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 118 STAT. 2031 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 Subtitle D—Other Matters SEC. 931. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DESTRUCTION OF LETHAL CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS STOCKPILE. Subsection (d) of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), is amended to read as follows: ‘‘(d) REQUIREMENT FOR STRATEGIC PLAN.—(1) The Under Sec retary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and the Secretary of the Army shall jointly prepare, and from time to time shall update as appropriate, a strategic plan for future activities for destruction of the United States’ stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. ‘‘(2) The plan shall include, at a minimum, the following consid erations: ‘‘(A) Realistic budgeting for stockpile destruction and related support programs. ‘‘(B) Contingency planning for foreseeable or anticipated problems. ‘‘(C) A management approach and associated actions that address compliance with the obligations of the United States under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and that take full advantage of opportunities to accelerate destruction of the stockpile. ‘‘(3) The Secretary of Defense shall each year submit to the Committee on the Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives the strategic plan as most recently prepared and updated under paragraph (1). Such submission shall be made each year at the time of the submis sion to the Congress that year of the President’s budget for the next fiscal year.’’. SEC. 932. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE CRITERIA FOR AND GUIDANCE ON IDENTIFICATION AND INTERNAL TRANSMISSION OF CRITICAL INFORMATION. (a) CRITERIA FOR CRITICAL INFORMATION.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall establish criteria for determining categories of critical information that should be made known expeditiously to senior civilian and military officials in the Department of Defense. Those categories should be limited to matters of extraordinary significance and strategic impact to which rapid access by those officials is essential to the successful accomplishment of the national security strategy or a major military mission. The Secretary may from time to time modify the list to suit the current strategic situation. (2) The Secretary shall provide the criteria established under paragraph (1) to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Secretaries of the military departments, the commanders of the unified and specified commands, the commanders of deployed forces, and such other elements of the Department of Defense as the Secretary considers necessary. (b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The criteria established under subsection (a) shall include, at a minimum, requirement for identi fication of the following: (1) Any incident that may result in a contingency operation, based on the incident’s nature, gravity, or potential for signifi cant adverse consequences to United States citizens, military 10 USC 113 note.

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