Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1984
PL 98-212 (H.R.4185), enacted 12/08/1983

Appropriation 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1421 
Public Law 98-212 
98th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
Dec. 8, 1983 
September 30, 1984, and for other purposes. 
[H.R. 4185] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled. That the following 
Department of 
sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not Defense 
otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September 30, ^ct, 1984 
1984, for military functions administered by the Department of 
Defense, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
MILITARY PERSONNEL 
MiuTARY P E R S O N N E L , A R M Y 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of 
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for mem-
bers of the Army on active duty (except members of reserve compo-
nents 
provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation 
cadets; 
$15,048,533,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of 
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for mem-
bers of the Navy on active duty (except members of the Reserve 
provided for elsewhere), 
midshipmen, and aviation 
cadets; 
$11,171,278,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision 
of law, funds made available by this Act shall be available for 
payment of the Aviation Officer Continuation Bonus pursuant to 
agreements accepted from officers of all aviation specialties where 
shortages exist. 
MiUTARY P E R S O N N E L , M A R I N E CORPS 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of 
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for mem-
bers of the Marine Corps on active duty (except members of the 
Reserve provided for elsewhere); $3,433,859,000: Provided, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds made available by 
this Act shall be available for payment of the Aviation Officer 
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Continuation Bonus pursuant to agreements accepted from officers 
of all aviation specialties where shortages exist. 
MiUTARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest on 
deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (including 
all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and expenses of 
temporary duty travel between permanent duty stations, for mem-
bers of the Air Force on active duty (except members of reserve 
components provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation cadets; 
$12,577,203,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active duty 
under sections 265, 3019, and 3033 of title 10, United States Code, or 
while serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United 
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 
678(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve 
training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or other duty, 
and for members of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and 
expenses authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, 
as authorized by law; $1,361,150,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Naval Reserve on active duty 
under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or personnel while 
serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United States 
Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) 
of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve training, 
or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and for members of 
the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, and expenses authorized by 
section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as authorized by law; 
$739,800,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Marine Corps Reserve on 
active duty under section 265 of title 10, United States Code, or 
while serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, United 
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 
678(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing reserve 
training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty, and for 
members of the Marine Corps platoon leaders class, and expenses 
authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as author-
ized by law; $176,200,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, a». 
related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on active 
duty under sections 265, 8019, and 8033 of title 10, United States 
Code, or while serving on active duty under section 672(d) of title 10, 
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97 STAT. 1423 
United States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in 
section 678(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing 
reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or 
other duty, and for members of the Air Reserve Officers' Training 
Corps, and expenses authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United 
States Code, as authorized by law; $380,000,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Army National Guard while on 
duty under sections 265, 3033, or 3496 of title 10 or section 708 of 
title 32, United States Code, or while serving on active duty under 
section 672(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States 
Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) 
of title 10, United States Code, or while undergoing training, or 
while performing drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and 
expenses authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, 
as authorized by law; $1,882,980,000. 
NATIONAL GUARD PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, and 
related expenses for personnel of the Air National Guard on duty 
under sections 265, 8033, or 8496 of title 10 or section 708 of title 32, 
United States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 
672(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, United States Code, in 
connection with performing duty specified in section 678(a) of title 
10, United States Code, or while undergoing training, or while 
performing drills or equivalent duty or other duty, and expenses 
authorized by section 2131 of title 10, United States Code, as author-
ized by law; $589,100,000. 
TITLE II 
RETIRED MILITARY PERSONNEL 
RETIRED PAY, DEFENSE 
For retired pay and retirement pay, as authorized by law, of 
military personnel on the retired lists of the Army, Navy, Marine 
Corps, and Air Force, including the reserve components thereof, 
retainer pay for personnel of the Inactive Fleet Reserve, and pay-
ments under section 4 of Public Law 92-425 and chapter 73 of title 
10, United States Code; $16,592,600,000. 
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OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and mfdntenance of the Army, as authorized by law, not to 
exceed $8,490,000 can be used for emergencies and extraordinary 
expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority of the Secre-
tary of the Army, and payments may be made on his certificate of 
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necessity for confidential military purposes, $17,054,846,000, of 
which not less than $1,247,000,000 shall be available only for the 
maintenance of real property facilities. 
ARMY STOCK FUND 
For the Army stock fund; $388,600,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, as 
authorized by law, not to exceed $2,700,000 can be used for emergen-
cies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or 
authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and pa3anents may be made 
on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes, 
$21,943,818,000, of which not less than $605,000,000 shall be avail-
able only for the maintenance of real property facilities: Provided, 
That of the total amount of this appropriation made available for 
the alteration, overhaul, and repair of naval vessels, not more than 
$3,100,000,000 shall be available for the performance of such work in 
Navy shipyards: Provided further, That funds herein provided shall 
be available for pa)niients in support of the LEASAT program in 
accordance with the terms of the Aide Memoire, dated January 5, 
1981. 
NAVY STOCK FUND 
For the Navy stock fund; $632,869,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as authorized by law, 
$1,524,600,000, of which not less than $231,000,000 shall be available 
only for the maintenance of real property facilities. 
MARINE CORPS STOCK FUND 
For the Marine Corps stock fund; $20,780,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by law, 
including the lease and associated maintenance of replacement 
aircraft for the CT-39 aircraft to the same extent and manner as 
authorized for service contracts by section 2306(g), title 10, United 
States Code, and not to exceed $4,770,000 can be used for emergen-
cies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or 
authority of the Secretary of the Air Force, and payments may be 
made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military pur-
poses, $17,573,895,000, of which not less than $1,217,200,000 shall be 
available only for the maintenance of real property facilities. 
AIR FORCE STOCK FUND 
For the Air Force stock fund; $1,288,725,000. 
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97 STAT. 1425 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE AGENCIES 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance of activities and agencies of the Department 
of Defense (other than the military departments), as authorized by 
law, $6,446,652,000, of which not to exceed $8,571,000 can be used for 
emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the 
approval or authority of the Secretary of Defense, and payments 
may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential military 
purposes. Of the total amount of this appropriation, not less than 
$78,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
DEFENSE STOCK FUND 
For the Defense stock fund; $43,600,000. 
DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL FUND 
For the Defense industrial fund; $150,000,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance, including training, organization, and ad-
ministration, of the Army Reserve; repair of facilities and equip-
ment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; 
care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and 
equipment; and communications, $683,850,000, of which not less 
than $39,000,000 shall be available only for maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance, including training, organization, and 
administration, of the Navy Reserve; repair of facilities and equip-
ment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transportation; 
care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, and 
equipment; and communications, $634,500,000, of which not less 
than $29,500,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance, including training, organization, and ad-
ministration, of the Marine Corps Reserve; repair of facilities and 
equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transporta-
tion; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, 
and equipment; and communications, $52,129,000, of which not less 
than $2,200,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the oper-
ation and maintenance, including training, organization, and ad-
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ministration, of the Air Force Reserve; repair of facilities and 
equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transporta-
tion; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, supplies, 
and equipment; and communications, $781,600,000, of which not less 
than $19,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY NATIONAL GUARD 
For expenses of training, organizing, and administering the Army 
National Guard, including medical and hospital treatment and 
related expenses in non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, operation, 
and repairs to structures and facilities; hire of passenger motor 
vehicles; personnel services in the National Guard Bureau; travel 
expenses (other than mileage), as authorized by law for Army 
personnel on active duty, for Army National Guard division, regi-
mental, and battalion commanders while inspecting units in compli-
ance with National Guard regulations when specifically authorized 
by the Chief, National Guard Bureau; supplying and equipping the 
Army National Guard as authorized by law; and expenses of repair, 
modification, maintenance, and issue of supplies and equipment 
(including 
aircraft), 
$1,170,190,000, of which 
not 
less 
than 
$40,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real 
property facilities. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR NATIONAL GUARD 
For operation and maintenance of the Air National Guard, 
including medical and hospital treatment and related expenses in 
non-Federal hospitals; maintenance, operation, repair, and other 
necessary expenses of facilities for the training and administration 
of the Air National Guard, including repair of facilities, mainte-
nance, operation, and modification of aircraft; transportation of 
things; hire of passenger motor vehicles; supplies, materials, and 
equipment, as authorized by law for the Air National Guard; and 
expenses incident to the maintenance and use of supplies, materials, 
and equipment, including such as may be furnished from stocks 
under the control of agencies of the Department of Defense; travel 
expenses (other than mileage) on the same basis as authorized by 
law for Air National Guard personnel on active Federal duty, for 
Air National Guard commanders while inspecting units in compli-
ance with National Guard regulations when specifically authorized 
by the Chief, National Guard Bureau, $1,789,300,000, of which not 
less than $38,800,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of 
real property facilities. 
NATIONAL BOARD FOR THE PROMOTION OF RIFLE PRACTICE, ARMY 
For the necessary expenses, in accordance with law, for construc-
tion, equipment, and maintenance of rifle ranges; the instruction of 
citizens in marksmanship; the promotion of rifle practice; and the 
travel of rifle teams, military personnel, and individuals attending 
regional, national, and international competitions; $899,000, of 
which not to exceed $7,500 shall be available for incidental expenses 
of the National Board; and from other funds provided in this Act, 
not to exceed $680,000 worth of ammunition may be issued under 
authority of title 10, United States Code, section 4311: Provided, 
That competitors at national matches under title 10, United States 
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Code, section 4312, may be paid subsistence and travel allowances in 
excess of the amounts provided under title 10, United States Code, 
section 4313. 
CLAIMS, DEFENSE 
For payment, not otherwise provided for, of claims authorized by 
law to be paid by the Department of Defense (except for civil 
functions), including claims for damages arising under training 
contracts with carriers, and repayment of amounts determined by 
the Secretary concerned, or officers designated by him, to have been 
erroneously collected from military and civilian personnel of the 
Department of Defense, or from States, territories, or the District of 
Columbia, or members of the 
National 
Guard 
units 
thereof; 
$160,400,000. 
COURT OF MILITARY APPEALS, DEFENSE 
For salaries ^ d exp)enses necessary for the United States Court of 
Military Appeals; $3,372,000, and not to exceed $1,500 can be used 
for official representation purposes. 
SUMMER OLYMPICS 
For logistical support and personnel services (other than pay and 
nontravel related allowances of members of the Armed Forces of 
the United States, except for members of the Reserve components 
thereof called or ordered to active duty to provide support for the 
XXIII Olympiad) provided by any component of the Department of 
Defense to the 1984 games of the XXIII Olympiad; $45,000,000: 
Provided, That the Department of Defense may also provide support 
to the Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee on a reimburs-
able basis, with such reimbursements to be credited to the current 
applicable appropriation accounts of the Department. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for environmental resto-
ration programs, including hazardous waste disposal operations and 
removal of unsafe or unsightly buildings and debris of the Depart-
ment of Defense, and including programs and operations at sites 
formerly used by the Department of Defense; $150,000,000. 
TITLE IV 
PROCUREMENT 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, modification, 
and 
modernization of aircraft, equipment, including ordnance, ground 
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; special-
ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private 
plants, including the land necessary therefor, without regard to 
section 4774, title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, 
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by 
section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and 40 USC 255. 
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installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public 
and private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 
foregoing purposes; $3,214,048,000, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 1986. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and 
modernization of missiles, equipment, including ordnance, ground 
handling equipment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; special-
ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private 
plants, including the land necessary therefor, without regard to 
section 4774, title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, 
and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construc-
tion prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by 
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section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and 
installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public 
and private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-
owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 
foregoing 
purposes, as follows: 
For 
Other 
Missile 
Support, 
$9,200,000; for the Patriot program, $885,000,000; for the Stinger 
program, $105,200,000, and in addition, $32,600,000 to be derived by 
transfer from "Missile Procurement, Army, 1983/1985"; for the 
Laser Hellfire program, $218,800,000; for the TOW program, 
$189,200,000; for the Pershing II program, $407,700,000; for the 
MLRS 
program, 
$532,100,000; 
for 
modification 
of 
missiles, 
$123,300,000; for spares and repair parts, $271,000,000; for support 
equipment and facilities, $109,200,000; in all: $2,822,700,000, and in 
addition $32,600,000 to be derived by transfer, to remain available 
until September 30, 1986: Provided, That within the total amount 
appropriated, the subdivisions within this account shall be reduced 
by $28,000,000 for revised economic assumptions. 
PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, ARMY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of 
weapons and tracked combat vehicles, equipment, including ord-
nance, spare parts and accessories therefor; specialized equipment 
and training devices; expansion of public and private plants, includ-
ing the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774, title 
10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands 
and interests therein may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 
thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised 
Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installation of equip-
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes; 
$4,594,103,000, and in addition, $65,200,000. to be derived by transfer 
from "Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, 
Army. 1982/1984" and $83,800,000. to be derived by transfer from 
"Procurement of Weapons and Tracked Combat Vehicles, Army, 
1983/1985", to remain available for obligation until September 30. 
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97 STAT. 1429 
1986: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, M-1 tank engine 
within three months after enactment of this Act the Secretary of 
t S g r e S n a l 
Defense shall complete and submit to the Committees on Appropri- committees. 
ations and Armed Services of the House and Senate a study on the 
feasibility and cost effectiveness of establishing a second production 
source or multiyear procurement of the AGT 1500 engine for the 
M-1 tank, together with the Secretary's determination, based on the 
findings of such study, whether a second production source or 
multiyear procurement contract is in the national interest: Provided 
further, That current production of the AGT 1500 engine shall not 
be interrupted or reduced in the interim. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of 
ammunition, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment and 
training devices; expansion of public and private plants, including 
ammunition facilities authorized in military construction authoriza-
tion Acts or authorized by section 2673, title 10, United States Code, 
and the land necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774, title 
10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands 
and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted 
thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised 
Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installation of equip- 40 USC 255. 
ment, appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; 
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes; 
$1,980,100,000, of which $1,200,000 shall be available only for pro-
curement of 9mm handgun ammunition, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30,1986. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modification of 
vehicles, including tactical, support (including not to exceed fifteen 
vehicles required for physical security of personnel notwithstanding 
price limitations applicable to passenger carrying vehicles but not to 
exceed $100,000 per vehicle), and nontracked combat vehicles; the 
purchase of not to exceed two thousand one hundred and forty-one 
passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; communications and 
electronic equipment; other support equipment; spare parts, ord-
nance, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment and training 
devices; expansion of public and private plants, including the land 
necessary therefor, without regard to section 4774, title 10, United 
States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests 
therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior 
to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as 
amended; and procurement and installation of equipment, appli-
ances, and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and 
other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes; $4,680,528,000, 
of which $24,400,000 shall be available for the M9 Armored Combat 
Earthmover under a multiyear contract, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 1986. 
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AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and 
modernization of aircraft, equipment including ordnance, spare 
parts, and accessories therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of 
public and private plants, including the land necessary therefor, and 
such lands and interests therein, mav be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 
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355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installa-
tion of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 
private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway; $10,174,608,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30,1986. 
WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, procurement, production, modification, and 
modernization of missiles, torpedoes, other weapons, and related 
support equipment including spare parts, and accessories therefor; 
expansion of public and private plants, including the land necessary 
therefor, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as re-
quired by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procure-
ment and installation of equipment, appliances, and machine tools 
in public and private plants; reserve plant and Government and 
contractor-owned equipment layaway, as follows: For missile pro-
grams, $2,962,600,000; for the MK-48 torpedo program, $124,600,000; 
for the MK-46 torpedo program, $212,900,000; for the MK-60 captor 
mine program, $73,900,000; for the MK-30 mobile target program, 
$17,600,000; for the MK-38 mini mobile target program, $2,000,000; 
for the antisubmarine rocket (ASROC) program, $17,300,000; for 
modification of torpedoes, $111,800,000; for the torpedo support 
equipment program, $72,100,000; for the MK-15 close-in weapons 
system program, $120,400,000; for the MK-45 gun mount/MK-6 
ammunition hoist, $16,100,000; for the MK-75 gun mount program, 
$11,100,000; for the MK-19 machine gun program, $900,000; for the 
25mm gun mount, $700,000; for the 9mm handgun, $500,000; for 
small arms and weapons, $2,500,000; for the modification of guns 
and gun mounts, $13,600,000; for the guns and gun mounts support 
equipment program, $9,300,000; in all: $3,725,332,000, and in addi-
tion, $77,800,000, to be derived by transfer from "Weapons Procure-
ment, Navy, 1983/1985", to remain available until September 30, 
1986: Provided, That within the total amount appropriated, the 
subdivisions within this account shall be reduced by $44,568,000, as 
follows: $8,568,000 for spares and repair parts and $36,000,000 for 
revised economic assumptions. 
SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or con-
version of vessels as authorized by law, including armor and arma-
ment thereof, plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools and 
installation thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant and 
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97 STAT. 1431 
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; procure-
ment of critical, long leadtime components and designs for vessels to 
be constructed or converted in the future; and expansion of public 
and private plants, including land necessary therefor, and such 
lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 
355, Revised Statutes, as amended, as follows: for the Trident sub-
marine program, $1,704,900,000; for the T-AK cargo ship conversion 
program, $900,000; for the SSN-688 nuclear attack submarine pro-
gram, $2,018,000,000; for the reactivation of the U.S.S. Missouri, 
$57,700,000: Provided, That none of these funds shall be available for 
obligation until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the Committees 
on Appropriations on the decision whether to implement the phase 
II battleship modernization, and any decision to proceed with phase 
II shall be accompanied by a plan for implementation to include cost 
and schedule data; for the aircraft carrier service life extension 
program, $95,900,000; for the CG-47 AEGIS cruiser program, 
$3,285,000,000; for the DDG-51 guided missile destroyer program, 
$79,000,000; 
for 
the 
LSD-41 
landing 
ship 
dock 
program, 
$405,500,000; for the FFG-7 guided missile frigate 
program, 
$ll(i,4()0,(H)0, and in addition, provided that the FFG-7 guided 
missile frigate shall be constructed with an upgraded MK-92 fire 
control system and an X-band phased array radar, the following 
amounts shall be derived by transfer: from the FFG-7 guided missile 
frigate program of "Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 1980/1984", 
$26,500,000; from the FFG-7 guided missile frigate program of 
"Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 1981/1985", $19,100,000; from 
SSN-688 nuclear attack submarine, FFG-7 guided missile frigate, 
T-AGOS ocean surveillance ship, and escalation programs of "Ship-
building and Conversion, Navy, 1982/1986", $66,000,000; and from 
the Trident submarine, SSN-688 nuclear attack submarine, FFG-7 
guided missile frigate, CVN aircraft carrier, and escalation pro-
grams 
of 
"Shipbuilding 
and 
Conversion, 
Navy, 
1983/1987", 
$72,000,000; in all, $183,600,000 to be derived by transfer; for the T-AO 
fleet oiler ship program, $335,500,000; for the MCM mine counter-
measures ship program, $301,000,000: Provided further, That funds 
appropriated or made available in this Act for the MCM mine 
countermeasures ship program may be obligated or expended only 
under a firm fixed price contract: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated or made available in this Act for the MCM mine 
countermeasures ship program may be obligated or expended until 
such time as the Department of the Navy develops electromagnetic 
interference specifications for the MCM-1 class of ships, and the 
Secretary of the Navy certifies to the Committees on Appropriations 
that the electromagnetic interference specifications developed will 
result in a design that will be free of electromagnetic interference in 
the context of the approved electromagnetic interference and elec-
tromagnetic compatibility specifications; for the MSH coastal mine 
hunter program, $65,000,000; for the T-AGS surveying ship pro-
gram, $17,000,000; for the T-AKR fast logistics ship program, 
$230,000,000; for the T-AH hospital ship program, $180,000,000, and 
in addition, $44,000,000 to be derived by transfer from the T-AH 
hospital ship program of "Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, 1983/ 
1987"; for the T-AFS combat stores ship program, $11,000,000; for 
the LHD-1 amphibious assault ship program, $1,365,700,000; for the 
strategic sealift program, $31,000,000; for craft, outfitting, post deliv-
ery, cost growth, 
and 
escalation 
on 
prior 
year 
programs. 
40 use 255. 
Battleship 
modernization, 
report to 
congressional 
committees. 
Certified 
specifications to 
congressional 
committees. 
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$1,056,400,000; in all: $11,215,400,000, and in addition, $227,600,000 
to be derived by transfer, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 1988: Provided further, That additional obligations 
may be incurred after September 30, 1988, for engineering services, 
tests, evaluations, and other such budgeted work that must be 
performed in the final stage of ship construction; and each Ship-
building and Conversion, Navy, appropriation that is currently 
available for such obligations may also hereafter be so obligated 
after the date of its expiration: Provided further, That within the 
total amount appropriated, the subdivisions within this account 
shall be reduced by $140,500,000, as follows: $27,500,000 for consult-
ants, studies, and analyses, and $113,000,000 for revised economic 
assumptions: Provided further, That none of the funds herein pro-
vided for the construction or conversion of any naval vessel to be 
constructed in shipyards in the United States shall be expended in 
foreign shipyards for the construction of major components of the 
hull or superstructure of such vessel: Provided further, That none of 
the funds herein provided shall be used for the construction of any 
naval vessel in foreign shipyards. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For procurement, production, and modernization of support equip-
ment and materials not otherwise provided for, Navy ordnance and 
ammunition (except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships 
authorized for conversion); the purchase of not to exceed one vehicle 
required for physical security of personnel notwithstanding price 
limitations applicable to passenger carrying vehicles but not to 
exceed $100,000 per vehicle and the purchase of not to exceed six 
hundred and sixty-seven passenger motor vehicles of which six 
hundred and twenty-five shall be for replacement only; expansion of 
public and private plants, including the land necessary therefor, and 
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 
40 use 255. 
355, Revised Statutes, as amended; and procurement and installa-
tion of equipment, appliances, and machine tools in public and 
private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway, as follows: For ship support equipment, 
$673,909,000; for communications 
and electronics 
equipment, 
$1,555,233,000; for aviation support equipment, $699,405,000; for 
ordnance support equipment, $926,162,000, of which $698,000 shall 
be available only for procurement of 9mm handgun ammunition; for 
civil engineering support equipment, $196,622,000; for supply sup-
port equipment, $112,474,000; for personnel/command support 
equipment, $275,601,000; in all: $4,308,543,000, to remain available 
until September 30, 1986: Provided, That within the total amount 
appropriated, the subdivisions within this account shall be reduced 
by $130,863,000 as follows: $16,863,000 for spares and repair parts; 
$20,000,000 undistributed reduction; $4,000,000 for consultants, stud-
ies, and analyses; and $90,000,000 for revised economic assumptions. 
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and 
modification of missiles, armament, ammunition, military equip-
ment, spare parts, and accessories therefor; plant equipment, appli-
ances, and machine tools, and installation thereof in public and 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1433 
private plants; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway; vehicles for the Marine Corps, including pur-
chase of not to exceed two hundred and four passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; and expansion of public and private 
plants, including land necessary therefor, and such lands, and inter-
ests therein, may be acquired and construction prosecuted thereon 
prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised 
Statutes, as amended; $1,741,306,000, to remain available for obiiga- 40 USC 255. 
tion until September 30, 1986. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, procurement, and modification of aircraft and 
equipment, including armor and armament, specialized ground han-
dling equipment, and training devices, spare parts, and accessories 
therefor; specialized equipment; expansion of public and private 
plants. Government-owned equipment and installation thereof in 
such plants, erection of structures, and acquisition of land without 
regard to section 9774 of title 10, United States Code, for the 
foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be 
acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of 
title as required by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; 
reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment 
layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes 
including rents and transportation of things; $21,080,110,000, of 
which $5,626,800,000 shall be available only for the purchase of the 
B-IB bomber under a multiyear contract, of which $112,100,000 
shall be available for contribution of the United States share of the 
cost of the acquisition by the North Atlantic Treaty Organization of 
an Airborne Early Warning and Control System (AWACS) and, in 
addition, the Department of Defense may make a commitment to 
the North Atlantic Treaty Organization to assume the United States 
share of contingent liability in connection with the NATO E-3A 
Cooperative Programme; and in addition, $310,200,000, which shall 
be derived by transfer from "Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 1983/ 
1985", of which $288,200,000 shall be from the A-10 program, 
$14,000,000 shall be from the C-135 modification program, and 
$8,000,000 shall be from the C-130H program to be available only for 
the purchase of C-130H aircraft; and in addition, $12,900,000, which 
shall be derived by transfer from "Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 
1982/1984", from the Civilian Reserve Airlift Fleet modification 
program to be available only for the Civilian Reserve Airlift Fleet 
modification program: Provided, That none of the funds in this Act 
may be obligated under the four major fiscal year 1984 production 
contracts for the B-IB bomber if the current dollar costs of such 
production contracts would exceed the Air Force's original current 
dollar estimates for the four major fiscal year 1984 B-IB production 
contracts based on the production portion of the $20,500,000,000 
estimate for the B-IB bomber baseline costs expressed in fiscal year 
1981 constant dollars; to remain available for obligation until Sep-
tember 30, 1986: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by Notification to 
this Act may be obligated for procurement of the alternate fighter congressional 
engine until the Secretary of Defense notifies the appropriations ^°"^™^ ^^^ 
committees of both the House and the Senate of his approval of the 
decision made by the source selection authority: Provided 
further. 
committees. 
97 STAT. 1434 
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That nothing in this paragraph shall prohibit award of separate 
long lead contracts for essential parts and components necessary to 
meet the required delivery schedule for the alternate fighter engine. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For construction, procurement, and modification of missiles, 
spacecraft, rockets, and related equipment, including spare parts 
and accessories therefor, ground handling equipment, and training 
devices; expansion of public and private plants. Government-owned 
equipment and installation thereof in such plants, erection of struc-
tures, and acquisition of land without regard to section 9774 of title 
10, United States Code, for the foregoing purposes, and such lands 
and interests therein, may be acquired and construction prosecuted 
thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 355, Revised 
40 use 255. 
Statutes, as amended; reserve plant and Government and contrac-
tor-owned equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the 
foregoing purposes including rents and transportation of things; 
$7,747,838,000, of which $81,600,000 shall be available for the pur-
chase of the phase III Defense Satellite Communications System 
Notification to 
(DSCS III) Under a multiyear contract: Provided, That after the 
congressional 
Secretary of the Air Force gives written notification of a proposed 
multiyear contract for the Defense Satellite Communications 
System to the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and 
House of Representatives, such contract may not then be awarded 
until forty-five days after such notification; and of which $200,000,000 
for cooperative NATO air base defense shall not be available to 
support implementing an agreement with any foreign government 
until forty-five days after such agreement, together with support-
ing data including total program cost estimates, has been submitted 
to the Congress; and in addition, $55,000,000, to be derived by 
transfer from "Missile Procurement, Air Force, 1983/1985", to 
remain available for obligation until September 30,1986. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For procurement and modification of equipment (including 
ground guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground 
electronic and communication equipment), and supplies, materials, 
and spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of 
not to exceed five vehicles required for physical security of person-
nel notwithstanding price limitations applicable to passenger carry-
ing vehicles but not to exceed $100,000 per vehicle and the purchase 
of not to exceed one thousand two hundred and sixty-one passenger 
motor vehicles of which seven hundred and thirteen shall be for 
replacement only; and expansion of public and private plants. Gov-
ernment-owned equipment and installation thereof in such plants, 
erection of structures, and acquisition of land without regard to 
section 9774 of title 10, United States Code, for the foregoing pur-
poses, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and 
construction prosecuted thereon, prior to approval of title as re-
quired by section 355, Revised Statutes, as amended; reserve plant 
and 
Government 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; 
$6,914,232,000, of which $1,000,000 shall be available only for pro-
curement of 9mm handguns and $446,000 shall be available only for 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1435 
procurement of 9mm handgun ammunition, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 1986. 
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT 
For procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, 
and other procurement for the reserve components of the Armed 
Forces, not to exceed $176,000,000, to remain available until Septem-
ber 30, 1986, distributed as follows: Army National Guard, not to 
exceed $100,000,000; Air National Guard, not to exceed $25,000,000; 
Naval Reserve, not to exceed $51,000,000. 
ACQUISITION, CONSTRUCTION, AND IMPROVEMENTS, COAST GUARD 
For acquisition, construction, and improvements, not otherwise 
provided for; $300,000,000, to be transferred to the Coast Guard: 
"Acquisition, Construction, and Improvements", to remain available 
for obligation until September 30,1986. 
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE AGENCIES 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department of 
Defense (other than the military departments) necessary for pro-
curement, production, and modification of equipment, supplies, 
materials, and spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; the 
purchase of not to exceed seven vehicles required for physical 
security of personnel notwithstanding price limitations applicable to 
passenger carrying vehicles but not to exceed $100,000 per vehicle 
and the purchase of not to exceed seven hundred and twenty-two 
passenger motor vehicles of which three hundred and ninety-three 
shall be for replacement only; expansion of public and private 
plants, equipment, and installation thereof in such plants, erection 
of structures, and acquisition of land for the foregoing purposes, and 
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title as required by section 
355, Revised Statutes, as amended; reserve plant and Government 40 USC 255. 
and contractor-owned equipment layaway; $942,657,000, to remain 
available for obligation until September 30,1986. 
TITLE V 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, ARMY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, test, and evaluation," including maintenance, rehabili-
tation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, £is author-
ized by law; $4,199,125,000, of which $15,000,000 shall be available 
only for integration (including qualification) of the Hellfire missile 
on the UH-60 helicopter, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 1985. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance, rehabili-
tation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as author-
97 STAT. 1436 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
Laser technology 
report. 
Laser technology 
report. 
ized by law; $7,559,818,000, of which not less than $72,593,000 shall 
be available only for the Mark 92 fire control system which includes 
the phased array radar improvement program and of which not less 
than $61,165,000 shall be available only for the Marine Corps As-
sault Vehicles program which includes the MPGS, LVT(X), and 
LAV subprojects, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1985. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, test, and evaluation, including maintenance, rehabili-
tation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as author-
ized by law; $12,227,706,000, of which $23,500,000 shall not be made 
available for obligation on visible/ultraviolet laser technology prior 
to the submission of a report by the Department of Defense Defen-
sive Technologies Study Team recommending a plan for the expend-
iture of laser technology funds, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30,1985. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE 
AGENCIES 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department of 
Defense (other than the military departments), necessary for basic 
and applied scientific research, development, test, and evaluation; 
advanced research projects as may be designated and determined by 
the Secretary of Defense, pursuant to law; maintenance, rehabilita-
tion, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment, as authorized 
by law; $2,703,620,000, of which $20,000,000 shall not be made 
available for obligation on short wavelength laser technology prior 
to the submission of a report by the Department of Defense Defen-
sive Technologies Study Team recommending a plan for the expend-
iture of leiser technology funds, to remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 1985: Provided, That such amounts as may be 
determined by the Secretary of Defense to have been made available 
in other appropriations available to the Department of Defense 
during the current fiscal year for programs related to advanced 
research may be transferred to and merged with this appropriation 
to be available for the same purposes and time period: Provided 
further. That such amounts of this appropriation as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary of Defense may be transferred to carry out 
the purposes of advanced research to those appropriations for mili-
tary functions under the Department of Defense which are being 
utilized for related programs to be merged with and to be available 
for the same time period as the appropriation to which transferred. 
DIRECTOR OF TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, of independent activities 
of the Director of Defense Test and Evaluation in the direction and 
supervision of test and evaluation, including initial operational 
testing and evaluation; and performance of joint testing and evalua-
tion; and 
administrative 
expenses 
in 
connection 
therewith; 
$49,000,000, to remain available for obligation until September 30, 
1985. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
TITLE VI 
97 STAT. 1437 
SPECIAL FOREIGN CURRENCY PROGRAM 
For pajonent in foreign currrencies which the Treasury Depart-
ment determines to be excess to the normal requirements of the 
United States for expenses in canying out programs of the Depart-
ment of Defense, as authorized by law; $3,050,000, to remain avail-
able for obligation until September 30, 1985: Provided, That this 
appropriation shall be available in addition to other appropriations 
to such Department, for pa3mients in the foregoing currencies. 
TITLE VII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 701. The expenditure of any appropriation under this Act for 
any consulting service through procurement contract, pursuant to 
section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, shall be limited to those 
contracts where such expenditures are a matter of public record and 
available for public inspection, except where otherwise provided 
under existing law, or under existing Executive order issued pursu-
ant to existing law. 
SEC. 702. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not authorized by the 
Congress. 
SEC. 703. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense 
and the Secretaries of the Army, Navy, and Air Force, respectively, 
if they should deem it advantageous to the national defense, and if 
in their opinions the existing facilities of the Department of Defense 
are inadequate, are authorized to procure services in accordeince 
with section 3109 of title 5, United States Code, under regulations 
prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, and to pay in connection 
therewith travel expenses of individuals, including actual transpor-
tation and per diem in lieu of subsistence while traveling from their 
homes or places of business to official duty stations and return as 
may be authorized by law: Provided, That such contracts may be 
renewed annually. 
SEC. 704. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law prohibit-
ing the pajmaent of compensation to, or employment of, any person 
not a citizen of the United States shall not apply to personnel of the 
Department of Defense. 
SEC. 705. Appropriations contained in this Act and in subsequent 
appropriation Acts for the Department of Defense shall be available 
for insurance of official motor vehicles in foreign countries, when 
required by laws of such countries; payments in advance of expenses 
determined by the investigating officer to be necessary and in accord 
with local custom for conducting investigations in foreign countries 
incident to matters relating to the activities of the department 
concerned; reimbursement to General Services Administration for 
security guard services for protection of confidential files; and all 
necessary expenses, at the seat of government of the United States 
of America or elsewhere, in connection with communication and 
other services and supplies as may be necessary to carry out the 
purposes of this Act. 
SEC. 706. Any appropriation available hereafter to the Army, 
Navy, or Air Force may, under such regulations as the Secretary 
Consulting 
services. 
Publicity or 
propaganda. 
Experts and 
consultants. 
Noncitizen 
compensation 
and employment. 
10 u s e 1584 
note. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
Prisoners of war. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
97 STAT. 1438 
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Land 
acquisition. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
22 u s e 2385. 
Notification to 
Congress. 
concerned may prescribe, be used for expenses incident to the 
maintenance, pay, and allowances of prisoners of war, other persons 
in Army, Navy, or Air Force custody whose status is determined by 
the Secretary concerned to be similar to prisoners of war, and 
persons detained in such custody pursuant to Presidential proclama-
tion. 
SEC. 707. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense 
for the current fiscal year and hereafter for maintenance or con-
struction shall be available for acquisition of land or interest therein 
as authorized by sections 2672, 2675 or 2828 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 708. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
current fiscal year shall be available (a) for transportation to pri-
mary and secondary schools of minor dependents of military and 
civilian personnel of the Department of Defense as authorized for 
the Navy by section 7204 of title 10, United States Code; (b) for 
expenses in connection with administration of occupied areas; (c) for 
payment of rewards as authorized for the Navy by section 7209(a) of 
title 10, United States Code, for information leading to the discovery 
of missing naval property or the recovery thereof; (d) for payment of 
deficiency judgments and interests thereon arising out of condemna-
tion proceedings; (e) for leasing of buildings and facilities including 
pajonent of rentals for special purpose space at the seat of govern-
ment, and in the conduct of field exercises and maneuvers or, in 
administering the provisions of the Act of July 9, 1942 (56 Stat. 654; 
43 U.S.C. 315q), rentals may be paid in advance; (f) payments under 
contracts for maintenance of tools and facilities for twelve months 
beginning at any time during the fiscal year; (g) maintenance of 
defense access roads certified as important to national defense in 
accordance with section 210 of title 23, United States Code; (h) for 
the purchase of milk for enlisted personnel of the Department of 
Defense heretofore made available pursuant to section 202 of the 
Agricultural Act of 1949 (7 U.S.C. 1446a), and the cost of milk so 
purchased, as determined by the Secretary of Defense, shall be 
included in the value of the commuted ration; (i) transporting 
civilian clothing to the home of record of selective service inductees 
and recruits on entering the military services; (j) payments under 
leases for real or personal property, including maintenance thereof 
when contracted for as a part of the lease agreement, for twelve 
months beginning at any time during the fiscal year; (k) pay and 
allowances of not to exceed nine persons, including personnel de-
tailed to International Military Headquarters and Organizations, at 
rates provided for under section 625(dXl) of the Foreign Assistance 
Act of 1961, as amended; (1) the purchase of right-handndrive vehicles 
not to exceed $12,000 per vehicle; (m) for pajnnent of unusual cost 
overruns incident to ship overhaul, maintenance, and repair for 
ships inducted into industrial fund activities or contracted for in 
prior fiscal years: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall 
notify the Congress promptly prior to obligation of any such pay-
ments; (n) for pajrments from annual appropriations to industrial 
fund activities and/or under contract for changes in scope of ship 
overhaul, maintenance, and repair after expiration of such appro-
priations, for such work either inducted into the industrial fund 
activity or contracted for in that fiscal year; and (o) for payments for 
depot maintenance contracts for twelve months beginning at any 
time during the fiscal year. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1439 
SEC. 709. Appropriations for the Department of Defense for the 
current fiscal year shall be available for: (a) donations of not to 
exceed $25 to each prisoner upon each release from confinement in 
military or contract prison and to each person discharged for fraud-
ulent enlistment; (b) authorized issues of articles to prisoners, appli-
cants for enlistment and persons in military custody; (c) subsistence 
of selective service registrants called for induction, applicants for 
enlistment, prisoners, civilian employees as authorized by law, and 
supernumeraries when necessitated by emergent military circum-
stances; (d) reimbursement for subsistence of enlisted personnel 
while sick in hospitals; (e) expenses of prisoners confined in nonmili-
tary facilities; (f) military courts, boards, and commissions; (g) utility 
services for buildings erected at private cost, as authorized by law, 
and buildings on military reservations authorized by regulations to 
be used for welfare and recreational purposes; (h) exchange fees, and 
losses in the accounts of disbursing officers or agents in accordance 
with law; (i) expenses of Latin American cooperation as authorized 
for the Navy by section 7208 of title 10, United States Code; (j) 
expenses of apprehension and delivery of deserters, prisoners, and 
members absent without leave, including payment of rewards of not 
to exceed $75 in any one case; (k) canying out section 10 of the Act 
of September 23, 1950, as amended; and (1) providing, with or 
without reimbursement, not to exceed $60,000,000 to procure secure 
communications systems, equipment and related items throughout 
the United States Government. 
SEC. 710. The Secretary of Defense and each purchasing and 
contracting agency of the Department of Defense shall assist Ameri-
can small and minority-owned business to participate equitably in 
the furnishing of commodities and services financed with funds 
appropriated under this Act by increasing, to an optimum level, the 
resources and number of personnel jointly assigned to promoting 
both small and minority business involvement in purchases fi-
nanced with funds appropriated herein, and by making available or 
causing to be made available to such businesses, information, as far 
in advance as possible, with respect to purchases proposed to be 
financed with funds appropriated under this Act, and by assisting 
small and minority business concerns to participate equitably as 
subcontractors on contracts financed with funds appropriated 
herein, and by otherwise advocating and providing small and minor-
ity business opportunities to participate in the furnishing of com-
modities and services financed with funds appropriated by this Act. 
SEC. 711. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless 
expressly so provided herein. 
SEC. 712. (a) During the current fiscal year, the President may 
exempt appropriations, funds, and contract authorizations, available 
for military functions under the Department of Defense, from the 
provisions of section 1512 of title 31, United States Code, whenever 
he deems such action to be necessary in the interest of national 
defense. 
(b) Upon determination by the President that such action is 
necessary, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the 
cost of an airborne alert as an excepted expense in accordance with 
the provisions of section 3732 of the Revised Statutes (41 U.S.C. 11). 
(c) Upon determination by the President that it is necessary to 
increase the number of military personnel on active duty subject to 
existing laws beyond the number for which funds are provided in 
10 u s e 858 note. 
10 u s e 807 note. 
Small and 
minority-owned 
business 
contracts. 
Fiscal year 
funding 
limitation. 
Funding 
exemptions. 
Airborne alert 
expenses. 
Active duty 
military 
personnel 
increases. 
97 STAT. 1440 
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Monthly report 
to Congress. 
Commissary 
stores. 
Proficiency 
flying. 
Household 
goods. 
this Act, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the 
cost of such increased mihtary personnel, as an excepted expense in 
accordance with the provisions of section 3732 of the Revised Stat-
utes (41 U.S.C. 11). 
(d) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately advise Congress of 
the exercise of any authority granted in this section, and shall 
report monthly on the estimated obligations incurred pursuant to 
subsections (b) and (c). 
SEC. 713. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
in connection with the operation of commissary stores of the agen-
cies of the Department of Defense for the cost of purchase (including 
commercial transportation in the United States to the place of sale 
but excluding all transportation outside the United States) and 
maintenance of operating equipment and supplies, and for the 
actual or estimated cost of utilities as may be furnished by the 
Government and of shrinkage, spoilage, and pilferage of merchan-
dise under the control of such commissary stores, except as 
authorized under regulations promulgated by the Secretaries of the 
military departments concerned with the approval of the Secretary 
of Defense, which regulations shall provide for reimbursement 
therefor to the appropriations concerned and, notwithstanding any 
other provision of law, shall provide for the adjustment of the sales 
prices in such commissary stores to the extent necessary to furnish 
sufficient gross revenues from sales of commissary stores to make 
such reimbursement: Provided, That under such regulations as may 
be issued pursuant to this section all utilities may be furnished 
without cost to the commissary stores outside the continental 
United States and in Alaska: Provided further, That no appropri-
ation contained in this Act shall be available to pay any costs 
incurred by any commissary store or other entity acting on behalf of 
any commissary store in connection with obtaining the face value 
amount of manufacturer or vendor cents-off discount coupons unless 
all fees or moneys received for handling or processing such coupons 
are reimbursed to the appropriation charged with the incurred 
costs: Provided further, That no appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available in connection with the operation of commissary 
stores within the continental United States unless the Secretary of 
Defense has certified that items normally procured from commis-
sary stores are not otherwise available at a reasonable distance and 
a reasonable price in satisfactory quality and quantity to the mili-
tary and civilian employees of the Department of Defense. 
SEC. 714. No part of the appropriations in this Act shall be 
available for any expense of operating aircraft under the jurisdic-
tion of the armed forces for the purpose of proficiency flying, as 
defined in Department of Defense Directive 1340.4, except in accord-
ance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Such 
regulations (1) may not require such flying except that required to 
maintain proficiency in anticipation of a member's assignment to 
combat operations and (2) such flying may not be permitted in cases 
of members who have been assigned to a course of instruction of 
ninety days or more. 
SEC. 715. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available for expense of transportation, packing, crating, tempo-
rary storage, drayage, and unpacking of household goods and per-
sonal effects in any one shipment having a net weight in excess of 
thirteen thousand five hundred pounds. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1441 
SEC. 716. Vessels under the jurisdiction of the Department of 
Transportation, the Department of the Army, the Department of the 
Air Force, or the Department of the Navy may be transferred or 
otherwise made available without reimbursement to any such agen-
cies upon the request of the head of one agency and the approval of 
the agency having jurisdiction of the vessels concerned. 
SEC. 717. Not more than 20 per centum of the appropriations in 
this Act which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal 
year shall be obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year: 
Provided, That this section shall not apply to obligations for support 
of active duty training of civilian components or summer camp 
training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps, or the National 
Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, Army. 
SEC. 718. During the current fiscal year the agencies of the 
Department of Defense may accept the use of real property from 
foreign countries for the United States in accordance with mutual 
defense agreements or occupational arrangements and may accept 
services furnished by foreign countries as reciprocal international 
courtesies or as services customarily made available without charge; 
and such agencies may use the same for the support of the United 
States forces in such areas without specific appropriation therefor. 
In addition to the foregoing, agencies of the Department of 
Defense may accept real property, services, and commodities from 
foreign countries for the use of the United States in accordance with 
mutual defense agreements or occupational arrangements and such 
agencies may use the same for the support of the United States 
forces in such areas, without specific appropriations therefor: Pro-
vided, That the foregoing authority shall not be available for the 
conversion of heating plants from coal to oil at defense facilities in 
Europe: Provided further. That within thirty days after the end of 
each quarter the Secretary of Defense shall render to Congress and 
to the Office of Management and Budget a full report of such 
property, supplies, and commodities received during such quarter. 
SEC. 719. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for research and development may be 
used for the purposes of section 2353 of title 10, United States Code, 
and for purposes related to research and development for which 
expenditures are specifically authorized in other appropriations of 
the Service concerned. 
SEC. 720. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
for the payment of more than 75 per centum of charges of edu-
cational institutions for tuition or expenses of off-duty training of 
military personnel (except with regard to such charges of education-
al institutions (a) for enlisted personnel in the pay grade E-5 or 
higher with less than 14 years' service, for which payment of 90 per 
centum may be made or (b) for military personnel in off-duty high 
school completion programs, for which payment of 100 per centum 
may be made), nor for the payment of any part of tuition or 
expenses for such training for commissioned personnel who do not 
agree to remain on active duty for two years after completion of 
such training: Provided, That the foregoing limitation shall not 
apply to the Program for Afloat College Education. 
SEC. 721. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
expended for the support of any formally enrolled student in beisic 
courses of the senior division, Reserve Officers' Training Corps, who 
has not executed a certificate of loyalty or loyalty oath in such form 
as shall be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. 
Vessel transfers. 
40 u s e 483a. 
Obligated funds, 
limitation. 
Foreign real 
property, 
commodities, 
and services. 
Report to 
Congress and 
0MB. 
Research and 
development 
funds. 
Educational 
expenses, 
limitation. 
10 u s e 2108 
note. 
1 1 - 1 9 4 O - 85 — 47 : QL 3 
97 STAT. 1442 
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Procurement 
restrictions. 
22 use 2776. 
Inactive duty 
training pay. 
SEC. 721A. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act, 
except for small purchases in amounts not exceeding $10,000 shall 
be available for the procurement of any article of food, clothing, 
cotton, woven silk or woven silk blends, spun silk yarn for cartridge 
cloth, synthetic fabric or coated synthetic fabric, or wool (whether in 
the form of fiber or yarn or contained in fabrics, materials, or 
manufactured articles), or specialty metals including stainless steel 
flatware, 
or hand or measuring tools, not grown, reprocessed, 
reused, or produced in the United States or its possessions, except to 
the extent that the Secretary of the Department concerned shall 
determine that satisfactory quality and sufficient quantity of any 
articles of food or clothing or any form of cotton, woven silk and 
woven silk blends, spun silk yarn for cartridge cloth, synthetic fabric 
or coated synthetic fabric, wool, or specialty metals including stain-
less steel flatware, grown, reprocessed, reused, or produced in the 
United States or its possessions cannot be procured as and when 
needed at United States market prices and except procurements 
outside the United States in support of combat operations, procure-
ments by vessels in foreign waters, and emergency procurements or 
procurements of perishable foods by establishments located outside 
the United States for the personnel attached thereto: Provided, That 
nothing herein shall preclude the procurement of specialty metals 
or chemical warfare protective clothing produced outside the United 
States or its possessions when such procurement is necessary to 
comply with agreements with foreign governments requiring the 
United States to purchase supplies from foreign sources for the 
purposes of offsetting sales made by the United States Government 
or United States firms under approved programs serving defense 
requirements or where such procurement is necessary in further-
ance of the standardization and interoperability of equipment 
requirements within NATO so long as such agreements with foreign 
governments comply, where applicable, with the requirements of 
section 36 of the Arms Export Control Act and with section 2457 of 
title 10, United States Code: Provided further, That nothing herein 
shall preclude the procurement of foods manufactured or processed 
in the United States or its possessions: Provided further. That no 
funds herein appropriated shall be used for the payment of a price 
differential on contracts hereafter made for the purpose of relieving 
economic dislocations other than certain contracts not involving fuel 
made on a test basis by the Defense Logistics Agency with a 
cumulative value not to exceed $4,000,000,000, as may be deter-
mined by the Secretary of Defense pursuant to existing laws and 
regulations as not to be inappropriate therefor by reason of national 
security considerations: Provided further. That the Secretary specifi-
cally determines that there is a reasonable expectation that offers 
will be obtained from a sufficient number of eligible concerns so that 
awards of such contracts will be made at a reasonable price and that 
no award shall be made for such contracts if the price differential 
exceeds 2.2 per centum: Provided further, That none of the funds 
appropriated in this Act shall be used except that, so far as practica-
ble, all contracts shall be awarded on a formally advertised competi-
tive bid basis to the lowest responsible bidder. 
SEC. 722. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
obligated under section 206 of title 37, United States Code, for 
inactive duty training pay of a member of the National Guard or a 
member of a reserve component of a uniformed service for more 
than four periods of equivalent training, instruction, duty or appro-
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97 STAT. 1443 
priate duties that are performed instead of that member's regular 
period of instruction or regular period appropriate duty. 
SEC. 723. Appropriations contained in this Act and in subsequent 
appropriation Acts for the Department of Defense shall be available 
for the purchase of household furnishings, and automobiles from 
military and civilian personnel on duty outside the continental 
United States, for the purpose of resale at cost to incoming person-
nel, and for providing furnishings, without charge, in other than 
public quarters occupied by military or civilian personnel of the 
Department of Defense on duty outside the continental United 
States or in Alaska, upon a determination, under regulations ap-
proved by the Secretary of Defense, that such action is advantageous 
to the Government. 
SEC. 724. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for pay of civilian employees shall be 
available for uniforms, or allowances therefor, as authorized by 
section 5901 of title 5, United States Code. 
SEC. 725. Funds provided in this Act for legislative liaison activi-
ties of the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 
the Department of the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of 
Defense shall not exceed $9,500,000 for the current fiscal year: 
Provided, That this amount shall be available for apportionment to 
the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, the 
Department of the Air Force, and the Office of the Secretary of 
Defense as determined by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 726. Of the funds made available by this Act for the services 
of the Military Airlift Command, $100,000,000 shall be available 
only for procurement of commercial transportation service from 
carriers participating in the civil reserve air fleet program; and the 
Secretary of Defense shall utilize the services of such carriers which 
qualify as small businesses to the fullest extent found practicable: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Defense shall specify in such pro-
curement, performance characteristics for aircraft to be used based 
upon modern aircraft operated by the civil reserve air fleet. 
SEC. 727. During the current fiscal year, appropriations available 
to the Department of Defense for operation may be used for civilian 
clothing, not to exceed $40 in cost for enlisted personnel: (1) dis-
charged for misconduct, unsuitability, or otherwise than honorably; 
(2) sentenced by a civil court to confinement in a civil prison or 
interned or discharged as an alien enemy; or (3) discharged prior to 
completion of recruit training under honorable conditions for de-
pendency, hardship, minority, disability, or for the convenience of 
the Government. 
SEC. 728. No part of the funds appropriated herein or in subse-
quent appropriation Acts for the Department of Defense shall be 
available for paying the costs of advertising by any defense contrac-
tor, except advertising for which payment is made from profits, and 
such advertising shall not be considered a part of any defense 
contract cost. The prohibition contained in this section shall not 
apply with respect to advertising conducted by any such contractor, 
in compliance with regulations which shall be promulgated by the 
Secretary of Defense, solely for (1) the recruitment by the contractor 
of personnel required for the performance by the contractor of 
obligations under a defense contract, (2) the procurement of scarce 
items required by the contractor for the performance of a defense 
contract, or (3) the disposal of scrap or surplus materials acquired by 
the contractor in the performance of a defense contract. 
Furnishings and 
automobiles, 
purchase. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
Uniforms. 
Legislative 
liaison activities. 
Civil reserve air 
fleet. 
Civilian clothing 
allowance. 
Defense 
contractor 
advertising, 
prohibited costs. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
97 STAT. 1444 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
Transfer of 
funds. 
Notification to 
Congress. 
Working capital 
funds. 
Notification to 
Congress. 
Federal 
Employees 
Compensation 
Fund. 
Loan 
restrictions. 
Heating plant 
conversion. 
Experimental 
subjects, 
restricted 
research. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
SEC. 729. Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that 
such action is necessary in the national interest, he may, with the 
approval of the Office of Management and Budget, transfer not to 
exceed $1,200,000,000 of working capital funds of the Department of 
Defense or funds made available in this Act to the Department of 
Defense for military functions (except military construction) be-
tween such appropriations or funds or any subdivision thereof, to be 
merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and for the 
same time period, as the appropriation or fund to which transferred: 
Provided, That such authority to transfer may not be used unless for 
higher priority items, based on unforeseen military requirements, 
than those for which originally appropriated and in no case where 
the item for which funds are requested has been denied by Congress: 
Provided further. That the Secretary of Defense shall notify the 
Congress promptly of all transfers made pursuant to this authority. 
SEC. 730. During the current fiscal year, cash balances in working 
capital funds of the Department of Etefense established pursuant to 
section 2208 of title 10, United States Code, may be maintained in 
only such amounts as are necessary at any time for cash disburse-
ments to be made from such funds: Provided, That transfers may be 
made between such funds in such amounts as may be determined by 
the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the Office of Manage-
ment and Budget, except that transfers between a stock fund ac-
count and an industrial fund account may not be made unless the 
Secretary of Defense has notified the Congress of the proposed 
transfer. Except in amounts equal to the amounts appropriated to 
working capital funds in this Act, no obligations may be made 
against a working capital fund to procure war reserve material 
inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the Congress 
prior to any such obligation. 
SEC. 731. Not more than $225,400,000 of the funds appropriated 
by this Act shall be made available for payment to the Federal 
Employees Compensation Fund, as established by 5 U.S.C. 8147. 
SEC. 732. No part of the funds appropriated under this Act shall be 
used to provide a loan, guarantee of a loan, or a grant to any 
applicant who has been convicted by any court of general jurisdic-
tion of any crime which involves the use of or the sissistance to 
others in the use of force, trespass, or the seizure of property under 
control of an institution of higher education to prevent officials or 
students at such an institution from engaging in their duties or 
pursuing their studies. 
SEC. 733. None of the funds available to the Department of 
Defense shall be utilized for the conversion of heating plants from 
coal to oil at defense facilities in Europe. 
SEC. 734. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available for any research involving uninformed or nonvoluntary 
human beings as experimental subjects: Provided, That this limita-
tion shall not apply to measures intended to be beneficial to the 
recipient and consent is obtained from the recipient or a legal 
representative acting on the recipient's behalf. 
SEC. 735. Appropriations for the current fiscal year and hereafter 
for operation and maintenance of the active forces shall be available 
for medical and dental care of personnel entitled thereto by law or 
regulation (including charges of private facilities for care of military 
personnel, except elective private treatment); welfare and recrea-
tion; hire of passenger motor vehicles; repair of facilities; modifica-
tion of personal property; design of vessels; industrial mobilization; 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1445 
installation of equipment in public and private plants; military 
communications facilities on merchant vessels; acquisition of serv-
ices, special clothing, supplies, and equipment; and expenses for the 
Reserve Officers' Training Corps and other units at educational 
institutions. 
SEC. 736. No part of the funds in this Act shall be available to 
prepare or present a request to the Committees on Appropriations 
for reprograming of funds, unless for higher priority items, based 
on unforeseen military requirements, than those for which origi-
nally appropriated and in no case where the item for which repro-
graming is requested has been denied by the Congress. 
SEC. 737. No funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to 
pay claims for nonemergency inpatient hospital care provided under 
the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services 
for services available at a facility of the uniformed services within a 
40-mile radius of the patient's residence: Provided, That the forego-
ing limitation shall not apply to payments that supplement primary 
coverage provided by other insurance plans or programs that pay for 
at least 75 per centum of the covered services. 
SEC. 738. None of the funds contained in this Act available for the 
Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services 
under the provisions of section 1079(a) of title 10, United States 
Code, shall be available for (a) services of pastoral counselors, or 
family and child counselors, or marital counselors unless the patient 
has been referred to such counselor by a medical doctor for treat-
ment of a specific problem with results of that treatment to be 
communicated back to the physician who made such referral; (b) 
special education, except when provided as secondary to the active 
psychiatric treatment on an institutional inpatient basis; (c) therapy 
or counseling for sexual dysfunctions or sexual inadequacies; (d) 
treatment of obesity when obesity is the sole or major condition 
treated; (e) surgery which improves physical appearance but which 
is not expected to significantly restore functions including, but not 
limited to, mammary augmentation, face lifts and sex gender 
changes except that breast reconstructive surgery following mastec-
tomy and reconstructive surgery to correct serious deformities 
caused by congenital anomalies, accidental injuries and neoplastic 
surgery are not excluded; (f) reimbursement of any physician or 
other authorized individual provider of medical care in excess of the 
eightieth percentile of the customary charges made for similar 
services in the same locality where the medical care was furnished, 
as determined for physicians in accordance with section 1079(h) of 
title 10, United States Code; or (g) any service or supply which is not 
medically or psychologically necessary to prevent, di£ignose, or treat 
a mental or physical illness, injury, or bodily malfunction as 
assessed or diagnosed by a physician, dentist, clinical psychologist, 
optometrist, podiatrist, certified nurse-midwife, certified nurse prac-
titioner, or certified clinical social worker, as appropriate, except as 
authorized by section 1079(aX4) of title 10, United States Code: 
Provided, That any changes in availability of funds for the Program 
made in this Act from those in effect prior to its enactment shall be 
effective for care received following enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 739. Appropriations available to the Department of Defense 
for the current fiscal year shall be available to provide an individual 
entitled to health care under chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
Code, with one wig if the individual has alopecia that resulted from 
Reprograming 
of funds. 
Nonemergency 
inpatient 
hospital care. 
Health program, 
limitations. 
10 u s e 1071 et 
seq. 
97 STAT. 1446 
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Unused accrued 
leave. 
Enlisted aides, 
limitation. 
Public affairs 
activities. 
22 u s e 2777. 
22 u s e 2761. 
Senior ROTe 
unit, limitation. 
Lodging 
expenses, 
restriction. 
treatment of malignant disease: Provided, That the individual has 
not previously received a wig from the Government. 
SEC. 740. Funds appropriated in this Act shall be available for the 
appointment, pay, and support of persons appointed as cadets and 
midshipmen in the two-year Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps 
course in excess of the 20 percent limitation on such persons im-
posed by section 2107(a) of title 10, United States Code, but not to 
exceed 60 percent of total authorized scholarships. 
SEC. 741. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to pay any member of the uniformed service for unused 
accrued leave pursuant to section 501 of title 37, United States Code, 
for more than sixty days of such leave, less the number of days for 
which payment was previously made under section 501 after Febru-
ary 9, 1976. 
SEC. 742. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to support more than 300 enlisted aides for officers in the United 
States Armed Forces. 
SEC. 743. No appropriation contained in this Act may be used to 
pay for the cost of public affairs activities of the Department of 
Defense in excess of $34,200,000. 
SEC. 743A. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be 
available for the planning or execution of programs which utilize 
amounts credited to Department of Defense appropriations or funds 
pursuant to the provisions of section 37(a) of the Arms Export 
Control Act representing payment for the actual value of defense 
articles specified in section 21(aKl) of that Act: Provided, That such 
amounts so credited shall be deposited in the Treasury as miscella-
neous receipts as provided in section 3302(b) of title 31, United 
States Code. 
SEC. 744. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available 
to fund any costs of a Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps unit— 
except to complete training of personnel enrolled in Military Sci-
ence 4—which in its junior year class (Military Science 3) has for the 
four preceding academic years, and £is of September 30, 1983, en-
rolled less than (a) seventeen students where the institution pre-
scribes a four-year or a combination four- and two-year program; or 
(b) twelve students where the institution prescribes a two-year 
program: Provided, That, notwithstanding the foregoing limitation, 
funds shall be available to maintain one Senior Reserve Officers' 
Training Corps unit in each State and at each State-operated mari-
time academy: Provided further. That units under the consortium 
system shall be considered as a single unit for purposes of evalua-
tion of productivity under this provision: Provided further, That 
enrollment standards contained in Department of Defense Directive 
1215.8 for Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units, £is revised 
during fiscal year 1981, may be used to determine compliance with 
this provision, in lieu of the standards cited above. 
SEC. 745. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act or 
available in any working capital fund of the Department of Defense 
shall be available to pay the expenses attributable to lodging of any 
person on official business away from his designated post of duty, or 
in the case of an individual described under section 5703 of title 5, 
United States Code, his home or regular place of duty, when ade-
quate Government quarters are available, but are not occupied by 
such person. 
(b) The limitation set forth in subsection (a) is not applicable to 
employees whose duties require official travel in excess of fifty 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1447 
percent of the total number of the basic administrative work weeks 
during the current fiscal year. 
SEC. 746. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to pay the retainer pay of any enlisted member of the 
Regular Navy, the Naval Reserve, the Regular Marine Corps, or the 
Marine Corps Reserve who is transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve under section 6330 of title 10, United 
States Code, on or after December 31, 1977, if the provisions of 
section 6330(d) of title 10, are utilized in determining such member's 
eligibility for retirement under section 6330(b) of title 10: Provided, 
That notwithstanding the foregoing, time creditable as active serv-
ice for a completed minority enlistment, and an enlistment termi-
nated within three months before the end of the term of enlistment 
under section 6330(d) of title 10, prior to December 31,1977, may be 
utilized in determining eligibility for retirement: Provided further. 
That notwithstanding the foregoing, time may be credited as active 
service in determining a member's eligibility for retirement under 
section 6330(b) of title 10 pursuant to the provisions of the first 
sentence of section 6330(d) of title 10 for those members who had 
formally requested transfer to the Fleet Reserve or the Fleet Marine 
Corps Reserve on or before October 1,1977. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to 
pay that portion of the retainer pay of any enlisted member of the 
Regular Navy, the Naval Reserve, the Regular Marine Corps, or the 
Marine Corps Reserve who is transferred to the Fleet Reserve or the 
Fleet Marine Corps Reserve under section 6330 of title 10, United 
States Code, on or after December 31, 1977, which is attributable 
under the second sentence of section 6330(d) of title 10 to time 
which, after December 31, 1977, is not actually served by such 
member. 
SEC. 747. None of the funds appropriated by this Act for 
programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall remain available 
for obligation beyond the current flsc^ year, except for: (a) funds 
appropriated for the Reserve for Contingencies, which shall remain 
available until September 30, 1985; and (b) funds appropriated for 
Headquarters Construction, which shall remain available until Sep-
tember 30,1988. 
SEC. 748. None of the funds provided by this Act may be used to 
pay the salaries of any person or persons who authorize the transfer 
of unobligated and deobligated appropriations into the Reserve for 
Contingencies of the Central Intelligence Agency. 
SEC. 749. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to support more than 9,901 full-time and 2,603 part-time military 
personnel assigned to or used in the support of Morale, Welfare, and 
Recreation activities as described in Department of Defense Instruc-
tion 7000.12 and its enclosures, dated September 4,1980. 
SEC. 750. All obligations incurred in anticipation of the appropri-
ations and authority provided in this Act are hereby ratified and 
confirmed if otherwise in accordance with the provisions of this Act. 
SEC. 751. None of the funds provided by this Act shall be used to 
perform abortions except where the life of the mother would be 
endangered if the fetus were carried to term. 
SEC. 752. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used 
for the provision, care or treatment to dependents of members or 
former members of the Armed Services or the Department of De-
fense for the elective correction of minor dermatological blemishes 
and marks or minor anatomical anomalies. 
Transferred 
enlisted 
members, 
retainer pay. 
CIA programs, 
fiscal year 
funding 
limitation. 
CIA salaries, 
limitation. 
Morale, welfare, 
and recreation 
activities. 
Abortion 
funding, 
restriction. 
97 STAT. 1448 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
Claim payments 
to Federal 
Republic of 
Germany 
Debt recovery 
contracts. 
Procurement 
limitation. 
Foreign military 
and diplomatic 
personnel, 
medical care. 
Second career 
training 
program. 
94 Stat. 1150. 
SEC. 753. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available for the purchase of insignia for resale unless the sales 
price of such insignia is adjusted to the extent necessary to recover 
the cost of purchase of such insignia and the estimated cost of all 
related exj)enses, including but not limited to management, storage, 
handling, transportation, loss, disposal of obsolete material, and 
management fees paid to the military exchange systems: Provided, 
That amounts derived by the adjustment covered by the foregoing 
limitations may be credited to the appropriations against which the 
charges have been made to recover the cost of purchase and related 
expense. 
SEC. 754. None of the funds appropriated by this Act or heretofore 
appropriated by any other Act shall be obligated or expended for the 
payment of anticipatory possession compensation claims to the Fed-
eral Republic of Germany other than claims listed in the 1973 
agreement (commonly referred to as the Global Agreement) between 
the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany. 
SEC. 755. During the current fiscal year the Department of De-
fense may enter into contracts to recover indebtedness to the United 
States pursuant to section 3718 of title 31, United States Code, and 
any such contract entered into by the Department of Defense may 
provide that appropriate fees charged by the contractor under the 
contract to recover indebtedness may be payable from amounts 
collected by the contractor to the extent and under the conditions 
provided under the contract. 
SEC. 755A. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available for a contract for studies, analyses, or consulting services 
entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited 
proposal unless the head of the activity responsible for the procure-
ment determines: 
(a) as a result of thorough technical evaluation, only one 
source is found fully qualified to perform the proposed work, or 
(b) the purpose of the contract is to explore an unsolicited 
proposal which offers significant scientific or technological 
promise, represents the product of original thinking, and was 
submitted in confidence by one source, or 
(c) where the purpose of the contract is to take advantage of 
unique and significant industrial accomplishment by a specific 
concern, or to insure that a new product or idea of a specific 
concern is given financial support: 
Provided, That this limitation shall not apply to contracts in an 
amount of less than $25,000, contracts related to improvements of 
equipment that is in development or production, or contracts as to 
which a civilian official of the Department of Defense, who has been 
confirmed by the Senate, determines that the award of such contract 
is in the interest of the national defense. 
SEC. 756. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to provide medical care in the United States on an inpa-
tient basis to foreign military and diplomatic personnel or their 
dependents unless the Department of Defense is reimbursed for the 
costs of providing such care: Provided, That reimbursements for 
medical care covered by this section shall be credited to the appro-
priations against which charges have been made for providing such 
care. 
SEC. 757. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
obligated for the second career training program authorized by 
Public Law 96-347. 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1449 
SEC. 758. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act shall be obligated or expended for salaries or 
expenses during the current fiscal year for the purposes of demili-
tarization of surplus nonautomatic firearms less than .50 caliber. 
SEC. 759. During the current fiscal year, not to exceed $125,000,000 
of the funds provided in this Act for the Civilian Health and Medical 
Program of the Uniformed Services may be used to conduct a test 
program in accordance with the following guidelines: In carrying 
out the provisions of sections 1079 and 1086 of title 10, United States 
Code, the Secretary of Defense, after consulting with the Secretary 
of Health and Human Services, may contract with organizations 
that assume responsibility for the maintenance of the health of a 
defined population, for the purpose of experiments and demonstra-
tion projects designed to determine the relative advantages and 
disadvantages of providing pre-paid health benefits: Provided, That 
such projects must be designed in such a way as to determine 
methods of reducing the cost of health benefits provided under such 
sections without adversely affecting the quality of care. Except as 
provided otherwise, the provisions of such a contract may deviate 
from the cost-sharing arrangements prescribed and the types of 
health care authorized under sections 1079 and 1086, when the 
Secretary of Defense determines that such a deviation would serve 
the purpose of this section. 
SEC. 760. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be available 
to initiate ( D a multiyear contract that employs economic order 
quantity procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in any one year of the 
contract or that includes an unfunded contingent liability in excess 
of $20,000,000 or (2) a contract for advance procurement leading to a 
multiyear contract that employs economic order quantity procure-
ment in excess of $20,000,000 in any one year, unless the Commit-
tees on Appropriations and Armed Services of the Senate and House 
of Representatives have been notified at least thirty days in advance 
of the proposed contract award: Provided, That no part of any 
appropriation contained in this Act shall be available to initiate 
multiyear procurement contracts for major systems unless specifi-
cally provided herein. For purposes of this provision, a major system 
is defined as a system or major assembly thereof whose eventual 
total expenditure for research, development, test, and evaluation is 
more than $200,000,000, or whose eventual total expenditure for 
procurement is more than $1,000,000,000. 
SEC. 761. None of the funds appropriated by this Act which are 
available for payment of travel allowances for per diem in lieu of 
subsistence to enlisted personnel shall be used to pay such an 
allowance to any enlisted member in an amount that is more than 
the amount of per diem in lieu of subsistence that the enlisted 
member is otherwise entitled to receive minus the basic allowance 
for subsistence, or pro rata portion of such allowance, that the 
enlisted member is entitled to receive during any day, or portion of a 
day, that the enlisted member is also entitled to be paid a per diem 
in lieu of subsistence: Provided, That if an enlisted member is in a 
travel status and is not entitled to receive a per diem in lieu of 
subsistence because the member is furnished meals in a Govern-
ment mess, funds available to pay the basic allowance for subsist-
ence to such a member shall not be used to pay that allowance, or 
pro rata portion of that allowance, for each day, or portion of a day, 
that such enlisted member is furnished meals in a Government 
mess. 
Pre-paid health 
benefits, 
demonstration 
projects. 
Multiyear 
procurement 
contracts, 
limitations. 
Travel 
allowances. 
97 STAT. 1450 
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Retired or 
retainer pay, 
limitation. 
10 u s e 1201 et 
seq. 
10 u s e 1331 et 
seq. 
22 u s e 2761. 
ehild advocacy 
and family 
counseling 
services. 
POMeus 
transportation. 
Transfer of 
military 
equipment or 
data to foreign 
country. 
SEC. 762. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to pay the retired pay or retainer pay of a member of the 
Armed Forces for any month who, on or after January 1, 1982, 
becomes entitled to retired or retainer pay, in an amount that is 
greater than the amount otherwise determined to be payable after 
such reductions as may be necessary to reflect adjusting the compu-
tation of retired pay or retainer pay that includes credit for a part of 
a year of service to permit credit for a part of a year of service only 
for such month or months actually served: Provided, That the 
foregoing limitation shall not apply to any member who before 
January 1, 1982: (a) applied for retirement or transfer to the Fleet 
Reserve or Fleet Marine Corps Reserve; (b) is being processed for 
retirement under the provisions of chapter 61 of title 10 or who is on 
the temporary disability retired list and thereafter retired under the 
provisions of sections 1210 (c) or (d) of title 10; or (c) is retired or in 
an inactive status and would be eligible for retired pay under the 
provisions of chapter 67 of title 10, but for the fact that the person is 
under 60 years of age. 
SEC. 762A. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to approve a request for waiver of the costs otherwise 
required to be recovered under the provisions of section 21(eKl)(C) of 
the Arms Export Control Act unless the Committees on Appropri-
ations have been notified in advance of the proposed waiver. 
SEC. 763. Funds available to the Department of Defense during the 
current fiscal year shall be available to continue a program to 
provide child advocacy and family counseling services to deal with 
problems of child and spouse abuse. 
SEC. 764. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available for the transportation of equipment or materiel designated 
as Prepositioned Materiel Configured in Unit Sets (POMCUS) in 
Europe in excess of four division sets: Provided, That the foregoing 
limitation shall not apply with respect to any item of equipment or 
materiel which is maintained in the inventories of the Active and 
Reserve Forces at levels of at least 70 per centum of the established 
requirements for such an item of equipment or materiel for the 
Active Forces and 50 per centum of the established requirement for 
the Reserve Forces for such an item of equipment or materiel: 
Provided further. That no additional commitments to the establish-
ment of POMCUS sites shall be made without prior approval of 
Congress. 
SEC. 765. (a) None of the funds in this Act may be used to transfer 
any article of military equipment or data related to the manufac-
ture of such equipment to a foreign country prior to the approval in 
writing of such transfer by the Secretary of the military service 
involved. 
(b) No funds appropriated by this Act may be used for the transfer 
of a technical data package from any Government-owned and oper-
ated defense plant manufacturing large caliber cannons to any 
foreign government, nor for assisting any such government in pro-
ducing any defense item currently being manufactured or developed 
in a United 
States Government-owned, 
Government-operated 
defense plant manufacturing large caliber cannons. 
(c) None of the funds in this Act shall be used, in any way, directly 
or indirectly, to sell or otherwise provide the AN/SQR-19 Towed 
Array Sonar to any foreign country, directly or indirectly, including 
any administrative and military and civilian personnel costs in 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1451 
connection with the arrangement of the sale of the AN/SQR-19 
Towed Array Sonar to any foreign country. 
SEC. 766. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be made 
available through transfer, reprograming, or other means for any 
intelligence or special activity different from that previously justi-
fied to the Congress unless the Director of Central Intelligence or 
the Secretary of Defense has notified the House and Senate Appro-
priations Committees of the intent to make such funds available for 
such activity. 
SEC. 767. Of the funds appropriated by this Act for strategic 
programs, the Secretary of Defense shall provide funds for the 
Advanced Technology Bomber program at a level at least equal to 
the amount provided by the committee of conference on this Act in 
order to maintain priority emphasis on this program. 
SEC. 767A. None of the funds available to the Department of 
Defense during the current fiscal year shall be used by the Secretary 
of a military department to purchase coal or coke from foreign 
nations for use at United States defense facilities in Europe when 
coal from the United States is available. 
SEC. 768. None of the funds available to the Department of 
Defense shall be available for the procurement of manual type-
writers which were manufactured by facilities located within States 
which are Signatories to the Warsaw Pact. 
SEC. 769. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used 
to appoint or compensate more than 37 individuals in the Depart-
ment of Defense in positions in the Executive Schedule (as provided 
in sections 5312-5316 of title 5, United States Code). 
SEC. 770. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to convert a position in support of the Army Reserve, Air 
Force Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard 
occupied by, or programed to be occupied by, a military technician 
to a position to be held by a person in an active Guard or Reserve 
status if that conversion would reduce the total number of positions 
occupied by, or programed to be occupied by, military technicians of 
the component concerned, below the number of positions occupied 
by military technicians in that component on September 30, 1982: 
Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to support more than 28,108 positions in support of the 
Army Reserve or Army National Guard X)ccupied by, or programed 
to be occupied by, persons in an active Guard or Reserve status: 
Provided further, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be available to support more than 25,714 positions occupied by, 
or programed to be occupied by, persons in an active Reserve or 
Guard status in support of the Army Reserve or Army National 
Guard after February 1, 1984: Provided further, That none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act may be used to include military 
technicians in computing civilian personnel ceilings, including stat-
utory or administratively imposed ceilings, on activities in support 
of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard or 
Air National Guard. 
SEC. 771. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to 
impose civilian personnel ceilings on Department of Defense indus-
trially funded activities: Provided, That any increase in civilian 
personnel of such industrial funds in excess of the number employed 
on September 30, 1982, shall not be counted for the purposes of any 
statutory or administratively imposed civilian personnel ceiling 
otherwise applicable during fiscal year 1984. 
Intelligence or 
special activity. 
Advanced 
Technology 
Bomber 
program. 
Coal or coke 
purchases. 
Executive 
Schedule 
employees. 
Military 
technicians. 
Civilian 
personnel 
ceilings. 
97 STAT. 1452 
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Transfer of 
funds. 
96 Stat. 1864. 
Foreign 
currency 
exchange rates. 
10 u s e 138 note. 
Nicaraguan 
military or 
paramilitary 
operations. 
Indian labor and 
products. 
Aircraft or 
vehicle leasing. 
Funding 
prohibited to 
influence 
Congress. 
Small business 
bids or offers. 
SEC. 772. Appropriations or funds available to the Department ol 
Defense during the current fiscal year may be transferred to appro-
priations provided in this Act for research, development, test, and 
evaluation to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs 
authorized by or pursuant to law, to be merged with and to be 
available for the same purposes, and the same time period, as the 
appropriation to which transferred. 
SEC. 773. The proviso contained in section 790 of the Department 
of Defense Appropriation Act, 1983, as enacted in Public Law 97-377 
is hereby repealed. 
SEC. 774. During the current fiscal year and subsequent fiscal 
years, for the purposes of the appropriation "Foreign Currency 
Fluctuations, Defense" the foreign currency exchange rates used in 
preparing budget submissions shall be the foreign currency ex-
change rates as adjusted or modified, as reflected in applicable 
Committee reports on this Act. 
SEC. 775. During fiscal year 1984, not more than $24,000,000 of the 
funds available to the Central Intelligence Agency, the Department 
of Defense, or any other agency or entity of the United States 
involved in intelligence activities may be obligated or expended for 
the purpose or which would have the effect of supporting, directly or 
indirectly, military or paramilitary operations in Nicaragua by any 
nation, group, organization, movement, or individual. 
SEC. 775A. SO far as may be practicable, Indian labor shall be 
employed, and purchases of the products of Indian industry may be 
made in open market in the discretion of the Secretary of Defense: 
Provided, That the products must meet pre-set contract specifica-
tions. 
SEC. 776. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used in any way for the leasing to non-Federal agencies in the 
United States aircraft or vehicles owned or operated by the Depart-
ment of Defense when suitable aircraft or vehicles are commercially 
available in the private sector: Provided, That nothing in this 
section shall affect authorized and established procedures for the 
sale of surplus aircraft or vehicles: Provided further, That nothing in 
this section shall prohibit such leasing when specifically authorized 
in a subsequent Act of Congress. 
SEC. 777. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional 
action on any legislation or appropriation matters pending before 
the Congress. 
SEC. 778. No funds available to the Department of Defense during 
the current fiscal year may be used to enter into any contract with a 
term of three years or more, inclusive of any option for contract 
extension or renewal, for any vessels, aircraft or vehicles, through a 
lease, charter, or similar agreement, that imposes an estimated 
termination liability (excluding the estimated value of the leased 
item at the time of termination) on the Government exceeding 50 
per centum of the original purchase value of the vessel, aircraft, or 
vehicle involved for which the Congress has not specifically provided 
authority in an appropriation Act for the obligation of 10 per 
centum of such termination liability. 
SEC. 779. None of the funds appropriated by tnis Act may be 
obligated or expended to formulate or to carry out any requirement 
that, in order to be eligible to submit a bid or an offer on a 
Department of Defense contract to be let for the supply of commer-
cial or commercial-type products, a small business concern (as 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1453 
defined pursuant to section 3 of the Small Business Act) must (1) 
demonstrate that its product is accepted in the commercial market 
(except to the extent that may be required to evidence compliance 
with the Walsh-Healey Public Contracts Act), or (2) satisfy any other 
prequalification to submitting a bid or an offer for the supply of any 
such product. 
SEC. 779A. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may be 
obligated or expended in any way for the purpose of the sale, lease, 
rental, or excessing of any portion of land currently identified as 
Fort DeRussy, Honolulu, Hawaii. 
SEC. 780. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
available to operate in excess of 247 commissaries in the contiguous 
United States. 
SEC. 781. None of the funds provided in this Act shall be used to 
procure aircraft ejection seats manufactured in any foreign nation 
that does not permit United States manufacturers to compete for 
ejection seat procurement requirements in that foreign nation. 
SEC. 782. No more than $203,322,000 of the funds appropriated by 
this Act shall be available for the payment of unemployment com-
pensation benefits. 
SEC. 783. None of the funds appropriated by this Act should be 
obligated for the pay of any individual who is initially employed 
after the date of enactment of this Act as a technician in the 
administration and training of the Army Reserve and the mainte-
nance and repair of supplies issued to the Army Reserve unless such 
individual is also a military member of the Army Reserve troop 
program unit that he or she is employed to support. Those techni-
cians employed by the Army Reserve in areas other than Army 
Reserve troop program units need only be members of the Selected 
Reserve. 
SEC. 784. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Export-
Import Bank of the United States may transfer to the Depart-
ment of the Air Force, specifically for the Air National Guard, if 
requested, without reimbursement, five (")) DC-10 aircraft and 
associated spare parts in the possession of the Bank as a result of a 
default of a borrower from the Bank. 
SEC. 785. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be 
obligated or expended to adjust a base period under section 
1079(hK2) of title 10, United States Code, more frequently than the 
Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. 
SEC. 786. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
available to pay Variable Housing Allowance pursuant to section 
403(a) title 37, United States Code, in amounts that exceed the 
amount of Variable Housing Allowance to which the member would 
otherwise be entitled under section 403(a), title 37, United States 
Code, minus the difference between the amount of Beisic Allowance 
for Quarters such member is receiving and the Basic Allowance for 
Quarters payable to a member of the same rank and grade on 
September 30, 1983. 
SEC. 787. None of the funds available to the Department of 
Defense shall be used to adjust any contract price for amounts set 
forth in any shipbuilding claim, request for equitable adjustment, or 
demand for payment or incurred due to the preparation, submission, 
or adjudication of any such shipbuilding claim, request, or demand 
under a contract entered into after the date of enactment of this 
Act, arising out of events occurring more than eighteen months 
prior to the submission of such shipbuilding claim, request, or 
15 u s e 632. 
41 u s e 85 note. 
Ft. DeRussy, 
Hawaii, land 
restriction. 
Unemployment 
benefit 
payments. 
Army reserve 
technicians. 
Housing 
allowances. 
Shipbuilding 
claims. 
10 u s e 2304 
note. 
97 STAT. 1454 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
41 u s e 605. 
Flat rate per 
diem system. 
DOD 
Dependents 
Schools, 
prohibited 
transfer. 
Ante, p. 692. 
7 u s e 2131 note. 
Housing 
allowances. 
Fairbanks, land 
transfer. 
Weapon system 
procurement. 
10 u s e 2304 
note. 
demand. For the purposes of this Act, the requirement for "submis-
sion" of a shipbuilding claim, request, or demand is met only when 
the certification required in section 6(cX 1) of the Contracts Disputes 
Act of 1978 is provided and the shipbuilding claim, request, or 
demand is fully documented and substantiated in accordance with 
regulations to be promulgated by the Secretary of Defense. 
SEC. 788. Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of 
Defense, the Department of the Air Force, and Defense Logistics 
Agency, may test a flat rate per diem system for military and 
civilian travel allowances: Provided, That per diem allowances paid 
under a fiat rate per diem system shall be in an amount determined 
by the Secretary of Defense to be sufficient to meet normal and 
necessary expenses in the area in which travel is performed, but in 
no event will the travel allowances exceed $75 for each day in travel 
status within the continental United States: Provided further, That 
the test approved under this section shall expire on September 30, 
1985, or upon the effective date of permanent legislation establish-
ing a fiat rate per diem system for military and civilian personnel, 
whichever occurs first. 
SEC. 789. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used 
for the transfer of the Department of Defense Dependents Schools 
(DODDS) to the Department of Education, as prohibited by section 
1228 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1984. 
SEC. 790. No part of the funds appropriated herein shall be 
available for the purchase of more than 50 per centum of the fiscal 
year requirements for aircraft power supply cable assemblies of 
each military facility from industries established pursuant to title 
18, United States Code: Provided, That the restriction contained 
herein shall not apply to small purchases in amounts not exceeding 
$10,000. 
SEC. 791. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used 
to purchase dogs or cats or otherwise fund the use of dogs or cats for 
the purpose of training Department of Defense students or other 
personnel in surgical or other medical treatment of wounds pro-
duced by any type of weapon: Provided, That the standards of such 
training with respect to the treatment of animals shall adhere to the 
Federal Animal Welfare Law and to those prevailing in the civilian 
medical community. 
SEC. 792. Beginning on April 1, 1984, or on the effective date of 
the next adjustment in the General Schedule of compensation for 
Federal classified employees, whichever occurs first, none of the 
funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to pay Variable 
Housing Allowance to a member pursuant to section 403(a), title 37, 
United States Code, in an amount that exceeds the difference 
between $800 and the amount of Basic Allowance for Quarters such 
member receives pursuant to section 403, title 37, United States 
Code, in the case of members with dependents, or the difference 
between $600 and the amount of Basic Allowance for Quarters such 
member receives pursuant to section 403, title 37, United States 
Code, in the case of a member without dependents. 
SEC. 793. The land and building located on the parce. described as 
lot four (4), block four (4), Fairbanks Original Townsite, section 10 
townsite 1 south, range 1 west, Fairbanks meridian, shall be trans-
ferred to the city of Fairbanks. 
SEC. 794. (a) Except as otherwise provided in this section, none of 
the funds appropriated by this or any other Act may be obligated or 
expended for the procurement of a weapon system unless the orime 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1455 
contractor or other contractors for such system provides the United 
States with written guarantees— 
(1) that the system and each component thereof were designed 
and manufactured so as to conform to the Government's per-
formance requirements as specifically delineated (A) in the 
production contract, or (B) in any other agreement relating to 
the production of such system entered into by the United States 
and the contractor; 
(2) that the system and each component thereof, at the time 
they are provided to the United States, are free from all defects 
(in materials and workmanship) which would cause the system 
to fail to conform to the Government's performance require-
ments as specifically delineated (A) in the production contract, 
or (B) in any other agreement relating to the production of such 
system entered into by the United States and the contractor; 
and 
(3) that, in the event of a failure of the weapon system or a 
component to meet the conditions specified in clauses (1) and 
(2)-
(A) the contractor will bear the cost of all work promptly 
to repair or replace such parts as are necessary to achieve 
the required performance requirements; or 
(B) if the contractor fails to repair or replace such parts 
promptly, as determined by the Secretary of Defense, the 
contractor will pay the costs incurred by the United States 
in procuring such parts from another source. 
(b) A written guarantee provided pursuant to subsection (a) shall 
not apply in the case of any weapon system or component thereof 
which has been furnished by the Government to a contractor. 
(c) The Secretary of Defense may waive the requirements of 
subsection (a) in the case of a weapon system if the Secretary— 
(1) determines that the waiver is necessary in the interest of 
the national defense or would not be cost-effective; and 
(2) notifies the Committees on Armed Services and Appropri-
ations of the Senate and the House of Representatives in writ-
ing of his intention to waive such requirements with respect to 
such weapon system and includes in the notice an explanation 
of the reasons for the waiver. 
(d) The requirements for written guarantees provided in subsec-
tion (a) hereof shall apply only to contracts which are awarded after 
the date of enactment of this Act and shall not cover combat 
damage. 
SEC. 795. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be 
obligated under the competitive rate program of the Department of 
Defense for the transportation of household goods to or from Alaska 
and Hawaii. 
SEC. 796. No funds appropriated for the Departments of Defense, 
Army, Navy, or the Air Force shall be obligated by their respective 
Secretaries for architectural and engineering services and con-
struction design contracts for Military Construction 
projects 
in the amount of $85,000 and over, unless competition for such 
contracts is open to all firms regardless of size in accordance with 
40U.S.C. §541, etseq. 
SEC. 797. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be 
used to initiate full-scale engineering development of any major 
defense acquisition program until the Secretary of Defense has 
Waiver. 
Notification to 
congressional 
committees. 
Alaska and 
Hawaii, 
household goods 
transportation. 
Military 
construction 
contracts. 
10 u s e 2807 
note. 
Certification or 
plan submittal to 
Congress. 
97 STAT. 1456 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
Federal Contract 
Research 
Centers. 
Expiration date. 
McNeil Island 
Federal 
Penitentiary, 
Wash., transfer. 
Ante, p. 1423. 
Ante, p. 639. 
U.S. troops in 
Lebanon and 
Grenada, free 
mailing 
privileges. 
Countries with 
illicit drug 
activities, 
restriction. 
provided to the Committees on Appropriations of the House and 
Senate— 
(a) a certification that the system or subsystem being devel-
oped will be procured in quantities that are not sufficient to 
warrant development of two or more production sources, or 
(b) a plan for the development of two or more sources for the 
production of the system or subsystem being developed. 
SEC. 798. Funds appropriated by this Act shall be available for 
such studies and analyses contracts with federally established non-
profit corporations which operate Federal Contract Research Cen-
ters as the Secretary of Defense may determine in accordance with 
procedures in effect on June 1, 1983, notwithstanding any other 
provisions of law: Provided, That this section shall expire on April 
30,1984. 
SEC. 799. It is the sense of the Congress that the Secretary of 
Defense should formulate and carry out a program under which 
contracts awarded by the Department of Defense in fiscal year 1984 
would, to the maximum extent practicable and consistent with 
existing law, be awarded to contractors who agree to carry out such 
contracts in labor surplus areas (as defined and identified by the 
Department of Labor). 
SEC. 799A. The Administrator of General Services shall transfer to 
the State of Washington for educational correctional facility use and 
in accordance with provisions of law relating to the disposal of 
Federal property, that part of the real property, including all 
improvements and related personal property thereon, which was 
administered by the Department of Justice, located in Pierce 
County, Washington, known as the former McNeil Island Federal 
Penitentiary. Such transfer shall not include that part of McNeil 
Island comprising the wildlife refuge area. 
SEC. 799B. Within the funds made available under title III of this 
Act, the military departments may use such funds as necessary, but 
not to exceed $2,300,000, to carry out the provisions of section 430 of 
title 37, United States Code. 
SEC. 799C. Within funds available under title III of this Act, 
the Department of Defense shall provide free mailing privileges to 
members of the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to duty 
as part of the multinational peacekeeping force in Lebanon and to 
members of the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to dutv 
in Grenada in the same manner and to the same extent such 
privileges would be accorded under section 3401 of title 39, United 
States Code, to members of the Armed Forces of the United States 
serving on active duty in an overseas area, as designated by the 
President, when the Armed Forces of the United States are engaged 
in military operations involving armed conflict with a hostile for-
eign force. 
SEC. 799D. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available under this Act may be available for any country during 
any three-month period beginning on or after November 1, 1983, 
immediately following a certification by the President to the Con-
gress that the government of such country is failing to take adequate 
measures to prevent narcotic drugs or other controlled sub-
stances (as listed in the schedules in section 202 of the Comprehen-
sive Drug Abuse and Prevention Control Act of 1971 (21 U.S.C. 812)/ 
which are cultivated, produced, or processed illicitly, in wnole or in 
part, in such country, or transported through such country from 
being sold illegally within the jurisdiction of such country to United 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
97 STAT. 1457 
States Government personnel or their dependents or from entering 
the United States unlawfully. 
SEC. 799E. Within funds available under title III of this Act, but 
not to exceed $100,000, and under such regulations as the Secretary 
of Defense may prescribe, the Department of Defense may, in 
addition to allowances currently available, make payments for 
travel and transportation expenses of the surviving spouse, children, 
parents, and brothers and sisters of any member of the Armed 
Forces of the United States, who dies as the result of an injury or 
disease incurred in line of duty to attend the funeral of such 
member in any case in which the funeral of such member is more 
than 200 miles from the residence of the surviving spouse, children, 
parents or brothers and sisters, if such spouse, children, parents or 
brothers and sisters, as the case may be, are financially unable to pay 
their own travel and transportation expenses to attend the funeral 
of such member. 
SEC. 799F. (a) Not later than June 1, 1984, the Office of Federal 
Procurement Policy (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 
"Office") shall review the procurement practices, regulations, and 
reform proposals and programs of the Department of Defense relat-
ing to the procurement of spare parts for weapon systems and shall 
transmit to the Congress a report on the findings, conclusions, and 
recommendations of the Office relating to such matters. The report 
shall include (1) an evaluation of the adequacy of the reform propos-
als and programs to promote practices and the development of 
directives which will achieve control of costs, economy, and effi-
ciency in the procurement of such spare parts and (2) such recom-
mendations for legislation with respect to the procurement of such 
spare parts as the Office considers appropriate. 
(bXD The Secretary of Defense shall furnish to the Office such 
information on the practices, regulations, and reform proposals and 
programs of the Department of Defense relating to the procurement 
of spare parts for weapon systems as the Office considers necessary 
to carry out subsection (a). 
(2) The Inspector General of the Department of Defense shall 
furnish to the Office such information on the practices of the 
Department of Defense in procuring spare parts for weapon systems 
as the Inspector General acquires during his audits of such practices 
and the Office considers necessary to carry out subsection (a). 
(c) The Inspector General of the Department of Defense shall have 
reasonable opportunity to review and comment on the report 
required by subsection (a) before the report is transmitted to the 
Congress. The comments of the Inspector General shall be included 
in such report. 
SEC. 799G. It is the sense of the Congress that competition, which 
is necessary to enhance innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency, and 
which has served our Nation so well in other spheres of political and 
economic endeavor, should be expanded and increased in the provi-
sion of our national defense. 
SEC. 799H. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, no 
funds appropriated by this Act shall be expended for the research, 
development, test, evaluation or procurement for integration of a 
nuclear warhead into the Joint Tactical Missile System (JTACMS). 
Surviving family 
members, 
funeral 
transportation 
expenses. 
Ante, p. 1423. 
Weapon systems, 
spare-parts 
procurement 
review. 
Report to 
Congress. 
Joint Tactical 
Missile System, 
prohibition. 
97 STAT. 1458 
PUBLIC LAW 98-212—DEC. 8, 1983 
TITLE VIII 
RELATED AGENCIES 
INTELUGENCE COMMUNITY STAFF 
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community Staff; 
$17,323,000. 
CENTRAL INTELUGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY 
SYSTEM FUND 
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and 
Disability System Fund, to maintain proper funding level for con-
tinuing the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement 
and Disability System; $86,300,000. 
Short title. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropri-
ation Act, 1984". 
Approved December 8, 1983. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 4185 (S. 2039): 
HOUSE REPORTS: No. 98-427 (Comm. on Appropriations) and No. 98-567 (Comm. of 
SENATE REPORT No. 98-292 accompanying S. 2039 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 129 (1983): 
Oct. 25, 26, Nov. 1, 2, considered and passed House. 
Nov. 3, 4, 7, 8, considered and passed Senate, amended. 
Nov. 18, House agreed to conference report; concurred in certain amendments 
and in others with amendments; Senate agreed to conference report; con-
curred in House amendments.