datamatters24/research-document-archive huggingface dataset:
HR 2126 PP
as necessary for costs incurred by the contractor prior to
the enactment of this Act: Provided, That funds necessary
for the care of animals covered by this contract are al-
lowed.
SEC. 8030. None of the funds provided in this Act
or any other Act shall be available to conduct bone trauma
research at any Army Research Laboratory until the Sec-
retary of the Army certifies that the synthetic compound
to be used in the experiments is of such a type that its
use will result in a significant medical finding, the re-
search has military application, the research will be con-
ducted in accordance with the standards set by an animal
care and use committee, and the research does not dupli-
cate research already conducted by a manufacturer or any
other research organization.
SEC. 8031. No more than $50,000 of the funds ap-
propriated or made available in this Act shall be used for
any single relocation of an organization, unit, activity or
function of the Department of Defense into or within the
National Capital Region: Provided, That the Secretary of
Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis
by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and Senate that
such a relocation is required in the best interest of the
Government.
HR 2126 PP
SEC. 8032. During the current fiscal year, funds ap-
propriated or otherwise available for any Federal agency,
the Congress, the judicial branch, or the District of Co-
lumbia may be used for the pay, allowances, and benefits
of an employee as defined by section 2105 of title 5 or
an individual employed by the government of the District
of Columbia, permanent or temporary indefinite, who—
(1) is a member of a Reserve component of the
Armed Forces, as described in section 261 of title
10, or the National Guard, as described in section
101 of title 32;
(2) performs, for the purpose of providing mili-
tary aid to enforce the law or providing assistance
to civil authorities in the protection or saving of life
or property or prevention of injury—
(A) Federal service under section 331,
332, 333, 3500, or 8500 of title 10, or other
provision of law, as applicable, or
(B) full-time military service for his State,
the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of
Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States;
and
(3) requests and is granted—
(A) leave under the authority of this sec-
tion; or
HR 2126 PP
(B) annual leave, which may be granted
without regard to the provisions of sections
5519 and 6323(b) of title 5, if such employee
is otherwise entitled to such annual leave:
Provided, That any employee who requests leave under
subsection (3)(A) for service described in subsection (2)
of this section is entitled to such leave, subject to the pro-
visions of this section and of the last sentence of section
6323(b) of title 5, and such leave shall be considered leave
under section 6323(b) of title 5.
SEC. 8033. None of the funds appropriated by this
Act shall be available to perform any cost study pursuant
to the provisions of OMB Circular A–76 if the study being
performed exceeds a period of twenty-four months after
initiation of such study with respect to a single function
activity or forty-eight months after initiation of such study
for a multi-function activity.
SEC. 8034. Funds appropriated by this Act for the
American Forces Information Service shall not be used for
any national or international political or psychological ac-
tivities.
SEC. 8035. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law or regulation, the Secretary of Defense may adjust
wage rates for civilian employees hired for certain health
care occupations as authorized for the Secretary of Veter-
HR 2126 PP
ans Affairs by section 7455 of title 38, United States
Code.
SEC. 8036. None of the funds appropriated or made
available in this Act shall be used to reduce or disestablish
the operation of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squad-
ron of the Air Force Reserve, if such action would reduce
the WC–130 Weather Reconnaissance mission below the
levels funded in this Act.
SEC. 8037. (a) Of the funds for the procurement of
supplies or services appropriated by this Act, qualified
nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handi-
capped shall be afforded the maximum practicable oppor-
tunity to participate as subcontractors and suppliers in the
performance of contracts let by the Department of De-
fense.
(b) During the current fiscal year, a business concern
which has negotiated with a military service or defense
agency a subcontracting plan for the participation by
small business concerns pursuant to section 8(d) of the
Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 637(d)) shall be given
credit toward meeting that subcontracting goal for any
purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for the
blind or other severely handicapped.
(c) For the purpose of this section, the phrase ‘‘quali-
fied nonprofit agency for the blind or other severely handi-
HR 2126 PP
capped’’ means a nonprofit agency for the blind or other
severely handicapped that has been approved by the Com-
mittee for the Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely
Handicapped under the Javits-Wagner-O’Day Act (41
U.S.C. 46–48).
SEC. 8038. During the current fiscal year, net re-
ceipts pursuant to collections from third party payers pur-
suant to section 1095 of title 10, United States Code, shall
be made available to the local facility of the uniformed
services responsible for the collections and shall be over
and above the facility’s direct budget amount.
SEC. 8039. During the current fiscal year, the De-
partment of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of
not to exceed $350,000,000 for purposes specified in sec-
tion 2350j(c) of title 10, United States Code, in anticipa-
tion of receipt of contributions, only from the Government
of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, That, upon re-
ceipt, such contributions from the Government of Kuwait
shall be credited to the appropriation or fund which in-
curred such obligations.
SEC. 8040. (a) Funds appropriated in this Act to fi-
nance activities of Department of Defense (DoD) Feder-
ally
Funded
Research
and
Development
Centers
(FFRDCs) may not be obligated or expended for a
FFRDC if a member of its Board of Directors or Trustees
HR 2126 PP
simultaneously serves on the Board of Directors or Trust-
ees of a profit-making company under contract to the De-
partment of Defense unless the FFRDC has a DoD ap-
proved conflict of interest policy for its members.
(b) LIMITATION ON COMPENSATION.—No employee
or executive officer of a defense FFRDC may be com-
pensated at a rate exceeding Executive Schedule Level I
by that FFRDC.
(c) LIMITATION ON COMPENSATION.—No member of
a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, Advisory
Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any
similar entity of a defense FFRDC may be compensated
for his or her services as a member of such entity except
under the same conditions, and to the same extent, as
members of the Defense Science Board: Provided, That
a member of any such entity shall be allowed travel ex-
penses and per diem as authorized under the Federal
Joint Travel Regulations, when engaged in the perform-
ance of membership duties.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of
the amounts available to the Department of Defense dur-
ing fiscal year 1996, not more than $1,252,650,000 may
be obligated for financing activities of defense FFRDCs:
Provided, That in addition to any other reductions re-
quired by this section, the total amounts appropriated in
HR 2126 PP
titles II, III, and IV of this Act to finance activities carried
out by defense FFRDCs and other entities providing con-
sulting services, studies and analyses, systems engineering
and technical assistance, and technical engineering and
management support are hereby reduced by $90,097,000.
SEC. 8041. None of the funds appropriated or made
available in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy
or armor steel plate for use in any Government-owned fa-
cility or property under the control of the Department of
Defense which were not melted and rolled in the United
States or Canada: Provided, That these procurement re-
strictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply Class
9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM)
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications
of carbon, alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further,
That the Secretary of the military department responsible
for the procurement may waive this restriction on a case-
by-case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees
on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the
Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not available
to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order
to acquire capability for national security purposes: Pro-
vided further, That these restrictions shall not apply to
HR 2126 PP
contracts which are in being as of the date of enactment
of this Act.
SEC. 8042. None of the unobligated balances avail-
able in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund
during the current fiscal year may be obligated or ex-
pended to finance any grant or contract to conduct re-
search, development, test and evaluation activities for the
development or production of advanced materials, unless
amounts for such purposes are specifically appropriated
in a subsequent appropriations Act.
SEC. 8043. For the purposes of this Act, the term
‘‘congressional defense committees’’ means the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the Senate and the House of
Representatives, the subcommittee on National Security of
the Committee on Appropriations and the Committee on
National Security of the House of Representatives, and
the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
SEC. 8044. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, during the current fiscal year, the Department of De-
fense may acquire the modification, depot maintenance
and repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well as the
production of components and other Defense-related arti-
cles, through competition between Department of Defense
depot maintenance activities and private firms: Provided,
That the Senior Acquisition Executive of the military de-
HR 2126 PP
partment or defense agency concerned, with power of dele-
gation, shall certify that successful bids include com-
parable estimates of all direct and indirect costs for both
public and private bids: Provided further, That Office of
Management and Budget Circular A–76 shall not apply
to competitions conducted under this section.
SEC. 8045. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after
consultation with the United States Trade Representative,
determines that a foreign country which is party to an
agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the
terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain
types of products produced in the United States that are
covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall
rescind the Secretary’s blanket waiver of the Buy Amer-
ican Act with respect to such types of products produced
in that foreign country.
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any
reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of under-
standing, between the United States and a foreign country
pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospec-
tively waived the Buy American Act for certain products
in that country.
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Con-
gress a report on the amount of Department of Defense
purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 1996. Such
HR 2126 PP
report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items
for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to
any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade
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. 8046. 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.
SEC. 8047. Appropriations contained in this Act that
remain available at the end of the current fiscal year as
HR 2126 PP
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. 8048. 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. 8049. Amounts deposited during the current fis-
cal year 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 Department of
Defense under the terms and conditions specified by 40
U.S.C.
485(h)(2)
(A)
and
(B)
and
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. 8050. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions available to the Department of Defense may be used
to reimburse a member of a reserve component of the
Armed Forces who is not otherwise entitled to travel and
transportation allowances and who occupies transient gov-
HR 2126 PP
ernment housing while performing active duty for training
or inactive duty training: Provided, That such members
may be provided lodging in kind if transient government
quarters are unavailable as if the member was entitled to
such allowances under subsection (a) of section 404 of title
37, United States Code: Provided further, That if lodging
in kind is provided, any authorized service charge or cost
of such lodging may be paid directly from funds appro-
priated for operation and maintenance of the reserve com-
ponent of the member concerned.
SEC. 8051. None of the funds available in this Act
may be used to support in any manner, including travel
or other related expenses, the ‘‘Tailhook Association’’.
SEC. 8052. The President shall include with each
budget for a fiscal year submitted to the Congress under
section 1105 of title 31, United States Code, materials
that shall identify clearly and separately the amounts re-
quested in the budget for appropriation for that fiscal year
for salaries and expenses related to administrative activi-
ties
of
the
Department
of
Defense,
the
military
departments, and the Defense Agencies.
SEC. 8053. During the current fiscal year, amounts
contained in the Department of Defense Overseas Military
Facility Investment Recovery Account established by sec-
tion 2921(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act
HR 2126 PP
of 1991 (Public Law 101–510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) shall
be available until expended for the payments specified by
section 2921(c)(2) of that Act.
SEC. 8054. During the current fiscal year and there-
after, annual payments granted under the provisions of
section 4416 of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102–428; 106 Stat.
2714) shall be made from appropriations which are avail-
able for the pay of reserve component personnel.
SEC. 8055. Of the funds appropriated or otherwise
made available by this Act, not more than $119,200,000
shall be available for payment of the operating costs of
NATO Headquarters.
SEC. 8056. During the current fiscal year, appropria-
tions which are available to the Department of Defense
for operation and maintenance may be used to purchase
items having an investment item unit cost of not more
than $50,000.
SEC. 8057. During the current fiscal year and there-
after, appropriations available for the pay and allowances
of active duty members of the Armed Forces shall be avail-
able to pay the retired pay which is payable pursuant to
section 4403 of Public Law 102–484 (10 U.S.C. 1293
note) under the terms and conditions provided in section
4403.
HR 2126 PP
SEC. 8058. (a) During the current fiscal year, none
of the appropriations or funds available to the Defense
Business Operations Fund shall be used for the purchase
of an investment item for the purpose of acquiring a new
inventory item for sale or anticipated sale during the cur-
rent fiscal year or a subsequent fiscal year to customers
of the Defense Business Operations Fund if such an item
would not have been chargeable to the Defense Business
Operations Fund during fiscal year 1994 and if the pur-
chase of such an investment item would be chargeable dur-
ing the current fiscal year to appropriations made to the
Department of Defense for procurement.
(b) The fiscal year 1997 budget request for the De-
partment of Defense as well as all justification material
and other documentation supporting the fiscal year 1997
Department of Defense budget shall be prepared and sub-
mitted to the Congress on the basis that any equipment
which was classified as an end item and funded in a pro-
curement appropriation contained in this Act shall be
budgeted for in a proposed fiscal year 1997 procurement
appropriation and not in the supply management business
area or any other area or category of the Defense Business
Operations Fund.
SEC. 8059. None of the funds provided in this Act
shall be available for use by a Military Department to
HR 2126 PP
modify an aircraft, weapon, ship or other item of equip-
ment, that the Military Department concerned plans to
retire or otherwise dispose of within five years after com-
pletion of the modification: Provided, That this prohibition
shall not apply to safety modifications: Provided further,
That this prohibition may be waived by the Secretary of
a Military Department if the Secretary determines it is
in the best national security interest of the United States
to provide such waiver and so notifies the congressional
defense committees in writing.
SEC. 8060. No part of the funds in this Act shall
be available to prepare or present a request to the Com-
mittees on Appropriations for reprogramming of funds,
unless for higher priority items, based on unforeseen mili-
tary requirements, than those for which originally appro-
priated and in no case where the item for which
reprogramming is requested has been denied by the Con-
gress.
SEC. 8061. None of the funds appropriated by this
Act shall be available for payment of the compensation
of personnel assigned to or serving in the National For-
eign Intelligence Program in excess of 92 percent of such
personnel actually assigned to or serving in the National
Foreign Intelligence Program on September 30, 1992:
Provided, That in making any reduction in the number
HR 2126 PP
of such personnel that may be required pursuant to this
section, the percentage of reductions to Senior Intelligence
Service positions shall be equal to or exceed the percentage
of reductions to non-Senior Intelligence Service positions:
Provided further, That in making any reduction in the
number of such personnel that may be required pursuant
to this section, the percentage of reductions to positions
in the National Capital Region shall be equal to or exceed
the percentage of reductions to positions outside of the
National Capital Region.
SEC. 8062. None of the funds provided by this Act
may be used to pay the salaries of any person or persons
who authorize the transfer of obligated and deobligated
appropriations into the Reserve for Contingencies of the
Central Intelligence Agency.
SEC. 8063. None of the funds appropriated by this
Act for programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal
year, except for funds appropriated for the Reserve for
Contingencies, which shall remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 1997.
SEC. 8064. The classified Annex prepared by the
Committee on Appropriations to accompany the report on
the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1996 is
hereby incorporated into this Act: Provided, That the
HR 2126 PP
amounts specified in the classified Annex are not in addi-
tion to amounts appropriated by other provisions of this
Act: Provided further, That the President shall provide for
appropriate distribution of the classified Annex, or of ap-
propriate portions of the classified Annex, within the exec-
utive branch of the Government.
SEC. 8065. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, funds made available in this Act for the Defense In-
telligence Agency may be used for the design, develop-
ment, and deployment of General Defense Intelligence
Program intelligence communications and intelligence in-
formation systems for the Services, the Unified and Speci-
fied Commands, and the component commands.
SEC. 8066. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, funds appropriated in this Act for the High Perform-
ance Computing Modernization Program shall be made
available only for the acquisition and sustainment of oper-
ations, including maintenance of the supercomputing and
related networking capability at (1) the DOD Science and
Technology sites under the cognizance of the DDR&E, (2)
the DOD Test and Evaluation centers under the Director,
Test and Evaluation, OUSD (A&T), and (3) the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization: Provided, That the con-
tracts, contract modifications, or contract options are
HR 2126 PP
awarded competitively solely upon the requirements of the
users.
SEC. 8067. Amounts collected for the use of the fa-
cilities of the National Science Center for Communications
and Electronics during the current fiscal year pursuant
to section 1459(g) of the Department of Defense Author-
ization Act, 1986 and deposited to the special account es-
tablished under subsection 1459(g)(2) of that Act are ap-
propriated and shall be available until expended for the
operation and maintenance of the Center as provided for
in subsection 1459(g)(2).
SEC. 8068. None of the funds appropriated in this
Act may be used to fill the commander’s position at any
military medical facility with a health care professional
unless the prospective candidate can demonstrate profes-
sional administrative skills.
SEC. 8069. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this
Act may be expended by an entity of the Department of
Defense unless the entity, in expending the funds, com-
plies with the Buy American Act. For purposes of this
subsection, 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.).