[Congressional Bills 107th Congress]
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107th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                 S. 272

   To rescind fiscal year 2001 procurement funds for the V-22 Osprey 
  aircraft program other than as necessary to maintain the production 
    base and to require certain reports to Congress concerning that 
                                program.


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                   IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

                            February 7, 2001

 Mr. Feingold introduced the following bill; which was read twice and 
   referred concurrently to the Committee on Appropriations and the 
Committee on the Budget, pursuant to the order of January 30, 1975, as 
  modified by the order of April 11, 1986, with instructions that the 
       Budget Committee be authorized to report its views to the 
 Appropriations Committee, and that the latter alone be authorized to 
                            report the bill

A BILL_________________________________________________________________

                                 A BILL


 
   To rescind fiscal year 2001 procurement funds for the V-22 Osprey 
  aircraft program other than as necessary to maintain the production 
    base and to require certain reports to Congress concerning that 
                                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 ``Osprey Safety, Performance, and 
Reliability Evaluation Act of 2001''.

SEC. 2. RESCISSIONS.

    (a) In General.--Of the funds made available in the Department of 
Defense Appropriations Act, 2001 (Public Law 106-259), the following 
amounts are rescinded from the following accounts:
            (1) ``Aircraft Procurement, Navy'', $856,618,000, of which 
        $776,760,000 shall be derived from ``V-22 (Medium Lift)'' and 
        $79,858,000 shall be derived from ``V-22 (Medium Lift) (AP-
        CY)''.
            (2) ``Aircraft Procurement, Air Force'', $358,440,000, of 
        which $335,766,000 shall be derived from ``V-22 Osprey'' and 
        $22,674,000 shall be derived from ``V-22 Osprey (AP-CY)''.
    (b) Limitation on Use of Remaining Funds.--Following the rescission 
made by subsection (a)(1), the balance of the funds remaining available 
for obligation in the account involved for ``V-22 (Medium Lift)'' may 
be used only to carry out activities necessary to maintain the 
production base for such aircraft program.

SEC. 3. REPORTS TO CONGRESS.

    (a) Secretary of the Navy Report.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
submit to Congress a report on the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. The 
report shall include the following:
            (1) A description of the activities carried out, and 
        programmed to be carried out, using funds appropriated for that 
        program for research, development, test, and evaluation for 
        fiscal year 2001.
            (2) A description of the actions taken by the Secretary as 
        a result of the report on that program issued by the Director 
        of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense 
        dated November 17, 2000.
            (3) A description of the manner in which the Marine Corps 
        and the Department of the Navy have responded to the reports of 
        data falsification concerning the Osprey aircraft by Marine 
        Corps personnel assigned to Marine Medium Tilt-Rotor Training 
        Squadron 204.
    (b) Inspector General Report.--The Inspector General of the 
Department of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the results, 
as of the submission of the report, of the investigation of the 
Inspector General into the V-22 Osprey aircraft program.
    (c) Time for Submission of Reports.--The reports under subsections 
(a) and (b) shall each be submitted not later than the earlier of the 
following:
            (1) The date that is three months after the date of the 
        enactment of this Act.
            (2) The date of the Milestone III decision for the V-22 
        Osprey aircraft program approving the entry of that program 
        into full-rate production.
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