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[CITE: 50USC404c]

 
                   TITLE 50--WAR AND NATIONAL DEFENSE
 
                      CHAPTER 15--NATIONAL SECURITY
 
            SUBCHAPTER I--COORDINATION FOR NATIONAL SECURITY
 
Sec. 404c. Annual report on United States security arrangements 
        and commitments with other nations
        

(a) Report requirements

    The President shall submit to the congressional committees specified 
in subsection (d) of this section each year a report (in both classified 
and unclassified form) on United States security arrangements with, and 
commitments to, other nations.

(b) Matters to be included

    The President shall include in each such report the following:
        (1) A description of--
            (A) each security arrangement with, or commitment to, other 
        nations, whether based upon (i) a formal document (including a 
        mutual defense treaty, a pre-positioning arrangement or 
        agreement, or an access agreement), or (ii) an expressed policy; 
        and
            (B) the historical origins of each such arrangement or 
        commitment.

        (2) An evaluation of the ability of the United States to meet 
    its commitments based on the projected reductions in the defense 
    structure of the United States.
        (3) A plan for meeting each of those commitments with the force 
    structure projected for the future.
        (4) An assessment of the need to continue, modify, or 
    discontinue each of those arrangements and commitments in view of 
    the changing international security situation.

(c) Deadline for report

    The President shall submit the report required by subsection (a) of 
this section not later than February 1 of each year.

(d) Specified congressional committees

    The congressional committees referred to in subsection (a) of this 
section are the following:
        (1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign 
    Relations of the Senate.
        (2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
    International Relations of the House of Representatives.

(Pub. L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1457, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 
1696; Pub. L. 104-106, div. A, title XV, Sec. 1502(c)(4)(C), Feb. 10, 
1996, 110 Stat. 507; Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1067(10), 
Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)

                          Codification

    Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 1991, and not as part of the National Security Act 
of 1947 which comprises this chapter.


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (d)(2). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``Committee on 
Armed Services'' for ``Committee on National Security''.
    1996--Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 1502(c)(4)(C)(i), 
substituted ``shall submit to the congressional committees specified in 
subsection (d) of this section each year'' for ``shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services and on Foreign Affairs of the House of 
Representatives and the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign 
Relations of the Senate each year''.
    Subsec. (c). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 1502(c)(4)(C)(ii), substituted 
``The President'' for ``(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the 
President'' and struck out par. (2) which read as follows: ``In the case 
of the report required to be submitted in 1991, the evaluation, plan, 
and assessment referred to in paragraphs (2), (3), and (4) of subsection 
(b) of this section may be submitted not later than May 1, 1991.''
    Subsec. (d). Pub. L. 104-106, Sec. 1502(c)(4)(C)(iii), added subsec. 
(d).
