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[CITE: 50USC2316]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
         CHAPTER 40--DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
 
                   SUBCHAPTER I--DOMESTIC PREPAREDNESS
 
Sec. 2316. Actions to increase civilian expertise


(a) to (c) Omitted

(d) Civilian expertise

    The President shall take reasonable measures to reduce the reliance 
of civilian law enforcement officials on Department of Defense resources 
to counter the threat posed by the use or potential use of biological 
and chemical weapons of mass destruction within the United States. The 
measures shall include--
        (1) actions to increase civilian law enforcement expertise to 
    counter such a threat; and
        (2) actions to improve coordination between civilian law 
    enforcement officials and other civilian sources of expertise, 
    within and outside the Federal Government, to counter such a threat.

(e) Reports

    The President shall submit to Congress the following reports:
        (1) Not later than 90 days after September 23, 1996, a report 
    describing the respective policy functions and operational roles of 
    Federal agencies in countering the threat posed by the use or 
    potential use of biological and chemical weapons of mass destruction 
    within the United States.
        (2) Not later than one year after September 23, 1996, a report 
    describing--
            (A) the actions planned to be taken to carry out subsection 
        (d) of this section; and
            (B) the costs of such actions.

        (3) Not later than three years after September 23, 1996, a 
    report updating the information provided in the reports submitted 
    pursuant to paragraphs (1) and (2), including the measures taken 
    pursuant to subsection (d) of this section.

(Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1416, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2721.)

                          Codification

    Section is comprised of subsecs. (d) and (e) of section 1416 of Pub. 
L. 104-201. Subsecs. (a) to (c) of section 1416 enacted section 382 of 
Title 10, Armed Forces, and sections 175a and 2332d of Title 18, Crimes 
and Criminal Procedure, and amended section 372 of Title 10.
