---
kind: "section"
citation: "10 U.S.C. § 2565"
title: "10"
title_heading: "Armed Forces"
number: "2565"
heading: "Nuclear test monitoring equipment: furnishing to foreign governments"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/10/2565"
units:
  - "Subtitle A — General Military Law"
  - "Part IV — Service, Supply, and Property"
  - "Chapter 152 — Issue of Supplies, Services, and Facilities"
---

# §2565. Nuclear test monitoring equipment: furnishing to foreign governments

- (a) **Authority To Transfer Title to or Otherwise Provide Nuclear Test Monitoring Equipment.—** Subject to [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may—
  - (1) transfer title or otherwise provide to a foreign government (A) equipment for the monitoring of nuclear test explosions, and (B) associated equipment;
  - (2) as part of any such conveyance or provision of equipment, install such equipment on foreign territory or in international waters; and
  - (3) inspect, test, maintain, repair, or replace any such equipment.
- (b) **Agreement Required.—** Nuclear test explosion monitoring equipment may be provided to a foreign government under [subsection (a)](#a) only pursuant to the terms of an agreement between the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) and the foreign government receiving the equipment in which the recipient foreign government agrees—
  - (1) to provide the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) with timely access to the data produced, collected, or generated by the equipment; and
  - (2) to permit the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense to take such measures as the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) considers necessary to inspect, test, maintain, repair, or replace that equipment, including access for purposes of such measures.
- (c) **Report.—** Promptly after entering into any agreement under [subsection (b)](#b), the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the agreement. The report shall identify the country with which the agreement was made, the anticipated costs to the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) to be incurred under the agreement, and the national interest of the [United States](/usc/10/101.md?p=a-1) that is furthered by the agreement.
- (d) **Limitation on Delegation.—** The [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of Defense may delegate the authority of the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) to carry out this section only to the [Secretary](/usc/10/4951.md?p=3) of the Air Force. Such a delegation may be redelegated.

## Source credit

(Added Pub. L. 106–398, § 1 [[div. A], title XII, § 1203(a)], Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A–324, § 2555; renumbered § 2565 and amended Pub. L. 107–107, div. A, title XII, § 1201(a)(1), (b), Dec. 28, 2001, 115 Stat. 1245.)

## Notes

### Editorial Notes

### Amendments

2001—Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(a)(1), renumbered section 2555 of this title as this section.

Subsec. (a). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(1)(A), substituted “Transfer Title to or Otherwise” for “Convey or” in heading.

Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(1)(B), substituted “transfer title” for “convey” and struck out “and” after semicolon at end.

Subsec. (a)(3). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(1)(C), (D), added par. (3).

Subsec. (b). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(2)(A), substituted “provided to a foreign government” for “conveyed or otherwise provided” in introductory provisions.

Subsec. (b)(1). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(2)(B), inserted “and” after semicolon at end.

Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(2)(C), substituted a period for “; and” at end.

Subsec. (b)(3). Pub. L. 107–107, § 1201(b)(2)(D), struck out par. (3) which read as follows: “to return such equipment to the United States (or allow the United States to recover such equipment) if either party determines that the agreement no longer serves its interests.”