PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX 114 STAT. 1654A-479 SEC. 3173. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NONPROLIFERATION MONITOR- ING. (a) REPORT REQUIRED.— Not later than March 1, 2001, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on the efforts of the Department of Energy to ensure adequate oversight and accountability of the Department's nonproliferation programs in Russia and the potential costs and effects of the use of on-the-ground monitoring for the Department's significant nonproliferation programs in Russia. The report shall include the following: (1) A detailed discussion of the current management and oversight mechanisms used to ensure that Federal funds are expended for the intended purposes of those programs and that the projects are achieving their intended objectives. (2) An evaluation of whether those mechanisms are adequate. (3) A discussion of whether there is a need for additional employees of the Department, or of contractors of the Department, to be stationed in Russia, or to visit nonproliferation project sites in Russia on a regular basis, to monitor the programs carried out at those sites, and an estimate of the practical considerations and costs of such monitoring. (4) An identification of each nonproliferation program and each site at which an employee referred to in paragraph (3) would be placed to monitor that program. (5) A description of the costs associated with continued on-the-ground monitoring of those programs, including the costs associated with placing those employees in Russia. (6) Recommendations regarding the most cost-effective option for the Department to pursue to ensure that Federal funds for those programs are expended for the intended purposes of those programs. (7) Any recommendations of the Secretary for further improvements in the oversight and accountability of those programs, including any proposed legislation. (b) GAO REPORT.— Not later than April 15, 2001, the Comptroller General shall submit to the committees referred to in subsection (a) a report setting forth the assessment of the Comptroller General concerning the information contained in the report required by that subsection. SEC. 3174. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEED FOR COORDINATION OF NONPROLIFERATION PROGRAMS. It is the sense of Congress that there should be clear and effective coordination among— (1) the Nuclear Cities Initiative; (2) the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention program; (3) the Cooperative Threat Reduction programs; (4) the Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting Program; and (5) the International Science and Technology Center program.
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