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104 STAT. 1702 PUBLIC LAW 101-510—NOV. 5, 1990 be necessary to prevent inappropriate disclosure of classified information. (b) ANNUAL REPORTS. —The Secretary of Defense shall revise the schedule of reports prepared by the Secretary pursuant to section 1205(c) of Public Law 100-687 (102 Stat. 4126) so as to provide for the preparation and submission of annual reports under that section, to be submitted not later than February 1 of each year, and to provide for the preparation and submission of a final report under that section. (c) DEFINITIONS.— In this section: (1) The term "Ranch Hand Advisory Committee" means the committee known as the "Advisory Committee on Special Studies Relating to the Possible Long-term Health Effects of Phenoxy Herbicides and Contaminants" established by the Secretary of Health and Human Services to monitor the conduct of the Ranch Hand Study. (2) The term "Ranch Hand Study" means the special study conducted by the Secretary of the Air Force relating to the possible long-term effects of phenoxy herbicides and contaminants on Air Force personnel who participated in Operation Ranch Hand in the Republic of Vietnam during the Vietnam era. SEC. 1469. ANNUAL PRESENTATION FOR CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE LEADERSHIP ON UNITED STATES NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY (a) SENSE OF CONGRESS. —It is the sense of Congress that the President should provide for an annual presentation to be given to the congressional defense leaders named in subsection (b) on the national military strategy of the United States. That presentation should particularly cover the theater and strategic nuclear components of the national military strategy and should include a discussion of (1) nuclear targeting policy and requirements, and (2) the implications of such nuclear targeting policy and requirements for (A) theater and strategic nuclear force structure and operations, and (B) defense resources and their allocation. (b) DEFINITION.—The congressional defense leaders referred to in subsection (a) are— (1) the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives; and (2) the chairmen and ranking minority members of the Defense Subcommittees of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives. PART G—CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS, POLICIES, AND COMMENDATIONS SEC. 1471. COMMEMORATION OF THE EFFORTS OF THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE HISTORICAL FOUNDATION (a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: (1) The Battle of the Ardennes-Alsace Campaign of World War II, commonly known as the Battle of the Bulge, was fought in the Ardennes region of eastern Belgium and northern Luxembourg, from December 16, 1944, to January 25, 1945, in the deepest snow and during the coldest temperatures in the memory of the inhabitants of the region.