[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1700 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1700

To provide that a national missile defense system shall not be subject 
 to an otherwise applicable statutory requirement that a major defense 
  acquisition program not proceed beyond low-rate initial production 
 before completion of initial operational test and evaluation and that 
an environmental impact statement prepared for the construction of any 
   element of such a system shall not be subject to judicial review.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 1999

Mr. Hostettler (for himself, Mr. Weldon of Pennsylvania, Mr. McIntosh, 
  Mr. Bartlett of Maryland, Mr. Green of Wisconsin, Mr. Aderholt, Mr. 
Pitts, and Mr. Burton of Indiana) introduced the following bill; which 
was referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the 
 Committee on Resources, for a period to be subsequently determined by 
the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall 
           within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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                                 A BILL


 
To provide that a national missile defense system shall not be subject 
 to an otherwise applicable statutory requirement that a major defense 
  acquisition program not proceed beyond low-rate initial production 
 before completion of initial operational test and evaluation and that 
an environmental impact statement prepared for the construction of any 
   element of such a system shall not be subject to judicial review.

    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 ``National Missile Defense Expediency 
Act of 1999''.

SEC. 2. WAIVER FOR NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM OF REQUIREMENT FOR 
              COMPLETION OF INITIAL OPERATIONAL TEST AND EVALUATION 
              BEFORE PROCUREMENT BEGINS.

    Section 2399(a) of title 10, United States Code, does not apply to 
procurement for a national missile defense system.

SEC. 3. LIMITATION ON JUDICIAL REVIEW REGARDING NATIONAL MISSILE 
              DEFENSE SYSTEM.

    Any environmental impact statement prepared under section 102(2)(C) 
of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42 U.S.C. 4332(2)(C)) 
for construction of any element of a national missile defense system 
shall not be subject to judicial review.
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