[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 520 Introduced in Senate (IS)]

103d CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 520

To prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds on the Advanced Solid 
                         Rocket Motor program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                March 5 (legislative day, March 3), 1993

Mr. Bumpers (for himself and Mr. Cohen) introduced the following bill; 
  which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Appropriations

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                                 A BILL


 
To prohibit the expenditure of appropriated funds on the Advanced Solid 
                         Rocket Motor program.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Deficit Reduction Through Advanced 
Solid Rocket Motor Termination Act of 1993''.

SEC. 2. FINDINGS.

    The Congress finds that--
            (1) the Federal budget deficit has grown to such an extent 
        that it poses a serious short-, medium-, and long-term threat 
        to the health of the United States economy;
            (2) the gross interest costs on the National debt now 
        exceed defense expenditures in the Federal budget and are one 
        of the fastest-growing components in the Federal budget;
            (3) the American people are demanding serious and 
        fundamental changes in the Federal Government's management of 
        spending priorities and overall fiscal stewardship;
            (4) Federal Government programs that are not absolutely 
        necessary to the health and well-being of the American people 
        must be closely scrutinized for possible funding reduction or 
        elimination;
            (5) the Advanced Solid Rocket Motor (hereafter in this Act 
        referred to as the ``ASRM'') program has not been sought by the 
        National Aeronautics and Space Administration (hereafter in 
        this Act referred to as ``NASA'');
            (6) the National Research Council and the Aerospace Safety 
        Advisory Panel have concluded that the ASRM program involves 
        high technical and programmatic risks and should be 
        reconsidered;
            (7) the cost estimates of the ASRM program have doubled in 
        the past 5 years, and the program has fallen more than 4 years 
        behind schedule; and
            (8) termination of the ASRM program could save the Federal 
        Government several billion dollars.

SEC. 3. TERMINATION OF THE ADVANCED SOLID ROCKET MOTOR PROGRAM.

    (a) Prohibition.--Effective 90 days after the date of enactment of 
this section, no appropriated funds shall be available for use on the 
ASRM program.
    (b) Exception.--Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection (a), 
not to exceed $50,000,000 of such funds referred to in subsection (c) 
may be used in terminating the ASRM program.
    (c) Unexpended Funds.--Any funds appropriated for use on the ASRM 
program that remain unobligated and unexpended 90 days after the date 
of enactment of this section shall be credited to the general revenues 
of the United States Treasury.

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