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 PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985

99 STAT. 707

described in subsection (a), including costs for travel, subsistence, and other support expenses. (d) DEADLINE FOR PLAN.—The Secretary shall submit the plan required by subsection (a) not later than December 1, 1985. SEC. 1006. REPORT ON NUCLEAR WINTER FINDINGS AND POLICY IMPLICATIONS (a) CONTINUED PARTICIPATION IN INTERAGENCY STUDIES.—Notwith-

standing any limitation in any other provision of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in accordance with section 1107(a) of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 (Public Law 98-525), 98 Stat. 2583. shall participate in any comprehensive interagency study conducted on the atmospheric, climatic, environmental, and biological consequences of nuclear war and the implications that such consequences have for the nuclear weapons strategy and policy, the arms control policy, and the civil defense policy of the United States. (b) REPORT ON NUCLEAR WINTER FINDINGS.—Not later than March 1, 1986, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives an unclassified report suitable for release to the public, together with classified addenda (if required), concerning the subject described in subsection (a). The Secretary shall include in such report the following: (1) A detailed review and assessment of the findings in the current body of domestic and international scientific literature on the atmospheric, climatic, environmental, and biological consequences of nuclear explosions and nuclear exchanges. (2) A thorough evaluation of the implications that such findings have on— (A) the nuclear weapons policy of the United States, especially with regard to strategy, targeting, planning, command, control, procurement, and deployment; (B) the nuclear arms control policy of the United States; and (C) the civil defense policy of the United States. (3) A discussion of the manner in which the results of such evaluation of policy implications will be incorporated into the nuclear weapons, arms control, and civil defense policies of the United States. (4) An analysis of the extent to which current scientific Union of Soviet findings on the consequences of nuclear explosions are being Socialist Republics. studied, disseminated, and used in the Soviet Union.

TITLE XI—MATTERS RELATING TO NATO SEC. IIOL LIMITED AUTHORITY TO EXCEED PERMANENT CEILING ON UNITED STATES FORCES ASSIGNED TO NATO

Section 1002(c)(1) of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 22 USC 1928 1985 (Public Law 98-525; 98 Stat. 2575), is amended by adding at the note. end thereof the following new sentence: "The Secretary of Defense Armed Forces. may exceed such permanent ceiling in any year by a number equal to not more than Vz of 1 percent for the purpose of achieving sound management in the rotation of members of the Armed Forces of the United States to and from assignment to permanent duty ashore in European member nations of NATO, but only if the Secretary determines that the increase in such year is necessary for such purpose.".

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