OF DEFENSE REPORTS ON TASKS CARRIED OUT BY UNITED STATES FORCES.

SEC. 1204. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE REPORTS ON TASKS CARRIED OUT BY UNITED STATES FORCES. (a) Requirement for Two Reports.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees— (1) not later than December 15, 1997, a report identifying each activity being carried out, as of December 1, 1997, by covered United States forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and (2) not later than April 15, 1998, a report identifying each activity being carried out, as of April 1, 1998, by covered United States forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina.111 STAT. 1931 (b) Covered United States Forces.—For purposes of this section, covered United States forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina are United States ground forces in the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina that are assigned to the multinational peacekeeping force known as the Stabilization Force (SFOR) or any other multinational peacekeeping force that is the successor to the SFOR. (c) Matters To Be Included.—The Secretary shall include in each report under subsection (a), for each activity identified under that subsection, the following: (1) The number of United States military personnel involved in the performance of that activity. (2) Whether forces assigned to the SFOR (or successor multinational peacekeeping force) from other nations also participated in that activity. (3) The justification for using military forces rather than civilian organizations to perform that activity. (4) In the case of activities that (as determined by the Secretary) are considered to be supporting tasks, as that term is used in paragraph 3 of Article VI of Annex 1–A to the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina, the justification for using military forces. (5) The likelihood that each such activity will have to be carried out by United States military forces after June 30, 1998.