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GENERAL PROVISIONS
SEC. 101. None of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts shall be expended for
payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work,
where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be performed
within the United States, except Alaska, without the spe-
cific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense set-
ting forth the reasons therefor.
SEC. 102. Funds appropriated to the Department of
Defense for construction shall be available for hire of pas-
senger motor vehicles.
SEC. 103. Funds appropriated to the Department of
Defense for construction may be used for advances to the
Federal Highway Administration, Department of Trans-
portation, for the construction of access roads as author-
ized 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 appropriated in this Act
may be used to begin construction of new bases inside the
continental United States for which specific appropria-
tions have not been made.
SEC. 105. No part of the funds provided in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts shall be used for pur-
chase of land or land easements in excess of 100 per cen-
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tum of the value as determined by the Army Corps of En-
gineers or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, ex-
cept (a) where there is a determination of value by a Fed-
eral court, or (b) purchases negotiated by the Attorney
General or his designee, or (c) where the estimated value
is less than $25,000, or (d) as otherwise determined by
the Secretary of Defense to be in the public interest.
SEC. 106. None of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts shall be used to (1) ac-
quire land, (2) provide for site preparation, or (3) install
utilities for any family housing, except housing for which
funds have been made available in annual Military Con-
struction Appropriations Acts.
SEC. 107. None of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts 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.
SEC. 108. No part of the funds appropriated in Mili-
tary Construction Appropriations Acts 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.
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SEC. 109. None of the funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense for military construction or family hous-
ing during the current fiscal year may be used to pay real
property taxes in any foreign nation.
SEC. 110. None of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts may be used to initiate
a new installation overseas without prior notification to
the Committees on Appropriations.
SEC. 111. None of the funds appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts may be obligated for ar-
chitect and engineer contracts estimated by the Govern-
ment to exceed $500,000 for projects to be accomplished
in Japan or in any NATO member country, 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 appropriated in Military
Construction Appropriations Acts for military construc-
tion in the United States territories and possessions in the
Pacific and on Kwajalein Atoll 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
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and responsible bid of a foreign contractor by greater than
20 per centum.
SEC. 113. The Secretary of Defense is to inform the
Committees on Appropriations and the Committees on
Armed Services of the plans and scope of any proposed
military exercise involving United States personnel thirty
days prior to its occurring, if amounts expended for con-
struction, either temporary or permanent, are anticipated
to exceed $100,000.
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 114. Unexpended balances in the Military Fam-
ily Housing Management Account established pursuant to
section 2831 of title 10, United States Code, as well as
any additional amounts which would otherwise be trans-
ferred to the Military Family Housing Management Ac-
count, shall be transferred to the appropriations for Fam-
ily Housing, as determined by the Secretary of Defense,
based on the sources from which the funds were derived,
and shall be available for the same purposes, and for the
same time period, as the appropriation to which they have
been transferred.
SEC. 115. Not more than 20 per centum of the appro-
priations in Military Construction Appropriations Acts
which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal
year shall be obligated during the last two months of the
fiscal year.
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 116. Funds appropriated to the Department of
Defense for construction in prior years shall be available
for construction authorized for each such military depart-
ment by the authorizations enacted into law during the
current session of Congress.
SEC. 117. For military construction or family housing
projects that are being completed with funds otherwise ex-
pired or lapsed for obligation, expired or lapsed funds may
be used to pay the cost of associated supervision, inspec-
tion, overhead, engineering and design on those projects
and on subsequent claims, if any.
SEC. 118. Notwithstanding any other provision of
law, any funds appropriated to a military department or
defense agency 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 ap-
propriated 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.
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 119. During the five-year period after appro-
priations available to the Department of Defense for mili-
tary construction and family housing operation and main-
tenance and construction have expired for obligation, upon
a determination that such appropriations will not be nec-
essary for the liquidation of obligations or for making au-
thorized adjustments to such appropriations for obliga-
tions incurred during the period of availability of such ap-
propriations, unobligated balances of such appropriations
may be transferred into the appropriation ‘‘Foreign Cur-
rency Fluctuations, Construction, Defense’’ to be merged
with and to be available for the same time period and for
the same purposes as the appropriation to which trans-
ferred.
SEC. 120. The Secretary of Defense is to provide the
Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and the
House of Representatives with an annual report by Feb-
ruary 15, containing details of the specific actions pro-
posed to be taken by the Department of Defense during
the current fiscal year to encourage other member nations
of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization and Japan and
Korea to assume a greater share of the common defense
burden of such nations and the United States.
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(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)
SEC. 121. During the current fiscal year, in addition
to any other transfer authority available to the Depart-
ment of Defense, proceeds deposited to the Department
of Defense Base Closure Account established by section
207(a)(1) of the Defense Authorization Amendments and
Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100–526)
pursuant to section 207(a)(2)(C) of such Act, may be
transferred to the account established by section
2906(a)(1) of the Department of Defense Authorization
Act, 1991, to be merged with, and to be available for the
same purposes and the same time period as that account.
SEC. 122. The second paragraph under the heading,
‘‘Family Housing, Navy and Marine Corps’’ in title XI
of Public Law 102–368, is amended by inserting ‘‘and the
August 8, 1993 earthquake in Guam’’ immediately after
‘‘Typhoon Omar’’.
SEC. 123. (a) Of the budgetary resources available
to the Department of Defense for military construction
and family housing accounts during fiscal year 1995,
$10,421,000 are permanently canceled.
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall allocate the
amount of budgetary resources canceled among the De-
partment’s military construction and family housing ac-
counts available for procurement and procurement-related
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expenses. Amounts available for procurement and procure-
ment-related expenses in each such account shall be re-
duced by the amount allocated to such account.
(c) For the purposes of this section, the definition
of ‘‘procurement’’ includes all stages of the process of ac-
quiring property or services, beginning with the process
of determining a need for a product or services and ending
with contract completion and closeout, as specified in 41
U.S.C. 403(2).
SEC. 124. COMPLIANCE WITH BUY AMERICAN ACT.
No funds appropriated pursuant to this Act may be
expended by an entity unless the entity agrees that in ex-
pending the assistance the entity will comply with sections
2 through 4 of the Act of March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a–
10c, popularly known as the ‘‘Buy American Act’’).
SEC. 125. SENSE OF CONGRESS; REQUIREMENT REGARD-
ING NOTICE.
(a) PURCHASE
OF AMERICAN-MADE EQUIPMENT
AND PRODUCTS.—In the case of any equipment or prod-
ucts that may be authorized to be purchased with financial
assistance provided under this Act, it is the sense of the
Congress that entities receiving such assistance should, in
expending the assistance, purchase only American-made
equipment and products.
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(b) NOTICE
TO RECIPIENTS
OF ASSISTANCE.—In
providing financial assistance under this Act, the Sec-
retary of the Treasury shall provide to each recipient of
the assistance a notice describing the statement made in
subsection (a) by the Congress.
SEC. 126. PROHIBITION OF CONTRACTS.
If it has been finally determined by a court or Federal
agency that any person intentionally affixed a fraudulent
label bearing a ‘‘Made in America’’ inscription, or any in-
scription with the same meaning, to any product sold in
or shipped to the United States that was not made in the
United States, such person shall be ineligible to receive
any contract or subcontract made with funds provided
pursuant to this Act, pursuant to the debarment, suspen-
sion, and ineligibility procedures described in section
9.400 through 9.409 of title 48, Code of Federal Regula-
tions.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Military Construction
Approprations Act, 1995’’.
Passed the House of Representatives May 24, 1994.
Attest:
DONNALD K. ANDERSON,
Clerk.