IB
106TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION
H. R. 1555
[Report No. 106–130, Part I]
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for intelligence and intel-
ligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Commu-
nity Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retire-
ment and Disability System, and for other purposes.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
APRIL 26, 1999
Mr. GOSS introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Permanent
Select Committee on Intelligence
MAY 7, 1999
Reported with an amendment and referred to the Committee on Armed Serv-
ices for a period ending not later than May 11, 1999, for consideration
of such provisions of the bill and amendment as fall within the jurisdic-
tion of that committee pursuant to clause 1(c), rule X
[Strike out all after the enacting clause and insert the part printed in italic]
[For text of introduced bill, see copy of bill as introduced on April 26, 1999]
A BILL
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for intel-
ligence and intelligence-related activities of the United
States Government, the Community Management Ac-
count, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement
and Disability System, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This Act may be cited as the ‘‘In-
telligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000’’.
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents for
this Act is as follows:
Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
TITLE I—INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
Sec. 101. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 102. Classified schedule of authorizations.
Sec. 103. Personnel ceiling adjustments.
Sec. 104. Community Management Account.
Sec. 105. Authorization of emergency supplemental appropriations for fiscal year
1999.
TITLE II—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND
DISABILITY SYSTEM
Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.
TITLE III—GENERAL PROVISIONS
Sec. 301. Increase in employee compensation and benefits authorized by law.
Sec. 302. Restriction on conduct of intelligence activities.
Sec. 303. Sense of Congress on intelligence community contracting.
TITLE IV—CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY
Sec. 401. Two-year extension of CIA central services program.
TITLE V—DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE INTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES
Sec. 501. Protection of operational files of the National Imagery and Mapping
Agency.
TITLE I—INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES
SEC. 101. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fis-
cal year 2000 for the conduct of the intelligence and intel-
ligence-related activities of the following elements of the
United States Government:
(1) The Central Intelligence Agency.
Senate and House of Representatives and to the President.
The President shall provide for suitable distribution of the
Schedule, or of appropriate portions of the Schedule, within
the Executive Branch.
SEC. 103. PERSONNEL CEILING ADJUSTMENTS.
(a) AUTHORITY FOR ADJUSTMENTS.—With the ap-
proval of the Director of the Office of Management and
Budget, the Director of Central Intelligence may authorize
employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number
authorized for fiscal year 2000 under section 102 when the
Director of Central Intelligence determines that such action
is necessary to the performance of important intelligence
functions, except that the number of personnel employed in
excess of the number authorized under such section may not,
for any element of the intelligence community, exceed two
percent of the number of civilian personnel authorized
under such section for such element.
(b) NOTICE TO INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEES.—The Di-
rector of Central Intelligence shall promptly notify the Per-
manent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of
Representatives and the Select Committee on Intelligence of
the Senate whenever he exercises the authority granted by
this section.
SEC. 104. INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT AC-
COUNT.
(a) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is
authorized to be appropriated for the Intelligence Commu-
nity Management Account of the Director of Central Intel-
ligence for fiscal year 2000 the sum of $193,572,000. Within
such amount, funds identified in the classified Schedule of
Authorizations referred to in section 102(a) for the Ad-
vanced Research and Development Committee shall remain
available until September 30, 2001.
(b) AUTHORIZED PERSONNEL LEVELS.—The elements
within the Community Management Account of the Direc-
tor of Central Intelligence are authorized 348 full-time per-
sonnel as of September 30, 2000. Personnel serving in such
elements may be permanent employees of the Community
Management Staff or personnel detailed from other elements
of the United States Government.
(c) CLASSIFIED AUTHORIZATIONS.—
(1) AUTHORIZATION
OF
APPROPRIATIONS.—In
addition to amounts authorized to be appropriated
for the Community Management Account by sub-
section (a), there are also authorized to be appro-
priated for the Community Management Account for
fiscal year 2000 such additional amounts as are spec-
ified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations re-
ferred to in section 102(a). Such additional amounts
shall remain available until September 30, 2001.
(2) AUTHORIZATION OF PERSONNEL.—In addi-
tion to the personnel authorized by subsection (b) for
elements of the Community Management Account as
of September 30, 2000, there are hereby authorized
such additional personnel for such elements as of that
date as are specified in the classified Schedule of Au-
thorizations.
(d) REIMBURSEMENT.—Except as provided in section
113 of the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 404h),
during fiscal year 2000, any officer or employee of the
United States or a member of the Armed Forces who is de-
tailed to the staff of the Community Management Account
from another element of the United States Government shall
be detailed on a reimbursable basis, except that any such
officer, employee, or member may be detailed on a non-
reimbursable basis for a period of less than one year for
the performance of temporary functions as required by the
Director of Central Intelligence.
(e) NATIONAL DRUG INTELLIGENCE CENTER.—
(1) IN GENERAL.—Of the amount appropriated
pursuant to the authorization in subsection (a), the
amount of $27,000,000 shall be available for the Na-
tional Drug Intelligence Center. Within such amount,
funds provided for research, development, test, and
evaluation purposes shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30, 2001, and funds provided for procurement
purposes shall remain available until September 30,
2002.
(2) TRANSFER OF FUNDS.—The Director of Cen-
tral Intelligence shall transfer to the Attorney General
of the United States funds available for the National
Drug Intelligence Center under paragraph (1). The
Attorney General shall utilize funds so transferred for
the activities of the National Drug Intelligence Cen-
ter.
(3) LIMITATION.—Amounts available for the Na-
tional Drug Intelligence Center may not be used in
contravention of the provisions of section 103(d)(1) of
the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 403–
3(d)(1)).
(4) AUTHORITY.—Notwithstanding any other
provision of law, the Attorney General shall retain
full authority over the operations of the National
Drug Intelligence Center.
SEC. 105. AUTHORIZATION OF EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL
APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999.
(a) AUTHORIZATION.—Amounts authorized to be ap-
propriated for fiscal year 1999 under section 101 of the In-
telligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public
Law 105–272) for the conduct of the intelligence activities
of elements of the United States Government listed in such
section are hereby increased, with respect to any such au-
thorized amount, by the amount by which appropriations
pursuant to such authorization were increased by an emer-
gency supplemental appropriation in a supplemental ap-
propriations Act for fiscal year 1999 that is enacted after
May 1, 1999, for such amounts as are designated by Con-
gress as an emergency requirement pursuant to section
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Def-
icit Control Act of 1985 (2 U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)).
(b) RATIFICATION.—For purposes of section 504 of the
National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 414), any obliga-
tion or expenditure of those amounts deemed to have been
specifically authorized by Congress in the Act referred to
in subsection (a) is hereby ratified and confirmed.
TITLE 
II—CENTRAL 
INTEL-
LIGENCE 
AGENCY 
RETIRE-
MENT AND DISABILITY SYS-
TEM
SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.
There is authorized to be appropriated for the Central
Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for fis-
cal year 2000 the sum of $209,100,000.
TITLE III—GENERAL
PROVISIONS
SEC. 301. INCREASE IN EMPLOYEE COMPENSATION AND
BENEFITS AUTHORIZED BY LAW.
Appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay,
retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees may
be increased by such additional or supplemental amounts
as may be necessary for increases in such compensation or
benefits authorized by law.
SEC. 302. RESTRICTION ON CONDUCT OF INTELLIGENCE
ACTIVITIES.
The authorization of appropriations by this Act shall
not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any
intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by
the Constitution or the laws of the United States.
SEC. 303. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENCE COMMU-
NITY CONTRACTING.
It is the sense of Congress that the Director of Central
Intelligence should continue to direct that elements of the
intelligence community, whenever compatible with the na-
tional security interests of the United States and consistent
with operational and security concerns related to the con-
duct of intelligence activities, and where fiscally sound,
should competitively award contracts in a manner that