Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse
Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation
§ 6741. Reports required by United States National Authority
Statutory text
Regulations on recordkeeping
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—
maintain and permit access to records related to that production, processing, consumption, export, or import of such substance; and
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.
Rulemaking
The Director of the United States National Authority shall ensure that regulations pursuant to this section are prescribed expeditiously.
Coordination
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.
Definition
As used in paragraph (1), the term “Federal agency” has the meaning given the term “agency” in section 551(1) of title 5.
Legislative history
Reconstructed from this section’s Code source credit and amendment notes, resolved against the local Statutes at Large. Editorial notes are evidence, not the law that made the change.
Pub. L. 105–277 div. I title IV § 401 · 112 Stat. 2681
Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6741
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 401, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–880.)
Source evidence
Code source credit
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 401, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–880.)Enacted provision · exact public law section
Sec. 401. Funds appropriated under this title shall be available, except as otherwise provided, for allowances and differentials as authorized by subchapter 59 of title 5, United States Code; for services as authorized by 5 U.S.C. 3109; and hire of passenger transportation pursuant to 31 U.S.C. 1343(b).
1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision
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, , 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
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, , 64 F.R. 34703, set out as a note under section 6711 of this title.
Credits
(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 401, , 112 Stat. 2681–880.)