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DOCUEENT RESUME
07438 - [C2827915]
Improved Procedures Needed for Identifying Programs Requiring
Arms Coutrol Impact Statements. ID-78-48; B-156900. September
27, 1978. Released October 4, 1978. 17 pp. + 9 appendices (38
pp.).
Report to Pep. Clement J. Zablocki, Chairman, House Committee on
International Relations; by Robert F. Keller, Acting Coupt'oller
General.
Issue Area. International Economic and military Programs:
International Security Through Controls Over Weapons aid
Destructi e Elements (607).
Contact: International Div.
Budget Function: National 'efense: Atomic Erergy Defense
Activities (053); National Defense: Weapon Systems (057)
Fational Defense: Department of Defense - Procurement &
Contracts (058).
Organization Concerned: Natirnal Security Council; Department. of
Defensj; Arms Control and Disarmament Agency; Department of
Energy.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on International
Relations; Senate Committee on Foreign Relations. Rep,
Clement J. Zablocki.
Authority: Arms Control and Disarmament Act of 1961, as amended
(P.L. 94-141; 22' U.S.C. 2576). P.L. 95-33C. H. Rept.
95-1048.
A 1975 amendment to the Arms Zontrol and Disarmament
Act of 1961 required that the executive branch prepare arms
control and disarmament policy and negotiations impact
statements. These statements must accompany requests to tre
Congress for authorization or appropriations fo: programs
meeting certain criteria. Budget requests of the Department of
Defense (DOD) and the Department of Energy (DOE) were reviewed
to identify programs meeting these criteria and to determine why
impact statements were not prepared for certain DOE programs.
Findings/Conclusions: The review shoved that: a total of 300 DOD
and DOE budget line items met the criteria for the impact
statement-; the March 13, 1978, executive branch arms control
impact statement submission to the Congress covered only about
half of these items; the DOD and DOE budgets contained 24 iteis
for conceptual research which met monetary and nuclear criteria
of the act: although certain aspects of the DOE's inertial
confinement fusion program have weapons application, DOE
officials did not believe that an impact statement was requirel;
a complete listing of weapons research projects was not
presented in the DOE budget; the executive branch impact
statement submission only covers DOD and DOE programs; and it is
not clear what specific budget items were covered by the
statements. According to Arms Contro4 and Disarmament Agency
(ACDA) officials, not all items meeting the criteria were](ViewImageLocal?handle=hein.gao/gaobaaydq0001&div=1&collection=&method=preview&ext=.png&size=3)