US Code

Public Law 119-83 (04/13/2026)

22 U.S.C. § 6741

Reports required by United States National Authority

(a)

Regulations on recordkeeping

(1)

Requirements

The United States National Authority shall ensure that regulations are prescribed that require each person located in the United States who produces, processes, consumes, exports, or imports, or proposes to produce, process, consume, export, or import, a chemical substance that is subject to the Convention to—
(A)
maintain and permit access to records related to that production, processing, consumption, export, or import of such substance; and
(B)
submit to the Director of the United States National Authority such reports as the United States National Authority may reasonably require to provide to the Organization, pursuant to subparagraph 1(a) of the Annex on Confidentiality of the Convention, the minimum amount of information and data necessary for the timely and efficient conduct by the Organization of its responsibilities under the Convention.
(2)

Rulemaking

The Director of the United States National Authority shall ensure that regulations pursuant to this section are prescribed expeditiously.

(b)

Coordination

(1)

Avoidance of duplication

To the extent feasible, the United States Government shall not require the submission of any report that is unnecessary or duplicative of any report required by or under any other law. The head of each Federal agency shall coordinate the actions of that agency with the heads of the other Federal agencies in order to avoid the imposition of duplicative reporting requirements under this chapter or any other law.

(2)

Definition

section 551(1) of title 5As used in paragraph (1), the term “Federal agency” has the meaning given the term “agency” in .

Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 401112 Stat. 2681–880 (, , .)

Editorial Notes

References in Text

Pub. L. 105–277112 Stat. 2681–856 section 6701 of this titleThis chapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of , , , known as the Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation Act of 1998, to reflect the probable intent of Congress. For complete classification of division I to the Code, see Short Title note set out under and Tables.

Executive Documents

Regulations

section 6711 of this titleRegulations under subsec. (a) to be issued by Department of Commerce by a date specified by Department of State as United States National Authority (USNA) and to be reviewed and approved by USNA in coordination with an interagency group, see section 3 of Ex. Ord. No. 13128, , 64 F.R. 34703, set out as a note under .