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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. R. 5129
To provide for a reduction in the number of members of the Armed Forces
of the United States stationed in Europe unless the European member
nations of NATO assume an increased share of the nonpersonnel costs
of United States military installations in those nations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 29, 1994
Mr. BARCA of Wisconsin introduced the following bill; which was referred
jointly to the Committees on Armed Services and Foreign Affairs
A BILL
To provide for a reduction in the number of members of
the Armed Forces of the United States stationed in
Europe unless the European member nations of NATO
assume an increased share of the nonpersonnel costs
of United States military installations in those nations.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. REDUCTION OF UNITED STATES MILITARY
FORCES IN EUROPE.
(a) END STRENGTH REDUCTIONS
FOR MILITARY
PERSONNEL
IN
EUROPE.—Notwithstanding 
section
1002(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act,
1985 (22 U.S.C. 1928 note), but subject to subsection (d),
for each of the fiscal years 1996, 1997, 1998, and 1999,
the Secretary of Defense shall reduce the European end
strength level of members of the Armed Forces in accord-
ance with subsection (b).
(b) REDUCTION FORMULA.—
(1) APPLICATION OF FORMULA.—If the allied
contribution level determined under paragraph (2)
for a fiscal year is below the goal specified in sub-
section (c) applicable to that fiscal year, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall reduce the European end
strength level of members of the Armed Forces by
10 percent in equal installments over the next four
fiscal years. The 10-percent reduction shall be made
from the end strength level in effect pursuant to sec-
tion 1002(c)(1) of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act, 1985 (22 U.S.C. 1928 note), as modified
by operation of this section, for the fiscal year in
which the Secretary determines that such reduction
is required.
(2) ALLIED CONTRIBUTION LEVEL.—To deter-
mine the allied contribution level with respect to a
fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall calculate
the aggregate amount of nonpersonnel costs for
United States military installations in European
member nations of NATO that are assumed during
that fiscal year by such nations, except that the Sec-
retary may consider only those cash and in-kind con-
tributions by such nations that replace expenditures
that would otherwise be made by the Secretary using
funds appropriated or otherwise made available in
defense appropriations Acts.
(3) TERMINATION OF REDUCTIONS.— The Sec-
retary shall cease making the reduction required by
paragraph (1) for a fiscal year if the allied contribu-
tion level is equal to or above the goal specified in
subsection (c) applicable to that fiscal year.
(c) ANNUAL GOALS FOR FORCE REDUCTION.—In
continuing efforts to enter into revised host-nation agree-
ments as described in section 1301(e) of National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102–
484; 106 Stat. 2545) and section 1401(c) of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public
Law 103–160; 107 Stat. 1824), the President is urged
to seek to have European member nations of NATO as-
sume an increased share of the nonpersonnel costs of
United States military installations in those nations in ac-
cordance with the following timetable:
(1) By September 30, 1995, 15 percent of such
costs should be assumed by those nations.
(2) By September 30, 1996, 30 percent of such
costs should be assumed by those nations.
(3) By September 30, 1997, 40 percent of such
costs should be assumed by those nations.
(4) By September 30, 1998, 50 percent of such
costs should be assumed by those nations.
(d) EXCEPTIONS.—
(1) MINIMUM
END
STRENGTH
AUTHORITY.—
Notwithstanding reductions required pursuant to
subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense may main-
tain a European end strength level of members of
the Armed Forces of at least 25,000 members of the
Armed Forces.
(2) WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The President or the
Secretary of Defense may waive operation of this
section in the case of a significant threat to national
security, as determined by the President or the Sec-
retary. The President or the Secretary shall imme-
diately inform Congress of the waiver and the rea-
sons for the waiver.
(e) ALLOCATION OF FORCE REDUCTIONS.—To the
extent that there is a reduction in the European end
strength level of members of the Armed Forces in a fiscal
year pursuant to subsection (a)—
(1) half of the reduction shall be used to make
a corresponding reduction in the authorized end
strength level for active duty personnel for such
Armed Force for that fiscal year; and
(2) half of the reduction shall be used to make
a corresponding increase in permanent assignments
or deployments of forces in the United States or
other nations (other than European member nations
of NATO) for each such Armed Force for that fiscal
year, as determined by the Secretary of Defense.
(f) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section:
(1) The term ‘‘European end strength level of
members of the Armed Forces’’ means the end
strength level of members of the Armed Forces of
the United States assigned to permanent duty
ashore in European member nations of the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization.
(2) The term ‘‘nonpersonnel costs’’, with re-
spect to United States military installations in Euro-
pean member nations of NATO, means costs for
those installations other than costs paid from mili-
tary personnel accounts.
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