Sec. 1647. Certification required for Russia and China to tour certain missile defense sites
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Before the Secretary of Defense makes a determination with respect to allowing a foreign national of Russia or China to tour a covered site, the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a certification that— the Secretary has determined that such tour is in the national security interest of the United States, including the justifications for such determination; and the Secretary will not share any technical data relating to the covered site with the foreign nationals. The Secretary may not conduct a tour described in subsection
(a)until a period of 45 days has elapsed following the date on which the Secretary submits the certification for that tour under such subsection. In this section, the term covered site means any of the following: The combat information center of a naval ship equipped with the Aegis ballistic missile defense system. An Aegis Ashore site. A terminal high altitude area defense battery. A ground-based midcourse defense interceptor silo.