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ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a- 
fixed-fee contract for construction, where cost estimates ex-
ceed $25,000, to be performed within the United States, ex-
cept Alaska, without the specific approval in writing of the 
Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor. 
SEC. 102. Funds made available in this title for con-
struction shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehi-
cles. 
SEC. 103. Funds made available in this title for con-
struction may be used for advances to the Federal Highway 
Administration, Department of Transportation, for the con-
struction of access roads as authorized by section 210 of 
title 23, United States Code, when projects authorized there-
in are certified as important to the national defense by the 
Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be used to begin construction of new bases in the 
United States for which specific appropriations have not 
been made. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be used for purchase of land or land easements 
in excess of 100 percent of the value as determined by the 
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Army Corps of Engineers or the Naval Facilities Engineer-
ing Command, except: 
(1) where there is a determination of value by a 
Federal court; 
(2) purchases negotiated by the Attorney General 
or the designee of the Attorney General; 
(3) where the estimated value is less than 
$25,000; or 
(4) as otherwise determined by the Secretary of 
Defense to be in the public interest. 
SEC. 106. None of the funds made available in this 
title shall be used to: 
(1) acquire land; 
(2) provide for site preparation; or 
(3) install utilities for any family housing, ex-
cept housing for which funds have been made avail-
able in annual Acts making appropriations for mili-
tary construction. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds made available in this 
title for minor construction may be used to transfer or relo-
cate any activity from one base or installation to another, 
without prior notification to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be used for the procurement of steel for any con-
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struction project or activity for which American steel pro-
ducers, fabricators, and manufacturers have been denied the 
opportunity to compete for such steel procurement. 
SEC. 109. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense for military construction or family housing 
during the current fiscal year may be used to pay real prop-
erty taxes in any foreign nation. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be used to initiate a new installation overseas 
without prior notification to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds made available in this 
title may be obligated for architect and engineer contracts 
estimated by the Government to exceed $500,000 for projects 
to be accomplished in Japan, in any North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization member country, or in countries bordering the 
Arabian Sea, unless such contracts are awarded to United 
States firms or United States firms in joint venture with 
host nation firms. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds made available in this 
title for military construction in the United States terri-
tories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein 
Atoll, or in countries bordering the Arabian Sea, may be 
used to award any contract estimated by the Government 
to exceed $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor: Provided, That 
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this section shall not be applicable to contract awards for 
which the lowest responsive and responsible bid of a United 
States contractor exceeds the lowest responsive and respon-
sible bid of a foreign contractor by greater than 20 percent: 
Provided further, That this section shall not apply to con-
tract awards for military construction on Kwajalein Atoll 
for which the lowest responsive and responsible bid is sub-
mitted by a Marshallese contractor. 
SEC. 113. The Secretary of Defense is to inform the 
appropriate committees of both Houses of Congress, includ-
ing the Committees on Appropriations, of the plans and 
scope of any proposed military exercise involving United 
States personnel 30 days prior to its occurring, if amounts 
expended for construction, either temporary or permanent, 
are anticipated to exceed $100,000. 
SEC. 114. Not more than 20 percent of the funds made 
available in this title which are limited for obligation dur-
ing the current fiscal year shall be obligated during the last 
2 months of the fiscal year. 
SEC. 115. Funds appropriated to the Department of 
Defense for construction in prior years shall be available 
for construction authorized for each such military depart-
ment by the authorizations enacted into law during the cur-
rent session of Congress. 
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SEC. 116. For military construction or family housing 
projects that are being completed with funds otherwise ex-
pired or lapsed for obligation, expired or lapsed funds may 
be used to pay the cost of associated supervision, inspection, 
overhead, engineering and design on those projects and on 
subsequent claims, if any. 
SEC. 117. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
any funds made available to a military department or de-
fense agency for the construction of military projects may 
be obligated for a military construction project or contract, 
or for any portion of such a project or contract, at any 
time before the end of the fourth fiscal year after the fiscal 
year for which funds for such project were made available, 
if the funds obligated for such project: 
(1) are obligated from funds available for mili-
tary construction projects; and 
(2) do not exceed the amount appropriated for 
such project, plus any amount by which the cost of 
such project is increased pursuant to law. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 118. In addition to any other transfer authority 
available to the Department of Defense, proceeds deposited 
to the Department of Defense Base Closure Account estab-
lished by section 207(a)(1) of the Defense Authorization 
Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (10 
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U.S.C. 2687 note) pursuant to section 207(a)(2)(C) of such 
Act, may be transferred to the account established by section 
2906(a)(1) of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment 
Act of 1990 (10 U.S.C. 2687 note), to be merged with, and 
to be available for the same purposes and the same time 
period as that account. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 119. Subject to 30 days prior notification, or 14 
days for a notification provided in an electronic medium 
pursuant to sections 480 and 2883, of title 10, United 
States Code, to the Committees on Appropriations of both 
Houses of Congress, such additional amounts as may be de-
termined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred 
to: 
(1) the Department of Defense Family Housing 
Improvement Fund from amounts appropriated for 
construction in ‘‘Family Housing’’ accounts, to be 
merged with and to be available for the same purposes 
and for the same period of time as amounts appro-
priated directly to the Fund; or 
(2) the Department of Defense Military Unac-
companied 
Housing 
Improvement 
Fund 
from 
amounts appropriated for construction of military 
unaccompanied housing in ‘‘Military Construction’’ 
accounts, to be merged with and to be available for 
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the same purposes and for the same period of time as 
amounts appropriated directly to the Fund: Provided, 
That appropriations made available to the Funds 
shall be available to cover the costs, as defined in sec-
tion 502(5) of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, 
of direct loans or loan guarantees issued by the De-
partment of Defense pursuant to the provisions of 
subchapter IV of chapter 169 of title 10, United 
States Code, pertaining to alternative means of ac-
quiring and improving military family housing, 
military unaccompanied housing, and supporting fa-
cilities. 
SEC. 120. (a) Not later than 60 days before issuing 
any solicitation for a contract with the private sector for 
military family housing the Secretary of the military de-
partment concerned shall submit to the Committees on Ap-
propriations of both Houses of Congress the notice described 
in subsection (b). 
(b)(1) A notice referred to in subsection (a) is a notice 
of any guarantee (including the making of mortgage or 
rental payments) proposed to be made by the Secretary to 
the private party under the contract involved in the event 
of— 
(A) the closure or realignment of the installation 
for which housing is provided under the contract; 
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section, and the projects so supported shall be considered 
to be authorized by law. 
SEC. 128. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this title may be obligated or expended 
for a permanent United States Africa Command head-
quarters outside of the United States until the Secretary 
of Defense provides the congressional defense committees an 
analysis of all military construction costs associated with 
establishing a permanent location overseas versus in the 
United States. 
SEC. 129. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available by this title may be obligated or expended 
on a military construction project at Grafenwohr, Ger-
many, or Baumholder, Germany, until the Secretary of the 
Army submits to Congress, in writing, a report on installa-
tions and properties in Germany that the Army intends 
to return to the host nation, including— 
(1) intended timelines for closures along with the 
list of military construction projects required at other 
installations to facilitate the downsizing and consoli-
dation of Army forces in Germany; 
(2) an identification of the brigade combat team 
that will be withdrawn from Germany; and 
(3) an estimate of costs (including operation and 
maintenance costs and military construction costs) to 
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be incurred during fiscal years 2012 through 2015 in 
connection with keeping the brigade identified in Ger-
many through September 30, 2015 versus stationing 
a similar brigade in the United States. 
SEC. 130. No later than 90 days after enactment of 
this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall report to the congres-
sional defense committees of the Senate and the House of 
Representatives on the status and improvement plan for all 
DODEA schools with an overall condition rating of Q3 
(poor) or Q4 (failing) as identified in the October 2009 Re-
port to Congress on Department of Defense Education Ac-
tivity’s Military Construction Program. 
TITLE II 
DEPARTMENT OF VETERANS AFFAIRS 
VETERANS BENEFITS ADMINISTRATION 
COMPENSATION AND PENSIONS 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the payment of compensation benefits to or on be-
half of veterans and a pilot program for disability examina-
tions as authorized by section 107 and chapters 11, 13, 18, 
51, 53, 55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code; pension 
benefits to or on behalf of veterans as authorized by chapters 
15, 51, 53, 55, and 61 of title 38, United States Code; and 
burial benefits, the Reinstated Entitlement Program for 
Survivors, emergency and other officers’ retirement pay, ad-
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or providing facilities in the several hospitals and homes 
under the jurisdiction of the Department, not otherwise pro-
vided for, either by contract or by the hire of temporary 
employees and purchase of materials; for leases of facilities; 
and for laundry services, $5,441,000,000, plus reimburse-
ments, shall become available on October 1, 2012, and shall 
remain available until September 30, 2013. 
MEDICAL AND PROSTHETIC RESEARCH 
For necessary expenses in carrying out programs of 
medical and prosthetic research and development as author-
ized by chapter 73 of title 38, United States Code, 
$581,000,000, plus reimbursements, shall remain available 
until September 30, 2013. 
NATIONAL CEMETERY ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary expenses of the National Cemetery Ad-
ministration for operations and maintenance, not otherwise 
provided for, including uniforms or allowances therefor; 
cemeterial expenses as authorized by law; purchase of one 
passenger motor vehicle for use in cemeterial operations; 
hire of passenger motor vehicles; and repair, alteration or 
improvement of facilities under the jurisdiction of the Na-
tional Cemetery Administration, $250,934,000, of which 
not to exceed $25,100,000 shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2013. 
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DEPARTMENTAL ADMINISTRATION 
GENERAL ADMINISTRATION 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary operating expenses of the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, not otherwise provided for, including ad-
ministrative expenses in support of Department-Wide cap-
ital planning, management and policy activities, uniforms, 
or allowances therefor; not to exceed $25,000 for official re-
ception and representation expenses; hire of passenger 
motor vehicles; and reimbursement of the General Services 
Administration for security guard services, $431,257,000, 
of which not to exceed $21,562,000 shall remain available 
until September 30, 2013: Provided, That $15,000,000 shall 
be to increase the Department’s acquisition workforce ca-
pacity and capabilities and may be transferred by the Sec-
retary to any other account in the Department to carry out 
the purposes provided therein: Provided further, That funds 
provided under this heading may be transferred to ‘‘General 
operating expenses, Veterans Benefits Administration’’. 
GENERAL OPERATING EXPENSES, VETERANS BENEFITS 
ADMINISTRATION 
For necessary operating expenses of the Veterans Bene-
fits Administration, not otherwise provided for, including 
hire of passenger motor vehicles, and reimbursement of the 
Department of Defense for the cost of overseas employee 
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ment of Veterans Affairs may be used in a manner that 
is inconsistent with— 
(1) section 842 of the Transportation, Treasury, 
Housing and Urban Development, the Judiciary, the 
District of Columbia, and Independent Agencies Ap-
propriations Act, 2006 (Public Law 109–115; 119 
Stat. 2506); or 
(2) section 8110(a)(5) of title 38, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 223. Of the amounts made available to the De-
partment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2012, in this 
Act or any other Act, under the ‘‘Medical facilities’’ account 
for nonrecurring maintenance, not more than 20 percent 
of the funds made available shall be obligated during the 
last 2 months of that fiscal year: Provided, That the Sec-
retary may waive this requirement after providing written 
notice to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses 
of Congress. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 224. Of the amounts appropriated to the Depart-
ment of Veterans Affairs for fiscal year 2011 for ‘‘Medical 
services’’, ‘‘Medical support and compliance’’, ‘‘Medical fa-
cilities’’, ‘‘Construction, minor projects’’, and ‘‘Information 
technology systems’’, up to $241,666,000, plus reimburse-
ments, may be transferred to the Joint Department of De-
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fense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility 
Demonstration Fund, established by section 1704 of title 
XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 3571) and may 
be used for operation of the facilities designated as combined 
Federal medical facilities as described by section 706 of the 
Duncan Hunter National Defense Authorization Act for 
Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 4500): 
Provided, That additional funds may be transferred from 
accounts designated in this section to the Joint Department 
of Defense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility 
Demonstration Fund upon written notification by the Sec-
retary of Veterans Affairs to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of both Houses of Congress. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 225. Such sums as may be deposited to the Med-
ical Care Collections Fund pursuant to section 1729A of 
title 38, United States Code, for healthcare provided at fa-
cilities designated as combined Federal medical facilities as 
described by section 706 of the Duncan Hunter National 
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public 
Law 110–417; 122 Stat. 4500) shall also be available: 
(1) for transfer to the Joint Department of De-
fense-Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Facility 
Demonstration Fund, established by section 1704 of 
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title XVII of the National Defense Authorization Act 
for Fiscal Year 2010 (Public Law 111–84; 123 Stat. 
3571); and 
(2) for operations of the facilities designated as 
combined Federal medical facilities as described by 
section 706 of the Duncan Hunter National Defense 
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009 (Public Law 
110–417; 122 Stat. 4500). 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 226. Of the amounts available in this title for 
‘‘Medical services’’, ‘‘Medical support and compliance’’, and 
‘‘Medical facilities’’, a minimum of $15,000,000, shall be 
transferred to the Department of Defense/Department of 
Veterans Affairs Health Care Sharing Incentive Fund, as 
authorized by section 8111(d) of title 38, United States 
Code, to remain available until expended, for any purpose 
authorized by section 8111 of title 38, United States Code. 
(INCLUDING RESCISSION OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 227. (a) Of the funds appropriated in title X of 
division B of Public Law 112–10, the following amounts 
which will become available on October 1, 2011, are hereby 
rescinded from the following accounts in the amounts speci-
fied: 
(1) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical 
services’’, $1,400,000,000. 
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(2) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical 
support and compliance’’, $100,000,000. 
(3) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical fa-
cilities’’, $250,000,000. 
(b) In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in this 
Act, an additional amount is appropriated to the following 
accounts in the amounts specified, to become available on 
October 1, 2011, and to remain available until September 
30, 2013: 
(1) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical 
services’’, $1,400,000,000. 
(2) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical 
support and compliance’’, $100,000,000. 
(3) ‘‘Department of Veterans Affairs, Medical fa-
cilities’’, $250,000,000. 
SEC. 228. The Secretary of the Department of Veterans 
Affairs shall notify the Committees on Appropriations of 
both Houses of Congress of all bid savings in major con-
struction projects that total at least $5,000,000, or 5 percent 
of the programmed amount of the project, whichever is less: 
Provided, That such notification shall occur within 14 days 
of a contract identifying the programmed amount: Provided 
further, That the Secretary shall notify the committees 14 
days prior to the obligation of such bid savings and shall 
describe the anticipated use of such savings. 
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SEC. 229. The scope of work for a project included in 
‘‘Construction, major projects’’ may not be increased above 
the scope specified for that project in the original justifica-
tion data provided to the Congress as part of the request 
for appropriations. 
SEC. 230. (a) Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Af-
fairs, in coordination with the Defense Advanced Research 
Projects Agency (DARPA), shall submit to the Committee 
on Appropriations, the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs, and 
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 
Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on Veterans’ 
Affairs, and the Committee on Armed Services of the House 
of Representatives a report, in writing, on the plans of the 
Secretary to make available to injured members of the 
Armed Forces and veterans the next generation of advanced 
prosthetics. 
(b) The report required by subsection (a) shall include 
the following: 
(1) Details of the strategic plan and timetable of 
the Secretary to make available to injured members of 
the Armed Forces and veterans the next generation of 
advanced prosthetics 
(2) A description of the challenges, both technical 
and administrative, that could delay injured members 
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of the Armed Forces and veterans access to prosthetics 
described in paragraph (1). 
(3) The plans of the Secretary to address these 
challenges described under paragraph (2). 
TITLE III 
RELATED AGENCIES 
AMERICAN BATTLE MONUMENTS COMMISSION 
SALARIES AND EXPENSES 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of 
the American Battle Monuments Commission, including the 
acquisition of land or interest in land in foreign countries; 
purchases and repair of uniforms for caretakers of national 
cemeteries and monuments outside of the United States and 
its territories and possessions; rent of office and garage 
space in foreign countries; purchase (one-for-one replace-
ment basis only) and hire of passenger motor vehicles; not 
to exceed $7,500 for official reception and representation 
expenses; and insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign 
countries, when required by law of such countries, 
$61,100,000, to remain available until expended. 
FOREIGN CURRENCY FLUCTUATIONS ACCOUNT 
For necessary expenses, not otherwise provided for, of 
the American Battle Monuments Commission, such sums as 
may be necessary, to remain available until expended, for 
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