In the Senate of the United States,
July 13, 2000.
Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representa-
tives (H.R. 4205) entitled ‘‘An Act to authorize appropria-
tions for fiscal year 2001 for military activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, for military construction, and for defense
activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe personnel
strengths for such fiscal year for the Armed Forces, and for
other purposes.’’, do pass with the following
AMENDMENT:
Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert:
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Defense Au-
thorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001’’.
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Sec. 125. Refueling and complex overhaul program of the CVN–69 nuclear air-
craft carrier.
Sec. 126. Remanufactured AV–8B aircraft.
Sec. 127. Anti-personnel obstacle breaching system.
Subtitle D—Air Force Programs
Sec. 131. Repeal of requirement for annual report on B–2 bomber aircraft pro-
gram.
Sec. 132. Conversion of AGM–65 Maverick missiles.
Subtitle E—Other Matters
Sec. 141. Pueblo Chemical Depot chemical agent and munitions destruction tech-
nologies.
Sec. 142. Integrated bridge systems for naval systems special warfare rigid inflat-
able boats and high-speed assault craft.
Sec. 143. Repeal of prohibition on use of Department of Defense funds for pro-
curement of nuclear-capable shipyard crane from a foreign
source.
TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND
EVALUATION
Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 202. Amount for basic and applied research.
Sec. 203. Additional authorization for research, development, test, and evaluation
on weathering and corrosion of aircraft surfaces and parts.
Subtitle B—Program Requirements, Restrictions, and
Limitations
Sec. 211. Fiscal year 2002 joint field experiment.
Sec. 212. Nuclear aircraft carrier design and production modeling.
Sec. 213. DD–21 class destroyer program.
Sec. 214. F–22 aircraft program.
Sec. 215. Joint strike fighter program.
Sec. 216. Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned aerial vehicle.
Sec. 217. Unmanned advanced capability aircraft and ground combat vehicles.
Sec. 218. Army space control technology development.
Sec. 219. Russian American Observation Satellites program.
Sec. 220. Joint biological defense program.
Sec. 221. Report on biological warfare defense vaccine research and development
programs.
Sec. 222. Technologies for detection and transport of pollutants attributable to
live-fire activities.
Sec. 223. Acoustic mine detection.
Sec. 224. Operational technologies for mounted maneuver forces.
Sec. 225. Air logistics technology.
Sec. 226. Precision Location and Identification Program (PLAID).
Sec. 227. Navy Information Technology Center and Human Resource Enterprise
Strategy.
Sec. 228. Joint Technology Information Center Initiative.
Sec. 229. Ammunition risk analysis capabilities.
Sec. 230. Funding for comparisons of medium armored combat vehicles.
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Subtitle C—Other Matters
Sec. 241. Mobile offshore base.
Sec. 242. Air Force science and technology planning.
Sec. 243. Enhancement of authorities regarding education partnerships for pur-
poses of encouraging scientific study.
TITLE III—OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE
Subtitle A—Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 301. Operation and maintenance funding.
Sec. 302. Working capital funds.
Sec. 303. Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Sec. 304. Transfer from National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.
Subtitle B—Program Requirements, Restrictions, and
Limitations
Sec. 311. Impact aid for children with disabilities.
Sec. 312. Joint warfighting capabilities assessment teams.
Sec. 313. Weatherproofing of facilities at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.
Sec. 314. Demonstration project for Internet access and services in rural commu-
nities.
Sec. 315. Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) sites.
Sec. 316. Mounted Urban Combat Training site, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
Sec. 317. MK–45 overhaul.
Sec. 318. Industrial mobilization capacity at Government-owned, Government-op-
erated Army ammunition facilities and arsenals.
Sec. 319. Close-in weapon system overhauls.
Sec. 320. Spectrum data base upgrades.
Subtitle C—Humanitarian and Civic Assistance
Sec. 321. Increased authority to provide health care services as humanitarian and
civic assistance.
Sec. 322. Use of humanitarian and civic assistance funding for pay and allow-
ances of Special Operations Command Reserves furnishing
demining training and related assistance as humanitarian as-
sistance.
Subtitle D—Department of Defense Industrial Facilities
Sec. 331. Codification and improvement of armament retooling and manufac-
turing support programs.
Sec. 332. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence.
Sec. 333. Effects of outsourcing on overhead costs of Centers of Industrial and
Technical Excellence and ammunition plants.
Sec. 334. Revision of authority to waive limitation on performance of depot-level
maintenance.
Sec. 335. Unutilized and underutilized plant-capacity costs of United States arse-
nals.
Subtitle E—Environmental Provisions
Sec. 341. Environmental restoration accounts.
Sec. 342. Payment of fines and penalties for environmental compliance viola-
tions.
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Sec. 343. Annual reports under Strategic Environmental Research and Develop-
ment Program.
Sec. 344. Payment of fines or penalties imposed for environmental compliance
violations at certain Department of Defense facilities.
Sec. 345. Reimbursement for certain costs in connection with the Former
Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site, Suffolk, Virginia.
Sec. 346. Environmental restoration activities.
Sec. 347. Ship disposal project.
Sec. 348. Report on Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information
Management program.
Sec. 349. Report on Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System.
Subtitle F—Other Matters
Sec. 361. Effects of worldwide contingency operations on readiness of certain
military aircraft and equipment.
Sec. 362. Realistic budgeting for readiness requirements of the Army.
Sec. 363. Additions to plan for ensuring visibility over all in-transit end items
and secondary items.
Sec. 364. Performance of emergency response functions at chemical weapons stor-
age installations.
Sec. 365. Congressional notification of use of radio frequency spectrum by a sys-
tem entering engineering and manufacturing development.
Sec. 366. Monitoring of value of performance of Department of Defense functions
by workforces selected from between public and private
workforces.
Sec. 367. Suspension of reorganization of Naval Audit Service.
Sec. 368. Investment of commissary trust revolving fund.
Sec. 369. Economic procurement of distilled spirits.
Sec. 370. Resale of armor-piercing ammunition disposed of by the Army.
Sec. 371. Damage to aviation facilities caused by alkali silica reactivity.
Sec. 372. Reauthorization of pilot program for acceptance and use of landing fees
charged for use of domestic military airfields by civil aircraft.
Sec. 373. Reimbursement by civil air carriers for support provided at Johnston
Atoll.
Sec. 374. Review of costs of maintaining historical properties.
Sec. 375. Extension of authority to sell certain aircraft for use in wildfire sup-
pression.
Sec. 376. Overseas airlift service on civil reserve air fleet aircraft.
Sec. 377. Defense travel system.
Sec. 378. Review of AH–64 aircraft program.
Sec. 379. Assistance for maintenance, repair, and renovation of school facilities
that serve dependents of members of the Armed Forces and De-
partment of Defense civilian employees.
Sec. 380. Postponement of implementation of Defense Joint Accounting System
(DJAS) pending analysis of the system.
TITLE IV—MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS
Subtitle A—Active Forces
Sec. 401. End strengths for active forces.
Subtitle B—Reserve Forces
Sec. 411. End strengths for Selected Reserve.
Sec. 412. End strengths for Reserves on active duty in support of the reserves.
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Sec. 413. End strengths for military technicians (dual status).
Sec. 414. Fiscal year 2001 limitation on non-dual status technicians.
Sec. 415. Increase in numbers of members in certain grades authorized to be on
active duty in support of the reserves.
Subtitle C—Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths
Sec. 421. Suspension of strength limitations during war or national emergency.
Sec. 422. Exclusion of certain reserve component members on active duty for
more than 180 days from active component end strengths.
Sec. 423. Exclusion of Army and Air Force medical and dental officers from lim-
itation on strengths of reserve commissioned officers in grades
below brigadier general.
Sec. 424. Authority for temporary increases in number of reserve personnel serv-
ing on active duty or full-time National Guard duty in certain
grades.
Sec. 425. Temporary exemption of Director of the National Security Agency from
limitations on number of Air Force officers above major general.
Subtitle D—Authorization of Appropriations
Sec. 431. Authorization of appropriations for military personnel.
TITLE V—MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY
Subtitle A—Officer Personnel Policy
Sec. 501. Eligibility of Army Reserve colonels and brigadier generals for position
vacancy promotions.
Sec. 502. Promotion zones for Coast Guard Reserve officers.
Sec. 503. Time for release of officer promotion selection board reports.
Sec. 504. Clarification of authority for posthumous commissions and warrants.
Sec. 505. Inapplicability of active-duty list promotion, separation, and involun-
tary retirement authorities to reserve general and flag officers
serving in certain positions designated for reserve officers by the
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Sec. 506. Review of actions of selection boards.
Sec. 507. Extension to all Air Force biomedical sciences officers of authority to
retain until specified age.
Sec. 508. Termination of application requirement for consideration of officers for
continuation on the Reserve Active-Status List.
Sec. 509. Technical corrections relating to retired grade of reserve commissioned
officers.
Sec. 510. Grade of chiefs of reserve components and directors of National Guard
components.
Sec. 511. Contingent exemption from limitation on number of Air Force officers
serving on active duty in grades above major general.
Subtitle B—Joint Officer Management
Sec. 521. Joint specialty designations and additional identifiers.
Sec. 522. Promotion objectives.
Sec. 523. Education.
Sec. 524. Length of joint duty assignment.
Sec. 525. Annual report to Congress.
Sec. 526. Multiple assignments considered as single joint duty assignment.
Sec. 527. Joint duty requirement for promotion to one-star grades.
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Subtitle C—Education and Training
Sec. 541. Eligibility of children of Reserves for Presidential appointment to serv-
ice academies.
Sec. 542. Selection of foreign students to receive instruction at service academies.
Sec. 543. Repeal of contingent funding increase for Junior Reserve Officers
Training Corps.
Sec. 544. Revision of authority for Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class tuition
assistance program.
Subtitle D—Matters Relating to Recruiting
Sec. 551. Army recruiting pilot programs.
Sec. 552. Enhancement of the joint and service recruitment market research and
advertising programs.
Sec. 553. Access to secondary schools for military recruiting purposes.
Subtitle E—Military Voting Rights Act of 2000
Sec. 561. Short title.
Sec. 562. Guarantee of residency.
Sec. 563. State responsibility to guarantee military voting rights.
Subtitle F—Other Matters
Sec. 571. Authority for award of Medal of Honor to certain specified persons.
Sec. 572. Waiver of time limitations for award of certain decorations to certain
persons.
Sec. 573. Ineligibility for involuntary separation pay upon declination of selec-
tion for continuation on active duty.
Sec. 574. Recognition by States of military testamentary instruments.
Sec. 575. Sense of Congress on the court-martial conviction of Captain Charles
Butler McVay, Commander of the U.S.S. Indianapolis, and on
the courageous service of its crew.
Sec. 576. Senior officers in command in Hawaii on December 7, 1941.
Sec. 577. Verbatim records in special courts-martial.
Sec. 578. Management and per diem requirements for members subject to lengthy
or numerous deployments.
Sec. 579. Extension of TRICARE managed care support contracts.
Sec. 580. Preparation, participation, and conduct of athletic competitions and
small arms competitions by the National Guard and members of
the National Guard.
TITLE VI—COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL
BENEFITS
Subtitle A—Pay and Allowances
Sec. 601. Increase in basic pay for fiscal year 2001.
Sec. 602. Corrections for basic pay tables.
Sec. 603. Pay in lieu of allowance for funeral honors duty.
Sec. 604. Clarification of service excluded in computation of creditable service as
a Marine Corps officer.
Sec. 605. Calculation of basic allowance for housing.
Sec. 606. Eligibility of members in grade E–4 to receive basic allowance for hous-
ing while on sea duty.
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Sec. 607. Personal money allowance for the senior enlisted members of the Armed
Forces.
Sec. 608. Increased uniform allowances for officers.
Sec. 609. Cabinet-level authority to prescribe requirements and allowance for
clothing of enlisted members.
Sec. 610. Special subsistence allowance for members eligible to receive food stamp
assistance.
Sec. 610A. Restructuring of basic pay tables for certain enlisted members.
Sec. 610B. Basic allowance for housing.
Subtitle B—Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays
Sec. 611. Extension of certain bonuses and special pay authorities for reserve
forces.
Sec. 612. Extension of certain bonuses and special pay authorities for nurse offi-
cer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse anesthetists.
Sec. 613. Extension of authorities relating to payment of other bonuses and spe-
cial pays.
Sec. 614. Consistency of authorities for special pay for reserve medical and dental
officers.
Sec. 615. Special pay for physician assistants of the Coast Guard.
Sec. 616. Authorization of special pay and accession bonus for pharmacy officers.
Sec. 617. Correction of references to Air Force veterinarians.
Sec. 618. Entitlement of active duty officers of the Public Health Service Corps
to special pays and bonuses of health professional officers of the
Armed Forces.
Sec. 619. Career sea pay.
Sec. 620. Increased maximum rate of special duty assignment pay.
Sec. 621. Expansion of applicability of authority for critical skills enlistment
bonus to include all Armed Forces.
Sec. 622. Entitlement of members of the National Guard and other reserves not
on active duty to receive special duty assignment pay.
Subtitle C—Travel and Transportation Allowances
Sec. 631. Advance payments for temporary lodging of members and dependents.
Sec. 632. Incentive for shipping and storing household goods in less than average
weights.
Sec. 633. Expansion of funded student travel.
Sec. 634. Benefits for members not transporting personal motor vehicles overseas.
Subtitle D—Retirement Benefits
Sec. 641. Exception to high-36 month retired pay computation for members re-
tired following a disciplinary reduction in grade.
Sec. 642. Automatic participation in reserve component Survivor Benefit Plan
unless declined with spouse’s consent.
Sec. 643. Participation in Thrift Savings Plan.
Sec. 644. Retirement from active reserve service after regular retirement.
Sec. 645. Same treatment for Federal judges as for other Federal officials regard-
ing payment of military retired pay.
Sec. 646. Policy on increasing minimum survivor benefit plan basic annuities for
surviving spouses age 62 or older.
Sec. 647. Survivor benefit plan annuities for survivors of all members who die
on active duty.
Sec. 648. Family coverage under servicemembers’ group life insurance.
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Sec. 649. Fees paid by residents of the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Sec. 650. Computation of survivor benefits.
Sec. 651. Equitable application of early retirement eligibility requirements to
military reserve technicians.
Sec. 652. Concurrent payment to surviving spouses of disability and indemnity
compensation and annuities under Survivor Benefit Plan.
Subtitle E—Other Matters
Sec. 661. Reimbursement of recruiting and ROTC personnel for parking expenses.
Sec. 662. Extension of deadline for filing claims associated with capture and in-
ternment of certain persons by North Vietnam.
Sec. 663. Settlement of claims for payments for unused accrued leave and for re-
tired pay.
Sec. 664. Eligibility of certain members of the Individual Ready Reserve for
Servicemembers’ Group Life Insurance.
Sec. 665. Authority to pay gratuity to certain veterans of Bataan and Cor-
regidor.
Sec. 666. Concurrent payment of retired pay and compensation for retired mem-
bers with service-connected disabilities.
Sec. 667. Travel by reserves on military aircraft to and from locations outside
the continental United States for inactive-duty training.
Sec. 668. Additional benefits and protections for personnel incurring injury, ill-
ness, or disease in the performance of funeral honors duty.
Sec. 669. Determinations of income eligibility for special supplemental food pro-
gram.
Sec. 670. Modification of time for use by certain members of the Selected Reserve
of entitlement to educational assistance.
Sec. 671. Recognition of members of the Alaska Territorial Guard as veterans.
Sec. 672. Clarification of Department of Veterans Affairs duty to assist.
Sec. 673. Back pay for members of the Navy and Marine Corps approved for pro-
motion while interned as prisoners of war during World War II.
Subtitle F—Education Benefits
Sec. 681. Short title.
Sec. 682. Transfer of entitlement to educational assistance by certain members of
the Armed Forces.
Sec. 683. Participation of additional members of the Armed Forces in Mont-
gomery GI Bill program.
Sec. 684. Modification of authority to pay tuition for off-duty training and edu-
cation.
Sec. 685. Modification of time for use by certain members of Selected Reserve of
entitlement to certain educational assistance.
Subtitle G—Additional Benefits For Reserves and Their
Dependents
Sec. 691. Sense of Congress.
Sec. 692. Travel by Reserves on military aircraft.
Sec. 693. Billeting services for Reserve members traveling for inactive duty train-
ing.
Sec. 694. Increase in maximum number of reserve retirement points that may be
credited in any year.
Sec. 695. Authority for provision of legal services to reserve component members
following release from active duty.
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TITLE VII—HEALTH CARE
Subtitle A—Senior Health Care
Sec. 701. Conditions for eligibility for CHAMPUS upon the attainment of 65
years of age.
Subtitle B—TRICARE Program
Sec. 711. Additional beneficiaries under TRICARE Prime Remote program in
CONUS.
Sec. 712. Elimination of copayments for immediate family.
Sec. 713. Improvement in business practices in the administration of the
TRICARE program.
Sec. 714. Improvement of access to health care under the TRICARE program.
Sec. 715. Enhancement of access to TRICARE in rural States.
Subtitle C—Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans
Affairs
Sec. 721. Tracking patient safety in military and veterans health care systems.
Sec. 722. Pharmaceutical identification technology.
Sec. 723. Medical informatics.
Subtitle D—Other Matters
Sec. 731. Permanent authority for certain pharmaceutical benefits.
Sec. 732. Provision of domiciliary and custodial care for CHAMPUS bene-
ficiaries.
Sec. 733. Medical and dental care for Medal of Honor recipients and their de-
pendents.
Sec. 734. School-required physical examinations for certain minor dependents.
Sec. 735. Two-year extension of dental and medical benefits for surviving depend-
ents of certain deceased members.
Sec. 736. Extension of authority for contracts for medical services at locations
outside medical treatment facilities.
Sec. 737. Transition of chiropractic health care demonstration program to perma-
nent status.
Sec. 738. Use of information technology for enhancement of delivery of adminis-
trative services under the Defense Health Program.
Sec. 739. Patient care reporting and management system.
Sec. 740. Health care management demonstration program.
Sec. 741. Studies of accrual financing for health care for military retirees.
Sec. 742. Augmentation of Army Medical Department by reserve officers of the
Public Health Service.
Sec. 743. Service areas of transferees of former uniformed services treatment fa-
cilities that are included in the uniformed services health care
delivery system.
Sec. 744. Blue ribbon advisory panel on Department of Defense policies regarding
the privacy of individual medical records.
TITLE VIII—ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION
MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED MATTERS
Sec. 801. Improvements in procurements of services.
Sec. 802. Addition of threshold value requirement for applicability of a reporting
requirement relating to multiyear contract.
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Sec. 803. Planning for the acquisition of information systems.
Sec. 804. Tracking of information technology purchases.
Sec. 805. Repeal of requirement for contractor assurances regarding the complete-
ness, accuracy, and contractual sufficiency of technical data pro-
vided by the contractor.
Sec. 806. Extension of authority for Department of Defense acquisition pilot pro-
grams.
Sec. 807. Clarification and extension of authority to carry out certain prototype
projects.
Sec. 808. Clarification of authority of Comptroller General to review records of
participants in certain prototype projects.
Sec. 809. Eligibility of small business concerns owned and controlled by women
for assistance under the Mentor-Protege Program.
Sec. 810. Navy-Marine Corps intranet acquisition.
Sec. 811. Qualifications required for employment and assignment in contracting
positions.
Sec. 812. Defense acquisition and support workforce.
Sec. 813. Financial analysis of use of dual rates for quantifying overhead costs
at Army industrial facilities.
Sec. 814. Revision of the organization and authority of the Cost Accounting
Standards Board.
Sec. 815. Revision of authority for solutions-based contracting pilot program.
Sec. 816. Appropriate use of personnel experience and educational requirements
in the procurement of information technology services.
Sec. 817. Study of Office of Management and Budget Circular A–76 process.
Sec. 818. Procurement notice through electronic access to contracting opportuni-
ties.
TITLE IX—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND
MANAGEMENT
Sec. 901. Repeal of limitation on major Department of Defense headquarters ac-
tivities personnel.
Sec. 902. Overall supervision of Department of Defense activities for combating
terrorism.
Sec. 903. National Defense Panel 2001.
Sec. 904. Quadrennial National Defense Panel.
Sec. 905. Inspector General investigations of prohibited personnel actions.
Sec. 906. Network centric warfare.
Sec. 907. Additional duties for the Commission To Assess United States National
Security Space Management and Organization.
Sec. 908. Special authority for administration of Navy Fisher Houses.
Sec. 909. Organization and management of the Civil Air Patrol.
Sec. 910. Responsibility for the National Guard Challenge Program.
Sec. 911. Supervisory control of Armed Forces Retirement Home Board by Sec-
retary of Defense.
Sec. 912. Consolidation of certain Navy gift funds.
Sec. 913. Temporary authority to dispose of a gift previously accepted for the
Naval Academy.
Sec. 914. Management of Navy research funds by Chief of Naval Research.
Sec. 915. United States Air Force Institute of Technology.
Sec. 916. Expansion of authority to exempt geodetic products of the Department
of Defense from public disclosure.
Sec. 917. Coordination and facilitation of development of directed energy tech-
nologies, systems, and weapons.
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TITLE X—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subtitle A—Financial Matters
Sec. 1001. Transfer authority.
Sec. 1002. Authorization of emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal
year 2000.
Sec. 1003. United States contribution to NATO common-funded budgets in fiscal
year 2001.
Sec. 1004. Annual OMB/CBO joint report on scoring of budget outlays.
Sec. 1005. Prompt payment of contract vouchers.
Sec. 1006. Repeal of certain requirements relating to timing of contract pay-
ments.
Sec. 1007. Plan for prompt posting of contractual obligations.
Sec. 1008. Plan for electronic submission of documentation supporting claims for
contract payments.
Sec. 1009. Administrative offsets for overpayment of transportation costs.
Sec. 1010. Repeal of certain provisions shifting certain outlays from one fiscal
year to another.
Sec. 1010A. Treatment of partial payments under service contracts.
Subtitle B—Counter-Drug Activities
Sec. 1011. Extension and increase of authority to provide additional support for
counter-drug activities.
Sec. 1012. Recommendations on expansion of support for counter-drug activities.
Sec. 1013. Review of riverine counter-drug program.
Subtitle C—Strategic Forces
Sec. 1015. Revised nuclear posture review.
Sec. 1016. Plan for the long-term sustainment and modernization of United
States strategic nuclear forces.
Sec. 1017. Correction of scope of waiver authority for limitation on retirement or
dismantlement of strategic nuclear delivery systems; authority to
waive limitation.
Sec. 1018. Report on the defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets.
Sec. 1019. Sense of Senate on the maintenance of the strategic nuclear TRIAD.
Subtitle D—Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements
Sec. 1021. Annual report of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on combat-
ant command requirements.
Sec. 1022. Semiannual report on Joint Requirements Oversight Council.
Sec. 1023. Preparedness of military installation first responders for incidents in-
volving weapons of mass destruction.
Sec. 1024. Date of submittal of reports on shortfalls in equipment procurement
and military construction for the reserve components in future-
years defense programs.
Sec. 1025. Management review of Defense Logistics Agency.
Sec. 1026. Management review of Defense Information Systems Agency.
Sec. 1027. Report on spare parts and repair parts program of the Air Force for
the C–5 aircraft.
Sec. 1028. Report on the status of domestic preparedness against the threat of bio-
logical terrorism.
Sec. 1029. Report on global missile launch early warning center.
Sec. 1030. Management review of working-capital fund activities.
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Sec. 1031. Report on submarine rescue support vessels.
Sec. 1032. Reports on Federal Government progress in developing information as-
surance strategies.
Subtitle E—Information Security
Sec. 1041. Institute for Defense Computer Security and Information Protection.
Sec. 1042. Information security scholarship program.
Sec. 1043. Process for prioritizing background investigations for security clear-
ances for Department of Defense personnel.
Sec. 1044. Authority to withhold certain sensitive information from public disclo-
sure.
Sec. 1045. Protection of operational files of the Defense Intelligence Agency.
Subtitle F—Other Matters
Sec. 1051. Commemoration of the fiftieth anniversary of the Uniform Code of
Military Justice.
Sec. 1052. Technical corrections.
Sec. 1053. Eligibility of dependents of American Red Cross employees for enroll-
ment in Department of Defense domestic dependent schools in
Puerto Rico.
Sec. 1054. Grants to American Red Cross for Armed Forces emergency services.
Sec. 1055. Transit pass program for certain Department of Defense personnel.
Sec. 1056. Fees for providing historical information to the public.
Sec. 1057. Access to criminal history record information for national security
purposes.
Sec. 1058. Sense of Congress on the naming of the CVN–77 aircraft carrier.
Sec. 1059. Donation of Civil War cannon.
Sec. 1060. Maximum size of parcel post packages transported overseas for Armed
Forces post offices.
Sec. 1061. Aerospace industry Blue Ribbon Commission.
Sec. 1062. Report to Congress regarding extent and severity of child poverty.
Sec. 1063. Improving property management.
Sec. 1064. Sense of the Senate regarding tax treatment of members receiving spe-
cial pay.
Sec. 1065. Department of Defense process for decisionmaking in cases of false
claims.
Sec. 1066. Sense of the Senate concerning long-term economic development aid for
communities rebuilding from Hurricane Floyd.
Sec. 1067. Authority to provide headstones or markers for marked graves or other-
wise commemorate certain individuals.
Sec. 1068. Comprehensive study and support for criminal investigations and
prosecutions by State and local law enforcement officials.
Sec. 1069. Student loan repayment programs.
Sec. 1070. Sense of the Senate on the modernization of Air National Guard F–
16A units.
Sec. 1071. Two-year extension of authority to engage in commercial activities as
security for intelligence collection activities.
Sec. 1072. Firefighter investment and response enhancement.
Sec. 1073. Breast cancer stamp extension.
Sec. 1074. Personnel security policies.
Sec. 1075. Additional matters for annual report on transfers of militarily sen-
sitive technology to countries and entities of concern.
Sec. 1076. National security implications of United States-China trade relation-
ship.
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Sec. 1077. Secrecy policies and worker health.
TITLE XI—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN
PERSONNEL POLICY
Sec. 1101. Computer/electronic accommodations program.
Sec. 1102. Additional special pay for foreign language proficiency beneficial for
United States national security interests.
Sec. 1103. Increased number of positions authorized for the Defense Intelligence
Senior Executive Service.
Sec. 1104. Extension of authority for tuition reimbursement and training for ci-
vilian employees in the defense acquisition workforce.
Sec. 1105. Work safety demonstration program.
Sec. 1106. Employment and compensation of employees for temporary organiza-
tions established by law or Executive order.
Sec. 1107. Extension of authority for voluntary separations in reductions in
force.
Sec. 1108. Electronic maintenance of performance appraisal systems.
Sec. 1109. Approval authority for cash awards in excess of $10,000.
Sec. 1110. Leave for crews of certain vessels.
Sec. 1111. Life insurance for emergency essential Department of Defense employ-
ees.
Sec. 1112. Civilian personnel services public-private competition pilot program.
Sec. 1113. Extension, expansion, and revision of authority for experimental per-
sonnel program for scientific and technical personnel.
Sec. 1114. Clarification of personnel management authority under a personnel
demonstration project.
Sec. 1115. Extension of authority for voluntary separations in reductions in
force.
Sec. 1116. Extension, revision, and expansion of authorities for use of voluntary
separation incentive pay and voluntary early retirement.
Sec. 1117. Department of Defense employee voluntary early retirement authority.
Sec. 1118. Restrictions on payments for academic training.
Sec. 1119. Strategic plan.
TITLE XII—MATTERS RELATING TO OTHER NATIONS
Sec. 1201. Authority to transfer naval vessels to certain foreign countries.
Sec. 1202. Support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor
Iraqi weapons activities.
Sec. 1203. Repeal of restriction preventing cooperative airlift support through ac-
quisition and cross-servicing agreements.
Sec. 1204. Western Hemisphere Institute for Professional Education and Train-
ing.
Sec. 1205. Biannual report on Kosovo peacekeeping.
Sec. 1206. Mutual assistance for monitoring test explosions of nuclear devices.
Sec. 1207. Annual report on activities and assistance under Cooperative Threat
Reduction programs.
Sec. 1208. Limitation on use of funds for construction of a Russian facility for
the destruction of chemical weapons.
Sec. 1209. Limitation on use of funds for Elimination of Weapons Grade Pluto-
nium Program.
Sec. 1210. Sense of Congress regarding the use of children as soldiers.
Sec. 1211. Support of consultations on Arab and Israeli arms control and re-
gional security issues.
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Sec. 1212. Authority to consent to retransfer of alternative former naval vessel by
Government of Greece.
Sec. 1213. United States-Russian Federation joint data exchange center on early
warning systems and notification of missile launches.
Sec. 1214. Adjustment of composite theoretical performance levels of high perform-
ance computers.
TITLE XIII—NAVY ACTIVITIES ON THE ISLAND OF
VIEQUES, PUERTO RICO
Sec. 1301. Assistance for economic growth on Vieques.
Sec. 1302. Requirement for referendum on continuation of Navy training.
Sec. 1303. Actions if training is approved.
Sec. 1304. Requirements if training is not approved or mandate for referendum
is vitiated.
Sec. 1305. Exempt property.
Sec. 1306. Moratorium on improvements at Fort Buchanan.
Sec. 1307. Property transferred to Secretary of the Interior.
Sec. 1308. Live Impact Area.
TITLE XIV—GOVERNMENT INFORMATION SECURITY
REFORM
Sec. 1401. Short title.
Sec. 1402. Coordination of Federal information policy.
Sec. 1403. Responsibilities of certain agencies.
Sec. 1404. Technical and conforming amendments.
Sec. 1405. Effective date.
TITLE XV—LOCAL LAW ENFORCEMENT ENHANCEMENT
ACT OF 2000
Sec. 1501. Short title.
Sec. 1502. Findings.
Sec. 1503. Definition of hate crime.
Sec. 1504. Support for criminal investigations and prosecutions by State and
local law enforcement officials.
Sec. 1505. Grant program.
Sec. 1506. Authorization for additional personnel to assist State and local law
enforcement.
Sec. 1507. Prohibition of certain hate crime acts.
Sec. 1508. Duties of Federal Sentencing Commission.
Sec. 1509. Statistics.
Sec. 1510. Severability.
DIVISION B—MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 2001. Short title.
TITLE XXI—ARMY
Sec. 2101. Authorized Army construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2102. Family housing.
Sec. 2103. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2104. Authorization of appropriations, Army.
Sec. 2105. Modification of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 2000
projects.
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Sec. 2106. Modification of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 1999
projects.
Sec. 2107. Modification of authority to carry out fiscal year 1998 project.
Sec. 2108. Authority to accept funds for realignment of certain military construc-
tion project, Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
TITLE XXII—NAVY
Sec. 2201. Authorized Navy construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2202. Family housing.
Sec. 2203. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2204. Authorization of appropriations, Navy.
Sec. 2205. Correction in authorized use of funds, Marine Corps Combat Develop-
ment Command, Quantico, Virginia.
TITLE XXIII—AIR FORCE
Sec. 2301. Authorized Air Force construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2302. Family housing.
Sec. 2303. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2304. Authorization of appropriations, Air Force.
TITLE XXIV—DEFENSE AGENCIES
Sec. 2401. Authorized Defense Agencies construction and land acquisition
projects.
Sec. 2402. Energy conservation projects.
Sec. 2403. Authorization of appropriations, Defense Agencies.
Sec. 2404. Modification of authority to carry out certain fiscal year 1990 project.
TITLE XXV—NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION
SECURITY INVESTMENT PROGRAM
Sec. 2501. Authorized NATO construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2502. Authorization of appropriations, NATO.
TITLE XXVI—GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES
Sec. 2601. Authorized Guard and Reserve construction and land acquisition
projects.
Sec. 2602. Authorization for contribution to construction of airport tower, Chey-
enne Airport, Cheyenne, Wyoming.
TITLE XXVII—EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF
AUTHORIZATIONS
Sec. 2701. Expiration of authorizations and amounts required to be specified by
law.
Sec. 2702. Extension of authorizations of certain fiscal year 1998 projects.
Sec. 2703. Extension of authorizations of certain fiscal year 1997 projects.
Sec. 2704. Effective date.
TITLE XXVIII—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Subtitle A—Military Construction Program and Military
Family Housing Changes
Sec. 2801. Joint use military construction projects.
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Sec. 2802. Exclusion of certain costs from determination of applicability of limi-
tation on use of funds for improvement of family housing.
Sec. 2803. Replacement of limitations on space by pay grade of military family
housing with requirement for local comparability of military
family housing.
Sec. 2804. Modification of lease authority for high-cost military family housing.
Sec. 2805. Applicability of competition policy to alternative authority for acqui-
sition and improvement of military housing.
Sec. 2806. Provision of utilities and services under alternative authority for ac-
quisition and improvement of military housing.
Sec. 2807. Extension of alternative authority for acquisition and improvement of
military housing.
Sec. 2808. Inclusion of readiness center in definition of armory for purposes of
construction of reserve component facilities.
Subtitle B—Real Property and Facilities Administration
Sec. 2811. Increase in threshold for reports to Congress on real property trans-
actions.
Sec. 2812. Enhancements of military lease authority.
Sec. 2813. Expansion of procedures for selection of conveyees under authority to
convey utility systems.
Subtitle C—Defense Base Closure and Realignment
Sec. 2821. Scope of agreements to transfer property to redevelopment authorities
without consideration under the base closure laws.
Subtitle D—Land Conveyances
PART I—ARMY CONVEYANCES
Sec. 2831. Land conveyance, Charles Melvin Price Support Center, Illinois.
Sec. 2832. Land conveyance, Lieutenant General Malcolm Hay Army Reserve
Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sec. 2833. Land conveyance, Colonel Harold E. Steele Army Reserve Center and
Maintenance Shop, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
Sec. 2834. Land conveyance, Fort Lawton, Washington.
Sec. 2835. Land conveyance, Vancouver Barracks, Washington.
Sec. 2836. Land conveyance, Fort Riley, Kansas.
Sec. 2837. Land conveyance, Army Reserve Center, Winona, Minnesota.
PART II—NAVY CONVEYANCES
Sec. 2851. Modification of land conveyance, Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro,
California.
Sec. 2852. Modification of land conveyance, Defense Fuel Supply Point, Casco
Bay, Maine.
Sec. 2853. Modification of land conveyance authority, former Naval Training
Center, Bainbridge, Cecil County, Maryland.
Sec. 2854. Land conveyance, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station,
Cutler, Maine.
Sec. 2855. Modification of authority for Oxnard Harbor District, Port Hueneme,
California, to use certain Navy property.
Sec. 2856. Regarding land conveyance, Marine Corps Base, Camp Lejeune, North
Carolina.
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PART III—AIR FORCE CONVEYANCES
Sec. 2861. Modification of land conveyance, Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Da-
kota.
Sec. 2862. Land conveyance, Los Angeles Air Force Base, California.
Sec. 2863. Land conveyance, Mukilteo Tank Farm, Everett, Washington.
PART IV—DEFENSE AGENCIES CONVEYANCES
Sec. 2871. Land conveyance, Army and Air Force Exchange Service property,
Farmers Branch, Texas.
PART V—OTHER CONVEYANCES
Sec. 2881. Land conveyance, former National Ground Intelligence Center, Char-
lottesville, Virginia.
Subtitle E—Other Matters
Sec. 2891. Naming of Army missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll as the Ron-
ald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein
Atoll.
Sec. 2892. Acceptance and use of gifts for construction of third building at United
States Air Force Museum, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base,
Ohio.
Sec. 2893. Development of Marine Corps Heritage Center at Marine Corps Base,
Quantico, Virginia.
Sec. 2894. Activities relating to the greenbelt at Fallon Naval Air Station, Ne-
vada.
Sec. 2895. Sense of Congress regarding land transfers at Melrose Range, New
Mexico, and Yakima Training Center, Washington.
DIVISION C—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECU-
RITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS
TITLE XXXI—DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL
SECURITY PROGRAMS
Subtitle A—National Security Programs Authorizations
Sec. 3101. National Nuclear Security Administration.
Sec. 3102. Defense environmental restoration and waste management.
Sec. 3103. Other defense activities.
Sec. 3104. Defense environmental management privatization.
Sec. 3105. Energy employees compensation initiative.
Sec. 3106. Defense nuclear waste disposal.
Subtitle B—Recurring General Provisions
Sec. 3121. Reprogramming.
Sec. 3122. Limits on general plant projects.
Sec. 3123. Limits on construction projects.
Sec. 3124. Fund transfer authority.
Sec. 3125. Authority for conceptual and construction design.
Sec. 3126. Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction activities.
Sec. 3127. Funds available for all national security programs of the Department
of Energy.
Sec. 3128. Availability of funds.
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Sec. 3129. Transfer of defense environmental management funds.
Subtitle C—National Nuclear Security Administration
Sec. 3131. Term of office of person first appointed as Under Secretary for Nuclear
Security of the Department of Energy.
Sec. 3132. Membership of Under Secretary for Nuclear Security on the Joint Nu-
clear Weapons Council.
Sec. 3133. Scope of authority of Secretary of Energy to modify organization of
National Nuclear Security Administration.
Sec. 3134. Prohibition on pay of personnel engaged in concurrent service or du-
ties inside and outside National Nuclear Security Administra-
tion.
Sec. 3135. Organization plan for field offices of the National Nuclear Security
Administration.
Sec. 3136. Future-years nuclear security program.
Sec. 3137. Cooperative research and development of the National Nuclear Security
Administration.
Sec. 3138. Construction of National Nuclear Security Administration operations
office complex.
Subtitle D—Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and
Limitations
Sec. 3151. Processing, treatment, and disposition of legacy nuclear materials.
Sec. 3152. Formerly Utilized Sites Remedial Action Program.
Sec. 3153. Department of Energy defense nuclear nonproliferation programs.
Sec. 3154. Modification of counterintelligence polygraph program.
Sec. 3155. Employee incentives for employees at closure project facilities.
Sec. 3156. Conceptual design for Subsurface Geosciences Laboratory at Idaho Na-
tional Engineering and Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls,
Idaho.
Sec. 3157. Tank Waste Remediation System, Hanford Reservation, Richland,
Washington.
Sec. 3158. Report on national ignition facility, Lawrence Livermore National
Laboratory, Livermore, California.
Subtitle E—National Laboratories Partnership Improvement
Act
Sec. 3161. Short title.
Sec. 3162. Definitions.
Sec. 3163. Technology Infrastructure Pilot Program.
Sec. 3164. Small business advocacy and assistance.
Sec. 3165. Technology partnerships ombudsman.
Sec. 3166. Studies related to improving mission effectiveness, partnerships, and
technology transfer at National Laboratories.
Sec. 3167. Other transactions authority.
Sec. 3168. Conformance with NNSA organizational structure.
Sec. 3169. Arctic energy.
Subtitle F—Other Matters
Sec. 3171. Extension of authority for appointment of certain scientific, engineer-
ing, and technical personnel.
Sec. 3172. Updates of report on nuclear test readiness postures.
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Sec. 3173. Frequency of reports on inadvertent releases of Restricted Data and
Formerly Restricted Data.
Sec. 3174. Form of certifications regarding the safety or reliability of the nuclear
weapons stockpile.
Sec. 3175. Engineering and manufacturing research, development, and dem-
onstration by plant managers of certain nuclear weapons pro-
duction plants.
Sec. 3176. Cooperative research and development agreements for Government-
owned, contractor-operated laboratories.
Sec. 3177. Commendation of Department of Energy and contractor employees for
exemplary service in stockpile stewardship and security.
Sec. 3178. Adjustment of threshold requirement for submission of reports on ad-
vanced computer sales to Tier III foreign countries.
Subtitle G—Russian Nuclear Complex Conversion
Sec. 3191. Short title.
Sec. 3192. Findings.
Sec. 3193. Expansion and enhancement of Nuclear Cities Initiative.
Sec. 3194. Sense of Congress on the establishment of a National Coordinator for
Nonproliferation Matters.
Sec. 3195. Definitions.
TITLE XXXII—DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY
BOARD
Sec. 3201. Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
TITLE XXXIII—NAVAL PETROLEUM RESERVES
Sec. 3301. Minimum price of petroleum sold from the naval petroleum reserves.
Sec. 3302. Repeal of authority to contract for cooperative or unit plans affecting
Naval Petroleum Reserve Numbered 1.
Sec. 3303. Land transfer and restoration.
TITLE XXXIV—NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE
Sec. 3401. Authorized uses of stockpile funds.
Sec. 3402. Increased receipts under prior disposal authority.
Sec. 3403. Disposal of titanium.
TITLE XXXV—ENERGY EMPLOYEES OCCUPATIONAL
ILLNESS COMPENSATION
Sec. 3501. Short title.
Sec. 3502. Construction with other laws.
Sec. 3503. Definitions.
Sec. 3504. Expansion of list of beryllium vendors and means of establishing cov-
ered beryllium illnesses.
Subtitle A—Beryllium, Silicosis, and Radiation Compensation
Sec. 3511. Exposure to hazards in the performance of duty.
Sec. 3512. Advisory board on radiation and worker health.
Sec. 3513. Designation of additional members of the Special Exposure Cohort.
Sec. 3514. Authority to provide compensation and other assistance.
Sec. 3515. Alternative compensation.
Sec. 3516. Submittal of claims.
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Sec. 3517. Adjudication and administration.
Subtitle B—Exposure to Other Toxic Substances
Sec. 3521. Definitions.
Sec. 3522. Agreements with States.
Subtitle C—General Provisions
Sec. 3531. Treatment of compensation and benefits.
Sec. 3532. Forfeiture of benefits by convicted felons.
Sec. 3533. Limitation on right to receive benefits.
Sec. 3534. Coordination of benefits—State workers’ compensation.
Sec. 3535. Coordination of benefits—Federal workers’ compensation.
Sec. 3536. Receipt of benefits—other statutes.
Sec. 3537. Dual compensation—Federal employees.
Sec. 3538. Dual compensation—other employees.
Sec. 3539. Exclusivity of remedy against the United States, contractors, and sub-
contractors.
Sec. 3540 Election of remedy against beryllium vendors and atomic weapons em-
ployers.
Sec. 3541. Subrogation of the United States.
Sec. 3542. Energy Employees’ Occupational Illness Compensation Fund.
Sec. 3543. Effective date.
Sec. 3544. Technical and conforming amendments.
SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES DEFINED.
For purposes of this Act, the term ‘‘congressional de-
fense committees’’ means—
(1) the Committee on Armed Services and the
Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and
(2) the Committee on Armed Services and the
Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives.
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DIVISION A—DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS
TITLE I—PROCUREMENT
Subtitle A—Authorization of
Appropriations
SEC. 101. ARMY.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for procurement for the Army as follows:
(1) For aircraft, $1,749,662,000.
(2) For missiles, $1,382,328,000.
(3) For weapons and tracked combat vehicles,
$2,115,138,000.
(4) For ammunition, $1,224,323,000.
(5) For other procurement, $4,039,670,000.
SEC. 102. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.
(a) NAVY.—Funds are hereby authorized to be appro-
priated for fiscal year 2001 for procurement for the Navy
as follows:
(1) For aircraft, $8,685,958,000.
(2) For weapons, including missiles and tor-
pedoes, $1,539,950,000.
(3) 
For 
shipbuilding 
and 
conversion,
$12,900,076,000.
(4) For other procurement, $3,378,311,000.
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(b) MARINE CORPS.—Funds are hereby authorized to
be appropriated for fiscal year 2001 for procurement for
the Marine Corps in the amount of $1,191,035,000.
(c) NAVY AND MARINE CORPS AMMUNITION.—Funds
are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year
2001 for procurement of ammunition for the Navy and the
Marine Corps in the amount of $500,749,000.
SEC. 103. AIR FORCE.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for procurement for the Air Force as follows:
(1) For aircraft, $9,968,371,000.
(2) For ammunition, $666,808,000.
(3) For missiles, $3,005,915,000.
(4) For other procurement, $7,724,527,000.
SEC. 104. DEFENSE-WIDE ACTIVITIES.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for Defense-wide procurement in the amount
of $2,203,508,000.
SEC. 105. DEFENSE INSPECTOR GENERAL.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for procurement for the Inspector General of
the Department of Defense in the amount of $3,300,000.
SEC. 106. CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION PROGRAM.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal
year 2001 the amount of $1,003,500,000 for—
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(1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and
munitions in accordance with section 1412 of the De-
partment of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (50
U.S.C. 1521); and
(2) the destruction of chemical warfare materiel
of the United States that is not covered by section
1412 of such Act.
SEC. 107. DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAMS.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for the Department of Defense for procure-
ment for carrying out health care programs, projects, and
activities of the Department of Defense in the total amount
of $290,006,000.
Subtitle B—Army Programs
SEC. 111. MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY FOR CER-
TAIN PROGRAMS.
(a) AUTHORITY.—Beginning with the fiscal year 2001
program year, the Secretary of the Army may, in accord-
ance with section 2306b of title 10, United States Code,
enter into multiyear contracts for procurement of the fol-
lowing:
(1) M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicles.
(2) UH–60L Blackhawk helicopters.
(3) CH–60S Seahawk helicopters.
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(b) LIMITATION FOR BRADLEY FIGHTING VEHICLES.—
The period for a multiyear contract entered into under sub-
section (a)(1) may not exceed the three consecutive program
years beginning with the fiscal year 2001 program year.
(c) REPEAL OF SUPERSEDED AUTHORITY.—Section
111 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2000 (Public Law 106–65; 113 Stat. 531) is amended
by striking paragraph (2).
SEC. 112. REPORTS AND LIMITATIONS RELATING TO ARMY
TRANSFORMATION.
(a) REPORT
ON OBJECTIVE FORCE DEVELOPMENT
PROCESS.—The Secretary of the Army shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on the process for
developing the objective force in the transformation of the
Army. The report shall include the following:
(1) The operational environments envisioned for
the objective force.
(2) The threat assumptions on which research
and development efforts for transformation of the
Army into the objective force are based.
(3) The potential operational and organizational
concepts for the objective force.
(4) The key performance parameters anticipated
for the objective force and the operational require-
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ments anticipated for the operational requirements
document of the objective force.
(5) The schedule of Army transformation activi-
ties through fiscal year 2012, together with—
(A) the projected funding requirements
through that fiscal year for the research and de-
velopment activities and the procurement activi-
ties;
(B) the specific adjustments that are made
for Army programs in the future-years defense
program and in the extended planning program
in order to program the funding necessary to
meet the funding requirements for Army trans-
formation; and
(C) a summary of the anticipated invest-
ments of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency in programs designed to lead to the field-
ing of future combat systems for the objective
force.
(6) The joint warfighting requirements that will
be supported by the fielding of the objective force, to-
gether with a description of the adjustments that are
planned to be made in the war plans of the com-
manders of the regional unified combatant commands
in relation to the fielding of the objective force.
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(7) The changes in lift requirements that result
from the establishment and fielding of the combat bri-
gades of the objective force.
(8) The evaluation process that will be used to
support decisionmaking on the course of the Army
transformation, including a description of the oper-
ational evaluations and experimentation that will be
used to validate the key performance parameters asso-
ciated with the objective force and the operational re-
quirements for the operational requirements document
of the objective force.
(b) REPORTS ON MEDIUM ARMORED COMBAT VEHI-
CLES FOR THE INTERIM BRIGADE COMBAT TEAMS.—(1)
The Secretary of the Army shall develop and carry out a
plan for comparing—
(A) the costs and operational effectiveness of the
medium armored combat vehicles selected for the in-
fantry battalions of the interim brigade combat
teams; and
(B) the costs and operational effectiveness of the
medium armored vehicles currently in the Army in-
ventory for the use of infantry battalions.
(2) The plan shall provide for the costs and operational
effectiveness of the two sets of vehicles to be determined on
the basis of the results of an operational analysis that in-
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volves the participation of at least one infantry battalion
that is fielded with medium armored vehicles currently in
the Army inventory and is similar in organization to the
infantry battalions of the interim brigade combat teams.
(3) The Director of Operational Test and Evaluation
of the Department of Defense shall review the plan devel-
oped under paragraph (1) and submit the Director’s com-
ments on the plan to the Secretary of the Army.
(4) Not later than February 1, 2001, the Secretary of
the Army shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report on the plan developed under paragraph (1).
The report shall include the following:
(A) The plan.
(B) The comments of the Director of Operational
Test and Evaluation on the plan.
(C) A discussion of how the results of the oper-
ational analysis are to be used to guide future deci-
sions on the acquisition of medium armored combat
vehicles for additional interim brigade combat teams.
(D) The specific adjustments that are made for
Army programs in the future-years defense program
and in the extended planning program in order to
program the funding necessary for fielding the in-
terim brigade combat teams.
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(5)(A) Not later than March 1, 2002, the Secretary of
the Army shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report on the results of the comparison of costs and
operational effectiveness of the two sets of medium armored
combat vehicles under paragraph (1).
(B) The report under subparagraph (A) shall include
a certification by the Secretary of Defense regarding wheth-
er the results of the comparison would support the continu-
ation in fiscal year 2003 and beyond of the acquisition of
the additional medium armored combat vehicles proposed
to be used for equipping the interim brigade combat teams.
(c) LIMITATIONS.—(1) Not more than 60 percent of the
amount appropriated for the procurement of armored vehi-
cles in the family of new medium armored vehicles pursu-
ant to the authorization of appropriations in section 101(3)
may be obligated until the date that is 30 days after the
date on which the Secretary of the Army submits the report
required under subsection (b)(4) to the congressional defense
committees.
(2) Not more than 60 percent of the funds appro-
priated for the Army for fiscal year 2002 for the procure-
ment of armored vehicles in the family of new medium ar-
mored combat vehicles may be obligated until the date that
is 30 days after the date on which the Secretary of the Army
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submits the report required under subsection (b)(5) to the
congressional defense committees.
(d) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
(1) The term ‘‘transformation’’, with respect to
the Army, means the actions being undertaken to
transform the Army, as it is constituted in terms of
organization, equipment, and doctrine in 2000, into
the objective force.
(2) The term ‘‘objective force’’ means the Army
that has the organizational structure, the most ad-
vanced equipment that early twenty-first century
science and technology can provide, and the appro-
priate doctrine to ensure that the Army is responsive,
deployable, agile, versatile, lethal, survivable, and sus-
tainable for the full spectrum of the operations antici-
pated to be required of the Army during the early
years of the twenty-first century following 2010.
(3) The term ‘‘interim brigade combat team’’
means an Army brigade that is designated by the
Secretary of the Army as a brigade combat team and
is reorganized and equipped with currently available
equipment in a configuration that effectuates an evo-
lutionary advancement toward transformation of the
Army to the objective force.
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SEC. 113. RAPID INTRAVENOUS INFUSION PUMPS.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under
section 101(5)—
(1) $6,000,000 shall be available for the procure-
ment of rapid intravenous infusion pumps; and
(2) the amount provided for the family of me-
dium 
tactical 
vehicles 
is 
hereby 
reduced 
by
$6,000,000.
Subtitle C—Navy Programs
SEC. 121. CVNX–1 NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER PROGRAM.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF SHIP.—The Secretary of the
Navy is authorized to procure the aircraft carrier to be des-
ignated CVNX–1.
(b) ADVANCE PROCUREMENT AND CONSTRUCTION.—
The Secretary may enter into one or more contracts for the
advance procurement and advance construction of compo-
nents for the ship authorized under subsection (a).
(c) AMOUNT AUTHORIZED FROM SCN ACCOUNT.—Of
the amounts authorized to be appropriated under section
102(a)(3) for fiscal year 2001, $21,869,000 is available for
the advance procurement and advance construction of com-
ponents (including nuclear components) for the CVNX–1
aircraft carrier program.
SEC. 122. ARLEIGH BURKE CLASS DESTROYER PROGRAM.
(a) ECONOMICAL MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT OF PRE-
VIOUSLY AUTHORIZED VESSELS
AND ONE ADDITIONAL
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VESSEL.—(1) Subsection (b) of section 122 of the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public
Law 104–201; 110 Stat. 2446), as amended by section
122(a) of Public Law 106–65 (113 Stat. 535), is further
amended by striking ‘‘a total of 18 Arleigh Burke class de-
stroyers’’ in the first sentence and all that follows through
the period at the end of that sentence and inserting ‘‘Arleigh
Burke class destroyers in accordance with this subsection
and subsection (a)(4) at procurement rates not in excess
of 3 ships in each of the fiscal years beginning after Sep-
tember 30, 1998, and before October 1, 2005. The authority
under the preceding sentence is subject to the availability
of appropriations for such destroyers.’’.
(2) The heading for such subsection is amended by
striking ‘‘18’’.
(b) ECONOMICAL RATE OF PROCUREMENT.—It is the
sense of Congress that, for the procurement of the Arleigh
Burke class destroyers to be procured after fiscal year 2001
under multiyear contracts authorized under section 122(b)
of Public Law 104–201—
(1) the Secretary of the Navy should—
(A) achieve the most economical rate of pro-
curement; and
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(B) enter into such contracts for advance
procurement as may be necessary to achieve that
rate of procurement;
(2) the most economical rate of procurement
would be achieved by procuring 3 of the destroyers in
each of fiscal years 2002 and 2003 and procuring an-
other destroyer in fiscal year 2004; and
(3) the Secretary has the authority under section
122(b) of Public Law 104–201 (110 Stat. 2446) and
subsections (b) and (c) of section 122 of Public Law
106–65 (113 Stat. 534) to provide for procurement at
the most economical rate, as described in paragraph
(2).
(c) UPDATE OF 1993 REPORT ON DDG–51 CLASS
SHIPS.—(1) The Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House
of Representatives, not later than November 1, 2000, a re-
port that updates the information provided in the report
of the Secretary of the Navy entitled the ‘‘Arleigh Burke
(DDG–51) Class Industrial Base Study of 1993’’. The Sec-
retary shall transmit a copy of the updated report to the
Comptroller General not later than the date on which the
Secretary submits the report to the committees.
(2) The Comptroller General shall review the updated
report submitted under paragraph (1) and, not later than
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December 1, 2000, submit to the Committees on Armed
Services of the Senate and House of Representatives the
Comptroller General’s comments on the updated report.
SEC. 123. VIRGINIA CLASS SUBMARINE PROGRAM.
(a) AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED FROM SCN ACCOUNT.—
Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section
102(a)(3) for fiscal year 2001, $1,711,234,000 is available
for the Virginia class submarine program.
(b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—(1) The Secretary of the
Navy is authorized to enter into a contract for the procure-
ment of up to five Virginia class submarines, including the
procurement of material in economic order quantities when
cost savings are achievable, during fiscal years 2003
through 2006. The submarines authorized under the pre-
ceding sentence are in addition to the submarines author-
ized under section 121(b) of the National Defense Author-
ization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105–85; 111
Stat. 1648).
(2) A contract entered into under paragraph (1) shall
include a clause that states that any obligation of the
United States to make a payment under this contract is
subject to the availability of appropriations for that pur-
pose.
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(c) SHIPBUILDER TEAMING.—Paragraphs (2)(A), (3),
and (4) of section 121(b) of Public Law 105–85 apply to
the procurement of submarines under this section.
(d) LIMITATION OF LIABILITY.—If a contract entered
into under this section is terminated, the United States
shall not be liable for termination costs in excess of the total
of the amounts appropriated for the Virginia class sub-
marine program that remain available for the program.
(e) REPORT REQUIREMENT.—At that same time that
the President submits the budget for fiscal year 2002 to
Congress under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States
Code, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congres-
sional defense committees a report on the Navy’s fleet of
fast attack submarines. The report shall include the fol-
lowing:
(1) A plan for maintaining at least 55 fast at-
tack submarines in commissioned service through
2015, including, by 2015, 18 Virginia class sub-
marines.
(2) Two assessments of the potential savings that
would be achieved under the Virginia class submarine
program if the production rate for such program were
at least two submarines each fiscal year, as follows:
(A) An assessment if that were the produc-
tion rate beginning in fiscal year 2004.
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(B) An assessment if that were the produc-
tion rate beginning in fiscal year 2006.
(3) An analysis of the advantages and disadvan-
tages of various contracting strategies for Virginia
class submarine program, including one or more
multiyear procurement strategies and one or more
strategies for block buy with economic order quantity.
SEC. 124. ADC(X) SHIP PROGRAM.
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Sec-
retary of the Navy may procure the construction of all
ADC(X) class ships in one shipyard if the Secretary deter-
mines that it is more cost effective to do so than to procure
the construction of such ships from more than one shipyard.
SEC. 125. REFUELING AND COMPLEX OVERHAUL PROGRAM
OF THE CVN–69 NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CAR-
RIER.
(a) AMOUNT AUTHORIZED FROM SCN ACCOUNT.—Of
the amount authorized to be appropriated by section
102(a)(3) for fiscal year 2001, $703,441,000 is available for
the commencement of the nuclear refueling and complex
overhaul of the CVN–69 aircraft carrier during fiscal year
2001. The amount made available in the preceding sentence
is the first increment in the incremental funding planned
for the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul of the CVN–
69 aircraft carrier.
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(b) CONTRACT AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of the
Navy is authorized to enter into a contract during fiscal
year 2001 for the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul
of the CVN–69 nuclear aircraft carrier.
(c) CONDITION
FOR
OUT-YEAR
CONTRACT
PAY-
MENTS.—A contract entered into under subsection (b) shall
include a clause that states that any obligation of the
United States to make a payment under the contract for
a fiscal year after fiscal year 2001 is subject to the avail-
ability of appropriations for that purpose for that later fis-
cal year.
SEC. 126. REMANUFACTURED AV–8B AIRCRAFT.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by sec-
tion 102(a)(1)—
(1) $318,646,000 is available for the procurement
of remanufactured AV–8B aircraft;
(2) $15,200,000 is available for the procurement
of UC–35 aircraft;
(3) $3,300,000 is available for the procurement
of automatic flight control systems for EA–6B air-
craft; and
(4) $46,000,000 is available for engineering
change proposal 583 for FA–18 aircraft.
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SEC. 127. ANTI-PERSONNEL OBSTACLE BREACHING SYS-
TEM.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
under section 102(c), $4,000,000 is available only for the
procurement of the anti-personnel obstacle breaching sys-
tem.
Subtitle D—Air Force Programs
SEC. 131. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR ANNUAL REPORT
ON B–2 BOMBER AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.
Section 112 of the National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 101–189; 103
Stat. 1373), as amended by section 141 of Public Law 104–
106 (110 Stat. 213), is repealed.
SEC. 132. CONVERSION OF AGM–65 MAVERICK MISSILES.
(a) INCREASE IN AMOUNT.—The amount authorized to
be appropriated by section 103(3) for procurement of mis-
siles for the Air Force is hereby increased by $2,100,000.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNT.—(1) Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 103(3), as increased
by subsection (a), $2,100,000 shall be available for In-Serv-
ice Missile Modifications for the purpose of the conversion
of Maverick missiles in the AGM–65B and AGM–65G con-
figurations to Maverick missiles in the AGM–65H and
AGM–65K configurations.
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(2) The amount available under paragraph (1) for the
purpose specified in that paragraph is in addition to any
other amounts available under this Act for that purpose.
(c) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 103(1) for procurement of aircraft for
the Air Force is hereby reduced by $2,100,000, with the
amount of the reduction applicable to amounts available
under that section for ALE–50 Code Decoys.
Subtitle E—Other Matters
SEC. 141. PUEBLO CHEMICAL DEPOT CHEMICAL AGENT AND
MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION TECHNOLOGIES.
(a) LIMITATION.—In determining the technologies to
be used for the destruction of the stockpile of lethal chemical
agents and munitions at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado,
whether under the assessment required by section 141(a) of
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 (Public Law 106–65; 113 Stat. 537; 50 U.S.C. 1521
note), the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment, or any
other assessment, the Secretary of Defense may consider
only the following technologies:
(1) Incineration.
(2) Any technologies demonstrated under the As-
sembled Chemical Weapons Assessment on or before
May 1, 2000.
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(b) ASSEMBLED CHEMICAL WEAPONS ASSESSMENT
DEFINED.—As used in subsection (a), the term ‘‘Assembled
Chemical Weapons Assessment’’ means the pilot program
carried out under section 8065 of the Department of Defense
Appropriations Act, 1997 (section 101(b) of Public Law
104–208; 110 Stat. 3009–101; 50 U.S.C. 1521 note).
SEC. 142. INTEGRATED BRIDGE SYSTEMS FOR NAVAL SYS-
TEMS SPECIAL WARFARE RIGID INFLATABLE
BOATS AND HIGH-SPEED ASSAULT CRAFT.
(a) INCREASE IN AUTHORIZATION FOR PROCUREMENT,
DEFENSE-WIDE.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 104 for procurement, Defense-wide, is
hereby increased by $7,000,000.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNT.—Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 104, as increased by
subsection (a), $7,000,000 shall be available for the procure-
ment and installation of integrated bridge systems for naval
systems special warfare rigid inflatable boats and high-
speed assault craft for special operations forces.
(c) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 103(4), for other procurement for the Air
Force, is hereby reduced by $7,000,000.
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SEC. 143. REPEAL OF PROHIBITION ON USE OF DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE FUNDS FOR PROCURE-
MENT 
OF 
NUCLEAR-CAPABLE 
SHIPYARD
CRANE FROM A FOREIGN SOURCE.
Section 8093 of the Department of Defense Appropria-
tions Act, 2000 (Public Law 106–79; 113 Stat. 1253) is
amended by striking subsection (d), relating to a prohibi-
tion on the use of Department of Defense funds to procure
a nuclear-capable shipyard crane from a foreign source.
TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOP-
MENT, TEST, AND EVALUA-
TION
Subtitle A—Authorization of
Appropriations
SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for the use of the Department of Defense for
research, development, test, and evaluation as follows:
(1) For the Army, $5,501,946,000.
(2) For the Navy, $8,665,865,000.
(3) For the Air Force, $13,887,836,000.
(4) For Defense-wide activities, $11,275,202,000,
of which $223,060,000 is authorized for the Director
of Operational Test and Evaluation.
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SEC. 202. AMOUNT FOR BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH.
(a) FISCAL YEAR 2001.—Of the amounts authorized
to be appropriated by section 201, $4,702,604,000 shall be
available for basic research and applied research projects.
(b) BASIC RESEARCH AND APPLIED RESEARCH DE-
FINED.—For purposes of this section, the term ‘‘basic re-
search and applied research’’ means work funded in pro-
gram elements for defense research and development under
Department of Defense category 6.1 or 6.2.
SEC. 203. ADDITIONAL AUTHORIZATION FOR RESEARCH,
DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION ON
WEATHERING AND CORROSION OF AIRCRAFT
SURFACES AND PARTS.
(a) INCREASE IN AUTHORIZATION.—The amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 201(3) is hereby in-
creased by $1,500,000.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The amount available
under section 201(3), as increased by subsection (a), for re-
search, development, test, and evaluation on weathering and
corrosion of aircraft surfaces and parts (PE62102F) is
hereby increased by $1,500,000.
(c) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4) is hereby decreased by $1,500,000,
with the amount of such decrease being allocated to Sensor
and Guidance Technology (PE63762E).
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Subtitle B—Program Requirements,
Restrictions, and Limitations
SEC. 211. FISCAL YEAR 2002 JOINT FIELD EXPERIMENT.
(a) REQUIREMENTS.—The Secretary of Defense shall
carry out a joint field experiment in fiscal year 2002. The
Secretary shall ensure that the planning for the joint field
experiment is carried out during fiscal year 2001.
(b) PURPOSE.—The purpose of the joint field experi-
ment is to explore the most critical war fighting challenges
at the operational level of war that will confront United
States joint military forces after 2010.
(c) PARTICIPATING FORCES.—(1) The joint field ex-
periment shall involve elements of Army, Navy, Marine
Corps, and Air Force, and shall include special operations
forces.
(2) The forces designated to participate in the joint
field experiment shall exemplify the concepts for organiza-
tion, equipment, and doctrine that are conceived for the
forces after 2010 under Joint Vision 2010 (issued by the
Joint Chiefs of Staff) and the current vision statements of
the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval Operations
and the Commandant of the Marine Corps, and the Chief
of Staff of the Air Force, including the following concepts:
(A) Air Force expeditionary aerospace forces.
(B) Army medium weight brigades.
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(C) Navy forward from the sea.
(d) FUNDING.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated under section 201(2) for joint experimentation,
$6,000,000 shall be available only for planning the joint
field experiment required under this section.
SEC. 212. NUCLEAR AIRCRAFT CARRIER DESIGN AND PRO-
DUCTION MODELING.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under
section 201(2) for the Navy for nuclear aircraft carrier de-
sign and production modeling, $10,000,000 shall be avail-
able for the conversion and development of nuclear aircraft
carrier design data into an electronic, three-dimensional
product model.
SEC. 213. DD–21 CLASS DESTROYER PROGRAM.
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of the Navy is author-
ized to pursue a technology insertion approach for the con-
struction of the DD–21 destroyer on the following schedule:
(1) Commencement of construction during fiscal
year 2004.
(2) Delivery of the completed vessel during fiscal
year 2009.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—It is the sense of Congress
that—
(1) there are compelling reasons for starting the
program for constructing the DD–21 destroyer in fis-
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cal year 2004 and continuing with sequential con-
struction of DD–21 class destroyers during the ensu-
ing fiscal years until 32 DD–21 class destroyers are
constructed; and
(2) the Secretary of the Navy, in providing for
the acquisition of DD–21 class destroyers, should con-
sider that—
(A) the Marine Corps needs the surface fire
support capabilities of the DD–21 class destroy-
ers as soon as possible in order to mitigate the
inadequacies of the surface fire support capabili-
ties that are currently available;
(B) the Navy and Marine Corps need to re-
solve whether there is a requirement for surface
fire support missile weapon systems to be easily
sustainable by means of replenishment while
under way;
(C) the technology insertion approach has
been successful for other ship construction pro-
grams and is being pursued for the CVN(X) and
Virginia class submarine programs;
(D) the establishment of a stable configura-
tion for the first 10 DD–21 class destroyers
should enable the construction of the ships with
the greatest capabilities at the lowest cost; and
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(E) action to acquire DD–21 class destroy-
ers should be taken as soon as possible in order
to realize fully the cost savings that can be de-
rived from the construction and operation of
DD–21 class destroyers, including—
(i) savings in construction costs that
would result from achievement of the Navy’s
target per-ship cost of $750,000,000 by the
fifth ship constructed in each construction
yard;
(ii) savings that will result from the
estimated reduction of the crews of destroy-
ers by 200 or more personnel for each ship;
and
(iii) savings that will result from a re-
duction in the operating costs for destroyers
by an estimated 70 percent.
(c) NAVY PLAN FOR USE OF TECHNOLOGY INSERTION
APPROACH FOR CONSTRUCTION OF THE DD–21 SHIP.—
The Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the Committees
on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Rep-
resentatives, not later than April 18, 2001, a plan for pur-
suing a technology insertion approach for the construction
of the DD–21 destroyer as authorized under subsection (a).
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The plan shall include estimates of the resources necessary
to execute the plan.
(d) REPORT ON ACQUISITION AND MAINTENANCE PLAN
FOR DD–21 CLASS SHIPS.—The Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate
and House of Representatives, not later than April 18,
2001, a report on the Navy’s plan for the acquisition and
maintenance of DD–21 class destroyers. The report shall in-
clude a discussion of each of the following matters:
(1) The technical feasibility of commencing con-
struction of the DD–21 destroyer in fiscal year 2004
and achieving delivery of the completed ship to the
Navy during fiscal year 2009.
(2) An analysis of the advantages and disadvan-
tages of various contracting strategies for the con-
struction of the first 10 DD–21 class destroyers, in-
cluding one or more multiyear procurement strategies
and one or more strategies for block buy in economic
order quantity.
(3) The effects on the destroyer industrial base
and on costs to other Navy shipbuilding programs of
delaying the commencement of construction of the
DD–21 destroyer until fiscal year 2005 and delaying
the commencement of construction of the next DD–21
class destroyer until fiscal year 2007.
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(4) The effects on the fleet maintenance strategies
of Navy fleet commanders, on commercial mainte-
nance facilities in fleet concentration areas, and on
the administration of funds in compliance with sec-
tion 2466 of title 10, United States Code, of awarding
to a contractor for the construction of a DD–21 class
destroyer all maintenance workloads for DD–21 class
destroyers that are below depot-level maintenance and
above ship-level maintenance.
SEC. 214. F–22 AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.
Section 217(c) of the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105–85; 111 Stat.
1660) is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) With respect to the limitation in subsection
(a), an increase by an amount that does not exceed
one percent of the total amount of that limitation
(taking into account the increases and decreases, if
any, under paragraphs (1) and (2)) if the Director of
Operational Test and Evaluation, after consulting
with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,
Technology, and Logistics, determines that the in-
crease is necessary in order to ensure adequate test-
ing.’’.
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SEC. 215. JOINT STRIKE FIGHTER PROGRAM.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than December 15, 2000, the
Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the joint
strike fighter program. The report shall contain the fol-
lowing:
(1) A description of the program as the program
has been restructured before the date of the report, in-
cluding any modified acquisition strategy that has
been incorporated into the program.
(2) The exit criteria that have been established to
ensure that technical risks are at levels acceptable for
entry of the program into engineering and manufac-
turing development.
(b) TRANSFERS FROM OTHER NAVY AND AIR FORCE
ACCOUNTS.—(1) Notwithstanding any other provision of
this Act, the Secretary may transfer to the joint strike fight-
er program or within the joint strike fighter program
amounts authorized to be appropriated under section 201
for a purpose other than the purpose of the authorization
of appropriations to which transferred, as follows:
(A) Of the funds authorized to be appropriated
under section 201(2), up to $150,000,000.
(B) Of the funds authorized to be appropriated
under section 201(3), up to $150,000,000.
(2) The transfer authority under paragraph (1) is in
addition to the transfer authority provided in section 1001.
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SEC. 216. GLOBAL HAWK HIGH ALTITUDE ENDURANCE UN-
MANNED AERIAL VEHICLE.
(a) CONCEPT DEMONSTRATION REQUIRED.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall require and coordinate a concept
demonstration of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance
unmanned aerial vehicle.
(b) PURPOSE OF DEMONSTRATION.—The purpose of
the concept demonstration is to demonstrate the capability
of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned aer-
ial vehicle to operate in an airborne surveillance mode,
using available, non-developmental technology.
(c) TIME FOR DEMONSTRATION.—The demonstration
shall take place as early in fiscal year 2001 as the Secretary
determines practicable.
(d) PARTICIPATION BY CINCS.—The Secretary shall
require the Commander in Chief of the United States Joint
Forces Command and the Commander in Chief of the
United States Southern Command jointly to provide guid-
ance for the demonstration and otherwise to participate in
the demonstration.
(e) SCENARIO FOR DEMONSTRATION.—The demonstra-
tion shall be conducted in a counter-drug surveillance sce-
nario that is designed to replicate factual conditions typi-
cally encountered in the performance of the counter-drug
surveillance mission of the Commander in Chief of the
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United States Southern Command within that com-
mander’s area of responsibility.
(f) REPORT.—Not later than 45 days after the concept
demonstration is completed, the Secretary shall submit to
Congress a report on the results of the demonstration. The
report shall include the following:
(1) The Secretary’s assessment of the technical
feasibility of using the Global Hawk high altitude en-
durance unmanned aerial vehicle for airborne air
surveillance.
(2) A discussion of the operational concept for
the use of the vehicle for that purpose.
SEC. 217. UNMANNED ADVANCED CAPABILITY AIRCRAFT
AND GROUND COMBAT VEHICLES.
(a) GOAL.—It shall be a goal of the Armed Forces to
achieve the fielding of unmanned, remotely controlled tech-
nology such that—
(1) by 2010, one-third of the operational deep
strike aircraft of the Armed Forces are unmanned;
and
(2) by 2015, one-third of the operational ground
combat vehicles of the Armed Forces are unmanned.
(b) REPORT ON ADVANCED CAPABILITY GROUND COM-
BAT VEHICLES.—Not later than January 31, 2001, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense
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committees a report on each of the programs undertaken
by the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force jointly
with the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects
Agency to demonstrate advanced capability ground combat
vehicles. The report shall include the following for the pro-
gram of each military department:
(1) A schedule for the program, including, in the
case of the Army program, a schedule for the dem-
onstration of the capability for unmanned, remotely
controlled operation of advanced capability ground
combat vehicles for the Army.
(2) An identification of the funding required for
fiscal year 2002 and for the future-years defense pro-
gram to carry out the program and, in the case of the
Army program, for the demonstration described in
paragraph (1).
(3) A description and assessment of the acquisi-
tion strategy for unmanned ground combat vehicles
planned by the Secretary of the military department
concerned, together with a complete identification of
all operation, support, ownership, and other costs re-
quired to carry out such strategy through the year
2030.
(c) FUNDS.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated for Defense-wide activities under section 201(4) for
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the 
Defense 
Advanced 
Research 
Projects 
Agency,
$200,000,000 shall be available only to carry out the pro-
grams referred to in subsection (b).
SEC. 218. ARMY SPACE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY DEVELOP-
MENT.
(a) KINETIC ENERGY ANTI-SATELLITE TECHNOLOGY
PROGRAM.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated
under section 201(4), $20,000,000 shall be available for the
kinetic energy anti-satellite technology program.
(b) OTHER ARMY SPACE CONTROL TECHNOLOGY DE-
VELOPMENT.—Of the funds authorized to be appropriated
under section 201(4), $5,000,000 shall be available for the
development of space control technologies that emphasize re-
versible or temporary effects.
(c) LIMITATION.—None of the funds made available
pursuant to subsection (b) may be obligated until the funds
provided for the kinetic energy anti-satellite technology pro-
gram under subsection (a) have been released to the kinetic
energy anti-satellite technology program manager.
SEC. 219. RUSSIAN AMERICAN OBSERVATION SATELLITES
PROGRAM.
None of the funds authorized to be appropriated under
section 201(4) for the Russian American Observation Sat-
ellites program may be obligated or expended until 30 days
after the Secretary of Defense submits to Congress a report
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explaining how the Secretary plans to protect United States
advanced military technology that may be associated with
the Russian American Observation Satellites program.
SEC. 220. JOINT BIOLOGICAL DEFENSE PROGRAM.
(a) LIMITATION.—Funds authorized to be appro-
priated by this Act may not be obligated for the procure-
ment of a vaccine for the biological agent anthrax until the
Secretary of Defense has submitted to the congressional de-
fense committees the following:
(1) A written notification that the Food and
Drug Administration has approved for production of
the vaccine the manufacturing source from which the
Department of Defense is procuring the vaccine as of
the date of the enactment of this Act (hereafter in this
section referred to as the ‘‘current manufacturer’’).
(2) A report on the contingencies associated with
continuing to rely on the current manufacturer to
supply anthrax vaccine.
(b) CONTENT OF REPORT.—The report required under
subsection (a)(2) shall include the following:
(1) Recommended strategies to mitigate the risk
to the Department of Defense of losing the current
manufacturer as a source of anthrax vaccine, together
with a discussion of the criteria to be applied in de-
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termining whether to carry out any of the strategies
and which strategy to carry out.
(2) Recommended strategies to ensure that the
Department of Defense can procure from any source
or sources an anthrax vaccine approved by the Food
and Drug Administration that meets the requirements
of the department if—
(A) the Food and Drug Administration does
not approve the release of the anthrax vaccine
available from the current manufacturer; or
(B) the current manufacturer terminates the
production of anthrax vaccine permanently.
(3) A five-year budget to support each strategy
recommended under paragraph (1) or (2).
SEC. 221. REPORT ON BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE VAC-
CINE RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRO-
GRAMS.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—The Secretary of
Defense shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees, not later than February 1, 2001, a report on the acqui-
sition of biological warfare defense vaccines for the Depart-
ment of Defense.
(b) CONTENT OF REPORT.—The report shall include
the following:
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(1) The Secretary’s evaluation of the implica-
tions of reliance on the commercial sector to meet the
requirements of the Department of Defense for biologi-
cal warfare defense vaccines.
(2) A complete design for a facility at an alter-
native site determined by the Secretary that is de-
signed to be operated under government ownership by
a contractor for the production of biological warfare
defense vaccines to meet the current and future re-
quirements of the Department of Defense for biological
warfare defense vaccines, together with—
(A) an estimation of the cost of contractor
operation of such a facility for that purpose;
(B) a determination, developed in consulta-
tion with the Surgeon General of the United
States, on the utility of such a facility to support
civilian vaccine requirements and a discussion of
the effects that the use of the facility for that
purpose would have on the operating costs for
vaccine production at the facility; and
(C) an analysis of the effects that inter-
national demand for vaccines would have on the
operating costs for vaccine production at such a
facility.
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(c) BIOLOGICAL WARFARE DEFENSE VACCINE DE-
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘biological warfare de-
fense vaccine’’ means a vaccine useful for the immunization
of military personnel to protect against biological agents
on the Validated Threat List issued by the Joint Chiefs of
Staff, whether such vaccine is in production or is being de-
veloped.
SEC. 222. TECHNOLOGIES FOR DETECTION AND TRANS-
PORT OF POLLUTANTS ATTRIBUTABLE TO
LIVE-FIRE ACTIVITIES.
(a) INCREASE IN AMOUNT.—The amount authorized to
be appropriated by section 201(4) for research, development,
test, and evaluation Defense-wide is hereby increased by
$5,000,000.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNT.—Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 201(4), as increased
by subsection (a), the amount available for the Strategic
Environmental 
Research 
and 
Development 
Program
(PE6034716D) is hereby increased by $5,000,000, with the
amount of such increase available for the development and
test of technologies to detect, analyze, and map the presence
of, and transport of, pollutants and contaminants at sites
undergoing the detection and remediation of constituents
attributable to live-fire activities in a variety of
hydrogeological scenarios.
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(c) ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENT.—Performance meas-
ures shall be established for the technologies described in
subsection (b) for purposes of facilitating the implementa-
tion and utilization of such technologies by the Department
of Defense.
(d) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4) for research, development, test,
and evaluation, Defense-wide is hereby decreased by
$5,000,000, with the amount of such decrease applied to
Computing Systems and Communications Technology
(PE602301E).
SEC. 223. ACOUSTIC MINE DETECTION.
(a) INCREASE IN AMOUNT.—(1) The amount author-
ized to be appropriated by section 201(1) for research, devel-
opment, test, and evaluation for the Army is hereby in-
creased by $2,500,000.
(2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 201(1), as increased by paragraph (1), the amount
available for Countermine Systems (PE602712A) is hereby
increased by $2,500,000, with the amount of such increase
available for research in acoustic mine detection.
(b) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4) for research, development, test,
and evaluation Defense-wide is hereby decreased by
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$2,500,000, with the amount of such decrease to be applied
to Sensor Guidance Technology (PE603762E).
SEC. 224. OPERATIONAL TECHNOLOGIES FOR MOUNTED
MANEUVER FORCES.
(a) INCREASE IN AMOUNT.—(1) The amount author-
ized to be appropriated by section 201(1) for research, devel-
opment, test, and evaluation for the Army is hereby in-
creased by $5,000,000.
(2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 201(1), as increased by paragraph (1), the amount
available 
for 
Concepts 
Experimentation 
Program
(PE605326A) is hereby increased by $5,000,000, with the
amount of such increase available for test and evaluation
of future operational technologies for use by mounted ma-
neuver forces.
(b) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4) for research, development, test,
and evaluation Defense-wide is hereby decreased by
$5,000,000, with the amount of such decrease to be applied
to Computing Systems and Communications Technology
(PE602301E).
SEC. 225. AIR LOGISTICS TECHNOLOGY.
(a) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNT.—Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for research,
development, test, and evaluation Defense-wide, the amount
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available for Generic Logistics Research and Development
Technology Demonstrations (PE603712S) is hereby in-
creased by $300,000, with the amount of such increase
available for air logistics technology.
(b) OFFSET.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4), the amount available for Com-
puting 
Systems 
and 
Communications 
Technology
(PE602301E) is hereby decreased by $300,000.
SEC. 226. PRECISION LOCATION AND IDENTIFICATION PRO-
GRAM (PLAID).
(a) INCREASE IN AMOUNT.—(1) The amount author-
ized to be appropriated by section 201(3) for research, devel-
opment, test, and evaluation for the Air Force is hereby in-
creased by $8,000,000.
(2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 201(3), as increased by paragraph (1), the amount
available 
for 
Electronic 
Warfare 
Development
(PE604270F) is hereby increased by $8,000,000, with the
amount of such increase available for the Precision Loca-
tion and Identification Program (PLAID).
(b) OFFSET.—The amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(1) for research, development, test,
and evaluation for the Army is hereby decreased by
$8,000,000, with the amount of the reduction applied to
Electronic Warfare Development (PE604270A).
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SEC. 227. NAVY INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY CENTER AND
HUMAN RESOURCE ENTERPRISE STRATEGY.
(a) AVAILABILITY OF INCREASED AMOUNT.—(1) Of the
amount authorized to be appropriated by section 201(2),
for research, development, test, and evaluation for the Navy,
$5,000,000 shall be available for the Navy Program Execu-
tive Office for Information Technology for purposes of the
Information Technology Center and for the Human Re-
source Enterprise Strategy implemented under section 8147
of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999
(Public Law 105–262; 112 Stat. 2341; 10 U.S.C. 113 note).
(2) Amounts made available under paragraph (1) for
the purposes specified in that paragraph are in addition
to any other amounts made available under this Act for
such purposes.
(b) OFFSET.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(2), the amount available for Marine
Corps Assault Vehicles (PE603611M) is hereby reduced by
$5,000,000.
SEC. 228. JOINT TECHNOLOGY INFORMATION CENTER INI-
TIATIVE.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under
section 201(4)—
(1) $20,000,000 shall be available for the Joint
Technology Information Center Initiative; and
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(2) the amount provided for cyber attack sensing
and warning under the information systems security
program 
(account 
0303140G) 
is 
reduced 
by
$20,000,000.
SEC. 229. AMMUNITION RISK ANALYSIS CAPABILITIES.
(a) AVAILABILITY OF AMOUNT.—Of the amount au-
thorized to be appropriated by section 201(4) for research,
development, test, and evaluation Defense-wide, the amount
available for Explosives Demilitarization Technology
(PE603104D) is hereby increased by $5,000,000, with the
amount of such increase available for research into ammu-
nition risk analysis capabilities.
(b) OFFSET.—Of the amount authorized to be appro-
priated by section 201(4), the amount available for Com-
puting 
Systems 
and 
Communications 
Technology
(PE602301E) is hereby decreased by $5,000,000.
SEC. 230. FUNDING FOR COMPARISONS OF MEDIUM AR-
MORED COMBAT VEHICLES.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under
section 201(1), $40,000,000 shall be available for the ad-
vanced tank armament system program for the development
and execution of the plan for comparing costs and oper-
ational effectiveness of medium armored combat vehicles re-
quired under section 112(b).
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Subtitle C—Other Matters
SEC. 241. MOBILE OFFSHORE BASE.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 2001, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the
mobile offshore base concept.
(b) CONTENT OF REPORT.—The report shall contain
the following:
(1) A cost-benefit analysis of the mobile offshore
base, using operational concepts that would support
the National Military Strategy.
(2) A recommendation regarding whether to pro-
ceed with the mobile offshore base as a program and,
if so—
(A) a statement regarding which of the
Armed Forces is to be designated to have the lead
responsibility for the program; and
(B) a schedule for the program.
SEC. 242. AIR FORCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY PLAN-
NING.
(a) REPORT.—Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Air Force
shall submit to the congressional defense committees a re-
port on the long-term challenges and short-term objectives
of the Air Force science and technology program. The report
shall include the following:
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(1) An assessment of the budgetary resources that
are being used for fiscal year 2001 for addressing the
long-term challenges and the short-term objectives.
(2) The budgetary resources that are necessary to
address those challenges and objectives adequately.
(3) A course of action for any projected or ongo-
ing Air Force science and technology programs that
do not address either the long-term challenges or the
short-term objectives.
(4) The matters required under subsection (b)(5)
and (c)(6).
(b) LONG-TERM CHALLENGES.—(1) The Secretary of
the Air Force shall establish an integrated product team
to identify high-risk, high-payoff challenges that will pro-
vide a long-term focus and motivation for the Air Force
science and technology program over the next 20 to 50
years. The integrated product team shall include represent-
atives of the Office of Scientific Research and personnel
from the Air Force Research Laboratory.
(2) The team shall solicit views from the entire Air
Force science and technology community on the matters
under consideration by the team.
(3) The team—
(A) shall select for consideration science and
technology challenges that involve—
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(i) compelling requirements of the Air
Force;
(ii) high-risk, high-payoff areas of explo-
ration; and
(iii) very difficult, but probably achievable,
results; and
(B) should not include as a selected challenge
any linear extension of an ongoing Air Force science
and technology program.
(4) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Science, Technology, and Engineering shall designate a
technical coordinator and a management coordinator for
each science and technology challenge identified pursuant
to this subsection. Each technical coordinator shall have suf-
ficient expertise in fields related to the challenge to be able
to identify other experts and affirm the credibility of the
program. The coordinator for a science and technology chal-
lenge shall conduct workshops within the relevant scientific
and technological community to obtain suggestions for pos-
sible approaches to addressing the challenge, to identify on-
going work that addresses the challenge, to identify gaps
in current work relating to the challenge, and to highlight
promising areas of research.
(5) The report required by subsection (a) shall, at a
minimum, provide information on each science and tech-
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nology challenge identified pursuant to this subsection and
describe the results of the workshops conducted pursuant to
paragraph (4), including any work not currently funded
by the Air Force that should be performed to meet the chal-
lenge.
(c) SHORT-TERM OBJECTIVES.—(1) The Secretary of
the Air Force shall establish a task force to identify short-
term technological objectives of the Air Force science and
technology program. The task force shall be chaired by the
Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Science,
Technology, and Engineering and shall include representa-
tives of the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the specified
combatant commands of the Air Force.
(2) The task force shall solicit views from the entire
Air Force requirements community, user community, and
acquisition community.
(3) The task force shall select for consideration short-
term objectives that involve—
(A) compelling requirements of the Air Force;
(B) support in the user community; and
(C) likely attainment of the desired benefits
within a 5-year period.
(4) The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force
for Science, Technology, and Engineering shall establish an
integrated product team for each short-term objective identi-
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fied pursuant to this subsection. Each integrated product
team shall include representatives of the requirements com-
munity, the user community, and the science and tech-
nology community with relevant expertise.
(5) The integrated product team for a short-term objec-
tive shall be responsible for—
(A) identifying, defining, and prioritizing the
enabling capabilities that are necessary for achieving
the objective;
(B) identifying gaps in the enabling capabilities
that must be addressed if the short-term objective is
to be achieved; and
(C) working with the Air Force science and tech-
nology community to identify science and technology
projects and programs that should be undertaken to
fill each gap in an enabling capability.
(6) The report required by subsection (a) shall, at a
minimum, describe each short-term science and technology
objective identified pursuant to this subsection and describe
the work of the integrated product teams conducted pursu-
ant to paragraph (5), including any gaps identified in ena-
bling capabilities and the science and technology work that
should be undertaken to fill each such gap.
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SEC. 243. ENHANCEMENT OF AUTHORITIES REGARDING
EDUCATION PARTNERSHIPS FOR PURPOSES
OF ENCOURAGING SCIENTIFIC STUDY.
(a) ASSISTANCE IN SUPPORT OF PARTNERSHIPS.—
Subsection (b) of section 2194 of title 10, United States
Code, is amended—
(1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by
inserting ‘‘, and is encouraged to provide,’’ after
‘‘may provide’’;
(2) in paragraph (1), by inserting before the
semicolon the following: ‘‘for any purpose and dura-
tion in support of such agreement that the director
considers appropriate’’; and
(3) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the
following new paragraph (2):
‘‘(2) notwithstanding the provisions of the Fed-
eral Property and Administrative Services Act of
1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.) or any provision of law
or regulation relating to transfers of surplus property,
transferring to the institution any defense laboratory
equipment (regardless of the nature of type of such
equipment) surplus to the needs of the defense labora-
tory that is determined by the director to be appro-
priate for support of such agreement;’’.
(b) DEFENSE LABORATORY DEFINED.—Subsection (e)
of that section is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘(e) In this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘defense laboratory’ means any
laboratory, product center, test center, depot, training
and educational organization, or operational com-
mand under the jurisdiction of the Department of De-
fense.
‘‘(2) The term ‘local educational agency’ has the
meaning given such term in section 14101 of the Ele-
mentary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 8801).’’.
TITLE III—OPERATION AND
MAINTENANCE
Subtitle A—Authorization of
Appropriations
SEC. 301. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FUNDING.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for the use of the Armed Forces and other
activities and agencies of the Department of Defense for ex-
penses, not otherwise provided for, for operation and main-
tenance, in amounts as follows:
(1) For the Army, $19,031,031,000.
(2) For the Navy, $23,254,154,000.
(3) For the Marine Corps, $2,746,558,000.
(4) For the Air Force, $22,389,077,000.
(5) For Defense-wide activities, $11,922,069,000.
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(6) For the Army Reserve, $1,526,418,000.
(7) For the Naval Reserve, $965,946,000.
(8) For the Marine Corps Reserve, $138,959,000.
(9) For the Air Force Reserve, $1,890,859,000.
(10) 
For 
the 
Army 
National 
Guard,
$3,222,335,000.
(11) 
For 
the 
Air 
National 
Guard,
$3,450,875,000.
(12) 
For 
the 
Defense 
Inspector 
General,
$144,245,000.
(13) For the United States Court of Appeals for
the Armed Forces, $8,574,000.
(14) For Environmental Restoration, Army,
$389,932,000.
(15) For Environmental Restoration, Navy,
$294,038,000.
(16) For Environmental Restoration, Air Force,
$376,300,000.
(17) For Environmental Restoration, Defense-
wide, $23,412,000.
(18) For Environmental Restoration, Formerly
Used Defense Sites, $231,499,000.
(19) For Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and
Civic Aid programs, $55,400,000.
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(20) For Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug
Activities, Defense-wide, $845,300,000.
(21) For the Kaho’olawe Island Conveyance, Re-
mediation, and Environmental Restoration Trust
Fund, $25,000,000.
(22) 
For 
Defense 
Health 
Program,
$11,401,723,000.
(23) For Cooperative Threat Reduction pro-
grams, $458,400,000.
(24) For Overseas Contingency Operations
Transfer Fund, $4,100,577,000.
SEC. 302. WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2001 for the use of the Armed Forces and other
activities and agencies of the Department of Defense for
providing capital for working capital and revolving funds
in amounts as follows:
(1) For the Defense Working Capital Funds,
$916,276,000.
(2) For the National Defense Sealift Fund,
$388,158,000.
SEC. 303. ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME.
There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal
year 2001 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust
Fund the sum of $69,832,000 for the operation of the Armed
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Forces Retirement Home, including the United States Sol-
diers’ and Airmen’s Home and the Naval Home.
SEC. 304. TRANSFER FROM NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE
TRANSACTION FUND.
(a) TRANSFER AUTHORITY.—To the extent provided in
appropriations Acts, not more than $150,000,000 is author-
ized to be transferred from the National Defense Stockpile
Transaction Fund to operation and maintenance accounts
for fiscal year 2001 in amounts as follows:
(1) For the Army, $50,000,000.
(2) For the Navy, $50,000,000.
(3) For the Air Force, $50,000,000.
(b) TREATMENT
OF TRANSFERS.—Amounts trans-
ferred under this section—
(1) shall be merged with, and be available for the
same purposes and the same period as, the amounts
in the accounts to which transferred; and
(2) may not be expended for an item that has
been denied authorization of appropriations by Con-
gress.
(c) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER TRANSFER AUTHOR-
ITY.—The transfer authority provided in this section is in
addition to the transfer authority provided in section 1001.
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Subtitle B—Program Requirements,
Restrictions, and Limitations
SEC. 311. IMPACT AID FOR CHILDREN WITH DISABILITIES.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
under section 301(5) for payments under section 8003 of
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20
U.S.C. 7703), $20,000,000 is available only for payments
for children with disabilities under subsection (d) of such
section.
SEC. 312. JOINT WARFIGHTING CAPABILITIES ASSESSMENT
TEAMS.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
under section 301(5) for the Joint Staff, $4,000,000 is
available only for the improvement of the performance of
analyses by the joint warfighting capabilities assessment
teams of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.
SEC. 313. WEATHERPROOFING OF FACILITIES AT KEESLER
AIR FORCE BASE, MISSISSIPPI.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 301(4), $2,800,000 is available for the weather-
proofing of facilities at Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi.
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SEC. 314. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT FOR INTERNET AC-
CESS AND SERVICES IN RURAL COMMU-
NITIES.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of the Army, acting
through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, shall carry
out a demonstration project to provide Internet access and
services to rural communities that are unserved or under-
served by the Internet.
(b) PROJECT ELEMENTS.—In carrying out the dem-
onstration project, the Secretary shall—
(1) establish and operate distance learning class-
rooms in communities described in subsection (a), in-
cluding any support systems required for such class-
rooms; and
(2) subject to subsection (c), provide Internet ac-
cess and services in such classrooms through
GuardNet, the telecommunications infrastructure of
the National Guard.
(c) AVAILABILITY OF ACCESS AND SERVICES.—Under
the demonstration project, Internet access and services shall
be available to the following:
(1) Personnel and elements of governmental
emergency management and response entities located
in communities served by the demonstration project.
(2) Members and units of the Army National
Guard located in such communities.
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(3) Businesses located in such communities.
(4) Personnel and elements of local governments
in such communities.
(5) Other appropriate individuals and entities
located in such communities.
(d) REPORT.—Not later than February 1, 2005, the
Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the dem-
onstration project. The report shall describe the activities
under the demonstration project and include any rec-
ommendations for the improvement or expansion of the
demonstration project that the Secretary considers appro-
priate.
(e) FUNDING.—(1) The amount authorized to be ap-
propriated by section 301(10) for operation and mainte-
nance of the Army National Guard is hereby increased by
$15,000,000.
(2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 301(10), as increased by paragraph (1), $15,000,000
shall be available for the demonstration project required by
this section.
(3) It is the sense of Congress that requests of the Presi-
dent for funds for the National Guard for fiscal years after
fiscal year 2001 should provide for sufficient funds for the
continuation of the demonstration project required by this
section.
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SEC. 315. TETHERED AEROSTAT RADAR SYSTEM (TARS)
SITES.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Failure to operate and standardize the cur-
rent Tethered Aerostat Radar System (TARS) sites
along the Southwest border of the United States and
the Gulf of Mexico will result in a degradation of the
counterdrug capability of the United States.
(2) Most of the illicit drugs consumed in the
United States enter the United States through the
Southwest border, the Gulf of Mexico, and Florida.
(3) The Tethered Aerostat Radar System is a
critical component of the counterdrug mission of the
United States relating to the detection and apprehen-
sion of drug traffickers.
(4) Preservation of the current Tethered Aerostat
Radar System network compels drug traffickers to
transport illicit narcotics into the United States by
more risky and hazardous routes.
(b) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—Of the amount author-
ized to be appropriated by section 301(20) for Drug Inter-
diction and Counter-drug Activities, Defense-wide, up to
$33,000,000 may be made available to Drug Enforcement
Policy Support (DEP&S) for purposes of maintaining op-
erations of the 11 current Tethered Aerostat Radar System
(TARS) sites and completing the standardization of such
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sites located along the Southwest border of the United States
and in the States bordering the Gulf of Mexico.
SEC. 316. MOUNTED URBAN COMBAT TRAINING SITE, FORT
KNOX, KENTUCKY.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
under section 301(1) for training range upgrades,
$4,000,000 is available for the Mounted Urban Combat
Training site, Fort Knox, Kentucky.
SEC. 317. MK–45 OVERHAUL.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated
under section 301(1) for maintenance, $12,000,000 is avail-
able for overhaul of MK–45 5-inch guns.
SEC. 318. INDUSTRIAL MOBILIZATION CAPACITY AT GOV-
ERNMENT-OWNED, GOVERNMENT-OPERATED
ARMY AMMUNITION FACILITIES AND ARSE-
NALS.
Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under
section 301(1), $51,280,000 shall be available for funding
the industrial mobilization capacity at Army ammunition
facilities and arsenals that are government owned, govern-
ment operated.
SEC. 319. CLOSE-IN WEAPON SYSTEM OVERHAULS.
Of the total amount authorized to be appropriated by
section 301(2), $391,806,000 is available for weapons main-
tenance.
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SEC. 320. SPECTRUM DATA BASE UPGRADES.
The total amount authorized to be appropriated by sec-
tion 301(5) for Spectrum data base upgrades is reduced by
$10,000,000.
Subtitle C—Humanitarian and
Civic Assistance
SEC. 321. INCREASED AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE HEALTH
CARE 
SERVICES 
AS 
HUMANITARIAN 
AND
CIVIC ASSISTANCE.
Section 401(e)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘rural areas of a country’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘areas of a country that are rural or are underserved
by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals, respec-
tively’’.
SEC. 322. USE OF HUMANITARIAN AND CIVIC ASSISTANCE
FUNDING FOR PAY AND ALLOWANCES OF SPE-
CIAL OPERATIONS COMMAND RESERVES FUR-
NISHING DEMINING TRAINING AND RELATED
ASSISTANCE AS HUMANITARIAN ASSISTANCE.
Section 401(c) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) Up to 10 percent of the funds available in any
fiscal year for humanitarian and civic assistance described
in subsection (e)(5) may be expended for the pay and allow-
ances of reserve component personnel of the Special Oper-
ations Command for periods of duty for which the per-
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sonnel, for a humanitarian purpose, furnish education and
training on the detection and clearance of landmines or fur-
nish related technical assistance.’’.
Subtitle D—Department of Defense
Industrial Facilities
SEC. 331. CODIFICATION AND IMPROVEMENT OF ARMA-
MENT 
RETOOLING 
AND 
MANUFACTURING
SUPPORT PROGRAMS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) Part IV of subtitle B of title
10, United States Code, is amended by inserting after chap-
ter 433 the following:
‘‘CHAPTER 434—ARMAMENTS INDUSTRIAL
BASE
‘‘Sec.
‘‘4551. Policy.
‘‘4552. Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative.
‘‘4553. Property management contracts and leases.
‘‘4554. ARMS Initiative loan guarantee program.
‘‘4555. Definitions.
‘‘§ 4551. Policy
‘‘It is the policy of the United States—
‘‘(1) to encourage, to the maximum extent prac-
ticable, commercial firms to use Government-owned,
contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing fa-
cilities of the Department of the Army;
‘‘(2) to use such facilities for supporting pro-
grams, projects, policies, and initiatives that promote
competition in the private sector of the United States
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economy and that advance United States interests in
the global marketplace;
‘‘(3) to increase the manufacture of products in-
side the United States;
‘‘(4) to support policies and programs that pro-
vide manufacturers with incentives to assist the
United States in making more efficient and economi-
cal use of Government-owned industrial plants and
equipment for commercial purposes;
‘‘(5) to provide, as appropriate, small businesses
(including socially and economically disadvantaged
small business concerns and new small businesses)
with incentives that encourage those businesses to un-
dertake manufacturing and other industrial proc-
essing activities that contribute to the prosperity of
the United States;
‘‘(6) to encourage the creation of jobs through in-
creased investment in the private sector of the United
States economy;
‘‘(7) to foster a more efficient, cost-effective, and
adaptable armaments industry in the United States;
‘‘(8) to achieve, with respect to armaments man-
ufacturing capacity, an optimum level of readiness of
the national technology and industrial base within
the United States that is consistent with the projected
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threats to the national security of the United States
and the projected emergency requirements of the
Armed Forces of the United States; and
‘‘(9) to encourage facility use contracting where
feasible.
‘‘§ 4552. Armament Retooling and Manufacturing
Support Initiative
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY FOR INITIATIVE.—The Secretary of
the Army may carry out a program to be known as the
‘Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initia-
tive’ (hereafter in this chapter referred to as the ‘ARMS
Initiative’).
‘‘(b) PURPOSES.—The purposes of the ARMS Initia-
tive are as follows:
‘‘(1) To encourage commercial firms, to the max-
imum extent practicable, to use Government-owned,
contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing fa-
cilities of the Department of the Army for commercial
purposes.
‘‘(2) To increase the opportunities for small busi-
nesses (including socially and economically disadvan-
taged small business concerns and new small busi-
nesses) to use such facilities for those purposes.
‘‘(3) To maintain in the United States a work
force having the skills in manufacturing processes
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that are necessary to meet industrial emergency
planned requirements for national security purposes.
‘‘(4) To demonstrate innovative business prac-
tices, to support Department of Defense acquisition
reform, and to serve as both a model and a laboratory
for future defense conversion initiatives of the Depart-
ment of Defense.
‘‘(5) To the maximum extent practicable, to
allow the operation of Government-owned, contractor-
operated ammunition manufacturing facilities of the
Department of the Army to be rapidly responsive to
the forces of free market competition.
‘‘(6) To reduce or eliminate the cost of ownership
of ammunition manufacturing facilities by the De-
partment of the Army, including the costs of oper-
ations and maintenance, the costs of environmental
remediation, and other costs.
‘‘(7) To reduce the cost of products of the Depart-
ment of Defense produced at ammunition manufac-
turing facilities of the Department of the Army.
‘‘(8) To leverage private investment at Govern-
ment-owned, contractor-operated ammunition manu-
facturing facilities through long-term facility use con-
tracts, property management contracts, leases, or
other agreements that support and advance the poli-
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cies and purposes of this chapter, for the following ac-
tivities:
‘‘(A) Recapitalization of plant and equip-
ment.
‘‘(B) Environmental remediation.
‘‘(C) Promotion of commercial business ven-
tures.
‘‘(D) Other activities.
‘‘(9) To foster cooperation between the Depart-
ment of the Army, property managers, commercial
interests, and State and local agencies in the imple-
mentation of sustainable development strategies and
investment in facilities made available for purposes of
the ARMS Initiative.
‘‘(10) To reduce or eliminate the cost of asset dis-
posal prior to a declaration by the Secretary of the
Army that property is excess to the needs of the De-
partment of the Army.
‘‘(c) AVAILABILITY OF FACILITIES.—(1) The Secretary
of the Army may make any Government-owned, contractor-
operated ammunition manufacturing facility of the Depart-
ment of the Army available for the purposes of the ARMS
Initiative.
‘‘(2) The authority under paragraph (1) applies to a
facility described in that paragraph without regard to
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whether the facility is active, inactive, in layaway or care-
taker status, or is designated (in whole or in part) as excess
property under property classification procedures applica-
ble under title II of the Federal Property and Administra-
tive Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 481 et seq.).
‘‘(d) PRECEDENCE
OF PROVISION OVER CERTAIN
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT LAWS.—The following provisions
of law shall not apply to uses of property or facilities in
accordance with this section to the extent that such provi-
sions of law are inconsistent with the exercise of the author-
ity of this section:
‘‘(1) Section 2667(a)(3) of this title.
‘‘(2) The Federal Property and Administrative
Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 471 et seq.).
‘‘(3) Section 321 of the Act of June 30, 1932
(commonly known as the ‘Economy Act’) (40 U.S.C.
303b).
‘‘(e) PROGRAM SUPPORT.—(1) Funds appropriated for
purposes of the ARMS Initiative may be used for adminis-
trative support and management.
‘‘(2) A full annual accounting of such expenses for each
fiscal year shall be provided to the Committees on Armed
Services and on Appropriations of the Senate and the
House of Representatives not later than March 30 of the
following fiscal year.
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‘‘§ 4553. Property management contracts and leases
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—In the case of each Government-
owned, contractor-operated ammunition manufacturing fa-
cility of the Department of the Army that is made available
for the ARMS Initiative, the Secretary of the Army—
‘‘(1) shall make full use of facility use contracts,
leases, and other such commercial contractual instru-
ments as may be appropriate;
‘‘(2) shall evaluate, on the basis of efficiency,
cost, emergency mobilization requirements, and the
goals and purposes of the ARMS Initiative, the pro-
curement of services from the property manager, in-
cluding maintenance, operation, modification, infra-
structure, environmental restoration and remediation,
and disposal of ammunition manufacturing assets,
and other services; and
‘‘(3) may, in carrying out paragraphs (1) and
(2)—
‘‘(A) enter into contracts, and provide for
subcontracts, for terms up to 25 years, as the
Secretary considers appropriate and consistent
with the needs of the Department of the Army
and the goals and purposes of the ARMS Initia-
tive; and
‘‘(B) use procedures that are authorized to
be used under section 2304(c)(5) of this title
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when the contractor or subcontractor is a source
specified in law.
‘‘(b) CONSIDERATION FOR USE.—(1) To the extent
provided in a contract entered into under this section for
the use of property at a Government-owned, contractor-op-
erated ammunition manufacturing facility that is account-
able under the contract, the Secretary of the Army may ac-
cept consideration for such use that is, in whole or in part,
in a form other than—
‘‘(A) rental payments; or
‘‘(B) revenue generated at the facility.
‘‘(2) Forms of consideration acceptable under para-
graph (1) for a use of a facility or any property at a facility
include the following:
‘‘(A) The improvement, maintenance, protection,
repair, and restoration of the facility, the property, or
any property within the boundaries of the installation
where the facility is located.
‘‘(B) Reductions in overhead costs.
‘‘(C) Reductions in product cost.
‘‘(3) The authority under paragraph (1) may be exer-
cised without regard to section 3302(b) of title 31 and any
other provision of law.
‘‘(c) REPORTING REQUIREMENT.—Not later than July
1 each year, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the
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Committees on Armed Services and on Appropriations of
the Senate and the House of Representatives a report on
the procedures and controls implemented to carry out this
section.
‘‘§ 4554. ARMS Initiative loan guarantee program
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—Subject to subsection
(b), the Secretary of the Army may carry out a loan guar-
antee program to encourage commercial firms to use ammu-
nition manufacturing facilities under this chapter. Under
any such program, the Secretary may guarantee the repay-
ment of any loan made to a commercial firm to fund, in
whole or in part, the establishment of a commercial activity
to use any such facility under this chapter.
‘‘(b) ADVANCED BUDGET AUTHORITY.—Loan guaran-
tees under this section may not be committed except to the
extent that appropriations of budget authority to cover their
costs are made in advance, as required by section 504 of
the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661c).
‘‘(c) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.—(1) The Secretary
may enter into an agreement with any of the officials
named in paragraph (2) under which that official may, for
the purposes of this section—
‘‘(A) process applications for loan guarantees;
‘‘(B) guarantee repayment of loans; and
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‘‘(C) provide any other services to the Secretary
to administer the loan guarantee program.
‘‘(2) The officials referred to in paragraph (1) are as
follows:
‘‘(A) The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration.
‘‘(B) The head of any appropriate agency in the
Department of Agriculture, including—
‘‘(i) the Administrator of the Farmers
Home Administration; and
‘‘(ii) the Administrator of the Rural Devel-
opment Administration.
‘‘(3) Each official authorized to do so under an agree-
ment entered into under paragraph (1) may guarantee
loans under this section to commercial firms of any size,
notwithstanding any limitations on the size of applicants
imposed on other loan guarantee programs that the official
administers.
‘‘(4) To the extent practicable, each official processing
loan guarantee applications under this section pursuant to
an agreement entered into under paragraph (1) shall use
the same processing procedures as the official uses for proc-
essing loan guarantee applications under other loan guar-
antee programs that the official administers.
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‘‘(d) LOAN LIMITS.—The maximum amount of loan
principal guaranteed during a fiscal year under this section
may not exceed—
‘‘(1) $20,000,000, with respect to any single bor-
rower; and
‘‘(2) $320,000,000 with respect to all borrowers.
‘‘(e) TRANSFER
OF FUNDS.—The Secretary of the
Army may transfer to an official providing services under
subsection (c), and that official may accept, such funds as
may be necessary to administer the loan guarantee program
under this section.
‘‘§ 4555. Definitions
‘‘In this chapter:
‘‘(1) The term ‘property manager’ includes any
person or entity managing a facility made available
under the ARMS Initiative through a property man-
agement contract.
‘‘(2) The term ‘property management contract’
includes facility use contracts, site management con-
tracts, leases, and other agreements entered into under
the authority of this chapter.’’.
(2) The tables of chapters at the beginning of subtitle
B of such title and at the beginning of part IV of such sub-
title are amended by inserting after the item relating to
chapter 433 the following:
‘‘434. Armaments Industrial Base ................................................... 4551’’.
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(b) RELATIONSHIP
TO NATIONAL DEFENSE TECH-
NOLOGY AND INDUSTRIAL BASE.—(1) Subchapter IV of
chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code, is amended—
(A) by redesignating section 2525 as section
2521; and
(B) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 2522. Armament retooling and manufacturing
‘‘The Secretary of the Army is authorized by chapter
434 of this title to carry out programs for the support of
armaments retooling and manufacturing in the national
defense industrial and technology base.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such sub-
chapter is amended by striking the item relating to section
2525 and inserting the following:
‘‘2521. Manufacturing Technology Program.
‘‘2522. Armament retooling and manufacturing.’’.
(c) REPEAL OF SUPERSEDED LAW.—The Armament
Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992 (subtitle
H of title I of the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102–484; 10 U.S.C. 2501
note)) is repealed.
SEC. 332. CENTERS OF INDUSTRIAL AND TECHNICAL EX-
CELLENCE.
(a) DESIGNATION
OF ARMY ARSENALS.—(1) Sub-
section (a) of section 2474 of title 10, United States Code,
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is amended by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(1) The Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of De-
fense in the case of a Defense Agency, shall designate as
a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence in the rec-
ognized core competencies of the designee the following:
‘‘(A) Each depot-level activity of the military de-
partments and the Defense Agencies (other than fa-
cilities approved for closure or major realignment
under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act
of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101–510;
10 U.S.C. 2687 note)).
‘‘(B) Each arsenal of the Army.
‘‘(C) Each government-owned, government-oper-
ated ammunition plant of the Army.’’.
(2) Paragraph (2) of such subsection is amended—
(A) by inserting ‘‘of Defense’’ after ‘‘The Sec-
retary’’; and
(B) by striking ‘‘depot-level activities’’ and in-
serting ‘‘Centers of Industrial and Technical Excel-
lence’’.
(3) Paragraph (3) of such subsection is amended by
striking ‘‘the efficiency and effectiveness of depot-level oper-
ations, improve the support provided by depot-level activi-
ties’’ and inserting ‘‘the efficiency and effectiveness of oper-
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ations at Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence,
improve the support provided by the Centers’’.
(b) PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.—Subsection (b)
of such section is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) 
PUBLIC-PRIVATE
PARTNERSHIPS.—(1) 
To
achieve one or more objectives set forth in paragraph (2),
the Secretary designating a Center of Industrial and Tech-
nical Excellence under subsection (a) shall authorize and
encourage the head of the Center to enter into public-private
cooperative arrangements that provide any of the following:
‘‘(A) For employees of the Center, private indus-
try, or other entities outside the Department of
Defense—
‘‘(i) to perform (under contract, sub-
contract, or otherwise) work in any of the core
competencies of the Center, including any depot-
level maintenance and repair work that involves
one or more core competencies of the Center; or
‘‘(ii) to perform at the Center depot-level
maintenance and repair work that does not in-
volve a core competency of the Center.
‘‘(B) For private industry or other entities out-
side the Department of Defense to use, for any period
of time determined to be consistent with the needs of
the Department of Defense, any facilities or equip-
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ment of the Center that are not fully utilized by a
military department for its own production or main-
tenance requirements.
‘‘(2) The objectives for exercising the authority pro-
vided in paragraph (1) are as follows:
‘‘(A) To maximize the utilization of the capacity
of a Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence.
‘‘(B) To reduce or eliminate the cost of owner-
ship of a Center by the Department of Defense in such
areas of responsibility as operations and maintenance
and environmental remediation.
‘‘(C) To reduce the cost of products of the De-
partment of Defense produced or maintained at a
Center.
‘‘(D) To leverage private sector investment in—
‘‘(i) such efforts as plant and equipment re-
capitalization for a Center; and
‘‘(ii) the promotion of the undertaking of
commercial business ventures at a Center.
‘‘(E) To foster cooperation between the armed
forces and private industry.
‘‘(3) A public-private cooperative arrangement entered
into under this subsection shall be known as a ‘public-pri-
vate partnership’.
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‘‘(4) The Secretary designating a Center of Industrial
and Technical Excellence under subsection (a) may waive
the condition in paragraph (1)(A) and subsection (a)(1) of
section 2553 of this title that an article or service must be
not available (as defined in subsection (g)(2) of such sec-
tion) from a United States commercial source in the case
of a particular article or service of a public-private partner-
ship if the Secretary determines that the waiver is necessary
to achieve one or more objectives set forth in paragraph (2).
‘‘(5) In any sale of articles manufactured or services
performed by employees of a Center pursuant to a waiver
under paragraph (4), the Secretary shall charge the full cost
of manufacturing the articles or performing the services, as
the case may be. The full cost charged shall include both
direct costs and indirect costs.’’.
(c) PRIVATE SECTOR USE OF EXCESS CAPACITY.—
Such section is further amended—
(1) striking subsection (d);
(2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection
(d); and
(3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following
new subsection (c):
‘‘(c) PRIVATE SECTOR USE OF EXCESS CAPACITY.—
Any facilities or equipment of a Center of Industrial and
Technical Excellence made available to private industry
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may be used to perform maintenance or to produce goods
in order to make more efficient and economical use of Gov-
ernment-owned industrial plants and encourage the cre-
ation and preservation of jobs to ensure the availability of
a workforce with the necessary manufacturing and mainte-
nance skills to meet the needs of the armed forces.’’.
(d) CREDITING OF AMOUNTS FOR PERFORMANCE.—
Subsection (d) of such section, as redesignated by subsection
(c)(2), is amended by adding at the end the following: ‘‘Con-
sideration in the form of rental payments or (notwith-
standing section 3302(b) of title 31) in other forms may
be accepted for a use of property accountable under a con-
tract performed pursuant to this section. Notwithstanding
section 2667(d) of this title, revenues generated pursuant
to this section shall be available for facility operations,
maintenance, and environmental restoration at the Center
where the leased property is located.’’.
(e) AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT TO PRI-
VATE-SECTOR PARTNERS.—Such section is further amend-
ed by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(e) AVAILABILITY OF EXCESS EQUIPMENT TO PRI-
VATE-SECTOR PARTNERS.—Equipment or facilities of a
Center of Industrial and Technical Excellence may be made
available for use by a private-sector entity under this sec-
tion only if—
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‘‘(1) the use of the equipment or facilities will
not have a significant adverse effect on the readiness
of the armed forces, as determined by the Secretary
concerned or, in the case of a Center in a Defense
Agency, by the Secretary of Defense; and
‘‘(2) the private-sector entity agrees—
‘‘(A) to reimburse the Department of De-
fense for the direct and indirect costs (including
any rental costs) that are attributable to the en-
tity’s use of the equipment or facilities, as deter-
mined by that Secretary; and
‘‘(B) to hold harmless and indemnify the
United States from—
‘‘(i) any claim for damages or injury
to any person or property arising out of the
use of the equipment or facilities, except in
a case of willful conduct or gross negligence;
and
‘‘(ii) any liability or claim for dam-
ages or injury to any person or property
arising out of a decision by the Secretary
concerned or the Secretary of Defense to sus-
pend or terminate that use of equipment or
facilities during a war or national emer-
gency.
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‘‘(f) CONSTRUCTION OF PROVISION.—Nothing in this
section may be construed to authorize a change, otherwise
prohibited by law, from the performance of work at a Center
of Industrial and Technical Excellence by Department of
Defense personnel to performance by a contractor.’’.
(f) LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM FOR SUPPORT OF
PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS.—Chapter 146 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘§ 2475. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excel-
lence: loan guarantee program for sup-
port of public-private partnerships
‘‘(a) PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—Subject to subsection
(b), the Secretary of Defense may carry out a loan guar-
antee program to encourage commercial firms to use Cen-
ters of Industrial and Technical Excellence pursuant to sec-
tion 2474 of this title. Under any such program, the Sec-
retary may guarantee the repayment of any loan made to
a commercial firm to fund, in whole or in part, the estab-
lishment of public-private partnerships authorized under
subsection (b) of such section.
‘‘(b) ADVANCED BUDGET AUTHORITY.—Loan guaran-
tees under this section may not be committed except to the
extent that appropriations of budget authority to cover their
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costs are made in advance, as required by section 504 of
the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 661c).
‘‘(c) PROGRAM ADMINISTRATION.—(1) The Secretary
may enter into an agreement with any of the officials
named in paragraph (2) under which that official may, for
the purposes of this section—
‘‘(A) process applications for loan guarantees;
‘‘(B) guarantee repayment of loans; and
‘‘(C) provide any other services to the Secretary
to administer the loan guarantee program.
‘‘(2) The officials referred to in paragraph (1) are as
follows:
‘‘(A) The Administrator of the Small Business
Administration.
‘‘(B) The head of any appropriate agency in the
Department of Agriculture, including—
‘‘(i) the Administrator of the Farmers
Home Administration; and
‘‘(ii) the Administrator of the Rural Devel-
opment Administration.
‘‘(3) Each official authorized to do so under an agree-
ment entered into under paragraph (1) may guarantee
loans under this section to commercial firms of any size,
notwithstanding any limitations on the size of applicants
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imposed on other loan guarantee programs that the official
administers.
‘‘(4) To the extent practicable, each official processing
loan guarantee applications under this section pursuant to
an agreement entered into under paragraph (1) shall use
the same processing procedures as the official uses for proc-
essing loan guarantee applications under other loan guar-
antee programs that the official administers.
‘‘(d) LOAN LIMITS.—The maximum amount of loan
principal guaranteed during a fiscal year under this section
may not exceed—
‘‘(1) $20,000,000, with respect to any single bor-
rower; and
‘‘(2) $320,000,000 with respect to all borrowers.
‘‘(e) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—The Secretary of Defense
may transfer to an official providing services under sub-
section (c), and that official may accept, such funds as may
be necessary to administer the loan guarantee program
under this section.’’.
(g) USE
OF
WORKING
CAPITAL-FUNDED
FACILI-
TIES.—Section 2208(j) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘contract; and’’ in paragraph (1)
and all that follows through ‘‘(2) the Department of
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Defense’’ in paragraph (2) and inserting the fol-
lowing: ‘‘contract, and the Department of Defense’’;
(2) by striking the period at the end and insert-
ing ‘‘; or’’; and
(3) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(2) the Secretary would advance the objectives
set forth in section 2474(b)(2) of this title by author-
izing the facility to do so.’’.
(h) REPEAL OF GENERAL AUTHORITY TO LEASE EX-
CESS DEPOT-LEVEL EQUIPMENT AND FACILITIES TO OUT-
SIDE TENANTS.—Section 2471 of title 10, United States
Code, is repealed.
(i) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.—The table of sections at
the beginning of chapter 146 of such title is amended—
(1) by striking the item relating to section 2471;
and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘2475. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence: loan guarantee program
for support of public-private partnerships.’’.
SEC. 333. EFFECTS OF OUTSOURCING ON OVERHEAD COSTS
OF CENTERS OF INDUSTRIAL AND TECH-
NICAL 
EXCELLENCE 
AND 
AMMUNITION
PLANTS.
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress makes the following findings:
(1) Centers of Industrial and Technical Excel-
lence and ammunition plants of the United States
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comprise a vital component of the national technology
and industrial base that ensures that there is suffi-
cient domestic industrial capacity to meet the needs
of the Armed Forces for certain critical defense equip-
ment and supplies in time of war or national emer-
gency.
(2) Underutilization of the Centers of Industrial
and Technical Excellence and ammunition plants in
peacetime does not diminish the critical importance
of those centers and ammunition plants to the na-
tional defense.
(b) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORTS.—(1) Subchapter V
of chapter 148 of title 10, United States Code, is amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 2539c. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excel-
lence and ammunition plants of the
United States: effects of outsourcing on
overhead costs
‘‘Not later than 30 days before any official of the De-
partment of Defense enters into a contract with a private
sector source for the performance of a workload already
being performed by more than 50 employees at a Center
of Industrial and Technical Excellence designated under
section 2474(a) of this title or an ammunition plant of the
United States, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Con-
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gress a report describing the effect that the performance and
administration of the contract will have on the overhead
costs of the center or ammunition plant, as the case may
be.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter
V of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the fol-
lowing:
‘‘2539c. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence and ammunition plants
of the United States: effects of outsourcing on overhead costs.’’.
SEC. 334. REVISION OF AUTHORITY TO WAIVE LIMITATION
ON PERFORMANCE OF DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTE-
NANCE.
Section 2466(c) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended to read as follows:
‘‘(c) WAIVER
OF LIMITATION.—The President may
waive the limitation in subsection (a) for a fiscal year if—
‘‘(1) the President determines that—
‘‘(A) the waiver is necessary for reasons of
national security; and
‘‘(B) compliance with the limitation cannot
be achieved through effective management of
depot operations consistent with those reasons;
and
‘‘(2) the President submits to Congress a notifi-
cation of the waiver together with a discussion of the
reasons for the waiver.’’.
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SEC. 335. UNUTILIZED AND UNDERUTILIZED PLANT-CAPAC-
ITY COSTS OF UNITED STATES ARSENALS.
(a) IN GENERAL.—(1) The Secretary of the Army shall
submit to Congress each year, together with the President’s
budget for the fiscal year beginning in such year under sec-
tion 1105(a) of title 31, an estimate of the funds to be re-
quired in the fiscal year in order to cover the costs of oper-
ating and maintaining unutilized and underutilized plant
capacity at United States arsenals.
(2) Funds appropriated to the Secretary for a fiscal
year for costs described in paragraph (1) shall be utilized
by the Secretary in such fiscal year only to cover such costs.
(3) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the
Secretary shall not include unutilized or underutilized
plant-capacity costs when evaluating an arsenal’s bid for
purposes of the arsenal’s contracting to provide a good or
service to a United States Government organization. When
an arsenal is subcontracting to a private-sector entity on
a good or service to be provided to a United States Govern-
ment organization, the cost charged by the arsenal shall not
include unutilized or underutilized plant-capacity costs
that are funded by a direct appropriation.
(b) DEFINITION.—For purposes of this section, the
term ‘‘unutilized and underutilized plant-capacity cost’’
shall mean the cost associated with operating and main-
taining arsenal facilities and equipment that the Secretary
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of the Army determines are required to be kept for mobiliza-
tion needs, in those months in which the facilities and
equipment are not used or are used only 20 percent or less
of available work days.
Subtitle E—Environmental
Provisions
SEC. 341. ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION ACCOUNTS.
(a) ADDITIONAL ACCOUNT FOR FORMERLY USED DE-
FENSE SITES.—Subsection (a) of section 2703 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the
following new paragraph:
‘‘(5) An account to be known as the ‘Environ-
mental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense
Sites’.’’.
(b) ACCOUNTS AS SOLE SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR OPER-
ATION AND MONITORING OF ENVIRONMENTAL REMEDIES.—
That section is further amended by adding at the end the
following:
‘‘(f) ACCOUNTS AS SOLE SOURCE OF FUNDS FOR ENVI-
RONMENTAL REMEDIES.—(1) The sole source of funds for
the long-term operation and monitoring of an environ-
mental remedy at a facility under the jurisdiction of the
Department of Defense shall be the applicable environ-
mental restoration account under subsection (a).
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‘‘(2) In this subsection, the term ‘environmental rem-
edy’ shall have the meaning given the term ‘remedy’ under
section 101(24) of CERCLA (42 U.S.C. 9601(24)).’’.
SEC. 342. PAYMENT OF FINES AND PENALTIES FOR ENVI-
RONMENTAL COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS.
(a) PAYMENT OF FINES AND PENALTIES.—(1) Chapter
160 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding
at the end the following new section:
‘‘§ 2710. Environmental compliance: payment of fines
and penalties for violations
‘‘(a) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense or the
Secretary of a military department may not pay a fine
or penalty for an environmental compliance violation that
is imposed by a Federal agency against the Department of
Defense or such military department, as the case may be,
unless the payment of the fine or penalty is specifically au-
thorized by law, if the amount of the fine or penalty (in-
cluding any supplemental environmental projects carried
out as part of such penalty) is $1,500,000 or more.
‘‘(b) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1)(A) Except as provided in subparagraph
(B), the term ‘environmental compliance’, in the case
of on-going operations, functions, or activities at a
Department of Defense facility, means the activities
necessary to ensure that such operations, functions, or
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activities meet requirements under applicable envi-
ronmental law.
‘‘(B) The term does not include operations, func-
tions, or activities relating to environmental restora-
tion under this chapter that are conducted using
funds in an environmental restoration account under
section 2703(a) of this title.
‘‘(2) The term ‘violation’, in the case of environ-
mental compliance, means an act or omission result-
ing in the failure to ensure the compliance.
‘‘(c) EXPIRATION OF PROHIBITION.—This section does
not apply to any part of a violation described in subsection
(a) that occurs on or after the date that is three years after
the date of the enactment of the National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 2001.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chap-
ter is amended by adding at the end the following new item:
‘‘2710. Environmental compliance: payment of fines and penalties for violations.’’.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—(1) Section 2710 of title 10,
United States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall take
effect on the date of the enactment of this Act.
(2) Subsection (a)(1) of that section, as so added, shall
not apply with respect to any supplemental environmental
projects referred to in that subsection that were agreed to
before the date of the enactment of this Act.
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SEC. 343. ANNUAL REPORTS UNDER STRATEGIC ENVIRON-
MENTAL RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT PRO-
GRAM.
(a) REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR ANNUAL REPORT
FROM SCIENTIFIC ADVISORY BOARD.—Section 2904 of title
10, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking subsection (h); and
(2) by redesignating subsection (i) as subsection
(h).
(b) INCLUSION OF ACTIONS OF BOARD IN ANNUAL RE-
PORTS OF COUNCIL.—Section 2902(d)(3) of such title is
amended by adding at the end the following subparagraph:
‘‘(D) A summary of the actions of the Stra-
tegic Environmental Research and Development
Program Scientific Advisory Board during the
year preceding the year in which the report is
submitted and any recommendations, including
recommendations on program direction and leg-
islation, that the Advisory Board considers ap-
propriate regarding the program.’’.
SEC. 344. PAYMENT OF FINES OR PENALTIES IMPOSED FOR
ENVIRONMENTAL COMPLIANCE VIOLATIONS
AT CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE FA-
CILITIES.
(a) ARMY.—The Secretary of the Army may, from
amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Army by this
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title and available for such purpose, utilize amounts for the
purposes and at the locations, as follows:
(1) $993,000 for a Supplemental Environmental
Project to implement an installation-wide hazardous
substance management system at Walter Reed Army
Medical Center, Washington, District of Columbia, in
satisfaction of a fine imposed by Environmental Pro-
tection Agency Region 3 under the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act (42 U.S.C. 6901 et seq.).
(2) $377,250 for a Supplemental Environmental
Project to install new parts washers at Fort Camp-
bell, Kentucky, in satisfaction of a fine imposed by
Environmental Protection Agency Region 4 under the
Solid Waste Disposal Act.
(3) $20,701 for a Supplemental Environmental
Project to upgrade the wastewater treatment plant at
Fort Gordon, Georgia, in satisfaction of a fine im-
posed by the State of Georgia under the Solid Waste
Disposal Act.
(4) $78,500 for Supplemental Environmental
Projects to reduce the generation of hazardous waste
at Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, in satisfaction of
a fine imposed by the State of Colorado under the
Solid Waste Disposal Act.
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(5) $20,000 for a Supplemental Environmental
Project to repair cracks in floors of igloos used to
store munitions hazardous waste at Deseret Chemical
Depot, Utah, in satisfaction of a fine imposed by the
State of Utah under the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
(6) $7,975 for payment to the Texas Natural Re-
source Conservation Commission of a cash fine for
permit violations assessed under the Solid Waste Dis-
posal Act.
(b) NAVY.—The Secretary of the Navy may, from
amounts authorized to be appropriated for the Navy by this
title and available for such purpose, utilize amounts for the
purposes and at the locations, as follows:
(1) $108,800 for payment to the West Virginia
Division of Environmental Protection of a cash pen-
alty with respect to Allegany Ballistics Laboratory,
West Virginia, under the Solid Waste Disposal Act.
(2) $5,000 for payment to Environmental Pro-
tection Agency Region 6 of a cash penalty with re-
spect to Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi, Texas,
under the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C. 7401).
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SEC. 345. REIMBURSEMENT FOR CERTAIN COSTS IN CON-
NECTION WITH THE FORMER NANSEMOND
ORDNANCE DEPOT SITE, SUFFOLK, VIRGINIA.
(a) AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of Defense may pay,
using funds described in subsection (b), not more than
$98,210 to the Former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site
Special Account within the Hazardous Substance Super-
fund established by section 9507 of the Internal Revenue
Code of 1986 (26 U.S.C. 9507) to reimburse the Environ-
mental Protection Agency for costs incurred by the agency
in overseeing a time critical removal action under
CERCLA being performed by the Department of Defense
under the Defense Environmental Restoration Program for
ordnance and explosive safety hazards at the Former
Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site, Suffolk, Virginia, pursu-
ant to an Interagency Agreement entered into by the De-
partment of the Army and the Environmental Protection
Agency on January 3, 2000.
(b) SOURCE OF FUNDS.—Any payment under sub-
section (a) shall be made using amounts authorized to be
appropriated by section 301 to the Environmental Restora-
tion Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites, established by
paragraph (5) of section 2703(a) of title 10, United States
Code, as added by section 341(a) of this Act.
(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
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(1) The term ‘‘CERCLA’’ means the Comprehen-
sive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Li-
ability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9601 et seq.).
(2) The term ‘‘Defense Environmental Restora-
tion Program’’ means the program of environmental
restoration carried out under chapter 160 of title 10,
United States Code.
SEC. 346. ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION ACTIVITIES.
(a) AUTHORITY TO USE FUNDS FOR FACILITIES RE-
LOCATION.—During the period beginning on October 1,
2000, and ending on September 30, 2003, the Secretary con-
cerned may use funds available under section 2703 of title
10, United States Code, to pay for the costs of permanently
relocating facilities because of a release or threatened release
of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants
from—
(1) real property or facilities currently under the
jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense; or
(2) real property or facilities that were under the
jurisdiction of the Secretary of Defense at the time of
the actions leading to such release or threatened re-
lease.
(b) LIMITATIONS.—(1) The Secretary concerned may
not pay the costs of permanently relocating facilities under
subsection (a) unless the Secretary concerned determines in
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writing that such permanent relocation of facilities is part
of a response action that—
(A) has the support of the affected community;
(B) has the approval of relevant regulatory agen-
cies; and
(C) is the most cost effective response action
available.
(2) Not more than 5 percent of the funds available
under section 2703 of title 10, United States Code, in any
fiscal year may be used to pay the costs of permanently
relocating facilities pursuant to the authority in subsection
(a).
(c) REPORTS.—(1) Not later than November 30 of each
of 2001, 2002, and 2003, the Secretary of Defense shall sub-
mit to Congress a report on each response action for which
a written determination has been made under subsection
(b)(1) in the fiscal year ending in such year.
(2) Each report for a fiscal year under paragraph (1)
shall contain the following:
(A) A copy of each written determination under
subsection (b)(1) during such fiscal year.
(B) A description of the response action taken or
to be taken in connection with each such written de-
termination.
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(C) A statement of the costs incurred or to be in-
curred in connection with the permanent relocation of
facilities covered by each such written determination.
(d) SECRETARY CONCERNED DEFINED.—In this sec-
tion, the term ‘‘Secretary concerned’’ means the following:
(1) The Secretary of a military department, with
regard to real property or facilities for which such
military department is the lead agency.
(2) The Secretary of Defense, for any other real
property or facilities.
SEC. 347. SHIP DISPOSAL PROJECT.
(a) CONTINUATION OF PROJECT.—(1) Subject to the
provisions of this subsection, the Secretary of the Navy shall
continue to carry out a ship disposal project within the
United States during fiscal year 2001.
(2) The scope of the ship disposal project shall be suffi-
cient to permit the Secretary to assemble appropriate data
on the cost of scrapping ships.
(3) The Secretary shall use competitive procedures to
award all task orders under the primary contracts under
the ship disposal project.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than December 31, 2000, the
Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense commit-
tees a report on the ship disposal project referred to in sub-
section (a). The report shall contain the following:
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(1) A description of the competitive procedures
used for the solicitation and award of all task orders
under the project.
(2) A description of the task orders awarded
under the project.
(3) An assessment of the results of the project as
of the date of the report, including the performance of
contractors under the project.
(4) The proposed strategy of the Navy for future
procurement of ship scrapping activities.
SEC. 348. REPORT ON DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL SECU-
RITY CORPORATE INFORMATION MANAGE-
MENT PROGRAM.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than 60 days after
the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of De-
fense shall submit to the congressional defense committees
a report on the Defense Environmental Security Corporate
Information Management program.
(b) REPORT ELEMENTS.—The report under subsection
(a) shall include the following elements:
(1) The recommendations of the Secretary for the
future mission of the Defense Environmental Security
Corporate Information Management program.
(2) A discussion of the means by which the pro-
gram will address or provide the following:
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(A) Information access procedures which
keep pace with current and evolving require-
ments for information access.
(B) Data standardization and systems inte-
gration.
(C) Product failures and cost-effective re-
sults.
(D) User confidence and utilization.
(E) Program continuity.
(F) Program accountability, including ac-
countability for all past, current, and future ac-
tivities funded under the program.
(G) Program management and oversight.
(H) Program compliance with applicable
requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996
(divisions D and E of Public Law 104–106) and
applicable requirements under other provisions
of law.
SEC. 349. REPORT ON PLASMA ENERGY PYROLYSIS SYSTEM.
(a) REPORT REQUIRED.—Not later than October 1,
2000, the Secretary of the Army shall submit to the congres-
sional defense committees a report on the Plasma Energy
Pyrolysis System (PEPS).
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(b) REPORT ELEMENTS.—The report on the Plasma
Energy Pyrolysis System under subsection (a) shall include
the following:
(1) An analysis of available information and
data on the fixed-transportable unit demonstration
phase of the System and on the mobile unit dem-
onstration phase of the System.
(2) Recommendations regarding future applica-
tions for each phase of the System described in para-
graph (1).
(3) A statement of the projected funding for such
future applications.
Subtitle F—Other Matters
SEC. 361. EFFECTS OF WORLDWIDE CONTINGENCY OPER-
ATIONS ON READINESS OF CERTAIN MILI-
TARY AIRCRAFT AND EQUIPMENT.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—The Secretary of
Defense shall submit to Congress, not later than 180 days
after the date of the enactment of this Act, a report on—
(1) the effects of worldwide contingency oper-
ations of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force on
the readiness of aircraft of those Armed Forces; and
(2) the effects of worldwide contingency oper-
ations of the Army and Marine Corps on the readi-
ness of ground equipment of those Armed Forces.
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(b) CONTENT OF REPORT.—The report shall contain
the Secretary’s assessment of the effects of the contingency
operations referred to in subsection (a) on the capability
of the Department of Defense to maintain a high level of
equipment readiness and to manage a high operating tempo
for the aircraft and ground equipment.
(c) EFFECTS
ON AIRCRAFT.—The assessment con-
tained in the report shall address, with respect to aircraft,
the following effects:
(1) The effects of the contingency operations car-
ried out during fiscal years 1995 through 2000 on the
aircraft of each of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air
Force in each category of aircraft, as follows:
(A) Combat tactical aircraft.
(B) Strategic aircraft.
(C) Combat support aircraft.
(D) Combat service support aircraft.
(2) The types of adverse effects on the aircraft of
each of the Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force in
each category of aircraft specified in paragraph (1)
resulting from contingency operations, as follows:
(A) Patrolling in no-fly zones—
(i) over Iraq in Operation Northern
Watch;
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(ii) over Iraq in Operation Southern
Watch; and
(iii) over the Balkans in Operation Al-
lied Force.
(B) Air operations in the NATO air war
against Serbia in Operation Sky Anvil, Oper-
ation Noble Anvil, and Operation Allied Force.
(C) Air operations in Operation Shining
Hope in Kosovo.
(D) All other activities within the general
context of worldwide contingency operations.
(3) Any other effects that the Secretary considers
appropriate in carrying out subsection (a).
(d) EFFECTS ON GROUND EQUIPMENT.—The assess-
ment contained in the report shall address, with respect to
ground equipment, the following effects:
(1) The effects of the contingency operations car-
ried out during fiscal years 1995 through 2000 on the
ground equipment of each of the Army and Marine
Corps.
(2) Any other effects that the Secretary considers
appropriate in carrying out subsection (a).
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SEC. 362. REALISTIC BUDGETING FOR READINESS RE-
QUIREMENTS OF THE ARMY.
(a) REQUIREMENT
FOR NEW METHODOLOGY.—The
Secretary of the Army shall develop a new methodology for
preparing budget requests for operation and maintenance
that can be used to ensure that the budget requests for oper-
ation and maintenance for future fiscal years more accu-
rately reflect the Army’s requirements than do the budget
requests that have been submitted to Congress for fiscal year
2001 and preceding fiscal years.
(b) SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE NEW METHOD-
OLOGY.—It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the methodology should provide for the deter-
mination of the budget levels to request for operation
and maintenance to be based on—
(A) the level of training that must be con-
ducted in order to maintain essential readiness;
(B) the cost of conducting the training at
that level; and
(C) the costs of all other Army operations,
including the cost of meeting infrastructure re-
quirements; and
(2) the Secretary should use the new methodology
in the preparation of the budget requests for operation
and maintenance for fiscal years after fiscal year
2001.
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SEC. 363. ADDITIONS TO PLAN FOR ENSURING VISIBILITY
OVER ALL IN-TRANSIT END ITEMS AND SEC-
ONDARY ITEMS.
(a) REQUIRED ADDITIONS.—Subsection (d) of section
349 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authoriza-
tion Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261; 112
Stat. 1981; 10 U.S.C. 2458 note) is amended—
(1) by inserting before the period at the end of
paragraph (1) ‘‘, including specific actions to address
underlying weaknesses in the controls over items being
shipped’’; and
(2) by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(5) The key management elements for moni-
toring, and for measuring the progress achieved in,
the implementation of the plan, including—
‘‘(A) the assignment of oversight responsi-
bility for each action identified pursuant to
paragraph (1);
‘‘(B) a description of the resources required
for oversight; and
‘‘(C) an estimate of the annual cost of over-
sight.’’.
(b) CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.—(1) Subsection (a) of
such section is amended by striking ‘‘Not later than’’ and
all that follows through ‘‘Congress’’ and inserting ‘‘The Sec-
retary of Defense shall prescribe and carry out’’.
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(2) Such section is further amended by adding at the
end the following:
‘‘(f) SUBMISSIONS TO CONGRESS.—After the Secretary
submits the plan to Congress (on a date not later than
March 1, 1999), the Secretary shall submit to Congress any
revisions to the plan that are required by any law enacted
after October 17, 1998. The revisions so made shall be sub-
mitted not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-
ment of the law requiring the revisions.’’.
(3) Subsection (e)(1) of such section is amended by
striking ‘‘submits the plan’’ and inserting ‘‘submits the ini-
tial plan’’.
SEC. 364. PERFORMANCE OF EMERGENCY RESPONSE FUNC-
TIONS AT CHEMICAL WEAPONS STORAGE IN-
STALLATIONS.
(a) RESTRICTION ON CONVERSION.—The Secretary of
the Army may not convert to contractor performance the
emergency response functions of any chemical weapons stor-
age installation that, as of the date of the enactment of this
Act, are performed for that installation by employees of the
United States until the certification required by subsection
(c) has been submitted in accordance with that subsection.
(b) COVERED INSTALLATIONS.—For the purposes of
this section, a chemical weapons storage installation is any
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installation of the Department of Defense on which lethal
chemical agents or munitions are stored.
(c) CERTIFICATION REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of
the Army shall certify in writing to the Committees on
Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representa-
tives that, to ensure that there will be no lapse of capability
to perform the chemical weapon emergency response mission
at a chemical weapons storage installation during any
transition to contractor performance of those functions at
that installation, the plan for conversion of the performance
of those functions—
(1) is consistent with the recommendation con-
tained in General Accounting Office Report NSIAD–
00–88, entitled ‘‘DoD Competitive Sourcing’’, dated
March 2000; and
(2) provides for a transition to contractor per-
formance of emergency response functions which en-
sures an adequate transfer of the relevant knowledge
and expertise regarding chemical weapon emergency
response to the contractor personnel.
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SEC. 365. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF USE OF
RADIO FREQUENCY SPECTRUM BY A SYSTEM
ENTERING 
ENGINEERING 
AND 
MANUFAC-
TURING DEVELOPMENT.
Before a decision is made to enter into the engineering
and manufacturing development phase of a program for the
acquisition of a system that is to use the radio frequency
spectrum, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the con-
gressional defense committees a report setting forth the fol-
lowing:
(1) The frequency or frequencies that the system
will use.
(2) A statement of whether the Department of
Defense is, or is to be, designated as the primary user
of the particular frequency or frequencies.
(3) If not, the unique technical characteristics
that make it necessary to use the particular frequency
or frequencies.
(4) A description of the protections that the De-
partment of Defense has been given to ensure that it
will not incur costs as a result of current or future
interference from other users of the particular fre-
quency or frequencies.
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SEC. 366. MONITORING OF VALUE OF PERFORMANCE OF DE-
PARTMENT 
OF 
DEFENSE 
FUNCTIONS 
BY
WORKFORCES 
SELECTED 
FROM 
BETWEEN
PUBLIC AND PRIVATE WORKFORCES.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR A MONITORING SYSTEM.—(1)
Chapter 146 of title 10, United States Code, as amended
by section 332(f), is further amended by adding at the end
the following:
‘‘§ 2476. Public-private workforce selections: system
for monitoring value
‘‘(a) SYSTEM FOR MONITORING PERFORMANCE.—(1)
The Secretary of Defense shall establish a system for moni-
toring the performance of functions of the Department of
Defense that—
‘‘(A) are performed by 50 or more employees of
the department; and
‘‘(B) have been subjected to a workforce review.
‘‘(2) In this section, the term ‘workforce review’, with
respect to a function, is a review to determine whether the
function should be performed by a workforce composed of
Federal Government employees or by a private sector work-
force, and includes any review for that purpose that is car-
ried out under, or is associated with, the following:
‘‘(A) Office of Management and Budget Circular
A–76.
‘‘(B) A strategic sourcing.
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‘‘(C) A base closure or realignment.
‘‘(D) Any other reorganization, privatization, or
reengineering of an organization.
‘‘(b) PERFORMANCE MEASUREMENTS.—The system for
monitoring the performance of a function shall provide for
the measurement of the costs and benefits resulting from the
selection of one workforce over the other workforce pursuant
to a workforce review, as follows:
‘‘(1) The costs incurred.
‘‘(2) The savings derived.
‘‘(3) The value of the performance by the selected
workforce measured against the costs of the perform-
ance of that function by the workforce performing the
function as of the beginning of the workforce review,
as the workforce then performing the function was or-
ganized.
‘‘(c) ANNUAL REPORT.—The Secretary shall submit to
Congress, not later than February 1 of each fiscal year, a
report on the measurable value of the performance during
the preceding fiscal year of the functions that have been sub-
jected to a workforce review, as determined under the moni-
toring system established under subsection (a). The report
shall display the findings separately for each of the armed
forces and for each Defense Agency.
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‘‘(d) CONSIDERATION IN PREPARATION OF FUTURE-
YEARS DEFENSE PROGRAM.—In preparing the future-years
defense program under section 221 of this title, the Sec-
retary of Defense shall, for the fiscal years covered by the
program, estimate and take into account the costs to be in-
curred and the savings to be derived from the performance
of functions by workforces selected in workforce reviews. The
Secretary shall consider the results of the monitoring under
this section in making the estimates.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chap-
ter, as amended by section 332(i)(2), is further amended
by adding at the end the following:
‘‘2476. Public-private workforce selections: system for monitoring value.’’.
(b) CONTENT OF CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF
CONVERSIONS.—Paragraph (1) of section 2461(c) of title
10, United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating subparagraphs (C), (D),
and (E) as subparagraphs (D), (F) and (G);
(2) by inserting after subparagraph (B), the fol-
lowing new subparagraph (C):
‘‘(C) The Secretary’s certification that the factors
considered in the examinations performed under sub-
section (b)(3), and in the making of the decision to
change performance, did not include any predeter-
mined personnel constraint or limitation in terms of
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man years, end strength, full-time equivalent posi-
tions, or maximum number of employees.’’; and
(3) by inserting after subparagraph (D), as re-
designated by paragraph (1), the following new sub-
paragraph (E):
‘‘(E) A statement of the potential economic effect
of the change on each affected local community, as de-
termined in the examination under subsection
(b)(3)(B)(ii).’’.
SEC. 367. SUSPENSION OF REORGANIZATION OF NAVAL
AUDIT SERVICE.
The Secretary of the Navy shall cease any consolida-
tions, involuntary transfers, buy-outs, or reductions in force
of the workforce of auditors and administrative support
personnel of the Naval Audit Service that are associated
with the reorganization or relocation of the performance of
the auditing functions of the Navy until 60 days after the
date on which the Secretary submits to the congressional
defense committees a report that sets forth in detail the
Navy’s plans and justification for the reorganization or re-
location, as the case may be.
SEC. 368. INVESTMENT OF COMMISSARY TRUST REVOLVING
FUND.
Section 2486 of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
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(1) in subsection (g)(5), by striking ‘‘(5) In this
subsection’’ and inserting ‘‘(i) COMMISSARY TRUST
REVOLVING FUND DEFINED.—In this section’’; and
(2) by inserting after subsection (g)(4) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(h) INVESTMENT OF COMMISSARY TRUST REVOLVING
FUND.—The Secretary of Defense shall invest such portion
of the commissary trust revolving fund as is not, in the
judgment of the Secretary, required to meet current with-
drawals. The investments shall be in public debt securities
with maturities suitable to the needs of the fund, as deter-
mined by the Secretary, and bearing interest at rates deter-
mined by the Secretary of the Treasury, taking into consid-
eration current market yields on outstanding marketable
obligations of the United States of comparable maturities.
The income derived from the investments shall be credited
to and form a part of the fund.’’.
SEC. 369. ECONOMIC PROCUREMENT OF DISTILLED SPIR-
ITS.
Subsection 2488(c) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended—
(1) by striking paragraph (2); and
(2) by redesignating paragraph (3) as para-
graph (2).
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SEC. 370. RESALE OF ARMOR-PIERCING AMMUNITION DIS-
POSED OF BY THE ARMY.
(a) RESTRICTION.—(1) Chapter 443 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 4688. Armor-piercing ammunition and components:
condition on disposal
‘‘(a) LIMITATION ON RESALE OR OTHER TRANSFER.—
Except as provided in subsection (b), whenever the Sec-
retary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or other-
wise) of armor-piercing ammunition, or a component of
armor-piercing ammunition, the Secretary shall require as
a condition of the disposal that the recipient agree in writ-
ing not to sell or otherwise transfer any of the ammunition
(reconditioned or otherwise), or any armor-piercing compo-
nent of that ammunition, to any purchaser in the United
States other than a law enforcement or other governmental
agency.
‘‘(b) EXCEPTION.—Subsection (a) does not apply to a
transfer of a component of armor-piercing ammunition
solely for the purpose of metal reclamation by means of a
destructive process such as melting, crushing, or shredding.
‘‘(c) SPECIAL RULE FOR NON-ARMOR-PIERCING COM-
PONENTS.—A component of the armor-piercing ammuni-
tion that is not itself armor-piercing and is not subjected
to metal reclamation as described in subsection (b) may not
be used as a component in the production of new or re-
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manufactured armor-piercing ammunition other than for
sale to a law enforcement or other governmental agency or
for a government-to-government sale or commercial export
to a foreign government under the Arms Export Control
Act.
‘‘(d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘armor-
piercing ammunition’ means a center-fire cartridge the
military designation of which includes the term ‘armor pen-
etrator’ or ‘armor-piercing’, including a center-fire car-
tridge designated as armor-piercing incendiary (API) or
armor-piercing incendiary-tracer (API–T).’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chap-
ter is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘4688. Armor-piercing ammunition and components: condition on disposal.’’.
(b) APPLICABILITY.—Section 4688 of title 10, United
States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall apply with
respect to any disposal of ammunition or components re-
ferred to in that section after the date of the enactment of
this Act.
SEC. 371. DAMAGE TO AVIATION FACILITIES CAUSED BY AL-
KALI SILICA REACTIVITY.
(a) ASSESSMENT REQUIRED.—The Secretary of De-
fense shall assess the damage caused to aviation facilities
of the Department of Defense by alkali silica reactivity. In
making the assessment, the Secretary shall review the de-
partment’s aviation facilities throughout the world.
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(b) DAMAGE PREVENTION AND MITIGATION PLAN.—
(1) Taking into consideration the assessment under sub-
section (a), the Secretary may develop and, during fiscal
years 2001 through 2006, carry out a plan to prevent and
mitigate damage to the aviation facilities of the Department
of Defense as a result of alkali silica reactivity.
(2) A plan developed under paragraph shall provide
for the following:
(A) Treatment of alkali silica reactivity in pave-
ment and structures at a selected test site.
(B) The demonstration and deployment of tech-
nologies capable of mitigating alkali silica reactivity
in hardened concrete structures and pavements.
(C) The promulgation of specific guidelines for
appropriate testing and use of lithium salts to pre-
vent alkali silica reactivity in new construction.
(c) DELEGATION OF AUTHORITY.—The Secretary shall
direct the Chief of Engineers of the Army and the Com-
mander of the Naval Facilities Engineering Command to
carry out the assessment required by subsection (a) and to
develop and carry out the plan required by subsection (b).
(d) FUNDING.—Of the amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated under section 301, not more than $5,000,000 is
available for carrying out this section.
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SEC. 372. REAUTHORIZATION OF PILOT PROGRAM FOR AC-
CEPTANCE 
AND 
USE 
OF 
LANDING 
FEES
CHARGED FOR USE OF DOMESTIC MILITARY
AIRFIELDS BY CIVIL AIRCRAFT.
(a) REAUTHORIZATION.—Subsection (a) of section 377
of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act
for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105–261; 112 Stat. 1993;
10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended as follows:
(1) by striking ‘‘1999 and 2000’’ and inserting
‘‘2001 through 2010’’; and
(2) by striking the second sentence and inserting
‘‘The pilot program under this section may not be
carried out after September 30, 2010.’’.
(b) FEES COLLECTED.—Subsection (b) of such section
is amended to read as follows:
‘‘(b) LANDING FEE DEFINED.—For the purposes of
this section, the term ‘landing fee’ means any fee that is
established under or in accordance with regulations of the
military department concerned (whether prescribed in a fee
schedule or imposed under a joint-use agreement) to recover
costs incurred for use by civil aircraft of an airfield of the
military department in the United States or in a territory
or possession of the United States.’’.
(c) USE OF PROCEEDS.—Subsection (c) of such section
is amended by striking ‘‘Amounts received for a fiscal year
in payment of landing fees imposed under the pilot pro-
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gram for use of a military airfield’’ and inserting
‘‘Amounts received in payment of landing fees for use of
a military airfield in a fiscal year of the pilot program’’.
(d) REPORT.—Subsection (d) of such section is
amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘March 31, 2000,’’ and inserting
‘‘March 31, 2003,’’; and
(2) by striking ‘‘December 31, 1999’’ and insert-
ing ‘‘December 31, 2002’’.
SEC. 373. REIMBURSEMENT BY CIVIL AIR CARRIERS FOR
SUPPORT PROVIDED AT JOHNSTON ATOLL.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Chapter 949 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 9783. Johnston Atoll: reimbursement for support
provided to civil air carriers
‘‘(a) AUTHORITY OF THE SECRETARY.—The Secretary
of the Air Force may, under regulations prescribed by the
Secretary, require payment by a civil air carrier for sup-
port provided by the United States to the carrier at John-
ston Atoll that is either—
‘‘(1) requested by the civil air carrier; or
‘‘(2) determined under the regulations as being
necessary to accommodate the civil air carrier’s use of
Johnston Atoll.
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‘‘(b) AMOUNT OF CHARGES.—Any amount charged an
air carrier under subsection (a) for support shall be equal
to the total amount of the actual costs to the United States
of providing the support. The amount charged may not in-
clude any amount for an item of support that does not sat-
isfy a condition described in paragraph (1) or (2) of sub-
section (a).
‘‘(c) RELATIONSHIP TO LANDING FEES.—No landing
fee shall be charged an air carrier for a landing of an air-
craft of the air carrier at Johnston Atoll if the air carrier
is charged under subsection (a) for support provided to the
air carrier.
‘‘(d) DISPOSITION
OF
PAYMENTS.—(1) Notwith-
standing any other provision of law, amounts collected from
an air carrier under this section shall be credited to appro-
priations available for the fiscal year in which collected,
as follows:
‘‘(A) For support provided by the Air Force, to
appropriations available for the Air Force for oper-
ation and maintenance.
‘‘(B) For support provided by the Army, to ap-
propriations available for the Army for chemical de-
militarization.
‘‘(2) Amounts credited to an appropriation under
paragraph (1) shall be merged with funds in that appro-
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priation and shall be available, without further appropria-
tion, for the purposes and period for which the appropria-
tion is available.
‘‘(e) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) The term ‘civil air carrier’ means an air
carrier (as defined in section 40101(a)(2) of title 49)
that is issued a certificate of public convenience and
necessity under section 41102 of such title.
‘‘(2) The term ‘support’ includes fuel, fire rescue,
use of facilities, improvements necessary to accommo-
date use by civil air carriers, police, safety, housing,
food, air traffic control, suspension of military oper-
ations on the island (including operations at the
Johnston Atoll Chemical Agent Demilitarization Sys-
tem), repairs, and any other construction, services, or
supplies.’’.
(b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.—The table of sections at
the beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the
end the following new item:
‘‘9783. Johnston Atoll: reimbursement for support provided to civil air carriers.’’.
SEC. 374. REVIEW OF COSTS OF MAINTAINING HISTORICAL
PROPERTIES.
(a) REQUIREMENT
FOR REVIEW.—The Comptroller
General of the United States shall conduct a review of the
annual costs incurred by the Department of Defense to com-
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ply with the requirements of the National Historic Preser-
vation Act (16 U.S.C. 470 et seq.).
(b) REPORT.—Not later than February 28, 2001, the
Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional de-
fense committees a report on the results of the review. The
report shall contain the following:
(1) For each military department and Defense
Agency and for the Department of Defense in the ag-
gregate, the cost for fiscal year 2000 and the projected
costs for the ensuing 10 fiscal years.
(2) An analysis of the cost to maintain only
those properties that qualified as historic properties
under the National Historic Preservation Act when
such Act was originally enacted.
(3) The accounts used for paying the costs of
complying with the requirements of the National His-
toric Preservation Act.
(4) For each military department and Defense
Agency, the identity of all properties that must be
maintained in order to comply with the requirements
of the National Historic Preservation Act.
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SEC. 375. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO SELL CERTAIN
AIRCRAFT FOR USE IN WILDFIRE SUPPRES-
SION.
Section 2 of the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Trans-
fer Act of 1996 (Public Law 104–307) is amended—
(1) in subsection (a)(1) by striking ‘‘September
30, 2000’’ and inserting ‘‘September 30, 2005’’;
(2) by adding at the end of subsection (d)(1) the
following: ‘‘After taking effect, the regulations shall be
effective until the end of the period specified in sub-
section (a)(1).’’;
(3) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘March 31,
2000’’ and inserting ‘‘March 31, 2005’’.
SEC. 376. OVERSEAS AIRLIFT SERVICE ON CIVIL RESERVE
AIR FLEET AIRCRAFT.
(a) IN GENERAL.—Section 41106(a) of title 49, United
States Code, is amended—
(1) by striking ‘‘GENERAL.—(1) Except as pro-
vided in subsection (b),’’ and inserting ‘‘INTERSTATE
TRANSPORTATION.—(1) Except as provided in sub-
section (d),’’;
(2) in paragraph (1), by striking ‘‘of at least 31
days’’;
(3) by redesignating subsection (b) as subsection
(d); and
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(4) by inserting after subsection (a) the fol-
lowing:
‘‘(b) 
TRANSPORTATION
BETWEEN
THE
UNITED
STATES AND FOREIGN LOCATIONS.—Except as provided in
subsection (d), the transportation of passengers or property
by transport category aircraft between a place in the United
States and a place outside the United States obtained by
the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military de-
partment through a contract for airlift service may be pro-
vided by an air carrier referred to in subsection (a).
‘‘(c) TRANSPORTATION
BETWEEN
FOREIGN
LOCA-
TIONS.—The transportation of passengers or property by
transport category aircraft between two places outside the
United States obtained by the Secretary of Defense or the
Secretary of a military department through a contract for
airlift service shall be provided by an air carrier that has
aircraft in the civil reserve air fleet whenever transpor-
tation by such an air carrier is reasonably available.’’.
(b) EFFECTIVE DATE.—The amendments made by this
section shall take effect on October 1, 2000.
SEC. 377. DEFENSE TRAVEL SYSTEM.
(a) REQUIREMENT FOR REPORT.—Not later than No-
vember 30, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to
the congressional defense committees a report on the Defense
Travel System.
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for the Defense Travel System may be obligated or expended
before the date on which the Secretary submits the report
required under subsection (a).
(2) Funds appropriated for the Defense Travel System
pursuant to the authorization of appropriations referred to
in paragraph (1) may not be used for a purpose other than
the Defense Travel System unless the Secretary first submits
to Congress a written notification of the intended use and
the amount to be so used.
SEC. 378. REVIEW OF AH–64 AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.
(a) REQUIREMENT
FOR REVIEW.—The Comptroller
General shall conduct a review of the Army’s AH–64 air-
craft program to determine the following:
(1) Whether any of the following conditions exist
under the program:
(A) Obsolete spare parts, rather than spare
parts for the latest aircraft configuration, are
being procured.
(B) There is insufficient sustaining system
technical support.
(C) The technical data packages and manu-
als are obsolete.
(D) There are unfunded requirements for
airframe and component upgrades.
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(2) Whether the readiness of the aircraft is im-
paired by conditions described in paragraph (1) that
are determined to exist.
(b) REPORT.—Not later than March 1, 2001, the
Comptroller General shall submit to the congressional de-
fense committees a report on the results of the review under
subsection (a).
SEC. 379. ASSISTANCE FOR MAINTENANCE, REPAIR, AND
RENOVATION OF SCHOOL FACILITIES THAT
SERVE DEPENDENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE
ARMED FORCES AND DEPARTMENT OF DE-
FENSE CIVILIAN EMPLOYEES.
(a) GRANTS AUTHORIZED.—Chapter 111 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended—
(1) by redesignating section 2199 as section
2199a; and
(2) by inserting after section 2198 the following
new section:
‘‘§ 2199. Quality of life education facilities grants
‘‘(a) REPAIR AND RENOVATION ASSISTANCE.—(1) The
Secretary of Defense may make a grant to an eligible local
educational agency to assist the agency to repair and
renovate—
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‘‘(A) an impacted school facility that is used by
significant numbers of military dependent students;
or
‘‘(B) a school facility that was a former Depart-
ment of Defense domestic dependent elementary or
secondary school.
‘‘(2) Authorized repair and renovation projects may
include repairs and improvements to an impacted school
facility (including the grounds of the facility) designed to
ensure compliance with the requirements of the Americans
with Disabilities Act or local health and safety ordinances,
to meet classroom size requirements, or to accommodate
school population increases.
‘‘(3) The total amount of assistance provided under
this subsection to an eligible local educational agency may
not exceed $5,000,000 during any period of two fiscal years.
‘‘(b) MAINTENANCE ASSISTANCE.—(1) The Secretary
of Defense may make a grant to an eligible local educational
agency whose boundaries are the same as a military instal-
lation to assist the agency to maintain an impacted school
facility, including the grounds of such a facility.
‘‘(2) The total amount of assistance provided under
this subsection to an eligible local educational agency may
not exceed $250,000 during any fiscal year.
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‘‘(c) DETERMINATION
OF
ELIGIBLE
LOCAL
EDU-
CATIONAL AGENCIES.—(1) A local educational agency is an
eligible local educational agency under this section only if
the Secretary of Defense determines that the local edu-
cational agency has—
‘‘(A) one or more federally impacted school fa-
cilities and satisfies at least one of the additional eli-
gibility requirements specified in paragraph (2); or
‘‘(B) a school facility that was a former Depart-
ment of Defense domestic dependent elementary or
secondary school, but assistance provided under this
subparagraph may only be used to repair and ren-
ovate that facility.
‘‘(2) The additional eligibility requirements referred to
in paragraph (1) are the following:
‘‘(A) The local educational agency is eligible to
receive assistance under subsection (f) of section 8003
of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965 (20 U.S.C. 7703) and at least 10 percent of the
students who were in average daily attendance in the
schools of such agency during the preceding school
year were students described under paragraph (1)(A)
or (1)(B) of section 8003(a) of the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965.
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‘‘(B) At least 35 percent of the students who were
in average daily attendance in the schools of the local
educational agency during the preceding school year
were students described under paragraph (1)(A) or
(1)(B) of section 8003(a) of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965.
‘‘(C) The State education system and the local
educational agency are one and the same.
‘‘(d) NOTIFICATION OF ELIGIBILITY.—Not later than
June 30 of each fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall
notify each local educational agency identified under sub-
section (c) that the local educational agency is eligible dur-
ing that fiscal year to apply for a grant under subsection
(a), subsection (b), or both subsections.
‘‘(e) RELATION TO IMPACT AID CONSTRUCTION AS-
SISTANCE.—A local education agency that receives a grant
under subsection (a) to repair and renovate a school facility
may not also receive a payment for school construction
under section 8007 of the Elementary and Secondary Edu-
cation Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7707) for the same fiscal
year.
‘‘(f) GRANT CONSIDERATIONS.—In determining which
eligible local educational agencies will receive a grant under
this section for a fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall
take into consideration the following conditions and needs
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at impacted school facilities of eligible local educational
agencies:
‘‘(1) The repair or renovation of facilities is
needed to meet State mandated class size require-
ments, including student-teacher ratios and instruc-
tional space size requirements.
‘‘(2) There is a increase in the number of mili-
tary dependent students in facilities of the agency due
to increases in unit strength as part of military read-
iness.
‘‘(3) There are unhoused students on a military
installation due to other strength adjustments at mili-
tary installations.
‘‘(4) The repair or renovation of facilities is
needed to address any of the following conditions:
‘‘(A) The condition of the facility poses a
threat to the safety and well-being of students.
‘‘(B) The requirements of the Americans
with Disabilities Act.
‘‘(C) The cost associated with asbestos re-
moval, energy conservation, or technology up-
grades.
‘‘(D) Overcrowding conditions as evidenced
by the use of trailers and portable buildings and
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the potential for future overcrowding because of
increased enrollment.
‘‘(5) The repair or renovation of facilities is
needed to meet any other Federal or State mandate.
‘‘(6) The number of military dependent students
as a percentage of the total student population in the
particular school facility.
‘‘(7) The age of facility to be repaired or ren-
ovated.
‘‘(g) DEFINITIONS.—In this section:
‘‘(1) LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCY.—The term
‘local educational agency’ has the meaning given that
term in section 8013(9) of the Elementary and Sec-
ondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7713(9)).
‘‘(2) IMPACTED
SCHOOL
FACILITY.—The term
‘impacted school facility’ means a facility of a local
educational agency—
‘‘(A) that is used to provide elementary or
secondary education at or near a military in-
stallation; and
‘‘(B) at which the average annual enroll-
ment of military dependent students is a high
percentage of the total student enrollment at the
facility, as determined by the Secretary of De-
fense.
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‘‘(3) MILITARY
DEPENDENT
STUDENTS.—The
term ‘military dependent students’ means students
who are dependents of members of the armed forces or
Department of Defense civilian employees.
‘‘(4) MILITARY INSTALLATION.—The term ‘mili-
tary installation’ has the meaning given that term in
section 2687(e) of this title.’’.
(b) AMENDMENTS TO CHAPTER HEADING AND TABLES
OF CONTENTS.—(1) The heading of chapter 111 of title 10,
United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
‘‘CHAPTER 111—SUPPORT OF
EDUCATION’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chap-
ter is amended by striking the item relating to section 2199
and inserting the following new items:
‘‘2199. Quality of life education facilities grants.
‘‘2199a. Definitions.’’.
(3) The tables of chapters at the beginning of subtitle
A, and at the beginning of part III of subtitle A, of such
title are amended by striking the item relating to chapter
111 and inserting the following:
‘‘111. Support of Education ................................................................. 2191’’.
(c) FUNDING FOR FISCAL YEAR 2001.—Amounts ap-
propriated in the Department of Defense Appropriations
Act, 2001, under the heading ‘‘QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCE-
MENTS, DEFENSE’’ may be used by the Secretary of Defense
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to make grants under section 2199 of title 10, United States
Code, as added by subsection (a).
SEC. 380. POSTPONEMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF DE-
FENSE JOINT ACCOUNTING SYSTEM (DJAS)
PENDING ANALYSIS OF THE SYSTEM.
(a) POSTPONEMENT.—The Secretary of Defense may
not grant a Milestone III decision for the Defense Joint Ac-
counting System (DJAS) until the Secretary—
(1) conducts, with the participation of the In-
spector General of the Department of Defense and the
inspectors general of the military departments, an
analysis of alternatives to the system to determine
whether the system warrants deployment; and
(2) if the Secretary determines that the system
warrants deployment, submits to the congressional de-
fense committees a report certifying that the system
meets Milestone I and Milestone II requirements and
applicable requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act of
1996 (divisions D and E of Public Law 104–106).
(b) DEADLINE FOR REPORT.—The report referred to
in subsection (a)(2) shall be submitted, if at all, not later
than March 30, 2001.
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TITLE IV—MILITARY PERSONNEL
AUTHORIZATIONS
Subtitle A—Active Forces
SEC. 401. END STRENGTHS FOR ACTIVE FORCES.
The Armed Forces are authorized strengths for active
duty personnel as of September 30, 2001, as follows:
(1) The Army, 480,000.
(2) The Navy, 372,000.
(3) The Marine Corps, 172,600.
(4) The Air Force, 357,000.
Subtitle B—Reserve Forces
SEC. 411. END STRENGTHS FOR SELECTED RESERVE.
(a) IN GENERAL.—The Armed Forces are authorized
strengths for Selected Reserve personnel of the reserve com-
ponents as of September 30, 2001, as follows:
(1) The Army National Guard of the United
States, 350,088.
(2) The Army Reserve, 205,000.
(3) The Naval Reserve, 88,900.
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 39,558.
(5) The Air National Guard of the United
States, 108,022.
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 74,300.
(7) The Coast Guard Reserve, 8,500.
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(b) ADJUSTMENTS.—The end strengths prescribed by
subsection (a) for the Selected Reserve of any reserve compo-
nent shall be proportionately reduced by—
(1) the total authorized strength of units orga-
nized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such
component which are on active duty (other than for
training) at the end of the fiscal year; and
(2) the total number of individual members not
in units organized to serve as units of the Selected
Reserve of such component who are on active duty
(other than for training or for unsatisfactory partici-
pation in training) without their consent at the end
of the fiscal year.
Whenever such units or such individual members are re-
leased from active duty during any fiscal year, the end
strength prescribed for such fiscal year for the Selected Re-
serve of such reserve component shall be proportionately in-
creased by the total authorized strengths of such units and
by the total number of such individual members.
SEC. 412. END STRENGTHS FOR RESERVES ON ACTIVE
DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.
Within the end strengths prescribed in section 411(a),
the reserve components of the Armed Forces are authorized,
as of September 30, 2001, the following number of Reserves
to be serving on full-time active duty or full-time duty, in
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the case of members of the National Guard, for the purpose
of organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or
training the reserve components:
(1) The Army National Guard of the United
States, 22,974.
(2) The Army Reserve, 12,806.
(3) The Naval Reserve, 14,649.
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 2,261.
(5) The Air National Guard of the United
States, 11,170.
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 1,278.
SEC. 413. END STRENGTHS FOR MILITARY TECHNICIANS
(DUAL STATUS).
The minimum number of military technicians (dual
status) as of the last day of fiscal year 2001 for the reserve
components of the Army and the Air Force (notwith-
standing section 129 of title 10, United States Code) shall
be the following:
(1) For the Army Reserve, 5,249.
(2) For the Army National Guard of the United
States, 24,728.
(3) For the Air Force Reserve, 9,733.
(4) For the Air National Guard of the United
States, 22,221.
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SEC. 414. FISCAL YEAR 2001 LIMITATION ON NON-DUAL STA-
TUS TECHNICIANS.
(a) LIMITATION.—The number of non-dual status tech-
nicians employed by the reserve components of the Army
and the Air Force as of September 30, 2001, may not exceed
the following:
(1) For the Army Reserve, 1,195.
(2) For the Army National Guard of the United
States, 1,600.
(3) For the Air Force Reserve, 0.
(4) For the Air National Guard of the United
States, 326.
(b) NON-DUAL STATUS TECHNICIANS DEFINED.—In
this section, the term ‘‘non-dual status technician’’ has the
meaning given the term in section 10217(a) of title 10,
United States Code.
(c) POSTPONEMENT OF PERMANENT LIMITATION.—
Section 10217(c)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by striking ‘‘October 1, 2001’’ and inserting ‘‘Oc-
tober 1, 2002’’.
SEC. 415. INCREASE IN NUMBERS OF MEMBERS IN CER-
TAIN GRADES AUTHORIZED TO BE ON ACTIVE
DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.
(a) OFFICERS.—The table in section 12011(a) of title
10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
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‘‘Grade
Army
Navy
Air
Force
Marine
Corps
Major or Lieutenant Commander ...................................................
3,227
1,071
898
140
Lieutenant Colonel or Commander ................................................
1,687
520
844
Colonel or Navy Captain .................................................................
511
188
317
30’’.
(b) SENIOR ENLISTED MEMBERS.—The table in sec-
tion 12012(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended
to read as follows:
‘‘Grade
Army
Navy
Air
Force
Marine
Corps
E–9 ....................................................................................................
662
202
501
E–8 ....................................................................................................
2,676
429
1,102
94’’.
Subtitle C—Other Matters Relating
to Personnel Strengths
SEC. 421. SUSPENSION OF STRENGTH LIMITATIONS DUR-
ING WAR OR NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
(a) SENIOR ENLISTED MEMBERS.—Section 517 of title
10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end
the following new subsection (c):
‘‘(c) The Secretary of Defense may suspend the oper-
ation of this section in time of war or of national emergency
declared by the Congress or by the President. Any suspen-
sion shall, if not sooner ended, end on the last day of the
2-year period beginning on the date on which the suspen-
sion (or the last extension thereof) takes effect or on the last
day of the 1-year period beginning on the date of the termi-
nation of the war or national emergency, whichever occurs
first. Title II of the National Emergencies Act (50 U.S.C.
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1621–1622) shall not apply to an extension under this sub-
section.’’.
(b) SENIOR AGR PERSONNEL.—(1) Chapter 1201 of
such title is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘§ 12013. Authority to suspend sections 12011 and
12012
‘‘The Secretary of Defense may suspend the operation
of section 12011 or 12012 of this title in time of war or
of national emergency declared by the Congress or by the
President. Any suspension shall, if not sooner ended, end
on the last day of the 2-year period beginning on the date
on which the suspension (or the last extension thereof) takes
effect or on the last day of the 1-year period beginning on
the date of the termination of the war or national emer-
gency, whichever occurs first. Title II of the National Emer-
gencies Act (50 U.S.C. 1621–1622) shall not apply to an
extension under this subsection.’’.
(2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chap-
ter is amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘12013. Authority to suspend sections 12011 and 12012.’’.
SEC. 422. EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN RESERVE COMPONENT
MEMBERS ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR MORE THAN
180 DAYS FROM ACTIVE COMPONENT END
STRENGTHS.
Section 115(d) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
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‘‘(9) Members of reserve components (not de-
scribed in paragraph (8)) on active duty for more
than 180 days to perform special work in support of
the armed forces (other than in support of the Coast
Guard) and the combatant commands, except that the
number of the members excluded under this para-
graph may not exceed the number equal to two-tenths
of one percent of the end strength authorized for ac-
tive-duty personnel under subsection (a)(1)(A).’’.
SEC. 423. EXCLUSION OF ARMY AND AIR FORCE MEDICAL
AND DENTAL OFFICERS FROM LIMITATION
ON STRENGTHS OF RESERVE COMMISSIONED
OFFICERS IN GRADES BELOW BRIGADIER
GENERAL.
Section 12005(a) of title 10, United States Code, is
amended by adding at the end the following:
‘‘(3) Medical officers and dental officers shall not be
counted for the purposes of this subsection.’’.
SEC. 424. AUTHORITY FOR TEMPORARY INCREASES IN NUM-
BER OF RESERVE PERSONNEL SERVING ON
ACTIVE 
DUTY 
OR 
FULL-TIME 
NATIONAL
GUARD DUTY IN CERTAIN GRADES.
(a) OFFICERS.—Section 12011 of title 10, United
States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following
new subsection: