tunity to inspect and to obtain copies of such material.

Subpart A-Organization

§ 603.5 Organization.

(a) The Agency is headed by a Director, appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, who is responsible for the executive direction of the Agency. He also functions as the principal adviser to the President and the Secretary of State on arms control and disarmament matters and, under the direction of the Secretary, has primary responsibility within the Government for such matters. The Deputy Director, similarly appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate, performs such duties and exercises such powers as the Director may prescribe and acts for and exercises the power of the Director during his absence.

(b) The Agency's program responsibilities are primarily discharged through four bureaus-International Relations Bureau, Weapons Evaluation and Control Bureau, Science and Technology Bureau, and Economics Bureau-each of which is headed by an Assistant Director appointed by the President with the advice and consent of the Senate. The staff element participating in the policy formulation process is the Office of the General Counsel. Other organizational units with staff responsibilities are the Office of the Public Affairs Adviser, and the Executive Staff.

(c) A General Advisory Committee of 15 members, appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, meets at least twice each year to advise the President, the Secretary of State, and the Director of the Agency on matters affecting arms control, disarmament, and world peace. [32 F.R. 9202, June 28, 1967, as amended at 33 F.R. 9167, June 21, 1968]

Subpart B-Functional Statements § 603.10 The Director.

The Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency:

(a) Directs and coordinates all activities of the Agency and its relationships with other Government agencies and the Congress;

(b) Serves as the principal adviser to the President and the Secretary of State

on arms control and disarmament matters;

(c) Under the direction of the President:

(1) Insures the conduct of research, development, and other studies in the field of arms control and disarmament;

(2) Makes arrangements (including contracts, agreements, and grants) for the conduct of research, development, and other studies in the field of arms control and disarmament by U.S. private or public institutions or persons;

(3) Coordinates research, development, and other studies in the field of arms control and disarmament by or for other Government agencies.

(d) Under the direction of the Secretary of State:

(1) Exercises primary responsibility within the Government for arms control and disarmament matters;

(2) Consults and communicates with representatives of other nations or international organizations in the conduct of negotiations concerning arms control and disarmament;

(3) Communicates in the name of the Secretary with diplomatic representatives of the United States in this country and abroad;

(4) Provides to the U.S. Information Agency official U.S. positions and policy on arms control and disarmament matters for dissemination abroad;

(5) Formulates, plans, and makes preparation for the establishment, operations, and funding of inspection and control systems which may become part of U.S. arms control and disarmament activities;

(6) As authorized by law, puts into effect, directs, or otherwise assumes U.S. responsibility for such systems;

(e) Disseminates and coordinates public information concerning arms control and disarmament.

(f) Prepares for the President, the Secretary of State, and the heads of such other Government agencies as the President may determine, recommendations concerning U.S. arms control and disarmament policy.

(g) Assures fully coordinated staff work in support of the Agency's programs and the orderly and prompt flow of official action and information documents within the Agency and, as appropriate, to other Government agencies, special groups, international disarmament conferences, and U.S. Missions.

§ 603.11

The Deputy Director.

The Deputy Director of the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.

(a) Performs such duties and exercises such powers as the Director may prescribe.

(b) Acts for, and exercises the powers of, the Director during his absence or disability or during a vacancy in that office.

(c) Assists the Director in planning and executing all Agency responsibility vested in the Director by the Arms Control and Disarmament Act.

(d) Recommends to the Director plans, programs, and policies for ensuring that the Agency will have the capacity to provide the essential scientific, economic, political, legal, social, psychological, military, and technological information upon which realistic disarmament policy must be based.

§ 603.12

General Advisory Committee.

The Committee, composed of no more than 15 members appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, meeting at least twice each year.

(a) Advises the Director on arms control and disarmament policies and activities and in the formulation of the broad outlines of arms control and disarmament policy.

(b) From time to time advises the President, the Secretary of State, and the Director respecting matters affecting arms control, disarmament, and world peace.

The Council, composed of a Chairman designated by the Director; the heads of the Bureaus of Weapons Evaluation and Control, International Relations, Science and Technology, and Economics; and the heads of the Offices of the General Counsel and the Executive Director.

(a) Promotes and coordinates a comprehensive and balanced U.S. arms control and disarmament research program, including the contract and staff studies of ACDA and other Government agencies;

(b) Keeps fully informed on all ACDA staff studies and, as it deems necessary and appropriate, proposes the initiation of such studies;

(c) Develops for recommendation to, and implementation by, the Director, a

unified ACDA contract research program which will incorporate and coordinate the efforts of the individual Bureaus and Offices, together with the expressions of differing views from the individual Bureaus and Offices, to assure an adequate and well-balanced program within the limits of available funds and in a context of the overall Government program of research in the field of arms control and disarmament;

(d) Exercise primary authority within the Agency for:

(1) Assuring liaison with other agencies with respect to research activities in the field of arms control and disarmament matters by other agencies;

(2) Compiling and preparing the periodic consolidated report on research in the field of arms control and disarmament for the approval of, and transmittal and distribution by, the Director. [32 F.R. 9202, June 28, 1967, as amended at 33 F.R. 9167, June 21, 1968]

§ 603.15 The Public Affairs Adviser.

(a) Plans and implements a public information program designed to keep public opinion accurately informed of United States disarmament policies and objectives;

(b) Plans, prepares, and releases appropriate information on U.S. policies and actions on arms control and disarmament matters to foreign and domestic news media representatives and to interested nongovernmental groups, organizations, and institutions;

(c) Cooperates with other U.S. Government agencies in coordinating governmental public information activities bearing on arms control and disarmament matters;

(d) Participates, as the Director may instruct, in the formulation of arms control and disarmament policies and programs, and advises the Director on the public information aspects of such policies and programs;

(e) Provides to the U.S. Information Agency official U.S. positions and policy on arms control and disarmament matters for dissemination aboard;

(f) Serves frequently as a member of U.S. delegations to international conferences relating to arms control and disarmament, to advise the chief of delegation concerning informational treatment of arms control and disarmament matters, and to serve as spokesman for such delegations.

§ 603.16

Assistant Director, International Relations Bureau.

(a) Serves as principal adviser to the Director concerning international relations aspects and implications of arms control and disarmament objectives, policies, proposals, and negotiations to broader foreign policy considerations;

(b) Assists in the formulation of arms control and disarmament objectives, policies, and proposals from the standpoint of their international relations aspects and implications and their relationship to broader foreign policy considerations;

(c) Recommends the political approach to be taken in advancing U.S. arms control and disarmament objectives and proposals in negotiations and discussions with other governments, including direct negotiations and discussions and those taking place in the United Nations and other international bodies.

(d) Designates, under the authority of the Director, members and advisers of U.S. delegations to international negotiations and discussions on arms control and disarmament. Is available to lead or participate as a member of such delegation;

(e) Undertakes preparations for and, as appropriate, directs U.S. participation in international negotiations and discussions on arms control and disarmament. In this connection, develops and issues or approves for issuance appropriate background papers, position papers, instructions, and other communications for U.S. participation in such negotiations and discussions;

(f) Maintains continuing liaison with representatives of other governments and international organizations respecting arms control and disarmament;

(g) Plans and directs research and analysis concerned with international relations aspects and implications of arms control and disarmament and ensures adequate consideration of such matters in connection with research and studies undertaken by other bureaus and offices;

(h) Performs analytical and historical research. Prepares or participates in the preparation of, research reports, studies, and memoranda concerning political, economic, military, legal, social, psychological, scientific, and technical factors influencing arms control and disarmament matters;

(i) Maintains continuing liaison with appropriate officials of the Department of State and other Departments and Agencies with respect to all the foregoing, and specifically with respect to coordination of recommendations, positions, and instructions having to do with arms control and disarmament negotiations and discussions;

(j) Compiles and edits the annual publication of Documents on Disarmament and the Disarmament Documentation Series Chronologies.

§ 603.17 Assistant Director, Science and Technology Bureau.

(a) Conducts a program of research on the scientific and technical aspects of arms control and disarmament responsive to the needs of both negotiation and policy formulation;

(b) Plans and directs general research concerned with verification problems and inspection systems and the development of techniques for ensuring the effectiveness of verification and inspection devices;

(c) Participates, as requested, in studies conducted by other Bureaus which require scientific or technical data and evaluation and furnishes scientific assistance for international arms control and disarmament negotiations;

(d) As required, serves as an adviser to U.S. delegations to international conferences and may serve as spokesman for the U.S. Government in matters of science and technology concerned with arms control and disarmament;

(e) Coordinates scientific research related to arms control and disarmament between the Agency and other interested Government agencies.

§ 603.18

Assistant Director, Weapons Evaluation and Control Bureau. (a) Conducts on a continuing basis weapons and control systems studies, analyses, and research efforts that are relevant to evaluating and providing guidance on ACDA and other positions and proposals in terms of military implications and effects upon United States and Sino-Soviet bloc capabilities, and the overall military environment, and that are responsive to the needs of both negotiation and policy formulation;

(b) Evaluates the effect of particular disarmament proposals upon the existing military strength of the United States in comparison with that of the Sino-Soviet

bloc and of other countries in terms of promoting the national security;

(c) Plans, directs, conducts, and coordinates, within the framework of ACDA's overall research program, research and evaluation projects and studies designed to provide guidance concerning the military implications of various concepts, proposals, and techniques of arms control and disarmament, and the effects of such on the military environment;

(d) Evaluates current military strategy and weapons systems of the United States and other countries to assess the effect of arms control and disarmament plans on the security of the United States, and recommends how such plans should be modified to ensure the security of the United States;

(e) Plans, designs, and implements field tests and experiments necessary to meeting ACDA research and policy support objectives and requirements in the area of weapons evaluation and control;

(f) Consults closely with the military services regarding the developments of disarmament proposals and policy by the Agency and regarding the strategy and plans being adopted by those charged with the military security of the United States.

§ 603.19 Assistant Director, Economics Bureau.

(a) Conducts a program of research in the economic, social, and behavioral aspects of arms control and disarmament responsive to the needs of negotiation and policy formulation;

(b) Studies and evaluates the economic background and the social and behavioral significance of specific disarmament proposals advanced by other governments, particularly by the Soviet bloc;

(c) Compiles data on, analyzes and appraises, and develops Agency recommendations concerning the economic, social, and behavioral impact of arms control and disarmament, including the problems of readjustment arising in industry and the reallocation of national resources;

(d) Investigates and studies all questions of cost of control systems, including analysis of national budgets, levels of industrial production, and economic indicators;

(e) Plans and directs research concerned with economic requirements for effective control systems, including filing

of economic data, use of converted armaments and armament producing facilities for peaceful purposes, manpower and industrial plant conversion, and selective control of transport and trade in key commodities;

(f) Analyzes and evaluates the sociological, motivational, and psychological factors bearing upon the continued enforcement of agreed arms control and disarmament measures and upon the maintenance of peace under varying conditions;

(g) Works closely with other Government agencies and with interested State, regional, local, and nongovernmental groups to assure maximum use of existing facilities for the evaluation and understanding of economic, social, and behavioral factors bearing upon the consequence of arms control and disarmament measures.

§ 603.20 The General Counsel.

(a) As chief legal officer of the Agency, has responsibility for all legal matters arising in or referred to the Agency;

(b) Directs, supervises, and coordinates research studies and projects relating to international legal arrangements and peacekeeping machinery responsive to the needs of negotiation and policy formulation;

(c) Advises on international law problems and prepares final drafts of proposed treaties relating to arms control and disarmament;

(d) Frequently serves as a member of U.S. delegations to international conferences relating to arms control and disarmament to advise the chief of the delegation in matters concerning international law and the drafting of treaty language;

(e) Assumes primary responsibility within the Agency, under the direction of the Director, for liaison with Congress, and drafts all legislation proposed by the Agency;

(f) Formulates, or participates in the formulation of, Agency regulations and advises on all legal problems which may arise in the development or implementation of Agency personnel, security, patent, procurement, fiscal, and other policy; and drafts unusual or unique provisions of Agency contracts and grants;

(g) Provides legal representation of the Agency in matters involving the Congress, other departments and agencies of the Government, foreign governments, and independent contractors.

§ 603.21 The Executive Director.

(a) Discharges the administrative management responsibilities of the Agency including organization, budget, personnel, general services, security, and procurement, utilizing the facilities of the Department of State to the extent agreed upon by the Secretary and the Director;

(b) Develops, recommends, revises, and promulgates the organizational structure and assignment of functions within the Agency;

(c) Directs the development and operation of administrative management controls including fiscal controls, reporting systems, and manuals of regulations and procedures;

(d) Provides central control and coordination for issuance of rules and regulations, as well as delegations of authority within the Agency;

(e) Serves as the Chairman of the Agency Research Council, responsible for promoting and coordinating the comprehensive and balanced program of research needed by the Government for arms control and disarmament policy formulation.

(f) Serves as or designates the Chairman of the Agency Research Planning Group, responsible, under the general supervision of the Research Council; (1) for identification of the purpose and objectives of the Agency research and field test program, (2) for developing basic guidelines for planning research and field tests, to include the development of recommendations for specific research objectives and priorities, (3) for coordinating the research and field test plans of the Bureaus, subject to action by the Research Council to the Director, and (4) for developing requirements and procedures for the evaluation of major portions of the ACDA research and field test program.

(g) Formulates and implements policies and supervisory procedures covering procurement by the Agency to assure uniform application in contractor selection and contract actions.

(h) In collaboration with the Office of the General Counsel and with the project officers of the Bureaus assigned responsibility for

contract

research

projects, prepares Agency contracts for approval and execution by the Director or by the Agency's contracting officers, as appropriate.

(1) Plans the development, implementation and administration of an information indexing and retrieval program for technical inquiry response.

(m) Administers a records management program, including mail and messenger service.

(n) Monitors information service contracts and reimbursable agreements.

(0) Provides direct support to both internal and external research activities through the development and maintenance of information profiles, continuing direct liaison with other information resources and assistance with identifying and selecting appropriate information for contractor use.

(p) Makes available information to the public pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act.

(q) Revises schedule of fees, or otherwise determines user charges for general Agency application, for information made public under the Freedom of Information Act.

[32 F.R. 9202, June 28, 1967, as amended at 33 F.R. 9167, June 21, 1968; 33 F.R. 19178, Dec. 24, 1968]