[Congressional Bills 105th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 50 Introduced in House (IH)]

  1st Session
                                 H. R. 50

To provide for the operation of a combined post exchange and commissary 
  store at Castle Air Force Base, California, a military installation 
 selected for closure under the base closure laws, in order to ensure 
that adequate services remain available to the numerous members of the 
 Armed Forces, retired members, and their dependents who reside in the 
                     vicinity of the installation.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            January 7, 1997

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

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide for the operation of a combined post exchange and commissary 
  store at Castle Air Force Base, California, a military installation 
 selected for closure under the base closure laws, in order to ensure 
that adequate services remain available to the numerous members of the 
 Armed Forces, retired members, and their dependents who reside in the 
                     vicinity of the installation.

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

SECTION 1. OPERATION OF COMBINED POST EXCHANGE AND COMMISSARY STORE, 
              CASTLE AIR FORCE BASE, CALIFORNIA.

    (a) BX Mart Required.--Subsection (c) of section 2490a of title 10, 
United States Code, is amended--
            (1) by striking out the subsection heading and inserting in 
        lieu thereof the following: ``Operation Required at Certain 
        Installations.--(1)''; and
            (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
    ``(2) The military installations selected as the sites for the 
operation of a combined exchange and commissary store under this 
section shall also include Castle Air Force Base, California. The 
Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the combined exchange and 
commissary store is fully operational at Castle Air Force Base not 
later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
paragraph.''.
    (b) Conforming Change in Number of Authorized BX Marts.--Subsection 
(b) of such section is amended by striking out ``ten'' and inserting in 
lieu thereof ``11''.
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