[Congressional Bills 110th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 529 Introduced in House (IH)]







110th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 529

To implement the recommendations of the Office of the Special Inspector 
   General for Iraq Reconstruction to ensure that the Department of 
 Defense properly accounts for all small arms weapons procured by the 
      Department of Defense for use by the Iraqi Security Forces.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 17, 2007

  Mr. Lynch introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                      Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To implement the recommendations of the Office of the Special Inspector 
   General for Iraq Reconstruction to ensure that the Department of 
 Defense properly accounts for all small arms weapons procured by the 
      Department of Defense for use by the Iraqi Security Forces.

    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 ``Iraq Weapons Accountability Act of 
2007''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS AND PURPOSE.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Based on the October 28, 2006, audit report entitled 
        ``Iraqi Security Forces: Weapons Provided by the U.S. 
        Department of Defense Using the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction 
        Fund'' prepared by the Office of the Special Inspector General 
        for Iraq Reconstruction--
                    (A) the Department of Defense has not properly 
                accounted for all small arms weapons procured by the 
                Department of Defense, using the Iraq Relief and 
                Reconstruction Fund, for use by the Iraqi Security 
                Forces;
                    (B) the Department of Defense used approximately 
                $133 million from the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction 
                Fund in order to purchase more than 370,000 small arms 
                weapons for the Iraqi Security Forces, including 
                semiautomatic pistols, assault rifles, heavy machine 
                guns, and rocket-propelled grenade launchers; such 
                weapons were purchased through 19 Department of Defense 
                procurement contracts with 142 separate delivery 
                orders;
                    (C) only approximately 10,000 of the more than 
                370,000 small arms weapons may have been properly 
                registered in the Department of Defense's Registry of 
                the Small Arms Serialization Program; and
                    (D) the lack of small arms weapons accountability 
                poses a significant physical security risk to United 
                States and Coalition troops in Iraq.
            (2) Accordingly, to ensure that all small arms weapons 
        procured by the Department of Defense for the Iraqi Security 
        Forces are properly accounted for, the October 28, 2006, audit 
        report of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
        Reconstruction contains the following recommendations:
                    (A) Determine the requisite spare parts and 
                technical repair manual requirements by weapons type 
                and, if applicable, weapons model and provide this 
                information to the Iraqi Ministries of Defense and 
                Interior.
                    (B) Review policies and procedures for filling 
                vacant arms maintenance positions and implement 
                corrective actions for sustainment.
                    (C) Establish accurate weapon inventories.
                    (D) Initiate action to provide weapons serial 
                numbers for compliance with the Department of Defense's 
                Small Arms Serialization Program.
    (b) Purpose.--The purpose of this Act is to implement the 
recommendations of the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
Reconstruction to ensure that the Department of Defense properly 
accounts for all small arms weapons procured by the Department of 
Defense, using the Iraq Relief and Reconstruction Fund, for use by the 
Iraqi Security Forces.

SEC. 3. REQUIREMENT TO IMPLEMENT RECOMMENDATIONS TO ENSURE THAT THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROPERLY ACCOUNTS FOR ALL SMALL 
              ARMS WEAPONS PROCURED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FOR 
              USE BY THE IRAQI SECURITY FORCES.

    Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense shall direct the Commanding General of the 
Multi-National Security Transition Command-Iraq to take appropriate 
actions, in consultation with the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
Reconstruction, to implement the recommendations of the October 28, 
2006, audit report entitled ``Iraqi Security Forces: Weapons Provided 
by the U.S. Department of Defense Using the Iraq Relief and 
Reconstruction Fund'' prepared by the Office of the Special Inspector 
General for Iraq Reconstruction.

SEC. 4. REPORT.

    Not later than 60 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the 
implementation of this Act.
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