Title: Unexploded Ordnance Removal Act
Policy area: International Affairs

Summary:
Unexploded Ordnance Removal Act
This bill directs the Department of Defense (DOD) to develop a strategy for removing unexploded ordnance in Syria and Iraq that includes an assessment of areas of ordnance concentration, proximate schools, hospitals, or civil-service buildings and a time line for the strategy's implementation.
DOD may coordinate with foreign countries and multilateral institutions in developing and implementing the strategy.

[Congressional Bills 115th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 5883 Introduced in House (IH)]

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115th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 5883

To require the Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with the Secretary 
 of State, to develop and implement a strategy for removing unexploded 
          ordnance in Syria and Iraq, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 18, 2018

Mr. Keating (for himself and Mr. Poe of Texas) introduced the following 
  bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in 
   addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period to be 
subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration 
  of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
                               concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with the Secretary 
 of State, to develop and implement a strategy for removing unexploded 
          ordnance in Syria and Iraq, and for other purposes.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Unexploded Ordnance Removal Act''.

SEC. 2. STRATEGY FOR REMOVING UNEXPLODED ORDNANCE IN SYRIA AND IRAQ.

    (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense, in concurrence with the 
Secretary of State, shall develop and implement a strategy for removing 
unexploded ordnance in Syria and Iraq that includes the following:
            (1) An assessment of the hazards posed by unexploded 
        ordnance in Syria and Iraq, including with respect to U.S. 
        strategic and military interests, the areas of concentration of 
        unexploded ordnance, and schools, hospitals, or civil-service 
        buildings that are proximate to unexploded ordnance.
            (2) A detailed description and timeline for actions to 
        eliminate the hazards posed by unexploded ordnance in Syria and 
        Iraq.
    (b) Multilateral Coordination.--In developing and implementing the 
strategy required under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense is 
authorized to coordinate as appropriate with appropriate officials of 
foreign countries and multilateral institutions.
    (c) Report.--Not later than 270 days after the date of the 
enactment of this Act, and annually thereafter until December 31, 2021, 
the Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of State, 
shall submit to the congressional defense committees, the Committee on 
Foreign Relations of the Senate, and the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
of the House of Representatives a report that includes--
            (1) in the first such report, the strategy described in 
        subsection (a), including--
                    (A) the results of the assessment described in 
                subsection (a)(1);
                    (B) the description and timeline required by 
                subsection (a)(2); and
                    (C) a description of contributions of foreign 
                partners in developing the strategy in accordance with 
                subsection (b);
            (2) in subsequent reports, any updates from the previous 
        report to such strategy, results, descriptions, or timeline; 
        and
            (3) the actions taken pursuant to the authorization under 
        subsection (b) to implement such strategy, as so updated, 
        through multilateral efforts.
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