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105TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1832
To achieve budgetary savings by terminating or limiting certain Department
of Defense programs, by reducing the scope of the Stockpile Stewardship
Program of the Department of Energy, and by reducing arms transfer
subsidies.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
JUNE 6, 1997
Ms. FURSE introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee
on National Security, and in addition to the Committee on International
Relations, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in
each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of the committee concerned
A BILL
To achieve budgetary savings by terminating or limiting cer-
tain Department of Defense programs, by reducing the
scope of the Stockpile Stewardship Program of the De-
partment of Energy, and by reducing arms transfer sub-
sidies.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. TERMINATION OF NAVY F/A–18E/F AIRCRAFT
PROGRAM.
No funds may be appropriated to the Department of
Defense for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation or for procure-
ment for the Navy F/A–18E/F aircraft program.
SEC. 2. TERMINATION OF THE MARINE CORPS V–22 OSPREY
AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.
No funds may be appropriated to the Department of
Defense for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation or for procure-
ment for the Marine Corps V–22 Osprey aircraft program.
SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF THE AIR FORCE F–22 AIRCRAFT
PROGRAM.
No funds may be appropriated to the Department of
Defense for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation, for procure-
ment, or for military construction for the Air Force F–
22 aircraft program.
SEC. 4. TERMINATION OF PRODUCTION OF TRIDENT II (D–
5) MISSILES AND RETIREMENT OF TRIDENT I
SUBMARINES.
(a) TERMINATION OF TRIDENT II MISSILE PRODUC-
TION.—No funds may be appropriated to the Department
of Defense for any fiscal year after fiscal year 1997 for
production of Trident II (D–5) missiles for the Depart-
ment of the Navy.
(b) RETIREMENT OF TRIDENT I SUBMARINES.—The
Secretary of Defense shall retire eight Trident I sub-
marines during fiscal years 2000 through 2003.
SEC. 5. LIMITATION ON PROCUREMENT OF C–17 AIRCRAFT.
The Secretary of the Air Force may not procure more
than eight C–17 aircraft in each of fiscal years 1998,
1999, and 2000.
SEC. 6. REDUCTION OF NUCLEAR DELIVERY SYSTEMS.
The Secretary of Defense shall reduce the strategic
nuclear force of the Department of Defense by fiscal year
2003 to include a maximum number of 300 Minuteman
III intercontinental ballistic missiles.
SEC. 7. REDUCTION IN THEATER MISSILE DEFENSE PRO-
GRAMS.
(a) TERMINATION OF PROGRAMS.—The Secretary of
Defense shall reduce theater missile defense programs by
terminating development of—
(1) the Navy sea-based area theater missile de-
fense system;
(2) the Army Medium Extended Air Defense
System (MEADS);
(3) the Air Force airborne laser for destruction
of missiles system; and
(4) the Space and Missile Tracking System
(Brilliant Eyes).
(b) PROHIBITION ON FUNDING FOR DEVELOPMENT
OF ARROW MISSILE FOR ISRAEL.—No funds may be ap-
propriated to the Department of Defense for any fiscal
year after fiscal year 1997 to provide assistance to Israel
for development of the Arrow missile.
SEC. 8. REDUCTION IN SCOPE OF DEPARTMENT OF EN-
ERGY STOCKPILE STEWARDSHIP PROGRAM.
The Secretary of Energy shall reduce activities under
the Stockpile Stewardship Program so as to achieve sav-
ings of not less than $730,000,000 during fiscal years
1998 through 2002 by—
(1) consolidating the activities of the Los Ala-
mos National Laboratory and the Lawrence Liver-
more National Laboratory;
(2) terminating testing activities at the Nevada
Test Site; and
(3) canceling the development of a tritium pro-
duction accelerator reactor.
SEC. 9. REDUCTION IN ARMS TRANSFER SUBSIDIES.
(a) RECOUPMENT
OF
FEES
FOR
COMMERCIAL
SALES.—Section 38 of the Arms Export Control Act (22
U.S.C. 2778) is amended by adding at the end the follow-
ing new subsection:
‘‘(i)(1) Any sale involving the export of major defense
equipment pursuant to a license or other approval granted
under this section shall include an appropriate charge for
a proportionate amount of the nonrecurring costs incurred
by the United States in the research, development, and
production of such equipment. Such charge shall be com-
parable to the charge imposed pursuant to section
21(e)(1)(B) of this Act relating to government-to-govern-
ment sales of major defense equipment.
‘‘(2) The charge provided for in paragraph (1) shall
not apply with respect to major defense equipment that
is paid for from funds transferred under section 503(a)(3)
of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C.
2311(a)(3)) or from funds made available on a grant or
other non repayable basis under section 23 of this Act.’’.
(b) RECOVERY OF ADMINISTRATIVE EXPENSES.—
Section 43(b) of the Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C.
2792(b)) is amended—
(1) by adding ‘‘and’’ at the end of paragraph
(1);
(2) by striking ‘‘; and’’ at the end of paragraph
(2) and inserting a period; and
(3) by striking paragraph (3).
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