§ 1124. TRIAL INVESTIGATIONS AND TRIAL VISITS.
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National Security Trial Investigations and Trial Visits .— The President shall conduct a series of national security trial investigations and trial visits, both during and following negotiations to develop a compliance protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, with the objective of ensuring that the compliance procedures of the protocol are effective and adequately protect the national security of the United States. These trial investigations and trial visits shall be conducted at such sites as United States Government facilities, installations, and national laboratories.
United States Industry Trial Investigations and Trial Visits .— The President shall take all appropriate steps to conduct or sponsor a series of United States industry trial investigations and trial visits, both during and following negotiations to develop a compliance protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, with the objective of ensuring that the compliance procedures of the protocol are effective and adequately protect the national security and the concerns of affected United States industries and research institutions.
These trial investigations and trial visits shall be conducted at such sites as academic institutions, vaccine production facilities, and pharmaceutical and biotechnology firms in the United States. Participation by Defense Department and Other Appropriate Personnel .— The Secretary of Defense and, as appropriate, the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation shall make available specialized personnel to participate— in each trial investigation or trial visit conducted pursuant to subsection (a); and in each trial investigation or trial visit conducted pursuant to subsection (b), except for any investigation or visit in which the host facility requests that such personnel not participate, for the purpose of assessing the information security implications of such investigation or visit.
The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, shall add to the report required by subsection (d)(2) a classified annex containing an assessment of the risk to proprietary and classified information posed by any investigation or visit procedures in the compliance protocol. Study.— In general .— The President shall conduct a study on the need for investigations and visits under the compliance protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention, including— an assessment of risks to national security and United States industry and research institutions of such on-site activities; and an assessment of the monitoring results that can be expected from such investigations and visits.
Report .— Not later than the date on which a compliance protocol to the Biological Weapons Convention is submitted to the Senate for its advice and consent to ratification, the President shall submit to the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate a report, in both unclassified and classified form, setting forth— the findings of the study conducted pursuant to paragraph (1); and the results of trial investigations and trial visits conducted pursuant to subsections
(a)and (b).”