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 105 STAT. 1322 PUBLIC LAW 102-190—DEC. 5, 1991 President. Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. SEC. 233. IMPLEMENTATION OF GOAL. (a) IN GENERAL.— To implement the goal specified in section 232(a), the Congress— (1) directs the Secretary of Defense to take the actions specified in subsection (b); and (2) urges the President to take the actions described in subsection (c). (b) ACTIONS OF THE SECRETARY OF DEFENSE.— (1) THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE OPTIONS. — The Secretary of Defense shall aggressively pursue the development of advanced theater missile defense systems, with the objective of downselecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. (2) INITIAL DEPLOYMENT. — The Secretary shall develop for deployment by the earliest date allowed by the availability of appropriate technology or by fiscal year 1996 a cost-effective, operationally-effective, and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile system at a single site as the initial step toward deploy- ment of an anti-ballistic missile system described in section 232(a)(1) designed to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attacks. The system to be developed should include— (A) 100 ground-based interceptors, the design of which is to be determined by competition and downselection for the most capable interceptor or interceptors; (B) fixed, ground-based, anti-ballistic missile battle management radars; and (C) optimum utilization of space-based sensors, including sensors capable of cueing ground-based anti-ballistic missile interceptors and providing initial targeting vectors, and '^ other sensor systems that also are not prohibited by the ABM Treaty, such as a ground-based sub-orbital surveillance and tracking system. (3) DEPLOYMENT PLAN.— Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a plan for the deployment of theater missile defense systems and an anti-ballistic missile system which meet the guidelines established in paragraphs (1) and (2). (c) PRESIDENTIAL ACTIONS. — (1) NEGOTIATIONS REGARDING THE ABM TREATY. — Congress recognizes the President's call on September 27, 1991, for "immediate concrete steps" to permit the deployment of defenses against limited ballistic missile strikes and the response of the President of the Soviet Union undertaking to consider such proposals from the United States on nonnuclear ABM systems. (2) In this regard. Congress urges the President to pursue immediate discussions with the Soviet Union on the feasibility and mutual interests of amendments to the ABM Treaty to permit the following: (A) Construction of anti-ballistic missile sites and deploy- ment of ground-based anti-ballistic missile interceptors in addition to those currently permitted under the ABM Treaty. (B) Increased use of space-based sensors for direct battle management.

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