france has already started the process based on treaty.
The state department will control this transfer issue and I submit the state department does NOT have the interests of the USA at their core.
BS. As a retired Foreign Service Officer with 28 years in the State Department, former naval officer, and Vietnam vet, I find your characterization totally false and offensive. There is a wall in the State Department lobby listing the State Department personnel who have died for their country right through 2006. I know and served with some of them. Questioning their loyalty and patriotism is despicable.
FYI: The State Department will not/not control the transfer issue. The WH and Congress will make any such decision.