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 95 STAT. 1728 22 USC 2778. Effective date. 50 USC app. 2410 note. Information disclosure to Congress.

31 USC 54.

50 USC app. 2405.

PUBLIC LAW 97-145—DEC. 29, 1981

services under section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act may not exceed $100,000.". (d) The amendments made by this section apply with respect to violations occurring after the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 5. Section 12(c)(2) of the Export Administration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. App. 2411(c)(2)) is amended to read as follows: "(2) Nothing in this Act shall be construed as authorizing the withholding of information from the Congress or from the General Accounting Office. All information obtained at any time under this Act or previous Acts regarding the control of exports, including any report or license application required under this Act, shall be made available to any committee or subcommittee of Congress of appropriate jurisdiction upon request of the chairman or ranking minority member of such committee or subcommittee. No such committee or subcommittee, or member thereof, shall disclose any information obtained under this Act or previous Acts regarding the control of exports which is submitted on a confidential basis unless the full committee determines that the withholding of that information is contrary to the national interest. Notwithstanding paragraph (1) of this subsection, information referred to in the second sentence of this paragraph shall, consistent with the protection of intelligence, counterintelligence, and law enforcement sources, methods, and activities, as determined by the agency that originally obtained the information, and consistent with the provisions of section 313 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, be made available only by that Eigency, upon request, to the Comptroller General of the iJnited States or to any officer or empl^ee of the General Accounting Office who is authorized by the Comptroller General to have access to such information. No officer or employee of the General Accounting Office shall disclose, except to the Congress in accordeuice with this paragraph, any such information which is submitted on a confidential basis and from which any individual can be identified.". SEC. 6. Section 6(f) of the Export Admmistration Act of 1979 (50 U.S.C. 2405(f)) is amended— (1) in the subsection caption by inserting "AND FOR CERTAIN F O EXPORTS" immediately after SUPPUES'^ OD (2) by inserting the following immediately after the first sentence: "Before export controls on food are imposed, expanded, or extended under this section, the Secretary shall notify the Secretary of State in the case of export controls applicable with respect to any developed country and shall notify the Director of the United States International Development Cooperation Agency in the case of export controls applicable with respect to any developing country. The Secretary of State with respect to developed countries, and the Director with respect to developing countries, shall determine whether the pro^sed export controls on food would cause measurable malnutrition and shall inform the Secretary of that determination. If the Secretary is informed that the proposed export controls on food would cause measurable malnutrition, then those controls may not be imposed, expanded, or extended, as the case may be, unless the President determines that those controls are necessary to protect the national security interests of the United States, or unless the President determines that arrangements are insufficient to ensure that the food will reach those most in need. Each such determination by the Secretary of State or the Director of the United States International Development dkwperation Agency, and any such determination by the President, shall be reported

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