purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for the
blind or other severely handicapped.
(c) For the purpose of this section, the phrase ‘‘quali-
fied nonprofit agency for the blind or other severely handi-
capped’’ means a nonprofit agency for the blind or other
severely handicapped that has been approved by the Com-
mittee for the Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely
Handicapped under the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act (41
U.S.C. 46–48).
SEC. 8028. During the current fiscal year, net re-
ceipts pursuant to collections from third party payers pur-
suant to section 1095 of title 10, United States Code, shall
be made available to the local facility of the uniformed
services responsible for the collections and shall be over
and above the facility’s direct budget amount.
SEC. 8029. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of
not to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in sec-
tion 2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipa-
tion of receipt of contributions, only from the Government
of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, That, upon re-
ceipt, such contributions from the Government of Kuwait
shall be credited to the appropriations or fund which in-
curred such obligations.
SEC. 8030. Of the funds made available in this Act,
not less than $27,200,000 shall be available for the Civil
Air Patrol, of which $22,702,000 shall be available for Op-
eration and maintenance.
SEC. 8031. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this
Act are available to establish a new Department of De-
fense (department) federally funded research and develop-
ment center (FFRDC), either as a new entity, or as a
separate entity administrated by an organization manag-
ing another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit membership cor-
poration consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs and
other non-profit entities.
(b) LIMITATION ON COMPENSATION.—No member of
a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, Advisory
Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any
similar entity of a defense FFRDC, and no paid consult-
ant to any defense FFRDC, may be compensated for his
or her services as a member of such entity, or as a paid
consultant, except under the same conditions, and to the
same extent, as members of the Defense Science Board:
Provided, That a member of any such entity referred to
previously in this subsection shall be allowed travel ex-
penses and per diem as authorized under the Federal
Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the perform-
ance of membership duties.
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none
of the funds available to the department from any source
during fiscal year 1998 may be used by a defense FFRDC,
through a fee or other payment mechanism, for charitable
contributions, for construction of new buildings, for pay-
ment of cost sharing for projects funded by government
grants, or for absorption of contract overruns.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary of Defense shall reduce the total amounts ap-
propriated in titles II, III, and IV of this Act by
$55,000,000: Provided, That the total amounts appro-
priated in titles II, III, and IV of this Act are hereby re-
duced by $55,000,000 to reflect savings from the use of
defense FFRDCs by the Department.
(e) Within 60 days after enactment of this Act, the
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional de-
fense committees a report presenting the specific amounts
of staff years of technical effort to be allocated by the de-
partment for each defense FFRDC during fiscal year
1998: Provided, That, after the submission of the report
required by this subsection, the department may not re-
allocate more than five percent of an FFRDC’s staff years
among other defense FFRDCs until 30 days after a de-
tailed justification for any such reallocation is submitted
to the congressional defense committees.
(f) The Secretary of Defense shall, with the submis-
sion of the department’s fiscal year 1999 budget request,
submit a report presenting the specific amounts of staff
years of technical effort to be allocated for each defense
FFRDC during that fiscal year.
(g) The total amounts appropriated to or for the use
of the department in title II of this Act are hereby further
reduced by $86,300,000 to reflect savings from the de-
creased use of non-FFRDC consulting services by the de-
partment.
(h) No part of the reductions contained in subsections
(d) and (g) of this section may be applied against any
budget activity, activity group, subactivity group, line
item, program element, program, project, subproject or ac-
tivity which does not fund defense FFRDC activities or
non-FFRDC consulting services within each appropriation
account.
(i) Not later than 90 days after enactment of this
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congres-
sional defense committees a report listing the specific
funding reductions allocated to each category listed in sub-
section (h) above pursuant to this section.
SEC. 8032. None of the funds appropriated or made
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned fa-
cility or property under the control of the Department of
Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United
States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re-
strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class
9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM)
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications
of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further,
That the Secretary of the military department responsible
for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case-
by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available
to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order
to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro-
vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to
contracts which are in being as of the date of enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 8033. For the purposes of this Act, the term
‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the National
Security Committee of the House of Representatives, the
Armed Services Committee of the Senate, the subcommit-
tee on Defense of the Committee on Appropriations of the
Senate, and the subcommittee on National Security of the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives.
SEC. 8034. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense may acquire the modification, depot
maintenance and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels
as well as the production of components and other De-
fense-related articles, through competition between De-
partment of Defense depot maintenance activities and pri-
vate firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Execu-
tive of the military department or defense agency con-
cerned, with power of delegation, shall certify that success-
ful bids include comparable estimates of all direct and in-
direct costs for both public and private bids: Provided fur-
ther, That Office of Management and Budget Circular A–
76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under this
section.
SEC. 8035. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after
consultation with the United States Trade Representative,
determines that a foreign country which is party to an
agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the
terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain
types of products produced in the United States that are
covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall
rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer-