§3425 Reports to Congress

Summary

The President must send a written report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by April 30, 1982, covering the period up to two weeks before that date. After that, the President must send a yearly report by January 15 each year, starting in 1983, to the same people. Each report must say what the Multinational Force and Observers did that year and who made up the force, including each country’s duties and where their troops were posted. It must list all U.S. costs for the prior fiscal year by category, including normal and extra costs, and specifically costs for U.S. units (salaries, allowances, retirement, travel, housing, operations, and maintenance) and identifiable costs for property, support, and services. The report must also show what the U.S. would have spent if those troops had stayed in the United States, any reimbursements the U.S. got, the kinds of property or services provided (and which were not reimbursed), and the outcome of talks with Egypt and Israel about the force’s future or possible reduction. Reports must be as detailed and accurate as possible. If some costs cannot be identified exactly, the report must give reasonable estimates, and any nonreimbursed administrative or technical support (under section 3424(a)) must be described with estimates of total and incremental costs.