22 U.S.C. § 6741: Reports required by United…

Summary

Anyone in the United States who makes, processes, uses, exports, imports, or plans to do any of those things with a chemical covered by the Convention must keep records about those activities and allow access to them. They must also send reports to the Director of the United States National Authority when the Director reasonably asks for the minimum information needed for the Organization to do its job under subparagraph 1(a) of the Annex on Confidentiality of the Convention. The Director must create these regulations quickly. The U.S. Government must, to the extent feasible, avoid asking for reports that are unnecessary or duplicate other reports. Heads of federal agencies must coordinate with each other to prevent overlapping reporting under this chapter or any other law. "Federal agency" has the meaning given in section 551(1) of title 5.

Title 22, §6741

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(a)Regulations on recordkeeping

(1)Requirements

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)Rulemaking

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

(b)Coordination

(1)Avoidance of duplication

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)Definition

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