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 '•Tj*r~ -5 - PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1935 (2) The date of export. (3) The intended end use and intended end user. (4) The results of the post-shipment verification. (d) EXPLANATION WHEN VERIFICATION NOT CONDUCTED.— If a post-shipment verification has not been conducted in accordance with subsection (a) with respect to any such export during the period covered by a report, the Secretary shall include in the report for that period a detailed explanation of the reasons why such a post-shipment verification was not conducted. SEC. 1214. GAG STUDY ON CERTAIN COMPUTERS; END USER INFORMA- TION ASSISTANCE. (a) IN GENERAL.— The Comptroller General of the United States shall submit to the congressional committees specified in section 1215 a study of the national security risks relating to the sale of computers with a composite theoretical performance of between 2,000 and 7,000 millions of theoretical operations per second (MTOPS) to end users in countries specified in subsection (c). The study shall also analyze any foreign availability of computers described in the preceding sentence and the impact of such sales on United States exporters. (b) END USER INFORMATION ASSISTANCE TO EXPORTERS.— The Secretary of Commerce shall establish a procedure by which exporters may seek information on questionable end users in countries specified in subsection (c) who are seeking to obtain computers described in subsection (a). (c) COVERED COUNTRIES.—For purposes of subsections (a) and (b), the countries specified in this subsection are the countries listed as "Computer Tier 3" eligible countries in section 740.7(d) of title 15 of the Code of Federal Regulations, as in effect on June 10, 1997. SEC. 1215. CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES. For purposes of sections 1211(d), 1212(a), 1213(c), and 1214(a) the congressional committees specified in those sections are the following: (1) The Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate. (2) The Committee on International Relations and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives. Subtitle C—Other Matters SEC. 1221. DEFENSE BURDENSHARING. 22 USC 1928 (a) EFFORTS TO INCREASE ALLIED BURDENSHARING. — The Presi- ^°^' dent shall seek to have each nation that has cooperative military relations with the United States (including security agreements, basing arrangements, or mutual participation in multinational military organizations or operations) teike one or more of the following actions: (1) For any nation in which United States military personnel are assigned to permanent duty ashore, increase its financial contributions to the payment of the nonpersonnel costs incurred by the United States Government for stationing United States military personnel in that nation, with a goal of achieving by September 30, 2000, 75 percent of such costs. An increase

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