CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; STUDY OF FACILITY FOR TRAINING AND EVALUATION OF PERSONNEL WHO RESPOND TO USE OF CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS.

SEC. 521. CHEMICAL WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION; STUDY OF FACILITY FOR TRAINING AND EVALUATION OF PERSONNEL WHO RESPOND TO USE OF CHEMICAL OR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS IN URBAN AND SUBURBAN AREAS. (a) Chemical Weapons of Mass Destruction.— Chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, relating to terrorism, is amended by inserting after section 2332b as added by section 702 of this Act the following new section: “§ 2332c. Use of chemical weapons “(a) Prohibited Acts.— “(1) Offense.— A person shall be punished under paragraph (2) if that person, without lawful authority, uses, or attempts or conspires to use, a chemical weapon against— “(A) a national of the United States while such national is outside of the United States; “(B) any person within the United States; or “(C) any property that is owned, leased, or used by the United States or by any department or agency of the United States, whether the property is within or outside of the United States. “(2) Penalties.— A person who violates paragraph (1)— “(A) shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life; or “(B) if death results from that violation, shall be punished by death or imprisoned for any term of years or for life. “(b) Definitions.— As used in this section— “(1) the term ‘national of the United States’ has the same meaning as in section 101(a)(22) of the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 1101(a)(22)); and “(2) the term ‘chemical weapon’ means any weapon that is designed or intended to cause widespread death or serious bodily injury through the release, dissemination, or impact of toxic or poisonous chemicals or precursors of toxic or poisonous chemicals. (b) Study of Facility for Training and Evaluation of Personnel Who Respond To Use of Chemical or Biological Weapons in Urban and Suburban Areas.— (1) Findings.— The Congress finds that— (A) the threat of the use of chemical and biological weapons by Third World countries and by terrorist organizations has increased in recent years and is now a problem of worldwide significance; (B) the military and law enforcement agencies in the United States that are responsible for responding to the use of such weapons require additional testing, training, and evaluation facilities to ensure that the personnel of such agencies discharge their responsibilities effectively; and (C) a facility that recreates urban and suburban locations would provide an especially effective environment 110 STAT. 1287in which to test, train, and evaluate such personnel for that purpose. (2) Study of facility.— (A) In general.— The President shall establish an interagency task force to determine the feasibility and advisability of establishing a facility that recreates both an urban environment and a suburban environment in such a way as to permit the effective testing, training, and evaluation in such environments of government personnel who are responsible for responding to the use of chemical and biological weapons in the United States. (B) Description of facility.— The facility considered under subparagraph (A) shall include— (i) facilities common to urban environments (including a multistory building and an underground rail transit system) and to suburban environments; (ii) the capacity to produce controllable releases of chemical and biological agents from a variety of urban and suburban structures, including laboratories, small buildings, and dwellings; (iii) the capacity to produce controllable releases of chemical and biological agents into sewage, water, and air management systems common to urban areas and suburban areas; (iv) chemical and biocontaminant facilities at the P3 and P4 levels; (v) the capacity to test and evaluate the effectiveness of a variety of protective clothing and facilities and survival techniques in urban areas and suburban areas; and (vi) the capacity to test and evaluate the effectiveness of variable sensor arrays (including video, audio, meteorological, chemical, and biosensor arrays) in urban areas and suburban areas. (C) Sense of congress.— It is the sense of Congress that the facility considered under subparagraph (A) shall, if established— (i) be under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense; and (ii) be located at a principal facility of the Department of Defense for the testing and evaluation of the use of chemical and biological weapons during any period of armed conflict. (c) Clerical Amendment.— The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 113B of title 18, United States Code, relating to terrorism, is amended by inserting after the item added by section 702 of this Act that relates to section 2332b the following new item: “2332c. Use of chemical weapons.”.