Sec. 1241. Annual update of Department of Defense Freedom of Navigation Report
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The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives on an annual basis a report setting forth an update of the most current Department of Defense Freedom of Navigation Report under the Freedom of Navigation Operations (FONOPS) program. The purpose of each report shall be to document the types and locations of excessive claims that the Armed Forces of the United States have challenged in the previous year in order to preserve the rights, freedoms, and uses of the sea and airspace guaranteed to all countries by international law.
Each report under this section shall include, for the year covered by such report, the following: Each excessive maritime claim challenged by the United States under the program referred to in subsection (a), including the country making each such claim. The nature of each claim, including the geographic location or area covered by such claim (including the body of water and island grouping, when applicable). The specific legal challenge asserted through the program. Each report under this section shall be submitted in unclassified form.