[House Document 106-173]
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                 DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET REQUEST

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                             COMMUNICATION

                                  from

                   THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES

                              transmitting

                  DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE BUDGET REQUEST




  January 27, 2000.--Referred to the Committee on Appropriations and 
                         ordered to be printed

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                    U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE
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                                           The White House,
                                     Washington, December 16, 1999.
The Speaker of the House of Representatives.
    Sir: As directed by P.L. 106-79, the Department of Defense 
Appropriations Act, 2000, and in accordance with provisions of 
P.L. 105-277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, I hereby request the 
following:
Department of Defense
     Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation--
Research, development, test, and evaluation, Defense-wide: 
$230,000,000
    These funds will support our national and theater missile 
defense development efforts.
    I hereby designate the above request as an emergency 
requirement pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced 
Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, as amended.
    The details of this action are set forth in the enclosed 
letter from the Director of the Office of Management and 
Budget. I concur with his comments and observations.
            Sincerely,
                                                William J. Clinton.
    Enclosure.


               [Estimate No. 45, 106th Cong., 1st Sess.]

                 Executive Office of the President,
                           Office of Management and Budget,
                                 Washington, DC, December 16, 1999.
The President,
The White House.
    Submitted for your consideration is a request to make 
available $230.0 million in previously appropriated emergency 
funds for the Department of Defense.
    P.L. 105-277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency 
Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999, provided $1.0 billion in 
emergency funding for efforts in support of ballistic missile 
defense systems, contingent upon the President submitting a 
budget request to the Congress and designating the entire 
amount requested as an emergency requirement. On February 1, 
1999, you released $770.0 million to support critical missile 
defense development efforts.
    P.L. 106-79, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2000, directed the Administration to allocate the remaining 
$230.0 million to the following emergency activities:
     $117.0 million for development of a national 
missile defense system;
     $75.0 million for development of the Patriot 
Advanced Capability-3 system; and,
     $38.0 million for development of the Theater High 
Altitude Area Defense System.
    I recommend that you designate the $230.0 million requested 
as an emergency requirement in accordance with section 
251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit 
Control Act of 1985, as amended. No further congressional 
action will be required.
    I have carefully reviewed this proposal and am satisfied 
that it is necessary at this time. Therefore, I join the 
Secretary of Defense in recommending that you make the 
requested funds available by signing the enclosed letter to the 
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
            Sincerely,
                                            Jacob J. Lew, Director.

    Emergency Appropriations: Amounts Previously Appropriated Made 
                       Available by the President

Department of Defense Research, Development, Test, and 
    Evaluation: Research, development, test, and 
    evaluation, Defense-wide............................    $230,000,000

    Division B, Title I, Chapter 1, Section 102 of P.L. 105-
277, the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental 
Appropriations Act, 1999, provided $1.0 billion in emergency 
funding to the Department of Defense for missile defense 
activities, contingent upon the President submitting a budget 
request to the Congress and designating the entire amount 
requested as an emergency requirement. To date, $770.0 million 
has been designated as an emergency requirement and made 
available.
    P.L. 106-79, the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 
2000, directed that the remaining $230.0 million be made 
available for the following critical missile defense projects:
     $117.0 million for development of a national 
missile defense system;
     $75.0 million for development of the Patriot 
Advanced Capability-3 system; and,
     $38.0 million for development of the Theater High 
Altitude Area Defense System.

                                

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