I
107TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 2514
To provide for burdensharing contributions from allied and other friendly
foreign countries for the costs of deployment of any United States missile
defense system that is designed to protect those countries from ballistic
missile attack.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JULY 17, 2001
Mr. ALLEN introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees on Armed
Services and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently determined by
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall with-
in the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To provide for burdensharing contributions from allied and
other friendly foreign countries for the costs of deploy-
ment of any United States missile defense system that
is designed to protect those countries from ballistic mis-
sile attack.
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 ‘‘Missile Defense
Burdensharing Act of 2001’’.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) 
The 
United 
States 
has 
established
burdensharing arrangements with Japan, member
nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(NATO), and other countries to share the costs of
common defense efforts and successfully solicited
contributions from several countries to offset costs
relating to the Persian Gulf War.
(2) The President has stated that a missile de-
fense system should be deployed to protect allies and
other friendly foreign countries as well as the United
States.
SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF SCOPE OF MISSILE DEFENSE
SYSTEM; 
DESIGNATION 
OF 
PROTECTED
COUNTRIES.
(a) DETERMINATION RELATING TO SCOPE OF MIS-
SILE DEFENSE SYSTEM.—Not later than 120 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the President—
(1) shall determine whether any missile defense
system to be developed by the United States is in-
tended to protect the territory of allied or other
friendly foreign countries, in addition to the territory
of the United States, from ballistic missile attack;
and
(2) shall prepare and transmit to Congress a
report containing the determination of the President
under paragraph (1).
(b) DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED COUNTRIES.—If
the President makes a determination under subsection
(a)(1) that a proposed United States missile defense sys-
tem is intended to protect the territory of allied or other
friendly foreign countries from ballistic missile attack, the
President—
(1) shall designate each allied or other friendly
foreign country, with respect to which the system is
intended to protect, as a protected country for the
purposes of this Act, and shall so notify Congress in
writing at least 30 days prior to the designation; and
(2) shall notify Congress in writing at least 30
days prior to the termination of a designation of a
country.
(c) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT WITH RESPECT TO
TERMINATION OF DESIGNATION OF PROTECTED COUN-
TRIES.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—As part of the notification to
Congress with respect to the termination of a des-
ignation of a country as a protected country under
subsection (b)(2), the President shall include a de-
scription of the reasons for the termination, includ-