IMPLEMENTATION OF ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS.

SEC. 1407. IMPLEMENTATION OF ARMS CONTROL AGREEMENTS. (a) Funding.— Of the amounts appropriated pursuant to authorizations in sections 102, 103, 104, 201, and 301, the Secretary of Defense may use an amount not to exceed $239,941,000 for implementing arms control agreements to which the United States is a party. (b) Limitation.— (1) Funds made available pursuant to subsection (a) for the costs of implementing an arms control agreement may not (except as provided in paragraph (2)) be used to reimburse expenses incurred by any other party to the agreement for which (without regard to any executive agreement or any policy not part of an arms control agreement)— (A) the other party is responsible under the terms of the arms control agreement; and (B) the United States has no responsibility under the agreement. (2) The limitation in paragraph (1) does not apply to a use of funds to carry out an arms control expenses reimbursement policy of the United States described in subsection (c). (c) Covered Arms Control Expenses Reimbursement Policies.— Subsection (b)(2) applies to a policy of the United States to reimburse expenses incurred by another party to an arms control agreement if— (1) the policy does not modify any obligation imposed by the arms control agreement; (2) the President— (A) issued or approved the policy before the date of the enactment of this Act; or (B) entered into an agreement on the policy with the government of another country or approved an agreement 110 STAT. 494on the policy entered into by an official of the United States and the government of another country; and (3) the President has notified the designated congressional committees of the policy or the policy agreement (as the case may be), in writing, at least 30 days before the date on which the President issued or approved the policy or has entered into or approved the policy agreement. (d) Definitions.— For the purposes of this section: (1) The term “arms control agreement” means an arms control treaty or other form of international arms control agreement. (2) The term “executive agreement” means an international agreement entered into by the President that is not authorized by law or entered into as a Treaty to which the Senate has given its advice and consent to ratification. (3) The term “designated congressional committees” means the following: (A) The Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate. (B) The Committee on International Relations, the Committee on National Security, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.