§6741 — Title 22 Foreign Relations and Intercourse | U.S. Code

Summary

The U.S. National Authority must make rules that require anyone in the United States who makes, processes, uses, exports, or imports (or plans to do any of those) a chemical covered by the Convention to keep records, let officials access those records, and send the Director whatever reports are reasonably needed. Those reports must give only the minimum information the Organization needs under the Convention’s Annex on Confidentiality (subparagraph 1(a)). The Director must put these rules in place quickly. When possible, the U.S. government must not ask for reports that are unnecessary or repeat reports already required by other laws. Heads of federal agencies must work together to avoid making people file the same report more than once. Federal agency — the term means the same as “agency” in section 551(1) of title 5.

Title 22, §6741

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(a)(1)The United States National Authority shall ensure that regulations are prescribed that require each person located in the United States who produces, processes, consumes, exports, or imports, or proposes to produce, process, consume, export, or import, a chemical substance that is subject to the Convention to—

(A)maintain and permit access to records related to that production, processing, consumption, export, or import of such substance; and

(B)submit to the Director of the United States National Authority such reports as the United States National Authority may reasonably require to provide to the Organization, pursuant to subparagraph 1(a) of the Annex on Confidentiality of the Convention, the minimum amount of information and data necessary for the timely and efficient conduct by the Organization of its responsibilities under the Convention.

(2)The Director of the United States National Authority shall ensure that regulations pursuant to this section are prescribed expeditiously.

(b)(1)To the extent feasible, the United States Government shall not require the submission of any report that is unnecessary or duplicative of any report required by or under any other law. The head of each Federal agency shall coordinate the actions of that agency with the heads of the other Federal agencies in order to avoid the imposition of duplicative reporting requirements under this chapter or any other law.

(2)As used in paragraph (1), the term “Federal agency” has the meaning given the term “agency” in section 551(1) of title 5.

Notes & Related Subsidiaries

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see

Short Title

note set out under section 6701 of this title and Tables.

Executive Documents

Regulations

under subsec. (a) to be issued by Department of Commerce by a date specified by Department of State as United States National Authority (USNA) and to be reviewed and approved by USNA in coordination with an interagency group, see section 3 of Ex. Ord. No. 13128, June 25, 1999, 64 F.R. 34703, set out as a note under section 6711 of this title.

§6741 Reports required by United States National Authority