Sec. 1032. NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING GUIDANCE TO DENY SAFE HAVENS TO AL-QAEDA AND ITS VIOLENT EXTREMIST AFFILIATES
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## SEC. 1032 NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING GUIDANCE TO DENY SAFE HAVENS TO AL-QAEDA AND ITS VIOLENT EXTREMIST AFFILIATES **[**[50 U.S.C. 404a note](/us/usc/t50/s404a)**]** ###
(a)Purpose The purpose of this section is to improve interagency strategic planning and execution to more effectively integrate efforts to deny safe havens and strengthen at-risk states to further the goals of the National Security Strategy related to the disruption, dismantlement, and defeat of al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates. ###
(b)National Security Planning Guidance ####
(1)Guidance required The President shall issue classified or unclassified national security planning guidance in support of objectives stated in the national security strategy report submitted to Congress by the President pursuant to section 108 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404a) to deny safe havens to al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates and to strengthen at-risk states. Such guidance shall serve as the strategic plan that governs United States and coordinated international efforts to enhance the capacity of governmental and nongovernmental entities to work toward the goal of eliminating the ability of al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates to establish or maintain safe havens. ####
(2)Contents of guidance The guidance required under paragraph
(1)shall include each of the following: #####
(A)A prioritized list of specified geographic areas that the President determines are necessary to address and an explicit discussion and list of the criteria or rationale used to prioritize the areas on the list, including a discussion of the conditions that would hamper the ability of the United States to strengthen at-risk states or other entities in such areas. #####
(B)For each specified geographic area, a description, analysis, and discussion of the core problems and contributing issues that allow or could allow al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates to use the area as a safe haven from which to plan and launch attacks, engage in propaganda, or raise funds and other support, including any ongoing or potential radicalization of the population, or to use the area as a key transit route for personnel, weapons, funding, or other support. #####
(C)For each specified geographic area, a description of the following: ######
(i)The feasibility of conducting multilateral programs to train and equip the military forces of relevant countries in the area. ######
(ii)The authority and funding that would be required to support such programs. ######
(iii)How such programs would be implemented. ######
(iv)How such programs would support the national security priorities and interests of the United States and complement other efforts of the United States Government in the area and in other specified geographic areas. #####
(D)A list of short-term, mid-term, and long-term goals for each specified geographic area, prioritized by importance. #####
(E)A description of the role and mission of each Federal department and agency involved in executing the guidance, including the Departments of Defense, Justice, Treasury, and State and the Agency for International Development. #####
(F)A description of gaps in United States capabilities to meet the goals listed pursuant to subparagraph (D), and the extent to which those gaps can be met through coordination with nongovernmental, international, or private sector organizations, entities, or companies. ####
(3)Review and update of guidance The President shall review and update the guidance required under paragraph
(1)as necessary. Any such review shall address each of the following: #####
(A)The overall progress made toward achieving the goals listed pursuant to paragraph (2)(D), including an overall assessment of the progress in denying a safe haven to al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates. #####
(B)The performance of each Federal department and agency involved in executing the guidance. #####
(C)The performance of the unified country team and appropriate combatant command, or in the case of a cross-border effort, country teams in the area and the appropriate combatant command. #####
(D)Any addition to, deletion from, or change in the order of the prioritized list maintained pursuant to paragraph (2)(A). ####
(4)Report #####
(A)In general Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of the Carl Levin and Howard P. “Buck” McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015, the President shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that contains a detailed summary of the national security planning guidance required under paragraph (1), including any updates thereto. #####
(B)Form The report may include a classified annex as determined to be necessary by the President. #####
(C)Definition In this paragraph, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means— ######
(i)the congressional defense committees; and ######
(ii)the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives. ####
(5)Specified geographic area defined In this subsection, the term “specified geographic area” means any country, subnational territory, or region— #####
(A)that serves or may potentially serve as a safe haven for al-Qaeda or a violent extremist affiliate of al-Qaeda— ######
(i)from which to plan and launch attacks, engage in propaganda, or raise funds and other support; or ######
(ii)for use as a key transit route for personnel, weapons, funding, or other support; and #####
(B)over which one or more governments or entities exert insufficient governmental or security control to deny al-Qaeda and its violent extremist affiliates the ability to establish a large scale presence.
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NATIONAL SECURITY PLANNING GUIDANCE TO DENY SAFE HAVENS TO AL-QAEDA AND ITS VIOLENT EXTREMIST AFFILIATES
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