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SEC. 8141. In addition to the amounts appropriated or otherwise
made available in this Act, $5,000,000, to remain available until
September 30, 2001, is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Defense: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall make
a grant in the amount of $5,000,000 to the American Red Cross
for Armed Forces Emergency Services.
SEC. 8142. Of the amounts appropriated under title II under
the 
heading 
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Defense-Wide’’,
$2,000,000 may be made available, subject to the enactment of
authorizing legislation, for the Bosque Redondo Memorial in accord-
ance with the provisions of title II of the bill S. 964 of the 106th
Congress, as passed the Senate on November 19, 1999.
SEC. 8143. Of the funds provided within title I of this Act,
such funds as may be necessary shall be available for a special
subsistence allowance for members eligible to receive food stamp
assistance, as authorized by law.
SEC. 8144. Section 8093 of the Department of Defense Appro-
priations Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79; 113 Stat. 1253) is amended
by striking subsection (d), relating to a prohibition on the use
of Department of Defense funds to procure a nuclear-capable ship-
yard crane from a foreign source.
SEC. 8145. Notwithstanding any other provision of law—
(1) from amounts made available for ‘‘Research, Develop-
ment, Test and Evaluation, Air Force’’ in this Act and the
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 (Public Law
106–79), an aggregate amount of $99,700,000 (less any propor-
tional general reduction required by law and any reduction
required for the Small Business Innovative Research program)
shall be available only for the B–2 Link 16/Center Instrument
Display/In-Flight Replanner program; and
(2) the Secretary of the Air Force shall not be required
to obligate funds for potential termination liability in connection
with the B–2 Link 16/Center Instrument Display/In-Flight Re-
planner program.
SEC. 8146. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, not
less than $233,637,000 of the funds provided in this Act shall
be available only for the Airborne Laser program.
SEC. 8147. (a) IN GENERAL.—Section 106 of title 38, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new
subsection:
‘‘(f ) Service as a member of the Alaska Territorial Guard during
World War II of any individual who was honorably discharged
therefrom under section 8147 of the Department of Defense Appro-
priations Act, 2001, shall be considered active duty for purposes
of all laws administered by the Secretary.’’.
(b) DISCHARGE.—(1) The Secretary of Defense shall issue to
each individual who served as a member of the Alaska Territorial
Guard during World War II a discharge from such service under
honorable conditions if the Secretary determines that the nature
and duration of the service of the individual so warrants.
(2) A discharge under paragraph (1) shall designate the date
of discharge. The date of discharge shall be the date, as determined
by the Secretary, of the termination of service of the individual
concerned as described in that paragraph.
(c) PROHIBITION ON RETROACTIVE BENEFITS.—No benefits shall
be paid to any individual for any period before the date of the
enactment of this Act by reason of the enactment of this section.
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SEC. 8148. UNITED STATES-CHINA SECURITY REVIEW COMMIS-
SION.—Subject to authorization, there are hereby appropriated, out
of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated,
$3,000,000, to remain available until expended, to the United
States-China Security Review Commission for fiscal year 2001 to
carry out its functions.
SEC. 8149. Section 1621 of Public Law 92–204 (43 U.S.C. 1621),
the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, as amended, is further
amended by inserting at the end the following:
‘‘(m) LICENSES HELD BY ALASKA NATIVE REGIONAL CORPORA-
TIONS.—An Alaska Native regional corporation organized pursuant
to the Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act, or an affiliate thereof,
that holds a Federal Communications Commission license in the
personal communications service as of the date of enactment of
this section and has either paid for such license in full or has
complied with the payment schedules for such license shall be
permitted to transfer or assign without penalty such license to
any transferee or assignee. No economic penalties shall apply to
any transfer or assignment authorized under this section. Any
amounts owed to the United States for the initial grant of such
licenses shall become immediately due and payable upon the con-
summation of any such transfer or assignment. Any application
for such a transfer or assignment shall be deemed granted if not
denied by the Commission within 90 days of the date on which
it was initially filed. Any provision of law or regulation to the
contrary is hereby amended.’’.
SEC. 8150. For purposes of implementing section 206(b) of
H. Con. Res. 290 (106th Congress), the limits provided in section
302(a)(3)(A) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 shall not
apply with respect to fiscal year 2001.
SEC. 8151. (a) DESIGNATION.—The consolidated operations
center planned for construction at Redstone Arsenal, Huntsville,
Alabama, to house the Army’s Space and Missile Defense Command
and for other purposes, shall be known and designated as the
‘‘Wernher von Braun Complex’’.
(b) REFERENCES.—Any reference in a law, map, regulation,
document, paper, or other record of the United States to the complex
referred to in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference
to the ‘‘Wernher von Braun Complex’’.
SEC. 8152. Of the funds provided in this Act under the heading
‘‘Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-Wide’’ for
the Pacific Disaster Center, $300,000 shall be made available for
a grant, to be awarded not later than 60 days after the enactment
of this Act, to the Circum-Pacific Council for the Crowding the
Rim Summit Initiative.
SEC. 8153. Upon the enactment of this Act, the Departments
of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agen-
cies Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted into law by section
1000(a)(1) of Public Law 106–113) is amended under the heading
‘‘Small Business Administration, Business Loans Program Account’’
in the first paragraph by striking ‘‘Provided, That of the total
provided, $6,000,000 shall be available only for the cost of guaran-
teed loans under the New Markets Venture Capital program and
shall become available for obligation only upon authorization of
such program by the enactment of subsequent legislation in fiscal
year 2000:’’.
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SEC. 8154. In addition to amounts appropriated elsewhere in
this Act, $1,650,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department
of Defense, only for a competitively awarded grant to a medical
research institution for research among persons who served on
active duty in the Southwest Asia theater of operations during
the Persian Gulf War on: (1) the possible health effect of exposure
to low levels of hazardous chemicals, including chemical warfare
agents and other substances; and (2) the individual susceptibility
of humans to such exposure under environmentally controlled condi-
tions.
SEC. 8155. In addition to the amounts appropriated elsewhere
in this Act, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, is
hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense
shall make available a grant of $2,000,000 to the Oakland Military
Institute, Oakland, California.
SEC. 8156. In addition to the amounts provided elsewhere in
this Act, the amount of $10,000,000 is hereby appropriated for
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’ and shall be available to the
Secretary of the Army, notwithstanding any other provision of
law, only to be provided as a grant to the City of San Bernardino,
California, contingent on the resolution of the case ‘‘City of San
Bernardino v. United States’’, pending as of July 1, 2000, in the
United States District Court for the Central District of California
(C.D. Cal. Case No. CV 96–8867).
SEC. 8157. The Secretary of Defense may transfer, at no cost,
the title/ownership of the alloying material being stored at the
Brownfield site in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania to the Bethlehem
Development Corporation: Provided, That the net proceeds from
the disposition of the materials are only for redevelopment of the
Brownfield site.
SEC. 8158. In addition to amounts provided in this Act,
$2,000,000 is hereby appropriated for ‘‘Defense Health Program’’,
to remain available for obligation until expended: Provided, That
notwithstanding any other provision of law, these funds shall be
available only for a grant to the Fisher House Foundation, Inc.,
only for the construction and furnishing of additional Fisher Houses
to meet the needs of military family members when confronted
with the illness or hospitalization of an eligible military beneficiary.
SEC. 8159. The Office of Economic Adjustment may amend
a grant awarded in 1998 to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
for Industrial Modernization of Philadelphia Shipyard for the pur-
pose of undertaking community economic adjustment activities to
provide for the acquisition of equipment that would further the
overall purpose of the grant: Provided, That such amendment shall
not increase the grant period or the total amount of the grant
award and shall be deemed, for all purposes, to be within the
scope of the original grant.
SEC. 8160. The appropriation under the heading ‘‘Defense
Reinvestment for Economic Growth’’ in the Supplemental Appro-
priations Act of 1993 (Public Law 103–50) is amended by striking
‘‘that date’’ and inserting ‘‘December 1, 2004’’: Provided, That the
amendment made by this section shall be effective as of July 2,
1993.
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 8161. In addition to the amounts appropriated elsewhere
in this Act, $2,000,000, to remain available until expended, is
hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense: Provided, That
not later than October 15, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall
transfer these funds to the Department of Energy appropriation
account ‘‘Fossil Energy Research and Development’’, only for a
proposed conceptual design study to examine the feasibility of a
zero emissions, steam injection process with possible applications
for increased power generation efficiency, enhanced oil recovery
and carbon sequestration.
SEC. 8162. Section 104 of the Emergency Supplemental Act,
2000 (in title I, chapter 1, of division B of Public Law 106–246)
is amended to read as follows: after ‘‘Procurement of Weapons
and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army’’, insert the following: ‘‘, to
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2002,’’.
SEC. 8163. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act,
the total amount appropriated in this Act is hereby reduced by
$71,367,000, to reduce cost growth in consulting and advisory serv-
ices and other contract growth, to be distributed as follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $20,000,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $10,000,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Marine Corps’’, $367,000; and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $41,000,000.
SEC. 8164. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act,
the total amount appropriated in this Act is hereby reduced by
$92,700,000, to reduce excess funded carryover, to be distributed
as follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $40,500,000; and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $52,200,000.
SEC. 8165. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act,
the total amount appropriated in this Act is hereby reduced by
$159,076,000, to reduce growth in headquarters and administrative
activities, to be distributed as follows:
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, $56,700,000;
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’, $12,376,000; and
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’, $90,000,000.
SEC. 8166. Of the amounts provided in title II of this Act,
the following account is hereby reduced by the specified amount:
‘‘Overseas 
Contingency 
Operations 
Transfer 
Fund’’,
$1,100,000,000.
TITLE IX
ADDITIONAL FISCAL YEAR 2000 EMERGENCY SUPPLE-
MENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE
The following sums are appropriated, out of any money in
the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide additional
emergency supplemental appropriations for the Department of
Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 2000, and for
other purposes, namely: