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FAMILY HOUSING OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For expenses of family housing for the activities and agencies 
of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments) 
for operation and maintenance, leasing, and minor construction, 
as authorized by law, $59,169,000. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
FAMILY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT FUND 
For the Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement 
Fund, $2,726,000, to remain available until expended, for family 
housing initiatives undertaken pursuant to section 2883 of title 
10, United States Code, providing alternative means of acquiring 
and improving military family housing and supporting facilities. 
DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
MILITARY UNACCOMPANIED HOUSING IMPROVEMENT FUND 
For the Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied 
Housing Improvement Fund, $623,000, to remain available until 
expended, for unaccompanied housing initiatives undertaken pursu-
ant to section 2883 of title 10, United States Code, providing alter-
native means of acquiring and improving military unaccompanied 
housing and supporting facilities. 
ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS 
SEC. 101. None of the funds made available in this title shall 
be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract 
for construction, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be per-
formed within the United States, except Alaska, without the specific 
approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the 
reasons therefor. 
SEC. 102. Funds made available in this title for construction 
shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles. 
SEC. 103. Funds made available in this title for construction 
may be used for advances to the Federal Highway Administration, 
Department of Transportation, for the construction of access roads 
as authorized by section 210 of title 23, United States Code, when 
projects authorized therein are certified as important to the national 
defense by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 104. None of the funds made available in this title may 
be used to begin construction of new bases in the United States 
for which specific appropriations have not been made. 
SEC. 105. None of the funds made available in this title shall 
be used for purchase of land or land easements in excess of 100 
percent of the value as determined by the Army Corps of Engineers 
or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, except: (1) where 
there is a determination of value by a Federal court; (2) purchases 
negotiated by the Attorney General or the designee of the Attorney 
General; (3) where the estimated value is less than $25,000; or 
(4) as otherwise determined by the Secretary of Defense to be 
in the public interest. 
SEC. 106. None of the funds made available in this title shall 
be used to: (1) acquire land; (2) provide for site preparation; or
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(3) install utilities for any family housing, except housing for which 
funds have been made available in annual Acts making appropria-
tions for military construction. 
SEC. 107. None of the funds made available in this title for 
minor construction may be used to transfer or relocate any activity 
from one base or installation to another, without prior notification 
to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress. 
SEC. 108. None of the funds made available in this title may 
be used for the procurement of steel for any construction project 
or activity for which American steel producers, fabricators, and 
manufacturers have been denied the opportunity to compete for 
such steel procurement. 
SEC. 109. None of the funds available to the Department of 
Defense for military construction or family housing during the 
current fiscal year may be used to pay real property taxes in 
any foreign nation. 
SEC. 110. None of the funds made available in this title may 
be used to initiate a new installation overseas without prior notifica-
tion to the Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Con-
gress. 
SEC. 111. None of the funds made available in this title may 
be obligated for architect and engineer contracts estimated by the 
Government to exceed $500,000 for projects to be accomplished 
in Japan, in any North Atlantic Treaty Organization member 
country, or in countries bordering the Arabian Gulf, unless such 
contracts are awarded to United States firms or United States 
firms in joint venture with host nation firms. 
SEC. 112. None of the funds made available in this title for 
military construction in the United States territories and posses-
sions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein Atoll, or in countries bordering 
the Arabian Gulf, may be used to award any contract estimated 
by the Government to exceed $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor: 
Provided, That this section shall not be applicable to contract 
awards for which the lowest responsive and responsible bid of 
a United States contractor exceeds the lowest responsive and 
responsible bid of a foreign contractor by greater than 20 percent: 
Provided further, That this section shall not apply to contract 
awards for military construction on Kwajalein Atoll for which the 
lowest responsive and responsible bid is submitted by a Marshallese 
contractor. 
SEC. 113. The Secretary of Defense shall inform the appropriate 
committees of both Houses of Congress, including the Committees 
on Appropriations, of plans and scope of any proposed military 
exercise involving United States personnel 30 days prior to its 
occurring, if amounts expended for construction, either temporary 
or permanent, are anticipated to exceed $100,000. 
SEC. 114. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
for construction in prior years shall be available for construction 
authorized for each such military department by the authorizations 
enacted into law during the current session of Congress. 
SEC. 115. For military construction or family housing projects 
that are being completed with funds otherwise expired or lapsed 
for obligation, expired or lapsed funds may be used to pay the 
cost of associated supervision, inspection, overhead, engineering 
and design on those projects and on subsequent claims, if any. 
SEC. 116. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any 
funds made available to a military department or defense agency
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for the construction of military projects may be obligated for a 
military construction project or contract, or for any portion of such 
a project or contract, at any time before the end of the fourth 
fiscal year after the fiscal year for which funds for such project 
were made available, if the funds obligated for such project: (1) 
are obligated from funds available for military construction projects; 
and (2) do not exceed the amount appropriated for such project, 
plus any amount by which the cost of such project is increased 
pursuant to law. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 117. Subject to 30 days prior notification, or 14 days 
for a notification provided in an electronic medium pursuant to 
sections 480 and 2883 of title 10, United States Code, to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, such 
additional amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of 
Defense may be transferred to: (1) the Department of Defense 
Family Housing Improvement Fund from amounts appropriated 
for construction in ‘‘Family Housing’’ accounts, to be merged with 
and to be available for the same purposes and for the same period 
of time as amounts appropriated directly to the Fund; or (2) the 
Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied Housing Improve-
ment Fund from amounts appropriated for construction of military 
unaccompanied housing in ‘‘Military Construction’’ accounts, to be 
merged with and to be available for the same purposes and for 
the same period of time as amounts appropriated directly to the 
Fund: Provided, That appropriations made available to the Funds 
shall be available to cover the costs, as defined in section 502(5) 
of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974, of direct loans or loan 
guarantees issued by the Department of Defense pursuant to the 
provisions of subchapter IV of chapter 169 of title 10, United States 
Code, pertaining to alternative means of acquiring and improving 
military family housing, military unaccompanied housing, and sup-
porting facilities. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 118. In addition to any other transfer authority available 
to the Department of Defense, amounts may be transferred from 
the Department of Defense Base Closure Account to the fund estab-
lished by section 1013(d) of the Demonstration Cities and Metropoli-
tan Development Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3374) to pay for expenses 
associated with the Homeowners Assistance Program incurred 
under 42 U.S.C. 3374(a)(1)(A). Any amounts transferred shall be 
merged with and be available for the same purposes and for the 
same time period as the fund to which transferred. 
SEC. 119. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available in this title for operation and maintenance of family 
housing shall be the exclusive source of funds for repair and mainte-
nance of all family housing units, including general or flag officer 
quarters: Provided, That not more than $35,000 per unit may 
be spent annually for the maintenance and repair of any general 
or flag officer quarters without 30 days prior notification, or 14 
days for a notification provided in an electronic medium pursuant 
to sections 480 and 2883 of title 10, United States Code, to the 
Committees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress, except 
that an after-the-fact notification shall be submitted if the limitation
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is exceeded solely due to costs associated with environmental 
remediation that could not be reasonably anticipated at the time 
of the budget submission: Provided further, That the Under Sec-
retary of Defense (Comptroller) is to report annually to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of both Houses of Congress all operation 
and maintenance expenditures for each individual general or flag 
officer quarters for the prior fiscal year. 
SEC. 120. Amounts contained in the Ford Island Improvement 
Account established by subsection (h) of section 2814 of title 10, 
United States Code, are appropriated and shall be available until 
expended for the purposes specified in subsection (i)(1) of such 
section or until transferred pursuant to subsection (i)(3) of such 
section. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 121. During the 5-year period after appropriations avail-
able in this Act to the Department of Defense for military construc-
tion and family housing operation and maintenance and construc-
tion have expired for obligation, upon a determination that such 
appropriations will not be necessary for the liquidation of obligations 
or for making authorized adjustments to such appropriations for 
obligations incurred during the period of availability of such appro-
priations, unobligated balances of such appropriations may be trans-
ferred into the appropriation ‘‘Foreign Currency Fluctuations, 
Construction, Defense’’, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same time period and for the same purposes as the appro-
priation to which transferred. 
SEC. 122. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b), none of 
the funds made available in this Act may be used by the Secretary 
of the Army to relocate a unit in the Army that— 
(1) performs a testing mission or function that is not per-
formed by any other unit in the Army and is specifically stipu-
lated in title 10, United States Code; and 
(2) is located at a military installation at which the total 
number of civilian employees of the Department of the Army 
and Army contractor personnel employed exceeds 10 percent 
of the total number of members of the regular and reserve 
components of the Army assigned to the installation. 
(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) shall not apply if the Secretary 
of the Army certifies to the congressional defense committees that 
in proposing the relocation of the unit of the Army, the Secretary 
complied with Army Regulation 5–10 relating to the policy, proce-
dures, and responsibilities for Army stationing actions. 
SEC. 123. Amounts appropriated or otherwise made available 
in an account funded under the headings in this title may be 
transferred among projects and activities within the account in 
accordance with the reprogramming guidelines for military 
construction and family housing construction contained in Depart-
ment of Defense Financial Management Regulation 7000.14–R, 
Volume 3, Chapter 7, of March 2011, as in effect on the date 
of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 124. None of the funds made available in this title may 
be obligated or expended for planning and design and construction 
of projects at Arlington National Cemetery.