STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DESTRUCTION OF LETHAL CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS STOCKPILE.

SEC. 931. STRATEGIC PLAN FOR DESTRUCTION OF LETHAL CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS STOCKPILE. Subsection (d) of section 1412 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521), is amended to read as follows: “(d) Requirement for Strategic Plan.—(1) The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics and the Secretary of the Army shall jointly prepare, and from time to time shall update as appropriate, a strategic plan for future activities for destruction of the United States’ stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. “(2) The plan shall include, at a minimum, the following considerations:“(A) Realistic budgeting for stockpile destruction and related support programs.“(B) Contingency planning for foreseeable or anticipated problems.“(C) A management approach and associated actions that address compliance with the obligations of the United States under the Chemical Weapons Convention treaty and that take full advantage of opportunities to accelerate destruction of the stockpile.“(3) The Secretary of Defense shall each year submit to the Committee on the Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives the strategic plan as most recently prepared and updated under paragraph (1). Such submission shall be made each year at the time of the submission to the Congress that year of the President’s budget for the next fiscal year.”.