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Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any
international agreement to which the United States is a
party.
(c) For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘Buy
American Act’’ means title III of the Act entitled ‘‘An Act
making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office
Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934,
and for other purposes’’, approved March 3, 1933 (41
U.S.C. 10a et seq.).
SEC. 8059. (a) Of the funds made available in this
Act in title II, Operation and Maintenance, Army,
$2,000,000 shall be available only to execute the cleanup
of uncontrolled hazardous waste contamination affecting
the Sale Parcel at Hamilton Air Force Base, in Novato,
in the State of California.
(b) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in the
event that the purchaser of the Sale Parcel exercises its
option to withdraw from all or a portion of the sale, as
provided in the Agreement and Modification, dated Sep-
tember 25, 1990, between the Department of Defense, the
General Services Administration, and the purchaser, as
amended, the purchaser’s deposit of $4,500,000 shall be
returned by the General Services Administration and
funds eligible for reimbursement under the Agreement and
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Modification, as amended, shall come from the funds made
available to the Department of Defense by this Act.
(c) In the event that the purchaser purchases only
a portion of the Sale Parcel and exercises its option to
withdraw from the sale as to the rest of the Sale Parcel,
the portion of the Sale Parcel that is not purchased (other
than Landfill 26 and an appropriate buffer area around
it and the groundwater treatment facility site), together
with any of the land referred to in section 9099(e) of Pub-
lic Law 102–396 that is not purchased by the purchaser,
shall be sold to the City of Novato, in the State of Califor-
nia, for the sum of One Dollar as a public benefit transfer
for school, classroom or other educational use, for use as
a public park or recreation area or for further conveyance
as provided herein, subject to the following restrictions:
(1) if the City sells any portion of such land to any third
party within ten years after the transfer to the City, which
sale may be made without the foregoing use restrictions,
any proceeds received by the City in connection with such
sale, minus the demonstrated reasonable costs of conduct-
ing the sale and of any improvements made by the City
to the land following its acquisition of the land (but only
to the extent such improvements increase the value of the
portion sold), shall be immediately turned over to the
Army in reimbursement of the withdrawal payment made
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by the Army to the contract purchaser and the costs of
cleaning up the Landfill and (2) until one year following
completion of the cleanup of contaminated soil in the
Landfill and completion of the groundwater treatment fa-
cilities, the sale must be at a per-acre price for the portion
sold that is at least equal to the per-acre contract price
paid by the purchaser for the portion of the Sale Parcel
purchased under the Agreement and Modification, as
amended, and thereafter must be at a price at least equal
to the fair market value of the portion sold. The foregoing
restrictions shall not apply to a transfer to another public
or quasi-public agency for public uses of the kind de-
scribed above. The deed to the City shall contain a clause
providing that, if any of the proceeds referred to in clause
(1) are not delivered to the Army within 30 days after
sale, or any portion of the land not sold as provided herein
is used for other than educational, park or recreational
uses, title to the applicable portion of such land shall re-
vert to the United States Government at the election of
the General Services Administration. The Army shall
agree to deliver into the applicable closing escrow an ac-
knowledgement of receipt of any proceeds described in
clause (1) above and a release of the reverter right as to
the affected land, effective upon such receipt.
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(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Air Force shall be reimbursed for expenditures in excess
of $15,000,000 in connection with the total clean-up of
uncontrolled hazardous waste contamination on the afore-
mentioned Sale Parcel from the proceeds collected upon
the closing of any portion of the Sale Parcel purchased
by the contract purchaser under the Agreement and Modi-
fication, as amended.
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
purchaser’s reimbursement claims shall be audited by the
Defense Contract Audit Agency for reasonableness and ac-
curacy before the Department of Defense provides any
funds under the purchaser’s withdrawal and reimburse-
ment rights.
SEC. 8060. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, the Secretary of Defense may, when he considers it
in the best interest of the United States, cancel any part
of an indebtedness, up to $2,500, that is or was owed to
the United States by a member or former member of a
uniformed service if such indebtedness, as determined by
the Secretary, was incurred in connection with Operation
Desert Shield/Storm: Provided, That the amount of an in-
debtedness previously paid by a member or former mem-
ber and cancelled under this section shall be refunded to
the member.
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SEC. 8061. Appropriations contained in this Act that
remain available at the end of the current fiscal year as
a result of energy cost savings realized by the Department
of Defense shall remain available for obligation for the
next fiscal year to the extent, and for the purposes, pro-
vided in section 2865 of title 10, United States Code.
SEC. 8062. During the current fiscal year and there-
after, voluntary separation incentives payable under 10
U.S.C. 1175 may be paid in such amounts as are nec-
essary from the assets of the Voluntary Separation Incen-
tive Fund established by section 1175(h)(1).
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 8063. Amounts deposited during fiscal years
1994 and 1995 to the special account established under
40 U.S.C. 485(h)(2) and to the special account established
under 10 U.S.C. 2667(d)(1) are appropriated and shall
be available until transferred by the Secretary of Defense
to current applicable appropriations or funds of the De-
partment of Defense under the terms and conditions speci-
fied by 40 U.S.C. 485(h)(2) (A) and (B) and 10 U.S.C.
2667(d)(1)(B), to be merged with and to be available for
the same time period and the same purposes as the appro-
priation to which transferred.
SEC. 8064. In order to maintain an electric furnace
capacity in the United States, preference for the purchase
of chromite ore and manganese ore authorized for disposal
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from the National Defense Stockpile shall be given to do-
mestic producers of high carbon ferrochromium and high
carbon ferromanganese—
(A) whose primary output during the three pre-
ceding 
years 
has 
been 
ferrochromium 
or
ferromanganese; and
(B) who guarantee to use the chromite and
manganese ore for domestic purposes.
SEC. 8065. None of the funds in this or any other
Act shall be available for the preparation of studies on—
(a) the feasibility of removal and transportation
of unitary chemical weapons from the eight chemical
storage sites within the continental United States:
Provided, That this prohibition shall not apply to
non-stockpile material in the United States or to
studies needed for environmental analysis required
by the National Environmental Policy Act, or for
General Accounting Office studies requested by a
Member of Congress or a Congressional Committee;
and
(b) the potential future uses of the nine chemi-
cal disposal facilities other than for the destruction
of stockpile chemical munitions and as limited by
section 1412(c)(2), Public Law 99–145: Provided,