[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
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[H.R. 3660 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 3660

 To establish the United States Office for Contingency Operations, and 
                          for other purposes.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           December 14, 2011

   Mr. Carnahan (for himself, Mr. Burton of Indiana, Mr. Connolly of 
   Virginia, Mrs. Ellmers, Mr. Jones, and Mr. Welch) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, 
 and in addition to the Committees on Armed Services and Oversight and 
 Government Reform, 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 establish the United States Office for Contingency Operations, 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. SHORT TITLE; TABLE OF CONTENTS.

    (a) Short Title.--This Act may be cited as the ``Contingency 
Operations Oversight and Interagency Enhancement Act of 2011''.
    (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents is as follows:

Sec. 1. Short title; table of contents.
Sec. 2. Definitions.
Sec. 3. Findings and purposes.
Sec. 4. Construction; severability.
Sec. 5. Effective date.
       TITLE I--UNITED STATES OFFICE FOR CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS: 
                ESTABLISHMENT, FUNCTIONS, AND PERSONNEL

Sec. 101. Establishment of the United States Office for Contingency 
                            Operations.
Sec. 102. Transfer of authorities, functions, personnel, and assets to 
                            the Office.
Sec. 103. Responsibilities of the Director, Deputy Director, Inspector 
                            General, and other offices.
Sec. 104. Personnel system.
    TITLE II--PREPARING AND EXECUTING STABILITY AND RECONSTRUCTION 
                               OPERATIONS

Sec. 201. Sole control.
Sec. 202. Relation to Department of State and United States Agency for 
                            International Development.
Sec. 203. Relation to Department of Defense combatant commands 
                            performing military missions.
Sec. 204. Contingency Federal Acquisition Regulation.
Sec. 205. Stabilization and Reconstruction Fund.
          TITLE III--RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

Sec. 301. Inspector General.
              TITLE IV--RESPONSIBILITIES OF OTHER AGENCIES

Sec. 401. Responsibilities of other agencies for monitoring and 
                            evaluation requirements.
Sec. 402. Transition of stabilization and reconstruction operations.
Sec. 403. Sense of Congress.
                TITLE V--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

Sec. 501. Authorization of appropriations.

SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS.

    In this Act, the following definitions apply:
            (1) Appropriate congressional committees.--The term 
        ``appropriate congressional committees'' means--
                    (A) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed 
                Services, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and Government 
                Reform of the House of Representatives; and
                    (B) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed 
                Services, Foreign Relations, and Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
            (2) Director.--The term ``Director'' means the Director of 
        the United States Office for Contingency Operations.
            (3) Functions.--The term ``functions'' includes 
        authorities, powers, rights, privileges, immunities, programs, 
        projects, activities, duties, and responsibilities.
            (4) Imminent stabilization and reconstruction operation.--
        The term ``imminent stabilization and reconstruction 
        operation'' is a condition in a foreign country which the 
        Director believes may require in the immediate future a 
        response from the United States and with respect to which 
        preparation for a stabilization and reconstruction operation is 
        necessary.
            (5) Intelligence community.--The term ``intelligence 
        community'' has the meaning given that term in section 3(4) of 
        the National Security Act of 1947 (50 U.S.C. 401a(4)).
            (6) Office.--The term ``Office'' means the United States 
        Office for Contingency Operations.
            (7) Personnel.--The term ``personnel'' means officers and 
        employees of an Executive agency, except that the term does not 
        include members of the Armed Forces.
            (8) Potential stabilization and reconstruction operation.--
        The term ``potential stabilization and reconstruction 
        operation'' is a possible condition in a foreign country which 
        in the determination of the Director may require in the 
        immediate future a response from the United States and with 
        respect to which preparation for a stabilization and 
        reconstruction operation is advisable.
            (9) Stabilization and reconstruction emergency.--The term 
        ``stabilization and reconstruction emergency'' is a 
        stabilization and reconstruction operation which is the subject 
        of a Presidential declaration pursuant to section 103.
            (10) Stabilization and reconstruction operation.--The term 
        ``stabilization and reconstruction operation''--
                    (A) means a circumstance in which a combination of 
                security, reconstruction, relief, and development 
                services, including assistance for the development of 
                military and security forces and the provision of 
                infrastructure and essential services (including 
                services that might be provided under the authority of 
                chapter 4 of part II of the Foreign Assistance Act of 
                1961 (22 U.S.C. 2346 et seq.; relating to the Economic 
                Support Fund)), should, in the national interest of the 
                United States, be provided on the territory of an 
                unstable foreign country;
                    (B) does not include a circumstance in which such 
                services should be provided primarily due to a natural 
                disaster (other than a natural disaster of cataclysmic 
                proportions); and
                    (C) does not include intelligence activities.
            (11) United states.--The term ``United States'', when used 
        in a geographic sense, means any State of the United States, 
        the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, the 
        Virgin Islands, Guam, American Samoa, the Commonwealth of the 
        Northern Mariana Islands, any possession of the United States, 
        and any waters within the jurisdiction of the United States.

SEC. 3. FINDINGS AND PURPOSES.

    (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
            (1) Responsibilities for overseas stability and 
        reconstruction operations are divided among several agencies. 
        As a result, lines of responsibility and accountability are not 
        well-defined.
            (2) Despite the establishment of the Office of the 
        Coordinator for Reconstruction and Stabilization within the 
        Department of State, the reaffirmation of the Coordinator's 
        mandate by the National Security Presidential Directive 44, its 
        codification with title XVI of the Duncan Hunter National 
        Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2009, and the 
        issuance of the Department of Defense Directive 3000.05, 
        serious imbalances and insufficient interagency coordination 
        remain.
            (3) The United States Government has not effectively or 
        efficiently managed stabilization and reconstruction operations 
        during recent decades.
            (4) Based on trends, the United States will likely continue 
        to find its involvement necessary in stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations in foreign countries in the wake of 
        violence or cataclysmic disaster.
            (5) The United States has not adequately learned the 
        lessons of its recent experiences in stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations, and despite efforts to improve its 
        performance is not yet organized institutionally to respond 
        appropriately to the need to perform stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations in foreign countries.
            (6) The failure to learn the lessons of past stabilization 
        and reconstruction operations will lead to further 
        inefficiencies, resulting in greater human and financial costs.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of this Act are to--
            (1) advance the national interest of the United States by 
        providing an effective means to plan for and execute 
        stabilization and reconstruction operations in foreign 
        countries;
            (2) provide for unity of command, and thus achieve unity of 
        effort, in the planning and execution of stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations;
            (3) provide accountability for resources dedicated to 
        stabilization and reconstruction operations;
            (4) maximize the efficient use of resources, which may lead 
        to budget savings, eliminated redundancy in functions, and 
        improvement in the management of stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations; and
            (5) establish an entity to plan for stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations and, when directed by the President, 
        coordinate and execute such operations, eventually returning 
        responsibility for such operations to other agencies of the 
        United States Government as the situation becomes normalized.

SEC. 4. CONSTRUCTION; SEVERABILITY.

    Any provision of this Act held to be invalid or unenforceable by 
its terms, or as applied to any person or circumstance, shall be 
construed so as to give it the maximum effect permitted by law, unless 
such holding shall be one of utter invalidity or unenforceability, in 
which event such provision shall be deemed severable from this Act and 
shall not affect the remainder thereof, or the application of such 
provision to other persons not similarly situated or to other, 
dissimilar circumstances.

SEC. 5. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on the date that is 60 days after the 
date of the enactment of this Act.

       TITLE I--UNITED STATES OFFICE FOR CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS: 
                ESTABLISHMENT, FUNCTIONS, AND PERSONNEL

SEC. 101. ESTABLISHMENT OF THE UNITED STATES OFFICE FOR CONTINGENCY 
              OPERATIONS.

    There is established as an independent entity the United States 
Office for Contingency Operations, which shall report to the Department 
of State and the Department of Defense.

SEC. 102. TRANSFER OF AUTHORITIES, FUNCTIONS, PERSONNEL, AND ASSETS TO 
              THE OFFICE.

    (a) Functions Transferred.--Not later than 90 days after the date 
of the enactment of this Act, there shall be transferred to the Office 
the functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of--
            (1) the Office of the Coordinator for Reconstruction and 
        Stabilization of the Department of State, including the 
        Civilian Response Corps; and
            (2) the Office of Transition Initiatives of the United 
        States Agency for International Development.
    (b) Functions Transferred, in Whole or in Part.--
            (1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
        the enactment of this Act, in addition to the functions, 
        personnel, assets, and liabilities transferred under subsection 
        (a), there shall be transferred, in whole or in part, to the 
        Office, under such conditions as the Director, the Director of 
        the Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the 
        Office of Personnel Management jointly prescribe, the 
        functions, personnel, assets, and liabilities of the following:
                    (A) Civilian organizational entities within the 
                Department of Defense identified by the Secretary of 
                Defense as--
                            (i) established to implement Department of 
                        Defense Instruction 3000.05, relating to 
                        stability operations; and
                            (ii) not essential for combat operations.
                    (B) The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law 
                Enforcement Affairs of the Department of State.
                    (C) The Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance of 
                the United States Agency for International Development.
                    (D) The Office of Conflict Mitigation and 
                Management of the United States Agency for 
                International Development.
                    (E) The International Criminal Investigative 
                Training Assistance Program of the Department of 
                Justice.
                    (F) The Department of the Treasury's program to 
                provide technical assistance to foreign governments and 
                foreign central banks of developing or transitional 
                countries authorized under section 129 of the Foreign 
                Assistance Act of 1961 and the Office of Technical 
                Assistance of the Department of the Treasury that 
                manages such program.
                    (G) The Contingency Acquisition Corps of the 
                General Services Administration established pursuant to 
                section 2312 of title 41, United States Code.
            (2) Reports.--
                    (A) Before the transfer.--The Director, the 
                Director of the Office of Management and Budget, or the 
                Director of the Office of Personnel Management, as 
                appropriate, shall, not later than 60 days before 
                carrying out a transfer in accordance with paragraph 
                (1), submit to the appropriate congressional committees 
                a report on the transfer.
                    (B) After the transfer.--The Director shall submit 
                to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
                the military and non-military resources, capabilities, 
                and functions related to contingency operations of the 
                entities and agencies transferred pursuant to paragraph 
                (1). If any capabilities or functions of such entities 
                and agencies were not so transferred, the Director 
                shall include in such report an explanation relating to 
                such non-transfer.
    (c) Future Transfers and Restructuring.--
            (1) In general.--In addition to the functions, personnel, 
        assets, and liabilities transferred to the Office under 
        subsections (a) and (b), the Director, the Director of the 
        Office of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Office 
        of Personnel Management may--
                    (A) transfer to the Office the functions, 
                personnel, assets, or liabilities, in whole or in part, 
                of any office, agency, bureau, program, or other entity 
                that such Directors determine appropriate;
                    (B) transfer to the Office up to 150 skilled 
                Federal personnel with expertise in contingency 
                operations; and
                    (C) restructure the Office as such Directors 
                determine appropriate to better carry out its functions 
                and responsibilities.
            (2) Reports.--If the Director, the Director of the Office 
        of Management and Budget, and the Director of the Office of 
        Personnel Management undertake a transfer or a restructuring in 
        accordance with subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively, of 
        paragraph (1), the Director, the Director of the Office of 
        Management and Budget, or the Director of the Office of 
        Personnel Management, as appropriate, shall, not later than 60 
        days before carrying out any such transfer or restructuring, 
        submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on 
        such transfer or restructuring.

SEC. 103. RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE DIRECTOR, DEPUTY DIRECTOR, INSPECTOR 
              GENERAL, AND OTHER OFFICES.

    (a) Director.--
            (1) In general.--The Office shall be headed by a Director, 
        who shall be--
                    (A) appointed by the President, by and with the 
                advice and consent of the Senate; and
                    (B) compensated at the rate of basic pay for level 
                II of the Executive Schedule under section 5313 of 
                title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Supervision.--
                    (A) In general.--The Director shall report directly 
                to, and be under the general supervision of, the 
                Secretary of State and the Secretary of Defense. Such 
                supervision may not be delegated.
                    (B) Information sharing.--The Director shall keep 
                the National Security Advisor fully and continually 
                informed of the activities of the Office.
            (3) Functions.--The functions of the Director shall include 
        the following:
                    (A) Monitoring, in coordination with relevant 
                offices and bureaus of the Department of Defense, the 
                Department of State, and the United States Agency for 
                International Development, political and economic 
                instability worldwide in order to anticipate the need 
                for mobilizing United States and international 
                assistance for the stabilization and reconstruction of 
                a country or region that is at risk of, in, or in 
                transition from, conflict or civil strife.
                    (B) Assessing the various types of strabilization 
                and reconstruction crises that could occur and 
                cataloging and monitoring the military and non-military 
                resources, capabilities, and functions of agencies that 
                are available to address such crises.
                    (C) Planning to address requirements, such as 
                demobilization, disarmament, capacity building, 
                rebuilding of civil society, policing and security 
                sector reform, and monitoring and strengthening respect 
                for human rights that commonly arise in stabilization 
                and reconstruction crises.
                    (D) Developing, in coordination with all relevant 
                agencies, contingency plans and procedures to mobilize 
                and deploy civilian and military personnel to conduct 
                stabilization and reconstruction operations.
                    (E) Coordinating with counterparts in foreign 
                governments and international and nongovernmental 
                organizations on stabilization and reconstruction 
                operations to improve effectiveness and avoid 
                duplication.
                    (F) Building the operational readiness of the 
                Civilian Response Corps and strengthening personnel 
                requirements to enhance its essential interagency 
                quality.
                    (G) Aiding the President, as the President may 
                request, in preparing such rules and regulations as the 
                President prescribes, for the planning, coordination, 
                and execution of stabilization and reconstruction 
                operations.
                    (H) Advising the Secretary of State and the 
                Secretary of Defense, as the Secretary of State or the 
                Secretary of Defense may request, on any matters 
                pertaining to the planning, coordination, and execution 
                of stabilization and reconstruction operations.
                    (I) Planning and conducting, in cooperation with 
                the Secretary of State, the Administrator of the United 
                States Agency for International Development, the 
                Secretary of Defense, and commanders of unified 
                combatant commands or specified combatant commands, a 
                series of exercises to test and evaluate doctrine 
                relating to stabilization and reconstruction operations 
                and procedures to be used in such operations.
                    (J) Executing, administering, and enforcing laws, 
                rules, and regulations relating to the preparation, 
                coordination, and execution of stabilization and 
                reconstruction operations.
                    (K) Administering such funds as may be appropriated 
                or otherwise made available for the preparation, 
                coordination and execution of stabilization and 
                reconstruction operations.
                    (L) Planning for the use of contractors who will be 
                involved in stabilization and reconstruction 
                operations, including coordinating with the Secretary 
                of State and the Secretary of Defense to ensure 
                coordination of the work of such contractors with the 
                work of contractors supporting--
                            (i) the Secretary of State; and
                            (ii) military operations and members of the 
                        Armed Forces.
                    (M) Prescribing standards and policies for project 
                and financial reporting for all agencies involved in 
                stabilization and reconstruction operations under the 
                direction of the Office to ensure that all activities 
                undertaken by such agencies are appropriately tracked 
                and accounted for.
                    (N) Establishing an interagency training, 
                preparation, and evaluation framework for all personnel 
                deployed, or who may be deployed, in support of 
                stabilization and reconstruction operations. Such 
                training and preparation shall be developed and 
                administered in partnership with such universities, 
                colleges, or other institutions (whether public, 
                private, or governmental) as the Director may determine 
                and which agree to participate.
            (4) Responsibilities of director for monitoring and 
        evaluation requirements.--
                    (A) Evaluations.--The Director shall plan and 
                conduct evaluations of the impact of stabilization and 
                reconstruction operations carried out by the Office.
                    (B) Reports.--
                            (i) In general.--Not later than 30 days 
                        after the end of each fiscal-year quarter, the 
                        Director shall submit to the appropriate 
                        congressional committees a report summarizing 
                        all stabilization and reconstruction operations 
                        that are taking place under the supervision of 
                        the Director during the period of each such 
                        quarter and, to the extent possible, the period 
                        from the end of each such quarter to the time 
                        of the submission of each such report. Each 
                        such report shall include, for the period 
                        covered by each such report, a detailed 
                        statement of all obligations, expenditures, and 
                        revenues associated with such stabilization and 
                        reconstruction operations, including the 
                        following:
                                    (I) Obligations and expenditures of 
                                appropriated funds.
                                    (II) A project-by-project and 
                                program-by-program accounting of the 
                                costs incurred to date for the 
                                stabilization and reconstruction 
                                operation that are taking place, 
                                together with the estimate of any 
                                department or agency that is 
                                undertaking a project in or for the 
                                stabilization and reconstruction of 
                                such country, as applicable, of the 
                                costs to complete each project and each 
                                program.
                                    (III) Revenues attributable to or 
                                consisting of funds provided by foreign 
                                countries or international 
                                organizations, and any obligations or 
                                expenditures of such revenues.
                                    (IV) Revenues attributable to or 
                                consisting of foreign assets seized or 
                                frozen, and any obligations or 
                                expenditures of such revenues.
                                    (V) An analysis on the impact of 
                                stabilization and reconstruction 
                                operations overseen by the Office, 
                                including an analysis of civil-military 
                                coordination with respect to the 
                                Office.
                            (ii) Form.--Each report under this 
                        subsection may include a classified annex if 
                        the Director determines such is appropriate.
                            (iii) Rule of construction.--Nothing in 
                        this paragraph shall be construed to authorize 
                        the public disclosure of information that is 
                        specifically prohibited from disclosure by any 
                        other provision of law, specifically required 
                        by Executive order to be protected from 
                        disclosure in the interest of national defense 
                        or national security or in the conduct of 
                        foreign affairs, or a part of an ongoing 
                        criminal investigation.
    (b) Deputy Director.--
            (1) In general.--There shall be within the Office a Deputy 
        Director, who shall be--
                    (A) appointed by the President, by and with the 
                advice and consent of the Senate; and
                    (B) compensated at the rate of basic pay for level 
                III of the Executive Schedule under section 5314 of 
                title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Functions.--The Deputy Director shall perform such 
        functions as the Director may from time to time prescribe, and 
        shall act as Director during the absence or disability of the 
        Director or in the event of a vacancy in the Office of the 
        Director.
    (c) Associate Directors.--
            (1) In general.--There shall be within the Office not more 
        than two Associate Directors, who shall be--
                    (A) appointed by the President, by and with the 
                advice and consent of the Senate; and
                    (B) compensated at the rate of basic pay for level 
                IV of the Executive Schedule under section 5315 of 
                title 5, United States Code.
            (2) Functions.--The Associate Directors shall perform such 
        functions as the Director may from time to time prescribe.
            (3) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that of 
        the two Associate Directors referred to in this subsection--
                    (A) one should be highly experienced in defense 
                matters; and
                    (B) one should be highly experienced in diplomacy 
                and development matters.
    (d) Functions of the President.--
            (1) Declaration.--The President may, if the President finds 
        that the circumstances and national security interests of the 
        United States so require, declare that a stabilization and 
        reconstruction emergency exists and shall determine the 
        geographic extent and the date of the commencement of such 
        emergency. The President may amend the declaration as 
        circumstances warrant.
            (2) Termination.--If the President determines that a 
        stabilization and reconstruction emergency declared under 
        paragraph (1) is or will no longer be in existence, the 
        President may terminate, immediately or prospectively, a prior 
        declaration that such an emergency exists.
            (3) Publication in federal register.--Declarations under 
        this subsection shall be published in the Federal Register.
    (e) Authorities of Office Following Presidential Declaration.--If 
the President declares a stabilization and reconstruction emergency 
pursuant to subsection (d), the President may delegate to the Director 
the authority to coordinate all Federal efforts with respect to such 
stabilization and reconstruction emergency, including the authority to 
direct any Federal agency to support such efforts, with or without 
reimbursement.

SEC. 104. PERSONNEL SYSTEM.

    (a) Personnel.--
            (1) In general.--The Director may select, appoint, and 
        employ such personnel as may be necessary for carrying out the 
        duties of the Office, subject to the provisions of title 5, 
        United States Code, governing appointments in the excepted 
        service, and the provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of 
        chapter 53 of such title, relating to classification and 
        General Schedule pay rates, and may exercise the authorities of 
        subsections (b) through (i) of section 3161 of title 5, United 
        States Code (to the same extent and in the same manner as those 
        authorities may be exercised by an organization described in 
        subsection (a) of such section). In exercising the employment 
        authorities under subsection (b) of such section 3161, 
        paragraph (2) of such subsection (relating to periods of 
        appointments) shall not apply.
            (2) Subdivisions of office; delegation of functions.--The 
        Director may establish bureaus, offices, divisions, and other 
        units within the Office. The Director may from time to time 
        make provision for the performance of any function of the 
        Director by any officer or employee, or office, division, or 
        other unit of the Office.
            (3) Reemployment authorities.--The provisions of section 
        9902(g) of title 5, United States Code, shall apply with 
        respect to the Office. For purposes of the preceding sentence, 
        such provisions shall be applied--
                    (A) by substituting ``the United States Office for 
                Contingency Operations'' for ``the Department of 
                Defense'' each place it appears;
                    (B) by substituting ``the Stabilization and 
                Reconstruction Operations Interagency Enhancement Act 
                of 2011'' for ``the National Defense Authorization Act 
                for Fiscal Year 2004 (Public Law 108-136)'' in 
                paragraph (2)(A) thereof; and
                    (C) by substituting ``the Director of the United 
                States Office for Contingency Operations'' for ``the 
                Secretary'' in paragraph (4) thereof.
    (b) Interim Officers.--
            (1) In general.--The President may authorize any persons 
        who, immediately prior to the effective date of this Act, held 
        positions in the Executive Branch of the Government, to act as 
        Director, Deputy Director, Associate Director, and Inspector 
        General of the Office until such positions are for the first 
        time filled in accordance with the provisions of this Act or by 
        recess appointment, as the case may be.
            (2) Compensation.--The President may authorize any such 
        person described in paragraph (1) to receive the compensation 
        attached to the Office in respect of which such person so 
        serves, in lieu of other compensation from the United States.
    (c) Contracting Services.--
            (1) In general.--The Director may obtain services of 
        experts and consultants as authorized by section 3109 of title 
        5, United States Code.
            (2) Assistance.--To the extent and in such amounts as may 
        be provided in advance by appropriations Acts, the Inspector 
        General may enter into contracts and other arrangements for 
        audits, studies, analyses, and other services with public 
        agencies and with private persons, and make such payments as 
        may be necessary to carry out the duties of the Inspector 
        General.
    (d) Incentivizing Expertise in Personnel Tasked for Stabilization 
and Reconstruction Operations.--
            (1) Study.--The Director shall commission a study to 
        measure the effectiveness of personnel in stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations. The study shall seek to identify the 
        most appropriate qualifications for personnel and incentive 
        strategies for agencies to effectively recruit and deploy 
        employees to support stabilization and reconstruction 
        operations.
            (2) Sense of congress.--It is the sense of Congress that, 
        in the selection and appointment of any individual for a 
        position both within the Office and other agencies in support 
        of stabilization and reconstruction operations, due 
        consideration should be given to such individual's expertise in 
        such operations and interagency experience and qualifications.

    TITLE II--PREPARING AND EXECUTING STABILITY AND RECONSTRUCTION 
                               OPERATIONS

SEC. 201. SOLE CONTROL.

    The Director shall have sole control over the coordination of 
stabilization and reconstruction operations.

SEC. 202. RELATION TO DEPARTMENT OF STATE AND UNITED STATES AGENCY FOR 
              INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT.

    (a) Coordination.--
            (1) In general.--The Director shall to the greatest degree 
        practicable coordinate with the Secretary of State and the 
        Administrator of the Agency for International Development 
        regarding the Office's plans for stabilization and 
        reconstruction operations. The Director shall give the greatest 
        possible weight to the views of the Secretary and the 
        Administrator on matters within their jurisdiction. During a 
        declaration under section 103 of a stabilization and 
        reconstruction emergency, the Director shall work closely with 
        the Secretary and the Administrator in planning, executing, and 
        transitioning operations relevant to their respective 
        jurisdictions.
            (2) In-country.--During a stabilization and reconstruction 
        emergency, the Director shall work closely with the Chief of 
        Mission, or with the most senior Department of State or Agency 
        for International Development officials responsible for the 
        country in which such emergency exists, to ensure that the 
        actions of the Office do not conflict with the foreign or 
        development policies of the United States.
    (b) Detailing.--The heads of the various departments and agencies 
of the United States Government (other than the Secretary of Defense) 
shall provide for the detail on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable basis 
of such civilian personnel as may be agreed between such heads and the 
Director for the purposes of carrying out this Act. The heads of such 
departments and agencies shall provide for appropriate recognition and 
career progress for individuals who are so detailed upon their return 
from such details.

SEC. 203. RELATION TO DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE COMBATANT COMMANDS 
              PERFORMING MILITARY MISSIONS.

    (a) Coordination With Secretary of Defense and Combatant 
Commands.--To the greatest degree practicable, the Director shall 
coordinate with the Secretary of Defense and commanders of unified and 
specified combatant commands established under section 161 of title 10, 
United States Code, regarding the plans of the Office for stabilization 
and reconstruction operations.
    (b) Staff Coordination.--The Director shall detail personnel of the 
Office to serve on the staff of a combatant command to assist in 
planning when a military operation will involve likely Armed Forces 
interaction with non-combatant populations, so that plans for a 
stabilization and reconstruction operation related to a military 
operation--
            (1) complement the work of military planners; and
            (2) as provided in subsection (c), ease interaction between 
        civilian direct-hire employees and contractors in support of 
        the stabilization and reconstruction operation and the Armed 
        Forces.
    (c) Limitations.--
            (1) Director.--The authority of the Director shall not 
        extend to small-scale programs (other than economic development 
        programs of more than a de minimis amount) designated by the 
        Secretary of Defense as necessary to promote a safe operating 
        environment for the Armed Forces or other friendly forces.
            (2) Military order.--Nothing in this Act shall be construed 
        as permitting the Director or any of the personnel of the 
        Office (other than a member of the Armed Forces assigned to the 
        Office under subsection (e)) to issue a military order.
    (d) Support.--
            (1) Assistance required.--The commanders of combatant 
        commands shall provide assistance, to the greatest degree 
        practicable, to the Director and the personnel of the Office as 
        they carry out their responsibilities.
            (2) Personnel.--The Secretary of Defense shall provide for 
        the detail or assignment, on a reimbursable or nonreimbursable 
        basis, to the staff of the Office of such Department of Defense 
        personnel and members of the Armed Forces as may be agreed 
        between the Secretary and the Director as necessary to carry 
        out the duties of the Office.

SEC. 204. CONTINGENCY FEDERAL ACQUISITION REGULATION.

    (a) Requirement To Prescribe Contingency Federal Acquisition 
Regulation.--The Director, in consultation with the Director of the 
Office of Management and Budget, shall prescribe a Contingency Federal 
Acquisition Regulation. The Regulation shall apply, under such 
circumstances as the Director prescribes, in lieu of the Federal 
Acquisition Regulation with respect to contracts intended for use in or 
with respect to stabilization and reconstruction emergencies or in 
imminent or potential stabilization and reconstruction operations.
    (b) Preference to Certain Contracts.--It is the sense of Congress 
that the Contingency Federal Acquisition Regulation required by 
subsection (a) should include provisions requiring an agency to give a 
preference to contracts that appropriately, efficiently, and 
sustainably implement programs and projects undertaken in support of a 
stabilization and reconstruction operation.
    (c) Deadline.--The Director shall prescribe the Contingency Federal 
Acquisition Regulation required by subsection (a) by the date occurring 
one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. If the Director 
does not prescribe the Regulation by that date, the Director shall 
submit to Congress a statement explaining why the deadline was not met.

SEC. 205. STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION FUND.

    (a) In General.--There is established in the Treasury of the United 
States a fund, to be known as the ``Stabilization and Reconstruction 
Emergency Reserve Fund'', to be administered by the Director at the 
direction of the President and with the consent of the Secretary of 
State and the Secretary of Defense for the following purposes with 
respect to a stabilization and reconstruction operation:
            (1) Development of water and sanitation infrastructure.
            (2) Providing food distribution and development of 
        sustained production.
            (3) Supporting relief efforts related to refugees, 
        internally displaced persons, and vulnerable individuals, 
        including assistance for families of innocent civilians who 
        suffer losses as a result of military operations.
            (4) Providing electricity.
            (5) Providing healthcare relief and developing sustained 
        healthcare.
            (6) Development of telecommunications.
            (7) Development of economic and financial policy.
            (8) Development of education.
            (9) Development of transportation infrastructure.
            (10) Establishment and enforcement of rule of law.
            (11) Humanitarian demining.
            (12) Development of agriculture.
            (13) Peace enforcement, peacekeeping, and post-conflict 
        peacebuilding.
            (14) Development of justice and public safety 
        infrastructure.
            (15) Development of security and law enforcement.
            (16) Observation and enforcement of human rights.
            (17) Development of governance, democratization, and 
        building the capacity of government.
            (18) Development of natural resource infrastructure.
            (19) Establishment of environmental protection.
            (20) Protection of vulnerable populations including women, 
        children, the aged, and minorities.
            (21) The operations of the Office.
            (22) Any other purpose which the Director considers 
        essential to address the emergency.
    (b) Congressional Notification.--
            (1) Presidential direction.--At the time the President 
        directs the Director to carry out or support an activity 
        described in subsection (a), the President shall transmit to 
        appropriate congressional committees a written notification of 
        such direction.
            (2) Activities in a country.--Not less than 15 days before 
        carrying out or supporting an activity described in subsection 
        (a), the Director shall submit to the appropriate congressional 
        committees information related to the budget, implementation 
        timeline (including milestones), and transition strategy with 
        respect to such activity and the stabilization or 
        reconstruction operation at issue.
    (c) Authorization of Appropriations.--There is authorized to the 
appropriated to the fund established under subsection (a) such sums as 
may be necessary to carry out the purposes specified in such 
subsection. Such sums--
            (1) shall be available until expended;
            (2) shall not be made available for obligation or 
        expenditure until the President declares a stabilization and 
        reconstruction emergency pursuant to section 103; and
            (3) shall be in addition to any other funds made available 
        for such purposes.

          TITLE III--RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE INSPECTOR GENERAL

SEC. 301. INSPECTOR GENERAL.

    (a) In General.--There shall be within the Office an Office of the 
Inspector General, the head of which shall be the Inspector General of 
the United States Office for Contingency Operations (in this Act 
referred to as the ``Inspector General''), who shall be appointed as 
provided in section 3(a) of the Inspector General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. 
App.).
    (b) Technical Amendments and Additional Authorities.--The Inspector 
General Act of 1978 (5 U.S.C. App.) is amended--
            (1) in section 12--
                    (A) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``, or the 
                United States Office for Contingency Operations'' after 
                ``the Director of the Federal Housing Finance Agency''; 
                and
                    (B) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``the United 
                States Office for Contingency Operations,'' after ``the 
                Federal Housing Finance Agency,'';
            (2) in section 8J, by striking ``8E or 8F'' and inserting 
        ``8E, 8F, or 8M''; and
            (3) by inserting after section 8L the following new 
        section:

``SEC. 8M. SPECIAL PROVISIONS CONCERNING THE INSPECTOR GENERAL OF THE 
              UNITED STATES OFFICE FOR CONTINGENCY OPERATIONS.

    ``(a) Special Audit and Investigative Authority.--
            ``(1) In general.--When directed by the President, or 
        otherwise provided by law, and in addition to the other duties 
        and responsibilities specified in this Act, the Inspector 
        General of the United States Office for Contingency 
        Operations--
                    ``(A) shall, with regard to the activities of the 
                United States Office for Contingency Operations, have 
                special audit and investigative authority over all 
                accounts, spending, programs, projects, and operations; 
                and
                    ``(B) shall have special audit and investigative 
                authority over the activities described in paragraph 
                (2).
            ``(2) Activities described.--The activities described in 
        this paragraph are activities funded or undertaken by the 
        United States Government that are not undertaken by or under 
        the direction or supervision of the Director of the United 
        States Office for Contingency Operations--
                    ``(A) in response to emergencies, destabilization, 
                armed conflict, or events that otherwise require 
                stabilization or reconstruction operations;
                    ``(B) where a rapid response by the United States 
                is required or anticipated to be required; and
                    ``(C) where the Inspector General is more well-
                suited than the implementing department or agency to 
                engage rapidly in audit and investigative activities.
            ``(3) Administrative operations.--In any case in which the 
        Inspector General of the United States Office for Contingency 
        Operations is exercising or preparing to exercise special audit 
        and investigative authority under this subsection, the head of 
        any department or agency undertaking or preparing to undertake 
        the activities described in paragraph (2) shall provide such 
        Inspector General with appropriate and adequate office space 
        within the offices of such department or agency or at 
        appropriate locations of that department or agency overseas, 
        together with such equipment, office supplies, and 
        communications facilities and services as may be necessary for 
        the operation of such offices, and shall provide necessary 
        maintenance services for such offices and the equipment and 
        facilities located therein.
    ``(b) Additional Duties.--
            ``(1) In general.--It shall be the duty of the Inspector 
        General of the United States Office for Contingency Operations 
        to conduct, supervise, and coordinate audits and investigations 
        of the treatment, handling, and expenditure of amounts 
        appropriated or otherwise made available for activities to be 
        carried out by or under the direction or supervision of the 
        Director of the United States Office for Contingency 
        Operations, or for activities subject to the special audit and 
        investigative authority of such Inspector General under 
        subsection (a), and of the programs, operations, and contracts 
        carried out utilizing such funds, including--
                    ``(A) the oversight and accounting of the 
                obligation and expenditure of such funds;
                    ``(B) the monitoring and review of activities 
                funded by such funds;
                    ``(C) the monitoring and review of contracts funded 
                by such funds;
                    ``(D) the monitoring and review of the transfer of 
                such funds and associated information between and among 
                departments, agencies, and entities of the United 
                States, and private and nongovernmental entities; and
                    ``(E) the maintenance of records on the use of such 
                funds to facilitate future audits and investigations of 
                the use of such funds.
            ``(2) Systems, procedures, and controls.--The Inspector 
        General of the United States Office for Contingency Operations 
        shall establish, maintain, and oversee such systems, 
        procedures, and controls as such Inspector General considers 
        appropriate to discharge the duty under paragraph (1).
    ``(c) Personnel Authority.--
            ``(1) In general.--The Inspector General of the United 
        States Office for Contingency Operations may select, appoint, 
        and employ such officers and employees as may be necessary for 
        carrying out the functions, powers, and duties of the Office, 
        subject to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
        governing appointments in the excepted service, and the 
        provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of 
        such title, relating to classification and General Schedule pay 
        rates.
            ``(2) Employment authority.--The Inspector General of the 
        United States Office for Contingency Operations may exercise 
        the authorities of subsections (b) through (i) of section 3161 
        of title 5, United States Code (without regard to subsection 
        (a) of that section). In exercising the employment authorities 
        under subsection (b) of section 3161 of title 5, United States 
        Code, as provided under paragraph (1) of this subsection, 
        paragraph (2) of such subsection (b) (relating to periods of 
        appointments) shall not apply.
            ``(3) Exemption.--Section 6(a)(7) shall not apply with 
        respect to the Inspector General of the United States Office 
        for Contingency Operations.
    ``(d) Reports.--
            ``(1) Quarterly reports.--
                    ``(A) In general.--Not later than 60 days after the 
                end of each fiscal-year quarter, the Inspector General 
                of the United States Office for Contingency Operations 
                shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress 
                a report in accordance with subparagraph (B) that 
                summarizes for the period of that quarter and, to the 
                extent possible, the period from the end of such 
                quarter to the time of the submission of the report, 
                the activities of such Inspector General and the 
                activities under programs and operations funded with 
                amounts appropriated or otherwise made available for 
                activities carried out by or under the direction or 
                supervision of the Director of the United States Office 
                for Contingency Operations.
                    ``(B) Contents of quarterly report.--Each report 
                submitted pursuant to subparagraph (A) shall include, 
                for the period covered by such report, a detailed 
                statement of all obligations, expenditures, and 
                revenues associated with reconstruction and 
                rehabilitation activities by or under the direction or 
                supervision of the Director of the United States Office 
                for Contingency Operations, or under the special audit 
                and investigative authority under subsection (a) of the 
                Inspector General of the United States Office for 
                Contingency Operations, and segregated by area (as may 
                be prescribed by such Inspector General), including the 
                following:
                            ``(i) Obligations and expenditures of 
                        appropriated funds.
                            ``(ii) A project-by-project and program-by-
                        program accounting of the costs incurred to 
                        date by such Office or under the direction or 
                        supervision of such Office, or under the 
                        special audit and investigative authority of 
                        such Inspector General, for each stabilization 
                        and reconstruction operation, together with the 
                        estimate of the department or agency of the 
                        United States, as applicable, of the costs to 
                        complete each project and each program.
                            ``(iii) Revenues attributable to or 
                        consisting of funds provided by foreign 
                        countries or international organizations, and 
                        any obligations or expenditures of such 
                        revenues.
                            ``(iv) Revenues attributable to or 
                        consisting of foreign assets seized or frozen, 
                        and any obligations or expenditures of such 
                        revenues.
                            ``(v) Operating expenses of departments, 
                        agencies, or other entities receiving amounts 
                        appropriated or otherwise made available to or 
                        obligated or expended under the direction or 
                        supervision of such Director.
                            ``(vi) In the case of a covered contract--
                                    ``(I) the amount of such contract;
                                    ``(II) a brief discussion of the 
                                scope of such contract;
                                    ``(III) a discussion of how the 
                                relevant department, agency, or other 
                                entity identified, and solicited offers 
                                from, potential contractors to perform 
                                the contract, together with a list of 
                                the potential contractors that were 
                                issued solicitations for the offers; 
                                and
                                    ``(IV) the extent to which 
                                competitive procedures were used for 
                                such contract.
                    ``(C) Report coordination.--Each report under this 
                paragraph shall be furnished to the head of the 
                establishment involved not later than 30 days after the 
                submission of the report under subparagraph (A) and 
                shall be transmitted by such head to the appropriate 
                committees of the Congress not later than 30 days after 
                receipt of the report, together with a report by the 
                head of the establishment containing any comments such 
                head determines appropriate, including a classified 
                annex if such head considers it necessary.
            ``(2) Semiannual reports.--The Inspector General of the 
        United States Office for Contingency Operations shall submit to 
        the appropriate committees a semiannual report that includes a 
        summary of the activities of the Office, including activities 
        described in paragraphs (1) through (13) of section 5(a) of 
        this Act. The first such report for a year, covering the first 
        six months of the year, shall be submitted not later than 
        August 30 of that year, and the second such report, covering 
        the second six months of the year, shall be submitted not later 
        than February 28 of the following year.
            ``(3) Waiver.--
                    ``(A) In general.--The President may waive any of 
                the requirements to be included in the reports under 
                paragraph (1) or (2) if the President determines that 
                the waiver is justified for national security reasons.
                    ``(B) Notice of waiver.--The President shall 
                publish a notice of each waiver made under this 
                paragraph in the Federal Register not later than the 
                date on which the report for which a waiver was made is 
                required to be submitted to Congress under paragraph 
                (1) or (2).
                    ``(C) Description of waiver in report.--The reports 
                required under paragraph (1) or (2) shall specify 
                whether waivers under this paragraph were made and with 
                respect to which requirements.
            ``(4) Reports under section 5 of this act.--
                    ``(A) In general.--In addition to reports otherwise 
                required to be submitted under this subsection, the 
                Inspector General of the United States Office for 
                Contingency Operations--
                            ``(i) may issue periodic reports of a 
                        similar nature to the quarterly reports 
                        submitted under paragraph (1) with respect to 
                        activities subject to the special audit and 
                        investigative authority of such Inspector 
                        General under subsection (a); and
                            ``(ii) if such Inspector General did not 
                        engage, during any six month period, in audit 
                        or investigation activities with respect to 
                        activities carried out under the direction or 
                        supervision of the Director, shall issue a 
                        report, not later than six months after the 
                        previous report was issued under this 
                        subsection that includes a summary of the 
                        activities of the Office, including activities 
                        described in paragraphs (1) through (13) of 
                        section 5(a) of this Act.
                    ``(B) Exemption.--The Inspector General of the 
                United States Office for Contingency Operations is not 
                required to provide reports under section 5 of this 
                Act.
            ``(5) Language of reports.--The Inspector General of the 
        United States Office for Contingency Operations shall publish 
        each report under this subsection in both English and to the 
        degree that the Inspector General shall prescribe, in languages 
        relevant to the host country.
            ``(6) Form of submission.--Each report under this 
        subsection may include a classified annex if the Inspector 
        General of the United States Office for Contingency Operations 
        considers it necessary.
            ``(7) Disclosure of certain information.--Nothing in this 
        subsection shall be construed to authorize the public 
        disclosure of information that is--
                    ``(A) specifically prohibited from disclosure by 
                any other provision of law;
                    ``(B) specifically required by Executive order to 
                be protected from disclosure in the interest of 
                national defense or national security or in the conduct 
                of foreign affairs; or
                    ``(C) a part of an ongoing criminal investigation.
    ``(e) Definitions.--In this section:
            ``(1) Appropriate committees.--The term `appropriate 
        committees' means--
                    ``(A) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed 
                Services, Foreign Affairs, and Oversight and Government 
                Reform of the House of Representatives; and
                    ``(B) the Committees on Appropriations, Armed 
                Services, Foreign Relations, and Homeland Security and 
                Governmental Affairs of the Senate.
            ``(2) Covered contract.--The term `covered contract' means 
        a contract entered into by any department or agency, with any 
        public or private sector entity, in any geographic area with 
        regard to a stabilization or reconstruction operation or where 
        the Inspector General of the United States Office for 
        Contingency Operations is exercising its special audit or 
        investigative authority for the performance of any of the 
        following:
                    ``(A) To build or rebuild physical infrastructure 
                of such area.
                    ``(B) To establish or reestablish a political or 
                governmental institution of such area.
                    ``(C) To provide products or services to the local 
                population of the area.
            ``(3) Department or agency.--The term `department or 
        agency' means any agency as defined under section 551 of title 
        5, United States Code.
            ``(4) Stabilization and reconstruction operation.--The term 
        `stabilization and reconstruction operation' has the meaning 
        given the term in section 2 of the Stabilization and 
        Reconstruction Operations Interagency Enhancement Act of 
        2011.''.
    (c) Transfer and Termination of the Office of the Special Inspector 
General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the Office of the Special 
Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction.--
            (1) Transfer.--The following shall be transferred to the 
        Office of the Inspector General of the United States Office for 
        Contingency Operations:
                    (A)(i) All functions vested by law on the day 
                before the effective date of this Act in the Office of 
                the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction 
                or the Inspector General of such office.
                    (ii) All functions vested by law on the day before 
                the effective date of this Act in the Office of the 
                Special Inspector General for Afghanistan 
                Reconstruction or the Inspector General of such office.
                    (B) All personnel, assets, and liabilities of the 
                Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
                Reconstruction, and all personnel, assets, and 
                liabilities of the Office of the Special Inspector 
                General for Afghanistan Reconstruction.
            (2) Exercise of functions.--The Inspector General shall 
        exercise all functions transferred by paragraph (1)(A) on and 
        after the effective date of this Act.
            (3) Personnel classification and compensation.--The 
        transfer of personnel pursuant to paragraph (1)(B) shall not 
        alter the terms and conditions of employment, including 
        compensation and classification, of any employee so 
        transferred.
            (4) Termination.--
                    (A) Iraq reconstruction functions.--
                            (i) In general.--The authority of the 
                        Inspector General to exercise the functions 
                        transferred by paragraph (1)(A)(i) shall 
                        terminate 180 days after the date on which 
                        amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
                        available for the reconstruction of Iraq that 
                        are unexpended are less than $250,000,000.
                            (ii) Definition.--In clause (i), the term 
                        ``amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
                        available for the reconstruction of Iraq'' has 
                        the meaning given the term in section 3001(m) 
                        of the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations 
                        Act for Defense and for the Reconstruction of 
                        Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public Law 108-106; 
                        117 Stat. 1238; 5 U.S.C. App., note to section 
                        8G), as such section was in effect on the day 
                        before the effective date of this Act.
                    (B) Afghanistan reconstruction functions.--
                            (i) In general.--The authority of the 
                        Inspector General to exercise the functions 
                        transferred by paragraph (1)(A)(ii) shall 
                        terminate 180 days after the date on which 
                        amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
                        available for the reconstruction of Afghanistan 
                        that are unexpended are less than $250,000,000.
                            (ii) Definition.--In clause (i), the term 
                        ``amounts appropriated or otherwise made 
                        available for the reconstruction of 
                        Afghanistan'' has the meaning given the term in 
                        section 1229(m) of the National Defense 
                        Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public 
                        Law 110-181; 122 Stat. 384), as such section 
                        was in effect on the day before the effective 
                        date of this Act.
            (5) Repeals.--The following provisions of law are repealed:
                    (A) Section 3001 of the Emergency Supplemental 
                Appropriations Act for Defense and for the 
                Reconstruction of Iraq and Afghanistan, 2004 (Public 
                Law 108-106; 117 Stat. 1234; 5 U.S.C. App., note to 
                section 8G).
                    (B) Section 1229 of the National Defense 
                Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 (Public Law 110-
                181; 122 Stat. 378).
    (d) Savings Provisions.--
            (1) Completed administrative actions.--(A) Completed 
        administrative actions of the Office of the Special Inspector 
        General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and the Office of the 
        Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction shall not be 
        affected by the enactment of this Act or the transfer of such 
        offices to the Office of the Inspector General of the United 
        States Office for Contingency Operations, but shall continue in 
        effect according to their terms until amended, modified, 
        superseded, terminated, set aside, or revoked in accordance 
        with law by an officer of the United States or a court of 
        competent jurisdiction, or by operation of law.
            (B) For purposes of paragraph (1), the term ``completed 
        administrative action'' includes orders, determinations, rules, 
        regulations, personnel actions, permits, agreements, grants, 
        contracts, certificates, licenses, registrations, and 
        privileges.
            (2) Pending civil actions.--Pending civil actions shall 
        continue notwithstanding the enactment of this Act or the 
        transfer of the Office of the Special Inspector General for 
        Afghanistan Reconstruction and the Office of the Special 
        Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction to the Office of the 
        Inspector General of the United States Office for Contingency 
        Operations, and in such civil actions, proceedings shall be 
        had, appeals taken, and judgments rendered and enforced in the 
        same manner and with the same effect as if such enactment or 
        transfer had not occurred.
            (3) References.--References relating to the Office of the 
        Special Inspector General for Afghanistan Reconstruction and 
        the Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq 
        Reconstruction that is transferred to the Office of the 
        Inspector General of the United States Office for Contingency 
        Operations in statutes, Executive orders, rules, regulations, 
        directives, or delegations of authority that precede such 
        transfer or the effective date of this Act shall be deemed to 
        refer, as appropriate, to the Office of the Inspector General 
        of the United States Office for Contingency Operations, to its 
        officers, employees, or agents, or to its corresponding 
        organizational units or functions.

              TITLE IV--RESPONSIBILITIES OF OTHER AGENCIES

SEC. 401. RESPONSIBILITIES OF OTHER AGENCIES FOR MONITORING AND 
              EVALUATION REQUIREMENTS.

    The head of any agency under the authority of the Director in 
support of a stabilization and reconstruction operation pursuant to 
section 103 shall submit to the Director--
            (1) on-going evaluations of the impact of such 
        stabilization and reconstruction operation on such agency, 
        including an assessment of interagency coordination in support 
        of such operation;
            (2) any information the Director requests, including 
        reports, evaluations, analyses, or assessments, to permit the 
        Director to satisfy the quarterly reporting requirement under 
        section 103(a)(4); and
            (3) an identification, within each such agency, of all 
        current and former employees skilled in crisis response, 
        including employees employed by contract, and information 
        regarding each such agency's authority mechanisms to reassign 
        or reemploy such skilled personnel and mobilize rapidly 
        associated resources in response to such operation.

SEC. 402. TRANSITION OF STABILIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION OPERATIONS.

    (a) Termination.--Upon Presidential termination of a stabilization 
and reconstruction emergency pursuant to section 103(d)(2), any effort 
of a Federal agency under the authority of the Director pursuant to 
section 103 in support of a related stabilization and reconstruction 
operation shall return to the authority of such agency.
    (b) Scale-Down Operations.--The President, in consultation with the 
Director, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense, shall 
delegate to appropriate Federal agencies post-stabilization and 
reconstruction emergency operations.

SEC. 403. SENSE OF CONGRESS.

    It is the sense of Congress that, to the extent possible, the 
Director and staff should partner with the country in which a 
stabilization and reconstruction operation is taking place, other 
foreign government partners, international organizations, and local 
nongovernmental organizations throughout the planning, implementation, 
and particularly during the transition stages of such operations to 
facilitate long term capacity building and sustainability of 
initiatives.

                TITLE V--AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS

SEC. 501. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

    There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be 
necessary to carry out this Act for each of fiscal years 2011 through 
2016. Any amounts appropriated to carry out this Act shall remain 
available until expended.

SEC. 502. OFFSET OF COSTS IN ESTABLISHMENT OF OFFICE.

    Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Director of the 
Office shall--
            (1) adjust or eliminate such initiatives, positions, and 
        programs to be incorporated within the Office (other than 
        within the Office of Inspector General) as the Director 
        determines necessary to ensure any costs incurred to carry out 
        the provisions of this Act in excess of amounts previously 
        expended for such activities are entirely offset; and
            (2) report to Congress not later than 60 days after the 
        date of the enactment of this Act the actions taken to ensure 
        compliance with paragraph (1), including the specific 
        initiatives, positions, and programs that have been adjusted or 
        eliminated to ensure that the costs of carrying out this Act 
        will be offset.
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