---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6741"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6741"
heading: "Reports required by United States National Authority"
release: "119-102"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6741"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter III — Reports"
---

# §6741. Reports required by United States National Authority

- (a) **Regulations on recordkeeping—**
  - (1) **Requirements—** The [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority shall ensure that regulations are prescribed that require each [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) located in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) 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](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2) 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](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority such reports as the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority may reasonably require to provide to the [Organization](/usc/22/6701.md?p=5), pursuant to subparagraph 1(a) of the Annex on Confidentiality of the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2), the minimum amount of information and data necessary for the timely and efficient conduct by the [Organization](/usc/22/6701.md?p=5) of its responsibilities under the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2).
  - (2) **Rulemaking—** The Director of the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) 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](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) 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](#b-2) shall coordinate the actions of that [agency](#b-2) with the heads of the other [Federal agencies](#b-2) in order to avoid the imposition of duplicative reporting requirements under this chapter or any other law.
  - (2) **Definition—** As used in [paragraph (1)](#b-1), the term “Federal agency” has the meaning given the term “agency” in [section 551(1) of title 5](/usc/5/551.md?p=1).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title IV, § 401, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–880.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### References in Text

This chapter, referred to in subsec. (b)(1), was in the original “this Act” and was translated as reading “this division”, meaning div. I of Pub. L. 105–277, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–856, 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 section 6701 of this title and Tables.

### Executive Documents

### Regulations

Regulations 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, June 25, 1999, 64 F.R. 34703, set out as a note under section 6711 of this title.