[Congressional Bills 106th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 3469 Introduced in House (IH)]







106th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3469

To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the coverage and 
  treatment of overhead costs of United States factories and arsenals 
     when not making supplies for the Army, and for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           November 18, 1999

 Mr. Evans (for himself and Mr. Leach) introduced the following bill; 
         which was referred to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to provide for the coverage and 
  treatment of overhead costs of United States factories and arsenals 
     when not making supplies for the Army, and for other purposes.

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

SECTION 1. OVERHEAD COSTS OF UNITED STATES FACTORIES AND ARSENALS WHEN 
              NOT MAKING SUPPLIES FOR THE ARMY.

    (a) Findings.--Congress makes the following findings:
            (1) Factories and arsenals owned by the United States play 
        a vital role in the national defense by ensuring the making of 
        supplies for the Department of the Army.
            (2) The vital role of such factories and arsenals in the 
        national defense is not diminished by their underutilization in 
        peacetime.
    (b) Overhead Costs of Factories and Arsenals When Underutilized.--
Section 4532 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at 
the end the following:
    ``(c) Overhead Costs When Underutilized.--(1) The Secretary shall 
submit to Congress each year, together with the President's budget for 
the fiscal year beginning in such year under section 1105(a) of title 
31, an estimate of the funds required in that fiscal year to cover any 
overhead costs at factories and arsenals referred to in subsection (a) 
that are not covered by the utilization of such factories and arsenals 
by the Department of the Army in that fiscal year due to low production 
requirements of the Department.
    ``(2) Funds appropriated to the Secretary for a fiscal year to 
cover the overhead costs described in paragraph (1) shall be available 
to the Secretary in that fiscal year only to cover those overhead 
costs, except to the extent that those funds are no longer required to 
cover those overhead costs due to unanticipated utilization.
    ``(3) In determining the cost of making a supply or other good, 
other than a supply for the Department of the Army, at a factory or 
arsenal referred to in subsection (a), the Secretary shall not take 
into account any overhead cost covered with funds available to the 
Secretary under paragraph (2).''.
    (c) Stylistic Amendments.--That section is further amended--
            (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``Authority To Make 
        Supplies.--'' before ``The Secretary of the Army''; and
            (2) in subsection (b), by inserting ``Authority to 
        Abolish.--'' before ``The Secretary''.
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