REVIEWS AND REPORTS ON DECONTROL OF CERTAIN PERSONAL COMPUTERS

SEC 1640. REVIEWS AND REPORTS ON DECONTROL OF CERTAIN PERSONAL COMPUTERS (a) Reviews.—The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall each conduct an independent review on the foreign availability of the personal computers known as AT-compatible microcomputers. Each Secretary, in conducting his review, shall, at a minimum, determine the availability of such microcomputers from sources other than member nations of the Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls or other nations that control the export of such computers. The Secretary of Defense, in conducting his review, also shall assess the military significance of such microcomputers for the Soviet Union and its Warsaw Pact allies. (b) Reports.—The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Commerce shall each submit to the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs of the Senate, the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives, and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing the results of the respective reviews required by subsection (a). (c) Deadline for Reports.—The reports required by subsection (b) shall be submitted not later than January 1, 1990.