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ing at tritium/isotope production reactors, uranium
enrichment plants, chemical separation plants, and
fabrication facilities associated with naval and civil
research reactors.
(b) WEAPONS-USABLE FISSILE MATERIALS TO BE
COVERED BY COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION PRO-
GRAMS ON ELIMINATION OR TRANSPORTATION OF NU-
CLEAR WEAPONS.—Section 1201(b)(1) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public
Law 104–106; 110 Stat. 469; 22 U.S.C. 5955 note) is
amended by inserting ‘‘, fissile material suitable for use
in nuclear weapons,’’ after ‘‘other weapons’’.
SEC. 303. ELIMINATION OF PLUTONIUM PRODUCTION.
(a) REPLACEMENT PROGRAM.—The Secretary of De-
fense, in consultation with the Secretary of Energy, shall
develop a cooperative program with the Government of
Russia to eliminate the production of weapons grade plu-
tonium by modifying or replacing the reactor cores at
Tomsk–7 and Krasnoyarsk–26 with reactor cores that are
less suitable for the production of weapons-grade pluto-
nium.
(b) PROGRAM REQUIREMENTS.—(1) The program
shall be designed to achieve completion of the modifica-
tions or replacements of the reactor cores within three
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years after the modification or replacement activities
under the program are begun.
(2) The plan for the program shall—
(A) specify—
(i) successive steps for the modification or
replacement of the reactor cores; and
(ii) clearly defined milestones to be
achieved; and
(B) include estimates of the costs of the pro-
gram.
(c) SUBMISSION
OF
PROGRAM
PLAN
TO
CON-
GRESS.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall sub-
mit to Congress—
(1) a plan for the program under subsection
(a);
(2) an estimate of the United States funding
that is necessary for carrying out the activities
under the program for each fiscal year covered by
the program; and
(3) a comparison of the benefits of the program
with the benefits of other nonproliferation programs.
(d) FUNDING FOR INITIAL PHASE.—(1) Of the total
amount authorized to be appropriated for the Department
of Defense for operation and maintenance for fiscal year
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1997 other than for Cooperative Threat Reduction pro-
grams, $16,000,000 is available for the initial phase of
the program under subsection (a).
(2) The amount available for the initial phase of the
reactor modification or replacement program under para-
graph (1) is in addition to amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs
under any other provision of law.
SEC. 304. INDUSTRIAL PARTNERSHIP PROGRAMS TO DE-
MILITARIZE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUC-
TION PRODUCTION FACILITIES.
(a) DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY PROGRAM.—The Sec-
retary of Energy shall expand the Industrial Partnership
Program of the Department of Energy to include coverage
of all of the independent states of the former Soviet Union.
(b) DEPARTMENT
OF DEFENSE PROGRAM.—The
Secretary of Defense shall establish a program to support
the dismantlement or conversion of the biological and
chemical weapons facilities in the independent states of
the former Soviet Union to uses for nondefense purposes.
The Secretary may carry out such program in conjunction
with, or separately from, the organization designated as
the Defense Enterprise Fund (formerly designated as the
‘‘Demilitarization Enterprise Fund’’ under section 1204
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of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1994 (Public Law 103–160; 22 U.S.C. 5953)).
(c) FUNDING FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PRO-
GRAM.—(1)(A) Of the total amount authorized to be ap-
propriated for the Department of Defense for operation
and maintenance for fiscal year 1997, $15,000,000 is
available for the program under subsection (b).
(B) The amount available under subparagraph (A)
for the industrial partnership program of the Department
of Defense established pursuant to subsection (b) is in ad-
dition to any amount authorized to be appropriated for
Cooperative Threat Reduction programs under any other
provision of law.
(2) It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of
Defense should transfer to the Defense Enterprise Fund,
$20,000,000 out of the funds appropriated for Coopera-
tive Threat Reduction programs for fiscal years before fis-
cal year 1997 that remain available for obligation.
SEC. 305. LAB-TO-LAB PROGRAM TO IMPROVE THE SAFETY
AND SECURITY OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS.
(a) PROGRAM EXPANSION AUTHORIZED.—The Sec-
retary of Energy is authorized to expand the Lab-to-Lab
program of the Department of Energy to improve the safe-
ty and security of nuclear materials in the independent
states of the former Soviet Union where the Lab-to-Lab
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program is not being carried out on the date of the enact-
ment of this Act.
(b) FUNDING.—(1) Of the total amount authorized
to be appropriated for national defense programs of the
Department of Energy for fiscal year 1997, $20,000,000
is available for expanding the Lab-to-Lab program as au-
thorized under subsection (a).
(2) The amount available under paragraph (1) is in
addition to any other amount otherwise available for the
Lab-to-Lab program.
SEC. 306. COOPERATIVE ACTIVITIES ON SECURITY OF
HIGHLY ENRICHED URANIUM USED FOR PRO-
PULSION OF RUSSIAN SHIPS.
(a) RESPONSIBLE UNITED STATES OFFICIAL.—The
Secretary of Energy shall be responsible for carrying out
United States cooperative activities with the Government
of the Russian Federation on improving the security of
highly enriched uranium that is used for propulsion of
Russian military and civilian ships.
(b) PLAN REQUIRED.—(1) The Secretary shall de-
velop and periodically update a plan for the cooperative
activities referred to in subsection (a).
(2) The Secretary shall coordinate the development
and updating of the plan with the Secretary of Defense.
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The Secretary of Defense shall involve the Joint Chiefs
of Staff in the coordination.
(c) FUNDING.—(1) Of the total amount authorized
to be appropriated for national defense programs of the
Department of Energy for fiscal year 1997, $6,000,000
is available for materials protection, control, and account-
ing program of the Department of Energy for the coopera-
tive activities referred to in subsection (a).
(2) The amount available for the Department of En-
ergy for materials protection, control, and accounting pro-
gram under paragraph (1) is in addition to any other
amount authorized to be appropriated by any other provi-
sion of law for such program.
SEC. 307. MILITARY-TO-MILITARY RELATIONS.
(a) FUNDING.—Of the total amount authorized to be
appropriated for the Department of Defense for operation
and maintenance for fiscal year 1997, $2,000,000 is avail-
able for expanding military-to-military programs of the
United States that focus on countering the threats of pro-
liferation of weapons of mass destruction so as to include
the security forces of independent states of the former So-
viet Union, particularly states in the Caucasus region and
Central Asia.
(b) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER FUNDING AUTHOR-
ITY.—Any amount available for expanding military-to-
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military programs under subsection (a) is in addition to
the amount authorized to be appropriated for Cooperative
Threat Reduction programs under any other provision of
law.
SEC. 308. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.
(a) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.—(1) To the extent
provided in appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Defense
may transfer amounts appropriated pursuant to this title
for the Department of Defense for programs and authori-
ties under this title to appropriations available for pro-
grams authorized under title I.
(2) Amounts so transferred shall be merged with the
appropriations to which transferred and shall be available
for the programs for which the amounts are transferred.
(3) The transfer authority under paragraph (1) is in
addition to any other transfer authority provided by this
Act.
(b) SECRETARY OF ENERGY.—(1) To the extent pro-
vided in appropriations Acts, the Secretary of Energy may
transfer amounts appropriated pursuant to this title for
the Department of Energy for programs and authorities
under this subtitle to appropriations available for pro-
grams authorized under title I.
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(2) Amounts so transferred shall be merged with the
appropriations to which transferred and shall be available
for the programs for which the amounts are transferred.
(3) The transfer authority under paragraph (1) is in
addition to any other transfer authority provided by this
Act.
TITLE 
IV—COORDINATION 
OF
POLICY 
AND 
COUNTER-
MEASURES 
AGAINST 
PRO-
LIFERATION OF WEAPONS OF
MASS DESTRUCTION
SEC. 401. NATIONAL COORDINATOR ON NONPROLIFERA-
TION.
(a) DESIGNATION
OF
POSITION.—The President
shall designate an individual to serve in the Executive Of-
fice of the President as the National Coordinator for Non-
proliferation Matters.
(b) DUTIES.—The Coordinator shall have the follow-
ing responsibilities:
(1) To be the principal adviser to the President
on nonproliferation of weapons of mass destruction,
including issues related to terrorism, arms control,
and international organized crime.
(2) To chair the Committee on Nonproliferation
established under section 402.
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(3) To take such actions as are necessary to en-
sure that there is appropriate emphasis in, coopera-
tion on, and coordination of, nonproliferation re-
search efforts of the United States, including activi-
ties of Federal agencies as well as activities of con-
tractors funded by the Federal Government.
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO CERTAIN SENIOR DIRECTORS
OF NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL.—(1) The senior direc-
tors of the National Security Council report to the Coordi-
nator regarding the following matters:
(A) Nonproliferation of weapons of mass de-
struction and related issues.
(B) Management of crises involving use or
threatened use of weapons of mass destruction, and
on management of the consequences of the use or
threatened use of such a weapon.
(C) Terrorism, arms control, and organized
crime issues that relate to the threat of proliferation
of weapons of mass destruction.
(2) Nothing in paragraph (1) shall be construed to
affect the reporting relationship between a senior director
and the Assistant to the President for National Security
Affairs or any other supervisor regarding matters other
than matters described in paragraph (1).
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(d) ALLOCATION OF FUNDS.—Of the total amount
authorized to be appropriated for research, test, develop-
ment, and evaluation for the Department of Defense for
fiscal year 1997, $2,000,000 is available for carrying out
research referred to in subsection (b)(3). Such amount is
in addition to any other amount authorized to be appro-
priated under any other provision of law for such purpose.
SEC. 402. NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL COMMITTEE ON
NONPROLIFERATION.
(a) ESTABLISHMENT.—The Committee on Non-
proliferation (in this section referred to as the ‘‘Commit-
tee’’) is established as a committee of the National Secu-
rity Council.
(b) MEMBERSHIP.—(1) The Committee shall be com-
posed of the following:
(A) The Secretary of State.
(B) The Secretary of Defense.
(C) The Director of Central Intelligence.
(D) The Attorney General.
(E) The Secretary of Energy.
(F) The Administrator of the Federal Emer-
gency Management Agency.
(G) The Secretary of the Treasury.
(H) The Secretary of Commerce.
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(I) Such other members as the President may
designate.
(2) The National Coordinator for Nonproliferation
Matters shall chair the Committee on Nonproliferation.
(c) RESPONSIBILITIES.—The Committee has the fol-
lowing responsibilities:
(1) To review and coordinate Federal programs,
policies, and directives relating to the proliferation of
weapons of mass destruction and related materials
and technologies, including matters relating to ter-
rorism and international organized crime.
(2) To make recommendations to the President
regarding the following:
(A) Integrated national policies for coun-
tering the threats posed by weapons of mass de-
struction.
(B) Options for integrating Federal agency
budgets for countering such threats.
(C) Means to ensure that the Federal,
State, and local governments have adequate ca-
pabilities to manage crises involving nuclear, ra-
diological, biological, or chemical weapons or re-
lated materials or technologies, and to manage
the consequences of a use of such a weapon or
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related materials or technologies, and that use
of those capabilities is coordinated.
(D) Means to ensure appropriate coopera-
tion on, and coordination of, the following:
(i) Preventing the smuggling of weap-
ons of mass destruction and related mate-
rials and technologies.
(ii) Promoting domestic and inter-
national law enforcement efforts against
proliferation-related efforts.
(iii) Countering the involvement of or-
ganized crime groups in proliferation-relat-
ed activities.
(iv) Safeguarding weapons of mass
destruction materials and related tech-
nologies.
(v) Improving coordination and co-
operation among intelligence activities, law
enforcement, and the Departments of De-
fense, State, Commerce, and Energy in
support 
of 
nonproliferation 
and
counterproliferation efforts.
(vi) Ensuring the continuation of ef-
fective export controls over materials and
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technologies that can contribute to the ac-
quisition of weapons of mass destruction.
(vii) Reducing proliferation of weap-
ons of mass destruction and related mate-
rials and technologies.
SEC. 403. COMPREHENSIVE PREPAREDNESS PROGRAM.
(a) PROGRAM REQUIRED.—The President, acting
through the Committee on Nonproliferation established
under section 402, shall develop a comprehensive program
for carrying out this Act.
(b) CONTENT OF PROGRAM.—The program set forth
in the report shall include specific plans as follows:
(1) Plans for countering proliferation of weap-
ons of mass destruction and related materials and
technologies.
(2) Plans for training and equipping Federal,
State, and local officials for managing a crisis in-
volving a use or threatened use of a weapon of mass
destruction, including the consequences of the use of
such a weapon.
(3) Plans for providing for regular sharing of
information among intelligence, law enforcement,
and customs agencies.
(4) Plans for training and equipping law en-
forcement units, customs services, and border secu-
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rity personnel to counter the smuggling of weapons
of mass destruction and related materials and tech-
nologies.
(5) Plans for establishing appropriate centers
for analyzing seized nuclear, radiological, biological,
and chemical weapons, and related materials and
technologies.
(6) Plans for establishing in the United States
appropriate legal controls and authorities relating to
the exporting of nuclear, radiological, biological, and
chemical weapons, and related materials and tech-
nologies.
(7) Plans for encouraging and assisting govern-
ments of foreign countries to implement and enforce
laws that set forth appropriate penalties for offenses
regarding the smuggling of weapons of mass de-
struction and related materials and technologies.
(8) Plans for building the confidence of the
United States and Russia in each other’s controls
over United States and Russian nuclear weapons
and fissile materials, including plans for verifying
the dismantlement of nuclear weapons.
(9) Plans for reducing United States and Rus-
sian stockpiles of excess plutonium, reflecting—
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(A) consideration of the desirability and
feasibility of a United States-Russian agree-
ment governing fissile material disposition and
the specific technologies and approaches to be
used for disposition of excess plutonium; and
(B) an assessment of the options for Unit-
ed States cooperation with Russia in the dis-
position of Russian plutonium.
(10) Plans for studying the merits and costs of
establishing a global network of means for detecting
and responding to terroristic or other criminal use of
biological agents against people or other forms of life
in the United States or any foreign country.
(c) REPORT.—(1) At the same time that the Presi-
dent submits the budget for fiscal year 1998 to Congress
pursuant to section 1105(a) of title 31, United States
Code, the President shall submit to Congress a report that
sets forth the comprehensive program developed under
subsection (a).
(2) The report shall include the following:
(A) The specific plans for the program that are
required under subsection (b).
(B) Estimates of the funds necessary for carry-
ing out such plans in fiscal year 1998.
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(3) The report shall be in an unclassified form. If
there is a classified version of the report, the President
shall submit the classified version at the same time.
SEC. 404. TERMINATION.
After September 30, 1999, the President—
(1) is not required to maintain a National Coor-
dinator for Nonproliferation Matters under section
401; and
(2) may terminate the Committee on Non-
proliferation established under section 402.
TITLE V—MISCELLANEOUS
SEC. 501. CONTRACTING POLICY.
It is the sense of Congress that the Secretary of De-
fense, the Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of the Treas-
ury, and the Secretary of State—
(1) in the administration of funds available to
such officials in accordance with this Act, should (to
the extent possible under law) contract directly with
suppliers in independent states of the former Soviet
Union to facilitate the purchase of goods and serv-
ices necessary to carry out effectively the programs
and authorities provided or referred to in title III;
and
(2) should, in order to facilitate such purchases,
seek means, consistent with law, to use innovative
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contracting approaches to avoid delay and increase
the effectiveness of the programs, and of the exercise
of the authorities, provided or referred to in title III.
SEC. 502. TRANSFERS OF ALLOCATIONS AMONG COOPERA-
TIVE THREAT REDUCTION PROGRAMS.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-
ings:
(1) The various Cooperative Threat Reduction
programs are being carried out at different rates in
the various countries covered by such programs.
(2) It is necessary to authorize transfers of
funding allocations among the various programs in
order to maximize the effectiveness of United States
efforts under such programs.
(b) TRANSFERS AUTHORIZED.—Funds appropriated
for the purposes set forth in subsection (a) of section 1202
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1996 (Public Law 104–106; 110 Stat. 409) may be used
for any such purpose without regard to the allocation set
forth in that section and without regard to subsection (b)
of such section.
SEC. 503. ADDITIONAL CERTIFICATIONS.
(a) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Con-
gress that—
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(1) the Cooperative Threat Reduction programs
and other United States programs that are derived
from programs established under the Former Soviet
Union Demilitarization Act of 1992 (title XIV of
Public Law 102–484; 22 U.S.C. 2901 et seq.)
should be expanded by offering assistance under
those programs to other independent states of the
former Soviet Union in addition to Russia, Ukraine,
Kazakstan, and Belarus; and
(2) the President should offer assistance to ad-
ditional independent states of the former Soviet
Union in each case in which the participation of
such states would benefit national security interests
of the United States by improving border controls
and safeguards over materials and technology associ-
ated with weapons of mass destruction.
(b) EXTENSION OF COVERAGE.—Assistance under
programs referred to in subsection (a) may, notwithstand-
ing any other provision of law, be extended to include an
independent state of the former Soviet Union if the Presi-
dent certifies to Congress that it is in the national inter-
ests of the United States to extend the assistance to that
state.