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[CITE: 50USC1523]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
           CHAPTER 32--CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL WARFARE PROGRAM
 
Sec. 1523. Annual report on chemical and biological warfare 
        defense
        

(a) Report required

    The Secretary of Defense shall include in the annual report of the 
Secretary under section 113(c) of title 10 a report on chemical and 
biological warfare defense. The report shall assess--
        (1) the overall readiness of the Armed Forces to fight in a 
    chemical-biological warfare environment and shall describe steps 
    taken and planned to be taken to improve such readiness; and
        (2) requirements for the chemical and biological warfare defense 
    program, including requirements for training, detection, and 
    protective equipment, for medical prophylaxis, and for treatment of 
    casualties resulting from use of chemical or biological weapons.

(b) Matters to be included

    The report shall include information on the following:
        (1) The quantities, characteristics, and capabilities of fielded 
    chemical and biological defense equipment to meet wartime and 
    peacetime requirements for support of the Armed Forces, including 
    individual protective items.
        (2) The status of research and development programs, and 
    acquisition programs, for required improvements in chemical and 
    biological defense equipment and medical treatment, including an 
    assessment of the ability of the Department of Defense and the 
    industrial base to meet those requirements.
        (3) Measures taken to ensure the integration of requirements for 
    chemical and biological defense equipment and material among the 
    Armed Forces.
        (4) The status of nuclear, biological, and chemical (NBC) 
    warfare defense training and readiness among the Armed Forces and 
    measures being taken to include realistic nuclear, biological, and 
    chemical warfare simulations in war games, battle simulations, and 
    training exercises.
        (5) Measures taken to improve overall management and 
    coordination of the chemical and biological defense program.
        (6) Problems encountered in the chemical and biological warfare 
    defense program during the past year and recommended solutions to 
    those problems for which additional resources or actions by the 
    Congress are required.
        (7) A description of the chemical warfare defense preparations 
    that have been and are being undertaken by the Department of Defense 
    to address needs which may arise under article X of the Chemical 
    Weapons Convention.
        (8) A summary of other preparations undertaken by the Department 
    of Defense and the On-Site Inspection Agency to prepare for and to 
    assist in the implementation of the convention, including activities 
    such as training for inspectors, preparation of defense 
    installations for inspections under the convention using the Defense 
    Treaty Inspection Readiness Program, provision of chemical weapons 
    detection equipment, and assistance in the safe transportation, 
    storage, and destruction of chemical weapons in other signatory 
    nations to the convention.
        (9) A description of any program involving the testing of 
    biological or chemical agents on human subjects that was carried out 
    by the Department of Defense during the period covered by the 
    report, together with--
            (A) a detailed justification for the testing;
            (B) a detailed explanation of the purposes of the testing;
            (C) a description of each chemical or biological agent 
        tested; and
            (D) the Secretary's certification that informed consent to 
        the testing was obtained from each human subject in advance of 
        the testing on that subject.

(Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title XVII, Sec. 1703, Nov. 30, 1993, 107 
Stat. 1854; Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title X, Sec. 1078(f), Nov. 18, 
1997, 111 Stat. 1915.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1994, and not as part of Pub. L. 91-121, title IV, 
Sec. 409, Nov. 19, 1969, 83 Stat. 209, which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsec. (b)(9). Pub. L. 105-85 added par. (9).
