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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1707
Making interim emergency supplemental appropriations for immediate needs
for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1997, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
MAY 22, 1997
Mr. OBEY introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on Appropriations, and in addition to the Committee on the Budget, for
a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for
consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the com-
mittee concerned
A BILL
Making interim emergency supplemental appropriations for
immediate needs for the fiscal year ending September
30, 1997, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any
money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to pro-
vide interim emergency supplemental appropriations for
immediate needs for the fiscal year ending September 30,
1997, and for other purposes, namely:
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TITLE 
I—INTERIM 
EMERGENCY 
SUPPLE-
MENTAL APPROPRIATIONS FOR RECOVERY
FROM NATURAL DISASTERS AND OVERSEAS
PEACEKEEPING
CHAPTER 1
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE—MILITARY
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS TRANSFER FUND
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
For an additional amount for ‘‘Overseas Contingency
Operations Transfer Fund’’, $500,000,000: Provided,
That the Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds
only to Department of Defense operation and maintenance
accounts: Provided further, That the funds transferred
shall be merged with and shall be available for the same
purposes and for the same time period, as the appropria-
tion to which transferred: Provided further, That the
transfer authority provided in this paragraph is in addi-
tion to any other transfer authority available to the De-
partment of Defense: Provided further, That such amount
is designated by Congress as an emergency requirement
pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(D)(i) of the Balanced
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as
amended.
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GENERAL PROVISIONS, CHAPTER 1
(RESCISSIONS)
SEC. 101. Of the funds provided in the Department
of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 (as contained in sec-
tion 101(b) of Public Law 104–208), amounts are hereby
rescinded from the following accounts in the specified
amounts to reflect savings from revised economic assump-
tions (with each such reduction to be applied proportion-
ally to each budget activity, activity group, and subactivity
group within each such account):
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Army’’,
$19,000,000.
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Navy’’,
$24,000,000.
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’,
$18,000,000.
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’,
$8,000,000.
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Army’’, $8,000,000.
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Navy’’, $12,000,000.
‘‘Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Air 
Force’’,
$11,000,000.
(RESCISSION)
SEC. 102. Of the funds provided in the Department
of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 (as contained in sec-
tion 101(b) of Public Law 104–208), amounts related to
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foreign currency are hereby rescinded from the following
accounts in the specific amounts, except as otherwise pro-
vided by law, to reflect savings from revised foreign cur-
rency exchange rates:
‘‘Military Personnel, Army’’, $37,000,000.
‘‘Military Personnel, Navy’’, $9,000,000.
‘‘Military Personnel, Air Force’’, $12,000,000.
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Army’’,
$75,000,000.
‘‘Operation 
and 
Maintenance, 
Navy’’,
$15,000,000.
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Air Force’’,
$50,000,000.
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide’’,
$2,000,000.
(RESCISSIONS)
SEC. 103. Of the funds provided in previous Depart-
ment of Defense Appropriations Acts, amounts only asso-
ciated with unobligated balances to expire at the end of
the current fiscal year are hereby rescinded from the fol-
lowing accounts in the specified amounts:
‘‘Aircraft Procurement, Army, 1995/1997’’,
$1,000,000.
‘‘Missile 
Procurement, 
Army, 
1995/1997’’,
$2,000,000.