INTERAGENCY REVIEW OF THE FISCAL YEAR 1979 ARMS CONTROL IMPACT STATEMENTS

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• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: March 17, 2004
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• Publication Date: October 11, 1977
• Content Type: MEMO

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TO: The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
The Secretary of Energy
Director, Central Intelligence Agency
SUBJECT: Interagency Review of the PisL.al Year 1979
. Arms control Impact Statements
Now that we have the g;en_eral procedures for the
preparation of impact statements in hand, I would like to
tell you 1-101 we propose to run the development of arms
control impact statements to accompany the FY-79 budget.
To begin with we share the same goals -- timely and respon-
sive impact statements. Our success in meeting these goals
depends directly on the amount of staff level cooperation
which we will be able to foster.
The ACDA staff will shortly distribute Analyses with
requests for comments and suggested changes, in the hope
of resolving differences, where they exist. I would be
fulling to rely, in the first instance, on the sponsors of
the programs (DOD and ERDA) for the description and funding
portions of the Statements. On the other hand, let me suggest
that th.e best focus with respect to the Analytical portions
of the Statements would be the identification of significant
issues and important changes, in preference to the line-in-line-
out redrafts characteristics of most interagency efforts.
T-111-is is because we wi 1 1 have 32 papers covering some 72
programs to complete by the first weekin December. We would
hope tC resolve any issues in most of them and, where we
cannot,. to identify those few key questions watch are
suitable for consideration and resolution at the SCC level.
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Normally, papers will be distributed to interested
agencies for review as soon as they have been approved in
ACDA. To facilitate coordination, I am establishing n
Arms Control Impact,Working Group under the chairmanship
of the Assistant Director, Weapons Evaluation and Control,
with his deputy as alternate. Sub-groups will be established
as needed, to address those impact Analyses which have
lesser arms control significance. In the interim I would
appreciate your informing Thomas J. Hirschfeld, Acting
Assistant Director, Room 5843, Telephone [phone], of your
nominee as principal representative to the working group.
With your help we can make this effort a success. I hope
that this process will produce the kind of statements that
the President is looking for, and that the Congress expects.
cc: Assistant to the President for National
Security Affairs
Director, Office of Management and Budget
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MEMORANDUM FOR: Ri chard Lehmz
Associate Dir for for Substantive
Support/NFAC
You asked me to remind you that the Executive
Secretary should notify "1r. Hirshfeld's office in
ACDA that:
--Mr. George Allen should be substituted for
F__ I as the principal
CIA representative to e working group
mentioned in Mr. Warnke's memo of
11 October.
--Mr. Allen will also be the point of
contact for the subgroup referred to in
Mr. Hirshfeld's memo of 18 October.
Geo ge W. Allen
A/NIO/SS
Date 10/19/77
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NATIONAL SECURITY COUNCIL
WASHINGTON, D.C. 20506
October 6, 1977
The Secretary of State
The Secretary of Defense
ALSO: The Acting Director, Office of
Management and Budget
The Director, Arms Control and
Disarmament Agency
The Acting Administrator, Energy
Research and Development
Administration
The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff
The Director of Central Intelligence
SUBJECT: Development of Arms Control Impact
Statements
Tabs 1 and 2 to Tab A of the NSC paper on the above subject were
inadvertently left out of the package sent on October 6, 1977.
Attached is a complete substitute package.
Christine Dodson
Staff Secretary
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