Title 22Foreign Relations and IntercourseRelease 119-73

§2576 Arms control information

Title 22 › Chapter CHAPTER 35— - ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT › Subchapter SUBCHAPTER III— - FUNCTIONS › § 2576

Last updated Apr 6, 2026|Official source

Summary

Federal agencies must give the Secretary of State information when they prepare bills or budget requests for certain military programs. This covers programs to research, develop, test, build, deploy, or upgrade nuclear weapons or their delivery systems; programs costing over $250,000,000 total or $50,000,000 a year; and other technology or weapons programs the agency or Secretary thinks could affect arms-control talks or policy.

Full Legal Text

Title 22, §2576

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In order to assist the Secretary of State in the performance of his duties with respect to arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy and negotiations, any Government agency preparing any legislative or budgetary proposal for— (1)
(2)any program of research, development, testing, engineering, construction, deployment, or modernization with respect to armaments, ammunition, implements of war, or military facilities, having—
(A)an estimated total program cost in excess of $250,000,000, or
(B)an estimated annual program cost in excess of $50,000,000, or
(3)any other program involving technology with potential military application or weapons systems which such Government agency or the Secretary of State believes may have a significant impact on arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy or negotiations,

Legislative History

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

Amendments

1998—Pub. L. 105–277, § 1223(10), substituted “Secretary of State” for “Director” wherever appearing and, in concluding provisions, struck out “, in accordance with the procedures established pursuant to section 2575 of this title,” after “detailed information”. 1994—Pub. L. 103–236, § 719(e), substituted “information” for “impact information and analysis” in section catchline, redesignated subsec. (a) as entire section, and inserted “, nonproliferation,” after “arms control” in introductory provisions and par. (3). Subsecs. (b), (c). Pub. L. 103–236, § 704(1), struck out subsec. (b) which required the Director to assess and analyze certain legislative and budgetary proposals with respect to their impact on arms control and disarmament policy and negotiations and subsec. (c) which prohibited courts from compelling performance of any requirement under this section. 1978—Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 95–338, § 1(1), substituted “technology with potential military application or weapons systems” for “weapons systems or technology”. Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 95–338, § 1(2), inserted provisions requiring requests to be transmitted either as an individual program or as an aggregation of related programs, and classification requirements for transmitted statements.

Statutory Notes and Related Subsidiaries

Effective Date

of 1998 AmendmentAmendment by Pub. L. 105–277 effective Apr. 1, 1999, see section 1201 of Pub. L. 105–277, set out as an

Effective Date

note under section 6511 of this title.

Reference

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Citation

22 U.S.C. § 2576

Title 22Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Last Updated

Apr 6, 2026

Release point: 119-73