Sec. 1321. Authority to carry out the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program
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The Secretary of Defense may carry out a program, referred to as the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program , with respect to foreign states to do the following: Facilitate the elimination and the safe and secure transportation and storage of chemical, biological, or other weapons, weapons components, weapons-related materials, and their delivery vehicles. Facilitate— the safe and secure transportation and storage of nuclear weapons, nuclear weapons-usable or high-threat radiological materials, nuclear weapons components, and their delivery vehicles; and the elimination of nuclear weapons components and nuclear weapons delivery vehicles.
Prevent the proliferation of nuclear and chemical weapons, weapons components, and weapons-related materials, technology, and expertise. Prevent the proliferation of biological weapons, weapons components, and weapons-related materials, technology, and expertise, which may include activities that facilitate detection and reporting of highly pathogenic diseases or other diseases that are associated with or that could be utilized as an early warning mechanism for disease outbreaks that could impact the Armed Forces of the United States or allies of the United States.
Prevent the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction-related materials, including all materials, equipment, and technology that could be used for the design, development, production, or use of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons and their means of delivery. Carry out military-to-military and defense contacts for advancing the mission of the Program, subject to subsection (f). The authority under subsection
(a)to carry out the Program is subject to any concurrence of the Secretary of State or other appropriate agency head required under section 1322 or 1323 (unless such concurrence is otherwise exempted by section 1352). The authority to carry out the Program in subsection
(a)includes authority to provide equipment, goods, and services, but does not include authority to provide cash directly to a project or activity carried out under the Program. The Program carried out under subsection
(a)may involve assistance in planning and in resolving technical problems associated with weapons destruction and proliferation. The Program may also involve the funding of critical short-term requirements related to weapons destruction. The Secretary of Defense may reimburse other United States Government departments and agencies under this section for costs of participation in the Program carried out under subsection (a). The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the military-to-military and defense contacts carried out under subsection (a)(6)— are focused and expanded to support specific relationship-building opportunities, which could lead to Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program development in new geographic areas and achieve other Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program benefits; are directly administered as part of the Department of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Program; and include cooperation and coordination with— the unified combatant commands; and the Department of State. Not less than 15 days before any obligation of any funds appropriated for any fiscal year for the Program, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on that proposed obligation for that fiscal year. Each such report shall specify— the activities and forms of assistance for which the Secretary of Defense plans to obligate funds; the amount of the proposed obligation; and the projected involvement (if any) of any department or agency of the United States (in addition to the Department of Defense) and of the private sector of the United States in the activities and forms of assistance for which the Secretary of Defense plans to obligate such funds.