50 U.S.C. § 2370 — Notification of Committees on Armed Services with respect to certain nonproliferation and proliferation activities
submitted 18 years ago by Pub. L. 110-417 to r/title-50-WAR-AND-NATIONAL-DEFENSE · 229 words · no verdicts yet
Specified national-security agencies must keep the congressional Armed Services Committees informed about nonproliferation work and important foreign proliferation activity. The Director of National Intelligence must transmit credible information within 60 days after learning of such activity.
(a) The Defense, Energy, Commerce, and State Secretaries and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission must keep the Senate and House Armed Services Committees informed about: (1) their activities to carry out their nonproliferation purposes and policies; and (2) other activities to prevent the spread of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or their delivery systems.
(b)(1) The Director of National Intelligence must keep those committees fully and currently informed about significant foreign-nation activities involving proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or their delivery systems. (2) Here, “fully and currently informed” means sending credible information about such an activity no later than 60 days after becoming aware of it.
The Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of State, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission shall keep the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives informed with respect to—
any activities undertaken by any such Secretary or the Commission to carry out the purposes and policies of the Secretaries and the Commission with respect to nonproliferation programs; and
any other activities undertaken by any such Secretary or the Commission to prevent the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or the means of delivery of such weapons.
The Director of National Intelligence shall keep the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives fully and currently informed with respect to any activities of foreign nations that are significant with respect to the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, or biological weapons or the means of delivery of such weapons.
For purposes of paragraph (1), the term “fully and currently informed” means the transmittal of credible information with respect to an activity described in such paragraph not later than 60 days after becoming aware of the activity.
Source credit: (Pub. L. 110–417, [div. A], title X, § 1062, Oct. 14, 2008, 122 Stat. 4614.)
- 2008Enacted · Pub. L. 110-417 · 122 Stat. 4614
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