---
kind: "section"
citation: "22 U.S.C. § 6729"
title: "22"
title_heading: "Foreign Relations and Intercourse"
number: "6729"
heading: "United States assistance in inspections at private facilities"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/22/6729"
units:
  - "Chapter 75 — Chemical Weapons Convention Implementation"
  - "Subchapter II — Inspections"
---

# §6729. United States assistance in inspections at private facilities

- (a) **Assistance in preparation for inspections—** At the request of an owner of a facility not owned or operated by the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) Government, or contracted for use by or for the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) Government, the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) of Defense may assist the facility to prepare the facility for possible inspections pursuant to the [Convention](/usc/22/6701.md?p=2).
- (b) **Reimbursement requirement—**
  - (1) **In general—** Except as provided in [paragraph (2)](#b-2), the owner of a facility provided assistance under [subsection (a)](#a) shall reimburse the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) for the costs incurred by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) in providing the assistance.
  - (2) **Exception—** In the case of assistance provided under [subsection (a)](#a) to a facility owned by a [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) described in [subsection (c)](#c), the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) National Authority shall reimburse the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) for the costs incurred by the [Secretary](/usc/22/277d–43.md?p=5) in providing the assistance.
- (c) **Owners covered by United States National Authority reimbursements—** [Subsection (b)(2)](#b-2) applies in the case of assistance provided to the following:
  - (1) **Small business concerns—** A small business concern as defined in [section 632 of title 15](/usc/15/632.md).
  - (2) **Domestic producers of Schedule 3 or unscheduled discrete organic chemicals—** Any [person](/usc/22/6701.md?p=6) located in the [United States](/usc/22/6701.md?p=14) that—
    - (A) does not possess, produce, process, consume, import, or export any Schedule 1 or Schedule 2 chemical; and
    - (B) in the calendar year preceding the year in which the assistance is to be provided, produced—
      - (i) more than 30 metric tons of Schedule 3 or [unscheduled discrete organic chemicals](/usc/22/6701.md?p=15) that contain phosphorous, sulfur, or fluorine; or
      - (ii) more than 200 metric tons of [unscheduled discrete organic chemicals](/usc/22/6701.md?p=15).

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 105–277, div. I, title III, § 310, Oct. 21, 1998, 112 Stat. 2681–880.)