REPORT ON BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE RESEARCH PROGRAM

SEC. 242. REPORT ON BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE RESEARCH PROGRAM (a) Report.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a report on research, development, test, and evaluation conducted by the Department of Defense during fiscal year 1989 under the Biological Defense Research Program. The report shall be submitted in both classified and unclassified form in conjunction with the submission of the budget to Congress for fiscal 1991. (b) Content of Report.—The report shall address the following matters: (1) Each biological or infectious agent used in, or the subject of, research, development, test, and evaluation conducted under that program during that fiscal year and not previously listed in the Center for Disease Control Guidelines. (2) The biological properties of each such agent. (3) With respect to each agent, the location at which research, development, test, and evaluation under that program involving that agent is conducted and the amount of funds expended during that fiscal year under the program at that location. (4) The biosafety level used in conducting that research, development, test, and evaluation. (c) Types of Research Affected.—Subsection (a) applies to all research, development, test, and evaluation conducted under the Biological Defense Research Program by the Department of Defense. (d) Definition.—In this section the term “biosafety level” means the applicable biosafety level described in the publication entitled “Biosafety in Microbiological and Biomedical Laboratories” (CDCNIH, 1984).