Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004

Bill: 108-hr-2658
Sponsor: Rep. Lewis, Jerry [R-CA-41]
Introduced: 2003-07-02 in the House
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security
Subjects: Access to health care
Administrative fees
Afghanistan
Agriculture and Food
Air cargo
Air force
Air-to-air missiles
Aircraft engines
Alaska
Alcoholic beverages
Alien labor
Alloys
American Samoa
Ammunition
Anthrax
Antimissile missiles
Appellate courts
Appropriations
Armed forces abroad
Armed forces reserves
Arms control
Arms sales
Army
Artillery
Arts, Culture, Religion
Associations, institutions, etc.
Aviation safety
Avionics
Ballistic missile defenses
Ballistic missiles
Beer
Black colleges
Blind
Bomber aircraft
Boy Scouts
Building construction
Buy American
California
Case management
Central Asia
Central Intelligence Agency
Charitable contributions
Charities
Chemical warfare
Civil Rights and Liberties, Minority Issues
Civil service retirement
Coal
Colorado
Commemorations
Commerce
Competitive bidding
Conferences
Conflict of interests
Congress
Congress and military policy
Congressional investigations
Congressional oversight
Congressional reporting requirements
Construction costs
Construction industries
Consultants
Correctional personnel
Cost effectiveness
Cost overruns
Counterintelligence
Courts-martial and courts of inquiry
Covert operations
Crime and Law Enforcement
Data banks
Deceptive advertising
Defective products
Defense budgets
Defense contracts
Defense industries
Defense procurement
Dental care
Department of Defense
Diesel motor
Disabled
Disaster relief
Distance education
District of Columbia
Drug abuse
Drug law enforcement
EBB Terrorism
East Asia
Economic assistance
Economics and Public Finance
Education
Electronic government information
Elementary and secondary education
Emergency Management
Emergency medicine
Employee selection
Energy
Energy efficiency
Engines
Environmental Protection
Environmental assessment
Europe
Export finance
Families
Family services
Federal aid to education
Federal aid to research
Federal employees
Federal installations
Federal office buildings
Federal-Indian relations
Federal-territorial relations
Federally-guaranteed loans
Fiber optics
Fighter aircraft
Firearms
Fishing boats
Flight training
Florida
Forced labor
Foreign Trade and International Finance
Foreign corporations
Foreign students
Former Soviet states
Foundations
Fraternal organizations
Fraud
Fringe benefits
Genetics
Germany
Girl Scouts
Government Operations and Politics
Government contractors
Government downsizing
Government liability (International law)
Government publicity
Government travel
Government trust funds
Government vehicles
Governmental investigations
Guam
Guided missiles
Hawaii
Hawaiians
Hazardous wastes
Health
Heating
Higher education
History
Home repair and improvement
Housing and Community Development
Human rights
Identification of criminals
Illinois
Impact aid
Indexing (Economic policy)
Indian housing
Indian lands
Indian medical care
Information networks
Information technology
Inspectors general
Intelligence community staff
International Affairs
International agencies
International claims
International military forces
International relief
Iraq
Iraq compilation
Iron and steel industry
Islands
Japan
Job creation
Kansas
Kentucky
Kuwait
Labeling
Labor and Employment
Labor statistics
Land transfers
Law
Leadership
Leases
Lobbying
Louisiana
Maintenance and repair
Managed care
Management information systems
Marine safety
Marines
Marshall Islands
Maryland
Medical education
Medical research
Medical supplies
Mental care facilities
Mental health services
Merchant marine
Merchant ships
Micronesia
Middle East and North Africa
Military agreements
Military aircraft
Military airlift
Military and naval supplies
Military assistance
Military aviation
Military base closures
Military bases
Military chaplains
Military civic action
Military command and control
Military communications
Military construction operations
Military dependents
Military education
Military helicopters
Military hospitals
Military housing
Military intelligence
Military medicine
Military occupation
Military operations
Military pay
Military pensions
Military personnel
Military research
Military sealift
Military training
Military transportation
Minesweeping
Minnesota
Minorities
Minority business enterprises
Minority education
Montana
Monuments and memorials
Motor vehicle pollution control
Museums
NATO countries
National Guard
Native Americans
Natural areas
Navigation satellites
Navy
New York State
Nongovernmental organizations
Nonprofit organizations
North Dakota
North Korea

Summary:
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for the Department of Defense (DOD) for: (1) military personnel; (2) operation and maintenance (including for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Account, the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces, environmental restoration, overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid, and former Soviet Union threat reduction); (3) procurement (including for shipbuilding and conversion, and purchases under the Defense Production Act of 1950); (4) research, development, test and evaluation; (5) revolving and management funds; (6) the Defense Health Program; (7) chemical agents and munitions destruction; (8) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities; (9) the Office of the Inspector General; (10) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (11) the Intelligence Community Management Account; and (12) the National Security Education Trust Fund. 
Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.
Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
Reduces the total amount appropriated in this Act to: (1) reduce excess funded carryover; (2) reduce cost growth in information technology development; (3) reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in the DOD Working Capital Fund and the DOD Transportation Working Capital Fund; (4) reflect savings attributable to improvements in the management of advisory and assistance services contracted by the military departments; and (5) reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous or other contracts in military departments.
Prohibits the use of funds in this Act for research, development, test, evaluation, procurement or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
Requires specific authorization by law from Congress for the deployment or implementation of the Terrorism Information Awareness program or any component, if and when research and development permit such deployment or implementation.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since it was introduced. The summary has been expanded because action occurred on the measure.)

 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 - 
Title I: Military Personnel
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for: (1) the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Account; (2) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (3) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, and Air Force and defense-wide; (4) environmental restoration at formerly used defense sites; (5) overseas humanitarian,disaster, and civic aid; and (6) former Soviet Union threat reduction. 

Title III: Procurement
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for procurement by the armed forces and reserve components of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950. 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds
 - Appropriates funds for the Defense Working Capital funds and programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund.

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General. 

Title VII: Related Agencies
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account; and (3) national security scholarships, fellowships, and grants (using funds derived from the National Security Education Trust Fund). 

Title VIII: General Provisions
 - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for multiyear procurement contracts for F/A-18 aircraft, E-2C aircraft, and the Tactical Tomahawk missile. 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits during FY 2004 the management by end strengths of DOD civilian personnel. 
(Sec. 8018) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish, with host governments of NATO-member countries, an account for the deposit of residual amounts negotiated in the return of U.S. military installations to such countries.
(Sec. 8027) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military personnel compensation, military construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the Government of Kuwait. 
(Sec. 8029) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new DOD federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the Federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY2004 FFRDC funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by Government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY 2004 funds. Reduces by $74.2 million the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs. 
(Sec. 8030) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating. 
(Sec. 8033) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 2004. 
(Sec. 8036) Directs the President to include within each fiscal year budget the amounts requested for administrative activities of DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies.
(Sec. 8039) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
(Sec. 8044) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities. 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30,2002, level; and (5) to transport chemical munitions to the Johnston Atoll for storage or demilitarization (with an exception and an authorized wartime waiver by the President). 
(Sec. 8048) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease real and personal property at the Adak Naval Air Facility, Alaska. 
(Sec. 8049) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts. 
(Sec. 8055) Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress that the total renovation costs for wedges 2 through 5 of the Pentagon Reservation, cumulatively, will not exceed four times the total renovation cost of wedge 1. Authorizes an annual cost inflation adjustment. Excludes certain costs under such limitation, including costs necessary as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Requires certification reports until all renovation is completed. 
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. 
(Sec. 8065) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any UN peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice. 
(Sec. 8066) Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent authorized by law, to issue loan guarantees in support of U.S. defense exports not otherwise provided for, with a contingent liability limit of $15 billion. Requires quarterly reports to specified congressional committees. 
 
(Sec. 8075) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for approving the license or sale of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government. 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions. 
(Sec. 8077) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver). 
(Sec. 8078) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental equipment to Indian health service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
 
(Sec. 8083) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of Government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a Government-contracted travel management center. 
(Sec. 8084) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. 
(Sec. 8086) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD. 
(Sec. 8087) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations. 
 
(Sec. 8094) Reduces by $172.5 million the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act to reflect savings attributable to improvements in the management of professional support services, surveys and analysis, and engineering and technical support contracted by the military departments. 
(Sec. 8095) Makes specified Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts. 
(Sec. 8096) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU. 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8099) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by: (1) $320 million to reduce cost growth in information technology development; (2) $539 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments; and (3) $67 million to reduce excess funded carryover. 
(Sec. 8103) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry. 
(Sec. 8104) Allows O&M funds to be used to support chaplain-led programs to assist military personnel and their immediate family members in building and maintaining a strong family structure. 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8105) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in the 2008 timeframe; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams to be fielded between 2003 and 2008. 
(Sec. 8106) Requires the program manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment to be responsible for the construction, operation, and closure, and any contract relating thereto, of chemical demilitarization activities at: (1) the Bluegrass Army Depot, Kentucky, if a technology other than the baseline incineration program is selected; and (2) the Pueblo Army Depot, Colorado. 
(Sec. 8107) Appropriates funds for a grant to the American Red Cross for Armed Forces Emergency Services. 
(Sec. 8110) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system. 
(Sec. 8112) Earmarks O&M funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program. 
(Sec. 8113) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in exchange for certain private property, to convey to the Veterans Home of California-Barstow all rights and interest to a parcel of property in the Mojave National Preserve designated as a national World War I memorial. Requires the conveyed property to continue to be used as such memorial. 
(Sec. 8115) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Inland Valley Development Agency, California, all rights and interest to certain parcels of property in San Bernardino, California, currently leased to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Requires a leaseback arrangement to be entered for the Service. 
(Sec. 8116) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to charter, through FY 2008, the vessel RV CORY CHOUEST in support of the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor program. 
(Sec. 8117) Appropriates funds for a grant to the Silver Valley Unified School District, California, for school construction at Fort Irwin, California. 
(Sec. 8118) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by: (1) $294 million to reflect savings attributable to efficiencies and management improvements in the funding of miscellaneous and other contracts in the military departments; and (2) $600 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in the Department of Defense Transportation Working Capital Fund. 
(Sec. 8120) Rescinds $2 billion of the funds appropriated for the Iraq Freedom Fund under the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003. 
(Sec. 8124) Provides that when research and development on the Terrorism Information Awareness program permits its deployment or implementation, no Federal department, agency, or element may deploy or implement such program until the Secretary: (1) notifies Congress of its development; and (2) has received specific authorization by law from Congress for such deployment or implementation. Provides deployment or implementation exceptions. 
(Sec. 8125) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to close Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, within six months after enactment of this Act.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 - 
Title I: Military Personnel
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for: (1) overseas contingency operations; (2) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (3) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, and Air Force and defense-wide; (4) environmental restoration at formerly used defense sites; (5) overseas humanitarian, disaster, and civic aid; and (6) former Soviet Union threat reduction.
 

Title III: Procurement 
- Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for procurement by the armed forces and reserve components of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950.
 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation 
- Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation.
 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds 
- Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for the Defense Working Capital funds and programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund.
 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs 
- Appropriates funds for: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General.
 

Title VII: Related Agencies
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account; (3) payment to the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Fund; and (4) national security scholarships, fellowships, and grants (using funds derived from the National Security Education Trust Fund).
 

Title VIII: General Provisions
 - Sets forth authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds.
 
(Sec. 8008) Authorizes procurement funds to be used for multiyear procurement contracts for: (1) C-130 aircraft; (2) F/A-18E and F engines; (3) F/A-18 aircraft; (4) E-2C aircraft; and (5) a Virginia Class submarine.
 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits, during FY 2004, the management by end strengths of DOD civilian personnel.
 
(Sec. 8018) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish, with host governments of NATO-member countries, an account for the deposit of residual amounts negotiated in the return of U.S. military installations to such countries.
 
(Sec. 8027) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military personnel compensation, military construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the Government of Kuwait.
 
(Sec. 8029) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new DOD federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the Federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY 2004 FFRDC funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by Government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY 2004 funds. Reduces by $50 million the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs.
 
(Sec. 8030) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating.
 
(Sec. 8033) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 2003.
 
(Sec. 8036) Directs the President to include within each fiscal year budget the amounts requested for administrative activities of DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies.
 
(Sec. 8039) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
 
(Sec. 8044) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities.
 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2003, level; or (5) to transport chemical munitions to the Johnston Atoll for storage or demilitarization (with an exception and an authorized wartime waiver by the President).
 
(Sec. 8048) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease real and personal property at the Adak Naval Air Facility, Alaska.
 
(Sec. 8049) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts.
 
(Sec. 8055) Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress that the total renovation costs for wedges 2 through 5 of the Pentagon Reservation, cumulatively, will not exceed four times the total renovation cost of wedge 1. Authorizes an annual cost inflation adjustment. Excludes certain costs under such limitation, including costs necessary as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Requires certification reports until all renovation is completed.
 
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities.
 
(Sec. 8065) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any United Nations peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice.
 
(Sec. 8066) Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent authorized by law, to issue loan guarantees in support of U.S. defense exports not otherwise provided for, with a contingent liability limit of $15 billion. Requires quarterly reports to specified congressional committees.
 
(Sec. 8075) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds for approving the license or sale of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government.
 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions.
 
(Sec. 8077) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver).
 
(Sec. 8078) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus dental equipment to Indian health service facilities and federally-qualified health centers.
 
(Sec. 8082) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds for either the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence or for clandestine military activities until after submission of a report to Congress as required in the classified annex to the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.
 
(Sec. 8083) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of Government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a Government-contracted travel management center.
 
(Sec. 8084) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996.
 
(Sec. 8086) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD.
 
(Sec. 8087) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations.
 
(Sec. 8094) Appropriates funds for transfer to the Coast Guard for mission essential equipment for HC-130J aircraft.
 
(Sec. 8095) Makes specified Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts.
 
(Sec. 8096) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU.
 
(Sec. 8099) Appropriates funds to provide assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled, with special consideration with respect to overseas assignments.
 
(Sec. 8101) Earmarks specified appropriated funds to maintain an attrition reserve force of 18 B-52 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to maintain a total B-52 force of 94, including the 18 reserve, during FY 2004.
 
(Sec. 8102) Requires the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams to be fielded between 2003 and 2008.
 
(Sec. 8106) Appropriates funds to DOD for grants for: (1) Armed Forces Emergency Services; (2) the Fort Benning Infantry Museum; (3) the National Guard Youth Foundation; (4) renovation of the Broadway Armory, Chicago, Illinois; and (5) the National D-Day Museum.
 
(Sec. 8109) Requires each annual budget for FY 2005 and thereafter to include separate justification documents for the costs of U.S. military forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel accounts, the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Account, the O&M accounts, and the procurement accounts.
 
(Sec. 8110) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system.
 
(Sec. 8112) Makes DOD Buy American requirements inapplicable to the procurement of any fish, shellfish, or seafood product during the current fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 8115) Earmarks certain O&M funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program.
 
(Sec. 8117) Designates the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, as America's National World War II Museum.
 
(Sec. 8118) Removes a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 which prohibits new Native American veteran housing loans in excess of $5 million from being made in FY 2003.
 
(Sec. 8119) Rescinds $3.157 billion of the funds made available for the Iraq Freedom Fund under the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003.
 
(Sec. 8120) Prohibits the use of any DOD funds on research and development on the Terrorism Information Awareness program. Prohibits the deployment or implementation of such program until the Secretary: (1) notifies Congress of its development; and (2) has received specific authorization by law from Congress for such deployment or implementation. Provides deployment or implementation exceptions. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) such program should not be used to develop technologies for conducting intelligence or law enforcement activities against U.S. persons without appropriate consultation with Congress or clear adherence to the protection of civil liberties and privacy; and (2) the primary purpose of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is to support lawful activities of DOD and national security programs.
 
(Sec. 8121) Reduces by $125 million the total amount appropriated in this Act, to limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services.
 
(Sec. 8128) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds for the establishment and support of 12 additional Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.
 
(Sec. 8129) Makes specified RDT&E funds available for: (1) the development of integrated systems capabilities for bioterrorism response exercises; and (2) Marine Corps communications systems for critical infrastructure protection.
 
(Sec. 8142) Expresses the sense of the Senate: (1) recognizing the critical role played by the National Guard and Reserve in protecting our national security; and (2) affirming its support for providing such personnel access to TRICARE (a DOD managed-care health plan).
 
(Sec. 8143) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review offset arrangements and memoranda of understanding entered between the United States and a foreign country for the transfer of technology between such countries or the bilateral purchases of defense equipment or supplies; (2) determine the effects of such arrangements on the effectiveness of defense Buy American requirements, the defense industrial base, and contractual losses to U.S. firms; and (3) report review results to Congress. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to the President concerning the use of such arrangements or memoranda to strengthen Buy American requirements and authorizes the Secretary to modify such arrangements or memoranda to achieve such goal.
 
Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) any request for funds for a fiscal year for an ongoing overseas military operation, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the President's annual budget submitted to Congress; and (2) such funds should be provided in appropriations Acts for that fiscal year.
 
(Sec. 8148) Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to study and report to specified congressional committees on the delivery of mail to U.S. troops in the Middle East.
 
(Sec. 8154) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds to privatize or transfer to another Federal department or agency any prison guard function or position at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army submits to specified congressional committees a plan for the implementation of such privatization or transfer.
 
(Sec. 8157) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds to decommission a Naval or Marine Corps Reserve aviation squadron until submission of a report from the CG to the appropriations committees on Navy and Marine Corps requirements for tactical aviation, including mission and recapitalization requirements. Requires such report to include an appropriate aviation force structure and personnel requirements for the next ten-year period.
 
(Sec. 8160) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study the mission of the 932nd Airlift Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to determine the appropriateness of substituting a mixed mission of transporting patients, passengers, and cargo that would increase Air Force airlift capability.
 
(Sec. 8165) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) the Secretary should develop and deploy a nuclear debris collection and analysis capability sufficient to enable characterization (to determine origin) of any nuclear device that might be exploded in the United States; (2) such capability should incorporate airborne debris collectors to collect and transport such debris to an appropriate laboratory in a timely fashion; and (3) such capability should be compatible with U.S. collection and analysis systems used to characterize overseas nuclear explosions. Requires a report from the Secretary to specified congressional committees on the feasibility of developing and deploying such a capability.
 
(Sec. 8168) Directs the Secretary to examine and report to specified congressional committees on the implementation of a system for tracking safety-critical parts, including airplane parts, so that parts found defective can be identified. Requires a related report from the CG on the oversight of prime contractors and subcontractors with respect to the testing and quality assurance of such parts.
 
(Sec. 8169) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on contracts for reconstruction and other services in Iraq that are funded in whole or part with DOD funds.
 
(Sec. 8171) Requires a report from the Secretary to the appropriations, defense, and foreign relations committees, and updates every 120 days, on the establishment of police and military forces in all 18 provinces in Iraq.
 
(Sec. 8172) Extends through FY 2004 the requirement that the Secretary evaluate an individual's creditworthiness before issuing a Government purchase or travel charge card.
 

Title IX: Settlement of Claims for Slave Labor for Japanese Companies During World War II - 
Directs the Secretary to pay $10,000 to each surviving veteran, civilian employee, or contractor employee who: (1) served in or with U.S. combat forces during World War II; (2) was captured and held as a prisoner of war by Japan during such service; and (3) was required by one or more Japanese companies to perform forced or slave labor during such War. Requires the Secretary to identify and locate such individuals. Provides funding for a two-year period beginning on October 1, 2003.

action_date: 2003-09-24
text: 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 - 
Title I: Military Personnel
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for: (1) the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Account; (2) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (3) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, and Air Force and defense-wide; (4) environmental restoration at formerly used defense sites; (5) overseas humanitarian,disaster, and civic aid; and (6) former Soviet Union threat reduction. 

Title III: Procurement
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for procurement by the armed forces and reserve components of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950. 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds
 - Appropriates funds for the Defense Working Capital funds and programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund.

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General. 

Title VII: Related Agencies
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account; (3) payment to the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Fund; and (4) national security scholarships, fellowships, and grants (using funds derived from the National Security Education Trust Fund). 

Title VIII: General Provisions
 - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. 
(Sec. 8008) Permits procurement funds to be used for multiyear procurement contracts for F/A-18 aircraft, E-2C aircraft, the Tactical Tomahawk missile, and a Virginia class submarine. 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits during FY 2004 the management by end strengths of DOD civilian personnel. 
(Sec. 8018) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish, with host governments of NATO-member countries, an account for the deposit of residual amounts negotiated in the return of U.S. military installations to such countries.
(Sec. 8027) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military personnel compensation, military construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the Government of Kuwait. 
(Sec. 8029) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new DOD federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the Federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY 2004 FFRDC funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by Government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY 2004 funds. Reduces by $74.2 million the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs. 
(Sec. 8030) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating. 
(Sec. 8033) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 2004. 
(Sec. 8036) Directs the President to include within each fiscal year budget the amounts requested for administrative activities of DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies.
(Sec. 8039) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance.
(Sec. 8044) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities. 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2002, level; and (5) to transport chemical munitions to the Johnston Atoll for storage or demilitarization (with an exception and an authorized wartime waiver by the President). 
(Sec. 8048) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease real and personal property at the Adak Naval Air Facility, Alaska. 
(Sec. 8049) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts. 
(Sec. 8055) Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress that the total renovation costs for wedges 2 through 5 of the Pentagon Reservation, cumulatively, will not exceed four times the total renovation cost of wedge 1. Authorizes an annual cost inflation adjustment. Excludes certain costs under such limitation, including costs necessary as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Requires certification reports until all renovation is completed. 
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. 
(Sec. 8065) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any UN peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice. 
(Sec. 8066) Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent authorized by law, to issue loan guarantees in support of U.S. defense exports not otherwise provided for, with a contingent liability limit of $15 billion. Requires quarterly reports to specified congressional committees. 
 
(Sec. 8075) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government. 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions. 
(Sec. 8077) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver). 
(Sec. 8078) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental equipment to Indian health service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
(Sec. 8082) Directs the Secretary to provide a quarterly classified report to the defense subcommittees of the appropriations committees on certain matters as directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act. 
 
(Sec. 8083) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of Government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a Government-contracted travel management center. 
(Sec. 8084) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. 
(Sec. 8086) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD. 
(Sec. 8087) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations. 
 
(Sec. 8094) Reduces by $504.5 million the total amount of O&M and RDT&E funds appropriated in this Act to: (1) reflect savings attributable to improvements in the management of professional support services, surveys and analysis, and engineering and technical support contracted by the military departments; and (2) limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services. 
(Sec. 8095) Makes specified Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts. 
(Sec. 8096) Appropriates funds for transfer to the Coast Guard for mission essential equipment for HC-130J aircraft. 
(Sec. 8098) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU. 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8101) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by: (1) $200 million to reduce cost growth in information technology development; (2) $372 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments; and (3) $44 million to reduce excess funded carryover. 
(Sec. 8102) Appropriates funds to provide assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled, with special consideration with respect to overseas assignments. 
(Sec. 8106) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8107) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in the 2008 timeframe; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams to be fielded between 2003 and 2008. 
(Sec. 8108) Earmarks specified appropriated funds to maintain an attrition reserve force of 18 B-52 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to maintain a total B-52 force of 94, including the 18 reserve aircraft, during FY 2004. 
(Sec. 8112) Appropriates funds to DOD for grants for:(1) the Fort Benning Infantry Museum; (2) establishment and operation of the Joint Military Science Leadership Program; (3) Armed Forces Emergency Services; (4) the National D-Day Museum; (5) renovation of the Broadway Armory, Chicago, Illinois; (6) the National Guard Youth Foundation; (7) the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Foundation; (8) the Army Museum of the Southwest at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; (9) the Tregedar National Civil War Center; (10) the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial; and (11) the CSS Alabama Association. 
(Sec. 8115) Requires the President's budget for FY 2005 to include separate justification documents for the costs of U.S. military forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel accounts, the O&M accounts, and the procurement accounts. 
 
 
(Sec. 8116) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system. 
(Sec. 8118) Makes DOD Buy American requirements inapplicable to the procurement of any fish, shellfish, or seafood product during the current fiscal year. 
(Sec. 8120) Earmarks O&M funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program. 
(Sec. 8121) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in exchange for certain private property, to convey to the Veterans Home of California-Barstow all rights and interest to a parcel of property in the Mojave National Preserve designated as a national World War I memorial. Requires the conveyed property to continue to be used as such memorial. 
(Sec. 8123) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Inland Valley Development Agency, California, all rights and interest to certain parcels of property in San Bernardino, California, currently leased to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Requires a leaseback arrangement to be entered for the Service. 
(Sec. 8124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to charter, through FY 2008, the vessel RV CORY CHOUEST in support of the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor program. 
(Sec. 8125) Appropriates funds for a grant to the Silver Valley Unified School District, California, for school construction at Fort Irwin, California. 
(Sec. 8126) Reduces by $1.662 billion the total amount appropriated in titles II through IV of this Act to reflect savings from outsourcing, management efficiencies, and revised economic assumptions. 
(Sec. 8127) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by $451 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in the Department of Defense Transportation Working Capital Fund. Requires an offsetting transfer from such Fund to O&M funds. 
(Sec. 8128) Rescinds $3.49 billion of the funds appropriated for the Iraq Freedom Fund under the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003. 
 
(Sec. 8131) Prohibits the obligation of funds from this or any other Act for the Terrorism Information Awareness Program, except for a program, authorized herein, for processing, analysis, and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign intelligence. Provides limitations under the latter program. 
(Sec. 8132) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to close Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, within six months after enactment of this Act. 
(Sec. 8134) Designates the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, as America's National World War II Museum. 
(Sec. 8135) Removes a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 which prohibits new Native American veteran housing loans in excess of $5 million from being made in FY 2003. 
(Sec. 8138) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review offset arrangements and memoranda of understanding entered into between the United States and a foreign country for the transfer of technology between such countries or the bilateral purchases of defense equipment or supplies; (2) determine the effects of such arrangements on the national technology and industrial base; and (3) report review results to Congress. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to the President concerning the use or administration of such arrangements. 
(Sec. 8139) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) any request for funds for a fiscal year for an ongoing overseas military operation, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the President's annual budget submitted to Congress; and (2) such funds should be provided in appropriations Acts for that fiscal year. 
(Sec. 8140) Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to study and report to the defense committees on the delivery of mail to U.S. troops in the Middle East. 
(Sec. 8141) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds to decommission a Naval or Marine Corps Reserve aviation squadron until submission of a report from the CG to the defense committees on Navy and Marine Corps requirements for tactical aviation, including mission and recapitalization requirements. Requires such report to include an appropriate aviation force structure and personnel requirements for the next ten-year period. 
(Sec. 8142) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study the mission of the 932nd Airlift Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to determine the appropriateness of substituting a mixed mission of transporting patients, passengers, and cargo that would increase Air Force airlift capability. Requires such Secretary to report to the defense committees on study results. 
(Sec. 8143) Directs the Secretary to examine and report to the defense committees on the implementation of a system for tracking safety-critical parts, including airplane parts, so that parts found defective can be identified. Requires a related report from the CG on the oversight of prime contractors and subcontractors with respect to the testing and quality assurance of such parts. 
(Sec. 8144) Extends through FY 2004 the requirement that the Secretary evaluate an individual's creditworthiness before issuing a Government purchase or travel charge card. 
(Sec. 8145) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the Sturgeon class submarine NARWHAL to the National Submarine Science Discovery Center in Newport, Kentucky, after removing the reactor compartment and other classified or sensitive military equipment. 
(Sec. 8146) Exempts from the requirement of payment of subsistence charges while hospitalized in a military facility an enlisted or former enlisted member, or officer or former officer, who is hospitalized in a military facility because of an injury incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: 

(This measure has not been amended since the Conference Report was filed in the House on September 24, 2003. The summary of that version is repeated here.)

 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2004 - 
Title I: Military Personnel
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for active-duty and reserve personnel in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force and for National Guard personnel in the Army and Air Force.
 

Title II: Operation and Maintenance
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for operation and maintenance (O&M) of the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components, and the Army and Air National Guards. Appropriates funds for: (1) the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Account; (2) the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; (3) environmental restoration for the Army, Navy, and Air Force and defense-wide; (4) environmental restoration at formerly used defense sites; (5) overseas humanitarian,disaster, and civic aid; and (6) former Soviet Union threat reduction. 

Title III: Procurement
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for procurement by the armed forces and reserve components of aircraft, missiles, weapons, tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, and shipbuilding and conversion and for other procurement. Appropriates funds for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) National Guard and reserve equipment; and (3) certain procurements under the Defense Production Act of 1950. 

Title IV: Research, Development, Test and Evaluation
 - Appropriates funds for FY 2004 for research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) by the armed forces and defense agencies. Appropriates funds for the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation. 

Title V: Revolving and Management Funds
 - Appropriates funds for the Defense Working Capital funds and programs under the National Defense Sealift Fund. 

Title VI: Other Department of Defense Programs
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) Department of Defense (DOD) medical and health care programs; (2) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions; (3) drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense; and (4) the Office of the Inspector General. 

Title VII: Related Agencies
 - Appropriates funds for: (1) the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Fund; (2) the Intelligence Community Management Account; (3) payment to the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and Environmental Restoration Fund; and (4) national security scholarships, fellowships, and grants (using funds derived from the National Security Education Trust Fund). 

Title VIII: General Provisions
 - Specifies authorized, restricted, and prohibited uses of appropriated funds. 
(Sec. 8008) Permits procurement funds to be used for multiyear procurement contracts for F/A-18 aircraft, E-2C aircraft, the Tactical Tomahawk missile, and a Virginia class submarine. 
(Sec. 8010) Prohibits during FY 2004 the management by end strengths of DOD civilian personnel. 
(Sec. 8018) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to establish, with host governments of NATO-member countries, an account for the deposit of residual amounts negotiated in the return of U.S. military installations to such countries. 
(Sec. 8027) Authorizes DOD to incur obligations of up to $350 million for DOD military personnel compensation, military construction projects, and supplies and services in anticipation of receipts of contributions from the Government of Kuwait. 
(Sec. 8029) Prohibits the use of funds from this Act to establish a new DOD federally funded research and development center (FFRDC). Limits the Federal compensation to be paid to FFRDC members or consultants. Prohibits the use of FY 2004 FFRDC funds for new building construction, cost-sharing payments for projects funded by Government grants, absorption of cost overruns, or certain charitable contributions. Limits the staff years of technical effort that may be funded for FFRDCs from FY 2004 funds. Reduces by $74.2 million the total amount appropriated in this Act for FFRDCs. 
(Sec. 8030) Provides Buy American requirements with respect to the DOD procurement of carbon, alloy, or armor steel plating. 
(Sec. 8033) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the amount of DOD purchases from foreign entities in FY 2004. 
(Sec. 8036) Directs the President to include within each fiscal year budget the amounts requested for administrative activities of DOD, the military departments, and the defense agencies. 
(Sec. 8039) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Indian tribes located in North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units currently located at Grand Forks and Minot Air Force Bases that are excess to the needs of the Air Force. Requires the Operation Walking Shield program to resolve any housing unit conflicts arising after such conveyance. 
(Sec. 8044) Earmarks funds appropriated under this Act for the mitigation of adverse environmental impacts on Indian lands resulting from DOD activities. 
(Sec. 8045) Prohibits the use of funds: (1) by a DOD entity without compliance with the Buy American Act; (2) to establish additional field operating agencies of DOD elements, except for those funded within the National Foreign Intelligence Program; (3) for assistance to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, unless specifically appropriated for such purpose; (4) to reduce the civilian medical and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facilities below the September 30, 2002, level; and (5) to transport chemical munitions to the Johnston Atoll for storage or demilitarization (with an exception and an authorized wartime waiver by the President). 
(Sec. 8048) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease real and personal property at the Adak Naval Air Facility, Alaska. 
(Sec. 8049) Rescinds specified funds from various accounts under prior defense appropriations Acts. 
(Sec. 8055) Directs the Secretary to certify to Congress that the total renovation costs for wedges 2 through 5 of the Pentagon Reservation, cumulatively, will not exceed four times the total renovation cost of wedge 1. Authorizes an annual cost inflation adjustment. Excludes certain costs under such limitation, including costs necessary as a result of the terrorist attack on the Pentagon. Requires certification reports until all renovation is completed. 
(Sec. 8057) Prohibits the transfer to any other department or agency, except as specifically provided in an appropriations law, of funds available to DOD or the Central Intelligence Agency for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities. 
(Sec. 8065) Prohibits current fiscal year DOD funds from being obligated or expended to transfer to another nation or international organization defense articles or services for use in any UN peacekeeping or peace enforcement operation, or for any other international peacekeeping, peace enforcement, or humanitarian assistance operation, unless specified congressional committees are given 15 days' advance notice. 
(Sec. 8066) Authorizes the Secretary, to the extent authorized by law, to issue loan guarantees in support of U.S. defense exports not otherwise provided for, with a contingent liability limit of $15 billion. Requires quarterly reports to specified congressional committees. 
 
(Sec. 8075) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to approve or license the sale of the F-22 advanced tactical fighter to any foreign government. 
(Sec. 8076) Authorizes the Secretary, on a case-by-case basis, to waive limitations on the procurement of defense items from a foreign country if: (1) the Secretary determines that such limitations would invalidate cooperative or reciprocal trade agreements for the procurement of defense items; and (2) such country does not discriminate against the same or similar defense items procured in the United States for that country. Provides exceptions. 
(Sec. 8077) Prohibits the use of appropriated funds to support a unit of the security forces of a foreign country if credible information exists that such unit has committed a gross violation of human rights, unless all necessary corrective steps have been taken. Requires the monitoring of such information. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition under extraordinary circumstances (requiring a report to the defense committees on any such waiver). 
(Sec. 8078) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to distribute surplus DOD dental equipment to Indian health service facilities and federally-qualified health centers. 
(Sec. 8082) Directs the Secretary to provide a quarterly classified report to the defense subcommittees of the appropriations committees on certain matters as directed in the classified annex accompanying this Act. 
 
(Sec. 8083) Provides for the crediting during the current fiscal year of certain refunds attributable to the use of Government travel or purchase cards or refunds for travel arranged by a Government-contracted travel management center. 
(Sec. 8084) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used for a mission critical or mission essential financial management information technology system that is not registered with the DOD Chief Information Officer. Prohibits such a system from receiving a Milestone A or B approval, or full rate production approval, until the Chief Information Officer certifies that the system is being developed in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996. 
(Sec. 8086) Prohibits appropriated funds from being used to transfer to any nongovernmental entity specified armor-piercing ammunition, except to an entity performing demilitarization services for DOD. 
(Sec. 8087) Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau to waive payment for the lease of non-excess DOD personal property to certain youth, social, or fraternal nonprofit organizations. 
 
(Sec. 8094) Reduces by $504.5 million the total amount of O&M and RDT&E funds appropriated in this Act to: (1) reflect savings attributable to improvements in the management of professional support services, surveys and analysis, and engineering and technical support contracted by the military departments; and (2) limit excessive growth in the procurement of advisory and assistance services. 
(Sec. 8095) Makes specified Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds available to fund prior-year shipbuilding cost increases, allocating such funds among specified naval accounts. 
(Sec. 8096) Appropriates funds for transfer to the Coast Guard for mission essential equipment for HC-130J aircraft. 
(Sec. 8098) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to settle any and all admiralty claims arising out of the collision involving the U.S.S. GREENEVILLE and the EHIME MARU. 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8101) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by: (1) $200 million to reduce cost growth in information technology development; (2) $372 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments; and (3) $44 million to reduce excess funded carryover. 
(Sec. 8102) Appropriates funds to provide assistance to public schools that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled, with special consideration with respect to overseas assignments. 
(Sec. 8106) Appropriates funds for a grant by the Secretary of the Army to facilitate access by veterans to opportunities for skilled employment in the construction industry. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
(Sec. 8107) Directs: (1) DOD and the Army to make future budgetary and programming plans to fully finance the Non-Line of Sight Objective Force cannon and resupply vehicle program in order to field such system in the 2008 timeframe; and (2) the Army to ensure that budgetary and programmatic plans will provide for no fewer than six Stryker Brigade Combat Teams to be fielded between 2003 and 2008. 
(Sec. 8108) Earmarks specified appropriated funds to maintain an attrition reserve force of 18 B-52 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to maintain a total B-52 force of 94, including the 18 reserve aircraft, during FY 2004. 
(Sec. 8112) Appropriates funds to DOD for grants for:(1) the Fort Benning Infantry Museum; (2) establishment and operation of the Joint Military Science Leadership Program; (3) Armed Forces Emergency Services; (4) the National D-Day Museum; (5) renovation of the Broadway Armory, Chicago, Illinois; (6) the National Guard Youth Foundation; (7) the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Foundation; (8) the Army Museum of the Southwest at Fort Sill, Oklahoma; (9) the Tregedar National Civil War Center; (10) the Philadelphia Korean War Memorial; and (11) the CSS Alabama Association. 
(Sec. 8115) Requires the President's budget for FY 2005 to include separate justification documents for the costs of U.S. military forces' participation in contingency operations for the military personnel accounts, the O&M accounts, and the procurement accounts. 
 
 
(Sec. 8116) Prohibits funds from being used for RDT&E, procurement, or deployment of nuclear armed interceptors of a missile defense system. 
(Sec. 8118) Makes DOD Buy American requirements inapplicable to the procurement of any fish, shellfish, or seafood product during the current fiscal year. 
(Sec. 8120) Earmarks O&M funds for the Regional Defense Counter-terrorism Fellowship Program. 
(Sec. 8121) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, in exchange for certain private property, to convey to the Veterans Home of California-Barstow all rights and interest to a parcel of property in the Mojave National Preserve designated as a national World War I memorial. Requires the conveyed property to continue to be used as such memorial. 
(Sec. 8123) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Inland Valley Development Agency, California, all rights and interest to certain parcels of property in San Bernardino, California, currently leased to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service. Requires a leaseback arrangement to be entered for the Service. 
(Sec. 8124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to charter, through FY 2008, the vessel RV CORY CHOUEST in support of the Surveillance Towed Array Sensor program. 
(Sec. 8125) Appropriates funds for a grant to the Silver Valley Unified School District, California, for school construction at Fort Irwin, California. 
(Sec. 8126) Reduces by $1.662 billion the total amount appropriated in titles II through IV of this Act to reflect savings from outsourcing, management efficiencies, and revised economic assumptions. 
(Sec. 8127) Reduces the total amount of O&M funds appropriated in this Act by $451 million to reflect cash balance and rate stabilization adjustments in the Department of Defense Transportation Working Capital Fund. Requires an offsetting transfer from such Fund to O&M funds. 
(Sec. 8128) Rescinds $3.49 billion of the funds appropriated for the Iraq Freedom Fund under the Emergency Wartime Supplemental Appropriations Act, 2003. 
 
(Sec. 8131) Prohibits the obligation of funds from this or any other Act for the Terrorism Information Awareness Program, except for a program, authorized herein, for processing, analysis, and collaboration tools for counterterrorism foreign intelligence. Provides limitations under the latter program. 
(Sec. 8132) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to close Naval Station Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, within six months after enactment of this Act. 
(Sec. 8134) Designates the National D-Day Museum in New Orleans, Louisiana, as America's National World War II Museum. 
(Sec. 8135) Removes a provision in the Consolidated Appropriations Resolution, 2003 which prohibits new Native American veteran housing loans in excess of $5 million from being made in FY 2003. 
(Sec. 8138) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review offset arrangements and memoranda of understanding entered into between the United States and a foreign country for the transfer of technology between such countries or the bilateral purchases of defense equipment or supplies; (2) determine the effects of such arrangements on the national technology and industrial base; and (3) report review results to Congress. Requires the Secretary to make recommendations to the President concerning the use or administration of such arrangements. 
(Sec. 8139) Expresses the sense of the Senate that: (1) any request for funds for a fiscal year for an ongoing overseas military operation, including operations in Afghanistan and Iraq, should be included in the President's annual budget submitted to Congress; and (2) such funds should be provided in appropriations Acts for that fiscal year. 
(Sec. 8140) Directs the Comptroller General (CG) to study and report to the defense committees on the delivery of mail to U.S. troops in the Middle East. 
(Sec. 8141) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of appropriated funds to decommission a Naval or Marine Corps Reserve aviation squadron until submission of a report from the CG to the defense committees on Navy and Marine Corps requirements for tactical aviation, including mission and recapitalization requirements. Requires such report to include an appropriate aviation force structure and personnel requirements for the next ten-year period. 
(Sec. 8142) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to study the mission of the 932nd Airlift Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, to determine the appropriateness of substituting a mixed mission of transporting patients, passengers, and cargo that would increase Air Force airlift capability. Requires such Secretary to report to the defense committees on study results. 
(Sec. 8143) Directs the Secretary to examine and report to the defense committees on the implementation of a system for tracking safety-critical parts, including airplane parts, so that parts found defective can be identified. Requires a related report from the CG on the oversight of prime contractors and subcontractors with respect to the testing and quality assurance of such parts. 
(Sec. 8144) Extends through FY 2004 the requirement that the Secretary evaluate an individual's creditworthiness before issuing a Government purchase or travel charge card. 
(Sec. 8145) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the Sturgeon class submarine NARWHAL to the National Submarine Science Discovery Center in Newport, Kentucky, after removing the reactor compartment and other classified or sensitive military equipment. 
(Sec. 8146) Exempts from the requirement of payment of subsistence charges while hospitalized in a military facility an enlisted or former enlisted member, or officer or former officer, who is hospitalized in a military facility because of an injury incurred: (1) as a direct result of armed conflict; (2) while engaged in hazardous service; (3) in the performance of duty under conditions simulating war; or (4) through an instrumentality of war.

Legislative actions:
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-87.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Became Public Law No: 108-87.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-09-30
text: Signed by President.
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-09-29
text: Presented to President.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0. Record Vote Number: 364.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Conference report agreed to in Senate: Senate agreed to conference report by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0. Record Vote Number: 364.
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Conference report considered in Senate. (consideration: CR S11938-11943)
action_date: 2003-09-25
text: Conference papers: Senate report and manager's statement held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Conference papers: message on House action held at the desk in Senate.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 15 (Roll no. 513).
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Motions to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Conference report agreed to in House: On agreeing to the conference report Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 407 - 15 (Roll no. 513).
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: The previous question was ordered without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: DEBATE - The House proceeded with one hour of debate on the conference report to accompany H.R. 2658.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Mr. Lewis (CA) brought up conference report H. Rept. 108-283 by previously agreed to special order. (consideration: CR H8784-8793)
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Mr. Lewis (CA) asked unanimous consent That it be in order at any time to consider the conference report to accompany H.R. 2658, that all points of order against the conference report and against its consideration be waived, and that the conference report be considered as read. Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Conference report H. Rept. 108-283 filed. (text of conference report: CR H8500-8784)
action_date: 2003-09-24
text: Conference report filed: Conference report H. Rept. 108-283 filed.(text of conference report: CR H8500-8784)
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2003-09-17
text: Conference committee actions: Conferees agreed to file conference report.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: On motion to close portions of the conference Agreed to by the Yeas and Nays: 424 - 0 (Roll no. 503). (consideration: CR H8255)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Mr. Young (FL) moved that the House close portions of the conference.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: The Speaker appointed conferees: Lewis (CA), Young (FL), Hobson, Bonilla, Nethercutt, Cunningham, Frelinghuysen, Tiahrt, Wicker, Murtha, Dicks, Sabo, Visclosky, Moran (VA), and Obey.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: On motion that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference Agreed to without objection. (consideration: CR H8228)
action_date: 2003-09-16
text: Mr. Knollenberg moved that the House disagree to the Senate amendment, and agree to a conference.
action_date: 2003-07-21
text: Message on Senate action sent to the House.
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Senate insists on its amendment, asks for a conference, appoints conferees Stevens; Cochran; Specter; Domenici; Bond; McConnell; Shelby; Gregg; Hutchison; Burns; Inouye; Hollings; Byrd; Leahy; Harkin; Dorgan; Durbin; Reid; Feinstein. (consideration: CR S9572)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0. Record Vote Number: 290. (text:  CR 7/21/2003 S9643-9659)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Passed/agreed to in Senate: Passed Senate with an amendment by Yea-Nay Vote. 95 - 0. Record Vote Number: 290.(text:  CR 7/21/2003 S9643-9659)
action_date: 2003-07-17
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9516-9545, S9547-9558, S9560-9575)
action_date: 2003-07-16
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9448-9456, S9457-9484)
action_date: 2003-07-15
text: Considered by Senate. (consideration: CR S9360-9366, S9369-9399)
action_date: 2003-07-14
text: Measure laid before Senate by unanimous consent. (consideration: CR S9312-9316)
action_date: 2003-07-10
text: Read twice. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 190.
action_date: 2003-07-09
text: Received in the Senate.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 399 - 19 (Roll no. 335).
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by the Yeas and Nays: 399 - 19 (Roll no. 335).
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The House adopted the amendment as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The previous question was ordered pursuant to a previous  order of the House.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 2658.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: UNFINISHED BUSINESS - The Chair announced that the unfinished business was the question of adoption of the amendment offered by Mr. Hostettler which had been debated earlier and on which further proceedings had been postponed.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Considered as unfinished business. (consideration: CR H6318-6320)
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 2658 as unfinished business.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: PROCEEDINGS POSTPONED - At the conclusion of debate on the amendment, and the reservation of a point of order having been withdrawn, the Chair put the question on the adoption of the Hostettler amendment and by voice vote, announced that the noes had prevailed. Mr. Hostettler demanded a recorded vote and the Chair postponed further proceedings on the adoption of the amendment until later in the legislative day.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Hostettler amendment under the five-minute rule pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Inslee amendment under the five-minute rule pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Bordallo amendment pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Acevedo-Vila amendment under the five-minute rule pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the DeFazio amendment under the five-minute rule pending reservation of a point of order.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: FIVE-MINUTE RULE - The Committee of the Whole is proceeding with consideration under the five-minute rule.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: POINT OF ORDER RESERVED - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with debate on the Blumenauer amendment under the five-minute rule, pending reservation of a point of order against the amendment.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: GENERAL DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of general debate on H.R. 2658.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The Speaker designated the Honorable Dave Camp to act as Chairman of the Committee.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: The House resolved into Committee of the Whole on the state of the Union pursuant to a previous order of the House.
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Considered by previous order of the House. (consideration: CR H6276-6303; text of Title I as reported in House: CR H6283-6284; text of Title II as reported in House: CR H6284-6285; text of Title III as reported in House: CR H6285-6287; text of Title IV as reported in House: CR H6287; text of Title V as reported in House: CR H6287; text of Title VI as reported in House: CR H6287-6288; text of Title VII as reported in House: CR H6288; text of Title VIII as reported in House: CR H6288-6297)
action_date: 2003-07-08
text: Consideration initiated by previous order of the House.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Placed on the Union Calendar, Calendar No. 96.
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 108-187, by Mr. Lewis (CA).
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: The House Committee on Appropriations reported an original measure, H. Rept. 108-187, by Mr. Lewis (CA).
action_date: 2003-07-02
text: Introduced in House

Enacted as: number: 108-87