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 98 STAT. 2578

Report. Confidentiality.

PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

Asia region and to assume additional missions for their own defense as the United States allocates additional resources to the mission of protecting Western interests in world areas not covered by the system of Western Alliances; and (7) a description of what additional actions the executive branch plans to take should the efforts by the United States referred to in clauses (2) and (5) fail, and, in those instances where such additional actions do not include consideration of the repositioning of American troops, a detailed explanation as to why such repositioning is not being so considered. (d) The Secretary of Defense shall also submit to the Congress not more than 30 days after the submission of the report required under subsection (a) an unclassified report containing the matters set forth in clauses (1) through (7) of such subsection. NATO SEASPARROW COOPERATIVE PROGRAM

29 UST 1103.

SEC. 1004. The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to continue participation, in accordance with current operating procedures, in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization SEASPARROW Surface Missile System Cooperative Consortium, as described in the Memorandum of Understanding between the United States, Denmark, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, Canada, Greece, and Federal Republic of Germany, signed by the United States on June 6, 1968, and the Memorandum of Understanding between the same countries, signed by the United States on May 20, 1977. PROCUREMENT OF COMMUNICATIONS SUPPORT AND RELATED SUPPUES AND SERVICES

SEC. 1005. (a) Chapter 141 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: International agreements. 10 USC 2401a.

Records.

"§ 2401a. Procurement of communications support and related supplies and services "(a) As an alternative means of obtaining communications support and related supplies and services, the Secretary of Defense, subject to the approval of the Secretary of State, may enter into an arrangement with the Minister of Defense or other appropriate official of any allied country or with the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), under which, in return for being provided communications support and related supplies and services, the United States would agree to provide to such country or NATO an equivalent value of communications support and related supplies and services. "(b) Any arrangement entered into under this section shall require that any accrued credits and liabilities resulting from an unequal exchange of communications support and related supplies and services during the term of such arrangement would be liquidated by direct payment to the party having provided the greater amount of communications support and related supplies and services. Payments received by the United States shall be credited to the appropriation from which such communications support and related supplies and services have been provided. "(c) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives copies of all documents evidencing an arrangement entered into

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