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[CITE: 22USC2577a]

 
               TITLE 22--FOREIGN RELATIONS AND INTERCOURSE
 
                CHAPTER 35--ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT
 
                        SUBCHAPTER III--FUNCTIONS
 
Sec. 2577a. Arms control verification


(a) Establishment of working group

    The President should establish a working group--
        (1) to examine verification approaches to a strategic arms 
    reduction agreement and other arms control agreements; and
        (2) to assess the relevance for such agreements of the 
    verification provisions of the Treaty Between the United States and 
    the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their 
    Intermediate-Range and Shorter-Range Missiles (signed at Washington, 
    December 8, 1987).

(b) Information and data base

    (1) The Agency shall allocate sufficient resources to develop and 
maintain a comprehensive information and data base on verification 
concepts, research, technologies, and systems. The Agency shall collect, 
maintain, analyze, and disseminate information pertaining to arms 
control verification and monitoring, including information regarding--
        (A) all current United States bilateral and multilateral arms 
    treaties; and
        (B) proposed, prospective, and potential bilateral or 
    multilateral arms treaties in the areas of nuclear, conventional, 
    chemical, and space weapons.

    (2) The Agency shall seek to improve United States verification and 
monitoring activities through the monitoring and support of relevant 
research and analysis.
    (3) The Agency shall provide detailed information on the activities 
pursuant to this section in its annual report to the Congress.

(Pub. L. 101-216, title I, Sec. 105, Dec. 11, 1989, 103 Stat. 1854.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the Arms Control and Disarmament 
Amendments Act of 1989, and not as part of the Arms Control and 
Disarmament Act which comprises this chapter.

                          Transfer of Functions

    ``Agency'', referred to in subsec. (b), meaning the United States 
Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, abolished and functions transferred 
to Secretary of State, see sections 6511 and 6512 of this title.
