Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1998
PL 105-56 (H.R.2266), enacted 10/08/1997

PUBLIC LAW 105-56—OCT. 8, 1997 
111 STAT. 1203 
*Public Law 105-56 
105th Congress 
An Act 
Making appropriations for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending 
Oct. 8, 1997 
September 30, 1998, and for other purposes. 
[H.R. 2266] 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives 
of 
the United States of America 
in Congress assembled, That the Department of 
following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury Defense 
not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending September Act'™l98**^°'^ 
30, 1998, for military functions administered by the Department 
' 
of Defense, and for other purposes, namely: 
TITLE I 
MILITARY PERSONNEL 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest 
on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (includ-
ing all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and 
expenses of temporary duty travel between permanent duty sta-
tions, for members of the Army on active duty (except members 
of reserve components provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation 
cadets; and for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 
97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), to section 229(b) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), and to the Department 
of Defense Military Retirement Fund; $20,452,057,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest 
on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (includ-
ing all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and 
expenses of temporary duty travel between permanent duty sta-
tions, for members of the Navy on active duty (except members 
of the Reserve provided for elsewhere), midshipmen, and aviation 
cadets; and for payments pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 
97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), to section 229(b) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), and to the Department 
of Defense Military Retirement Fund; $16,493,518,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, MARINE CORPS 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest 
on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (includ-
ing all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and 
*Note: This law contains items that were cancelled by the President pursuant to the Line 
Item Veto Act. For more information, see the Federal Register entry under "LEGISLATIVE 
HISTORY" at the end of this law. 
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expenses of temporary duty travel between permanent duty sta-
tions, for members of the Marine Corps on active duty (except 
members of the Reserve provided for elsewhere); and for payments 
pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 97-377, as amended (42 
U.S.C. 402 note), to section 229(b) of the Social Security Act (42 
U.S.C. 429(b)), and to the Department of Defense Military Retire-
ment Fund; $6,137,899,000. 
MILITARY PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, individual clothing, subsistence, interest 
on deposits, gratuities, permanent change of station travel (includ-
ing all expenses thereof for organizational movements), and 
expenses of temporary duty travel between permanent duty sta-
tions, for members of the Air Force on active duty (except members 
of reserve components provided for elsewhere), cadets, and aviation 
cadets; and for pa)niients pursuant to section 156 of Public Law 
97-377, as amended (42 U.S.C. 402 note), to section 229(b) of 
the Social Security Act (42 U.S.C. 429(b)), and to the Department 
of Defense Military Retirement Fund; $17,102,120,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, ARMY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, 
and related expenses for personnel of the Army Reserve on active 
duty under sections 10211, 10302, and 3038 of title 10, United 
States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 12301(d) 
of title 10, United States Code, in connection with performing 
duty specified in section 12310(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 16131 
of title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the Department 
of Defense Military Retirement Fund; $2,032,046,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, NAVY 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, 
and related expenses for personnel of the Navy Reserve on active 
duty under section 10211 of title 10, United States Code, or while 
serving on active duty under section 12301(d) of title 10, United 
States Code, in connection with performing duty specified in section 
12310(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 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and 
for payments to the Department of Defense Military Retirement 
Fund; $1,376,601,000. 
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 10211 of title 10, United States Code, 
or while serving on active duty under section 12301(d) of title 
10, United States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going reserve training, or while performing drills or equivalent 
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111 STAT. 1205 
duty, and for members of the Marine Corps platoon leaders class, 
and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10, United States 
Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense Military 
Retirement Fund; $391,770,000. 
RESERVE PERSONNEL, AIR FORCE 
For pay, allowances, clothing, subsistence, gratuities, travel, 
and related expenses for personnel of the Air Force Reserve on 
active duty under sections 10211, 10305, and 8038 of title 10, 
United States Code, or while serving on active duty under section 
12301(d) of title 10, United States Code, in connection with perform-
ing duty specified in section 12310(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 16131 of title 10, United States Code; and for payments 
to the Department of Defense 
Military 
Retirement 
Fund; 
$815,915,000. 
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 section 10211, 10302, or 12402 of title 10 
or section 708 of title 32, United States Code, or while serving 
on duty under section 12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of 
title 32, United States Code, in connection with performing duty 
specified in section 12310(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 16131 of 
title 10, United States Code; and for payments to the Department 
of Defense Military Retirement Fund; $3,333,867,000. 
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 section 10211, 10305, or 12402 of title 10 or section 
708 of title 32, United States Code, or while serving on duty 
under section 12301(d) of title 10 or section 502(f) of title 32, 
United States Code, in connection with performing duty specified 
in section 12310(a) of title 10, United States Code, or while under-
going training, or while performing drills or equivalent duty or 
other duty, and expenses authorized by section 16131 of title 10, 
United States Code; and for payments to the Department of Defense 
Military Retirement Fund; $1,334,712,000. 
TITLE II 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of the Army, as authorized by law; 
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and not to exceed $11,437,000 can be used for emergencies and 
extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority 
of the Secretary of the Army, and payments may be made on 
his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes; 
$16,754,306,000 and, in addition, $50,000,000 shall be derived by 
transfer from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund: 
Provided, That of the funds appropriated in this paragraph, not 
less than $300,000,000 shall be made available only for conventional 
ammunition care and maintenance. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, NAVY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of the Navy and the Marine Corps, 
as authorized by law; and not to exceed $5,500,000 can be used 
for emergencies and extraordinary expenses, to be expended on 
the approval or authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and pay-
ments may be made on his certificate of necessity for confidential 
military purposes; $21,617,766,000 and, in addition, $50,000,000 
shall be derived by transfer from the National Defense Stockpile 
Transaction Fund. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of the Marine Corps, as authorized 
by law; $2,372,635,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of the Air Force, as authorized by law; 
and not to exceed $8,362,000 can be used for emergencies and 
extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority 
of the Secretary of the Air Force, and pa3anents may be made 
on his certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes; 
$18,492,883,000 and, in addition, $50,000,000 shall be derived by 
transfer from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance of activities and agencies of the Depart-
ment of Defense (other than the military departments), as author-
ized by law; $10,369,740,000, of which not to exceed $25,000,000 
may be available for the CINC initiative fund account; and of 
which not to exceed $28,850,000 can be used for emergencies and 
extraordinary expenses, to be expended on the approval or authority 
of the Secretary of Defense, and pajrments may be made on his 
certificate of necessity for confidential military purposes. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, ARMY RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance, including training, organization, and 
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111 STAT. 1207 
administration, 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; $1,207,891,000. 
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; $921,711,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, MARINE CORPS RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance, including training, organization, and 
administration, of the Marine Corps Reserve; repair of facilities 
and equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and 
transportation; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, 
supplies, and equipment; and communications; $116,366,000. 
OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, AIR FORCE RESERVE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
operation and maintenance, including training, organization, and 
administration, of the Air Force Reserve; repair of facilities and 
equipment; hire of passenger motor vehicles; travel and transpor-
tation; care of the dead; recruiting; procurement of services, 
supplies, and equipment; and communications; $1,632,030,000. 
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, oper-
ation, 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, 
regimental, and battalion commanders while inspecting units in 
compliance with National Guard Bureau regulations when specifi-
cally 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); $2,419,632,000: Pro-
vided, That not later than March 15, 1998, the Director of the Reports. 
Army National Guard shall provide a report to the congressional 
defense committees identifying the allocation, by installation and 
activity, of all base operations funds appropriated under this head-
ing. 
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 
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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 
compliance with National Guard Bureau regulations when specifi-
cally 
authorized 
by 
the 
Chief, 
National 
Guard 
Bureau; 
$3,013,282,000. 
OVERSEAS CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS TRANSFER FUND 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For expenses directly relating to Overseas Contingency Oper-
ations by United States military forces; $1,884,000,000: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds only to 
operation and maintenance accounts within this title, and working 
capital funds: Provided further, That the funds transferred shall 
be merged with and shall be available for the same purposes and 
for the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred: 
Provided further. That the transfer authority provided in this para-
graph is in addition to any other transfer authority contained 
elsewhere in this Act. 
UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE ARMED FORCES 
For salaries and expenses necessary for the United States 
Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces; $6,952,000, of which not 
to exceed $2,500 can be used for official representation purposes. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, ARMY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Army, $375,337,000, to remain 
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required for 
environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous 
waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department 
of the Army, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made 
available by this appropriation to other appropriations made avail-
able to the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to 
be available for the same purposes and for the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further. That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred 
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation: 
Provided further. That not more than twenty-five per centum of 
funds provided under this heading may be obligated for environ-
mental remediation by the Corps of Engineers under total environ-
mental remediation contracts. 
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111 STAT. 1209 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, NAVY 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Navy, $275,500,000, to remain avail-
able until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the Navy 
shall, upon determining that such funds are required for environ-
mental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous waste, 
removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department of the 
Navy, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available 
by this appropriation to other appropriations made available to 
the Department of the Navy, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further, That upon 
a determination that all or part of the funds transferred from 
this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, AIR FORCE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Air Force, $376,900,000, to remain 
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Air Force shall, upon determining that such funds are required 
for environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous 
waste, removal of unsEife buildings and debris of the Department 
of the Air Force, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made 
available by this appropriation to other appropriations made avail-
able to the Department of the Air Force, to be merged with and 
to be available for the same purposes and for the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further. That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred 
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation. 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, DEFENSE-WIDE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of Defense, $26,900,000, to remain avail-
able until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense 
shall, upon determining that such funds are required for environ-
mental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous waste, 
removal of unsafe buildings and debris of the Department of 
Defense, or for similar purposes, transfer the funds made available 
by this appropriation to other appropriations made available to 
the Department of Defense, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same purposes and for the same time period as the 
appropriations to which transferred: Provided further. That upon 
a determination that all or part of the funds transferred from 
this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation. 
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ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION, FORMERLY USED DEFENSE SITES 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For the Department of the Army, $242,300,000, to remain 
available until transferred: Provided, That the Secretary of the 
Army shall, upon determining that such funds are required for 
environmental restoration, reduction and recycling of hazardous 
waste, removal of unsafe buildings and debris at sites formerly 
used by the Department of Defense, transfer the funds made avail-
able by this appropriation to other appropriations made available 
to the Department of the Army, to be merged with and to be 
available for the same purposes and for the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred: Provided further. That 
upon a determination that all or part of the funds transferred 
from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided 
herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation. 
OVERSEAS HUMANITARIAN, DISASTER, AND CIVIC AID 
For expenses relating to the Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, 
and Civic Aid programs of the Department of Defense (consisting 
of the programs provided under sections 401, 402, 404, 2547, and 
2551 of title 10, United States Code); $47,130,000, to remain avail-
able until September 30, 1999. 
FORMER SOVIET UNION THREAT REDUCTION 
For assistance to the republics of the former Soviet Union, 
including assistance provided by contract or by grants, for facilitat-
ing the elimination and the safe and secure transportation and 
storage of nuclear, chemical and other weapons; for establishing 
programs to prevent the proliferation of weapons, weapons compo-
nents, and weapon-related technology and expertise; for programs 
relating to the training and support of defense and military 
personnel for demilitarization and protection of weapons, weapons 
components and weapons technology and expertise; $382,200,000, 
to remain available until September 30, 2000: Provided, That of 
the amounts provided under this heading, $35,000,000 shall be 
available only to support the dismantling and disposal of nuclear 
submarines and submarine reactor components in the Russian Far 
East: Provided further. That of the amounts provided under this 
heading, $5,000,000 shall be available only for the Arctic Military 
Environmental Cooperation Program. 
QUALITY OF LIFE ENHANCEMENTS, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, resulting from 
unfunded shortfalls in the repair and maintenance of real property 
of the Department of Defense (including military housing and bar-
racks); $360,000,000, for the maintenance of real property of the 
Department of Defense (including minor construction and major 
maintenance and repair), which shall remain available for obligation 
until September 30, 1999, as follows: 
Army, $100,000,000; 
Navy, $70,000,000; 
Marine Corps, $45,000,000; and 
Air Force, $145,000,000. 
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111 STAT. 1211 
TITLE III 
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, for the foregoing 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $1,346,317,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
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, for the foregoing 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $762,409,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
PROCUREMENT OF WEAPONS AND TRACKED COMBAT VEHICLES, 
ARMY 
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, for the foregoing purposes, and 
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $1,298,707,000, to remain available for obliga-
tion until September 30, 2000. 
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United 
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired. 
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and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $1,037,202,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, ARMY 
For construction, procurement, production, and modification 
of vehicles, including tactical, support, and non-tracked combat 
vehicles; communications and electronic equipment; other support 
equipment; spare parts, ordnance, and accessories therefor; special-
ized equipment and training devices; expansion of public and private 
plants, including the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $2,679,130,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
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, may be acquired, and 
construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; and 
procurement 
and installation 
of equipment, appliances, 
and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and 
Government 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; 
$6,535,444,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000. 
WEAPONS PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
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; and 
procurement 
and installation 
of equipment, appliances, 
and 
machine tools in public and private plants; reserve plant and 
Government 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; 
$1,102,193,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, NAVY AND MARINE CORPS 
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United 
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing 
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111 STAT. 1213 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $397,547,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for the construction, acquisition, or 
conversion of vessels as authorized by law, including armor and 
armament thereof, plant equipment, appliances, and machine tools 
and installation thereof in public and private plants; reserve plant 
and 
Grovernment 
and 
contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; 
procurement 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 follows: 
For continuation of the SSN-21 attack submarine program, 
$153,444,000; 
NSSN, $2,314,903,000; 
NSSN (AP), $284,859,000; 
CVN-77 (AP), $50,000,000; 
CVN Refuehngs, $1,615,003,000; 
CVN Refuelings (AP), $46,855,000; 
DDG-51 destroyer program, $3,411,200,000; 
DDG-51 destroyer program (AP), $157,806,000; 
LPD-17 
amphibious 
transport 
dock 
ship 
(AP), 
$100,000,000; 
Oceanographic ship program (AP), $16,000,000; 
LCAC landing craft air cushion program, $20,000,000; and 
For craft, outfitting, post delivery, conversions, and first 
destination transportation, $137,521,000; 
In all: $8,235,591,000, to remain available for obligation until 
September 30, 2002: Provided, That additional obligations may 
be incurred after September 30, 2002, for engineering services, 
tests, evaluations, and other such budgeted work that must be 
performed in the final stage of ship construction: Provided further. 
That none of the funds provided under this heading for the construc-
tion or conversion of any naval vessel to be constructed in shipyards 
in the United States shall be expended in foreign facilities for 
the construction of major components of such vessel: Provided fur-
ther. That none of the funds provided under this heading shall 
be used for the construction of any naval vessel in foreign shipyards. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, NAVY 
For procurement, production, and modernization of support 
equipment and materials not otherwise provided for. Navy ordnance 
(except ordnance for new aircraft, new ships, and ships authorized 
for conversion); the purchase of not to exceed 194 passenger motor 
vehicles for replacement only; and the purchase of one vehicle 
required for physical security of personnel, notwithstanding price 
limitations applicable to passenger vehicles but not to exceed 
$232,340 per vehicle; expansion of public and private plants, includ-
ing the land necessary therefor, and such lands and interests 
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therein, may be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior 
to approval of title; and procurement and installation of equipment, 
appliances, and machine tools in public and private plants; reserve 
plant and Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; 
$3,144,205,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000. 
PROCUREMENT, MARINE CORPS 
For expenses necessary for the procurement, manufacture, and 
modification of missiles, armament, military equipment, spare 
parts, and accessories therefor; plant equipment, appliances, and 
machine tools, and installation thereof in public and private plants; 
reserve plant and Grovemment and contractor-owned equipment 
layaway; vehicles for the Marine Corps, including the purchase 
of not to exceed 40 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; 
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; 
$482,398,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000. 
AIRCRAFT PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
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, for 
the foregoing purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may 
be acquired, and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval 
of title; reserve plant and Government and contractor-owned 
equipment layaway; and other expenses necessary for the foregoing 
purposes 
including 
rents 
and 
transportation 
of 
things; 
$6,480,983,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000: Provided, That of the funds made available under this 
heading, $331,000,000 shall be available for long lead activities 
related to the procurement of additional B-2 bombers: Provided 
further. 
That if the President determines that no additional 
B-2 bombers should be procured during this fiscal year, and he 
certifies to the Congress his decision, the funding described in 
the previous proviso shall be made available to modify and repair 
the existing fleet of B-2 bombers. 
MISSILE PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
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, for the foregoing purposes, and 
such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, and construction 
prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; reserve plant and 
Government and contractor-owned equipment layaway; and other 
expenses necessary for the foregoing purposes including rents and 
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111 STAT. 1215 
transportation of things; $2,394,202,000, to remain available for 
obligation until September 30, 2000. 
PROCUREMENT OF AMMUNITION, AIR FORCE 
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 by section 2854 of title 10, United 
States Code, and the land necessary therefor, for the foregoing 
purposes, and such lands and interests therein, may be acquired, 
and construction prosecuted thereon prior to approval of title; 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; $398,534,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
OTHER PROCUREMENT, AIR FORCE 
For procurement and modification of equipment (including 
ground guidance and electronic control equipment, and ground elec-
tronic and communication equipment), and supplies, materials, and 
spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; the purchase of 
not to exceed 196 passenger motor vehicles for replacement only; 
the purchase of one vehicle required for physical security of person-
nel, notwithstanding price limitations applicable to passenger 
vehicles but not to exceed $232,340 per vehicle; and expansion 
of public and private plants. Government-owned 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; reserve plant and Government 
and contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; $6,592,909,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
PROCUREMENT, DEFENSE-WIDE 
For expenses of activities and agencies of the Department of 
Defense (other than the military departments) necessary for 
procurement, production, and modification of equipment, supplies, 
materials, and spare parts therefor, not otherwise provided for; 
the purchase of not to exceed 381 passenger motor vehicles for 
replacement only; expansion of public and private plants, equip-
ment, 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; reserve plant and Government 
and contractor-owned 
equipment 
layaway; $2,106,444,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 2000. 
NATIONAL GUARD AND RESERVE EQUIPMENT 
For procurement of aircraft, missiles, tracked combat vehicles, 
ammunition, other weapons, and other procurement for the reserve 
components of the Armed Forces; $653,000,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 2000: Provided, That the Chiefs 
of the Reserve and National Guard components shall, not later 
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than 30 days after the enactment of this Act, individually submit 
to the congressional defense committees the modernization priority 
assessment for their respective Reserve or National Guard compo-
nent. 
TITLE IV 
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, 
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 
$5,156,507,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1999. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, NAVY 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, 
test 
and 
evaluation, 
including 
maintenance, 
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 
$8,115,686,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1999: Provided, That funds appropriated in this paragraph 
which are available for the V-22 may be used to meet unique 
requirements of the Special Operations Forces. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, AIR FORCE 
For expenses necessary for basic and applied scientific research, 
development, 
test 
and 
evaluation, 
including 
maintenance, 
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 
$14,507,804,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1999: Provided, That of the funds made available in this para-
graph, $4,000,000 shall be only for development of coal-derived 
jet fuel technologies. 
RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE-WIDE 
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, 
rehabilitation, lease, and operation of facilities and equipment; 
$9,821,760,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1999: Provided, That not less than $409,898,000 of the funds 
appropriated in this paragraph shall be made available only for 
the Sea-Based Wide Area Defense (Navy Upper-Tier) Program: 
Provided further, That funds appropriated for the Dual-Use Applica-
tions Program under section 5803 of the Treasury, Postal Service, 
and General Government Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 
104-208), shall remain available for obligation until September 
30, 1998. 
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111 STAT. 1217 
DEVELOPMENTAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, of independent activi-
ties of the Director, Test and Evaluation in the direction and 
supervision 
of developmental 
test 
and 
evaluation, 
including 
performance and joint developmental testing and evaluation; and 
administrative expenses in connection therewith; $258,183,000, to 
remain available for obligation until September 30, 1999. 
OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
independent activities of the Director, Operational Test and 
Evaluation in the direction and supervision of operational test 
and evaluation, including initial operational test and evaluation 
which is conducted prior to, and in support of, production decisions; 
joint operational testing and evaluation; and 
administrative 
expenses in connection therewith; $31,384,000, to remain available 
for obligation until September 30, 1999. 
TITLE V 
REVOLVING AND MANAGEMENT FUNDS 
DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS 
For the Defense Working Capital Funds; $971,952,000. 
NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND 
For National Defense Sealift Fund programs, projects, and 
activities, and for expenses of the National Defense Reserve Fleet, 
as established by section 11 of the Merchant Ship Sales Act of 
1946 (50 U.S.C. App. 1744); $1,074,948,000, to remain available 
until expended: Provided, That none of the funds provided in this 
paragraph shall be used to award a new contract that provides 
for the acquisition of any of the following major components unless 
such components are manufactured in the United States: auxiliary 
equipment, including pumps, for all shipboard services; propulsion 
system components (that is; engines, reduction gears, and propel-
lers); shipboard cranes; and spreaders for shipboard cranes: Pro-
vided further. That the exercise of an option in a contract awarded 
through the obligation of previously appropriated funds shall not 
be considered to be the award of a new contract: Provided further. 
That the Secretary of the military department responsible for such 
procurement may waive these restrictions on a case-by-case basis 
by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations of 
the House of Representatives and the Senate, that adequate domes-
tic supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense 
requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition must 
be made in order to acquire capability for national security pur-
poses. 
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TITLE VI 
OTHER DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PROGRAMS 
DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAM 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, for medical and health 
care programs of the Department of Defense, as authorized by 
law; $10,369,075,000, of which $10,095,007,000 shall be for Oper-
ation and maintenance, of which not to exceed two per centum 
shall remain available until September 30, 1999, and of which 
$274,068,000, to remain available for obligation until September 
30, 2000, shall be for Procurement. 
CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS DESTRUCTION, DEFENSE 
For expenses, not otherwise provided for, necessary for the 
destruction of the United States stockpile of lethal chemical agents 
and munitions in accordance with the provisions of section 1412 
of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 
1521), and for the destruction of other chemical warfare materials 
that are not in the chemical weapon stockpile, $600,700,000, of 
which $462,200,000 shall be for Operation and maintenance, 
$72,200,000 shall be for Procurement to remain available until 
September 30, 2000, and $66,300,000 shall be for Research, develop-
ment, test and evaluation to remain available until September 
30, 1999: Provided, That of the funds available under this heading, 
$1,000,000 shall be available until expended each year only for 
a Johnston Atoll off-island leave program: Provided further. That 
the Secretaries concerned shall, pursuant to uniform regulations, 
prescribe travel and transportation allowances for travel by partici-
pants in the off-island leave program. 
DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG ACTIVITIES, DEFENSE 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Depart-
ment of Defense, for transfer to appropriations available to the 
Department of Defense for military personnel of the reserve compo-
nents serving under the provisions of title 10 and title 32, United 
States Code; for Operation and maintenance; for Procurement; and 
for Research, development, test and evaluation; $712,882,000: Pro-
vided, That the funds appropriated under this head shall be avail-
able for obligation for the same time period and for the same 
purpose as the appropriation to which transferred: Provided further. 
That the transfer authority provided in this paragraph is in addition 
to any transfer authority contained elsewhere in this Act. 
OFFICE OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL 
For expenses and activities of the Office of the Inspector Gen-
eral in carrying out the provisions of the Inspector General Act 
of 1978, as amended; $138,380,000, of which $136,580,000 shall 
be for Operation and maintenance, of which not to exceed $500,000 
is available for emergencies and extraordinary expenses to be 
expended on the approval or authority of the Inspector General, 
and payments may be made on his certificate of necessity for 
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111 STAT. 1219 
confidential military purposes; and of which $1,800,000, to remain 
available until September 30, 2000, shall be for Procurement. 
TITLE VII 
RELATED AGENCIES 
CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY RETIREMENT AND DISABILITY 
SYSTEM FUND 
For payment to the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement 
and Disability System Fund, to maintain proper funding level for 
continuing the operation of the Central Intelligence Agency Retire-
ment and Disability System; $196,900,000. 
INTELLIGENCE COMMUNITY MANAGEMENT ACCOUNT 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
For necessary expenses of the Intelligence Community Manage-
ment Account; $121,080,000, of which $39,011,000 for the Advanced 
Research and Development Committee and the Environmental 
Intelligence and Applications Program shall remain available until 
September 30, 1999: Provided, That of the funds appropriated under 
this heading, $27,000,000 shall be transferred to the Department 
of Justice for the National Drug Intelligence Center to support 
the Department of Defense's counter-drug intelligence responsibil-
ities, and of the said amount, $1,500,000 for Procurement shall 
remain available until September 30, 2000, and $3,000,000 for 
Research, development, test and evaluation shall remain available 
until September 30, 1999. 
PAYMENT TO KAHO'OLAWE ISLAND CONVEYANCE, REMEDIATION, AND 
ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION FUND 
For payment to Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, 
and Environmental Restoration Fund, as authorized by law; 
$35,000,000, to remain available until expended. 
NATIONAL SECURITY EDUCATION TRUST FUND 
For the purposes of title VIII of Public Law 102-183, 
$2,000,000, to be derived from the National Security Education 
Trust Fund, to remain available until expended. 
TITLE VIII 
GENERAL PROVISIONS 
SEC. 8001. No part of any appropriation contained in this 
Act shall be used for publicity or propaganda purposes not author-
ized by the Congress. 
SEC. 8002. During the current fiscal year, provisions of law 10USC1584 
prohibiting the payment of compensation to, or employment of, note. 
any person not a citizen of the United States shall not apply 
to personnel of the Department of Defense: Provided, That salary 
increases granted to direct and indirect hire foreign national 
employees of the Department of Defense funded by this Act shall 
not be at a rate in excess of the percentage increase authorized 
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by law for civilian employees of the Department of Defense whose 
pay is computed under the provisions of section 5332 of title 5, 
United States Code, or at a rate in excess of the percentage increase 
provided by the appropriate host nation to its own employees, 
whichever is higher: Provided further. That this section shall not 
apply to Department of Defense foreign service national employees 
serving at United States diplomatic missions whose pay is set 
by the Department of State under the Foreign Service Act of 1980: 
Provided further, That the limitations of this provision shall not 
apply to foreign national employees of the Department of Defense 
in the Republic of Turkey. 
SEC. 8003. 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. 8004. No 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 reserve components or summer 
camp training of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8005. 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 $2,000,000,000 of working capital funds of the Depart-
ment of Defense or funds made available in this Act to the 
Department of Defense for military functions (except military 
construction) between such appropriations or funds or any subdivi-
sion 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 unfore-
seen military requirements, than those for which originally appro-
priated and in no case where the item for which funds are requested 
Notification. 
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 or any other authority in this Act: 
Provided further. That no part of the funds in this Act shall be 
available to prepare or present a request to the Committees on 
Appropriations for reprogramming of funds, unless for higher prior-
ity items, based on unforeseen military requirements, than those 
for which originally appropriated and in no case where the item 
for which reprogramming is requested has been denied by the 
Congress: Provided further. That of the authority provided under 
this section, not to exceed $65,000,000 shall be available to meet 
requirements for termination of the Reserve Mobilization Insurance 
Program, notwithstanding chapter 1214 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8006. During the current fiscal year, cash balances in 
working capital funds of the Department of Defense 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 disbursements to be made from such funds: 
Provided, 
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111 STAT. 1221 
That transfers may be made between such funds: Provided 
further, 
That transfers may be made between working capital funds and 
the "Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Defense" appropriation and 
the "Operation and Maintenance" appropriation accounts in such 
amounts as may be determined by the Secretary of Defense, with 
the approval of the Office of Management and Budget, except that 
such transfers 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 or increase the value of war reserve material 
inventory, unless the Secretary of Defense has notified the Congress 
prior to any such obligation. 
SEC. 8007. Funds appropriated by this Act may not be used 
to initiate a special access program without prior notification 30 
calendar days in session in advance to the congressional defense 
committees. 
SEC. 8008. (a) None of the funds provided in this Act shall 
10 USC 2306b 
be available to initiate: (1) a multiyear contract that employs eco- note. 
nomic 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 procurement in excess of $20,000,000 in any one 
year, unless the congressional defense committees have been noti-
fied at least 30 days in advance of the proposed contract award: 
Provided, That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act 
shall be available to initiate a multiyear contract for which the 
economic order quantity advance procurement is not funded at 
least to the limits of the Government's liability: Provided 
further. 
That no part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall 
be available to initiate multiyear procurement contracts for any 
systems or component thereof if the value of the multij'ear contract 
would exceed $500,000,000 unless specifically provided in this Act: 
Provided further, That no multiyear procurement contract can be 
terminated without 10-day prior notification to the congressional 
defense committees: Provided 
further. 
That the execution of 
multiyear authority shall require the use of a present valu3 analysis 
to determine lowest cost compared to an annual procurement. 
Funds appropriated in title III of this Act may be used for 
multiyear procurement contracts as follows: 
Apache Longbow radar; 
AV-8B aircraft; and 
Family of Medium Tactical Vehicles. 
(b) None of the funds provided in this Act and hereafter may 
be used to submit to Congress (or to any committee of Congress) 
a request for authority to enter into a contract covered by those 
provisions of subsection (a) that precede the first proviso of that 
subsection unless— 
(1) such request is made as part of the submission of 
the President's Budget for the United States Government for 
any fiscal year and is set forth in the Appendix to that budget 
as part of proposed legislative language for appropriations bills 
for the next fiscal year; or 
(2) such request is formally submitted by the President 
as a budget amendment; or 
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(3) the Secretary of Defense makes such request in writing 
to the congressional defense committees. 
10 use 401 note. 
SEC. 8009. Within the funds appropriated for the operation 
and maintenance of the Armed Forces, funds are hereby appro-
priated pursuant to section 401 of title 10, United States Code, 
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs under chapter 20 of 
Reports. 
title 10, United States Code. Such funds may also be obligated 
for humanitarian and civic assistance costs incidental to authorized 
operations and pursuant to authority granted in section 401 of 
chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code, and these obligations 
shall be reported to Congress on September 30 of each year: Pro-
vided, That funds available for operation and maintenance shall 
be available for providing humanitarian and similar assistance 
by using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the Pacific 
Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, pursuant to 
the Compact of Free Association as authorized by Public Law 99-
239: Provided further. That upon a determination by the Secretary 
of the Army that such action is beneficial for graduate medical 
education programs conducted at Army medical facilities located 
in Hawaii, the Secretary of the Army may authorize the provision 
of medical services at such facilities and transportation to such 
facilities, on a nonreimbursable basis, for civilian patients from 
American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana 
Islands, the Marshall Islands, the Federated States of Micronesia, 
Palau, and Guam. 
SEC. 8010. (a) During fiscal year 1998, the civilian personnel 
of the Department of Defense may not be managed on the basis 
of any end-strength, and the management of such personnel during 
that fiscal year shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation 
(known as an end-strength) on the number of such personnel who 
may be employed on the last day of such fiscal year. 
(b) The fiscal year 1999 budget request for the Department 
of Defense as well as all justification material and other documenta-
tion supporting the fiscal year 1999 Department of Defense budget 
request shall be prepared and submitted to the Congress as if 
subsections (a) and (b) of this provision were effective with regard 
to fiscal year 1999. 
(c) Nothing in this section shall be construed to apply to military 
(civilian) technicians. 
SEC. 8011. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds made available by this Act shall be used by the 
Department of Defense to exceed, outside the 50 United States, 
its territories, and the District of Columbia, 125,000 civilian 
workyears: Provided, That workyears shall be applied as defined 
in the Federal Personnel Manual: Provided further. That workyears 
expended in dependent student hiring programs for disadvantaged 
youths shall not be included in this workyear limitation. 
S E C 8012. 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. 8013. (a) None of the funds appropriated by this Act 
shall be used to make contributions to the Department of Defense 
Education Benefits Fund pursuant to section 2006(g) of title 10, 
United States Code, representing the normal cost for future benefits 
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111 STAT. 1223 
under section 3015(c) of title 38, United States Code, for any mem-
ber of the armed services who, on or after the date of enactment 
of this Act— 
(1) enlists in the armed services for a period of active 
duty of less than three years; or 
(2) receives an enlistment bonus under section 308a or 
308f of title 37, United States Code, 
nor shall any amounts representing the normal cost of such future 
benefits be transferred from the Fund by the Secretary of the 
Treasury to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs pursuant to section 
2006(d) of title 10, United States Code; nor shall the Secretary 
of Veterans Affairs pay such benefits to any such member: Provided, 
That in the case of a member covered by clause (1), these limitations 
shall not apply to members in combat arms skills or to members 
who enlist in the armed services on or after July 1, 1989, under 
a program continued or established by the Secretary of Defense 
in fiscal year 1991 to test the cost-effective use of special recruiting 
incentives involving not more than nineteen noncombat arms skills 
approved in advance by the Secretary of Defense: Provided further, 
Applicability. 
That this subsection applies only to active components of the Army. 
(b) None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available 
for the basic pay and allowances of any member of the Army 
participating as a full-time student and receiving benefits paid 
by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs from the Department of Defense 
Education Benefits Fund when time spent as a full-time student 
is credited toward completion of a service commitment: Provided, 
That this subsection shall not apply to those members who have 
reenlisted with this option prior to October 1, 1987: Provided fur-
ther. That this subsection applies only to active components of Applicability. 
the Army. 
SEC. 8014. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to convert to contractor performance an activity or 
function of the Department of Defense that, on or after the date 
of enactment of this Act, is performed by more than ten Department 
of Defense civilian employees until a most efficient and cost-effective 
organization analysis is completed on such activity or function 
and certification of the analysis is made to the Committees on 
Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate: 
Provided, That this section shall not apply to a commercial or 
industrial type function of the Department of Defense that: (1) 
is included on the procurement list established pursuant to section 
2 of the Act of June 25, 1938 (41 U.S.C. 47), popularly referred 
to as the Javits-Wagner-O'Day Act; (2) is planned to be converted 
to performance by a qualified nonprofit agency for the blind or 
by a qualified nonprofit agency for other severely handicapped 
individuals in accordance with that Act; or (3) is planned to be 
converted to performance by a qualified firm under 51 per centum 
Native American ownership. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8015. Funds appropriated in title III of this Act for the 
Department of Defense Pilot Mentor-Protege Program may be trans-
ferred to any other appropriation contained in this Act solely for 
the purpose of implementing a Mentor-Protege Program devel-
opmental assistance agreement pursuant to section 831 of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public 
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PUBLIC LAW 105-56—OCT. 8, 1997 
Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2301 note), as amended, under the author-
ity of this provision or any other transfer authority contained in 
this Act. 
SEC. 8016. None of the funds in this Act may be available 
for the purchase by the Department of Defense (and its departments 
and agencies) of welded shipboard anchor and mooring chain 4 
inches in diameter and under unless the anchor and mooring chain 
are manufactured in the United States from components which 
are substantially manufactured in the United States: Provided, 
That for the purpose of this section manufactured will include 
cutting, heat treating, quality control, testing of chain and welding 
(including the forging and shot blasting process): Provided 
further, 
That for the purpose of this section substantially all of the 
components of anchor and mooring chain shall be considered to 
be produced or manufactured in the United States if the aggregate 
cost of the components produced or manufactured in the United 
States exceeds the aggregate cost of the components produced or 
manufactured outside the United States: Provided further. That 
when adequate domestic supplies are not available to meet Depart-
ment of Defense requirements on a timely basis, the Secretary 
of the service responsible for the procurement may waive this 
restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing to the 
Committees on Appropriations that such an acquisition must be 
made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes. 
SEC. 8017. None of the funds appropriated by this Act available 
for the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed 
Services (CHAMPUS) shall be available for the reimbursement 
of any health care provider for inpatient mental health service 
for care received when a patient is referred to a provider of inpatient 
mental health care or residential treatment care by a medical 
or health care professional having an economic interest in the 
facility to which the patient is referred: Provided, That this limita-
tion does not apply in the case of inpatient mental health services 
provided under the program for the handicapped under subsection 
(d) of section 1079 of title 10, United States Code, provided as 
partial hospital care, or provided pursuant to a waiver authorized 
by the Secretary of Defense because of medical or psychological 
circumstances of the patient that are confirmed by a health profes-
sional who is not a Federal employee after a review, pursuant 
to rules prescribed by the Secretary, which takes into account 
the appropriate level of care for the patient, the intensity of services 
required by the patient, and the availability of that care. 
SEC. 8018. Funds available in this Act may be used to provide 
transportation for the next-of-kin of individuals who have been 
prisoners of war or missing in action from the Vietnam era to 
an annual meeting in the United States, under such regulations 
as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe. 
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SEC. 8019. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during 
note. 
the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense may, by executive 
agreement, establish with host nation governments in NATO mem-
ber states a separate account into which such residual value 
amounts negotiated in the return of United States military installa-
tions in NATO member states may be deposited, in the currency 
of the host nation, in lieu of direct monetary transfers to the 
United States Treasury: Provided, That such credits may be utilized 
only for the construction of facilities to support United States mili-
tary forces in that host nation, or such real property maintenance 
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and base operating costs that are currently executed through mone-
tary transfers to such host nations: Provided further. That the 
Department of Defense's budget submission for fiscal year 1999 
shall identify such sums anticipated in residual value settlements, 
and identify such construction, real property maintenance or base 
operating costs that shall be funded by the host nation through 
such credits: Provided further. 
That all military construction 
projects to be executed from such accounts must be previously 
approved in a prior Act of Congress: Provided further. That each Reports, 
such executive agreement with a NATO member host nation shall 
be reported to the congressional defense committees, the Committee 
on International Relations of the House of Representatives and 
the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 30 days prior 
to the conclusion and endorsement of any such agreement estab-
lished under this provision. 
SEC. 8020. None of the funds available to the Department 
of Defense may be used to demilitarize or dispose of M-1 Carbines, 
M-1 Garand rifles, M-14 rifles, .22 caliber rifles, .30 caliber rifles, 
or M-1911 pistols. 
SEC. 8021. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to pay 
more than 50 per centum of an amount paid to any person under 
section 308 of title 37, United States Code, in a lump sum. 
SEC. 8022. No more than $500,000 of the funds appropriated 
or made available in this Act shall be used during a single fiscal 
year for any single relocation of an organization, unit, activity 
or function of the Department of Defense into or within the National 
Capital Region: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive 
this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 
to the congressional defense committees that such a relocation 
is required in the best interest of the Government. 
SEC. 8023. A member of a reserve component whose unit or 
whose residence is located in a State which is not contiguous 
with another State is authorized to travel in a space required 
status on aircraft of the Armed Forces between home and place 
of inactive duty training, or place of duty in lieu of unit training 
assembly, when there is no road or railroad transportation (or 
combination of road and railroad transportation between those loca-
tions): Provided, That a member traveling in that status on a 
military aircraft pursuant to the authority provided in this section 
is not authorized to receive travel, transportation, or per diem 
allowances in connection with that travel. 
SEC. 8024. In addition to funds provided elsewhere in this 
Act, $8,000,000 is appropriated only for incentive pa3anents author-
ized by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974, 25 U.S.C. 
1544: Provided, That these payments shall be available only to 
contractors which have submitted subcontracting plans pursuant 
to 15 U.S.C. 637(d), and according to regulations which shall be 
promulgated by the Secretary of Defense within 90 days of the 
passage of this Act: Provided further. That contractors participating 
in the test program established by section 854 of Public Law 101-
189 (15 U.S.C. 637 note) shall be eligible for the program established 
by section 504 of the Indian Financing Act of 1974 (25 U.S.C. 
1544). 
SEC. 8025. During the current fiscal year, none of the funds 
available to the Department of Defense may be used to procure 
or acquire (1) defensive handguns unless such handguns are the 
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M-9 or M-11 9 mm Department of Defense standard handguns, 
or (2) offensive handguns except for the Special Operations Forces: 
Provided, That the foregoing shall not apply to handguns and 
ammunition for marksmanship competitions. 
SEC. 8026. During the current fiscal year, funds appropriated 
or otherwise available for any Federal agency, the Congress, the 
judicial branch, or the District of Columbia may be used for the 
pay, allowances, and benefits of an employee as defined by section 
2105 of title 5, United States Code, or an individual employed 
by the government of the District of Columbia, permanent or tem-
porary indefinite, who— 
(1) is a member of a Reserve component of the Armed 
Forces, as described in section 10101 of title 10, United States 
Code, or the National Guard, as described in section 101 of 
title 32; 
(2) performs, for the purpose of providing military aid 
to enforce the law or providing assistance to civil authorities 
in the protection or saving of life or property or prevention 
of injury— 
(A) Federal service under sections 331, 332, 333, or 
12406 of title 10, or other provision of law, as applicable; 
or 
(B) full-time military service for his or her State, the 
District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, 
or a territory of the United States; and 
(3) requests and is granted— 
(A) leave under the authority of this section; or 
(B) annual leave, which may be granted without regard 
to the provisions of sections 5519 and 6323(b) of title 5, 
if such employee is otherwise entitled to such annual leave: 
Provided, That any employee who requests leave under subsection 
(3)(A) for service described in subsection (2) of this section is entitled 
to such leave, subject to the provisions of this section and of the 
last sentence of section 6323(b) of title 5, and such leave shall 
be considered leave under section 6323(b) of title 5. 
SEC. 8027. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available to perform any cost study pursuant to the provisions 
of 0MB Circular A-76 if the study being performed exceeds a 
period of 24 months after initiation of such study with respect 
to a single function activity or 48 months after initiation of such 
study for a multi-function activity. 
SEC. 8028. Funds appropriated by this Act for the American 
Forces Information Service shall not be used for any national or 
international political or psychological activities. 
SEC. 8029. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or regu-
lation, the Secretary of Defense may adjust wage rates for civilian 
employees hired for certain health care occupations as authorized 
for the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by section 7455 of title 38, 
United States Code. 
SEC. 8030. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
in this Act shall be used to reduce or disestablish the operation 
of the 53rd Weather Reconnaissance Squadron of the Air Force 
Reserve, if such action would reduce the WC-130 Weather Recon-
naissance mission below the levels funded in this Act. 
SEC. 8031. (a) Of the funds for the procurement of supplies 
or services appropriated by this Act, qualified nonprofit agencies 
for the blind or other severely handicapped shall be afforded the 
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maximum practicable opportunity to participate as subcontractors 
and suppliers in the performance of contracts let by the Department 
of Defense. 
(b) During the current fiscal year, a business concern which 
has negotiated with a military service or defense agency a sub-
contracting plan for the participation by small business concerns 
pursuant to section 8(d) of the Small Business Act (15 U.S.C. 
637(d)) shall be given credit toward meeting that subcontracting 
goal for any purchases made from qualified nonprofit agencies for 
the blind or other severely handicapped. 
(c) For the purpose of this section, the phrase "qualified non-
profit agency for the blind or other severely handicapped" means 
a nonprofit agency for the blind or other severely handicapped 
that has been approved by the Committee for the Purchase from 
the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped under the Javits-Wag-
ner-0'Day Act (41 U.S.C. 46-48). 
SEC. 8032. During the current fiscal year, net receipts pursuant 
to collections from third party payers pursuant to section 1095 
of title 10, United States Code, shall be made available to the 
local facility of the uniformed services responsible for the collections 
and shall be over and above the facility's direct budget amount. 
SEC. 8033. During the current fiscal year, the Department 
of Defense is authorized to incur obligations of not to exceed 
$350,000,000 for purposes specified in section 2350j(c) of title 10, 
United States Code, in anticipation of receipt of contributions, only 
from the CJovernment of Kuwait, under that section: Provided, 
That, upon receipt, such contributions from the Government of 
Kuwait shall be credited to the appropriations or fund which 
incurred such obligations. 
SEC. 8034. Of the funds made available in this Act, not less 
than $26,247,000 shall be available for the Civil Air Patrol, of 
which $22,702,000 shall be available for operation and maintenance. 
SEC. 8035. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
are available to establish a new Department of Defense (depart-
ment) federally funded research and development center (FFRDC), 
either as a new entity, or as a separate entity administrated by 
an organization mginaging another FFRDC, or as a nonprofit mem-
bership corporation consisting of a consortium of other FFRDCs 
and other non-profit entities. 
(b) 
LIMITATION 
ON 
COMPENSATION-FEDERALLY 
FUNDED 
RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER (FFRDC).—No member of 
a Board of Directors, Trustees, Overseers, Advisory Group, Special 
Issues Panel, Visiting Committee, or any similar entity of a defense 
FFRDC, and no paid consultant to any defense FFRDC, may be 
compensated for his or her services as a member of such entity, 
or as a paid consultant, except under the same conditions, and 
to the same extent, as members of the Defense Science Board: 
Provided, That a member of any such entity referred to previously 
in this subsection shall be allowed travel expenses and per diem 
as authorized under the Federal Joint Travel Regulations, when 
engaged in the performance of membership duties. 
(c) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none of the 
funds available to the department from any source during fiscal 
year 1998 may be used by a defense FFRDC, through a fee or 
other 
payment 
mechanism, 
for charitable 
contributions, 
for 
construction of new buildings, for pa3mient of cost sharing for 
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Reports. 
Reports. 
Reports. 
projects funded by Grovemment grants, or for absorption of contract 
overruns. 
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the funds 
available to the department during fiscal year 1998, not more 
than 6,206 staff years of technical effort (staff years) may be funded 
for defense FFRDCs: Provided, That of the specific amount referred 
to previously in this subsection, not more than 1,105 staff years 
may be funded for the defense studies and analysis FFRDCs. 
(e) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary 
of Defense shall control the total number of staff years to be 
performed by defense FFRDCs during fiscal year 1998 so as to 
reduce the total amounts appropriated in titles II, III, and IV 
of this Act by $71,800,000: Provided, That the total amounts appro-
priated in titles II, III, and IV of this Act are hereby reduced 
by $71,800,000 to reflect savings from the use of defense FFRDCs 
by the department. 
(f) Within 60 days after enactment of this Act, the Secretary 
of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees 
a report presenting the specific amounts of staff years of technical 
effort to be allocated by the department for each defense FFRDC 
during fiscal year 1998: Provided, That, after the submission of 
the report required by this subsection, the department may not 
reallocate more than five per centum of an FFRDCs staff years 
among other defense FFRDCs until 30 days after a detailed jus-
tification for any such reallocation is submitted to the congressional 
defense committees. 
(g) The Secretary of Defense shall, with the submission of 
the department's fiscal year 1999 budget request, submit a report 
presenting the specific amounts of staff years of technical effort 
to be allocated for each defense FFRDC during that fiscal year. 
(h) No part of the reductions contained in subsection (e) of 
this section may be applied against any budget activity, activity 
group, subactivity group, line item, program element, program, 
project, subproject or activity which does not fund defense FFRDC 
activities within each appropriation account, and the reductions 
in subsection (e) shall be allocated on a proportional basis. 
(i) Not later than 90 days after enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report listing the specific funding reductions allocated 
to each category listed in subsection (h) above pursuant to this 
section. 
SEC. 8036. None of the funds in this or any other Act shall 
be available for the preparation of studies on— 
(1) the cost effectiveness or feasibility of removal and 
transportation of unitary chemical weapons or agents from 
the 8 chemical storage sites within the continental United 
States to Johnston Atoll: Provided, That this prohibition shall 
not apply to General Accounting Office studies requested by 
a Member of Congress or a Congressional Committee; and 
(2) the potential future uses of the 9 chemical disposal 
facilities other than for the destruction of stockpile chemical 
munitions and as limited by section 1412(c)(2), Public Law 
99-145: Provided, That this prohibition does not apply to future 
use studies for the CAMDS facility at Tooele, Utah. 
SEC. 8037. None of the funds appropriated or made available 
in this Act shall be used to procure carbon, alloy or armor steel 
plate for use in any Government-owned facility or property under 
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111 STAT. 1229 
the control of the Department of Defense which were not melted 
and rolled in the United States or Canada: Provided, That these 
procurement restrictions shall apply to any and all Federal Supply 
Class 9515, American Society of Testing and Materials (ASTM) 
or American Iron and Steel Institute (AISI) specifications of carbon, 
alloy or armor steel plate: Provided further. That the Secretary 
of the military department responsible for the procurement may 
waive this restriction on a case-by-case basis by certifying in writing 
to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representa-
tives and the Senate that adequate domestic supplies are not avail-
able to meet Department of Defense requirements on a timely 
basis and that such an acquisition must be made in order to 
acquire capability for national security purposes: Provided further. 
That these restrictions shall not apply to contracts which are in 
being as of the date of enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 8038. For the purposes of this Act, the term "congressional 
defense committees" means the National Security Committee of 
the House of Representatives, the Armed Services Committee of 
the Senate, the Subcommittee on Defense of the Committee on 
Appropriations of the Senate, and the Subcommittee on National 
Security of the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Rep-
resentatives. 
SEC. 8039. During the current fiscal year, the Department 
of Defense may acquire the modification, depot maintenance and 
repair of aircraft, vehicles and vessels as well as the production 
of components and other Defense-related articles, through competi-
tion between Department of Defense depot maintenance activities 
and private firms: Provided, That the Senior Acquisition Executive 
Certification. 
of the military department or defense agency concerned, with power 
of delegation, shall certify that successful bids include comparable 
estimates of all direct and indirect costs for both public and private 
bids: Provided further, That Office of Management and Budget 
Circular A-76 shall not apply to competitions conducted under 
this section. 
SEC. 8040. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after consultation 
41USC lOb-2. 
with the United States Trade Representative, determines that a 
foreign country which is party to an agreement described in para-
graph (2) has violated the terms of the agreement by discriminating 
against certain types of products produced in the United States 
that are covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall 
rescind the Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act 
with respect to such types of products produced in that foreign 
country. 
(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any reciprocal 
defense procurement memorandum of understanding, between the 
United States and a foreign country pursuant to which the Secretary 
of Defense has prospectively waived the Buy American Act for 
certain products in that country. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report Reports, 
on the amount of Department of Defense purchases from foreign 
entities in fiscal year 1998. Such report shall separately indicate 
the dollar value of items for which the Buy American Act was 
waived pursuant to any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), 
the Trade Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or 
any international agreement to which the United States is a party. 
(c) For purposes of this section, the term "Buy American Act" 
means title III of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations 
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Reports. 
for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", approved March 
3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.). 
SEC. 8041. The total amounts appropriated in titles II, III, 
and IV of this Act are hereby reduced by $300,000,000 to reflect 
savings from the use of advisory and assistance services by the 
Department of Defense: Provided, That the savings shall be applied 
to the following titles in the following amounts: 
Title II, Operation and Maintenance, $112,000,000; 
Title III, Procurement, $62,000,000; and 
Title IV, Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, 
$126,000,000: 
Provided further, That the savings specified shall be applied only 
to funds budgeted to purchase advisory and assistance services: 
Provided further. That the savings shall be applied on a pro-rata 
basis to each program, project and activity which included budget 
funds for advisory and assistance services. 
SEC. 8042. Appropriations contained in this Act that remain 
available at the end of the current fiscal year as a result of energy 
cost savings realized by the Department of Defense shall remain 
available for obligation for the next fiscal year to the extent, and 
for the purposes, provided in section 2865 of title 10, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 8043. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the amounts provided in all appropriation accounts in titles III 
and IV of this Act are reduced by 1.5 percent: Provided, 
That 
these reductions shall be applied on a pro-rata basis to each line 
item, program element, program, project, subproject, and activity 
within each appropriation account: Provided further, That not later 
than 60 days after the enactment of this Act, the Undersecretary 
of Defense (Comptroller) shall submit a report to the congressional 
defense committees listing the specific funding reductions allocated 
to each category listed in the preceding proviso pursuant to this 
section. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8044. Amounts deposited during the current fiscal year 
to the special account established under 40 U.S.C. 485(h)(2) and 
to the special account established under 10 U.S.C. 2667(d)(1) are 
appropriated and shall be available until transferred by the Sec-
retary of Defense to current applicable appropriations or funds 
of the Department of Defense under the terms and conditions 
specified by 40 U.S.C. 485(h)(2)(A) and (B) and 10 U.S.C. 
2667(d)(1)(B), to be merged with and to be available for the same 
time period and the same purposes as the appropriation to which 
transferred. 
SEC. 8045. During the current fiscal year, appropriations avail-
able to the Department of Defense may be used to reimburse 
a member of a reserve component of the Armed Forces who is 
not otherwise entitled to travel and transportation allowances and 
who occupies transient government housing while performing active 
duty for training or inactive duty training: Provided, That such 
members may be provided lodging in kind if transient government 
quarters are unavailable as if the member was entitled to such 
allowances under subsection (a) of section 404 of title 37, United 
States Code: Provided further. That if lodging in kind is provided, 
any authorized service charge or cost of such lodging may be paid 
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111 STAT. 1231 
directly from funds appropriated for operation and maintenance 
of the reserve component of the member concerned. 
SEC. 8046. The President shall include with each budget for President. 
a fiscal year submitted to the Congress under section 1105 of 10 USC 221 note, 
title 31, United States Code, materials that shall identify clearly 
and separately the amounts requested in the budget for appropria-
tion for that fiscal year for salaries and expenses related to 
administrative activities of the Department of Defense, the military 
departments, and the Defense Agencies. 
SEC. 8047. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
available for "Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities, 
Defense" may be obligated for the Young Marines program. 
SEC. 8048. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, 
the total amount appropriated in title IV of this Act is hereby 
reduced by $474,000,000: Provided, That each program element, 
program, project, subproject, and activity funded in title IV of 
this Act shall be allocated a pro-rata share of any of the reductions 
made by this section: Provided further, That not later than 60 Reports. 
days afler the enactment of this Act, the Undersecretary of Defense 
(Comptroller) shall submit a report to the congressional defense 
committees listing the specific funding reductions allocated to each 
category listed in the preceding proviso pursuant to this section. 
SEC. 8049. During the current fiscal year, amounts contained 
in the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment 
Recovery Account established by section 2921(c)(1) of the National 
Defense Authorization Act of 1991 (Pubhc Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 
2687 note) shall be available until expended for the payments 
specified by section 2921(c)(2) of that Act. 
SEC. 8050. Of the funds appropriated or otherwise made avail-
able by this Act, not more than $119,200,000 shall be available 
for payment of the operating costs of NATO Headquarters: Provided, 
That the Secretary of Defense may waive this section for Depart-
ment of Defense support provided to NATO forces in and around 
the former Yugoslavia. 
SEC. 8051. During the current fiscal year, appropriations which 
are available to the Department of Defense for operation and 
maintenance may be used to purchase items having an investment 
item unit cost of not more than $100,000. 
SEC. 8052. (a) During the current fiscal year, none of the 
appropriations or funds available to the Department of Defense 
Working Capital Funds shall be used for the purchase of an invest-
ment item for the purpose of acquiring a new inventory item for 
sale or anticipated sale during the current fiscal year or a subse-
quent fiscal year to customers of the Department of Defense Work-
ing Capital Funds if such an item would not have been chargeable 
to the Department of Defense Business Operations Fund during 
fiscal year 1994 and if the purchase of such an investment item 
would be chargeable during the current fiscal year to appropriations 
made to the Department of Defense for procurement. 
(b) The fiscal year 1999 budget request for the Department 
of Defense as well as all justification material and other documenta-
tion supporting the fiscal year 1999 Department of Defense budget 
shall be prepared and submitted to the Congress on the basis 
that any equipment which was classified as an end item and funded 
in a procurement appropriation contained in this Act shall be budg-
eted for in a proposed fiscal year 1999 procurement appropriation 
and not in the supply management business area or any other 
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area or category of the Department of Defense Working Capital 
Funds. 
10 use 2241 
SEC. 8053. None of the funds provided in this Act and hereafter 
^°^- 
shall be available for use by a military department to modify 
an aircraft, weapon, ship or other item of equipment, that the 
military department concerned plans to retire or otherwise dispose 
of within 5 years after completion of the modification: Provided, 
That this prohibition shall not apply to safety modifications: Pro-
vided further. That this prohibition may be waived by the Secretary 
of a military department if the Secretary determines it is in the 
best national security interest of the United States to provide 
such waiver and so notifies the congressional defense committees 
in writing. 
SEC. 8054. None of the funds appropriated by this Act for 
programs of the Central Intelligence Agency shall remain available 
for obligation beyond the current fiscal year, except for funds appro-
priated for the Reserve for Contingencies, which shall remain avail-
able until September 30, 1999. 
SEC. 8055. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
made available in this Act for the Defense Intelligence Agency 
may be used for the design, development, and deployment of Gen-
eral Defense Intelligence Program intelligence communications and 
intelligence information systems for the Services, the Unified and 
Specified Commands, and the component commands. 
SEC. 8056. Of the funds appropriated by the Department of 
Defense under the heading 
"OPERATION 
AND 
MAINTENANCE, 
DEFENSE-WIDE", not less than $8,000,000 shall be made available 
only for the mitigation of environmental impacts, including training 
and technical assistance to tribes, related administrative support, 
the gathering of information, documenting of environmental dam-
age, and developing a system for prioritization of mitigation and 
cost to complete estimates for mitigation, on Indian lands resulting 
from Department of Defense activities. 
SEC. 8057. Amounts collected for the use of the facilities of 
the National Science Center for Communications and Electronics 
during the current fiscal year pursuant to section 1459(g) of the 
Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986, and deposited to 
the special account established under subsection 1459(g)(2) of that 
Act are appropriated and shall be available until expended for 
the operation and maintenance of the Center as provided for in 
subsection 1459(g)(2). 
SEC. 8058. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may 
be used to fill the commander's position at any military medical 
facility with a health care professional unless the prospective can-
didate can demonstrate professional administrative skills. 
SEC. 8059. (a) None of the funds appropriated in this Act 
may be expended by an entity of the Department of Defense unless 
the entity, in expending the funds, complies with the Buy American 
Act. For purposes of this subsection, the term "Buy American Act" 
means title III of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations 
for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year 
ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", approved March 
3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.). 
(b) If the Secretary of Defense determines that a person has 
been convicted of intentionally affixing a label bearing a "Made 
in America" inscription to any product sold in or shipped to the 
United States that is not made in America, the Secretary shall 
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determine, in accordance with section 2410f of title 10, United 
States Code, whether the person should be debarred from contract-
ing with the Department of Defense. 
(c) In the case of any equipment or products purchased with 
appropriations provided under this Act, it is the sense of the Con-
gress that any entity of the Department of Defense, in expending 
the appropriation, purchase only American-made equipment and 
products, provided that American-made equipment and products 
are cost-competitive, quality-competitive, and available in a timely 
fashion. 
SEC. 8060. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall 
be available for a contract for studies, analysis, or consulting serv-
ices entered into without competition on the basis of an unsolicited 
proposal unless the head of the activity responsible for the procure-
ment determines— 
(1) as a result of thorough technical evaluation, only one 
source is found fully qualified to perform the proposed work; 
or 
(2) 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 
(3) 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. 8061. (a) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), 
none of the funds made available by this Act may be used— 
(1) to establish a field operating agency; or 
(2) to pay the basic pay of a member of the Armed Forces 
or civilian employee of the department who is transferred or 
reassigned from a headquarters activity if the member or 
employee's place of duty remains at the location of that head-
quarters. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense or Secretary of a military depart-
ment may waive the limitations in subsection (a), on a case-by-
case basis, if the Secretary determines, and certifies to the Commit-
tees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and Senate 
that the granting of the waiver will reduce the personnel require-
ments or the financial requirements of the department. 
(c) This section does not apply to field operating agencies funded 
within the National Foreign Intelligence Program. 
SEC. 8062. Funds appropriated by this Act for intelligence 
activities are deemed to be specifically authorized by the Congress 
for purposes of section 504 of the National Security Act of 1947 
(50 U.S.C. 414) during fiscal year 1998 until the enactment of 
the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998. 
SEC. 8063. Notwithstanding section 303 of Public Law 96-
487 or any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Navy is 
authorized to lease real and personal property at Naval Air Facility, 
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Adak, Alaska, pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 2667(f), for commercial, indus-
trial or other purposes. 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 8064. Of the funds provided in Department of Defense 
Appropriations Acts, the following funds are hereby rescinded from 
the following accounts in the specified amounts: 
"Shipbuilding 
and 
Conversion, 
Navy, 
1996/2000", 
$35,600,000; 
"Other Procurement, Navy, 1996/1998", $3,300,000; 
"Aircraft Procurement, Army, 1997/1999", $5,000,000; 
"Procurement 
of 
Ammunition, 
Army, 
1997/1999", 
$5,000,000; 
"Other Procurement, Army, 1997/1999", $6,000,000; 
"Other Procurement, Navy, 1997/1999", $2,200,000; 
"Aircraft Procurement, Navy, 1997/1999", $24,000,000; 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Army, 1997/ 
1998", $6,000,000; 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, 1997/ 
1998", $40,000,000; 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air Force, 
1997/1998", $25,000,000; and 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Defense-
Wide, 1997/1998", $24,000,000. 
SEC. 8065. None of the funds available in this Act may be 
used to reduce the authorized positions for military (civilian) techni-
cians of the Army National Guard, the Air National Guard, Army 
Reserve and Air Force Reserve for the purpose of applying any 
administratively imposed civilian personnel ceiling, freeze, or reduc-
tion on military (civilian) technicians, unless such reductions are 
a direct result of a reduction in military force structure. 
SEC. 8066. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available in this Act may be obligated or expended for assistance 
to the Democratic People's Republic of North Korea unless specifi-
cally appropriated for that purpose. 
SEC. 8067. During the current fiscal year, funds appropriated 
in this Act are available to compensate members of the National 
Guard for duty performed pursuant to a plan submitted by a Gov-
ernor of a State and approved by the Secretary of Defense under 
section 112 of title 32, United States Code: Provided, That during 
the performance of such duty, the members of the National Guard 
shall be under State command and control: Provided further. That 
such duty shall be treated as full-time National Guard duty for 
purposes of sections 12602(a)(2) and (b)(2) of title 10, United States 
Code. 
SEC. 8068. Funds appropriated in this Act for operation and 
maintenance of the Military Departments, Unified and Specified 
Commands and Defense Agencies shall be available for reimburse-
ment of pay, allowances and other expenses which would otherwise 
be incurred against appropriations for the National Guard and 
Reserve when members of the National Guard and Reserve provide 
intelligence support to Unified Commands, Defense Agencies and 
Joint Intelligence Activities, including the activities and programs 
included within the General Defense Intelligence Program and the 
Consolidated Cryptologic Program: Provided, That nothing in this 
section authorizes deviation from established Reserve and National 
Guard personnel and training procedures. 
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111 STAT. 1235 
SEC. 8069. During the current fiscal year, none of the funds 
appropriated in this Act may be used to reduce the civilian medical 
and medical support personnel assigned to military treatment facili-
ties below the September 30, 1997 level: Provided, That the Service 
Surgeons General may waive this section by certifying to the 
congressional defense committees that the beneficiary population 
is declining in some catchment areas and civilian strength reduc-
tions may be consistent with responsible resource stewardship and 
capitation-based budgeting. 
(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8070. None of the funds appropriated in this Act may 
be transferred to or obligated from the Pentagon Reservation 
Maintenance Revolving Fund, unless the Secretary of Defense cer-
tifies that the total cost for the planning, design, construction 
and installation of equipment for the renovation of the Pentagon 
Reservation will not exceed $1,118,000,000. 
SEC. 8071. (a) None of the funds available to the Department 
10 USC 374 note. 
of Defense for any fiscal year for drug interdiction or counter-
drug activities may be transferred to any other department or 
agency of the United States except as specifically provided in an 
appropriations law. 
(b) None of the funds available to the Central Intelligence 50USC403f 
Agency for any fiscal year for drug interdiction and counter-drug "ote. 
activities may be transferred to any other department or agency 
of the United States except as specifically provided in an appropria-
tions law. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8072. Appropriations available in this Act under the head-
ing "OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE" for increasing 
energy and water efficiency in Federal buildings may, during their 
period of availability, be transferred to other appropriations or 
funds of the Department of Defense for projects related to increasing 
energy and water efficiency, to be merged with and to be available 
for the same general purposes, and for the same time period, 
as the appropriation or fund to which transferred. 
SEC. 8073. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may 
be used for the procurement of ball and roller bearings other than 
those produced by a domestic source and of domestic origin: Pro-
vided, That the Secretary of the military department responsible 
for such procurement may waive this restriction on a case-by-
case basis by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropria-
tions of the House of Representatives and the Senate, that adequate 
domestic supplies are not available to meet Department of Defense 
requirements on a timely basis and that such an acquisition must 
be made in order to acquire capability for national security pur-
poses. 
SEC. 8074. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds 
available to the Department of Defense shall be made available 
to provide transportation of medical supplies and equipment, on 
a nonreimbursable basis, to American Samoa: Provided, That not-
withstanding any other provision of law, funds available to the 
Department of Defense shall be made available to provide transpor-
tation of medical supplies and equipment, on a nonreimbursable 
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basis, to the Indian Health Service when it is in conjunction with 
a civil-military project. 
SEC. 8075. None of the funds in this Act may be used to 
purchase any supercomputer which is not manufactured in the 
United States, unless the Secretary of Defense certifies to the 
congressional defense committees that such an acquisition must 
be made in order to acquire capability for national security purposes 
that is not available from United States manufacturers. 
SEC. 8076. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Naval shipyards of the United States shall be eligible to participate 
in any manufacturing extension program financed by funds appro-
priated in this or any other Act. 
SEC. 8077. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, each 
contract awarded by the Department of Defense during the current 
fiscal year for construction or service performed in whole or in 
part in a State which is not contiguous with another State and 
has an unemployment rate in excess of the national average rate 
of unemployment as determined by the Secretary of Labor, shall 
include a provision requiring the contractor to employ, for the 
purpose of performing that portion of the contract in such State 
that is not contiguous with another State, individuals who are 
residents of such State and who, in the case of any craft or trade, 
possess or would be able to acquire promptly the necessary skills: 
Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may waive the require-
ments of this section, on a case-by-case basis, in the interest of 
national security. 
SEC. 8078. During the current fiscal year, the Army shall 
use the former George Air Force Base as the airhead for the 
National Training Center at Fort Irwin: Provided, That none of 
the funds in this Act shall be obligated or expended to transport 
Army personnel into Edwards Air Force Base for training rotations 
at the National Training Center. 
Reports. 
SEC. 8079. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall submit, on a 
quarterly basis, a report to the congressional defense committees, 
the Committee on International Relations of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate 
setting forth all costs (including incremental costs) incurred by 
the Department of Defense during the preceding quarter in 
implementing or supporting resolutions of the United Nations Secu-
rity Council, including any such resolution calling for international 
sanctions, international peacekeeping operations, and humanitarian 
missions undertaken by the Department of Defense. The quarterly 
report shall include an aggregate of all such Department of Defense 
costs by operation or mission. 
(b) The Secretary of Defense shall detail in the quarterly reports 
all efforts made to seek credit against past United Nations expendi-
tures and all efforts made to seek compensation from the United 
Nations for costs incurred by the Department of Defense in 
implementing and supporting United Nations activities. 
SEC. 8080. (a) LIMITATION ON TRANSFER OF DEFENSE ARTICLES 
AND SERVICES.—Notwithstanding any other provision of law, none 
of the funds available to the Department of Defense for the current 
fiscal year may be obligated or expended to transfer to another 
nation or an international organization any defense articles or 
services (other than intelligence services) for use in the activities 
described in subsection (b) unless the congressional defense commit-
tees, the Committee on International Relations of the House of 
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111 STAT. 1237 
Representatives, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the 
Senate are notified 15 days in advance of such transfer. 
(b) COVERED ACTIVITIES.—This section appHes to— 
(1) any international peacekeeping or peace-enforcement 
operation under the authority of chapter VI or chapter VII 
of the United Nations Charter under the authority of a United 
Nations Security Council resolution; and 
(2) any other international peacekeeping, peace-enforce-
ment, or humanitarian assistance operation. 
(c) REQUIRED NOTICE.—^A notice under subsection (a) shall 
include the following: 
(1) A description of the equipment, supplies, or services 
to be transferred. 
(2) A statement of the value of the equipment, supplies, 
or services to be transferred. 
(3) In the case of a proposed transfer of equipment or 
supplies— 
(A) a statement of whether the inventory requirements 
of all elements of the Armed Forces (including the reserve 
components) for the type of equipment or supplies to be 
transferred have been met; and 
(B) a statement of whether the items proposed to be 
transferred will have to be replaced and, if so, how the 
President proposes to provide funds for such replacement. 
SEC. 8081. To the extent authorized by subchapter VI of chapter Loans. 
148 of title 10, United States Code, the Secretary of Defense shall 
issue loan guarantees in support of United States defense exports 
not otherwise provided for: Provided, That the total contingent 
liability of the United States for guarantees issued under the 
authority of this section may not exceed $15,000,000,000: Provided 
further, That the exposure fees charged and collected by the Sec-
retary for each guarantee, shall be paid by the country involved 
and shall not be financed as part of a loan guaranteed by the 
United States: Provided further. That the Secretary shall provide Reports, 
quarterly reports to the Committees on Appropriations, Armed Serv-
ices and Foreign Relations of the Senate and the Committees on 
Appropriations, National Security and International Relations in 
the House of Representatives on the implementation of this pro-
gram: Provided further. That amounts charged for administrative 
fees and deposited to the special account provided for under section 
2540c(d) of title 10, shall be available for paying the costs of 
administrative expenses of the Department of Defense that are 
attributable to the loan guarantee program under subchapter VI 
of chapter 148 of title 10. 
SEC. 8082. None of the funds available to the Department 
of Defense shall be obligated or expended to make a financial 
contribution to the United Nations for the cost of an United Nations 
peacekeeping activity (whether pursuant to assessment or a vol-
untary contribution) or for payment of any United States arrearage 
to the United Nations. 
SEC. 8083. None of the funds available to the Department 
of Defense under this Act shall be obligated or expended to pay 
a contractor under a contract with the Department of Defense 
for costs of any amount paid by the contractor to an employee 
when— 
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(1) such costs are for a bonus or otherwise in excess of 
the normal salary paid by the contractor to the employee; 
and 
(2) such bonus is part of restructuring costs associated 
with a business combination. 
SEC. 8084. (a) None of the funds appropriated or otherwise 
made available in this Act may be used to transport or provide 
for the transportation of chemical munitions or agents to the John-
ston Atoll for the purpose of storing or demilitarizing such muni-
tions or agents. 
(b) The prohibition in subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
obsolete World War II chemical munition or agent of the United 
States found in the World War II Pacific Theater of Operations. 
(c) The President may suspend the application of subsection 
(a) during a period of war in which the United States is a party. 
SEC. 8085. None of the funds provided in title II of this Act 
for "Former Soviet Union Threat Reduction" may be obligated or 
expended to finance housing for any individual who was a member 
of the military forces of the Soviet Union or for any individual 
who is or was a member of the military forces of the Russian 
Federation. 
SEC. 8086. During the current fiscal year, no more than 
$10,000,000 of appropriations made in this Act under the heading 
"OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE, DEFENSE-WIDE" may be transferred 
to appropriations available for the pay of military personnel, to 
be merged with, and to be available for the same time period 
as the appropriations to which transferred, to be used in support 
of such personnel in connection with support and services for eligible 
organizations and activities outside the Department of Defense 
pursuant to section 2012 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 8087. For purposes of section 1553(b) of title 31, United 
States Code, any subdivision of appropriations made in this Act 
under the heading "SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY" shall 
be considered to be for the same purpose as any subdivision under 
the heading "SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY" appropriations 
in any prior year, and the 1 percent limitation shall apply to 
the total amount of the appropriation. 
SEC. 8088. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 1552(a), not more than 
$14,000,000 appropriated under the heading "AIRCRAFT PROCURE-
MENT, AIR FORCE" in Public Law 102-396 which was available 
and obligated for the B-2 Aircraft Program shall remain available 
for expenditure and for adjusting obligations for such program 
until September 30, 2003. 
SEC. 8089. During the current fiscal year, in the case of an 
appropriation account of the Department of Defense for which the 
period of availability for obligation has expired or which has closed 
under the provisions of section 1552 of title 31, United States 
Code, and which has a negative unliquidated or unexpended bal-
ance, an obligation or an adjustment of an obligation may be 
charged to any current appropriation account for the same purpose 
as the expired or closed account if— 
(1) the obligation would have been properly chargeable 
(except as to amount) to the expired or closed account before 
the end of the period of availability or closing of that account; 
(2) the obligation is not otherwise properly chargeable to 
any current appropriation account of the Department of 
Defense; and 
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111 STAT. 1239 
(3) in the case of an expired account, the obligation is 
not chargeable to a current appropriation of the Department 
of Defense under the provisions of section 1405(b)(8) of the 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991, Public 
Law 101-510, as amended (31 U.S.C. 1551 note): Provided, 
That in the case of an expired account, if subsequent review 
or investigation discloses that there was not in fact a negative 
unliquidated or unexpended balance in the account, any charge 
to a current account under the authority of this section shall 
be reversed and recorded against the expired account: Provided 
further, That the total amount charged to a current appropria-
tion under this section may not exceed an amount equal to 
1 percent of the total appropriation for that account. 
(TRANSFER OF FUNDS) 
SEC. 8090. Upon enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 
shall make the following transfers of funds: Provided, That the 
amounts transferred shall be available for the same purposes as 
the appropriations to which transferred, and for the same time 
period as the appropriation from which transferred: Provided fur-
ther. That the amounts shall be transferred between the following 
appropriations in the amount specified: 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1989/2000": 
SSN-688 attack submarine program, $3,000,000; 
DDG-51 destroyer program, $1,500,000; 
LHD-1 
amphibious 
assault 
ship 
program, 
$8,000,000; 
T-AO fleet oiler program, $3,453,000; 
AOE combat support ship program, $3,600,000; 
and 
For craft, outfitting, and post delivery, $2,019,000; 
To: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1989/2000": 
SSN-21 attack submarine program, $21,572,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1991/2001": 
DDG-51 destroyer program, $1,060,000; 
LHD-1 
amphibious 
assault 
ship 
program, 
$1,600,000; 
LSD-41 cargo variant ship program, $2,666,000; 
AOE combat support ship program, $7,307,000; 
and 
For 
craft, 
outfitting, 
and 
post 
delivery, 
$12,000,000; 
To: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1991/2001": 
SSN-21 attack submarine program, $24,633,000; 
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From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1996/2000": 
LHD-1 
amphibious 
assault 
ship 
program, 
$5,592,000; 
To: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1996/2000": 
SSN-21 attack submarine program, $5,592,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1994/1998": 
LHD-1 
amphibious 
assault 
ship 
program, 
$400,000; and 
DDG-51 destroyer program, $1,054,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1995/1999": 
For craft, outfitting, and post delivery, conversions, 
and first destination transportation, $715,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1996/2000": 
LHD-1 
amphibious 
assault 
ship 
program, 
$17,513,000; and 
For craft, outfitting, and post delivery, conversions, 
and first destination transportation, $878,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1997/2001": 
For craft, outfitting, and post delivery, conversions, 
and first destination transportation, $3,600,000; 
To: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1997/2001": 
DDG-51 destroyer program, $24,160,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1996/2000": 
Fast Patrol Boat, $9,500,000; 
To: 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, 
1998/1999", $9,500,000; 
From: 
Under the heading, "Shipbuilding and Conversion, 
Navy, 1997/2001": 
Oceanographic ship SWATH, $45,000,000; 
To: 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Navy, 
1998/1999", $45,000,000; 
From: 
"Aircraft 
Procurement, 
Air 
Force, 
1997/1999", 
$73,531,000; 
To: 
"Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Air 
Force, 1997/1998", $73,531,000: 
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111 STAT. 1241 
Provided further, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
to faciHtate a full and final settlement of all claims under contracts 
N00024-79-C-2614 and N00024-77-C-2031, the Secretary of the 
Navy may offset the amount of $1,660,680.84, owed by the Navy 
under contract N00024-79-C-2614 for the T-ARC-7 against an 
equal amount, $1,660,680.84, owed to the Navy under contract 
N00024-77-C-2031 for the AD 43. 
SEC. 8091. The Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall Reports, 
submit to the congressional defense committees by February 1, 
1998 a detailed report identifying, by amount and by separate 
budget activity, activity group, subactivity group, line item, program 
element, program, project, subproject, and activity, any activity 
for which the fiscal year 1999 budget request was reduced because 
Congress appropriated funds above the President's budget request 
for that specific activity for fiscal year 1998. 
SEC. 8092. (a) None of the funds available to the Department 
of Defense under this Act may be obligated or expended to 
reimburse a defense contractor for restructuring costs associated 
with a business combination of the defense contractor that occurs 
after the date of enactment of this Act unless— 
(1) the auditable savings for the Department of Defense 
resulting from the restructuring will exceed the costs allowed 
by a factor of at least two to one; or 
(2) the savings for the Department of Defense resulting 
from the restructuring will exceed the costs allowed and the 
Secretary of Defense determines that the business combination 
will result in the preservation of a critical capability that might 
otherwise be lost to the Department; and 
(3) the report required by section 818(e) of Public Law 
103-337 to be submitted to Congress in 1997 is submitted. 
(b) Not later than April 1, 1998, the Comptroller General shall, Reports, 
in consultation with the Inspector General of the Department of 
Defense, the Secretary of Defense, and the Secretary of Labor, 
submit to Congress a report which shall include the following: 
(1) an analysis and breakdown of the restructuring costs 
paid by or submitted to the Department of Defense to companies 
involved in business combinations since 1993; 
(2) an analysis of the specific costs associated with 
workforce reductions; 
(3) an analysis of the services provided to the workers 
affected by business combinations; 
(4) an analysis of the effectiveness of the restructuring 
costs used to assist laid off workers in gaining employment; 
and 
(5) in accordance with section 818 of Public Law 103-
337, an analysis of the savings reached from the business 
combination relative to the restructuring costs paid by the 
Department of Defense. 
(c) The report should set forth recommendations to make this 
program more effective for workers affected by business combina-
tions and more efficient in terms of the use of Federal dollars. 
SEC. 8093. Funds appropriated in title II of this Act for super-
vision and administration costs for facilities maintenance and 
repair, minor construction, or design projects may be obligated 
at the time the reimbursable order is accepted by the performing 
activity: Provided, That for the purpose of this section, supervision 
and administration costs includes all in-house Government cost. 
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SEC. 8094. The Secretary of Defense may waive reimbursement 
of the cost of conferences, seminars, courses of instruction, or similar 
educational activities of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies 
for military officers and civilian officials of foreign nations if the 
Secretary determines that attendance by such personnel, without 
reimbursement, is in the national security interest of the United 
States: Provided, That costs for which reimbursement is waived 
pursuant to this subsection shall be paid from appropriations avail-
able for the Asia-Pacific Center. 
SEC. 8095. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, 
the Chief of the National Guard Bureau may permit the use of 
equipment of the National Guard Distance Learning Project by 
any person or entity on a space-available, reimbursable basis. The 
Chief of the National Guard Bureau shall establish the amount 
of reimbursement for such use on a case-by-case basis. 
(b) Amounts collected under subsection (a) shall be credited 
to funds available for the National Guard Distance Learning Project 
and be available to defray the costs associated with the use of 
equipment of the project under that subsection. Such funds shall 
be available for such purposes without fiscal year limitation. 
SEC. 8096. Using funds available by this Act or any other 
Act, the Secretary of the Air Force, pursuant to a determination 
under section 2690 of title 10, United States Code, may implement 
cost-effective agreements for required heating facility modernization 
in the Kaiserslautern Military Community in the Federal Republic 
of Germany: Provided, That in the City of Kaiserslautern such 
agreements will include the use of United States anthracite as 
the base load energy for municipal district heat to the United 
States Defense installations: Provided further. That at Landstuhl 
Army Regional Medical Center and Ramstein Air Base, furnished 
heat may be obtained from private, regional or municipal services, 
if provisions are included for the consideration of United States 
coal as an energy source. 
SEC. 8097. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and 
notwithstanding the provisions in section 7306 of title 10, United 
States Code, in addition to amounts otherwise appropriated or 
made available by this Act, $13,000,000 is appropriated to the 
Department of the Navy and shall be available only for a grant 
to the Intrepid Sea-Air-Space Foundation only for the refurbishment 
of the former U.S.S. Intrepid (CV 11). 
SEC. 8098. In accordance with section 1557 of title 31, United 
States Code, the following obligated balance shall be exempt from 
subchapter IV of chapter 15 of such title and shall remain available 
for expenditure without fiscal year limitation: Funds obligated by 
the Economic Development Administration for EDA Project No. 
04-49-04095 from funds made available in the Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 1994 (Public Law 103-189). 
SEC. 8099. None of the funds provided by this Act may be 
used to pay costs of instruction for an Air Force officer for enroll-
ment commencing during the 1998-1999 academic year in a post-
graduate degree program at a civilian educational institution if— 
(1) the degree program to be pursued by that officer is 
offered by the Air Force Institute of Technology (or was offered 
by that institute during the 1996-1997 academic year); 
(2) the officer is qualified for enrollment at the Air Force 
Institute of Technology in that degree program; and 
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111 STAT. 1243 
(3) the number of students commencing that degree pro-
gram at the Air Force Institute of Technology during the first 
semester of the 1998-1999 academic year is less than the 
number of students commencing that degree program for the 
first semester of the 1996-1997 academic year. 
SEC. 8100. During the current fiscal year, the amounts which 
are necessary for the operation and maintenance of the Fisher 
Houses administered by the Departments of the Army, the Navy, 
and the Air Force are hereby appropriated, to be derived from 
amounts which are available in the applicable Fisher House trust 
fund established under 10 U.S.C. 2221 for the Fisher Houses of 
each such department. 
SEC. 8101. During the current fiscal year, refunds attributable 
to the use of the Government travel card by military personnel 
and civilian employees of the Department of Defense may be cred-
ited to operation and maintenance accounts of the Department 
of Defense which are current when the refunds are received. 
SEC. 8102. During the current fiscal year, not more than a 
total of $60,000,000 in withdrawal credits may be made by the 
Marine Corps Supply Management activity group of the Navy Work-
ing Capital Fund, Department of Defense Working Capital Funds, 
to the credit of current applicable appropriations of a Department 
of Defense activity in connection with the acquisition of critical 
low density repairables that are capitalized into the Navy Working 
Capital Fund. 
SEC. 8103. Notwithstanding 31 U.S.C. 3902, during the current 
fiscal year interest penalties may be paid by the Department of 
Defense from funds financing the operation of the military depart-
ment or defense agency with which the invoice or contract payment 
is associated. 
SEC. 8104. At the time the President submits his budget for 
fiscal year 1999, the Department of Defense shall transmit to the 
congressional defense committees a budget justification document 
for the active and reserve Military Personnel accounts, to be known 
as the "M-1", which shall identify, at the budget activity, activity 
group, and subactivity group level, the amounts requested by the 
President to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
military personnel in any budget request, or amended budget 
request, for fiscal year 1999. 
SEC. 8105. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, 
the total amount appropriated in this Act is hereby reduced by 
$100,000,000 to reflect savings due to excess inventory, to be distrib-
uted as follows: "Operation and Maintenance, Army", $40,000,000; 
"Operation and Maintenance, Navy", $40,000,000; and "Operation 
and Maintenance, Air Force", $20,000,000. 
SEC. 8106. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Act, 
the total amount appropriated in title III of this Act is hereby 
reduced by $75,000,000 to reflect savings from repeal of section 
2403 of title 10, United States Code. 
SEC. 8107. The Secretary of the Army may exchange or sell 
one Army C-20 aircraft and may apply the exchange allowance 
or sale proceeds in whole or in part payment for the acquisition 
of one C-37 aircraft: Provided, That in addition to such exchange 
allowance or sale proceeds, of the amount appropriated for fiscal 
year 1998 for Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, not more than 
$6,000,000 shall be made available for acquisition of the C-37 
for the United States Army: Provided further. That in addition 
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to such exchange allowance or sale proceeds, of the amount appro-
priated for fiscal year 1997 for Aircraft Procurement, Air Force, 
not more than $27,100,000 shall be made available for acquisition 
of the C-37 for the United States Army. 
SEC. 8108. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of 
Defense may award contracts for capital assets having a develop-
ment or acquisition cost of not less than $100,000 of a Working 
Capital Fund in advance of the availability of funds in the Working 
Capital Fund for minor construction, automatic data processing 
equipment, software, equipment, and other capital improvements. 
SEC. 8109. From funds made available by this Act for the 
Maritime Technology Program up to $250,000 shall be made avail-
able to assist with a pilot project that will facilitate the transfer 
of commercial cruise ship shipbuilding technology and expertise 
to United States yards, utilize the experience and expertise of 
existing U.S.-flag cruise ship operators, and enable the operation 
of a U.S.-flag foreign-built cruise ship, and two newly constructed 
U.S.-flag cruise ships: Provided, That a person (including a related 
person with respect to that person) who, within 18 months after 
the date of enactment, enters into a binding contract for construc-
tion in the United States of two cruise ships, which contract shall 
provide for the construction of two cruise snips of equal or greater 
size than the cruise ship being operated by such person on the 
date of enactment and shall require the delivery of the first cruise 
ship no later than January 1, 2005, and the second cruise ship 
no later than January 1, 2008, may document with a coastwise 
endorsement a cruise ship constructed pursuant to this section 
and a foreign-built cruise ship otherwise in compliance with 46 
U.S.C. 289, 883, and 12106 until such date which is 24 months 
after the delivery of the second cruise ship or any subsequently 
delivered cruise ship: Provided further. That a person (including 
a related person with respect to that person) within the meaning 
of 46 U.S.C. 801 may not operate a U.S.-flag foreign-built cruise 
ship, or any other cruise ship, in coastwise trade between or among 
the islands of Hawaii, upon execution of the contract referred to 
in this section and continuing throughout the life expectancy (as 
that term is used in 46 U.S.C. App. 1125) of a newly constructed 
U.S.-flag cruise ship referred to in this section, unless the cruise 
ship is operated by a person (including a related person with 
respect to that person) that is operating a cruise ship in coastwise 
trade between or among the islands of Hawaii on the date of 
enactment, except if any cruise ship constructed pursuant to this 
section operates in regular service other than between or among 
the islands of Hawaii: Provided further. That for purposes of this 
section the term "cruise ship" means a vessel that is at least 
10,000 gross tons (as measured under chapter 143 of title 46, 
United States Code) and has berth or stateroom accommodations 
for at least 275 passengers: Provided further, That for purposes 
of this section, unless otherwise defined in this section, the term 
"person" means a corporation, partnership or association the control-
ling interest of which is owned by citizens of the United States 
within the meaning of 46 U.S.C. 802(b): Provided further. That 
for purposes of this section the term "related person" means with 
respect to a person: (1) a holding company, subsidiary, affiliate 
or association of the person; and (2) an officer, director, or agent 
of the person or of an entity referred to in (1): Provided 
further, 
That none of the funds provided in this or any other Act may 
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111 STAT. 1245 
be obligated for the tooling to construct or the construction of 
vessels addressed by this section. 
SEC. 8110. The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congres-
sional defense committees not later than November 15, 1997 an 
aviation safety plan outlining an appropriate level of navigational 
safety upgrades for all Department of Defense aircraft and the 
associated funding profile to install these upgrades in an expeditious 
manner. 
SEC. 8111. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the 
Secretary of Defense shall obligate the funds provided for University 
Research Initiatives in the Department of Defense Appropriations 
Act, 1997 (titles I through VIII under section 101(b) of Public 
Law 104-208) for the projects and in the amounts provided for 
in House Report 104-863 of the House of Representatives, 104th 
Congress, 2d session. 
SEC. 8112. The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Reports. 
Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and 
Senate, not later than April 15, 1998, a report on alternatives 
for current theater combat simulations: Provided, That this report 
shall be based on a review and evaluation by the Defense Science 
Board of the adequacy of the current models used by the Depart-
ment of Defense for theater combat simulations, with particular 
emphasis on the tactical warfare (TACWAR) model and the ability 
of that model to adequately measure airpower, stealth, and other 
asymmetrical United States warfighting advantages, and shall 
include the recommendations of the Defense Science Board for 
improvements to current models and modeling techniques. 
SEC. 8113. Effective on June 30, 1998, section 8106(a) of the Effective date. 
Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 (titles I through 
VIII of the matter under section 101(b) of Public Law 104-208; 
110 Stat. 3009-111; 10 U.S.C. 113 note), is amended by striking 
"$3,000,000" and inserting "$1,000,000". 
SEC. 8114. None of the funds appropriated in title IV of this 
Act may be used to procure end-items for delivery to military 
forces for operational training, operational use or inventory require-
ments: Provided, That this restriction does not apply to end-items 
used in development, prototj^jing, and test activities preceding and 
leading to acceptance for operational use: Provided further, That 
this restriction does not apply to programs funded within the 
National Foreign Intelligence Program: Provided further, That the 
Secretary of Defense may waive this restriction on a case-by-case 
basis by certifying in writing to the Committees on Appropriations 
of the House of Representatives and the Senate that it is in the 
national security interest to do so. 
SEC. 8115. It is the sense of the Congress that all member 
nations of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) should 
contribute their proportionate share to pay for the costs of the 
Partnership for Peace program and for any future costs attributable 
to the expansion of NATO. 
SEC. 8116. The budget of the President for fiscal year 1999 
10 USC 221 note, 
submitted to Congress pursuant to section 1105 of title 31, United 
States Code, and each annual budget request thereafter, shall 
include budget activity groups (known as "subactivities") in the 
operation and maintenance accounts of the military departments 
and other appropriation accounts, as may be necessary, to sepa-
rately identify all costs incurred by the Department of Defense 
to support the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. 
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The budget justification materials submitted to Congress in support 
of the budget of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999, 
and subsequent fiscal years, shall provide complete, detailed esti-
mates for the incremental costs of such expansion. 
SEC. 8117. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be obligated or expended to enter into or renew a contract with 
a contractor that is subject to the reporting requirement set forth 
in subsection (d) of section 4212 of title 38, United States Code, 
but has not submitted the most recent report required by such 
subsection for 1997 or a subsequent year. 
SEC. 8118. None of the funds made available in this Act may 
be used to approve or license the sale of the F-22 advanced tactical 
fighter to any foreign government. 
SEC. 8119. None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made 
available by this Act may be made available for the United States 
Man and the Biosphere Program, or related projects. 
SEC. 8120. Up to $4,500,000 of funds available to the Depart-
ment of Defense may be available for the payment of claims for 
loss and damage to personal property suffered as a direct result 
of the flooding in the Red River Basin during April and May, 
1997 by members of the Armed Forces residing in the vicinity 
of Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, without regard 
to the provisions of section 3721(e) of title 31, United States Code. 
SEC. 8121. Of the total amount appropriated under title II 
for the Navy, the Secretary of the Navy shall make $25,000,000 
available for a program to demonstrate expanded use of multitech-
nology automated reader cards throughout the Navy and the Marine 
Corps, including demonstration 
of the use of the 
so-called 
"smartship" technology of the ship-to-shore work load/off load pro-
gram. 
SEC. 8122. (a) FINDINGS.—< 1) The North Atlantic Treaty 
Organization, at the Madrid summit, decided to admit three new 
members, the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary. 
(2) The President, on behalf of the United States endorsed 
and advocated the expansion of the North Atlantic Treaty Organiza-
tion to include three additional members. 
(3) The Senate will consider the ratification of instruments 
to approve the admissions of new members to the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization. 
(4) 
The 
United 
States 
has 
contributed 
more 
than 
$20,000,000,000 since 1952 for infrastructure and support of the 
Alliance. 
(5) In appropriations Acts considered by the Congress for fiscal 
year 1998, $449,000,000 has been requested by the President for 
expenditures in direct support of United States participation in 
the Alliance. 
(6) In appropriations Acts considered by the Congress for fiscal 
year 1998, $9,983,300,000 has been requested by the President 
in support of United States military expenditures in North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization countries. 
(b) REPORT TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary of Defense shall iden-
tify and report to the congressional defense committees not later 
than October 1, 1997— 
(1) the amounts necessary, by appropriation account, for 
all anticipated costs to the United States for the admission 
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111 STAT. 1247 
of the Czech Republic, Poland and Hungary to the North Atlan-
tic Treaty Organization for the fiscal years 1998, 1999, 2000, 
2001 and 2002; and 
(2) any new commitments or obligations entered into or 
assumed by the United States in association with the admission 
of new members to the Alliance, to include the deployment 
of United States military personnel, the provision of defense 
articles or equipment, training activities and the modification 
and construction of military facilities. 
SEC. 8123. (a) The Secretary of Defense may, on a case-by-
case basis, waive with respect to a foreign country each limitation 
on the procurement of defense items from foreign sources provided 
in law if the Secretary determines that the application of the 
limitation with respect to that country would invalidate cooperative 
programs entered into between the Department of Defense and 
the foreign country, or would invalidate reciprocal trade agreements 
for the procurement of defense items entered into under section 
2531 of title 10, United States Code, and the country does not 
discriminate against the same or similar defense items produced 
in the United States for that country. 
(b) Subsection (a) applies with respect to— 
(1) contracts and subcontracts entered into on or after 
the date of the enactment of this Act; and 
(2) options for the procurement of items that are exercised 
after such date under contracts that are entered into before 
such date if the option prices are adjusted for any reason 
other than the application of a waiver granted under subsection 
(a). 
(c) Subsection (a) does not apply to a limitation regarding 
construction of warships, ball and roller bearings, and clothing 
or textile materials as defined by section 11 (chapters 50-65) of 
the Harmonized Tariff Schedule and products classified under head-
ings 4010, 4202, 4203, 6401 through 6406, 6505, 7019, and 9404. 
SEC. 8124. It is the sense of Congress that should the Senate 
ratify NATO enlargement, that the proportional cost of the United 
States share of the NATO common budget should not increase, 
and that if any NATO member does not pay its share, the United 
States shall not pay either. 
SEC. 8125. Congress finds that the Defense Base Closure and 
Realignment Commission directed the transfer of only 10 electro-
magnetic test environment systems from Eglin Air Force Base, 
Florida to Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. 
SEC. 8126. (a) FINDINGS.— 
(1) the Department of Defense budget is insufficient to 
fulfill all the requirements on the unfunded priorities lists 
of the military services and defense agencies; 
(2) the documented printing expenses of the Department 
of Defense amount to several hundred million dollars per year, 
and a similar amount of undocumented printing expenses may 
be included in external defense contracts; 
(3) printing in two or more colors generally increases costs; 
(4) the Joint Committee on Printing of the Congress of 
the United States has established regulations intended to pro-
tect taxpayers from extravagant Government printing expenses; 
(5) the Government Printing and Binding Regulations pub-
lished by the Joint Committee on Printing direct 
that 
" * * * it is the responsibility of the head of any department, 
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independent office or establishment of the Government to 
assure that all multicolor printing shall contribute demon-
strable value toward achieving a greater fulfillment of the 
ultimate end-purpose of whatever printed item in which it 
is included."; 
(6) the Department of Defense publishes a large number 
of brochures, calendars, and other products in which the use 
of multicolor printing does not appear to meet the demonstrably 
valuable contribution requirement of the Joint Committee on 
Printing, but instead appears to be used primarily for decorative 
effect; and 
(7) the Department of Defense could save resources for 
higher priority needs by reducing printing expenses. 
(b) SENSE OF THE SENATE.—Therefore, it is the sense of the 
Senate that— 
(1) the Secretary of Defense should ensure that the printing 
costs of the Department of Defense and military services are 
held to the lowest amount possible; 
(2) the Department of Defense should strictly comply with 
the Printing and Binding Regulations published by the Joint 
Committee on Printing of the Congress of the United States; 
and 
(3) the Department of Defense budget submission for fiscal 
year 1999 should reflect the savings that will result from the 
stricter printing guidelines in paragraphs (1) and (2). 
(RESCISSIONS) 
SEC. 8127. Of the funds provided in title III of the Department 
of Defense 
Appropriations 
Act, 
1996 (Public 
Law 
104-61), 
$62,000,000 are rescinded, and of the funds provided in title IV 
of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 (as con-
tained in section 101(b) of Public Law 104-208), $38,000,000 are 
rescinded: Provided, That such rescissions shall not be made before 
Reports. 
July 1, 1998: Provided further. That not later than June 1, 1998, 
the Undersecretary of Defense (Comptroller) shall submit a report 
to the congressional defense committees listing the specific pro-
grams, projects and activities proposed for rescission subject to 
the provisions of this section. 
SEC. 8128. Section 303(e) of the 1997 Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act for Recovery from Natural Disasters, and for 
Overseas Peacekeeping Efforts, Including Those in Bosnia (Public 
Law 105-18; 111 Stat. 168) is struck and the following is inserted 
in lieu thereof: 
"(e) AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.—The Secretary may use funds 
available in the Defense Working Capital Fund for the payment 
of the costs of utilities, maintenance and repair, and improvements 
entered into under the lease under this section.". 
SEC. 8129. Subject to amounts appropriated under the heading 
"SHIPBUILDING AND CONVERSION, NAVY" in this Act for the New 
Attack Submarine Program, and notwithstanding any provisions 
of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
and of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
1997 to the contrary, and notwithstanding section 2304(k) of title 
10, United States Code, and the policy set forth in paragraph 
(1) of that section, the Secretary of the Navy may enter into a 
contract during fiscal year 1998 for the necessary procurement 
of four submarines under the New Attack Submarine Program 
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111 STAT. 1249 
with one of the two shipbuilders which are party to the Team 
Agreement between Electric Boat Corporation and Newport News 
Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company dated February 25, 1997, 
that was submitted to the Congress by the Secretary of the Navy 
on March 31, 1997, as the prime contractor on the condition such 
prime contractor enter into one or more subcontracts (under such 
prime contract) with the other shipbuilder which is a party to 
such Team Agreement as contemplated in such Team Agreement, 
with such contract providing for construction of the first submarine 
in fiscal year 1998 and for the advance construction and advance 
procurement of material for the second, third, and fourth sub-
marines in fiscal year 1998: Provided, That such prime contract 
shall provide that if such contract is terminated, the United States 
shall not be liable for termination costs in excess of the total 
amount appropriated for the New Attack Submarine Program. 
SEC. 8130. In addition to amounts provided elsewhere in this 
Act, $3,000,000 is hereby appropriated for "Operation and Mainte-
nance, Defense-Wide", and shall be made available only for the 
establishment of the "21st Century National Security Strategy 
Study Group" (hereafter in this section referred to as the "Study 
Group"): Provided, That these funds may be obligated only upon 
the completion of a memorandum of agreement between the Sec-
retary of Defense (after consultation with the President), the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives, the Minority Leader of 
the House of Representatives, the Majority Leader of the Senate, 
and the Minority Leader of the Senate: Provided further. That 
this memorandum of agreement will set forth the scope of the 
Group's work, as well as its charter, composition, authorities, life-
span, and products to be generated: Provided further. That this 
memorandum of agreement shall be completed not later than 
December 15, 1997. 
SEC. 8131. (a) PANEL To REVIEW LONG-RANGE AIR POWER.— Establishment. 
(1) There is hereby established an independent panel to evaluate 
the adequacy of current planning for United States long-range 
air power and the requirement for continued low-rate production 
of B-2 stealth bombers. 
(2) The panel shall be composed of nine members appointed 
as follows: 
(A) two members shall be named by the President; 
President. 
(B) two members shall be named by the Speaker of the 
House of Representatives; 
(C) one member shall be named by the Minority Leader 
of the House of Representatives; 
(D) two members shall be named by the Majority Leader 
of the Senate; 
(E) one member shall be named by the Minority Leader 
of the Senate; and 
(F) one member, who will serve as chairman of the panel, President, 
shall be named by the President. 
(b) FUNCTIONS OF PANEL.—(1) Not later than March 1, 1998, Reports. 
the panel shall submit to the President and Congress a report 
containing its conclusions and recommendations concerning the 
appropriate B-2 bomber force and specifically stating its rec-
ommendation on whether additional funds for the B-2 should be 
used for continued low-rate production of the B-2 or for upgrades 
to improve deployability, survivability and maintainability. 
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President. 
Certification. 
(2) As part of its evaluation and review, the panel shall con-
sider, but not be limited to, the following: 
(A) scenarios involving no warning time and little warning 
time from potential adversaries; 
(B) the make-up of the current bomber fleet and expected 
attrition to that fleet over the next 15 years; 
(C) the potential effect of additional B-2 bombers on deter-
rence; 
(D) the potential effect of additional B-2 bombers in the 
"halt phase" of a conflict; 
(E) the potential of a biological or chemical "lock-out" of 
tactical United States assets by future adversaries and the 
effect of additional B-2 bombers toward mitigating such a 
tactic; 
(F) trade-offs between additional B-2 bombers and other 
programmed Department of Defense assets in meeting the sce-
narios described in subsections (b)(2)(A) through (b)(2)(E) above; 
(G) the desirability of an increased rate of purchase of 
precision-guided munitions for aircraft in the existing B-2 fleet; 
(H) the desirability of improving the low observable 
characteristics of the existing B-2 fleet; and 
(I) the affordability of additional B-2 bombers in the con-
text of projected levels of future defense funding. 
(c) PANEL ADMINISTRATION.—(1) The members of the panel 
shall be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of agencies under 
subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States Code, while 
away from their homes or regular places of business in the perform-
ance of services for the panel, 
(2) Upon the request of the chairman of the panel, the Secretary 
of Defense may detail to the panel, on a nonreimbursable basis, 
personnel of the Department of Defense to assist the panel in 
carrying out its duties. The Secretary of Defense shall furnish 
to the panel such administrative and support services as may 
be requested by the chairman of the panel and shall ensure that 
all appropriate actions are taken to preserve the options of the 
President until the panel submits its report under subsection (b)( 1). 
(d) FUNDING.—^The Secretary of Defense shall, upon the request 
of the panel, make available to the panel such amounts as the 
panel may require to carry out its duties under this section. 
(e) TERMINATION OF THE PANEL.—^The panel shall terminate 
30 days after the date on which it submits its report under sub-
section (b)(1). 
SEC. 8132. None of the funds in this Act may be made available 
for the deplojmient of United States Armed Forces in the Republic 
of Bosnia and Herzegovina after June 30, 1998, unless the Presi-
dent, after consultation with the bipartisan leadership of the Senate 
and the House of Representatives, transmits to the Congress not 
later than May 15, 1998 a certification that the continued presence 
of United States Armed Forces is required in order to meet the 
national security interests of the United States: Provided, That 
such certification shall specify the following aspects of any deploy-
ment beyond June 30, 1998— 
(1) the reasons why such deplojrment is in the national 
interest; 
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111 STAT. 1251 
(2) the number of United States military personnel to be 
deployed in £ind around the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina 
and the former Yugoslavia; 
(3) the expected duration of any such deployment; 
(4) the mission and objectives of United States military 
forces deployed in and around the Republic of Bosnia and 
Herzegovina and the former Yugoslavia; 
(5) the exit strategy for United States forces engaged in 
such deployment; 
(6) the costs associated with any deployment beyond June 
30, 1998; and 
(7) the impact of such deployment on the morale, retention, 
and effectiveness of United States forces: 
Provided further, That concurrent with said certification, the Presi-
dent shall submit a supplemental appropriations request for such 
amounts as are necessary for any continued deployment beyond 
June 30, 1998: Provided further, That nothing in this section shall 
be deemed to restrict the authority of the President under the 
Constitution to protect the lives of United States citizens. 
This Act may be cited as the "Department of Defense Appropria-
tions Act, 1998". 
Approved October 8, 1997. 
LEGISLATIVE HISTORY—H.R. 2266 (S. 1005): 
HOUSE REPORTS: Nos. 105-206 (Comm. on Appropriations) and 105-265 (Comm. 
of Conference). 
SENATE REPORTS: No. 105-45 accompanying S. 1005 (Comm. on Appropriations). 
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 143 (1997): 
July 29, considered and passed House; passed Senate, amended. 
Sept. 25, House and Senate agreed to conference report. 
WEEKLY COMPILATION OF PRESIDENTIAL DOCUMENTS, Vol. 33 (1997): 
Oct. 8, Presidential statement. 
Oct. 14, President's special message on line item veto. 
FEDERAL REGISTER, Vol. 62 (1997): 
Oct. 15, Cancellation of items pursuant to the Line Item Veto Act.