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(g) DEFINITIONS.—For the purposes of this section:
(1) The term ‘‘information technology’’ has the meaning
given that term in section 5002 of the Clinger-Cohen Act of
1996 (40 U.S.C. 1401).
(2) The term ‘‘national security system’’ has the meaning
given that term in section 5142 of such Act (40 U.S.C. 1452).
(3) The term ‘‘mission critical system’’ means an informa-
tion technology or national security system that is designated
as mission critical in the May 1998 Department of Defense
quarterly report on the status of year 2000 compliance.
SEC. 8118. During the current fiscal year and hereafter, no
funds appropriated or otherwise available to the Department of
Defense may be used to award a contract to, extend a contract
with, or approve the award of a subcontract to any person who
within the preceding 15 years has been convicted under section
704 of title 18, United States Code, of the unlawful manufacture
or sale of the Congressional Medal of Honor.
SEC. 8119. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of
Representatives a report on food stamp assistance for members
of the Armed Forces. The Secretary shall submit the report at
the same time that the Secretary submits to Congress, in support
of the fiscal year 2001 budget, the materials that relate to the
funding provided in that budget for the Department of Defense.
(b) The report shall include the following:
(1) The number of members of the Armed Forces and
dependents of members of the Armed Forces who are eligible
for food stamps.
(2) The number of members of the Armed Forces and
dependents of members of the Armed Forces who received
food stamps in fiscal year 1998.
(3) A proposal for using, as a means for eliminating or
reducing significantly the need of such personnel for food
stamps, the authority under section 2828 of title 10, United
States Code, to lease housing facilities for enlisted members
of the Armed Forces and their families when Government quar-
ters are not available for such personnel.
(4) A proposal for increased locality adjustments through
the basic allowance for housing and other methods as a means
for eliminating or reducing significantly the need of such
personnel for food stamps.
(5) Other potential alternative actions (including any rec-
ommended legislation) for eliminating or reducing significantly
the need of such personnel for food stamps.
(6) A discussion of the potential for each alternative action
referred to in paragraph (3) or (4) to result in the elimination
or a significant reduction in the need of such personnel for
food stamps.
(c) Each potential alternative action included in the report
under paragraph (3) or (4) of subsection (b) shall meet the following
requirements:
(1) Apply only to persons referred to in paragraph (1)
of such subsection.
(2) Be limited in cost to the lowest amount feasible to
achieve the objectives.
(d) In this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘fiscal year 2001 budget’’ means the budget
for fiscal year 2001 that the President submits to Congress
under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code.
(2) The term ‘‘food stamps’’ means assistance under the
Food Stamp Act of 1977 (7 U.S.C. 2011 et seq.).
SEC. 8120. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made
available by this Act in titles III and IV may be used to enter
into or renew a contract with any company owned, or partially
owned, by the People’s Republic of China or the People’s Liberation
Army of the People’s Republic of China.
SEC. 8121. (a) Chapter 157 of title 10, United States Code,
is amended by inserting after section 2641 the following:
‘‘§ 2641a. Transportation of American Samoa veterans on
Department of Defense aircraft for certain medi-
cal care in Hawaii
‘‘(a) TRANSPORTATION AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of Defense
may provide transportation on Department of Defense aircraft for
the purpose of transporting any veteran specified in subsection
(b) between American Samoa and the State of Hawaii if such
transportation is required in order to provide hospital care to such
veteran as described in that subsection.
‘‘(b) VETERANS ELIGIBLE FOR TRANSPORT.—A veteran eligible
for transport under subsection (a) is any veteran who—
‘‘(1) resides in and is located in American Samoa; and
‘‘(2) as determined by an official of the Department of
Veterans Affairs designated for that purpose by the Secretary
of Veterans Affairs, must be transported to the State of Hawaii
in order to receive hospital care to which such veteran is
entitled under chapter 17 of title 38, United States Code, in
facilities of such Department in the State of Hawaii.
‘‘(c) ADMINISTRATION.—(1) Transportation may be provided to
veterans under this section only on a space-available basis.
‘‘(2) A charge may not be imposed on a veteran for transpor-
tation provided to the veteran under this section.
‘‘(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘veteran’ has the meaning given that term
in section 101(2) of title 38, United States Code.
‘‘(2) The term ‘hospital care’ has the meaning given that
term in section 1701(5) of title 38, United States Code.’’.
(b) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 157 of
such title is amended by inserting after the item relating to section
2641 the following new item:
‘‘2641a. Transportation of American Samoa veterans on Department of Defense air-
craft for certain medical care in Hawaii.’’.
SEC. 8122. ADDITIONAL FUNDING FOR KOREAN WAR VETERANS
MEMORIAL. Section 3 of Public Law 99–572 (40 U.S.C. 1003 note)
is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(c) ADDITIONAL FUNDING.—
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—In addition to amounts made available
under subsections (a) and (b), the Secretary of the Army may
expend, from any funds available to the Secretary on the date
of the enactment of this paragraph, $2,000,000 for repair of
the memorial.
‘‘(2) DISPOSITION OF FUNDS RECEIVED FROM CLAIMS.—Any
funds received by the Secretary of the Army as a result of
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any claim against a contractor in connection with construction
of the memorial shall be deposited in the general fund of
the Treasury.’’.
SEC. 8123. Of the funds available under title VI for ‘‘Chemical
Agents and Munitions Destruction, Army’’ for research and develop-
ment, $18,000,000 shall be made available for the program manager
for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment (under section
8065 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997) for
demonstrations of technologies under the Assembled Chemical
Weapons Assessment, for planning and preparation to proceed from
demonstration of an alternative technology immediately into the
development of a pilot-scale facility for the technology, and for
the design, construction, and operation of a pilot facility for the
technology.
SEC. 8124. The Secretary of the Navy may carry out a competi-
tively awarded vessel scrapping pilot program during fiscal years
1999 and 2000 using funds made available in this Act under the
heading ‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Navy’’: Provided, That the
Secretary of the Navy shall define the program scope sufficient
to gather data on the cost of scrapping Government vessels and
to demonstrate cost-effective technologies and techniques to scrap
such vessels in a manner that is protective of worker safety and
health and the environment.
SEC. 8125. From within the funds provided under the heading
‘‘Operation and Maintenance, Army’’, up to $500,000 shall be avail-
able for paying subcontractors and suppliers for work performed
at Fort Wainwright, Alaska, in 1994, under Army services contract
number DACA85–93–C–0065. Subcontractors and suppliers are to
be paid interest calculated in accordance with the Contract Dispute
Act of 1978 (41 U.S.C. 601–613).
SEC. 8126. (a) The Secretary of the Army and the Secretary
of the Air Force may each enter into one or more multiyear leases
of nontactical firefighting equipment, nontactical crash rescue
equipment, or nontactical snow removal equipment. The period
of a lease entered into under this section shall be for any period
not in excess of 10 years. Any such lease shall provide that perform-
ance under the lease during the second and subsequent years
of the contract is contingent upon the appropriation of funds and
shall provide for a cancellation payment to be made to the lessor
if such appropriations are not made.
(b) Lease payments made under subsection (a) shall be made
from amounts provided in this or future appropriations Acts.
(c) This section is effective for all fiscal years beginning after
September 30, 1998.
SEC. 8127. From within funds available for the Department
of Defense under title VI of this Act for ‘‘Chemical Agents and
Munitions Destruction, Army’’, or the unobligated balances of funds
available for ‘‘Chemical Agents and Munitions Destruction,
Defense’’, under any other Act making appropriations for military
functions administered by the Department of Defense for any fiscal
year, the Secretary of Defense may use not more than $25,000,000
for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment to complete the
demonstration of alternatives to baseline incineration for the
destruction of chemical agents and munitions and to carry out
the pilot program under section 8065 of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 1997 (section 101(b) of Public Law 104–208;
110 Stat. 3009–101; 50 U.S.C. 1521 note). The amount specified
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in the preceding sentence is in addition to any other amount that
is made available under title VI of this Act to complete the dem-
onstration of the alternatives and to carry out the pilot program:
Provided, That none of these funds shall be taken from any ongoing
operational chemical munitions destruction programs.
SEC. 8128. (a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that—
(1) child experts estimate that as many as 250,000 children
under the age of 18 are currently serving in armed forces
or armed groups in more than 30 countries around the world;
(2) contemporary armed conflict has caused the deaths
of 2,000,000 minors in the last decade alone, and has left
an estimated 6,000,000 children seriously injured or perma-
nently disabled;
(3) children are uniquely vulnerable to military recruitment
because of their emotional and physical immaturity, are easily
manipulated, and can be drawn into violence that they are
too young to resist or understand;
(4) children are most likely to become child soldiers if
they are poor, separated from their families, displaced from
their homes, living in a combat zone, or have limited access
to education;
(5) orphans and refugees are particularly vulnerable to
recruitment;
(6) one of the most egregious examples of the use of child
soldiers is the abduction of some 10,000 children, some as
young as 8 years of age, by the Lord’s Resistance Army (in
this section referred to as the ‘‘LRA’’) in northern Uganda;
(7) the Department of State’s Country Reports on Human
Rights Practices for 1997 reports that in Uganda the LRA
kills, maims, and rapes large numbers of civilians, and forces
abducted children into ‘‘virtual slavery as guards, concubines,
and soldiers’’;
(8) children abducted by the LRA are forced to raid and
loot villages, fight in the front line of battle against the Ugan-
dan army and the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA),
serve as sexual slaves to rebel commanders, and participate
in the killing of other children who try to escape;
(9) former LRA child captives report witnessing Sudanese
government soldiers delivering food supplies, vehicles, ammuni-
tion, and arms to LRA base camps in government-controlled
southern Sudan;
(10) children who manage to escape from LRA captivity
have little access to trauma care and rehabilitation programs,
and many find their families displaced, unlocatable, dead, or
fearful of having their children return home;
(11) Graca Machel, the former United Nations expert on
the impact of armed conflict on children, identified the imme-
diate demobilization of all child soldiers as an urgent priority,
and recommended the establishment through an optional proto-
col to the Convention on the Rights of the Child of 18 as
the minimum age for recruitment and participation in armed
forces; and
(12) the International Committee of the Red Cross, the
United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), the United Nations
High Commission on Refugees, and the United Nations High
Commissioner on Human Rights, as well as many nongovern-
mental organizations, also support the establishment of 18