Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 120.djvu/2463

 120 STAT. 2432

PUBLIC LAW 109–364—OCT. 17, 2006

SEC. 1303. EXTENSION OF TEMPORARY AUTHORITY TO WAIVE LIMITATION ON FUNDING FOR CHEMICAL WEAPONS DESTRUCTION FACILITY IN RUSSIA.

Section 1303 of the Ronald W. Reagan National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2005 (Public Law 108–375; 118 Stat. 2094; 22 U.S.C. 5952 note) is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘shall not apply for a calendar year for which the President submits to Congress a written certification’’ and inserting the following: ‘‘shall not apply for a calendar year to the chemical weapons destruction facility that is (as of 2006) under construction at Shchuch’ye in the Russian Federation, if the President submits to Congress a written certification, for the calendar year concerned,’’; and (2) in subsection (b), by striking ‘‘shall expire’’ and all that follows through the period at the end and inserting ‘‘is not effective for calendar years after calendar year 2011.’’. SEC. 1304. NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES STUDY OF PREVENTION OF PROLIFERATION OF BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS.

(a) STUDY REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall enter into an arrangement with the National Academy of Sciences under which the Academy shall carry out a study to identify areas for further cooperation with Russia and other states of the former Soviet Union under the Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) program of the Department of Defense in the specific area of prevention of proliferation biological weapons. (b) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED IN STUDY.—The Secretary shall provide for the study under subsection (a) to include the following: (1) A brief review of any ongoing or previously completed United States Government program (whether conducted through the Cooperative Threat Reduction program or otherwise) in the area of prevention of proliferation of biological weapons. (2) An identification of further cooperative work between the United States Government and foreign governments, including technical scientific cooperation, that could effectively be pursued in the area of prevention of proliferation of biological weapons and the objectives that such work would be designed to achieve. (3) An identification of any obstacles to designing and implementing a nonproliferation program (whether conducted through the Cooperative Threat Reduction program or otherwise) that could successfully accomplish the objectives identified pursuant to paragraph (2), together with recommendations for overcoming such obstacles, including recommendations in the area of coordination among relevant United States Government departments and agencies. (c) REPORT.— (1) SECRETARY OF DEFENSE REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 2007, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the study carried out under subsection (a). (2) MATTERS TO BE INCUDED.—The report under paragraph (1) shall incude the following:

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