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[CITE: 50USC2353]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
         CHAPTER 40--DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
 
   SUBCHAPTER IV--COORDINATION OF POLICY AND COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST 
              PROLIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION
 
Sec. 2353. Comprehensive preparedness program


(a) Program required

    The President, acting through the Committee on Nonproliferation 
established under section 2352 of this title, shall develop a 
comprehensive program for carrying out this chapter.

(b) Content of program

    The program set forth in the report shall include specific plans as 
follows:
        (1) Plans for countering proliferation of weapons of mass 
    destruction and related materials and technologies.
        (2) Plans for training and equipping Federal, State, and local 
    officials for managing a crisis involving a use or threatened use of 
    a weapon of mass destruction, including the consequences of the use 
    of such a weapon.
        (3) Plans for providing for regular sharing of information among 
    intelligence, law enforcement, and customs agencies.
        (4) Plans for training and equipping law enforcement units, 
    customs services, and border security personnel to counter the 
    smuggling of weapons of mass destruction and related materials and 
    technologies.
        (5) Plans for establishing appropriate centers for analyzing 
    seized nuclear, radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and 
    related materials and technologies.
        (6) Plans for establishing in the United States appropriate 
    legal controls and authorities relating to the exporting of nuclear, 
    radiological, biological, and chemical weapons, and related 
    materials and technologies.
        (7) Plans for encouraging and assisting governments of foreign 
    countries to implement and enforce laws that set forth appropriate 
    penalties for offenses regarding the smuggling of weapons of mass 
    destruction and related materials and technologies.
        (8) Plans for building the confidence of the United States and 
    Russia in each other's controls over United States and Russian 
    nuclear weapons and fissile materials, including plans for verifying 
    the dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
        (9) Plans for reducing United States and Russian stockpiles of 
    excess plutonium, reflecting--
            (A) consideration of the desirability and feasibility of a 
        United States-Russian agreement governing fissile material 
        disposition and the specific technologies and approaches to be 
        used for disposition of excess plutonium; and
            (B) an assessment of the options for United States 
        cooperation with Russia in the disposition of Russian plutonium.

        (10) Plans for studying the merits and costs of establishing a 
    global network of means for detecting and responding to terroristic 
    or other criminal use of biological agents against people or other 
    forms of life in the United States or any foreign country.

(c) Report

    (1) At the same time that the President submits the budget for 
fiscal year 1998 to Congress pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, 
the President shall submit to Congress a report that sets forth the 
comprehensive program developed under subsection (a) of this section.
    (2) The report shall include the following:
        (A) The specific plans for the program that are required under 
    subsection (b) of this section.
        (B) Estimates of the funds necessary, by agency or department, 
    for carrying out such plans in fiscal year 1998 and the following 
    five fiscal years.

    (3) The report shall be in an unclassified form. If there is a 
classified version of the report, the President shall submit the 
classified version at the same time.

(Pub. L. 104-201, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1443, Sept. 23, 1996, 110 
Stat. 2728.)

                       References in Text

    This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), was in the original ``this 
title'', meaning title XIV of div. A of Pub. L. 104-201, Sept. 23, 1996, 
110 Stat. 2714, which is classified principally to this chapter. For 
complete classification of title XIV to the Code, see Short Title note 
set out under section 2301 of this title and Tables.
