An Act to authorize appropriations under the Arms Control and Disarmament Act for the fiscal year 1979, and for other purposes.
PL 95-338 (H.R.11832), enacted 08/08/1978

92 STAT. 458 
PUBLIC LAW 95-338—AUG. 8, 1978 
Public Law 95-338 
95th Congress 
Aug. 8, 1978 
[H.R. 11832] 
Arms Control and 
Disarmament 
Act, amendment. 
Appropriation 
authorizations. 
22 u s e 2576. 
Study. 
Report to 
Congress. 
An Act 
To authorize appropriations under the Arms Control and Disarmament Act for 
the fiscal year 1979, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted hy the Senate and Hoitse of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled^ That section 36 of 
the Arms Control and Disarmament Act is amended— 
(1) by striking out in subsection (a) ^3) "weapons systems or 
technology" and inserting in lieu thereof "technology with poten-
tial military application or weapons systems"; and 
(2) by amending subsection (b)(2) to read as follows: 
" (2) No request to the Congress for authorizations or appropriations 
for— 
"(A) any program described in subsection (a) (1) or (2), or 
"(B) any program described in subsection (a)(3) and found 
by the National Security Council, on the basis of the advice and 
recommendations received from the Director, to have a sig-
nificant impact on arms control and disarmament policy or 
negotiations, 
shall be transmitted without a complete statement analyzing the 
impact of such program, either as an individual program or as an 
aggregation of related programs, on arms control and disarmament 
policy and negotiations. Any such statement transmitted in classified 
form shall be accompanied by an unclassified version thereof.". 
SEC. 2. Section 49(a) of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act 
(22 U.S.C. 2589(a)) ,.is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 49. (a) To carry out the purposes of this Act, there are 
authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1979 the sum of 
$18,395,000 (and such additional amounts as may be necessary for 
increases in salary, pay, retirement, other emploj^ee benefits authorized 
by law, and other nondiscretionary costs) of which $1,000,000 shall be 
available only for the purpose of furthering the nuclear safeguards 
programs and activities of the International Atomic Energy Agency, 
and of which such sums as may be necessary shall be available to 
conduct a study of the arms control study centers at academic institu-
tions, and to report the results of such study with possible recom-
mendations to Congress not later than January 31, 1979. The sums 
authorized to be appropriated by this subsection shall remain available 
until expended.". 
PUBLIC LAW 95-338—AUG. 8, 1978 
92 STAT. 459 
SEC. 3. Section 49 of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act, as 22 U
S
C 2589. 
amended by section 2 of this Act, is further amended by adding at 
the end thereof the following: 
"(d) Beginning with its request to the Congress for an authoriza-
tion of appropriations for the fiscal year 1980, and with such request 
for each fiscal yeai- thereafter, the Agency shall accompany such 
request with a detailed budget for each bureau and functional category 
within each bureau, which budget shall set forth and justify obliga-
tions and outlays for the fiscal year for which such request is made and 
for the fiscal year preceding and next following such year.". 
SEC. 4. The amendment made by section 2 shall take effect on Effective date. 
October 1,1978. 
22 USC 2589 
note. 
Approved August 8, 1978. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: 
HOUSE REPORT No. 95-1048 (Comm. on International Relations). 
SENATE REPORT No. 95-843 (Comm. on Foreign Relations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 124 (1978): 
Apr. 26, considered and passed House. 
June 8, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
July 16, House concurred in certain Senate amendments; concurred in amend-
ment No. 1 with an amendment. 
July 27, Senate concurred in House amendments. 
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