22 U.S.C. § 6729 — United States assistance in inspections at private facilities

(a) At an owner’s request, the Secretary of Defense may help prepare a facility that is not owned or operated by, or contracted for use by or for, the United States^* Government. (b)(1) Except under (2), the owner must reimburse the Secretary’s costs. (2) If the facility is owned by a person in (c), the United States National Authority reimburses those costs. (c) This exception covers (1) a “small business concern” as defined in 15 U.S.C. §632, and (2) a United States person that does not possess, produce, process, consume, import, or export Schedule 1 or 2 chemicals and that in the preceding calendar year produced either (A) more than 30 metric tons of Schedule 3 or unscheduled discrete organic chemicals containing phosphorus, sulfur, or fluorine, or (B) more than 200 metric tons of unscheduled discrete organic chemicals.