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ARMS CONTROL AND DISARMAMENT 
P.L. 95-338 
These duties have placed heavy demands upon his time at Agency 
headquarters here and at the negotiations in the field. Under the 
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circumstances, able assistance is invaluable to him. A number of 
members of the committee have been serving as SALT advisers and 
have visited the delegation in Geneva, both when Mr. Wamke was 
in Geneva and when he was not. Several Members were impressed 
by the able support Mr. Warnke is receiving from the other members 
of the SALT cfelcgation, in particular the Alternate Chairman, Mr. 
Ralph Earle II. 
Tho Agency has become heavily Involved in the preparation of 
various reports required by the Committee on such matters as con- 
ventional arms transfers and nnns control impact. The Agency will 
be responsible for preparation of nuclear nonproliferation assessment 
statements in connection with United States nuclear exports, r.s re- 
quired by the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Act of 1978. 
'As their requirements expand, the Agency must be able to deal 
effectively with such wide-ranging issues as chemical weapons con- 
trol, strategic arms limitation, nuclear testing matters, nuclear export 
controls, alternate nuclear fuel cycle technologies, conventional arms 
control, and mutual and balanced force reductions in Europe. Careful 
setting of priorities, as well as judicious management of limited per- 
sonnel and monetary resources ai;c required. The committee hopes 
that the Agency will prove, as it has in tho past, that it is equal to 
tho challongo and that tho Agency will play an effective role among 
those executive branch agencies involved in furthering the Nation*! 
national security objectives. 
Section-by-Sectiox Axaltsis 
SECTION 1 — ARMS CONTROL IMPACT STATEMENTS 
Tin’s section makes certain changes in section 30 of the Arms Con- 
trol and Disarmament Act. Section 36 sets forth procedures under 
which tho executive branch provides arms control impact statements 
with requests for authorization and appropriation of funds for nuclear 
f irograms and certain defense programs which exceed specified cost 
cvels, ns well as technology and weapons programs which the execu- 
tive branch decides may have a significant arms control impact. 
In subcommittee, it was decided to change the language in regard to 
programs the executive branch may examine and submit statements 
under the provisions of Subsection*36(a) (3) from “weapons systems 
and tcclmology” to “technology and weapons systems” toc'arifv’the ex- 
pected coverage, so that thero would be no question that technology 
with potential military application, rather than, simply, weapons 
technology, could bo reviewed and reported upon under the legisla- 
tion. Tho executive branch suggested the language “weapons systems 
and technology with potential military applications.” The committee 
preferred the clearer order approved by tho subcommittee but accepted 
tho clarifying modifying phrase in regard to technology as completely 
consistent with its objectives in changing tho section, so that the cov- 
erage of Subsection 36(a) (3) will now bo “technology with potential 
military application and weapons systems . . 
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