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Input: SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ''Landmine Elimination Act of 1997''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

Congress makes the following findings:
(1) On August 4, 1995, the Senate voted 67-27 to impose a
moratorium on United States use of anti-personnel landmines
beginning in February 1999.
(2) On April 3, 1996, 15 senior retired United States
military officers, including the former commanding officers of
United States Armed Forces in Korea, the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization (NATO), Vietnam, and Desert Storm, urged the
President to ban the production, stockpiling, sale, and use of
anti-personnel landmines.
(3) The generals stated that a ban would be ''humane and
militarily responsible'' and that it ''would not undermine the
military effectiveness or safety of our forces, nor those of
other nations''.
(4) In Vietnam, 7,318 United States military personnel were
killed, and 56,783 were injured, from landmines.
(5) In Bosnia, at least 204 soldiers under United Nations
command have been injured, and 20 killed, and at least 55
soldiers under NATO command have been injured, and 9 killed, by
landmines.
(6) The Department of State estimates that a man, woman, or
child is killed or injured by a landmine every 22 minutes.
(7) On May 16, 1996, President Clinton declared that the
United States would ''aggressively pursue'' an international
agreement to ban anti-personnel landmines.
(8) On June 7, 1996, the members of the Organization of
American States, including the United States, declared the goal
of a Western Hemisphere landmine free zone.
(9) On June 4, 1997, the members of the Organization of
African Unity adopted the goal of the establishment of Africa
as an anti-personnel landmine free zone.
(10) On October 5, 1996, the Government of Canada announced
that it would pursue negotiations on a treaty banning anti-
personnel landmines to be completed at Ottawa in December 1997.
(11) On December 10, 1996, the United Nations General
Assembly passed by a vote of 156-0 (with 10 abstentions), a
United States-sponsored resolution to ''pursue vigorously'' a
treaty banning the use, stockpiling, production, and transfer
of anti-personnel landmines, with a view to completing the
negotiation ''as soon as possible''.
(12) Formal negotiations on the Ottawa treaty began in
Oslo, Norway on September 1, 1997, with a moment of silence in
memory of Diana, Princess of Wales, who was a passionate
advocate for a total ban on anti-personnel landmines.
(13) By exerting its unmatched international influence, the
United States could secure broad support for a legally binding
international treaty banning anti-personnel landmines.
(14) Such a treaty would further United States security and
humanitarian interests by deterring the use of anti-personnel
landmines against United States Armed Forces and civilians.

SEC. 3. RESTRICTION ON NEW DEPLOYMENTS OF ANTI-PERSONNEL LANDMINES.

(a) Restriction.--Beginning on January 1, 2000, no funds
appropriated or otherwise available to any department or agency of the
United States may be obligated or expended for new deployments of anti-
personnel landmines.
(b) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of enactment of
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report
describing actions and proposals to substitute for new deployments of
such landmines on the Korean Peninsula.
(c) Consultations.--The Secretary shall consult with individuals
having a variety of backgrounds and expertise in preparing the report
required under subsection (b).
(d) Delay.--The President may delay application of the restriction
in subsection (a) with respect to the Korean Peninsula if, not later
than January 1, 2000 and each year thereafter, he submits a report to
Congress certifying that new deployments of anti-personnel landmines on
the Korean Peninsula in the event of a war in Korea or a period of
emergency in Korea declared by the President would be indispensable to
the defense of the Republic of Korea in such year.
(e) Certification Requirements.--The report under subsection (d)
shall include a description of efforts made to implement the proposals
described in the report submitted under subsection (b) and any similar
proposals prepared subsequently by the Secretary of Defense and the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

SEC. 4. DEFINITIONS.

(a) Definitions.--In this Act--
(1) The term ''anti-personnel landmine'' means any munition
placed under, on, or near the ground or other surface area, or
delivered by artillery, rocket, mortar, or similar means, or
dropped from an aircraft, and which is designed, constructed,
or adapted to be detonated or exploded by the presence,
proximity, or contact of a person and that will incapacitate,
injure, or kill one or more persons.
(2) The term ''new deployments of anti-personnel
landmines'' means the emplacement or arming of such landmines
on or after January 1, 2000.
(b) Exclusions.--The term ''anti-personnel landmine'' does not
include command-detonated Claymore munitions.
Output:
Landmine Elimination Act of 1997 - Prohibits Federal agencies from funding any new deployments of anti-personnel landmines as of January 1, 2000.
Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress on actions and proposals to substitute for new deployments of such landmines on the Korean Peninsula.
Authorizes the President to delay implementation of the funding proscription with respect to the Korean Peninsula if he certifies annually to the Congress that new deployments of anti-personnel landmines on such Peninsula would be indispensable to the defense of the Republic of Korea.