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(2) The date of export.
(3) The intended end use and intended end user.
(4) The results of the post-shipment verification.
(d) EXPLANATION WHEN VERIFICATION NOT CONDUCTED.—If a
post-shipment verification has not been conducted in accordance
with subsection (a) with respect to any such export during the
period covered by a report, the Secretary shall include in the report
for that period a detailed explanation of the reasons why such
a post-shipment verification was not conducted.
SEC. 1214. GAO STUDY ON CERTAIN COMPUTERS; END USER INFORMA-
TION ASSISTANCE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Comptroller General of the United States
shall submit to the congressional committees specified in section
1215 a study of the national security risks relating to the sale
of computers with a composite theoretical performance of between
2,000 and 7,000 millions of theoretical operations per second
(MTOPS) to end users in countries specified in subsection (c). The
study shall also analyze any foreign availability of computers
described in the preceding sentence and the impact of such sales
on United States exporters.
(b) END USER INFORMATION ASSISTANCE TO EXPORTERS.—The
Secretary of Commerce shall establish a procedure by which export-
ers may seek information on questionable end users in countries
specified in subsection (c) who are seeking to obtain computers
described in subsection (a).
(c) COVERED COUNTRIES.—For purposes of subsections (a) and
(b), the countries specified in this subsection are the countries
listed as ‘‘Computer Tier 3’’ eligible countries in section 740.7(d)
of title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on
June 10, 1997.
SEC. 1215. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES.
For purposes of sections 1211(d), 1212(a), 1213(c), and 1214(a)
the congressional committees specified in those sections are the
following:
(1) The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs
and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
(2) The Committee on International Relations and the
Committee on National Security of the House of Representa-
tives.
Subtitle C—Other Matters
SEC. 1221. DEFENSE BURDENSHARING.
(a) EFFORTS TO INCREASE ALLIED BURDENSHARING.—The Presi-
dent shall seek to have each nation that has cooperative military
relations with the United States (including security agreements,
basing arrangements, or mutual participation in multinational mili-
tary organizations or operations) take one or more of the following
actions:
(1) For any nation in which United States military person-
nel are assigned to permanent duty ashore, increase its finan-
cial contributions to the payment of the nonpersonnel costs
incurred by the United States Government for stationing United
States military personnel in that nation, with a goal of achiev-
ing by September 30, 2000, 75 percent of such costs. An increase
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in financial contributions by any nation under this paragraph
may include the elimination of taxes, fees, or other charges
levied on United States military personnel, equipment, or facili-
ties stationed in that nation.
(2) Increase its annual budgetary outlays for national
defense as a percentage of its gross domestic product by 10
percent or at least to a level commensurate to that of the
United States by September 30, 1998.
(3) Increase its annual budgetary outlays for foreign assist-
ance (to promote democratization, economic stabilization, trans-
parency arrangements, defense economic conversion, respect
for the rule of law, and internationally recognized human
rights) by 10 percent or at least to a level commensurate
to that of the United States by September 30, 1998.
(4) Increase the amount of military assets (including
personnel, equipment, logistics, support and other resources)
that it contributes, or would be prepared to contribute, to
multinational military activities worldwide.
(b) AUTHORITIES TO ENCOURAGE ACTIONS BY UNITED STATES
ALLIES.—In seeking the actions described in subsection (a) with
respect to any nation, or in response to a failure by any nation
to undertake one or more of such actions, the President may take
any of the following measures to the extent otherwise authorized
by law:
(1) Reduce the end strength level of members of the Armed
Forces assigned to permanent duty ashore in that nation.
(2) Impose on that nation fees or other charges similar
to those that such nation imposes on United States forces
stationed in that nation.
(3) Reduce (through rescission, impoundment, or other
appropriate procedures as authorized by law) the amount the
United States contributes to the NATO Civil Budget, Military
Budget, or Security Investment Program.
(4) Suspend, modify, or terminate any bilateral security
agreement the United States has with that nation, consistent
with the terms of such agreement.
(5) Reduce (through rescission, impoundment or other
appropriate procedures as authorized by law) any United States
bilateral assistance appropriated for that nation.
(6) Take any other action the President determines to
be appropriate as authorized by law.
(c) 
REPORT
ON
PROGRESS
IN
INCREASING
ALLIED
BURDENSHARING.—Not later than March 1, 1998, the Secretary
of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on—
(1) steps taken by other nations to complete the actions
described in subsection (a);
(2) all measures taken by the President, including those
authorized in subsection (b), to achieve the actions described
in subsection (a);
(3) the difference between the amount allocated by other
nations for each of the actions described in subsection (a) during
the period beginning on March 1, 1996, and ending on February
28, 1997, and during the period beginning on March 1, 1997,
and ending on February 28, 1998; and
(4) the budgetary savings to the United States that are
expected to accrue as a result of the steps described under
paragraph (1).
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(d) REPORT
ON NATIONAL SECURITY BASES
FOR FORWARD
DEPLOYMENT AND BURDENSHARING RELATIONSHIPS.—(1) In order
to ensure the best allocation of budgetary resources, the President
shall undertake a review of the status of elements of the
United States Armed Forces that are permanently stationed outside
the United States. The review shall include an assessment of the
following:
(A) The alliance requirements that are to be found in
agreements between the United States and other countries.
(B) The national security interests that support perma-
nently stationing elements of the United States Armed Forces
outside the United States.
(C) The stationing costs associated with the forward deploy-
ment of elements of the United States Armed Forces.
(D) The alternatives available to forward deployment (such
as material prepositioning, enhanced airlift and sealift, or joint
training operations) to meet such alliance requirements or
national security interests, with such alternatives identified
and described in detail.
(E) The costs and force structure configurations associated
with such alternatives to forward deployment.
(F) The financial contributions that allies of the United
States make to common defense efforts (to promote democra-
tization, economic stabilization, transparency arrangements,
defense economic conversion, respect for the rule of law, and
internationally recognized human rights).
(G) The contributions that allies of the United States make
to meeting the stationing costs associated with the forward
deployment of elements of the United States Armed Forces.
(H) The annual expenditures of the United States and
its allies on national defense, and the relative percentages
of each nation’s gross domestic product constituted by those
expenditures.
(2) The President shall submit to Congress a report on the
review under paragraph (1). The report shall be submitted not
later than March 1, 1998, in classified and unclassified form.
SEC. 1222. TEMPORARY USE OF GENERAL PURPOSE VEHICLES AND
NONLETHAL MILITARY EQUIPMENT UNDER ACQUISITION
AND CROSS SERVICING AGREEMENTS.
Section 2350(1) of title 10, United States Code, is amended
by striking out ‘‘other items’’ in the second sentence and all that
follows through ‘‘United States Munitions List’’ and inserting in
lieu thereof ‘‘other nonlethal items of military equipment which
are not designated as significant military equipment on the United
States Munitions List promulgated’’.
SEC. 1223. SENSE OF CONGRESS AND REPORTS REGARDING FINANCIAL
COSTS OF ENLARGEMENT OF THE NORTH ATLANTIC
TREATY ORGANIZATION.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(1) In a report to Congress in February 1997 on the ration-
ale, benefits, costs, and implications of North Atlantic Treaty
Organization enlargement the Secretary of Defense estimated
that the financial cost to the United States of such enlargement
will 
be 
modest, 
totaling 
between 
$2,000,000,000 
and
$2,600,000,000 for the period from 1997 through 2009.
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(2) A study by the RAND Corporation published in 1996
calculated that the total financial cost to the United States
of such enlargement will be between $5,000,000,000 and
$6,000,000,000 over the same period.
(3) A March 1996 report by the Congressional Budget Office
on the financial costs of enlarging the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization alliance estimated the United States share of
alliance enlargement costs to be between $4,800,000,000 and
$18,900,000,000 through 2010, depending upon political devel-
opments in Europe.
(4) An August 1997 report by the General Accounting Office
reviewing the financial cost estimates of the Secretary of
Defense concluded that North Atlantic Treaty Organization
enlargement could entail additional costs beyond those included
in the Secretary’s estimate and questioned the validity of the
Secretary’s estimate due to the lack of supporting cost docu-
mentation and the inclusion of cost elements not related to
NATO enlargement.
(5) The North Atlantic Alliance is scheduled to complete
its analysis of the military requirements for the integration
of Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary into the Alliance
in December 1997.
(6) The North Atlantic Alliance is also scheduled to com-
plete in December 1997 its financial cost estimate of the mili-
tary requirements related to the integration of those nations.
(b) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that
the analysis of the North Atlantic Alliance of the military require-
ments relating to NATO enlargement and of the financial costs
to the Alliance of NATO enlargement will be one of the major
factors in the consideration by the Senate of the ratification of
instruments to approve the admission of new member nations to
the Alliance and by Congress for the authorization and appropria-
tion of the funding for the costs associated with such enlargement.
(c) REPORT ASSESSING NATO COST ANALYSIS.—Not later than
March 31, 1998, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress
a report providing—
(1) an assessment of the analysis by the North Atlantic
Alliance of the military requirements related to NATO enlarge-
ment and of the estimate of the financial costs to the NATO
Alliance for the integration of Poland, the Czech Republic,
and Hungary into the Alliance;
(2) a description of the analytical means used to determine
such requirements and costs; and
(3) a general assessment of the additional military require-
ments and costs that would result from a significantly increased
threat.
(d) REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COSTS.—(1) The Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to Congress, in conjunction with
the submission of the President’s budget for fiscal year 1999, a
report on Department of Defense costs for NATO enlargement.
The report shall include a detailed estimate of such costs for fiscal
year 1998 that identifies all appropriations, by budget activity,
for the military departments and other elements of the Department
of Defense to support NATO enlargement.
(2) The Secretary of Defense shall include in the budget jus-
tification materials submitted to Congress by the Secretary in sup-
port of the budget of Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999