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SEC. 1408. REDUCTION IN AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIA-
TIONS FOR IRAQ FREEDOM FUND.
The amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal
year 2006 for the Iraq Freedom Fund is the amount speci-
fied by section 1409(a) of this Act, reduced by $218,500,000.
SEC. 1409. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2006 for the use of the Armed Forces for expenses,
not otherwise provided for, for operation and maintenance,
in amounts as follows:
(1) For the Army, $22,139,775,000, of which
$200,000,000 may be made available for linguistic
support operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
(2) For the Navy, $1,944,300,000.
(3) For the Marine Corps, $1,808,231,000.
(4) For the Air Force, $2,635,555,000.
(5) For Defense-wide activities, $3,470,118,000.
(6) For the Naval Reserve, $2,400,000.
SEC. 1410. DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the
Department of Defense for fiscal year 2006 for expenses, not
otherwise provided for, the Defense Health Program, in the
amount of $977,778,000, for operation and maintenance.
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SEC. 1411. MILITARY PERSONNEL.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the
Department of Defense for military personnel accounts for
fiscal year 2006 in amounts as follows:
(1) For military personnel of the Army,
$9,517,643,000.
(2) For military personnel of the Navy,
$350,000,000.
(3) For military personnel of the Marine Corps,
$811,771,000.
(4) For military personnel of the Air Force,
$916,559,000.
SEC. 1412. IRAQ FREEDOM FUND.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Funds are hereby authorized to be
appropriated for fiscal year 2006 for the Iraq Freedom
Fund in the amount of $4,325,670,000.
(b) LIMITATION
ON
AVAILABILITY
OF
CERTAIN
AMOUNT.—Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by
subsection (a), not less than $500,000,000 shall be available
only for support of activities of the Joint Improvised Explo-
sive Device Task Force.
(c) TRANSFER.—
(1) TRANSFER AUTHORIZED.—Subject to para-
graph (2), amounts authorized to be appropriated by
subsection (a) may be transferred from the Iraq Free-
dom Fund to any accounts as follows:
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(A) Operation and maintenance accounts of
the Armed Forces.
(B) Military personnel accounts.
(C) Research, development, test, and evalua-
tion accounts of the Department of Defense.
(D) Procurement accounts of the Depart-
ment of Defense.
(E) Accounts providing funding for classi-
fied programs.
(F) The operating expenses account of the
Coast Guard.
(2) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—A transfer may not
be made under the authority in paragraph (1) until
5 days after the date on which the Secretary of De-
fense notifies the congressional defense committees in
writing of the transfer.
(3) TREATMENT
OF
TRANSFERRED
FUNDS.—
Amounts transferred to an account under the author-
ity in paragraph (1) shall be merged with amounts
in such account, and shall be made available for the
same purposes, and subject to the same conditions
and limitations, as amounts in such account.
(4) EFFECT ON AUTHORIZATION AMOUNTS.—A
transfer of an amount to an account under the au-
thority in paragraph (1) shall be deemed to increase
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the amount authorized for such account by an
amount equal to the amount transferred.
SEC. 1413. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.
(a) AUTHORITY TO TRANSFER AUTHORIZATIONS.—
(1) TRANSFER AUTHORIZED.—Upon determina-
tion by the Secretary of Defense that such action is
necessary in the national interest, the Secretary may
transfer amounts of authorizations made available to
the Department of Defense in this title for fiscal year
2006 between any such authorizations for that fiscal
year (or any subdivisions thereof). Amounts of au-
thorizations so transferred shall be merged with and
be available for the same purposes as the authoriza-
tion to which transferred.
(2) LIMITATION ON AGGREGATE AMOUNT.—The
total amount of authorizations that the Secretary
may transfer under the authority of this section may
not exceed $2,500,000,000.
(3) CONSTRUCTION WITH OTHER TRANSFER AU-
THORITY.—The transfer authority provided in this
section is in addition to any other transfer authority
available to the Secretary of Defense.
(b) OTHER LIMITATIONS.—The authority provided by
this section to transfer authorizations—