S.Amdt. 311

1. Rewrites page 212, line 14 through page 218, line 2

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   Removes page 212, line 14 through page 218, line 2 of the printed bill. See that page

   Inserted: Sec. 403. (a) Report on Objectives and Negotiations.--Not later than April 15 of each year, the President shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report prepared by the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Director of National Intelligence, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, on the status of United States policy and actions with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. Such report shall include--

   Inserted: (1) a detailed statement concerning the arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament objectives of the executive branch of Government for the forthcoming year; and

   Inserted: (2) a detailed assessment of the status of any ongoing arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament negotiations, including a comprehensive description of negotiations or other activities during the preceding year and an appraisal of the status and prospects for the forthcoming year.

   Inserted: (b) Report on Compliance.--Not later than April 15 of each year, the President shall submit to the Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate a report prepared by the Secretary of State with the concurrence of the Director of the Central Intelligence Agency and in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, and the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on the status of United States policy and actions with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament compliance. Such report shall include--

   Inserted: (1) a detailed assessment of adherence of the United States to obligations undertaken in arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements, including information on the policies and organization of each relevant agency or department of the United States to ensure adherence to such obligations, a description of national security programs with a direct bearing on questions of adherence to such obligations and of steps being taken to ensure adherence, and a compilation of any substantive questions raised during the preceding year and any corrective action taken;

   Inserted: (2) a detailed assessment of the adherence of other nations to obligations undertaken in all arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements or commitments, including the Missile Technology Control Regime, to which the United States is a participating state, including information on actions taken by each nation with regard to the size, structure, and disposition of its military forces in order to comply with arms control, nonproliferation, or disarmament agreements or commitments, including, in the case of each agreement or commitment about which compliance questions exist--

   Inserted: (A) a description of each significant issue raised and efforts made and contemplated with the other participating state to seek resolution of the difficulty;

   Inserted: (B) an assessment of damage, if any, to United States security and other interests;

   Inserted: (C) recommendations as to any steps that should be considered to redress any damage to United States national security and to reduce compliance problems; and

   Inserted: (D) for states that are not parties to such agreements or commitments, a description of activities of concern carried out by such states and efforts underway to bring such states into adherence with such agreements or commitments;

   Inserted: (3) a discussion of any material noncompliance by foreign governments with their binding commitments to the United States with respect to the prevention of the spread of nuclear explosive devices (as defined in section 830(4) of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6305(4)) by non-nuclear-weapon states (as defined in section 830(5) of that Act (22 U.S.C. 6305(5)) or the acquisition by such states of unsafeguarded special nuclear material (as defined in section 830(8) of that Act (22 U.S.C. 6305(8)), including--

   Inserted: (A) a net assessment of the aggregate military significance of all such violations;

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   Inserted: (B) a statement of the compliance policy of the United States with respect to violations of those commitments; and

   Inserted: (C) what actions, if any, the President has taken or proposes to take to bring any country committing such a violation into compliance with those commitments; and

   Inserted: (4) a specific identification, to the maximum extent practicable in unclassified form, of each and every question that exists with respect to compliance by other countries with arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament agreements and other formal commitments with the United States.

   Inserted: (c) Chemical Weapons Convention Compliance Report Requirement Satisfied.--The report submitted pursuant to subsection (b) shall include the information required under section 2(10)(C) of Senate Resolution 75, 105th Congress, agreed to April 24, 1997, advising and consenting to the ratification of the Convention on the Prohibition of Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction, with annexes, done at Paris January 13, 1993 and entered into force April 29, 1997 (popularly known as the 'Chemical Weapons Convention'; T.Doc. 103-21)

   Inserted: (d) Classification of Report.--The reports required by this section shall be submitted in unclassified form, with classified annexes, as appropriate. The report portions described in paragraphs (2) and (3) of subsection (b) shall summarize in detail, at least in classified annexes, the information, analysis, and conclusions relevant to possible noncompliance by other countries that are provided by United States intelligence agencies.

   Inserted: (e) Reporting Consecutive Noncompliance.--If the President in consecutive reports submitted to the Congress under subsection (b) reports that any country is not in full compliance with its binding nonproliferation commitments to the United States, then the President shall include in the second such report an assessment of what actions are necessary to compensate for such violations.

   Inserted: (f) Additional Requirement.--Each report required by subsection (b) shall include a discussion of each significant issue described in subsection (b)(4) that was contained in a previous report issued under this section during 1995, or after December 31, 1995, until the question or concern has been resolved and such resolution has been reported in detail to the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Select Committee on Intelligence of the Senate and the Committee on International Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives.

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   Beginning on page 212, strike line 14 and all that follows through page 218, line 2, and insert the following:

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