In the Senate of the United States,

June 27, 1996.

Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3121) entitled ‘‘An Act to amend the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act to

make improvements to certain defense and security assistance

provisions under those Acts, to authorize the transfer of

naval vessels to certain foreign countries, and for other purposes’’, do pass with the following

AMENDMENTS:

1 Ω1æPage 2, in the table of contents relating to Chapter

2 1, strike out øAND¿ and insert: AND

3 Ω2æPage 2, in the table of contents relating to Chapter

4 4, after ‘‘4—’’ insert: INTERNATIONAL

5 Ω3æPage 2, in the table of contents, strike out:

øSec. 148. Certification thresholds.¿

6 and insert:

Sec. 148. Annual military assistance report.
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1 Ω4æPage 2, in the table of contents relating to section

2 152 strike out øarms export control act¿ and insert: Arms

3 Export Control Act

4 Ω5æPage 3, in the table of contents relating to section

5 154 after ‘‘under’’ insert: the

6 Ω6æPage 3, in the table of contents, after the line relat7 ing to section 154 insert:

Sec. 155. Publication of arms sales certifications.

Sec. 156. Release of information.

Sec. 157. Repeal of termination of provisions of the Nuclear Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994; Presidential determinations.

8 Ω7æPage 4, lines 24 and 25, strike out øthe second¿

9 Ω8æPage 4, line 25, after ‘‘25’’ insert: , as added by sec10 tion 112(b) of Public Law 99–83

11 Ω9æPage 5, line 20, strike out ønew paragraph¿

12 Ω10æPage 9, line 22, after ‘‘TRANSFERS.—’’ insert: (1)

13 Ω11æPage 10, line 1, strike out ø(1)¿ and insert: (A)

14 Ω12æPage 10, line 3, strike out ø(2)¿ and insert: (B)

15 Ω13æPage 10, line 6, strike out ø(3)¿ and insert: (C)

16 Ω14æPage 10, line 9, strike out ø(4)¿ and insert: (D)

17 Ω15æPage 10, line 17, strike out ø(5)¿ and insert: (E)

18 Ω16æPage 10, line 24, strike out ø(6)¿ and insert: (F)
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1 Ω17æPage 11, after line 2, insert:

2 ‘‘(2) Accordingly, for the four-year period beginning

3 on October 1, 1996, the President shall ensure that excess

4 defense articles offered to Greece and Turkey under this sec5 tion will be made available consistent with the manner in

6 which the President made available such excess defense arti7 cles during the four-period that began on October 1, 1992,

8 pursuant to section 573(e) of the Foreign Operations, Ex9 port Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act,

10 1990.

11 Ω18æPage 12, line 11, strike out øpart II¿ and insert:

12 this part

13 Ω19æPage 13, line 5, strike out ø15¿ and insert: 30

14 Ω20æPage 16, line 4, after ‘‘1961,’’ insert: as added by

15 this Act,

16 Ω21æPage 18, line 17, after ‘‘2761’’ insert: (a)(1)(C)

17 Ω22æPage 21, line 4, after ‘‘4—’’ insert: INTER18 NATIONAL

19 Ω23æPage 21, line 15, strike out ønew subparagraph¿

20 Ω24æPage 24, line 7, strike out ø2394¿ and insert:

21 2394–1
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1 Ω25æPage 25, line 2, strike out ø2394¿ and insert:

2 2394–1

3 Ω26æPage 32, line 8, strike out øout the¿

4 Ω27æPage 32, line 11, strike out øin lieu thereof¿

5 Ω28æPage 35, line 10, strike out ø(a)¿ and insert: (A)

6 Ω29æPage 37, strike out all after line 18, over to and

7 including line 21 on page 38

8 Ω30æPage 38, after line 21, insert:

9 SEC. 148. ANNUAL MILITARY ASSISTANCE REPORT.

10 Section 655 of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22

11 U.S.C. 2415) is amended to read as follows:

12 ‘‘SEC. 655. ANNUAL MILITARY ASSISTANCE REPORT.

13 ‘‘(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than February 1

14 of each year, the President shall transmit to the Congress

15 an annual report for the fiscal year ending the previous

16 September 30.

17 ‘‘(b) INFORMATION RELATING TO MILITARY ASSIST18 ANCE AND MILITARY EXPORTS.—Each such report shall

19 show the aggregate dollar value and quantity of defense ar20 ticles (including excess defense articles), defense services,

21 and international military education and training author22 ized by the United States, excluding that which is pursuant

23 to activies reportable under title V of the National Security
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1 Act of 1947, to each foreign country and international orga2 nization. The report shall specify, by category, whether such

3 defense articles—

4 ‘‘(1) were furnished by grant under chapter 2 or

5 chapter 5 of part II of this Act or under any other

6 authority of law or by sale under chapter 2 of the

7 Arms Export Control Act; or

8 ‘‘(2) were licensed for export under section 38 of

9 the Arms Export Control Act.

10 ‘‘(c) INFORMATION RELATING TO MILITARY IM11 PORTS.—Each such report shall also include the total

12 amount of military items manufactured outside the United

13 States that were imported into the United States during

14 the fiscal year covered by the report. For each country of

15 origin the report shall show the type of item being imported

16 and the total amount of the items.’’.

17 Ω31æPage 38, line 24, strike out øas amended by this

18 Act,¿

19 Ω32æPage 39, line 1, strike out øfurther¿

20 Ω33æPage 49, line 16, after ‘‘UNDER’’ insert: THE

21 Ω34æPage 49, after line 21, insert:
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1 SEC. 155. PUBLICATION OF ARMS SALES CERTIFICATIONS.

2 Section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.

3 2776) is amended by adding at the end the following new

4 subsection:

5 ‘‘(e) The President shall cause to be published in the

6 Federal Register, upon transmittal to the Speaker of the

7 House of Representatives and to the chairman of the Com8 mittee on Foreign Relations of the Senate, the full

9 unclassified text of each numbered certification submitted

10 pursuant to subsection (b) and each notification of a pro11 posed commercial sale submitted under subsection (c).’’.

12 SEC. 156. RELEASE OF INFORMATION.

13 Section 38(e) of the Arms Export Control Act (22

14 U.S.C. 2778(e)) is amended by inserting in the first sen15 tence before the period at the end the following: ‘‘, except

16 that the names of the countries and the types and quantities

17 of defense articles for which licenses are issued under this

18 section shall not be withheld from public disclosure unless

19 the President determines that the release of such informa20 tion would be contrary to the national interest’’.

21 SEC. 157. REPEAL OF TERMINATION OF PROVISIONS OF

22 THE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION PREVENTION

23 ACT OF 1994; PRESIDENTIAL DETERMINA24 TIONS.

25 (a) REPEAL.—Part D of the Nuclear Proliferation

26 Prevention Act of 1994 (part D of title VIII of the Foreign
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1 Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1994 and 1995;

2 Public Law 103–236; 108 Stat. 525) is hereby repealed.

3 (b) JUDICIAL REVIEW.—Section 824 of the Nuclear

4 Proliferation Prevention Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 3201 note)

5 is amended—

6 (1) in subsection (c), by striking ‘‘in writing

7 after opportunity for a hearing on the record’’;

8 (2) by striking subsection (e); and

9 (3) by redesignating subsections (f) through (k)

10 as subsections (e) through (j), respectively.

Attest:

Secretary.
104TH CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. R. 3121

AMENDMENTS