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(c) INFORMATIONAL
ACTIVITIES
OF
CLEARINGHOUSES.—The
clearinghouses shall—
(1) collect educational materials that have been prepared
for the purpose of providing information regarding available
retraining programs, in particular those programs dealing with
critical skills needed in advanced manufacturing and skill areas
in which shortages of skilled employees exist;
(2) establish and maintain a data base for the purpose
of storing and categorizing such materials based on the different
needs of eligible persons; and
(3) furnish such materials, upon request, to educational
institutions and other interested persons.
(d) FUNDING.—From the unobligated balance of funds made
available pursuant to section 4465(c) of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102–484; 29
U.S.C. 1662d–1 note) to carry out section 325A of the Job Training
Partnership Act (29 U.S.C. 1662d–1), not more than $10,000,000
shall be available to the Secretary of Labor to carry out this section
during fiscal year 1994. Funds made available under section 1302
for defense conversion, reinvestment, and transition assistance pro-
grams shall not be used to carry out this section.
SEC. 1374. USE OF NAVAL INSTALLATIONS TO PROVIDE EMPLOYMENT
TRAINING TO NONVIOLENT OFFENDERS IN STATE PENAL
SYSTEMS.
(a) DEMONSTRATION PROJECT AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of
the Navy may conduct a demonstration project to test the feasibility
of using Navy facilities to provide employment training to non-
violent offenders in a State penal system prior to their release
from incarceration. The demonstration project shall be limited to
not more than three military installations under the jurisdiction
of the Secretary.
(b) AGREEMENTS WITH NONPROFIT ORGANIZATIONS.—The Sec-
retary may enter into a cooperative agreement with one or more
private, nonprofit organizations for purposes of providing at the
military installations included in the demonstration project the
prerelease employment training authorized under subsection (a).
(c) USE OF FACILITIES.—Under a cooperative agreement entered
into under subsection (b), the Secretary may lease or otherwise
make available to a nonprofit organization participating in the
demonstration project at a military installation included in the
demonstration project any real property or facilities at the installa-
tion that the Secretary considers to be appropriate for use to provide
the prerelease employment training authorized under subsection
(a). Notwithstanding section 2667(b)(4) of title 10, United States
Code, the use of such real property or facilities may be permitted
with or without reimbursement.
(d) ACCEPTANCE OF SERVICES.—Notwithstanding section 1342
of title 31, United States Code, the Secretary may accept voluntary
services provided by persons participating in the prerelease employ-
ment training authorized under subsection (a).
(e) LIABILITY AND INDEMNIFICATION.—A nonprofit organization
participating in the demonstration project shall be liable for any
loss or damage to Government property that may result from,
or in connection with, the provision of prerelease employment train-
ing by the organization under demonstration project. The nonprofit
organization also shall hold harmless and indemnify the United
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States from and against any suit, claim, demand, action, or liability
arising out of any claim for personal injury or property damage
that may result from or in connection with the demonstration
project.
(f) REPORT.—Not later than two years after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to Congress
a report evaluating the success of the demonstration project and
containing such recommendations with regard to the termination,
continuation, or expansion of the demonstration project as the Sec-
retary considers to be appropriate.
TITLE XIV—MATTERS RELATING TO
ALLIES AND OTHER NATIONS
Subtitle A—Defense Burden Sharing
SEC. 1401. DEFENSE BURDENS AND RESPONSIBILITIES.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Since fiscal year 1985, the budget of the Department
of Defense has declined by 34 percent in constant fiscal year
1985 dollars.
(2) During the past few years, the United States military
presence overseas has declined significantly in the following
ways:
(A) Since fiscal year 1986, the number of United States
military personnel permanently stationed overseas has
declined by almost 200,000.
(B) From fiscal year 1989 to fiscal year 1994, spending
by the United States to support the stationing of United
States military forces overseas will have declined by 36
percent.
(C) Since January 1990, the Department of Defense
has announced the closure, reduction, or transfer to
standby status of 840 United States military facilities over-
seas, which is approximately a 50 percent reduction in
the number of such facilities.
(3) The United States military presence overseas will con-
tinue to decline as a result of actions by the executive branch
and as a result of the following provisions of law:
(A) Section 1302 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1993, which requires a 40 percent
reduction by September 30, 1996, in the number of United
States military personnel permanently stationed ashore
in overseas locations.
(B) Section 1303 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1993, which provides that no more
than 100,000 United States military personnel may be
permanently stationed ashore in NATO member countries
after September 30, 1996.
(C) Section 1301 of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1993, which reduced the spending pro-
posed by the Department of Defense for overseas basing
activities during fiscal year 1993 by $500,000,000.
(D) Sections 913 and 915 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, which
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directed the President to develop a plan to gradually reduce
the United States military force structure in East Asia.
(4) The East Asia Strategy Initiative, which was developed
in response to sections 913 and 915 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991, has resulted
in the withdrawal of 12,000 United States military personnel
from Japan and the Republic of Korea since fiscal year 1990.
(5) In response to actions by the executive branch and
the Congress, allied countries in which United States military
personnel are stationed and alliances in which the United
States participates have agreed to reduce the costs incurred
by the United States in basing military forces overseas in
the following ways:
(A) Under the 1991 Special Measures Agreement
between Japan and the United States, Japan will pay
by 1995 almost all yen-denominated costs of stationing
United States military personnel in Japan.
(B) The Republic of Korea has agreed to pay by 1995
one-third of the won-based costs incurred by the United
States in stationing United States military personnel in
the Republic of Korea.
(C) The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO)
has agreed that the NATO Infrastructure Program will
adapt to support post-Cold War strategy and could pay
the annual operation and maintenance costs of facilities
in Europe and the United States that would support the
reinforcement of Europe by United States military forces
and the participation of United States military forces in
peacekeeping and conflict prevention operations.
(D) Such allied countries and alliances have agreed
to share more fully the responsibilities and burdens of
providing for mutual security and stability through steps
such as the following:
(i) The Republic of Korea has assumed the leader-
ship role regarding ground combat forces for the
defense of the Republic of Korea.
(ii) NATO has adopted the new mission of conduct-
ing peacekeeping operations and is, for example,
providing land, sea, and air forces for United Nations
efforts in the former Yugoslavia.
(iii) The countries of western Europe are contribut-
ing substantially to the development of democracy,
stability, and open market societies in eastern Europe
and the former Soviet Union.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the forward presence of United States military person-
nel stationed overseas continues to be important to United
States security interests;
(2) that forward presence facilitates efforts to pursue
United States security interests on a collective basis rather
than pursuing them on a far more costly unilateral basis or
receding into isolationism;
(3) the bilateral and multilateral arrangements and alli-
ances in which that forward presence plays a part must be
further adapted to the security environment of the post-Cold
War period;
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(4) the cost-sharing percentages for the NATO Infrastruc-
ture Program should be reviewed with the aim of reflecting
current economic, political, and military realities and thus
reducing the United States cost-sharing percentage; and
(5) the amounts obligated to conduct United States overseas
basing activities should decline significantly in fiscal year 1994
and in future fiscal years as—
(A) the number of United States military personnel
stationed overseas continues to decline; and
(B) the countries in which United States military
personnel are stationed and the alliances in which the
United States participates assume an increased share of
United States overseas basing costs.
(c) REDUCING UNITED STATES OVERSEAS BASING COSTS.—(1)
In order to achieve additional savings in overseas basing costs,
the President should—
(A) continue with the reductions in United States military
presence overseas as required by sections 1302 and 1303 of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993;
and
(B) intensify efforts to negotiate a more favorable host-
nation agreement with each foreign country to which this para-
graph applies under paragraph (3)(A).
(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B), a more favorable host-
nation agreement is an agreement under which such foreign
country—
(A) assumes an increased share of the costs of United
States military installations in that country, including the costs
of—
(i) labor, utilities, and services;
(ii) military construction projects and real property
maintenance;
(iii) leasing requirements associated with the United
States military presence; and
(iv) actions necessary to meet local environmental
standards;
(B) relieves the United States of all tax liability that,
with respect to forces located in that country, is incurred by
the Armed Forces of the United States under the laws of
that country and the laws of the community where those forces
are located; and
(C) ensures that goods and services furnished in that coun-
try to the Armed Forces of the United States are provided
at minimum cost and without imposition of user fees.
(3)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph (B), paragraph (1)(B)
applies with respect to—
(i) each country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
(other than the United States); and
(ii) each other foreign country with which the United States
has a bilateral or multilateral defense agreement that provides
for the assignment of combat units of the Armed Forces of
the United States to permanent duty in that country or the
placement of combat equipment of the United States in that
country.
(B) Paragraph (1) does not apply with respect to—
(i) a foreign country that receives assistance under section
23 of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2763) (relating
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