§2595d — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The Secretary of State must send a report about the sensors used by the Comprehensive Nuclear‑Test‑Ban Treaty Organization’s international monitoring system. The first report is due within 90 days after December 27, 2021, and then by September 1 each year after that. Each report must list how many times sensors were turned off, disabled, or had malfunctions during the time covered. For each incident the report must give the sensor’s location, how long it was out, and whether the Secretary believes the host country may have caused it on purpose. The report goes to the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the House Armed Services Committee, the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, and the Senate Armed Services Committee.

Title 22, §2595d

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(a)Not later than 90 days after December 27, 2021, and not later than September 1 of each subsequent year, the Secretary of State shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the sensors used in the international monitoring system of the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization. Each such report shall include, with respect to the period covered by the report—

(1)the number of incidents where such sensors are disabled, turned off, or experience “technical difficulties”; and

(2)with respect to each such incident—

(A)the location of the sensor;

(B)the duration of the incident; and

(C)whether the Secretary determines there is reason to believe that the incident was a deliberate act on the part of the host nation.

(b)In this section, the term “appropriate congressional committees” means—

(1)the Committee on Foreign Affairs and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives; and

(2)the Committee on Foreign Relations and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.

Editorial Notes

Codification Section was enacted as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022, and not as part of the Arms Control and Disarmament Act which comprises this chapter.

§2595d Annual report on comprehensive nuclear-test-ban treaty sensors

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