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Title 22 — Foreign Relations and Intercourse

Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation

§ 6742. Prohibition relating to low concentrations of Schedules 2 and 3 chemicals

Statutory text

(a)

Prohibition

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, no person located in the United States shall be required to report on, or to submit to, any routine inspection conducted for the purpose of verifying the production, possession, consumption, exportation, importation, or proposed production, possession, consumption, exportation, or importation of any substance that contains less than—

(1)

10 percent concentration of a Schedule 2 chemical; or

(2)

80 percent concentration of a Schedule 3 chemical.

(b)

Standard for measurement of concentration

The percent concentration of a chemical in a substance shall be measured on the basis of volume or total weight, which measurement yields the lesser percent.

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.

  1. Pub. L. 105–277 div. I title IV § 402 · 112 Stat. 2681

    Enacted · 22 U.S.C. § 6742

    (Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 402, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–881.)

    Source evidence

    Code source credit
    (Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 402, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–881.)

    Enacted provision · exact public law section
    Sec. 402. Not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the Department of State in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided, That not to exceed 5 percent of any appropriation made available for the current fiscal year for the United States Information Agency in this Act may be transferred between such appropriations, but no such appropriation, except as otherwise specifically provided, shall be increased by more than 10 percent by any such transfers: Provided further, That any transfer pursuant to this section shall be treated as a reprogramming of funds under section 605 of this Act and shall not be available for obligation or expenditure except in compliance with the procedures set forth in that section.

1 of 1 references resolved to an enrolled provision

Editorial Notes

References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (a), 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.

Credits

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 402, , 112 Stat. 2681–881.)

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