[Federal Register Volume 61, Number 221 (Thursday, November 14, 1996)]
[Rules and Regulations]
[Pages 58327-58331]
From the Federal Register Online via the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
[FR Doc No: 96-29169]


=======================================================================
-----------------------------------------------------------------------

ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT AGENCY

22 CFR Part 601


Statement of Organization

AGENCY: Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

ACTION: Final rule.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------

SUMMARY: The United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency (ACDA) 
is updating, revising, and restating in its entirety the ACDA Statement 
of Organization. In addition to reflecting ACDA's current organization, 
the amended rule contains numerous editorial changes. This rule will 
have no substantive effect on the public.

EFFECTIVE DATE: November 14, 1996.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Janice F. Busen, Office of the General 
Counsel, United States Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Room 5635, 
320 21st Street, NW., Washington, DC 20451, telephone (202) 647-3596.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Because this rule relates solely to internal 
agency management, pursuant to 5 U.S.C. 553(b) notice and other public 
procedures are not required, and the rule is effective immediately on 
the specified date. Further, this action is not a rule as defined in 
the Regulatory Flexibility Act, 5 U.S.C. 601-612 and, thus, is exempt 
from the provisions of that act.

Executive Order 12866 Determination

    ACDA has determined that this rule is not a significant regulatory 
action

[[Page 58328]]

within the meaning of section 3(f) of that Executive Order.

Paperwork Reduction Act Statement

    This rule is not subject to the provisions of the Paperwork 
Reduction Act because it does not contain any information collection 
requirements within the meaning of that Act.

Unfunded Mandates Act Determination

    ACDA has determined that this rule will not result in expenditures 
by state, local, and tribal governments, or by the private sector, of 
more than $100 million in any one year. Accordingly, a budgetary impact 
statement is not required under section 202 of the Unfunded Mandates 
Reform Act of 1995, 2 U.S.C. 1532.

List of Subjects in 22 CFR Part 601

    Organization and functions (Government agencies).

    Chapter VI of Title 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations is 
amended by revising part 601 to read as follows:

PART 601--STATEMENT OF ORGANIZATION

Sec.
601.1  Purpose.
601.2  Definitions.

Subpart A--Agency Mission and Structure

601.5  Mission.
601.6  Agency structure.

Subpart B--Functional Statements

601.10  Office of the Director.
601.11  Multilateral Affairs Bureau (MA).
601.12  Strategic and Eurasian Affairs Bureau (SEA).
601.13  Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau (NP).
601.14  Intelligence, Verification, and Information Management 
Bureau (IVI).
601.15  Office of the General Counsel (GC).
601.16  Office of Administration (A).
601.17  Office of Congressional Affairs (CA).
601.18  Office of Public Affairs (PA).

    Authority: 5 U.S.C. 552(a)(1) and 22 U.S.C. Chapter 35.


Sec. 601.1  Purpose.

    This part summarizes the mission and organization of the U.S. Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency.


Sec. 601.2  Definitions.

    (a) As used in this part, Agency or ACDA means the U.S. Arms 
Control and Disarmament Agency.
    (b) As used in this part, the Act means the Arms Control and 
Disarmament Act, as amended (22 U.S.C. 2551 et seq.).

Subpart A--Agency Mission and Structure


Sec. 601.5  Mission.

    (a) Through the Act, Congress and the President determined that the 
formulation and implementation of United States arms control, 
nonproliferation, and disarmament policy in a manner which will promote 
the national security could best be insured by a central organization 
charged by statute with primary responsibility for this field.
    (b) Under the Act, the Agency is charged with providing the 
President, the Secretary of State, other officials of the executive 
branch, and the Congress with recommendations concerning United States 
arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy, and assessing 
the effect of these recommendations upon our foreign policies, our 
national security policies, and our economy.
    (c) The Agency also has the capacity for providing the essential 
scientific, economic, political, military, psychological, and 
technological information on which realistic arms control, 
nonproliferation, and disarmament policy must be based, and has the 
authority, under the direction of the President and the Secretary of 
State, to carry out the following primary functions:
    (1) The preparation for and management of United States 
participation in international negotiations and implementation fora in 
the arms control and disarmament field.
    (2) When directed by the President, the preparation for, and 
management of, United States participation in international 
negotiations and implementation fora in the nonproliferation field.
    (3) The conduct, support, and coordination of research for arms 
control, nonproliferation, and disarmament policy formulation.
    (4) The preparation for, operation of, or, as appropriate, 
direction of United States participation in such control systems as may 
become part of United States arms control, nonproliferation, and 
disarmament activities.
    (5) The dissemination and coordination of public information 
concerning arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament.
    (d) The Agency works at the highest level of the United States 
Government and, under the direction of the Secretary of State, conducts 
United States participation in international arms control and 
disarmament negotiations. It does not normally hand down decisions or 
engage in regulatory activities affecting the general public, since its 
functions are principally in the advisory or diplomatic areas. Copies 
of publications resulting from the Agency's activities, such as its 
Annual Report, may be ordered from the Superintendent of Documents, 
U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 20402, or requested 
directly from the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, Office of 
Public Affairs, 320 21st Street NW., Washington, DC 20451.


Sec. 601.6  Agency structure.

    (a) The Agency is headed by a Director, appointed by the President 
with the advice and consent of the Senate, who is responsible for the 
executive direction of the Agency. The Director is assisted by a Deputy 
Director, also appointed by the President with the advice and consent 
of the Senate, who acts for, and exercises the powers of, the Director 
during the Director's absence or disability or during a vacancy in said 
office.
    (b) The Director of ACDA ranks with the Deputy Secretary of State 
and reports directly to the Secretary of State; the Deputy Director 
ranks with an Under Secretary of State. The Director of ACDA is the 
principal advisor to the Secretary of State, the National Security 
Council, and the President and other executive branch Government 
officials on matters relating to arms control, nonproliferation, and 
disarmament. The Director has direct access to the President as 
necessary. In addition, the Director has the authority and independence 
to deal directly with the heads of other agencies, such as the 
Department of Defense and the Department of Energy, on matters not 
falling within the jurisdiction of the Department of State.
    (c) The Director is supported by a personal staff that includes the 
Counselor, Chief of Staff, Special Assistant, and Personal Secretary. 
Other entities included within the Office of the Director are: the 
Executive Secretary and Adviser for Internal Affairs, the Advanced 
Projects Office, the Chief Science Advisor, the Office of Military 
Affairs, the Office of the Inspector General, and the Equal Employment 
Opportunity Officer.
    (d) The Agency has four Assistant Directors appointed by the 
President with the advice and consent of the Senate who rank with 
Assistant Secretaries of State. Each of these Assistant Directors heads 
a bureau, and it is through the bureaus that the Agency's program 
responsibilities are primarily discharged. The four current

[[Page 58329]]

bureaus are the Multilateral Affairs Bureau, the Strategic and Eurasian 
Affairs Bureau, the Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau, 
and the Intelligence, Verification, and Information Management Bureau. 
Within the range of its program responsibilities, each bureau is 
responsible for generating policy proposals, and for working closely 
with other ACDA units and Government agencies. Other Agency units with 
staff or Agency-wide responsibilities are the Office of the Director, 
Office of the General Counsel, the Office of Congressional Affairs, the 
Office of Administration, the Office of Congressional Affairs, and the 
Office of Public Affairs.

Subpart B--Functional Statements


Sec. 601.10  Office of the Director.

    (a) The Director of ACDA is the principal adviser to the Secretary 
of State, the National Security Council, and the President and other 
executive branch Government officials on matters relating to arms 
control, nonproliferation, and disarmament, and on their relationship 
to other aspects of overall national security policy. Under the 
direction of the President and the Secretary of State, the Director has 
primary responsibility within the Government for matters relating to 
arms control and disarmament and, whenever directed by the President, 
primary responsibility within the Government for matters relating to 
nonproliferation. The Director is responsible for the executive 
direction, operations, and coordination of all activities of the Agency 
and the Agency's relations with the Congress. The Director attends all 
meetings of the National Security Council that involve weapons 
procurement, arms sales, consideration of the defense budget, and all 
arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament matters.
    (b) The Deputy Director assists the Director in carrying out the 
Director's responsibilities as head of the Agency, and acts for and 
exercises the powers of the Director during the Director's absence or 
disability or during a vacancy in said office. The Deputy Director also 
has direct responsibility, under the supervision of the Director, for 
the administrative management of the Agency, intelligence-related 
activities, security and the Special Compartmental Intelligence 
Facility, and performs such other duties and exercises such other 
powers as the Director may prescribe.
    (c) The Executive Secretary and Advisor for Internal Affairs (D/
EX), on behalf of the Director, initiates and provides Agency liaison 
to the national security agencies, coordinates within ACDA and with 
other agencies to ensure appropriate ACDA representation of interagency 
deliberations and international summits, and the timely exchange of 
information. The Executive Secretary advises the Director and other 
Agency Principals on arms control and administrative policy options, 
the status of policy deliberations within the Agency, and the optimum 
methods and procedures to implement policy decisions. The Executive 
Secretary maintains the Director's formal record of communications 
regarding arms control policy deliberations and decisions.
    (d) The Advanced Projects Office (D/AP) is ACDA's center for 
innovative concepts of arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament. 
It conceives and develops new avenues to aspects of arms control, 
nonproliferation, and disarmament. Its projects build both on 
internally generated concepts and on ideas collected from government, 
academic, and non-governmental sources.
    (e) The Chief Science Advisor (CSA) is the Director's special 
representative for matters of science and technology, and identifies 
promising technologies for monitoring arms control agreements.
    (f) The Office of Military Affairs (D/M) is headed by the Senior 
Military Advisor who serves as the principal advisor to the ACDA 
Director on military matters, is the principal representative of the 
Director to the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs 
of Staff, and is the liaison between ACDA and United States military 
commanders and the ACDA focal point for military-to-military contacts 
on agency initiatives. The Senior Military Advisor evaluates arms 
control and nonproliferation proposals from a military perspective, and 
assesses their potential contributions to the national security of the 
United States.
    (g) The Office of the Inspector General is headed by the Inspector 
General of the Agency who has the duties, responsibilities, and 
authorities specified in the Inspector General Act of 1978, as amended 
(5 U.S.C. app.). The Inspector General of the Agency utilizes personnel 
of the Office of the Inspector General of the Department of State in 
performing the duties of Inspector General of the Agency.
    (h) The Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Officer has the primary 
responsibility for advising the Director of the Agency with respect to 
the preparation of the Agency's equal employment opportunity plans, 
procedures, regulations, reports, and other matters pertaining to the 
Agency's equal employment opportunity program, for evaluating the 
sufficiency of the total Agency program for equal employment 
opportunity, and when authorized by the Director of the Agency, for 
making changes in programs and procedures designed to eliminate 
discriminatory practices and to improve the Agency's program for equal 
employment opportunity. The EEO Officer maintains contact with the 
Office of Personnel Management, the Equal Employment Opportunity 
Commission, schools, and other related organizations.


Sec. 601.11  Multilateral Affairs Bureau (MA).

    MA develops and implements policy, strategy, and tactics for issues 
under negotiation and discussion in multilateral arms control fora. It 
provides organizational support and staffing for U.S. delegations to 
the Conference on Disarmament (CD) in Geneva, in which the negotiations 
on a comprehensive ban on nuclear weapons testing (CTB) and on other 
issues related to nuclear weapons (e.g., fissile material cut-off) and 
conventional arms (e.g., transparency in armaments) are conducted, as 
well as for the First Committee of the UN General Assembly and the 
United Nations Disarmament Commission. The Bureau leads the U.S. effort 
to implement the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC) through the CWC 
Preparatory Commission in The Hague, and will potentially serve as the 
U.S. Office of National Authority (ONA) upon entry into force of the 
CWC. In addition, the MA Bureau takes the leading policy role in 
formulating Agency positions in support of the implementation of the 
Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) through the Joint 
Consultative Group (JCG), the Treaty on Open Skies through the Open 
Skies Consultative Commission (OSCC), and the CSCE Forum for Security 
Cooperation (FSC), all in Vienna. The Bureau is also responsible for 
development and implementation of policy within the U.S. relating to 
other international arms control agreements and negotiations, including 
the international effort to strengthen the Biological and Toxin Weapons 
Convention (BWC) by enhancing transparency and confidence in 
compliance, and other related diplomatic activities, such as the BW 
Trilateral dialogue between the U.S., UK and Russia. MA takes the 
Agency lead in supporting other international efforts such as the UN 
Special Commission (UNSCOM) for Iraq and peacekeeping initiatives. It 
also leads U.S.

[[Page 58330]]

Government efforts, both substantively and administratively, for 
multilateral treaty review conferences, with the exception of the 
Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT). The Bureau assists in the 
formulation of Agency policy with regard to arms control in regions of 
the world outside Europe.


Sec. 601.12  Strategic and Eurasian Affairs Bureau (SEA).

    SEA has principal responsibility within the Agency for the 
diplomatic, political, and technical aspects of negotiations and 
implementation of strategic and nuclear arms control agreements, 
particularly with respect to the new independent States of the former 
Soviet Union, and of policy initiatives to facilitate the 
denuclearization of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine. Expansion of arms 
control efforts in the Eurasian region, including consideration of 
discussions with China on strategic stability, is also part of the 
Bureau's portfolio. Further, SEA has principal responsibility within 
the Agency for development and implementation of the Nunn-Lugar 
program, the Safeguards, Transparency and Irreversibility initiative 
(to ensure that nuclear warhead dismantlement is irreversible and 
transparent) and of defense conversion policy and programs related to 
the former Soviet Union and China. Other areas in which SEA has 
responsibility include: ballistic missile defense arms control, the 
Standing Consultative Commission (SCC), the Joint Compliance and 
Inspection Commission (JCIC), and the Special Verification Commission 
(SVC). SEA coordinates implementation of agreed policy, generates and 
analyzes proposals, and evaluates weapons systems and other questions 
relating to these negotiations. It also takes the leading role in 
formulating Agency positions on basic strategic and theater offensive 
arms control, ballistic missile defense arms control, nuclear warhead 
dismantlement initiatives and the storage and disposition of fissile 
material from dismantled nuclear warheads, and other strategic or 
global arms control and outer space policy issues that require high-
level decision within the Government. SEA chairs the interagency 
backstopping committees for the JCIC, the SCC, the SVC, and the 
Bilateral Implementation Commission (BIC). The Bureau also provides 
technical expertise to teams implementing various elements of 
denuclearization, fissile material disposition, and related openness 
initiatives, as well as to defense conversion committees and relevant 
interagency working groups.


Sec. 601.13  Nonproliferation and Regional Arms Control Bureau (NP).

    NP is responsible for representing the Agency in policy 
development, implementation, and international negotiations to halt the 
proliferation of nuclear/chemical/biological weapons and missiles, to 
control conventional arms and sensitive dual-use exports, and to foster 
regional arms control. It promotes United States interests in 
multilateral nonproliferation regimes, e.g., the Nuclear Non-
proliferation Treaty, the Treaty of Tlatelolco, the Missile Technology 
Control Regime, Nuclear Suppliers Group, and the Australia Group. It 
provides technical and policy support for the International Atomic 
Energy Agency's safeguards and technical assistance efforts. NP also 
participates in the review of exports subject to nuclear/chemical/
biological weapons and missile nonproliferation controls. It initiates 
and supports regional arms control measures and arrangements outside of 
Europe as well as conventional arms.


Sec. 601.14  Intelligence, Verification, and Information Management 
Bureau (IVI).

    IVI has principal responsibility within the Agency for developing 
verification policy, compliance assessments and intelligence support. 
The Bureau provides research and technical analysis to the other ACDA 
bureaus; coordinates and integrates agency-wide perspectives on 
substantive compliance, verification and implementation issues; 
compiles, maintains, and analyzes all relevant arms control and 
nonproliferation data in support of agency requirements for compliance 
assessment and adjudication; establishes, manages and maintains all 
information systems within the Agency; and monitors and assures the 
availability of U.S. technical systems to implement existing treaties. 
IVI's responsibilities in the area of verification and compliance 
include analysis of the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the Conventional 
Armed Forces in Europe (CFE), the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaties 
(START I and II), the Open Skies Treaty, and most recently, the 
Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). These are in addition to the earlier 
Biological Weapons Convention (BWC), the Nuclear Non-proliferation 
Treaty (NPT), the U.S.-Soviet Threshold Test Ban (TTB) and Peaceful 
Nuclear Explosions (PNE) Treaties, and the Intermediate-Range Nuclear 
Forces (INF) Treaty. In addition to treaty-specific responsibilities, 
the Bureau is also responsible for providing effective coordination of 
research and development on arms control, nonproliferation, and 
disarmament issues among the departments and agencies of the executive 
branch; participating in the development of government-wide 
requirements for arms control research and development and 
implementation to ensure responsiveness to policy requirements as well 
as fiscal accountability; providing the definitive repository for 
negotiations documents such as negotiating records and electronic 
treaty texts; publishing the Agency's annual report, World Military 
Expenditures and Arms Transfers; and providing economic analysis 
support to the Agency and to the interagency community for economic 
aspects of arms control and national security.


Sec. 601.15  Office of the General Counsel (GC).

    The Office of the General Counsel (GC) is responsible for all 
matters of domestic and international law relevant to the work of the 
Agency. It provides advice and assistance in drafting and negotiating 
arms control treaties and agreements, and on questions regarding their 
approval by Congress, implementation, interpretation, ratification, and 
revision. GC lawyers regularly serve as the Legal Advisors to United 
States arms control negotiating delegations. The Office is also 
involved in the legal aspects of the nuclear weapons nonproliferation 
responsibilities of the Agency. It is responsible for legal matters 
relating to arms control policy formulation and Agency legislation, 
including drafting of such legislation. It handles the legal aspects of 
Agency policies and operations in the areas of personnel, security, 
ethics, equal employment opportunity, contracts, procurement, fiscal, 
and administrative matters. It also is responsible for responding to 
requests under the Freedom of Information Act (5 U.S.C. 552) and 
Privacy Act (5 U.S.C. 552a), and for reviewing documents for 
declassification.


Sec. 601.16  Office of Administration (A).

    This Office is responsible for full administrative support to the 
Agency and to all of its components, including the negotiating staffs 
in Geneva, Switzerland, The Hague, Netherlands, and Vienna, Austria. 
This includes all personnel, budget, fiscal, supply, contracts, 
communications, and general administrative activities. The Office 
maintains regular liaison with the Office of Management and Budget, the 
Appropriations Committees of the Congress, the Department of State, the

[[Page 58331]]

General Services Administration, and other organizations providing 
services for the Agency. The Office is responsible for the security 
program of the Agency which includes physical, procedural, personnel, 
technical, and computer security, as well as investigative and 
counterintelligence functions. The Office conducts liaison with 
national security and federal investigative agencies.


Sec. 601.17  Office of Congressional Affairs (CA).

    The Office of Congressional Affairs (CA) is responsible for the 
legislative and policy implications of all arms control, 
nonproliferation and disarmament proposals. This includes 
responsibility for Congressional liaison, coordination and 
representation. These activities include preparation for and attendance 
at Congressional briefings, consultations and hearings, including the 
Agency's biannual authorization request and annual appropriation 
request. The Office also assists in the preparation for visits by 
Members of Congress to our negotiating fora and is responsible for all 
Congressional inquiries. The status of proposed and existing arms 
control agreements, and the inter- and intra-agency coordination of 
arms control, nonproliferation, and disarmament congressional matters 
are also included in the liaison activity. Communication between the 
Agency and Congressional committees, Members and their staffs, formal 
and informal, are designed to keep Congress informed of our arms 
control, nonproliferation, and disarmament efforts. This process 
includes obtaining insights by CA for suggestions and initiatives 
within ACDA.


Sec. 601.18  Office of Public Affairs (PA).

    This office carries out the Agency's legislative mandate for the 
dissemination and coordination of public information concerning arms 
control, nonproliferation, and disarmament matters. It is responsible 
for all contacts with the media and prepares guidance as required on 
questions relating to the Agency's business. It collects, screens, and 
distributes information to Bureaus and Offices to keep the Agency's 
staff abreast of developments of interest and use in connection with 
carrying out their responsibilities. It also prepares publications and 
handles the participation at public speaking engagements by Agency 
officials.

    Dated: October 24, 1996.
Mary Elizabeth Hoinkes,
General Counsel.
[FR Doc. 96-29169 Filed 11-13-96; 8:45 am]
BILLING CODE 6820-32-P