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(e) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage and legal 
description of the real property to be conveyed under subsection 
(a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary. 
(f) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary may 
require such additional terms and conditions in connection with 
the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary considers 
appropriate to protect the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 2863. LAND CONVEYANCE, AIR FORCE PROPERTY, LA JUNTA, 
COLORADO. 
(a) CONVEYANCE AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary of the Air Force 
may convey, without consideration, to the City of La Junta, Colorado 
(in this section referred to as the ‘‘City’’), all right, title, and interest 
of the United States in and to a parcel of real property, including 
improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 8 acres located 
at the USA Bomb Plot in the La Junta Industrial Park for the 
purpose of training local law enforcement officers. 
(b) PAYMENT OF COSTS OF CONVEYANCE.—
(1) PAYMENT REQUIRED.—The Secretary shall require the 
City to cover costs to be incurred by the Secretary after the 
date of enactment of the Act, or to reimburse the Secretary 
for costs incurred by the Secretary after that date, to carry 
out the conveyance under subsection (a), including any survey 
costs, costs related to environmental assessments, studies, anal-
yses, or other documentation, and other administrative costs 
related to the conveyance. If amounts are collected from the 
City in advance of the Secretary incurring the actual costs, 
and the amount collected exceeds the costs actually incurred 
by the Secretary to carry out the conveyance, the Secretary 
shall refund the excess amount to the City. 
(2) TREATMENT OF AMOUNTS RECEIVED.—Amounts received 
as reimbursement under paragraph (1) shall be credited to 
the fund or account that was used to cover the costs incurred 
by the Secretary in carrying out the conveyance. Amounts 
so credited shall be merged with amounts in such fund or 
account, and shall be available for the same purposes, and 
subject to the same conditions and limitations, as amounts 
in such fund or account. 
(c) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage and legal 
description of the property to be conveyed under subsection (a) 
shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary. 
(d) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary may 
require such additional terms and conditions in connection with 
the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary considers 
appropriate to protect the interests of the United States. 
SEC. 2864. LEASE, NATIONAL IMAGERY AND MAPPING AGENCY SITE, 
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. 
(a) LEASE REQUIRED.—Not later than February 28, 2006, the 
Secretary of the Air Force shall lease to the St. Louis County 
Port Authority of St. Louis County, Missouri (in this section referred 
to as the ‘‘Port District’’), a parcel of real property, including 
improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 39 acres and 
known as the National Imagery and Mapping Agency site at 8900 
South Broadway, St. Louis, Missouri, for the purpose of permitting 
the Port District to use the parcel for economic development pur-
poses. The Secretary shall carry out this section in consultation 
with the Administrator of the General Services Administration.
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(b) RENTAL PRICE.—The real property to be leased under sub-
section (a) shall be leased at a rate equal to not less than the 
fair market value of the property. 
(c) DESCRIPTION OF PROPERTY.—The exact acreage and legal 
description of the real property to be leased under subsection (a) 
shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the Secretary of 
the Air Force and the Port District. 
(d) ADDITIONAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS.—The Secretary may 
require such additional terms and conditions in connection with 
the lease under subsection (a) as the Secretary considers appro-
priate to protect the interests of the United States. 
Subtitle E—Other Matters 
SEC. 2871. CLARIFICATION OF MORATORIUM ON CERTAIN IMPROVE-
MENTS AT FORT BUCHANAN, PUERTO RICO. 
(a) CLARIFICATION OF AND EXCEPTIONS TO MORATORIUM.—Sec-
tion 1507 of the Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2001 (as enacted into law by Public Law 106–
398; 114 Stat. 1654A–355) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a), by striking ‘‘conversion, rehabilitation, 
extension, or improvement’’ and inserting ‘‘or extension’’; and 
(2) in subsection (b)—
(A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ‘‘, repair, replace, 
or convert’’ after ‘‘maintain’’; 
(B) in paragraph (2), by striking ‘‘authorized before 
the date of the enactment of this Act’’; and 
(C) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs: 
‘‘(3) The construction of facilities supporting Department 
of Defense education activities. 
‘‘(4) Any construction or extension required to support the 
installation of communications equipment.’’. 
(b) RULE OF CONSTRUCTION.—The amendments made by sub-
section (a) do not trigger the termination of the moratorium on 
certain improvements at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, as provided 
by subsection (c) of such section. 
SEC. 2872. TRANSFER OF EXCESS DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROP-
ERTY ON SANTA ROSA AND OKALOOSA ISLAND, FLORIDA, 
TO GULF ISLANDS NATIONAL SEASHORE. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Public Law 91–660 of the 91st Congress established 
the Gulf Islands National Seashore in the States of Florida 
and Mississippi. 
(2) The original boundaries of the Gulf Islands National 
Seashore encompassed certain Federal land used by the Air 
Force and the Navy, and the use of such land was still required 
by the Armed Forces when the seashore was established. 
(3) Senate Report 91–1514 of the 91th Congress addressed 
the relationship between these military lands and the Gulf 
Islands National Seashore as follows: ‘‘While the military use 
of these lands is presently required, they remain virtually free 
of adverse development and they are included in the boundaries 
of the seashore so that they can be wholly or partially trans-
ferred to the Department of the Interior when they become 
excess to the needs of the Air Force.’’.
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(4) Although section 2(a) of Public Law 91–660 (16 U.S.C. 
459h–1(a)) authorized the eventual transfer of Federal land 
within the boundaries of the Gulf Islands National Seashore 
from the Department of Defense to the Secretary of the Interior, 
an amendment mandating the transfer of excess Department 
of Defense land on Santa Rosa and Okaloosa Island, Florida, 
to the Secretary of the Interior is required to ensure that 
the purposes of the Gulf Islands National Seashore are fulfilled. 
(b) TRANSFER REQUIRED.—Section 7 of Public Law 91–660 (16 
U.S.C. 459h–6) is amended—
(1) by inserting ‘‘(a)’’ before ‘‘There are’’; and 
(2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: 
‘‘(b) If any of the Federal land on Santa Rosa or Okaloosa 
Island, Florida, under the jurisdiction of the Department of Defense 
is ever excess to the needs of the Armed Forces, the Secretary 
of Defense shall transfer the excess land to the administrative 
jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior, subject to the terms 
and conditions acceptable to the Secretary of the Interior and the 
Secretary of Defense. The Secretary of the Interior shall administer 
the transferred land as part of the seashore in accordance with 
the provisions of this Act.’’. 
SEC. 2873. AUTHORIZED MILITARY USES OF PAPAGO PARK MILITARY 
RESERVATION, PHOENIX, ARIZONA. 
The Act of April 7, 1930 (Chapter 107; 46 Stat. 142), is amended 
in the first designated paragraph, relating to the Papago Park 
Military Reservation, by striking ‘‘as a rifle range’’. 
SEC. 2874. ASSESSMENT OF WATER NEEDS FOR PRESIDIO OF MON-
TEREY AND ORD MILITARY COMMUNITY. 
Not later than April 7, 2006, the Secretary of Defense shall 
submit to Congress an interim assessment of the current and 
reasonable future needs of the Department of the Defense for water 
for the Presidio of Monterey and the Ord Military Community. 
SEC. 2875. REDESIGNATION OF MCENTIRE AIR NATIONAL GUARD STA-
TION, SOUTH CAROLINA, AS MCENTIRE JOINT NATIONAL 
GUARD BASE. 
McEntire Air National Guard Station in Eastover, South Caro-
lina, shall be known and designated as ‘‘McEntire Joint National 
Guard Base’’ in recognition of the use of the installation to house 
both Air National Guard and Army National Guard assets. Any 
reference to McEntire Air National Guard Station in any law, 
regulation, map, document, record, or other paper of the United 
States shall be considered to be a reference to McEntire Joint 
National Guard Base. 
SEC. 2876. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING COMMUNITY IMPACT 
ASSISTANCE RELATED TO CONSTRUCTION OF NAVY 
LANDING FIELD, NORTH CAROLINA. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the planned construction of an outlying landing field 
in North Carolina is vital to the national security interests 
of the United States; and 
(2) the Department of Defense should work with other 
Federal agencies to provide community impact assistance to 
those communities directly impacted by the location of the 
outlying landing field, including, to the extent appropriate—
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(A) economic development assistance; 
(B) impact aid program assistance; 
(C) the provision by cooperative agreement with the 
Navy of fire, rescue, water, and sewer services; 
(D) access by leasing arrangement to appropriate land 
for farming for farmers impacted by the location of the 
landing field; 
(E) direct relocation assistance; and 
(F) fair compensation to landowners for property pur-
chased by the Navy. 
SEC. 2877. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ESTABLISHMENT OF BAKERS 
CREEK MEMORIAL. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) In 1943 and 1944, the United States Armed Forces 
operated a rest and relaxation facility in Mackay, Queensland, 
Australia, for troops serving in the Pacific Theater during World 
War II. 
(2) On June 14, 1943, a Boeing B–17C was transporting 
6 crew members and 35 servicemen from Mackay to Port 
Moresby, New Guinea, to return the servicemen to duty after 
10 days of rest and relaxation leave at an Army/Red Cross 
facility. 
(3) The aircraft crashed shortly after take-off at Bakers 
Creek, Australia, killing all 6 crew members and 34 of the 
35 servicemen being transported in what was at that point 
the worst crash in American air transport history, and what 
remains the worst air disaster in Australian history. 
(4) Due to wartime censorship rules related to the move-
ment of troops, the tragic crash and loss of life were not 
reported to the Australian or United States public. 
(5) Many family members of those killed did not learn 
the circumstances of the troops deaths until they were contacted 
by the Bakers Creek Memorial Foundation beginning in 1992. 
(6) As of May 2005, the Bakers Creek Memorial Foundation 
had contacted 36 of the 40 families that lost loved ones in 
the tragic crash, and was continuing efforts to locate the 
remaining four families to inform them of the true events 
of the crash at Bakers Creek. 
(7) The Australian people marked the tragic crash at 
Bakers Creek with a memorial established in 1992, but no 
similar memorial has been established in the United States. 
(b) SENSE
OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress that 
the Secretary of the Army may establish an appropriate marker, 
at a site to be chosen at the discretion of the Secretary, to commemo-
rate the 40 members of the United States Armed Forces who 
lost their lives in the air crash at Bakers Creek, Australia, on 
June 14, 1943.