---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6722"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6722"
heading: "Facility agreements"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6722"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter II — Inspections"
---

# §6722. Facility agreements

- (a) **Authorization of inspections—** Inspections by the [Technical Secretariat](/usc/22/6701.md?p=9) of [plants](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), [plant sites](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), or other [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) or locations for which the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) has a [facility agreement](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) with the [Organization](/usc/22/6701.md?p=5) shall be conducted in accordance with the [facility agreement](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a). Any such [facility agreement](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) may not in any way limit the right of the owner or operator of the [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) to withhold consent to an inspection request.
- (b) **Types of facility agreements—**
  - (1) **Schedule 2 facilities—** The [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority shall ensure that [facility agreements](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) for [plants](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), [plant sites](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), or other [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) or locations that are subject to inspection pursuant to paragraph 4 of Article VI of the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2) are concluded unless the owner, operator, occupant, or agent in charge of the [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) and the [Technical Secretariat](/usc/22/6701.md?p=9) agree that such an [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) is not necessary.
  - (2) **Schedule 3 facilities—** The [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority shall ensure that [facility agreements](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) are concluded for [plants](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), [plant sites](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a), or other [facilities](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) or locations that are subject to inspection pursuant to paragraph 5 or 6 of Article VI of the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2) if so requested by the owner, operator, occupant, or agent in charge of the [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8).
- (c) **Notification requirements—** The [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority shall ensure that the owner, operator, occupant, or agent in charge of a [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) prior to the development of the [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) relating to that [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) is notified and, if the [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) notified so requests, the [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) may participate in the preparations for the negotiation of such an [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7). To the maximum extent practicable consistent with the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2), the owner and the operator, occupant or agent in charge of a [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8) may observe negotiations of the [agreement](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=7) between the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) and the [Organization](/usc/22/6701.md?p=5) concerning that [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8).
- (d) **Content of facility agreements—** [Facility agreements](/usc/22/6721.md?p=a) shall—
  - (1) identify the areas, equipment, computers, records, data, and samples subject to inspection;
  - (2) describe the procedures for providing notice of an inspection to the owner, occupant, operator, or agent in charge of a [facility](/usc/22/2431a.md?p=8);
  - (3) describe the timeframes for inspections; and
  - (4) detail the areas, equipment, computers, records, data, and samples that are not subject to inspection.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title III, § 302, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–872.)