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SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Proliferation Prevention Enhancement
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. MANDATORY USE OF THE AUTOMATED EXPORT SYSTEM FOR FILING CERTAIN
SHIPPERS' EXPORT DECLARATIONS.

(a) Authority.--Section 301 of title 13, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new subsection:
''(h) The Secretary is authorized to require the filing of
Shippers' Export Declarations under this chapter through an automated
and electronic system for the filing of export information established
by the Department of the Treasury.''.
(b) Implementing Regulations.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Treasury, in
consultation with the Secretary of Commerce and the Secretary
of State, shall publish regulations in the Federal Register to
require that, upon the effective date of those regulations,
exporters (or their agents) who are required to file Shippers'
Export Declarations under chapter 9 of title 13, United States
Code, file such Declarations through the Automated Export
System with respect to exports of items on the United States
Munitions List or the Commerce Control List.
(2) Elements of the regulations.--The regulations referred
to in paragraph (1) shall include at a minimum--
(A) provision for the establishment of online
assistance services to be available for those
individuals who must use the Automated Export System;
(B) provision for ensuring that an individual who
is required to use the Automated Export System is able
to print out from the System a validated record of the
individual's submission, including the date of the
submission and a serial number or other unique
identifier for the export transaction; and
(C) a requirement that the Department of Commerce
print out and maintain on file a paper copy or other
acceptable back-up record of the individual's
submission at a location selected by the Secretary of
Commerce.
(c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) and the
regulations described in subsection (b) shall take effect 180 days
after the Secretary of Commerce, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the
Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology jointly
certify, by publishing in the Federal Register a notice, that a secure,
Internet-based Automated Export System that is capable of handling the
expected volume of information required to be filed under subsection
(b), plus the anticipated volume from voluntary use of the Automated
Export System, has been successfully implemented and tested.

SEC. 3. VOLUNTARY USE OF THE AUTOMATED EXPORT SYSTEM.

It is the sense of Congress that exporters (or their agents) who
are required to file Shippers' Export Declarations under chapter 9 of
title 13, United States Code, but who are not required under section
2(b) to file such Declarations using the Automated Export System,
should do so.

SEC. 4. REPORT TO CONGRESS.

Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of this Act,
the Secretary of Commerce, in coordination with the Secretary of State,
the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of the Treasury, the Secretary
of Energy, and the Director of Central Intelligence, shall submit a
report to Congress setting forth--
(1) the advisability and feasibility of mandating
electronic filing through the Automated Export System for all
Shippers' Export Declarations;
(2) the manner in which data gathered through the Automated
Export System can most effectively be used by other automated
licensing systems administered by Federal agencies, including--
(A) the Defense Trade Application System of the
Department of State;
(B) the Export Control Automated Support System of
the Department of Commerce;
(C) the Foreign Disclosure and Technology
Information System of the Department of Defense;
(D) the Proliferation Information Network System of
the Department of Energy;
(E) the Enforcement Communication System of the
Department of the Treasury; and
(F) the Export Control System of the Central
Intelligence Agency; and
(3) a proposed timetable for any expansion of information
required to be filed through the Automated Export System.

SEC. 5. DEFINITIONS.

In this Act:
(1) Automated export system.--The term ''Automated Export
System'' means the automated and electronic system for filing
export information established under chapter 9 of title 13,
United States Code, on June 19, 1995 (60 Federal Register
32040).
(2) Commerce control list.--The term ''Commerce Control
List'' has the meaning given the term in section 774.1 of title
15, Code of Federal Regulations.
(3) Shippers' export declaration.--The term ''Shippers'
Export Declaration'' means the export information filed under
chapter 9 of title 13, United States Code, as described in part
30 of title 15, Code of Federal Regulations.
(4) United states munitions list.--The term ''United States
Munitions List'' means the list of items controlled under
section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2778).
A:
Expresses the sense of Congress urging exporters (or their agents) who are required to file Shippers' Export Declarations, but are not required under this Act to file them using the Automated Export System, to do so anyway.