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115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 3694 
To provide for an independent assessment of the future of cooperative threat 
reduction. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 7, 2017 
Mr. BANKS of Indiana introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To provide for an independent assessment of the future 
of cooperative threat reduction. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Future of the Nunn- 
Lugar Program Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Cooperative Threat Reduction program, 
initially established in 1991 by Senators Richard 
Lugar and Sam Nunn, provided funding and exper-
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tise to secure and dismantle nuclear, chemical, and 
biological weapons and delivery systems in former 
Soviet Union states. 
(2) After the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat 
Reduction program was signed into law, Russia, 
Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan all agreed to im-
plement the program. 
(3) Russia developed programs to improve secu-
rity at nuclear weapons facilities and together with 
Ukraine opened science and technology centers to 
help employ former Soviet weapons scientists. 
(4) Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakhstan agreed 
to remove all nuclear warheads from their terri-
tories, and accomplished this objective within three 
years. 
(5) In 1996, the Nunn-Lugar-Domenici Domes-
tic Preparedness Initiative built on the initial goals 
of the Cooperative Threat Reduction program to 
train civilians to assist following an attack by a 
weapon of mass destruction. 
(6) In recent years, funding provided through 
the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction Pro-
gram has focused on export and border control pro-
grams and on the detection of radiological weapons, 
sometimes referred to as ‘‘dirty bombs’’. 
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(7) In 2013, the Nunn-Lugar Cooperative 
Threat Reduction program provided funding for 
Libya to dispose of the chemical weapons and muni-
tions discovered after the fall of the Gadhafi regime. 
(8) In 2014, under the umbrella of the Nunn- 
Lugar Cooperative Threat Reduction program, the 
United States played a role in carrying out the re-
moval of chemical weapons from Syria. 
(9) The Nunn-Lugar Cooperative Threat Re-
duction program has been a success, but as the 
world continues to change, new partnerships and 
strategies will be required to deal with new threats 
posed by weapons of mass destruction. 
SEC. 3. ASSESSMENT ON THE FUTURE OF COOPERATIVE 
THREAT REDUCTION. 
(a) ASSESSMENT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after 
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall seek to enter into an agreement 
with a federally funded research and development 
center to assess the current, anticipated, and poten-
tial future requirements for cooperative threat re-
duction. 
(2) INFORMATION AND RESOURCES.—The Sec-
retary shall provide the federally funded research 
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and development center conducting the assessment 
under paragraph (1) with access to any information 
and resources necessary for the federally funded re-
search and development center to conduct such as-
sessment. 
(b) REPORT.— 
(1) INTERIM REPORT.—Not later than one year 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the fed-
erally funded research and development center con-
ducting the assessment under subsection (a)(1) shall 
submit to the Secretary an interim report on the as-
sessment. 
(2) FINAL REPORT.—Not later than 18 months 
after the date of the enactment of this Act, the fed-
erally funded research and development center con-
ducting the assessment under subsection (a)(1) shall 
submit to the Secretary a final report on the assess-
ment. 
(3) ELEMENTS.—Each report under para-
graphs (1) and (2) shall include the following: 
(A) A detailed discussion of the require-
ments and capabilities necessary for reducing 
the threats of nuclear, chemical, and biological 
weapons. 
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(B) An identification of capability gaps for 
current and future cooperative threat reduction 
efforts and requirements. 
(C) Recommendations with respect to ac-
tions that could be taken, including legislative 
actions, to modernize the Cooperative Threat 
Reduction Program of the Department of De-
fense established under section 1321 of the De-
partment of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduc-
tion Act (50 U.S.C. 3711) to better respond to 
threats during the 10-year period beginning on 
the date of the report. 
(D) Recommendations with respect to ac-
tions that could be taken to modernize the com-
mand and control enterprise and the role of the 
Director of the Defense Threat Reduction 
Agency. 
(E) Such other matters as the Secretary 
determines appropriate. 
(4) SUBMISSION.—Not later than seven days 
after receiving each report under paragraphs (1) and 
(2), the Secretary shall submit such report to Con-
gress without change. 
(c) COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION DEFINED.— 
In this section, the term ‘‘cooperative threat reduction’’ 
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means the activities specified in section 1321(a) of the De-
partment of Defense Cooperative Threat Reduction Act 
(50 U.S.C. 3711(a)). 
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