10 U.S.C. § 2390 : US Code - Section 2390: Prohibition on the sale of certain defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense

Search 10 U.S.C. § 2390 : US Code - Section 2390: Prohibition on the sale of certain defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense

(a)(1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the sale
outside the Department of Defense of any defense article designated
or otherwise classified as Prepositioned Material Configured to
Unit Sets, as decrement stock, or as Prepositioned War Reserve
Stocks for United States Forces is prohibited.
(2) In this section, the term "decrement stock" means such stock
as is needed to bring the armed forces from a peacetime level of
readiness to a combat level of readiness.
(b) The President may authorize the sale outside the Department
of Defense of a defense article described in subsection (a) if -
(1) he determines that there is an international crisis
affecting the national security of the United States and the sale
of such article is in the best interests of the United States;
and
(2) he reports to the Congress not later than 60 days after the
transfer of such article a plan for the prompt replenishment of
the stocks of such article and the planned budget request to
begin implementation of that plan.
(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall preclude the sale of stocks
which have been designated for replacement, substitution, or
elimination or which have been designated for sale to provide funds
to procure higher priority stocks.
(2) Nothing in this section shall preclude the transfer or sale
of equipment to other members of the North Atlantic Treaty
Organization.