
substituted ``title V of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 
413 et seq.)'' for ``section 501(a)(1) of the National Security Act of 
1947 (50 U.S.C. 413)''.
    1990--Subsecs. (d), (e). Pub. L. 101-510 redesignated subsec. (e) as 
(d) and struck out former subsec. (d) which read as follows:
    ``(1) The Secretary of State shall submit an annual report on the 
disposition of all excess supplies transferred by the Secretary of 
Defense to the Secretary of State under this section during the 
preceding year.
    ``(2) Such reports shall be submitted to the Committees on Armed 
Services and on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committees on 
Armed Services and on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.
    ``(3) Such reports shall be submitted not later than June 1 of each 
year.''
    1987--Subsec. (e)(1), (2). Pub. L. 100-26 inserted ``The term'' 
after each par. designation and struck out uppercase letter of first 
word after first quotation marks in each par. and substituted lowercase 
letter.

                  Section Referred to in Other Sections

    This section is referred to in sections 2561, 2562 of this title.
