§3732 Requirement for on-site managers

Summary

Requires the Secretary of Defense to name one on-site manager, who must be a federal employee, before using Cooperative Threat Reduction funds for certain large projects. This rule applies when a project is in a state of the former Soviet Union, involves dismantling, destruction, storage, or building of a facility, and the Department of Defense will give more than $50,000,000. The on-site manager must work with participating governments to list the tasks that are critical to meeting the project's disarmament or nonproliferation goals, set a schedule for those tasks, and meet with participants to get assurances tasks are on time. If a participant other than the United States misses a scheduled task, the manager must suspend U.S. participation unless the Secretary of Defense tells the manager to continue. One federal employee may manage more than one project, but if they do so in a fiscal year the combined project costs that year cannot exceed $150,000,000. Critical tasks include getting permits, confirming items to be dismantled are available, and providing money, people, management, transport, and other needed resources. If the Secretary orders U.S. participation to resume after a suspension, the Secretary must notify the congressional defense committees within 30 days.