[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 2514 Introduced in House (IH)]
107th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 2514
To provide for burdensharing contributions from allied and other
friendly foreign countries for the costs of deployment of any United
States missile defense system that is designed to protect those
countries from ballistic missile attack.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
July 17, 2001
Mr. Allen introduced the following bill; which was referred to the
Committee on International Relations, and in addition to the Committees
on Armed Services and the Budget, for a period to be subsequently
determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such
provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
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A BILL
To provide for burdensharing contributions from allied and other
friendly foreign countries for the costs of deployment of any United
States missile defense system that is designed to protect those
countries from ballistic missile attack.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Missile Defense Burdensharing Act of
2001''.
SEC. 2. FINDINGS.
Congress finds the following:
(1) The United States has established burdensharing
arrangements with Japan, member nations of the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization (NATO), and other countries to share the
costs of common defense efforts and successfully solicited
contributions from several countries to offset costs relating
to the Persian Gulf War.
(2) The President has stated that a missile defense system
should be deployed to protect allies and other friendly foreign
countries as well as the United States.
SEC. 3. DETERMINATION OF SCOPE OF MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM; DESIGNATION
OF PROTECTED COUNTRIES.
(a) Determination Relating to Scope of Missile Defense System.--Not
later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the
President--
(1) shall determine whether any missile defense system to
be developed by the United States is intended to protect the
territory of allied or other friendly foreign countries, in
addition to the territory of the United States, from ballistic
missile attack; and
(2) shall prepare and transmit to Congress a report
containing the determination of the President under paragraph
(1).
(b) Designation of Protected Countries.--If the President makes a
determination under subsection (a)(1) that a proposed United States
missile defense system is intended to protect the territory of allied
or other friendly foreign countries from ballistic missile attack, the
President--
(1) shall designate each allied or other friendly foreign
country, with respect to which the system is intended to
protect, as a protected country for the purposes of this Act,
and shall so notify Congress in writing at least 30 days prior
to the designation; and
(2) shall notify Congress in writing at least 30 days prior
to the termination of a designation of a country.
(c) Additional Requirement With Respect to Termination of
Designation of Protected Countries.--
(1) In general.--As part of the notification to Congress
with respect to the termination of a designation of a country
as a protected country under subsection (b)(2), the President
shall include a description of the reasons for the termination,
including an assessment of the effect of the termination on the
security relations between the country and the United States
and on mutual commitments of the United States under bilateral
and multilateral security arrangements, such as the North
Atlantic Treaty.
(2) Notification of involved countries.--The President
shall transmit to the government of a country with respect to
which the President has terminated the designation of the
country as a protected country under subsection (b)(2) a copy
of the notification to Congress with respect to such
termination.
SEC. 4. BURDENSHARING CONTRIBUTIONS BY PROTECTED COUNTRIES.
(a) Solicitation of Contributions.--The President shall seek
financial contributions from each protected country designated by the
President under section 3(b)(1) commensurate with the country's
proportional share of protection from the United States missile defense
system.
(b) Use of Contributions.--Contributions received pursuant to
subsection (a) shall be used to offset costs incurred by the United
States for deployment of the missile defense system, including costs
relating to procurement, construction, operations, and personnel.
SEC. 5. ANNUAL REPORTS.
(a) Report by Secretary of Defense.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense, acting through
the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, shall submit to
Congress an annual report that--
(A) identifies each foreign country that would
receive protection under the missile defense system
from ballistic missile attack, irrespective of whether
or not the country has been designated by the President
under section 3(b)(1) as a protected country; and
(B) describes the nature and extent of the
protection for each such foreign country.
(2) Form.--The report shall be submitted in unclassified
form, but may contain a classified annex.
(b) Report by the President.--The President shall transmit to
Congress as part of the annual budget request a report that--
(1) describes the extent to which each protected country
designated by the President under section 3(b)(1) has provided
financial contributions to the United States in accordance with
section 4(a);
(2) describes the proportion of actual and expected
contributions by each protected country as a share of overall
costs of the missile defense system; and
(3) describes efforts by the United States to obtain
payments from protected countries that have not fully
contributed to their share of protection under the missile
defense system.
SEC. 6. RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.
In this Act, the term ``missile defense system'' does not include a
theater missile defense system that is designed or deployed to defend
elements of the United States Armed Forces that are deployed outside
the United States.
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