An Act to authorize appropriations during the fiscal year 1972 for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, and research, development, test, and evaluation for the Armed Forces, and to prescribe the authorized personnel strength of the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes
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SEC. 6. (a) The Secretary, in consultation with appropriate Federal 
Road aiine-
departments and appropriate agencies of the State and its political "'^"*^' ^*"dy. 
subdivisions shall conduct a study of proposed road alinements within 
and adjacent to the park. Such study shall consider what roads are 
appropriate and necessary for full utilization of the area for the 
purpose of this Act as well as to connect witli roads of ingress and 
egress to the area. 
(b) A report of the findings and conclusions of the Secretary shall 
Report to con-
be submitted to the Congress within two years of the date of enact- ^''^^®* 
ment of this Act, including recommendations for such further legisla-
tion as may be necessary to implement the findings and (conclusions 
developed from the study. 
SEC. 7. There are hereby authorized to be appropriated such sums as 
Appropriation. 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes of this Act, not to exceed, 
however, $125,000 for the acquisition of lands and interests in lands 
and not to exceed $1,031,800 (April 1970 prices) for development, 
plus or minus such amounts, if any, as may be justified by reason of 
ordinary fluctuations in construction costs as indicated by engineering 
cost indices applicable to the types of construction involved herein. 
The sums authorized in this section shall be available for acquisition 
and development undertaken subsequent to the approval of this Act. 
Approved November 12, 1971. 
Public Law 92-156 
A N A C T 
November 17, 1971 
To authorize appropriations during the fiscal year 1972 for procurement of air- 
[H. R. 8687] 
craft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat vehicles, torpedoes, and other 
weapons, and research, development, test, and evaluation for the Armed 
Forces, and to authorize real estate acquisition and construction at certain 
installations in connection with the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system, 
and to prescribe the authorized personnel strength of the Selected Reserve of 
each Reserve component of the Armed Forces, and for other purposes. 
Be it emicted hy the Senate and House of Representatives 
of the 
United States of America in Congress assem hJed. 
Armed Force s. 
^ 
^ 
I 
Appropriation 
authorization, 
TITLE I — P R O C U E E : M E X T 
'''2-
SEC. 101. Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated during the 
fiscal year 1972 for the use of the Amied Forces of the United States 
for procurement of aircraft, missiles, naval vessels, tracked combat 
vehicles, torpedoes, and other weapons, as authorized by law, in 
amounts as follows: 
AIRCRAFT 
For aircraft: for the Army, $94,200,000; for the Xavy and the 
Marine (^orps, $3,254,900,000 of which not to exceed $801,600,000 shall 
be available for a F-14 aircraft program of not less than 48 aircraft; 
for the Air Force, $3,029,800,000: Provided. That $14,500,000 of funds 
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available to the Air Force for aircraft procurement shall be available 
for the procurement of 30 armed STOL aircraft. 
MISSILES 
For missiles: for the Army, $1,066,100,000; for the Navy, 
$704,100,000; for the Marine Corps, $1,300,000: for the Air Force, 
$1,791,200,000. 
NAVAL VESSELS 
For naval vessels: for the Navy, $3,067,100,000, of which $14,600,000 
is authorized only for advanced procurement for the nuclear powered 
guided missile frigate DLGN-41. The contracts for advance procure-
ment for the DLGN-41 shall be entered into as soon as practicable 
unless the President fully advises the (^ongress that its construction 
is not in the national interest. 
TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES 
For tracked combat vehicles: for the Army, $112,500,000; for the 
Marine Corps, $63,900,000. 
TORPEDOES 
For torpedoes and related support equipment: for the Navy, 
$193,500,000. 
OTHER AVEAPOXS 
For other weapons: for the Army, $33,000,000; for the Navy, 
$1,300,000; for the Marine Corps, $1,000,000. 
TITLE 11—KKSEAKCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND 
EVALUATION 
SEC. 201. (a) Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated during 
the fiscal year 1972 for the use of the Armed Forces of the United 
States for research, de\elopment, test, and evaluation, as authorized 
by law, in amounts as follows: 
For the Army, $1,880,000,000; 
For the Navy"^ (including the Marine Corps), $2,418,700,000 of which 
amount not more than $4,492,000 may he used to carry out research and 
development in connection with the Navy's Project Sanguine, and of 
which amount $150,000 shall be available only for carrying out an 
environmental compatibility program in connection with the Sanguine 
project, and of which amount $300,000 shall be available only for 
biological and ecological ertects research in connection with the San-
guine project; 
For the Air Force, $2,979,000,000; and 
For the Defense Agencies, $465,700,000. 
Funds, avail- 
(b) Sectiou 40 of Public Law 1028, approved August 10, 1956 
ability. 
^^^-^.^ ^^^^ ggg, .^^ U.S.C. 649c) is amended to read as follows: 
"SEC. 40. Unless otherwise provided in the appropriation Act con-
cerned, moneys appropriated to the Department of Defense (1) for the 
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procurement of technical military equipment and supplies and the 
construction of public works, including? moneys appropriated to the 
Department of the Na^•y for the pi-ocurement and construction of 
j^uided missiles, remain available until spent, and (2) for research 
and development remain available for obligation for a period of two 
successive fiscal yeai-s."' 
(c) Xone of the funds authorized to be appropriated b}^ this Act 
may he used to carry out any research and development work in 
connection with a deep underground system foi* tlie Sanguine project. 
SEC. 202. There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
Department of Defense during fiscal year 1972 for use as an emer-
gency fund for researcli, development, test, and evaluation or procure-
ment or production related thereto, $o(),0(X),000. 
TITLE III—RESERVE FORCES 
SEC. 301. For the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1971, and ending-
June 30, 1972, the Selected Reserve of each Reserve component of the 
Armed Forces will be programed to attain an average strength of not 
less than the following: 
(1) The Army National Guard of the United States, 400,000. 
(2) The Army Reserve, 260,000. 
(3) The Xaval Reserve, 129,000. 
(4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 45,849. 
(5) The Air National Guard of the United States, 88,191. 
(6) The Air Force Reserve, 49,634. 
(7) The Coast Guard Reserve, 15,000. 
SEC. 302. The average strength prescribed b}' section 301 of this 
title for the Selected Reserve of any Reserve component shall be pro-
portionately reduced by (1) the total authorized strength of units 
organized to serA'e as units of the Selected Reserve of such component 
which are on active duty (other than for training) at any time during 
the fiscal year, and (2) the total number of individual members not 
in units organized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such 
component who are on active duty (other than for training or for 
unsatisfactory participation in training) without their consent at any 
time during the fiscal year. Whenever any such units or such indi-
vidual members are released from active duty during any fiscal year, 
the average strength for such fiscal year for the Selected Reserve of 
such Reserve component shall be j^roportionately increased by the 
total authorized strength of such units and by the total number of 
such individual members. 
SEC. 303. (a) Section 270(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended by adding below clause (2) thereof a new sentence as 
follows: 
"However, no member who has served on active duty for one year or 
longer shall be required to perform a period of active duty for training 
if the first day of such period falls during the last one hundred and 
twenty days of his required membership in the Ready Reserve." 
(b) Section 502(a) of title 32, United States Code, is amended by 
adding below clause (2) thereof a new sentence as follows: 
"However, no member of such unit who has served on active duty for 
Sanguine proj-
ect, restriction. 
Emergency fund. 
Training re-
quirements, ex-
ception. 
72 Stat. 1438. 
70A Stat. 610. 
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Safeguard anti-
ballistic missile 
system. 
84 Stat. 1224. 
Ante, 
p. 394. 
Family housing 
construction, 
continuation. 
Warren and 
Whiteman AFB, 
advanced prepa-
ration. 
Grand Forks 
and Malstrom 
AFB, continua-
tion. 
Repeal. 
one year or longer shall be required to participate in such training if 
the first day of such training period falls during the last one hundred 
and twenty days of his required membership in the National Guard." 
TITLE IV—ANTI-BALLISTIC MISSILE 
CONSTRUCTION 
AUTHORIZATION; LIMITATIONS ON DEPLOYMENT 
SEC. 401. (a) Military construction for the Safeguard anti-ballistic 
missile system is authorized for the Department of the Army as 
follows: 
(1) Technical and supporting facilities and acquisition of real estate 
inside the United States, $98,500,000. 
(2) Military family housing, four hundred and thirty units, 
$11,070,000: 
Malmstrom Safeguard site, Montana, tw^o hundred and fifteen 
units, 
Grand Forks Safeguard site. North Dakota, two hundred and 
fifteen units. 
(b) There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this 
section not to exceed $109,570,000, of which not more than $5,200,000 
shall be available for community impact assistance as authorized by 
section 610 of Public Law 91-511. 
(c) Authorization contained in this section (except subsection (b)) 
shall be subject to the authorizations and limitations of the Military 
Construction Authorization Act, 1972, in the same manner as if such 
authorizations had been included in that Act. 
SEC. 402. Notwithstanding the repeal provision of section 605(b) of 
the Act of October 26, 1970, Public Law 91-511 (84 Stat. 1204, 1223), 
authorizations contained in section 401 of the Act of October 7, 1970, 
Public Law 91-441 (84 Stat. 905, 909) for the following items which 
shall remain in effect until fifteen months from the date of this Act 
and Avhich shall be increased from $8,800,000 to $9,200,000: 
(a) two hundred family housing units at Malmstrom Safeguard 
site, Montana. 
(b) two hundred family housing units at Grand Forks Safe-
guard site. North Dakota. 
SEC. 403. (a) None of the funds authorized by this or any other Act 
may be obligated or expended for the purpose of initiating deploy-
ment of an anti-ballistic missile system at any site; except that funds 
may continue to be obligated or expended for the purpose of advanced 
pi-eparation (site selection, land acquisition, site survey, and the 
l^rocurement of long leadtime items) for antiballistic missile system 
sites at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and 
Whiteman Air Force Base, Knobnoster, Missouri. Nothing in this 
section shall be construed as a limitation on the obligation or expendi-
ture of funds in connection with the deployment of an anti-ballistic 
missile system at Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, North 
Dakota, or Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana. 
(b) Section 402 of Public Law 91-441 (84 Stat. 905, 909) is hereby 
repealed. 
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riTLK V—GEXEKAL PEOVrSIOXS 
Funds, avail-
ability for Vietna-
mese forces, 
84 Stat. 910. 
77 Stat. 216; 
79 Stat. 547. 
Cambodia and 
Laos. 
SEC. 501. Subsection (a)(1) of section 401 of Public L<nv 89-367, 
approved March 15,1966 (80 Stat. 37), as amended, is hereby amended 
to read as follows: 
''(a)(1) Xot to exceed $2,500,000,000 of the funds authorized for 
appropriations for the use of the Armed Forces of the Ignited States 
under this or any other Act are authorized to be made available for 
their stated purposes to support: (A) Vietnamese and other free 
world forces in support of Vietnamese forces, (B) local forces in 
Laos and Thailand; and for related costs, during the fiscal year 
1972 on such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Defense may 
determine. Xone of the funds appropriated to or for the use of the 
Armed Forces of the United States may be used for the purpose of 
paying any overseas allowance, per diem allowance, or any other addi-
tion to the regular base pay of any person serving with the free world 
forces in South Vietnam if the amount of such payment Avould be 
greater than the amount of special pay authorized to be paid, for an 
equivalent period of service, to members of the Armed Forces of the 
Ignited States (under section 310 of title 37, United States Code) serv-
ing in Vietnam or in any other hostile tire area, except for continuation 
of payments of such additions to regular base pay provided in agree-
ments executed prior to July 1, 1970. Xothing in clause (A) of the 
tirst sentence of this paragraph shall be construed as authorizing 
the use of any such funds to support Vietnamese or other free world 
forces in actions designed to provide military support and assistance 
to the Government of C^ambodia or Laos: Provided. 
That nothing 
contained in this section shall be construed to prohibit support of 
actions required to insure the safe and orderly withdrawal or disen-
gagement of Ignited States Forces from Southeast Asia, or to aid in 
tlie release of Americans held as prisoners of war." 
SEC. 502. Xo part of the funds appropriated pursuant to this Act 
may be used at any institution of higher learning if the Secretary of 
Defense or his designee determines that at the time of the expenditure prohibition 
of funds to such institution recruiting personnel of any of the Armed 
Forces of the I'nited States are being barred by the policy of such 
institution from the premises of the institution except that this section 
shall not apply if the Secretary of Defense or his designee determines 
that the expenditure is a continuation or a renew^al of a previous grant 
to such institution which is likely to make a significant contribution to 
the defense effort. The Secretaries of the military departments shall 
furnish to the Secretary of Defense or his designee within 60 days 
after the date of enactment of this Act and each January 31st and 
June 30th thereafter the names of any institutions of higher learning 
which the Secretaries determine on such dates are barring such recruit-
ing personnel from the campus of the institution. 
SEC. 503. The Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (60 _^^_„^ 
Stat. 596; 50 U.S.C. 98-98h) is amended (1) by redesignating section Tmporrat 
10 as section 11, and (2) by inserting after section 9 a new section 10 
as follows: 
"SEC. 10. Xotwithstanding any other provision of law, on and after 
January 1,1972, the President may not prohibit or regulate the impor-
tation into the Ignited States of any material determined to l)e strategic 
and critical pursuant to the provisions of this Act, if such material is 
the product of any foreign country or area not listed as a (^ommunist-
dominated country or area in general headnote 3(d) of the Tariff 
Schedules of the United States (19 U.S.C. 1202), for so long as the ^ 
importation into the T'nited States of material of that kind which is 
the product of such Communist-dominated countries or areas is not 
prohibited by any provision of law." 
Funds to cam-
puses barring 
military recruiters. 
Exception. 
Strategic and 
critical materials, 
ion. 
77A Stat, 11; 
9 Stat. 1022, 
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C-5A aircraft 
contingency fund, 
restrictions and 
controls. 
Defense De-
partment and GAO 
audits. 
Report to Con-
gress. 
Laos, fund 
limitation. 
" V a l u e . " 
SEC. 504. (a) The amount of $325,100,000 authorized to be appro-
priated by this Act for the development and procurement of the C-5A 
aircraft may be expended only for the reasonable and allocable direct 
and indirect costs incurred by the prime contractor under a contract 
entered into with the United States to carry out the C-5A aircraft pro-
gram. No part of such amount may be used for— 
(1) direct costs of any other contract or activity of the prime 
contractor; 
(2) profit on any materials, supplies, or services which are sold 
or transferred between any division, subsidiary, or affiliate of the 
prime contractor under the common control of the prime con-
tractor and such division, subsidiary, or affiliate; 
(3) bid and proposal costs, independent research and develop-
ment costs, and the cost of other similar unsponsored technical 
elfort; or 
(4) depreciation and amortization costs on property, plant, or 
equipment. 
Any of the costs referred to in the preceding sentence which would 
otherwise be allocable to any work funded by such $325,100,000 may 
not be allocated to other portions of the C-5A aircraft contract or to 
any other contract with the United States, but payments to C-5A 
aircraft subcontractors shall not be subject to the restriction referred 
to in such sentence. 
(b) Any payments from such $325,100,000 shall be made to the 
prime contractor through a special bank account from which such 
contractor may withdraw funds only after a request containing a 
detailed justification of the amount requested has been submitted to 
and approved by the contracting officer for the United States. All 
payments made from such special bank account shall be audited by the 
Defense Contract Audit Agency of the Department of Defense and, 
on a quarterly basis, by the General Accounting Office. The Comp-
troller General shall submit to the Congress not more than thirty days 
after the close of each quarter a report on the audit for such quarter 
performed by the General Accounting Office pursuant to this sub-
section. 
(c) The restrictions and controls provided for in this section with 
respect to the $325,100,000 referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of 
this section shall be in addition to such other restrictions and controls 
as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of 
the Air Force. 
SEC. 505. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds 
authorized to be appropriated by this or any other Act may be 
expended in any amount in excess of $350,000,000 for the purpose 
of carrying out directly or indirectly any economic or military assist-
ance, or any operation, project, or program of any kind, or for pro-
viding any goods, supplies, materials, equipment, services, personnel, 
or advisers in, to, for, or on behalf of Laos during the fiscal year 
ending June 30,1972. 
(b) In computing the $350,000,000 limitation on expenditure author-
ity under subsection (a) of this section in fiscal year 1972, there 
shall be included in the computation the value of any goods, supplies, 
materials, or equipment provided to, for, or on behalf of Laos in such 
fiscal year by gift, donation, loan, lease, or otherAvise. For the purpose 
of this subsection, "value" means the fair market value of any goods, 
supplies, materials, or equipment provided to, for, or on behalf of 
Laos, but in no case less than 331^ per centum of the amount the 
United States paid at the time such goods, supplies, materials, or 
equipment were acquired by the United States. 
(c) No additional expenditures in excess of the" limitation pre-
scribed in subsection (a) of this section may be made for any of the 
purposes described in such subsection in, to, for, or on behalf of 
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Laos in any fiscal year beginning after Jmie 8(), 1972, unless such 
expenditures Inive been specifically authorized by law enacted after 
the date of enactment of this Act. In no case shall expenditures in 
any amount in excess of the amount authorized by law for any fiscal 
year be made for any such purpose during such fiscal year. 
(d) The provisions of subsections (a) and (c) of this section shall 
not apply with respect to the expenditure of funds to carry out combat 
air operations in or over Laos by Ignited States military forces. 
(e) After the date of enactment of this Act, w^henever any request 
^f^^^"*"*'° *^°"' 
is made to the Congress for the appropriation of funds for use in, 
for, or on behalf of Laos for any fiscal year, the President shall 
furnish a written report to the Congress explaining the purposes for 
which such funds are to be used in such fiscal year. 
(f) The President shall submit to the Congress within thirty days ^^^^°''^'° *^°"" 
after the end of each quarter of each fiscal year, beginning with the 
fiscal year which begins July 1, 1971, a written report showing the 
total amount of expenditures in, for, or on behalf of Laos during the 
preceding quarter by the Ignited States Government, and shall include 
in such report a general breakdoM-n of the total amount expended, 
describing the different purposes for wliicli such funds were expended 
and the total amount expended for such ])urposes, except that in the 
case of the first two quarters of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1971, 
a single report may be submitted for both such quarters and such 
report may be computed on the basis of the most accurate estimates 
the Secretary of Defense can make taking into consideration all infor-
mation available to him. 
SEC. 506. (a) Beginning witli the calendar year 1972, the Secretary 
Report to con-
of Defense shall submit to the Congress each calendar year, at the ^'^^ 
same time the President submits the Budget to the Congress pursuant 
to section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, a written report 
^^ ^^at. 832; 
regarding development and procureinent schedules for each w^eapon 
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system for which fund authorization is required by section 412(b) 
of Public Law 86-1-49, as amended, and for which any funds for 84^stat'^9'i2°^' 
I)rocurement are requested in such budget. Beginning with the calendar 
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year 1973, there shall be included in the report data on operational 
testing and evaluation for eacli such weapon system for which funds 
for procurement are requested (other than funds requested only for 
the procurement of units for operational testing and evaluation and/or 
long lead-time items). A weapon system shall also be included in 
the annual report required under this subsection in each yea.r there-
after until procurement of such system has been completed or termi-
nated, or until the Secretary of Defense certifies in writing that such 
inclusion would not serve any useful purpose and gives his reasons 
therefor. 
(b) A supplemental report shall be submitted to the Congress by the ^J^^f""^ *° *-^°"" 
Secretary of Defense not less than tliirty nor more than sixty days 
before the awarding of any contract or the exercising of any option 
in a contract for the procurement of any such weapon system (other 
than procurement of units for operational testing and evaluation 
and/or long lead-time items) unless (1) the contractor or contractors 
for that system have not yet been selected, and the Secretary of Defense 
determines that the submission of such repoii would adversely affect 
the source selection process and notifies the Congress in writing, prior 
to such award, of such determination, stating his reasons therefor, 
or (2) the Secretaiy of Defense detennines that the submission of 
such report would otherwise adversely affect the vital security interests 
of the United States and notifies the Congress in writing of such 
determination at least 80 days prior to such aAvard, stating his reasons 
therefor. 
note. 
gress. 
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[85 STAT. 
(c) Any report re(iuired to be submitted under subsection (a) or 
(b) of this section, as the case may be, shall include detailed and 
summarized information with respect to each weapon system covered 
bv such report, and shall specifically include, but shall not be limited 
to— 
(1) the development schedule, includinj^ estimated annual costs 
until development is completed; 
(2) the planned procurement schedule, including- the best esti-
mate of the Secretary of Defense of the annual costs and units to 
be procured until procurement is completed; 
(3) to the extent required by the second sentence of subsection 
(a) of this section, the results of all operational testing and eval-
uation up to the time of the submission of the report, or, if opera-
tional testing and evaluation has not been conducted, a statement 
of the reasons therefor and the results of such other testing and 
evaluation as has been conducted. 
(cl) In the case of any weapon system for which procurement funds 
have not been previously requested and for which funds are first 
requested by the President in any fiscal year after the Budget for such 
fiscal year has been submitted to the Congress, the same reporting 
requirements shall be applicable to such system in the same manner 
and to the same extent as if funds had been requested for such system 
in such Budget. 
TITLE VI—TERMINATION OF HOSTILITIES IN INDO-
CHINA 
SEC. 601. (a) It is hereby declared to be the policy of the Ignited 
States to terminate at the earliest practicable date all military opera-
tions of the L^nited States in Indochina, and to provide for the prompt 
and orderly withdrawal of all United States military forces at a date 
certain, subject to the release of all American prisonei-s of war held by 
the Government of North Vietnam and forces allied with such Govern-
ment and an accounting for all Americans missing in action who have 
been held by or known to such Government or such forces. The Congress 
hereby urges and requests the President to implement the above-
expressed policy by initiating immediately the following actions: 
(1) Establishing a final date for the withdrawal from Indo-
china of all military forces of the United States contingent upon 
the release of all American prisoners of war held by the Govern-
ment of North Vietnam and forces allied with such (lovernment 
and an accounting for all Americans missing in action who have 
been held by or known to such Government or such forces. 
(2) Negotiate with the Government of North Vietnam for an 
immediate cease-fire by all parties to the hostilities in Indochina. 
(3) Negotiate w4th the Government of North Vietnam for an 
agreement which would provide for a series of phased and rapid 
withdrawals of United States military forces from Indochina 
in exchange for a corresponding series of phased releases of 
American prisoners of war, and for the release of any remaining 
American prisoners of war concurrently with the withdrawal of 
all remaining military forces of the United States by not later 
than the date established by the President pursuant to paragi-aph 
(1) hereof or by such earlier date as may be agreed upon by the 
negotiating parties. 
Approved November 17, 1971.