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Business Administration pursuant to section 8(a)(15) of Public Law 
85–536, as amended, shall have the same status as other program 
participants under section 602 of Public Law 100–656, 102 Stat. 
3825 (Business Opportunity Development Reform Act of 1988) for 
purposes of contracting with agencies of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 8021. 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 24 months after initiation of such study with respect 
to a single function activity or 30 months after initiation of such 
study for a multi-function activity. 
SEC. 8022. Funds appropriated by this Act for the American 
Forces Information Service shall not be used for any national or 
international political or psychological activities. 
SEC. 8023. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regu-
lation, the Secretary of Defense may adjust wage rates for civilian 
employees hired for certain health care occupations as authorized 
for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by section 7455 of title 38, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 8024. During the current fiscal year, the Department 
of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of not to exceed 
$350,000,000 for purposes specified in section 2350j(c) of title 10, 
United States Code, in anticipation of receipt of contributions, only 
from the Government of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, 
That upon receipt, such contributions from the Government of 
Kuwait shall be credited to the appropriations or fund which 
incurred such obligations. 
SEC. 8025. (a) Of the funds made available in this Act, not 
less than $31,109,000 shall be available for the Civil Air Patrol 
Corporation, of which—
(1) $24,288,000 shall be available from ‘‘Operation and 
Maintenance, Air Force’’ to support Civil Air Patrol Corporation 
operation and maintenance, readiness, counterdrug activities, 
and drug demand reduction activities involving youth programs; 
(2) $6,000,000 shall be available from ‘‘Aircraft Procure-
ment, Air Force’’; and 
(3) $821,000 shall be available from ‘‘Other Procurement, 
Air Force’’ for vehicle procurement. 
(b) The Secretary of the Air Force should waive reimbursement 
for any funds used by the Civil Air Patrol for counter-drug activities 
in support of Federal, State, and local government agencies. 
SEC. 8026. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
are available to establish a new Department of Defense (depart-
ment) federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), 
either as a new entity, or as a separate entity administrated by 
an organization managing another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit mem-
bership corporation consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs 
and other non-profit entities. 
(b) No member of a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, 
Advisory Group, Special Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any 
similar entity of a defense FFRDC, and no paid consultant to 
any defense FFRDC, except when acting in a technical advisory 
capacity, may be compensated for his or her services as a member 
of such entity, or as a paid consultant by more than one FFRDC 
in a fiscal year: Provided, That a member of any such entity 
referred to previously in this subsection shall be allowed travel 
expenses and per diem as authorized under the Federal Joint Travel
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Regulations, when engaged in the performance of membership 
duties. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds available to the department from any source during fiscal 
year 2006 may be used by a defense FFRDC, through a fee or 
other payment mechanism, for construction of new buildings, for 
payment of cost sharing for projects funded by Government grants, 
for absorption of contract overruns, or for certain charitable con-
tributions, not to include employee participation in community 
service and/or development. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
available to the department during fiscal year 2006, not more 
than 5,517 staff years of technical effort (staff years) may be funded 
for defense FFRDCs: Provided, That of the specific amount referred 
to previously in this subsection, not more than 1,050 staff years 
may be funded for the defense studies and analysis FFRDCs: Pro-
vided further, That this subsection shall not apply to staff years 
funded in the National Intelligence Program (NIP). 
(e) The Secretary of Defense shall, with the submission of 
the department’s fiscal year 2007 budget request, submit a report 
presenting the specific amounts of staff years of technical effort 
to be allocated for each defense FFRDC during that fiscal year. 
(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, the total 
amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs is hereby reduced 
by $46,000,000. 
SEC. 8027. 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 facility 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 restrictions 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 Representa-
tives and the Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not avail-
able 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: Provided further, 
That these restrictions shall not apply to contracts which are in 
being as of the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 8028. For the purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘congressional 
defense committees’’ means the Armed Services Committee of the 
House of Representatives, the Armed Services Committee of the 
Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on Appro-
priations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on Defense of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. In 
addition, for any matter pertaining to basic allowance for housing, 
facilities sustainment, restoration and modernization, environ-
mental restoration and the Defense Health Program, ‘‘congressional 
defense committees’’ also means the Subcommittee on Military 
Quality of Life and Veterans Affairs, and Related Agencies of the 
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. 
SEC. 8029. During the current fiscal year, the Department 
of Defense may acquire the modification, depot maintenance and
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repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well as the production 
of components and other Defense-related articles, through competi-
tion between Department of Defense depot maintenance activities 
and private firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Executive 
of the military department or Defense Agency concerned, with power 
of delegation, shall certify that successful bids include comparable 
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. 8030. (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 para-
graph (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 American 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 understanding, between the 
United States and a foreign country pursuant to which the Secretary 
of Defense has prospectively waived the Buy American Act for 
certain products in that country. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress 
a report on the amount of Department of Defense purchases from 
foreign entities in fiscal year 2006. Such 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. 8031. Appropriations contained in this Act that remain 
available at the end of the current fiscal year, and at the end 
of each fiscal year hereafter, 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, 
provided in section 2865 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 8032. The President shall include with each budget for 
a fiscal year submitted to the Congress under section 1105 of 
title 31, United States Code, and hereafter, materials that shall 
identify clearly and separately the amounts requested in the budget 
for appropriation for that fiscal year for salaries and expenses 
related to administrative activities of the Department of Defense, 
the military departments, and the defense agencies. 
SEC. 8033. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
available during the current fiscal year and hereafter for ‘‘Drug 
Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, Defense’’ may be obligated 
for the Young Marines program.
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(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8034. During the current fiscal year, amounts contained 
in the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment 
Recovery Account established by section 2921(c)(1) of the National 
Defense Authorization Act 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. 8035. (a) IN GENERAL.—Notwithstanding any other provi-
sion of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no 
cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian tribes located 
in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Min-
nesota relocatable military housing units located at Grand Forks 
Air Force Base and Minot Air Force Base that are excess to the 
needs of the Air Force. 
(b) PROCESSING OF REQUESTS.—The Secretary of the Air Force 
shall convey, at no cost to the Air Force, military housing units 
under subsection (a) in accordance with the request for such units 
that are submitted to the Secretary by the Operation Walking 
Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located in the States 
of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota. 
(c) RESOLUTION OF HOUSING UNIT CONFLICTS.—The Operation 
Walking Shield Program shall resolve any conflicts among requests 
of Indian tribes for housing units under subsection (a) before 
submitting requests to the Secretary of the Air Force under sub-
section (b). 
(d) INDIAN TRIBE DEFINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘Indian 
tribe’’ means any recognized Indian tribe included on the current 
list published by the Secretary of the Interior under section 104 
of the Federally Recognized Indian Tribe Act of 1994 (Public Law 
103–454; 108 Stat. 4792; 25 U.S.C. 479a–1). 
SEC. 8036. During the current fiscal year, appropriations 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 $250,000. 
SEC. 8037. (a) During the current fiscal year, none of the 
appropriations or funds available to the Department of Defense 
Working Capital Funds shall be used for the purchase of an invest-
ment item for the purpose of acquiring a new inventory item for 
sale or anticipated sale during the current fiscal year or a subse-
quent fiscal year to customers of the Department of Defense 
Working Capital Funds if such an item would not have been charge-
able to the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund during 
fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an investment item 
would be chargeable during the current fiscal year to appropriations 
made to the Department of Defense for procurement. 
(b) The fiscal year 2007 budget request for the Department 
of Defense as well as all justification material and other documenta-
tion supporting the fiscal year 2007 Department of Defense budget 
shall be prepared and submitted to the Congress on the basis 
that any equipment which was classified as an end item and funded 
in a procurement appropriation contained in this Act shall be budg-
eted for in a proposed fiscal year 2007 procurement appropriation 
and not in the supply management business area or any other 
area or category of the Department of Defense Working Capital 
Funds.