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TITLE V—MILITARY RESPONSE
TO 
ATTACKS 
INVOLVING
CHEMICAL AND BIOLOGICAL
WEAPONS 
AND 
NON-
PROLIFERATION 
OF 
SUCH
WEAPONS
Subtitle 
A—Initial 
Crisis 
Re-
sponse 
and 
First 
Responder
Support
SEC. 501. INCREASING MILITARY CAPABILITY TO RESPOND
TO DOMESTIC CRISES.
The Secretary of Defense shall—
(1) ensure that the Department of Defense has
adequate resources and is sufficiently prepared to
assist in responding to domestic crises involving
chemical or biological weapons; and
(2) improve the emergency response and assess-
ment capability of the Department of Defense re-
garding such crises.
SEC. 502. IMPROVEMENTS REGARDING CONSEQUENCE
MANAGEMENT CAPABILITIES.
The Secretary of Defense shall—
(1) provide for additional training exercises for
Civil Support Teams and local first responders to re-
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spond to the domestic crises described in section
501;
(2) improve procedures, coordination, chain of
command relationships, and definition of areas of re-
sponsibility with respect to the response of such Civil
Support Teams during such crises; and
(3) assess the overall consequence management
capabilities of the Department of Defense, consider
whether additional Civil Support Teams should be
created, and provide to Congress not later than
March 1, 2002, a long-range plan for improving
those capabilities.
SEC. 503. INTEROPERABILITY OF COMMUNICATIONS.
The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a program
to ensure communications interoperability among military
crisis response and consequence management teams and
local first responders.
SEC. 504. TRAINING EXERCISES FOR LOCAL FIRST RE-
SPONDERS.
The Secretary of Defense shall establish a program
under which—
(1) local first responders may participate in do-
mestic crisis response training exercises at military
installations; and
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(2) the Secretary pays the cost of participation
by such local first responders in such exercises.
SEC. 505. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
the provisions of this subtitle, in addition to any other
funds authorized for such purposes, $420,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2002. Amounts appropriated under the preceding
sentence shall remain available until expended.
Subtitle B—Interagency Crisis Re-
sponse and Consequence Man-
agement
SEC. 511. IMPROVEMENT OF INTERAGENCY COORDINA-
TION.
The Secretary of Defense shall work with the heads
of other Federal agencies responsible for domestic con-
sequence management activities—
(1) to implement a Government-wide, uniform
evaluation system to ensure—
(A) the proficiency of the military in crisis
and consequence management; and
(B) coordination among such agencies with
the Department of Defense; and
(2) to increase the frequency and number of
multidepartment and multiagency short-notice field
exercises.
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SEC. 512. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
the provisions of this subtitle, in addition to any other
funds authorized for such purposes, $100,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2002. Amounts appropriated under the preceding
sentence shall remain available until expended.
Subtitle C—Research and
Development
SEC. 521. ACCELERATING TECHNOLOGY RESEARCH AND
DEVELOPMENT.
The Secretary of Defense shall carry out a program
to accelerate research and development of technology in
various fields, such as prophylactic vaccination and treat-
ment, advanced sensors, and other promising technologies,
to improve capabilities to respond to biological and chem-
ical attacks.
SEC. 522. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated to carry out
the provisions of this subtitle, in addition to any other
funds authorized for such purposes, $100,000,000 for fis-
cal year 2002. Amounts appropriated under the preceding
sentence shall remain available until expended.
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Subtitle 
D—Nonproliferation 
of
Chemical and Biological Mate-
rials and Weapons
SEC. 531. VERIFICATION OF NONPROLIFERATION BY THE
SECRETARY OF ENERGY.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Energy shall in-
crease research and development efforts with respect to
the verification of nonproliferation of chemical and biologi-
cal materials in countries other than the United States,
with a particular focus on preventing the sale, smuggling,
or theft of such chemical or biological materials.
(b) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated to carry out the provisions
of subsection (a), in addition to any other funds author-
ized for such purposes, $80,000,000 for fiscal year 2002.
Amounts appropriated under the preceding sentence shall
remain available until expended.
SEC. 532. PREVENTING AND DEFENDING AGAINST THE
PROLIFERATION OF BIOLOGICAL AND CHEM-
ICAL WEAPONS BY TERRORISTS.
(a) U.S.-RUSSIAN FEDERATION BIOLOGICAL-CHEM-
ICAL TERRORISM DEFENSE WORKING GROUP.—(1) Con-
gress urges the President to immediately seek to enter into
an agreement with the Russian Federation to establish a
high-level United States-Russian Federation Biological-
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Chemical Terrorism Defense Working Group, to be
chaired by the Vice President of the United States and
the Prime Minister of the Russian Federation.
(2) The Working Group should coordinate and facili-
tate all cooperative efforts between the United States and
the Russian Federation relating to—
(A) nonproliferation of biological and chemical
weapons;
(B) enhancement of material accounting, con-
trol, security, including improving export control and
border security pertaining to biological and chemical
weapons material, equipment, and technology;
(C) biological and chemical weapons detection,
defense, and countermeasures; and
(D) transparency and confidence-building meas-
ures regarding national biological and chemical
weapons and defense programs.
(b) DESTRUCTION OF RUSSIAN CHEMICAL WEAP-
ONS.—
(1) IN
GENERAL.—Notwithstanding section
1305 of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2000 (22 U.S.C. 5952 note) or any
other provision of law, the President is authorized to
provide assistance to the Russian Federation for the
destruction of Russian chemical weapons from fiscal
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year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds that
are remaining available for obligation or expendi-
ture.
(2) DEFINITION.—In this subsection, the term
‘‘fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction
funds’’ has the meaning given the term in section
1301(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 2000 (22 U.S.C. 5952 note).
(c) COOPERATION WITH RUSSIA, UZBEKISTAN AND
KAZAKHSTAN IN BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS DEFENSE.—(1)
There is authorized to be appropriated to the Secretary
of State $120,000,000 for fiscal year 2002 to be available
until expended for existing programs and to support the
establishment of additional programs to engage Russian,
Uzbek, and Kazakh current and former biological weapons
scientists and engineers in cooperative research and devel-
opment programs with agencies and departments of the
United States Government, national laboratories, United
States commercial and nongovernmental entities des-
ignated by the President, and with major NATO and non–
NATO allies, primarily to develop counter-measures to bi-
ological agents used as weapons or means of terror.
(2) Such counter-measures may include the creation
and production of vaccines and other biomedical measures
against basic, genetically-altered, and novel biological
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agents, general- and specific-purpose biological agent de-
tectors, protective clothing, filters, and decontamination
equipment and materials for civil and military personnel,
and environmental neutralization of agents.
(d) COOPERATION
AND SUPPORT
OF BIOLOGICAL
WEAPONS CONVENTION.—(1) Congress commends and
supports the commitment of the President to work con-
structively with other countries to prevent the use and
transfer of biological weapons. Congress further declares
that it should be the policy of the United States to create
a comprehensive multilateral mechanism to verify that
parties to the Biological Weapons Convention of 1974 are
fully and completely in compliance with their obligations
under that Convention.
(2) The President shall cooperate with the organiza-
tion to be established to implement the Protocol to the
Biological Weapons Convention upon the request of that
organization to assist in its implementation of the Pro-
tocol. Such cooperation shall include, but is not limited
to, providing experts (at no cost), information (consistent
with the national security interests of the United States),
and voluntary financial assistance.
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