and needs to be re-authorized, provides for export controls on dual-use goods and technology not only to fight proliferation, but also to pursue other national security, short supply, and foreign policy goals (such as combating terrorism). Simplifying and updating these controls in light of the end of the Cold War has been a major goal of this Administration.

Enforcing the export control and anti-boycott provisions of the EAA, as well as ensuring compliance with treaties that impose requirements on U.S. industry. The most important such treaty is the Chemical Weapons Convention, which when ratified, will give BXA new enforcement and outreach responsibilities. The EAA is enforced through a variety of administrative, civil, and criminal sanctions. The growing threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction to "pariah" nations and the evolution of our export licensing system towards a focus on individual end users necessitates the strengthening of BXA's enforcement staff.

Analyzing and protecting the defense industrial and technology base, pursuant to the Defense Production Act and other laws. As the Defense Department increases its reliance on dual use high technology goods as part of its cost-cutting efforts, ensuring that we remain competitive in those sectors and sub-sectors is critical to our national security.

Helping Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Belarus, Russia, and other newly emerging countries develop effective export control systems and dismantle their defense industries. The effectiveness of U.S. export controls can be severely undercut if other supplier nations are exporting sensitive goods and technology or permitting diversion of our exports.

BXA's two principal operating units, Export Administration (EA) and Export Enforcement (EE), as well as its Office of Administration, have undergone significant reorganization and downsizing in recent years to better meet the President's goals of reform and streamlining of the export control system, as recommended by the National Performance Review (NPR) and the Trade Promotion Coordinating Committee (TPCC). BXA is also an NPR reinvention Laboratory.

For FY 1997, BXA has identified a series of performance measures which can be used to assess the impact of their program activities. This list of measures focuses on BXA's priority programs and thus is not intended to cover every dollar in BXA's entire budget. In most cases, performance measures address program goals, while the Federal budget structure traditionally focuses on organizational units.

In addition, the list of measures can be expected to evolve over time, as BXA and its programs, the Department of Commerce, and the Federal government as a whole continue to refine and enhance their capacity to develop performance measures, to use performance measurement as a key management tool, and to prepare to implement the GPRA.

A programmatic increase is requested to administer and enforce the new and complex declaration, inspection and reporting requirements imposed on commercial chemical manufacturing facilities under the Chemical Weapons Convention Treaty (CWC). The total requirements associated with this program (+38 pos.; +$3,600) are being partially offset by savings associated with the streamlining of export controls and reduced licensing volume (-20 pos.; -$1,500). This budget also reflects the absorption of all non-discretionary cost increases included in the adjustments to base (-0 pos; -$1,498). Reduction pursuant to Executive Order 12837, "Deficit Control and Productivity Improvement in the Administration of the Federal Government," dated February 10, 1993 and P.L. 103-226, "the Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994" (-4 pos.; -$460).

To ensure that statutory responsibilities for enforcing export controls are met, increased funding is requested for Export Enforcement including efforts related to enforcing the Fastener Quality Act (+63 pos.; +$3,750). This increase allows BXA to fully staff its enforcement field offices and maintain an effective level of enforcement to prevent "pariah" nations from participating in the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction. As much as $1.3 million of base and increase funding would be made available to enable BXA to carry out the enforcement provisions of the Fastener Quality Act which prohibits manufacturers and importers of fasteners from selling fasteners that do not meet established standards. Reduction pursuant to Executive Order 12837, "Deficit Control and Productivity Improvement in the Administration of the Federal Government," dated February 10, 1993 and P.L. 103-226, "The Federal Workforce Restructuring Act of 1994" (-3 pos.; -$343).