Sec. 1056. IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW START TREATY
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## SEC. 1056 IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW START TREATY ###
(a)Implementation ####
(1)Fiscal year 2014 activities With respect to reductions to the nuclear forces of the United States necessary to meet the New START Treaty levels, the Secretary of Defense may only use funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2014 to carry out activities to prepare for such reductions. Subject to the limitation in subsection (b), such activities may include the preparation of any documents needed to support an environmental assessment process under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4321 et seq.) that may be required to support such reductions. ####
(2)Consolidated budget display **[**[10 U.S.C. 494 note](/us/usc/t10/s494)**]** The Secretary shall include with the defense budget materials for each fiscal year specified in paragraph
(3)a consolidated budget justification display that individually covers each program and activity associated with the implementation of the New START Treaty for the period covered by the future-years defense program submitted under section 221 of title 10, United States Code, at or about the time as such defense budget materials are submitted. ####
(3)Fiscal year specified A fiscal year specified in this paragraph is each fiscal year that occurs during the period beginning with fiscal year 2015 and ending on the date on which the New START Treaty is no longer in force. ###
(b)Limitation Of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act or otherwise made available for fiscal year 2014 for environmental assessment activities to support reductions to the nuclear forces of the United States, not more than 50 percent may be obligated or expended until— ####
(1)the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress the plan required by subsection
(a)of section 1042 of the National Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 2012 (Public Law 112-81; 125 Stat. 1575), including a description of various options for the nuclear force structure of the United States under the New START Treaty, including the preferred force structure option of the Secretary (such plan and options may be subject to modification based on the results of the environmental assessment and other subsequent developments); ####
(2)the Commander of the United States Strategic Command submits to the congressional defense committees a report providing the assessment of the Commander with respect to the options contained in the plan described in paragraph (1), including the preferred force structure option of the Secretary; and ####
(3)the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff certifies to the congressional defense committees that conducting such environmental assessment activities will not imperil the ability of the military to comply with the New START Treaty levels by February 2018. ###
(c)Modification of Limitation on Retirement of B-52 Aircraft ####
(1)Common conventional capability configuration Subsection (a)(1)(C) of section 131 of the John Warner National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2007 (Public Law 109-364; 120 Stat. 2111), as added by section 137(a)(1)(C) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-181; 122 Stat. 32), is amended by striking “common capability configuration” and inserting “common conventional capability configuration”. ####
(2)Conversion Notwithstanding such section 131 or any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense may not convert a B-52 aircraft described in subsection (a)(1)(C) of such section 131 to a configuration that does not allow the aircraft to perform nuclear missions unless the Secretary has submitted to Congress the information required under subsection (b). ###
(d)Report on Collaboration Among the Strategic Forces of the Armed Forces ####
(1)Report required Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on collaboration among the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force on activities related to strategic systems to provide efficiencies, improve technology sharing, and yield other potential benefits. ####
(2)Elements The report under paragraph
(1)shall include the following: #####
(A)A description of current collaboration among the Army, the Navy, and the Air Force on strategic system programs, including strategic missiles systems, conventional prompt global strike, and other strategic forces as the Secretary determines appropriate. #####
(B)A description and assessment of any additional opportunities for such collaboration, including the benefits that may be realized by such efforts, the risks and costs to existing programs, and potential effects on the defense industrial base that supports strategic systems. ###
(e)Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that— ####
(1)the successful implementation of the New START Treaty requires the partnership of the President and Congress; ####
(2)the force structure required by the New START Treaty should preserve Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missile silos that contain a deployed missile as of the date of the enactment of this Act in, at a minimum, a warm status that enables such silo to be made fully operational with a deployed missile and remain a fully functioning element of the interconnected and redundant command and control system of the missile field; and ####
(3)the distribution of any such warm-status silos should not disproportionally affect the force structure of any one operational intercontinental ballistic missile wing. ###
(f)Definitions **[**[10 U.S.C. 494 note](/us/usc/t10/s494)**]** In this section: ####
(1)The term “defense budget materials” has the meaning given that term in section 231(f) of title 10, United States Code. ####
(2)The term “New START Treaty” means the Treaty between the United States of America and the Russian Federation on Measures for the Further Reduction and Limitation of Strategic Offensive Arms, signed on April 8, 2010, and entered into force on February 5, 2011.
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- Pub. L. 112-81
- 125 Stat. 1575
- Pub. L. 109-364
- 120 Stat. 2111
- Pub. L. 110-181
- 122 Stat. 32
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Sec. 1056
IMPLEMENTATION OF NEW START TREATY
Pub. L.Pub. L. 112-81
Stat.125 Stat. 1575
Pub. L.Pub. L. 109-364
Stat.120 Stat. 2111
Pub. L.Pub. L. 110-181
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