[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4424 Introduced in House (IH)]







105th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 4424

To require the Secretary of Defense to obligate funds appropriated for 
            fiscal year 1998 for the SR-71 aircraft program.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             August 6, 1998

  Mr. McKeon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on National Security

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                                 A BILL


 
To require the Secretary of Defense to obligate funds appropriated for 
            fiscal year 1998 for the SR-71 aircraft program.

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

SECTION 1. REQUIREMENT TO OBLIGATE FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR SR-71 
              AIRCRAFT PROGRAM FOR FISCAL YEAR 1998.

    The Secretary of Defense shall obligate the funds appropriated for 
the SR-71 aircraft in the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
1998 (Public Law 105-56), in accordance with the purposes for which 
those funds, in the amount of $30,000,000 for operation and maintenance 
and $9,000,000 for aircraft modifications, were appropriated. 
Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the $30,000,000 
appropriated in that Act for operation and maintenance of the SR-71 
aircraft shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 
1999.
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