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(5) TAIWAN.—To the Taipei Economic and
Cultural Representative Office in the United States
(the Taiwan instrumentality designated pursuant to
section 10(a) of the Taiwan Relations Act)—
(A) the Knox class frigates Aylwin (FF
1081), Pharris (FF 1094), and Valdez (FF
1096); and
(B) the Newport class tank landing ship
Newport (LST 1179).
(6) THAILAND.—To the Government of Thai-
land, the Knox class frigate Ouellet (FF 1077).
(b) FORM OF TRANSFER.—(1) Except as provided in
paragraphs (2) and (3), each transfer authorized by this
section shall be made on a sales basis under section 21
of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2761), relat-
ing to the foreign military sales program.
(2) The transfer authorized by subsection (a)(4) shall
be made on a grant basis under section 516 of the Foreign
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2321j), relating to
transfers of excess defense articles.
(3) The transfer authorized by subsection (a)(5)(B)
shall be made on a lease basis under section 61 of the
Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2796).
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(c) COSTS
OF TRANSFERS.—Any expense of the
United States in connection with a transfer authorized by
this section shall be charged to the recipient.
(d) EXPIRATION
OF AUTHORITY.—The authority
granted by subsection (a) shall expire at the end of the
two-year period beginning on the date of the enactment
of this Act.
(e) REPAIR AND REFURBISHMENT OF VESSELS IN
UNITED STATES SHIPYARDS.—The Secretary of the Navy
shall require, to the maximum extent possible, as a condi-
tion of a transfer of a vessel under this section, that the
country to which the vessel is transferred have such repair
or refurbishment of the vessel as is needed, before the ves-
sel joins the naval forces of that country, performed at
a shipyard located in the United States, including a Unit-
ed States Navy shipyard.
SEC. 1053. ANNUAL REPORT RELATING TO BUY AMERICAN
ACT.
The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress,
not later than 60 days after the end of each fiscal year,
a report on the amount of purchases by the Department
of Defense from foreign entities in that fiscal year. Such
report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items
for which the Buy American Act (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.)
was waived pursuant to any of the following:
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(1) Any reciprocal defense procurement memo-
randum of understanding described in section
849(c)(2) of Public Law 103–160 (41 U.S.C. 10b–
2 note).
(2) The Trade Agreements Act of 1979 (19
U.S.C. 2501 et seq.)
(3) Any international agreement to which the
United States is a party.
SEC. 1054. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING ASSISTING
OTHER COUNTRIES TO IMPROVE SECURITY
OF FISSILE MATERIAL.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following:
(1) With the end of the Cold War, the world is
faced with the need to manage the dismantling of
vast numbers of nuclear weapons and the disposition
of the fissile materials that they contain.
(2) If recently agreed reductions in nuclear
weapons are fully implemented, tens of thousands of
nuclear weapons, containing a hundred tons or more
of plutonium and many hundreds of tons of highly
enriched uranium, will no longer be needed for mili-
tary purposes.
(3) Plutonium and highly enriched uranium are
the essential ingredients of nuclear weapons.
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(4) Limits on access to plutonium and highly
enriched uranium are the primary technical barrier
to acquiring nuclear weapons capability in the world
today.
(5) Several kilograms of plutonium, or several
times that amount of highly enriched uranium, are
sufficient to make a nuclear weapons.
(6) Plutonium and highly enriched uranium will
continue to pose a potential threat for as long as
they exist.
(7) Action is required to secure and account for
plutonium and highly enriched uranium.
(8) It is in the national interest of the United
States to—
(A) minimize the risk that fissile materials
could be obtained by unauthorized parties;
(B) minimize the risk that fissile materials
could be reintroduced into the arsenals from
which they came, halting or reversing the arms
reduction process; and
(C) strengthen the national and inter-
national control mechanisms and incentives de-
signed to ensure continued arms reductions and
prevent the spread of nuclear weapons.
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(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—In light of the findings
contained in subsection (a), it is the sense of Congress
that the United States has a national security interest in
assisting other countries to improve the security of their
stocks of fissile material.
SEC. 1055. SOUTHWEST BORDER STATES ANTI-DRUG INFOR-
MATION SYSTEM.
It is the sense of Congress that the Federal Govern-
ment should support and encourage the full utilization of
the Southwest Border States Anti-Drug Information Sys-
tem.
TITLE 
XI—COOPERATIVE
THREAT 
REDUCTION 
WITH
STATES OF FORMER SOVIET
UNION
SEC. 1101. SPECIFICATION OF COOPERATIVE THREAT RE-
DUCTION PROGRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—For purposes of section 301 and
other provisions of this Act, Cooperative Threat Reduction
programs are the programs specified in subsection (b).
(b) SPECIFIED PROGRAMS.—The programs referred
to in subsection (a) are the following programs with re-
spect to states of the former Soviet Union:
(1) Programs to facilitate the elimination, and
the safe and secure transportation and storage, of
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nuclear, chemical, and other weapons and their de-
livery vehicles.
(2) Programs to facilitate the safe and secure
storage of fissile materials derived from the elimi-
nation of nuclear weapons.
(3) Programs to prevent the proliferation of
weapons, weapons components, and weapons-related
technology and expertise.
(4) Programs to expand military-to-military and
defense contacts.
SEC. 1102. FISCAL YEAR 1997 FUNDING ALLOCATIONS.
Of the amount appropriated pursuant to the author-
ization of appropriations in section 301 for Cooperative
Threat Reduction programs, not more than the following
amounts may be obligated for the purposes specified:
(1) For planning and design of a chemical
weapons destruction facility in Russia, $74,500,000.
(2) For elimination of strategic offensive weap-
ons in Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan,
$52,000,000.
(3) For nuclear infrastructure elimination in
Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan, $47,000,000.
(4) For planning and design of a storage facil-
ity for Russian fissile material, $46,000,000.