---
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"
date: "2026-07-12"
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 shall coordinate the actions of that agency with the heads of the other Federal agencies 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.