The plan is expected to help the prospects for a strategic arms treaty.
As an arms treaty, it is more loophole than law.
The strategic arms treaty will require each side to allow inspections of any site, not just those in a list.
That is why the Soviet leader wanted to get the arms treaty behind him.
But a nuclear arms treaty is every bit as important to national security and would give the President stature.
Most Administration officials say that there is no chance of completing a new arms treaty before the summit.
Conservative Republican senators say they will try to block the arms treaty.
Failure to sign a strategic arms treaty soon might have little impact on the relationship.
The recently signed strategic arms treaty is to bring both sides down to about 9,000.
They agree ot try to complete a new arms treaty by 1974.