98 STAT. 2648
President of U.S.
President of U.S.
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PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984
(b)(1) The Task Group shall consist of seven members, qualified for service by reasons of experience and education. The President shall appoint three members and shall designate one of those members to act as chairman of the Task Group. The Chairman and ranking minority members of the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives shall each appoint one member. (2) None of the members may be an employee of the Department of Defense or the Department of Energy. (c) Within 90 days of the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives (1) the names of the persons appointed by him to the Task Group, together with the qualifications of each such person to serve on the Task Group, and (2) a detailed plan for completing the report required by subsection (e). (d) The President shall ensure that the Task Group has complete and timely access to employees and records of the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense pertaining to procedures referred to in subsection (a). (e) Within 270 days of the date of the enactment of this Act, the Task Group shall submit to the President and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report containing its findings and recommendations. Such report shall include any additional or dissenting views that any member of the Task Group may wish to submit. The report shall (in addition to any other matters) include recommendations in the following areas: (1) Ways to improve coordination between the Department of Energy and the Department of Defense to ensure cost-effective implementation of weapon activities and materials production. (2) Cost-effective improvements that can be made in budgeting and management procedures that affect weapon activities and materials productions. (3) Whether the Department of Defense should assume the responsibility for funding current Department of Energy weapon activities and materials production programs. REVIEW OF THE INERTIAL CONFINEMENT FUSION PROGRAM
President of U.S. Technical Review Group on Inertial Confinement Fusion, establishment.
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SEC. 1633. (a)(1) Within 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President shall establish a review body to be known as the Technical Review Group on Inertial Confinement Fusion (hereinafter in this section referred to as the "Technical Review Group"). (2) It shall be the function of the group to review thoroughly the accomplishments, management, goals, and anticipated contributions of the defense inertial confinement fusion program. (3) The President shall appoint to serve on the Technical Review Group only persons who, because of recent training and experience in the scientific disciplines associated with the development and testing of nuclear weapons, are most qualified to make findings of fact and recommendations to the Congress and the President concerning that program. (b) The Technical Review Group shall submit to the President and the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives written reports containing the results of its review, together with such recommendations regarding priorities for future work in the inertial confinement fusion program as it determines appropriate, as follows:
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