[Congressional Record Volume 145, Number 81 (Wednesday, June 9, 1999)]
[House]
[Pages H3872-H3964]
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        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000

  Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, by direction of the Committee on Rules, I 
call up House Resolution 200 and ask for its immediate consideration.
  The Clerk read the resolution, as follows:

                              H. Res. 200

       Resolved, That at any time after the adoption of this 
     resolution the Speaker may, pursuant to clause 2(b) of rule 
     XVIII, declare the House resolved into the Committee of the 
     Whole House on the state of the Union for consideration of 
     the bill (H.R. 1401) to authorize appropriations for fiscal 
     years 2000 and 2001 for military activities of the Department 
     of Defense, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
     fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for other purposes. The first 
     reading of the bill shall be dispensed with. All points of 
     order against consideration of the bill are waived. General 
     debate shall be confined to the bill and shall not exceed one 
     hour equally divided and controlled by the chairman and 
     ranking minority member of the Committee on Armed Services. 
     After general debate the bill shall be considered for 
     amendment under the five-minute rule.
       Sec. 2. (a) It shall be in order to consider as an original 
     bill for the purpose of amendment under the five-minute rule 
     the amendment in the nature of a substitute recommended by 
     the Committee on Armed Services now printed in the bill. The 
     committee amendment in the nature of a substitute shall be 
     considered as read. All points of order against the committee 
     amendment in the nature of a substitute are waived.
       (b) No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature 
     of a substitute shall be in order except the amendments 
     printed in the report of the Committee on Rules accompanying 
     this resolution, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of 
     this resolution, the amendment by Representative Cox of 
     California printed on June 8, 1999, in the portion of the 
     Congressional Record designated for that purpose in clause 8 
     of rule XVIII, and pro forma amendments offered by the 
     chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Armed Services for the purpose of debate.
       (c) Except as specified in section 5 of this resolution, 
     each amendment printed in the report of the Committee on 
     Rules shall be considered only in the order printed in the 
     report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the 
     report, shall be considered as read, and shall not be subject 
     to a demand for division of the question in the House or in 
     the Committee of the Whole. Unless otherwise specified in the 
     report, each amendment printed in the report shall be 
     debatable for 10 minutes equally divided and controlled by

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     the proponent and an opponent and shall not be subject to 
     amendment (except that the chairman and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Armed Services each may offer one 
     pro forma amendment for the purpose of further debate on any 
     pending amendment).
       (d) All points of order against amendments printed in the 
     report of the Committee on Rules or amendments en bloc 
     described in section 3 of this resolution are waived.
       (e) Consideration of the last five amendments in part A of 
     the report of the Committee on Rules shall begin with an 
     additional period of general debate, which shall be confined 
     to the subject of United States policy relating to the 
     conflict in Kosovo, and shall not exceed one hour equally 
     divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
     member of the Committee on Armed Services.
       Sec. 3. It shall be in order at any time for the chairman 
     of the Committee on Armed Services or his designee to offer 
     amendments en bloc consisting of amendments printed in part B 
     of the report of the Committee on Rules not earlier disposed 
     of or germane modifications of any such amendment. Amendments 
     en bloc offered pursuant to this section shall be considered 
     as read (except that modifications shall be reported), shall 
     be debatable for 20 minutes equally divided and controlled by 
     the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
     Armed Services or their designees, shall not be subject to 
     amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for division 
     of the question in the House or in the Committee of the 
     Whole. For the purpose of inclusion in such amendments en 
     bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a motion to strike 
     may be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amendment 
     to the text originally proposed to be stricken. The original 
     proponent of an amendment included in such amendments en bloc 
     may insert a statement in the Congressional Record 
     immediately before the disposition of the amendments en bloc.
       Sec. 4. The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may: (1) 
     postpone until a time during further consideration in the 
     Committee of the Whole a request for a recorded vote on any 
     amendment; and (2) reduce to five minutes the minimum time 
     for electronic voting on any postponed question that follows 
     another electronic vote without intervening business, 
     provided that the minimum time for electronic voting on the 
     first in any series of questions shall be 15 minutes.
       Sec. 5. (a) The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may 
     recognize for consideration of any amendment printed in the 
     report of the Committee on Rules out of the order printed, 
     but not sooner than one hour after the chairman of the 
     Committee on Armed Services or a designee announces from the 
     floor a request to that effect.
       (b) Before consideration of any other amendment it shall be 
     in order to consider the amendment printed in the 
     Congressional Record of June 8, 1999, by Representative Cox 
     of California and described in section 2(b) of this 
     resolution, if offered by Representative Cox or his designee. 
     That amendment shall be considered as read, shall be 
     debatable for one hour equally divided and controlled by the 
     proponent and an opponent, shall not be subject to amendment, 
     and shall not be subject to a demand for division of the 
     question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole. All 
     points order against that amendment are waived.
       Sec. 6. At the conclusion of consideration of the bill for 
     amendment the Committee shall rise and report the bill to the 
     House with such amendments as may have been adopted. Any 
     Member may demand a separate vote in the House on any 
     amendment adopted in the Committee of the Whole to the bill 
     or to the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute. 
     The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the 
     bill and amendments thereto to final passage without 
     intervening motion except one motion to recommit with or 
     without instructions.
       Sec. 7. After passage of H.R. 1401, it shall be in order to 
     take from the Speaker's table the bill S. 1059 and to 
     consider the Senate bill in the House. All points of order 
     against the Senate bill and against its consideration are 
     waived. It shall be in order to move to strike all after the 
     enacting clause of the Senate bill and to insert in lieu 
     thereof the provisions of H.R. 1401 as passed by the House. 
     All points of order against that motion are waived.
       Sec. 8. House Resolution 195 is laid on the table.

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  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mrs. Emerson). The gentlewoman from North 
Carolina (Mrs. Myrick) is recognized for 1 hour.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, for purposes of debate only, I yield the 
customary 30 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost), pending 
which I yield myself such time as I may consume. During consideration 
of this resolution, all time yielded is for the purpose of debate only.
  Madam Speaker, yesterday the Committee on Rules met and granted a 
structured rule for H.R. 1401, the Fiscal Year 2000 Department of 
Defense Authorization Act. The rule waives all points of order against 
consideration of the bill.
  The rule provides for 1 hour of general debate, equally divided 
between the Chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Armed Services. The rule makes in order the Committee on Armed Services 
amendment in the nature of a substitute now printed in the bill, which 
shall be considered as read.
  The rule waives all points of order against the amendment in the 
nature of a substitute. The rule makes in order only those amendments 
printed in the Committee on Rules report and pro forma amendments 
offered by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on 
Armed Services for the purposes of debate.
  Amendments printed in Part B of the Committee on Rules report may be 
offered en bloc. The rule makes in order an amendment by the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Cox) printed on June 8, 1999, in the Congressional 
Record.
  The rule provides that except as specified in section 5 of the 
resolution, amendments will be considered only in the order specified 
in the report, may be offered only by a Member designated in the 
report, shall be considered as read, and shall not be subject to a 
demand for a division of the question.
  The rule provides that except as otherwise specified in the report, 
each amendment printed in the report shall be debatable for 10 minutes, 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, and 
shall not be subject to amendment, except that the chairman and ranking 
minority member of the Committee on Armed Services each may offer one 
pro forma amendment for the purpose of further debate on any pending 
amendment.
  The rule waives all points of order against the amendments printed in 
the Committee on Rules report and those amendments en bloc described in 
section 3 of the resolution.
  The rule provides an additional period of general debate prior to the 
consideration of the last 5 amendments in Part A of the Committee on 
Rules report for 1 hour, which shall be confined to the subject of 
United States policy relating to the conflict in Kosovo.
  The rule authorizes the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services 
or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting of amendments 
printed in Part B of the Committee on Rules report or germane 
modifications thereto which shall be considered as read, except that 
modifications shall be reported, shall be debatable for 20 minutes, 
equally divided between the chairman and ranking minority member of the 
Committee on Armed Services or their designees, and shall not be 
subject to amendment or demand for a division of the question.
  The rule provides that for the purpose of inclusion in such 
amendments en bloc, an amendment printed in the form of a motion to 
strike may be modified to the form of a germane perfecting amendment to 
the text originally proposed to be stricken. The original proponent of 
an amendment included in such amendments en bloc may insert a statement 
in the Congressional Record immediately before the disposition of the 
en bloc amendments.
  The rule allows the chairman of the Committee of the Whole to 
postpone votes during consideration of the bill, and to reduce voting 
time to 5 minutes on a postponed question if the vote follows a 15-
minute vote.
  The rule permits the chairman of the Committee of the Whole to 
recognize for consideration of any amendment printed in the report out 
of order in which printed, but not sooner than 1 hour after the 
chairman of the Committee on Armed Services or a designee announces 
from the floor a request to that effect.
  The rule provides that before consideration of any other amendment, 
it will be in order to consider the amendment printed in the 
Congressional Record on June 8, 1999, by the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Cox), if offered by the gentleman from California or his designee, 
which will be considered as read, debatable for 1 hour, equally divided 
and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, will not be subject to 
amendment, and will not be subject to a demand for a division of the 
question in the House or in the Committee of the Whole, and waives

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 all points of order against the amendment.
  The rule provides for one motion to recommit with or without 
instructions. The rule provides that after passage of H.R. 1401, it 
shall be in order to take from the Speaker's table S. 1059 and to 
consider the Senate bill in the House.
  The rule waives all points of order against the Senate bill and 
against its consideration. The rule provides that it shall be in order 
to move to strike all after the enacting clause of the Senate bill and 
to insert in lieu thereof the provisions of H.R. 1401 as passed by the 
House, and waives all points of order against the motion.
  Finally, the rule provides that House Resolution 195 is laid upon the 
table.
  Madam Speaker, this new rule for the Fiscal Year 2000 Department of 
Defense Authorization Act differs from the old rule, H.R. 195, in two 
important ways. First, it makes in order several amendments relating to 
the Kosovo conflict. The old rule self-executed out Section 1006 of the 
authorization bill, which would end funding for a war in Kosovo on 
October 1.
  The new rule permits the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) to 
offer an amendment that would strike Section 1006, and it permits four 
amendments that would make it harder for the President to fund an 
extended military operation in the Balkans.
  This new rule also includes a bipartisan amendment offered by the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Dicks) to implement the Cox report and to crack down on spying at 
nuclear labs.
  In other words, Madam Speaker, the new rule provides for a full and 
fair debate on Kosovo and this whole issue, and allows for a bipartisan 
legislative answer to security lapses at our weapons facilities. This 
is something that all Members should support.
  The underlying legislation, H.R. 1401, is a good bill. It is a bill 
that would allow us all to rest a little easier at night knowing that 
our national defense is stronger and that our troops are being taken 
care of.
  We now know that China has stolen our nuclear technology, something 
that the Soviet Union could not do during the entire Cold War. We live 
in a dangerous world, but Congress is doing something about it. We are 
working to protect our friends and family back home from our enemies 
abroad.
  We are helping to take some of our enlisted men off of food stamps by 
giving them a 4.8 percent raise, and we are providing for a national 
missile defense system so we can stop a warhead from China, if that day 
ever comes. We are boosting the military's budget for weapons and 
ammunition, and we are tightening security at our nuclear labs, doing 
something to stop the wholesale loss of our military secrets.
  Madam Speaker, the Committee on Rules received more than 90 
amendments to this bill. We did our best to be fair and to make as many 
amendments in order as we could. We made over half of them in order.
  The rule allows for a full and open debate on all the major sources 
of controversy, including publicly funded abortions and nuclear lab 
security. It allows for a debate on a lot of smaller issues, too. So I 
urge my colleagues to support this rule and to support the underlying 
bill, because now more than ever we must provide for our national 
security.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Madam Speaker, my Republican colleagues bring us another rule for the 
Department of Defense authorization. This rule I feel safe in saying 
will pass, and thus this morning the Republican leadership will not be 
faced with the embarrassing prospect of having to pull yet another rule 
from the floor.
  I will support the rule, Madam Speaker, but I do so only because of 
my support for the DOD authorization and the importance of getting on 
with the business of the House. That being said, I must point out that 
this new rule presents us with yet another prospect of embarrassment. 
This time the embarrassment will fall on the entire House of 
Representatives, if not on our country.
  In Cologne, the nations of Western Europe, the United States, and 
Russia have finally managed to negotiate a peace settlement with the 
regime which has systematically carried out horrifically bloody and 
brutal acts in Kosovo.
  The terms of the actual troop withdrawal are still a matter of 
negotiation between the military forces of NATO and Yugoslavia. But 
Madam Speaker, however fragile the prospect, the nations of the world 
who subscribe to the rule of law are on the verge of accomplishing the 
goal of removing the brutish oppressors from Kosovo.
  So in the midst of the peace negotiations, the House now has under 
consideration a rule which holds out the prospect of cutting off 
support for the operations in Kosovo on September 30, and the Fowler 
amendment, which would prohibit ground troops in Yugoslavia unless 
authorized by Congress.

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  Now, Madam Speaker, I am among those who pray fervently that this 
conflict has come to an end. But I am also among those who believe that 
dictating the terms of a peace can only be conducted from a position of 
strength and resolve.
  What kind of message are we about to send to Milosevic and his band 
of thugs and murderers? Now is not the time to have this particular 
debate. This rule and the debate it permits, as reported by the 
Republican majority, is inappropriate and ill-advised.
  Today's rule, authored by the Republican majority, is a travesty. By 
authorizing votes to cut off spending in Kosovo while we are on the 
verge of a dramatic victory, the majority makes the House of 
Representatives a laughing stock and demonstrates to the entire world 
that we are irrelevant. Let me repeat, the majority has chosen 
irrelevance. This is a sad day for this institution.
  There are those among the Republican majority who contend that the 
last rule for this bill failed because of lack of Democratic support. I 
would answer with two points. First, it is the obligation of the 
majority to lead, not to lay blame. Second, the Republican majority 
gave many Democratic Members no choice but to oppose the meager 
offerings handed to them 2 weeks ago.
  For example, this rule, unlike its predecessor, makes in order an 
amendment which has the support of the ranking member of the China 
Select Committee. Two weeks ago, the Republican majority summarily cut 
the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) out of the process. This rule 
will allow the House to consider recommendations of the Cox-Dicks 
committee matters that are of the utmost importance to our national 
security. Accordingly, many Democrats who opposed the last rule will 
see this one in a different light.
  Every year, this body debates our role in NATO, the cost associated 
with our continued military presence in Europe, and the expectations we 
as a NATO partner should have for the other nations in the alliance. 
Yet, surprisingly, the last rule precluded such a debate, thus 
generating a great deal of opposition in certain quarters in the 
Democratic Caucus. The rule before us today will allow debate on this 
issue, again perhaps reducing opposition to the rule.
  But, Madam Speaker, this rule does not provide the opportunity for 
the ranking member of the Committee on Commerce to offer an amendment 
he presented to the Committee on Rules along with his chairman and the 
chairman and ranking member of the Committee on Science. The Dingell 
amendment speaks directly to a matter of jurisdiction of both the 
Committee on Commerce and Committee on Science that has been included 
in the Committee on Armed Services' bill. Yet, the House has once again 
been precluded from considering this matter.
  Madam Speaker, amendments offered by the gentlewoman from New York 
(Ms. Velazquez), the ranking member of the Committee on Small Business, 
as well as similar amendments offered by the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Waters), relating to business opportunities for 
minority and other disadvantaged small businesses, have been shut out 
of the process.
  These are issues of importance to the Democratic Members of this 
body, Madam Speaker, and it would not be much of a surprise if Members 
supporting those positions were to vote against the rule.

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  Madam Speaker, it is time for the House to move on this vitally 
important proposal. In spite of the substantial shortcomings of this 
rule, I will support it and urge my colleagues to do so as well.
  Madam Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
New Mexico (Mrs. Wilson).
  Mrs. WILSON. Madam Speaker, I rise to respond to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Frost). He talks about embarrassment of the leadership in 
pulling a rule from the floor. As one of the Members on this side of 
the aisle who had concern about the rule last week, I want to respond 
to this and explain what I think leadership means.
  I think that leaders listen. I think that leaders build consensus. I 
think that leaders reach out to others, of whatever party or whatever 
persuasion or whatever part of the country, to pull people together. I 
think leaders recognize when they have made little mistakes and make 
corrections of those mistakes.
  I think we have a pretty good coach on this side of the aisle. He 
coached wrestling, but most of us watch football. When the quarterback 
sees a broken play, a good quarterback will call a time-out and pull 
things back together. That is what leadership means, and that is why I 
am proud to be a part of this great House.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Dreier), the distinguished chairman of the Committee on 
Rules.
  Mr. DREIER. Madam Speaker, I thank my dear friend, the gentlewoman 
from Charlotte, North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick), who, as I said at the 
close of last night's Committee on Rules hearing, that she did a superb 
job of managing this rule when it came up 2 weeks ago tomorrow, and she 
is doing an even better job today, as I am sure. So I thank her for her 
fine work.
  This is a very important piece of legislation, and I believe that we 
have been able to successfully work in a bipartisan way to address many 
of the concerns that are there.
  Contrary to the remarks that were just made by the gentleman from 
Dallas, Texas (Mr. Frost), we did make 47 amendments in order; and that 
is an awful lot of amendments. There are a lot of Democratic amendments 
that have been made in order. We have got lots of amendments that are 
done in a bipartisan way here. We will have, I suspect, 20 hours of 
debate that will take place on this very important piece of 
legislation.
  So it is true that we were not able to satisfy every single concern 
out there, either on the Democratic side or on the Republican side. But 
I think that what we have got is a very, very reasonable balanced 
approach. It is an important piece of legislation, one of the most 
important issues that we can possibly address.
  We as Republicans have made a strong commitment that we are going to 
focus on the issues of improving public education, providing tax relief 
for working Americans, preserving Social Security and Medicare, and the 
very important issue of our national security.
  Frankly, this administration, as we all know, has deployed 265,000 
troops to 139 countries, obviously interested in security around the 
world, I guess; but when it has come to a strong commitment to make 
sure that our forces are equipped and ready to go, we have not seen the 
kind of support that is necessary. This measure which the gentleman 
from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) will be managing will help us address 
that challenge.
  We also are dealing with a very important report that has come out on 
China and the transfer of technology. Again that is done in a 
bipartisan way.
  So I think that we have got a very good measure here, and I encourage 
both Democrats and Republicans alike to support what is a balanced 
rule.
  Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Turner).
  Mr. TURNER. Madam Speaker, I came to the floor 2 weeks ago when this 
bill was first offered to this House, thanking the Republican 
leadership for striking language in the Committee on Rules that would 
have prohibited any funds from this bill being used in operations in 
Yugoslavia. I am very disappointed today to note that when this bill 
comes back to the floor, it once again includes that objectionable 
language.
  Here we are at a critical point in time in the peacekeeping 
operations, the peacekeeping negotiations, and we find that our 
Republican leadership desires to cut off funding for all operations in 
Yugoslavia on September 30.
  This House passed on March 11 a resolution authorizing the use of 
ground troops for a peacekeeping operation. I offered at that time an 
amendment to that bill which provided that the troops of the United 
States would be limited to 15 percent of the total force. This House, 
by agreement in an amendment crafted at the conclusion of that debate, 
accepted that language along with other reporting requirements. That 
was a sound and reasonable thing to do.
  I am advised by Mr. Berger this morning that the negotiations now 
regarding peacekeeping would limit the U.S. troop participation again 
to 15 percent of the total force. It is totally irresponsible for this 
House to be considering legislation that would ban the use of any 
funds, as of September 30, for peacekeeping operations in the Republic 
of Yugoslavia.
  We have come a long way in this battle of trying to save a million 
and a half refugees who have been left homeless by this conflict. It is 
my hope that this House will stand together in its resolve and with the 
international community that has said no to Milosevic, that has said no 
to genocide, that has said no to murder and rape, and has said yes to 
peace. It is my hope that the House will adopt the Skelton amendment, 
which will strike this objectionable language from the bill, the only 
provision, by the way, that I have heard the White House say would 
cause a veto of this legislation.
  Now is the time to stand for peace. Now is the time to stand with the 
international community that has stood with us in the NATO effort to 
end the bloodshed and the slaughter and the genocide in Yugoslavia. At 
the end of the 20th century, we must send a clear message to the world 
that the United States and its allies will stand for peace and stand 
against the kind of campaign that President Milosevic has waged against 
his own people.
  For 78 days, our bombing campaign has continued. We must see it 
through to a successful conclusion. I urge my colleagues to accept the 
Skelton amendment when it is brought to the floor.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Madam Speaker, I yield 4 minutes to the distinguished 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), the chairman of the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence.
  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Madam Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman from North Carolina 
(Mrs. Myrick) for yielding me this time, and I rise in support of this 
complicated but fair rule and this very important Department of Defense 
authorization bill that the gentlewoman is bringing forward for our 
attention so capably today.
  First, with respect to the rule, Members know that this has been an 
extraordinarily challenging process. I think that this rule is now ripe 
for Members' consideration. I congratulate the gentleman from 
California (Chairman Dreier) and our committee for persistence in 
navigating what obviously would be described as complex waters, 
bringing this bill to the floor, particularly the role of the 
gentlewoman from North Carolina (Mrs. Myrick) that has been helpful.
  We did the best we could to ensure that the most important areas of 
debate were covered and to ensure that Members had options to vote on 
with regard to those major issues. So there will be plenty of debate on 
these subjects.
  As for the underlying bill, Madam Speaker, I applaud our colleagues, 
the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) and the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Skelton) for bringing forward a bill that helps chart the 
future of our Nation's defenses as we embark on the next century. I 
would point out there is one from each side of the aisle in that 
combination; in other words, bipartisan.
  We have repeatedly emphasized the fact that our military has been 
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well beyond its means for the past years under the Clinton-Gore 
administration. As a result, our armed services today have been 
provided with too little while being asked to do too much. We all know 
that.
  Now, with the engagements in Kosovo, Iraq, ongoing missions on the 
Korean peninsula and a host of other unresolved missions underway, such 
as perhaps Haiti and Bosnia, we are seeing all too clearly the cracks 
and strains of a fighting force whose readiness is threatened, whose 
morale is eroded, and whose training and equipment have declined 
dangerously.
  This legislation falls upon the commitment that this House made just 
a few weeks ago in the supplemental funding bill that such harmful and 
pennywise shortsightedness should be brought to an end.
  Madam Speaker, as chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence, I know too well about the very real consequences we face 
because of poor planning and lack of long-term commitment on the part 
of policymakers to investing in a robust and modern defense capability. 
My committee shares jurisdiction with the Committee on Armed Services 
over a host of important military intelligence programs obviously.
  I am happy to say we have always worked in very close concert to 
ensure that the oversight of those programs is seamless, and I am very 
pleased with the product before us today. Eyes, ears, and brains are 
among the most important elements of a strong, smart, and effective 
defense. That is what good intelligence is all about: force protection, 
force enhancement. I am grateful for the support that this bill 
provides.
  Madam Speaker, America's attention in recent weeks has been riveted 
by the events of Kosovo and by those disturbing revelations closer to 
home about foreign penetration of our labs and failure of the Clinton-
Gore administration to provide proper protection of our most important 
national secrets.
  If there is a silver lining to those two significant front-page 
matters is that they have helped galvanize public opinion about the 
imperative of protecting our national security. It is not only 
protecting our men and women in the Armed Forces and our interests here 
and overseas, but also protecting the security of our most important 
national secrets. They matter.
  This legislation will provide the vehicle for important debate on how 
we can best accomplish these crucial goals. I urge all Members and all 
Americans to pay close attention. There really is nothing more 
important that this Federal Government can or should be doing than 
providing for the national defense. I believe Americans are counting on 
this Congress to make up for the shortfalls in the Clinton-Gore 
administration that have lead us to the situation we find today in our 
defense. I urge support.
  I would like to respond to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost), my 
friend and colleague on the Committee on Rules, and say simply that I 
think it would be a huge embarrassment in not serving the public 
properly in a representative form of government for us not to discuss 
the Kosovo situation when we are talking about the defense 
authorization bill.
  Mr. FROST. Madam Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Skelton).

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  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentleman from Texas for 
yielding me this time and allowing me to speak on this rule.
  As the ranking Democrat on the Committee on Armed Services, I fully 
endorse this rule. I fully endorse the provisions that have been made 
therein. The rule, as my colleagues know, was pulled some several days 
ago. The Committee on Rules went back, rewrote the rule, allowed 
several amendments, and I think that they did the right thing and I 
thank them for it.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier), the gentleman from 
Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost), and 
the others on that committee, I think, wrote a proper rule, which I do 
support, with the proper amendments.
  The second thing I wish to mention is that this is an excellent bill. 
I have been on the Committee on Armed Services for a number of years 
and, in my opinion, in looking at the legislation, in light of the fact 
that we have won the Cold War and there is an uncertain future and 
there are those in uniform today that are questioning whether they stay 
in or whether they make a career of it, this bill gives great incentive 
for them to reconsider and consider making a career of the military, 
because we are doing some very good things for them in the pay, in the 
pension and for their families.
  In my opinion, this bill is the best that we have had since the early 
1980s. I am very, very pleased and I thank the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Spence) for his leadership as the chairman, and it is a 
privilege to work with him and others on the committee that have been 
excellent to work with. It is a bipartisan committee. We sent this bill 
out of committee with a 55 to 1 vote.
  I see my friendless gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter), chairman 
of the Subcommittee on Military Procurement of the Committee on Armed 
Services. He and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Sisisky) work so 
well. As a matter of fact, they did such good work there are no major 
amendments touching the procurement part of this legislation. It is a 
tribute to them, and to all of those who worked very, very, hard on 
this legislation. Of course, the staff did a wonderful job, and I 
cannot brag about them enough, a bipartisan staff, and I thank them.
  But I must say, Mr. Speaker, in all sincerity, this bill has a wart 
on it. It is a major wart. We can cut it off by an amendment that I am 
offering, or I will offer sometime during this debate. It is 
interesting to note that we are winning or we have won, NATO and 
America, the battle of Kosovo of 1999, and yet there are those, sadly, 
with great melancholy in my heart, I see that they want to pull defeat 
from victory by cutting off funds for those wonderful young men and 
young women and what they are doing to secure peace in Europe, which 
has a direct effect not only in the rest of Europe but on the United 
States.
  So with that, I will vote for the rule, and I urge support on my 
amendment when that comes to pass.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Florida (Mr. Foley).
  Mr. FOLEY. Mr. Speaker, let me thank the gentlewoman from North 
Carolina for bringing this rule forward, and I urge all Members to 
support the rule and particularly several amendments, one being the 
Cox-Dicks amendment, the Spence amendment. Both have suggestions on 
dealing with the nuclear labs and the theft of nuclear properties from 
the United States.
  We had an expression in the restaurant business, too many cooks and 
not enough bottlewashers. Well, in pre-1974, we had the Atomic Energy 
Commission; in 1974, we then initiated the Energy Reorg Act; and in 
1977, President Carter had the idea to create the Department of Energy 
and we transferred the functions of the Energy Research Development 
Administration into the lab. And we know now from the testimony of the 
Cox report that that was the period in time in which the nuclear 
secrets were starting to be stolen.
  So I would suggest to my colleagues the best remedy is what is 
suggested by the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), and that 
requires the Secretary of Defense to establish a plan to transfer from 
the DOE the national security functions. In the amendment of the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Dicks) they ask the President to review and come back to Congress 
and potentially recommend a similar type scenario.
  My colleagues, over the next several weeks we will hear a lot of 
bellyaching from this body about blaming the Chinese. Let us get even. 
Let us blame them for stealing our secrets. But my colleagues, the 
United States Congress, the United States Government, invited them into 
our labs. Shame on us. Shame on us for having lax security, shame on us 
for not protecting, shame on us for not having things like the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) recommends today, 
counterintelligence clarifications, security practices, polygraph tests 
to make sure people are not walking home with their briefcases full of 
our own technology. So in the next several weeks, rather than pointing 
fingers at the Chinese

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Government, let us look inwardly at the problems we have created 
ourselves.
  Let us also focus on some underlying amendments such as the gentleman 
from Florida (Mr. Goss) recommends on Haiti and removal of troops. The 
gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Franks), the gentleman from Connecticut 
(Mr. Shays) and myself have an amendment on troop removal and troop 
reduction in Europe. We cannot be everywhere for everyone, and the 
American taxpayers cannot afford it. So I urge support of the rule and 
urge support of the bill.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Michigan (Mr. Dingell).
  (Mr. DINGELL asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DINGELL. Mr. Speaker, I rise in opposition to the rule. This rule 
has many reasons for being opposed, but I confine myself to one glaring 
defect. The rule would prohibit the House from considering a very 
important and ill-considered provision of the bill. The provision would 
require the Secretary of Energy to assign all national security 
functions, including safeguards, security, health, safety, and 
environment to the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs.
  This is not putting the fox in charge of the chicken house, this is 
putting an imbecile in charge of an important national function and 
major national concerns. It is this secretary, in his many incarnations 
and in many diverse identities, that has been a major part of the 
problems that we have confronted over the years.
  When I was the chairman of the Subcommittee on Oversight and 
Investigations of the Committee on Commerce, we investigated a 
continuous series of lapses on security. We brought them constantly to 
the attention of the administration, and nothing was done because it 
was all handled by the institutional holder of this particular office. 
The practical result of this is to assure the people that if we are 
concerned with the security of the national labs and other aspects of 
our activities within the Department of Energy, we are entrusting that 
responsibility to probably, institutionally, the most incapable 
individual in that particular place.
  I have submitted an amendment to strike this section. It was a 
bipartisan amendment which had the support of the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Tom Bliley), the chairman of the Committee on Commerce; 
the gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Sensenbrenner), the chairman of the 
Committee on Science; and the gentleman from California (Mr. Brown), 
the ranking member. The amendment also had the strong support of Energy 
Secretary Bill Richardson, who, being aware of the situation there, has 
recommended that the bill be vetoed if that provision is left in the 
bill.
  Despite the bipartisan nature of this amendment and the fact that the 
bill could face a veto over the provision, the rule will not even allow 
the House to decide the issue. That is an action of extraordinary 
arrogance and high-handedness on the part of the Republican leadership 
and on the part of the Committee on Rules. And I say that if we really 
want to continue jeopardizing the well-being and the security of these 
labs and of important national secrets, continuing to trust this 
responsibility to this part of the Department of Energy is a major 
mistake, one on which, having made our choice of fools, we can be 
absolutely assured that we will now reap the whirlwind.
  This is something which should not be done because the security of 
the United States says otherwise. This is a part of the Department of 
Energy, which has continuously presided over failures in security at 
the national laboratories and at other parts of the Department of 
Energy. So to continue this kind of folly is simply to assure that a 
major calamity follows.
  I urge my colleagues to reject this rule. This rule is high-handed 
arrogance on the part of the Committee on Rules, the Republican 
leadership, and also on the part of the Committee on Armed Services, 
which is now taking care of one of their buddies and all of his special 
interest lobbyists that have been cutting a fat hog at the expense of 
the security of the United States.
  Let me give just a brief background on what this provision is all 
about. Currently, the Assistant Secretary for Defense Programs is 
responsible for our national security programs, such as weapons 
production and management of the nuclear stockpile. However, over time, 
certain oversight functions have been given to independent offices 
within the Department, because Secretaries have concluded that the 
program offices were giving too little priority to needs such as 
safeguards, security, safety, and the environment.
  For example, during the Bush Administration, then-Secretary James 
Watkins established an independent Office of Safeguards and Security, 
after security lapses were documented at Rocky Flats and other 
facilities. Similarly, after asking independent ``tiger teams'' to 
assess the safety of our weapons facilities, Secretary Watkins was so 
concerned that he was forced to close many of them for repairs. This 
ultimately led to a Defense Facilities Safety Board, and an independent 
office of Health, Safety, and the Environment. This office also assumed 
responsibility for the clean up of weapons sites, such as Hanford, 
where decades of neglect had left thousands of gallons of nuclear waste 
seeping into the environment.
  Now we are facing yet further evidence of an erosion of safeguards 
and security at our DOE labs. Once again we are finding that those in 
charge of those facilities are still failing to give these matters 
proper attention. This can be expected when program managers have 
competing priorities. Secretary Richardson has proposed creating a 
senior officer reporting directly to the Secretary with the single 
responsibility of ensuring security.
  Instead, the bill would do the exact opposite, and return us to the 
sixties and seventies, where there was no independent oversight of 
security, safeguards, health, safety, and the environment.
  I do not want to suggest that reorganizations alone can ever solve 
the problems of safeguards and security. However, requiring the 
Secretary to assign responsibility for these functions to the same 
program managers with competing priorities is certainly the wrong 
answer. That was the organization of the 60's, 70's and 80's. Those 
were the years when these facilities went into unsafe disrepair, when 
neighboring communities were polluted in the air and in the water, and 
when secrets were stolen. Obviously, more needs to be done to beef up 
our safeguards and security, but returning responsibility to those who 
created the problem is not the answer.
  My attached letter to Warren Rudman underscores my view that 
independent assessments of security are required, and I ask unanimous 
consent to insert it at this point.
  Responsible reforms are needed at the Energy Department, but this 
bill contains one poorly conceived change. Because this rule does not 
allow us even to vote on this change, the rule should be defeated.
  Mr. Speaker, I also provide for the Record documentation which 
relates to my comments about this very serious matter.

                                        Committee on Commerce,

                                   Washington, DC, March 24, 1999.
     Hon. Warren Rudman,
     President's Foreign Intelligence Advisory Board, Washington, 
         DC.
       Dear Warren: First, let me congratulate you on your recent 
     appointment to lead the bipartisan review of security threats 
     to the U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories over the last twenty 
     years. I am hopeful that your review will finally focus 
     appropriate attention on a very serious and longstanding 
     problem that has been ignored, mismanaged, and/or covered up 
     during several Administrations. Unfortunately, your effort is 
     only the latest in a long line of reviews undertaken by, 
     among others, the General Accounting Office (GAO), the 
     Department of Energy (DOE) and its Inspector General, the 
     U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System Support Staff, and 
     various Congressional committees, the results of which have 
     been uniformly ignored by the responsible officials.
       I am also writing to offer you my assistance as you 
     undertake this review. During my 14-year tenure as chairman, 
     the Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the 
     Committee on Energy and Commerce conducted several classified 
     and unclassified inquiries into this matter. (This letter 
     discusses the unclassified portion of our work.) We found a 
     disturbing pattern of security weaknesses in the contractor-
     run national weapons laboratories, along with extraordinary 
     lax oversight by the Department of Energy (DOE). As you may 
     already know, these problems included: laboratories refusing 
     to implement basic security precautions; DOE Secretaries and 
     other officials ignoring repeated warnings of security 
     problems; and bureaucratic obfuscation of the problems that 
     meant that even the National Security Council and the 
     President received inaccurate, misleading information. 
     Although our main focus initially was terrorism and physical 
     security, our concerns soon broadened to encompass other 
     significant security deficiencies and the system's management 
     problems.
       The Subcommittee, on a bipartisan basis, sought 
     continuously to bring these problems to light, and to fix the 
     underlying weaknesses, such as the lack of independent 
     security oversight, that allowed problems to persist. This 
     work required a sustained effort

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     over several years, work made more difficult because of the 
     recalcitrance of the contractors running the national 
     laboratories. You should expect significant difficulties in 
     arriving at a full understanding of the problems, 
     particularly if, given your right deadline, you are forced 
     to rely on those contractors and government officials 
     responsible for managing the laboratories over the last 
     twenty years.
       The Subcommittee's work on this matter began in 1981 in 
     response to efforts to undermine independent review of 
     security threats. The Department of Energy's Assistant 
     Secretary of Energy for Defense Programs had become concerned 
     in 1979 about the level of security at the weapons 
     laboratories. As recommended by the General Accounting Office 
     (GAO) in 1977, and also the Inspector General, he established 
     an independent, inter-agency group that reported directly to 
     him on the adequacy of safeguards at these facilities. This 
     program employed some of the best experts in the country in 
     terrorism, sabotage, protection of classified material and 
     related activities. This group found that the safeguards at 
     the most critical facilities--which included Los Alamos--were 
     in shambles while, at the same time, DOE's Office of 
     Safeguards and Security was giving the facilities a clean 
     bill of health.
       However, in 1981, when a new Administration took over, the 
     Assistant Secretary was replaced by a high-ranking official 
     from Los Alamos National Laboratory who immediately shut down 
     the independent assessment program. In 1982, in a classified 
     report to the Subcommittee, GAO strongly recommended (in part 
     because DOE was submitting misleading reports to the National 
     Security Council) the reinstitution of an independent 
     assessment program which would report directly to the Under 
     Secretary of the DOE. Two hearings by the Subcommittee in 
     1982 and 1983 focused on the organizational problems at DOE 
     and the GAO recommendation. In 1983, the Committee adopted, 
     with strong bipartisan support, an amendment to the DOE 
     Defense Authorization bill establishing an independent Office 
     of Safeguards Evaluation reporting directly to the Secretary. 
     Unfortunately, the bill never received floor consideration.
       Attempts by the Subcommittee and others in 1983-84 to 
     establish an independent evaluations office within DOE were 
     turned down by the Secretary and the Assistant Secretary for 
     Defense Programs, who wanted the evaluations program under 
     his control. Independence was critical because, during the 
     Subcommittee's work, top officials misled the Subcommittee 
     and harassed a DOE whistleblower. In 1984, the Subcommittee 
     held a hearing on the Department's attempts to strip the 
     employee's security clearance and issued a report. The 
     Department rewarded the harassers with promotions, bonuses 
     and medals. In 1984, the Department also terminated an 
     investigation by its Inspector General into management 
     adequacy in the safeguards and security program.
       The Subcommittee also attempted to alert President Reagan 
     to its concerns. In 1984, however, DOE officials told the 
     President there was nothing to be concerned about. In January 
     1986, prior to his briefing by DOE on the status of 
     safeguards and security, I wrote a letter to President Reagan 
     listing general problem areas. These included: credibility of 
     the inspection and evaluation program; inadequately trained 
     guard forces; inadequate protection against insider threats; 
     inability to track and recover special nuclear materials and 
     weapons if they were stolen; inadequate protection of 
     classified information; inverse reward and punishment system 
     for the contractors; and lack of funding for safeguards and 
     security upgrades. (A copy of that letter is enclosed.) In 
     response, based on information provided by the national 
     laboratories and DOE officials, Secretary of Energy 
     Herrington wrote of ``significant progress'' and 
     ``improvements,'' and Admiral Poindexter said he was 
     ``impressed with the progress being made.''
       The Subcommittee continued its work during President Bush's 
     Administration. Among other matters, it looked at inadequate 
     personnel security clearance practices at the laboratories 
     where it was immediately clear that there were inadequate 
     resources to do an effective job. That situation has not 
     changed to this day. The Subcommittee also began to review 
     the foreign visitors program--as did Senator Glenn, then 
     chair of the Senate Governmental Affairs Committee--and the 
     mysterious shutdown of an investigation into drug problems 
     and property controls at Lawrence Livermore Laboratory.
       At the same time, Secretary Watkins' Safeguards and 
     Security Task Force recommended establishing independent 
     oversight functions which would report directly to the Under 
     Secretary. Once again, the recommendation was not 
     implemented, although Secretary Watkins did move the Office 
     of Security Evaluation out from under Defense Programs.
       In 1991, the Subcommittee also reviewed the role the 
     Department may have played in allowing Iraq to augment its 
     nuclear capability. In May of 1989, DOE employees attempted 
     to alert Secretary Watkins to the fact that Iraq was shopping 
     for strategic nuclear technologies. They were not allowed to 
     brief the Secretary. But in August of 1989, three Iraqi 
     scientists attended the ``Ninth Symposium (International) on 
     Detonation'' sponsored by the three weapons labs, the Army, 
     Navy, and the Air Force. It was described by a DOE official 
     as the place to be ``if you were a potential nuclear weapons 
     proliferant.'' At the time, DOE didn't even have a 
     nonproliferation policy nuclear weapons proliferant.'' At the 
     time, DOE didn't even have a nonproliferation policy, and 
     Secretary Watkins was not briefed on the Iraqi threat until 
     May of 1990.
       In 1991 and 1992, the Subcommittee received six GAO reports 
     critical of DOE's safeguards and security efforts. These 
     covered weaknesses in correcting discovered deficiencies, 
     incomplete safeguards and security plans, weak internal 
     controls, unreliable data on remedial efforts, inadequate 
     accountability for classified documents, and security force 
     weaknesses. Two other GAO reports noted that even basic 
     control measures for non-classified property were not in 
     place at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, nor was 
     DOE oversight adequate.
       Subcommittee staff met with Secretary O'Leary and her 
     senior staff in 1993 to outline these concerns. At the time 
     of the Republican takeover of the House in January 1995, when 
     my chairmanship ended, the problems had not gone away, and 
     recent GAO reports find little, if any, improvements. In 
     March of 1998, the U.S. Nuclear Command and Control System 
     Support Staff, an independent, federal-level organization 
     chartered by Presidential Directive to assess and monitor all 
     equipment, facilities, communications, personnel and 
     procedures used by the federal government in support of 
     nuclear weapons operations, recommended once again a high-
     level, independent office to review safeguards and security 
     at DOE.
       Many of us in the Congress have tried for years to address 
     the chronic problems at DOE's national laboratories. You now 
     have the opportunity to take an independent, comprehensive, 
     and bipartisan look at these security weaknesses. 
     Independence from those who have failed to solve these 
     problems--which includes officials at DOE and representatives 
     of the laboratory contractors who implement and establish 
     policies at the labs as if they are academic researchers, not 
     the guardians of our weapons secrets--is essential for your 
     review to accomplish more than the prior reviews. Similarly, 
     the independence of any future evaluations office will be 
     essential to any lasting progress.
       Your review will not be easy work, but I stand ready to 
     help.
       With every good wish.
           Sincerely,
                                                  John D. Dingell,
                                                   Ranking Member.
       Enclosures.
         House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Oversight and 
           Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce,
                                 Washington, DC, January 28, 1986.
     Hon. Ronald W. Reagan,
     President of the United States,
     The White House, Washington, DC.
       Dear Mr. President: The Subcommittee on Oversight and 
     Investigations understands that you will soon be briefed by 
     senior officials of the Department of Energy (DOE) on the 
     adequacy of safeguards and security at DOE nuclear weapons 
     facilities. The Subcommittee has been conducting an extensive 
     review into the adequacy of DOE's safeguards and security 
     program since mid-1982. On several occasions, I have written 
     to you about the Subcommittee's concerns. The Subcommittee 
     staff has also briefed the staff of the National Security 
     Council and several members of the Council's staff have 
     attended our closed hearings.
       While many improvements have been made, serious 
     vulnerabilities remain. Compounding this problem are 
     unresolved management issues and a lack of confidence in the 
     Department's Inspection and Evaluation function, which is 
     supposed to provide independent, credible assurances as to 
     the adequacy of safeguards and security. The Subcommittee 
     will be holding a closed hearing in the near future 
     concerning these issues and others. We will notify the 
     National Security Council of the date of our upcoming 
     hearing.
       You have said many times that America will not be held 
     hostage to terrorism. You advocate strong actions to curb 
     this threat to the safety of not only the American people, 
     but to this international community as well. While strong 
     measures against terrorism are absolutely essential, we 
     should also be doing the best job possible to protect our 
     domestic nuclear weapons production facilities from the 
     catastrophic consequences of a terrorist attack.
       Unfortunately, the Subcommittee has found that serious 
     safeguards and security vulnerabilities continue to exist at 
     some DOE nuclear weapons sites. The DOE's own internal 
     inspection reports show that plutonium and highly enriched 
     uranium are still highly vulnerable to theft and sabotage at 
     these locations. In meetings with the Subcommittee staff, DOE 
     officials seemed unaware of many of these vulnerabilities. 
     The Subcommittee will continue its vigorous oversight over 
     this critical program until the Department is doing an 
     adequate job to protect the nation's nuclear weapons complex.
       The following are several generic problem areas that the 
     subcommittee believes must be resolved in order to have an 
     effective safeguards and security program and which you may 
     want to insure are addressed in your DOE briefing:
       Credibility of the DOE's Inspection and Evaluation 
     program--The Subcommittee has

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     evidence that Inspection and Evaluation personnel altered 
     ratings on inspections of safeguards and security interests 
     having important national security significance. The rating 
     system which is used is highly misleading.
       Guards forces are inadequately trained--In one exercise 
     using sophisticated testing apparatus known as MILES 
     equipment, the mock terrorists were able to steal plutonium 
     because of a bizarre sequence of blunders on the part of the 
     guard force. One machine gunner had not been trained to load 
     his weapon. Another guard's machine gun jammed and he was not 
     able to unjam it because he had not been trained adequately. 
     A helicopter was dispatched to chase the escaping terrorists. 
     The guards, however, were unable to fire on the terrorists 
     because they had forgotten to bring their weapons. The 
     terrorists disappeared into the woods. This is a contractor 
     guard force that is paid $40 million to guard this critical 
     site. This same guard force has lost M-16 rifles, has refused 
     to allow guards to carry loaded M-16 rifles and shotguns, and 
     has even defied DOE authority, yet received $762,400 in an 
     award fee in 1985 for ``excellent'' performance.
       Inadequate protection against insider threat--During a 
     recent exercise at one of our most critical facilities, an 
     insider was able to smuggle a pistol, with a silencer, and 
     explosives into the facility to be used several days later in 
     a successful attempt to steal bomb parts containing 
     plutonium.
       Use of deadly force by security guards--There is a conflict 
     with state law in some states over whether deadly force can 
     be used to prevent the theft of Special Nuclear Materials. 
     The DOE has been ``studying'' this matter since it was raised 
     in our September 1982 hearing. It is not resolved and, 
     therefore, is a continuing serious weakness.
       Lack of coordination with the military; other Federal 
     agencies and local law enforcement for external assistance in 
     the event of an attack--At a Subcommittee hearing in 
     September 1982, concern was raised over the failure of the 
     DOE to provide for proper outside assistance. This issue is 
     far from resolved.
       Inability to track and recover Special Nuclear Material and 
     nuclear weapons in the event they are stolen from the DOE--
     The Subcommittee believes major problems exist. In a recent 
     test, the mock terrorists successfully stole plutonium bomb 
     parts and disappeared. DOE officials admit they would have 
     had a very low probability of locating the terrorists or the 
     bomb parts. To our knowledge, this capability has never been 
     adequately tested.
       The Department's inverse rewards and punishment system--The 
     DOE continues to promote and reward officials who have been 
     responsible for safeguards and security problems, including 
     the misleading of the President and the Congress, while 
     holding back the careers of those employees who have tried to 
     improve safeguards and security and to insure that the 
     President and Congress are properly advised of major 
     safeguards and security deficiencies.
       Inadequate protection of classified information--The DOE 
     has lost seven sensitive TOP SECRET documents that, to our 
     knowledge, have not been located. Computer systems are 
     vulnerable to compromising highly sensitive, classified data 
     in some DOE locations.
       Reduction of funds for safeguards and security upgrades--
     While the DOE has historically thrown money at its problems, 
     there are essential safeguards and security programs that 
     must be funded adequately. It is important that safeguards 
     and security effectiveness not be hurt due to lack of 
     adequate funding.
       We both want adequate protection at these critical 
     facilities. I hope that these concerns will be helpful in 
     your efforts to insure that proper security throughout the 
     nuclear weapons complex does indeed become a reality. Please 
     inform the Subcommittee of your observations after receiving 
     your briefing.
       The Subcommittee and its staff will be pleased to assist 
     you and the National Security Council in any way we can.
           Sincerely,

                                              John D. Dingell,

                                         Chairman, Subcommittee on
                                     Oversight and Investigations.

  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cunningham).
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I rise in support of the rule. But let 
me address some of the things my colleague, the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Frost), said about the bill being pulled last week.
  First of all, this House had a vote and voted not to let any of the 
emergency supplemental spending go for the expansion of the war in 
Kosovo. When the President heard that we had that vote in the House, he 
threatened to veto the bill if that provision was in there.
  Many of us feel very, very strongly that emergency spending should 
not be used to expand the involvement in Kosovo. We are flying 86 
percent of all the sorties in Kosovo. And 90 percent of the weapons 
that are being dropped by NATO are from the United States of America. 
And when I talked to General Clark, he said, ``Well, Duke, our allies 
don't have the standoff weapons.'' Then they need to pay for part of 
this war.
  With regard to the emergency spending dollars, the Joint Chiefs 
testified that we need $148 billion more over several years even to 
bring us up to the levels recommended by the QDR, or the bottom-up 
review. That is $22 billion a year, and when we add $6 billion more per 
year for Kosovo, that is $28 billion. And now let us look where we are. 
The President wants to pull away more dollars in the emergency spending 
to support Kosovo. Yes, we had a problem with that.
  We are still spending $25 million a year in Haiti building 
infrastructure and roads. How about the infrastructure of the United 
States?
  We are going to be lucky to get out of this with a bill of $100 
billion to destroy then rebuild Kosovo. And I know the side of the 
gentleman from Texas (Mr. Frost) and our side as well, we do not want 
money to come out of Social Security. But we cannot spend $100 billion 
in Kosovo and take emergency money and put it in there and not touch 
Social Security or Medicare or medical research. My friend the 
gentleman from Wisconsin (Mr. Obey) said when we wanted to double 
medical research that that was a fallacy. Well, we cannot double 
medical research when we spend $100 billion on Kosovo.
  The United States and NATO have killed more civilians than Milosevic 
killed in the year prior to NATO bombing Kosovo; there were 2,012 
people killed before the bombing began. And the liberals say, well, 
Milosevic had a plan to ethically kill. Well, we sure implemented that 
plan, did we not? We drove out a million Albanians. And when we look at 
those kids suffering, that's right we had a problem with the bill and 
wanted to kill it, because the President said he would veto it if we 
stopped him from expanding Kosovo.
  I will not let him be nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize to save his 
legacy by getting people killed.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  It is extraordinary that the majority cannot stand for the fact that 
President Clinton has done something right and that we are about to win 
a great victory in Yugoslavia. It is absolutely extraordinary. Foreign 
policy historically in this country has been conducted on a bipartisan 
basis.
  We are about to succeed, and yet they stand in the well of the House 
and want to say what a terrible policy it was and how we should cut off 
funding. That is an extraordinary result.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Dicks).
  (Mr. DICKS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, I support this rule and I would like to thank 
the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) and the ranking member, the 
gentleman from Massachusetts (Mr. Moakley) for their indulgence last 
night as the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and I put the 
finishing touches on our bipartisan amendment.
  This rule makes in order the Cox-Dicks amendment as the first order 
of business this morning. We have a strong bipartisan response to the 
security problems at the Department of Energy and the other security 
problems identified in the report of our committee. I urge every Member 
to support the amendment.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and I worked in good faith to 
identify a common ground on these issues. And the amendment, while not 
perfect in either of our eyes, is a good compromise. We have agreed to 
work on several issues in conference where we have common goals but 
where the amendment's language may require perfection and adjustment.
  In particular, it was my intention that the amendment would not 
affect the nuclear navy, and this is an example of an issue that we 
have committed to work out in conference. We have also agreed to 
address in conference concerns that by requiring the Department of 
Defense to hire security personnel at launch campaigns we may undermine 
existing bilateral agreements with China and Russia. The rule makes in 
order a range of amendments related to similar security concerns. 
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these amendments attack the right issues.

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  In almost every case, our amendment has a very similar or even 
identical provision to those being offered by other Members. While I 
respect every Member's right to offer their amendment in order under 
the rule, I urge those Members to consult our amendment and not offer 
it where it duplicates provisions that may have already passed the 
House.
  In particular, I cannot support the Ryan amendment, number 7, which 
largely duplicates the moratorium provision in the Cox-Dicks amendment 
but reduces incentive for security improvements at the labs by 
extending a punitive moratorium on the labs well after appropriate 
security measures are in place. I support the rule and urge Members to 
support the Cox-Dicks amendment.
  I also want to associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman 
from Texas. I think this is one of the most extraordinary situations 
where we would be considering cutting off money for the peacekeeping 
effort that is going to come after this victory in the air war. And I 
think we should be here today congratulating the young men and women 
who have flown 30,000 sorties in Kosovo for the tremendous job that 
they have done.
  We have not lost a single American life in combat. And we have seen 
also for the first time the use of the B-2 bomber, the use of JDAMs. 
This has been one of the most effective military operations in the 
history of the country. And when I go over there and talk to the 
personnel, their faces are not dragging. They are proud of what they 
are doing. They are proud of what they have been trained to do, and 
they are accomplishing it. And they did a tremendous job.
  And for this House to be voting on whether we are going to support 
this effort at this point is utterly ridiculous, and I hope the 
majority will reconsider their position and support the effort.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cunningham).
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Speaker, I would like to respond to the gentleman 
from Texas again. He said the President is doing the right thing.
  We do not kill more civilians in Kosovo than the Serbs do and call 
that a victory. We do not increase the forced removal of Albanians 
faster than the Serbs did and call that a win. We do not cost us a 
hundred billion dollars in rebuilding Kosovo and the cost of this war 
and cut money out of Social Security, Medicare, education, and medical 
research and call that a win. We do not damage our relationship with 
Russia and China and call this a win.
  Yes, I am very, very proud, I say to the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Dicks), of our military. The gentleman knows me by now, and I 
support them 100 percent.
  But I want my colleague to take a look at this document and apply it. 
It says that eighty percent of the people in this country do not trust 
the President of the United States. Only 69 percent do not trust 
Milosevic.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Georgia (Ms. McKinney).
  Ms. McKINNEY. Mr. Speaker, I rise to support this rule, and I call 
upon the President of the United States to bring an immediate end to 
the illegal and immoral bombing of the former Republic of Yugoslavia.
  From the beginning of the bombing campaign, the Clinton 
administration has asserted that there are only two alternatives 
available to us: either do nothing to end the violent oppression of the 
people of Kosovo, or bomb.
  That premise is false. And following it, President Clinton set us on 
a course that former President Carter correctly described as 
counterproductive, senseless, and excessively brutal. I would add also, 
entirely avoidable.
  NATO made a grievous miscalculation in offering an ultimatum to 
Milosevic at Rambouillet that included provisions in Appendix B that 
amounted to a NATO military occupation of all of Serbia.
  Either by design or miscalculation, we abandoned diplomatic channels 
that were still open in favor of ultimatums and brinksmanship. The 
result, as we all know, has been the worst humanitarian disaster in 
Europe since the end of the Second World War.
  For the past 2\1/2\ months, we have seen vivid evidence of man's 
capacity for cruelty to his fellow man. Throughout, each side has 
engaged in a media bidding war each attributing to the other for 
foreign and domestic political consumption the greater aggression, the 
greatest atrocity, the most horrific violations of human dignity.
  I fear that when this war ends, and I fervently hope that it will end 
soon, we will be subjected to another media war, with each side 
claiming victory. I do know that our efforts to help the people of 
Kosovo have left them a nation of refugees with their civilian 
infrastructure destroyed. We have become a military ally of a terrorist 
organization, the KLA, and we have effectively destroyed the non-
violent Democratic opposition to Milosevic in Yugoslavia. We have 
trampled international law, marginalized the United Nations, ignored 
the War Powers Act, and violated the Geneva Convention's prohibition 
against targeting civilians.
  Closer to home, we have diverted billions of tax dollars from Social 
Security and nutrition programs to weapons programs, and our relations 
with nuclear powers China and Russia have been set back to the days of 
the Cold War.
  It is clear to me that there are no winners in this war, no winners, 
with the possible exception of the weapons makers and the undertakers.
  Mr. Speaker, cluster bombs dropped on civilians are never and will 
never be a form of humanitarian intervention. It is time for us to put 
aside the egos of men and declare peace for our children. It is time to 
end the bombing.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Woolsey).
  (Ms. WOOLSEY asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Ms. WOOLSEY. Mr. Speaker, I am disappointed that today's defense 
authorization bill does not address the defense burden which the United 
States continues to shoulder for our European allies.
  My colleagues, I think we need a history lesson. Lesson number one: 
The Second World War ended more than 50 years ago. Lesson number two: 
The Cold War ended 8 years ago. And in case we forget, we won.
  We defeated fascism and we defeated communism. But the defense bill 
completely ignores this reality.
  Right now many of our European allies enjoy a higher standard of 
living than we do here in America. Somehow these nations can support 
education, they can support health care, child care, and vital social 
programs because we keep paying their military bills. It appears that 
our European allies have gotten used to American taxpayers picking up 
the tab for their common defense and they do not feel obligated to 
increase their contributions. I do not know about my colleagues, but I 
am tired of Uncle Sam acting like Uncle Sucker.
  Right now, one U.S. Army division in peaceful Europe costs the United 
States taxpayers $2 billion a year. With that money we could fund 
50,000 new teachers. With $2 billion we could offer a college 
education, including tuition, fees and books to 500,000 students who 
could not otherwise afford college.
  The time has come. The time has come, Mr. Speaker, for our allies to 
share the burden of their own defense. The time has come for shared 
responsibility. The time has come for the United States to reap the 
investment that we have made in our country so that we can invest in 
our children, our seniors, and our environment.
  That is why I urge my colleagues to support the Shays-Franks 
amendment to increase burden sharing.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield 7 minutes to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Hunter).
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Speaker, I thank the gentlewoman for her excellent 
leadership of this very, very important rule.
  I want to thank the ranking member and all the members of the 
Committee on Rules who did struggle to put together a rule that was 
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concerns by Members of the House. They have done an excellent job, and 
I urge all Members to vote for this rule.
  My colleagues, let us take a look at the state of defense. That is 
the situation that this rule and this bill address. The state of 
defense is that we have a force structure, meaning an Army, a Navy, an 
Air Force and a Marines that are a little more than half the size that 
they were just a few years ago.
  In 1990, we had 18 army divisions. Today we have been cut down to 10. 
We had 24 fighter air wings, active air wings. Today we are down to 13. 
We had 546 navy ships. Today we are down to 325 and dropping.
  Now, the gentlewoman that just spoke talked about things that we 
could do with the money that we could cut from defense. I am here to 
tell her we have cut an enormous amount of money in defense. This bill 
is roughly $150 billion less in real dollars than the defense bill that 
this House passed in 1985. We have slashed defense.
  The state of defense is this: We are short on ammunition. Across the 
spectrum, starting with cruise missiles and going down to the smallest 
M-16 bullets, we are short even after we passed this bill; and 
considering the full amount that was put into the supplemental, we will 
still be short, by our analysis, about $13 billion dollars below the 
two-war requirement that was laid out as the responsibility for this 
government to fulfill so that our fighting people would have enough 
ammo in their bandoliers should we have to fight a two-contingency or 
two-war situation.
  With respect to spare parts, we are down on spare parts. And every 
time we are told by a member of the Pentagon that spare parts are 
looking better, that the accounts are being filled, we go out to the 
field and we find that all the services across the board, the Marine 
Corps, the Air Force, the Army and the Navy, are down about 10 percent 
in mission capability.
  That means that if we asked the Navy how many of their fighter 
aircraft are able to do the mission, it is a little over 7 out of 10. 
That means 3 out of 10 cannot do the mission. With the Marine Corps and 
the Navy, actually it is down to about 61 percent mission capability. 
That means 4 out of 10 cannot do their mission.

  With respect to personnel, we are going to be about 800 pilots short 
this year in the Air Force, and that figure is rising. Remember, we do 
not have a draft. We cannot force people to join the military and serve 
this country.
  I know Members of this House and members of the country, our 
constituents, are also amazed when they travel abroad or they go to a 
military base or they talk to our military, our men and women in 
uniform, and they look at the very difficult jobs that they fulfill 
every day, jobs that are much less convenient, much less comfortable 
than most of the jobs on what they call the outside; that is, the 
civilian economy. And yet they do that because they have a dedication 
to this country.
  We are low on military pay. Since 1980, we have allowed that pay gap 
between the civilian and the military sector to widen to 13\1/2\ 
percent. That means an electronics technician in the Navy gets, on the 
average, 13\1/2\ percent less than if he was working on the outside. 
And that is one reason why we are 18,000 sailors short right now and 
800 pilots short in the Air Force.
  And we are short Apache helicopter pilots. And we are seeing a bigger 
and bigger separation rate even in Marine aviation, which has also had 
the highest retention rate. We have lost a lot of aircraft in the last 
year.
  One of the best examples of the best reflection of how old our force 
is and our equipment is, is how many of them fall down in peacetime and 
crash. We lost, by our calculations, in the last 14 months, 55 military 
aircraft crashing in peacetime operations, with 55 fatalities involved, 
55 men and women in uniform dying as a result of military aircraft 
going down in peacetime operations.
  We are not replacing aircraft as fast as we are crashing them because 
we have an inadequate budget. Well, let us go to the budget and what we 
do with this defense bill. We do increase defense spending a very small 
amount. We do not come anywhere close to starting to close that $150 
billion gap, that cut between what we spent in 1985 and what we spend 
today, but we are starting to turn the corner.
  We put in more money for ammunition, more money for spare parts. We 
are putting in a little more money for modernization. That means 
replacing some of those old systems that are crashing on us now with 
new systems, with new platforms. We are trying to address this problem 
with respect to the national labs.
  Let me just say with respect to the Cox report and the Cox-Dicks 
package that is going to be put into place, I want to applaud my 
colleagues for putting that together.
  I do want to say, with respect to the Ryan amendment, that would give 
a 2-year moratorium on foreign visitors to the laboratory. I think that 
is much more reasonable than the 30-day moratorium that has been 
offered in the report. In that sense, I think there has been some 
watering down of what I know some of the leaders of the report on both 
sides of the aisle would like to see.
  I do not see any reason to have Iraqis and Iranian nationals coming 
over from their countries and go into laboratories in our nuclear 
procurement system, in our nuclear development system, any laboratory 
in the U.S.
  So we have an excellent bill before us.

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  I do commend our colleagues for putting together a package with 
respect to lab security with respect to foreign visitors. I think we 
need to go with the Ryun amendment. I also see the hand of industry to 
some degree in neutralizing a tough supercomputer transfer to China 
amendment; that is, we are still going to allow supercomputers to be 
transferred to China even though we have done no end use verification 
to speak of in the last couple of years.
  Mr. Speaker, this bill starts to turn the corner on rebuilding 
national security. Let us vote for the rule and vote for the bill and 
get on with our work.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  We have a great paradox before us today. As the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Skelton), the ranking Democrat, outlined, this is a good 
piece of legislation. It is a terrible rule for a good piece of 
legislation, and it is a terrible rule because the majority leadership 
has chosen to make in order an amendment which would deny funds and 
also to preserve in the bill a provision that they had originally 
stricken 2 weeks ago but now they have put back in the bill which would 
deny funds for peacekeeping in Kosovo.
  The rest of the bill is fundamentally a good bill. But this is truly 
extraordinary that as we are on the brink of a great victory and 
success that members on the majority cannot acknowledge success, cannot 
acknowledge that we have scored a victory but must persist till the 
very end in trying to score political points against a President and a 
policy that they do not like.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Speaker, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. FROST. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. It is almost as if they just cannot cope with the fact 
that Bill Clinton, President of the United States, the Commander in 
Chief, the head of the free world and NATO, has put together this 
coalition to stop this terrible ethnic cleansing. And I understand some 
of the arguments that are made but the bottom line is that it has 
worked. We are on the verge of establishing the peace. Yet we are here 
voting on whether we are going to cut off the money for the operation. 
In my whole career, I have not seen anything more ludicrous than this.
  Mr. FROST. It is particularly extraordinary because the gentleman and 
I 10 years ago supported President Bush when he was attempting to 
succeed against Saddam Hussein and in fact was successful against 
Saddam Hussein. We went across party lines and joined with the 
Republican President and rejoiced in the success of a Republican 
President.
  Mr. DICKS. And once the decision was made to go, if the gentleman 
will continue to yield, there was no undercutting or backstabbing or 
trying to go back and revisit the decision. The decision was made and 
then we rallied around the decision and we were proud of our forces 
when they did an outstanding job. Instead, we still have these votes 
day after day here to try to

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 undermine the policy, which is ridiculous. We should be supporting 
this. It is a very successful military campaign, one of the most 
successful in the history of this country, without the loss of a single 
life. Two kids in a test situation were killed unfortunately but to 
execute this air war, it is one of the most incredible things that I 
have ever seen in my 21 years on the defense subcommittee.
  Mr. FROST. Reclaiming my time, as I tried to say throughout this 
debate, this is really a sad day for us here in the House of 
Representatives, that the majority feels obligated to grab hold of the 
President like a dog with a bone and not let go, will not let go in the 
face of success. I do not understand it, and I do not think people 
watching this and I do not think people reading about this, whether 
they are in the United States or whether they are in Europe, will 
understand what is being done here today. This is a fundamentally good 
bill. There are a lot of very good things in this bill. Yet the 
majority spoils this entire consideration today by refusing to accept a 
successful military operation.
  Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield myself such time as I may consume. 
Just a couple of things in relation to the comments from the gentleman. 
I suggest that you ask the Apache crew if there was not a loss of life 
and also the Kosovo funding amendment passed overwhelmingly in the 
House. It was a bipartisan agreement, too, I might say. So I want to 
say that this is not a partisan rule that is being brought to the floor 
because we are going to have this discussion. There were 99 amendments 
total presented and 47 of them were made in order. I will say based on 
the percentages of each Republican and Democrat body that were 
presented, the percentages are very, very fair. We will have about 20 
hours, anyway, of debate on this over the next couple of days. So it is 
very encouraging to me that we are going to be expressing the will of 
the House again and the debate that will go on will be very fair and 
open and allow us to give great discussion for this very fair rule. I 
also urge all of my colleagues to support the rule so we can have this 
open and fair debate on the floor.


                             General Leave

  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I ask unanimous consent that all Members 
may have 5 legislative days in which to revise and extend their remarks 
and include extraneous material on the rule under consideration.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). Is there objection to the 
request of the gentlewoman from North Carolina?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Speaker, it is clear that over the course of the last 
decade the United States' military has been in a constant state of 
decline. With the current challenges confronting U.S. armed forces in 
the Yugoslav Republic of Kosovo, our ability to meet worldwide 
commitments is increasingly strained; our ability to conduct even 
smaller military operations is at risk, as well. This rule provides an 
answer to these concerns.
  The Joint Chiefs of Staff cited the diminished quality of life, 
readiness, and modernization requirements that have pervaded the armed 
forces. With respect to the National Defense bill, allow me to state 
for the record that this bill begins to address each of these flaws.
  The bill increases our forces' quality of life by providing $8.6 
billion for military construction and family housing, $3.1 billion more 
than the administration's request.
  The bill specifically addresses the readiness of our military, 
providing $106.5 billion for operations and maintenance, $2.8 billion 
more than the administration's request.
  The bill ensures that the United States will not maintain the status 
quo but will continue modernization by providing $3.7 billion for the 
Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, a $417 million more than the 
administration's request.
  As we near the dawn of a new millennium, the international political 
situation is growing increasingly unstable. Our current involvement in 
the Balkans reminds us that the end of the Cold War has brought with it 
not a more stable world, but an increasingly volatile one. Our only 
insurance against future confrontations is a powerful and adept 
military; this bill provides the funding to ensure one. Overall, this 
bill strengthens our military and ensures the safety of both our troops 
and our citizens.
  This is a good rule, and I strongly urge you to support our troops by 
voting for it.
  Mr. KIND. Mr. Speaker, I rise today to express my disappointment with 
this rule.
  First, I am deeply troubled by the continued, misguided attempt to 
limit this Nation's ability to execute operation allied force and end 
the atrocities in the Balkans.
  In addition, two weeks ago, when this authorization bill was first 
brought to the House floor, Mr. DeFazio offered an amendment that was 
ruled out of order. The DeFazio amendment would have increased funding 
for the youth challenge program by eliminating one corporate-style jet 
for the military.
  Youth Challenge is a program that has been funded through the Army 
National Guard since 1993. Youth Challenge reaches out to young people 
aged 16 to 18 who have either dropped out of high school or are at risk 
for dropping out. Youth Challenge combines academics with physical 
fitness, job skills training, community service, counseling and 
leadership training. Privileges are earned through hard work, merit and 
discipline. Through Youth Challenge, over 12,000 young people received 
a G.E.D. who otherwise, very likely, would not have received any 
diploma at all.
  I had the privilege of visiting the Wisconsin National Guard Youth 
Challenge Program last week at Fort McCoy. I was quite impressed by the 
dedicated staff of National Guard and civilian employees which includes 
certified teachers, counselors and nurses. Students attend from across 
the State, and students, parents and community leaders familiar with 
the program praise its results.
  Youth Challenge helps kids who are at the ends of their ropes but who 
haven't yet fallen. In the wake of recent school shootings, we are all 
beginning to realize that we must reach out to young people who have 
become alienated from their peers and estranged from their communities. 
Youth Challenge works to build self-esteem in its students, and its 
focus on teamwork, leadership, and public service help reconnect 
students to their families and communities.
  However, Youth Challenge programs nationwide receives many more 
requests for admission than they can accept given current funding 
levels. The DeFazio amendment would have helped get this program to 
more kids in more States.
  Mr. Speaker, I tend to be skeptical of military authorizations and 
appropriations bills, not because I doubt the needs of our men and 
women in service, but because I doubt that Congress will sincerely act 
to meet those needs without loading-in special interest and pork barrel 
projects.
  Youth Challenge is the opposite of pork barrel politics. It is a 
program that could be available nationwide. It enhances the stature and 
presence of the National Guard in local communities and provides 
ongoing leadership training to Guard members and gives them a chance to 
interact with the country's youth.
  I understand that an agreement may be worked out to fully-fund Youth 
Challenge between now and the time we debate defense appropriations. I 
applaud the efforts of Mr. DeFazio, as well as those of Mr. Skelton and 
Senators Stevens and Inouye in working hard to see that this excellent 
program is continued.
  Mr. Speaker, we are here today to debate planes, ships, bombs and 
bullets. Youth Challenge is the kind of defense program that truly 
increases Americans' faith in their government and those entrusted with 
national security. I hope Members don't lose sight of this in their 
zeal for political pork and maneuvering.
  Mrs. MYRICK. Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time, and I 
move the previous question on the resolution.
  The previous question was ordered.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. The question is on the resolution.
  The question was taken; and the Speaker pro tempore announced that 
the ayes appeared to have it.
  Mr. FROST. Mr. Speaker, I object to the vote on the ground that a 
quorum is not present and make the point of order that a quorum is not 
present.
  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Evidently a quorum is not present.
  The Sergeant at Arms will notify absent Members.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 354, 
nays 75, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 179]

                               YEAS--354

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capps
     Carson
     Castle

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     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Clayton
     Clement
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dixon
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Etheridge
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gekas
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastert
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (IN)
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kuykendall
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Lucas (OK)
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McGovern
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Pease
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Toomey
     Traficant
     Turner
     Upton
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                                NAYS--75

     Baldwin
     Barrett (WI)
     Becerra
     Bonior
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Clay
     Clyburn
     Conyers
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     Dingell
     Doggett
     Eshoo
     Evans
     Fattah
     Filner
     Gejdenson
     Gephardt
     Hastings (FL)
     Hilliard
     Hinchey
     Hinojosa
     Holt
     Hooley
     Jackson (IL)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Kucinich
     LaFalce
     Lee
     Lewis (GA)
     Lofgren
     Martinez
     McDermott
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Nadler
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Owens
     Pallone
     Payne
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Rangel
     Rush
     Sabo
     Sanders
     Schakowsky
     Sherman
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stupak
     Thompson (MS)
     Tierney
     Towns
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Watt (NC)
     Wu
     Wynn

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Brown (CA)
     Chenoweth
     Luther
     McHugh
     Moran (VA)
     Waters

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  Mr. TOWNS and Mr. FATTAH changed their vote from ``yea'' to ``nay.''
  So the resolution was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  A motion to reconsider was laid on the table.
  House Resolution 195 was laid on the table.
  Stated for:
  Mrs. CHENOWETH. Mr. Speaker, on rollcall No. 179, I was inadvertently 
detained. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yea.''
  The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. LaTourette). Pursuant to House 
Resolution 200 and rule XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union for the 
consideration of the bill, H.R. 1401.

                              {time}  1228


                     In the Committee of the Whole

  Accordingly, the House resolved itself into the Committee of the 
Whole House on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill 
(H.R. 1401) to authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe 
military personnel strengths for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for 
other purposes, with Mr. Nethercutt in the chair.
  The Clerk read the title of the bill.
  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to the rule, the bill is considered as having 
been read the first time.
  Under the rule, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) and 
the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence).

                              {time}  1230

  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I might 
consume.
  (Mr. SPENCE asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, on May 19, the Committee on Armed Services 
reported H.R. 1401 on a bipartisan vote of 55 to 1. Despite the strong 
vote on what I believe is a very good bill, our military is still 
confronting its most serious problem since the hollow military days of 
the 1970s. The committee's approach to this and previous bills has been 
shaped by long-standing concerns over the risk America's Armed Forces 
face today. Although public perception is that the post Cold War world 
is stable, three basic trends ought to give every American cause for 
concern.
  First, the level of resources that the United States devotes to 
national defense remains at historical lows. Not since before World War 
II has defense spending represented such a small proportion of the 
Nation's Gross Domestic Product as it does today. Despite being the 
world's wealthiest Nation, a Nation with important interests all over 
the world and the world's only remaining superpower, we devote only 3 
cents out of every dollar of the Nation's GDP to national defense.
  Second, our Armed Forces are being tasked at a record pace with an 
average expanding list of peacekeeping, peacemaking and other 
contingency missions. From Panama to the Persian Gulf, to Somalia, 
Rwanda, Haiti, the Balkans, Korea and the Taiwan Straits, our troops 
are over-extended and operate at levels that simply cannot be sustained 
over time.
  Third, the world is an increasingly dangerous place, especially in 
regard to the proliferation of ballistic missiles, weapons of mass 
destruction and other high technology capabilities through our 
potential adversaries. Many of our theater commanders have told us 
quite frankly that if we had to fight a large scale war today, we 
should expect higher casualties among our forces, our allied forces, 
and civilians.
  As a result, it has become increasingly difficult for our military to 
protect and promote our national security interests around the world. 
That is why over the past nine months the Joint Chiefs of Staff have 
concluded that the ability of our Armed Forces to execute the national 
military strategy involves moderate to high risk, and this disturbing 
risk assessment was made before the operation in the Balkans began 
several months ago. Operation Allied Force now qualifies as a third 
major theater war, entirely separate from any threat or conflict in the 
Persian Gulf or in Korea. As we continue to read in the media reports, 
the air war in the Balkans might easily change to a peacekeeping 
operation on the ground.
  The committee has repeatedly expressed its concerns about the 
declining defense budgets, increasing missions and rising threats for 
years. With the Joint Chiefs speaking more openly over the past year 
about these significant risks and problems and shortfalls, the 
administration seems to be turning the corner on the issue of America's 
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  In his State of the Union speech earlier this year, President Clinton 
spoke of the need for a ``Sustained increase over the next 6 years for 
readiness, for modernization and for pay and benefits for our troops 
and their families.''
  In fact, the President's three themes, quality of life, readiness and 
modernization, have been the focus of the Committee on Armed Services' 
efforts for years now. Unfortunately, the reality of the President's 
defense budget request has fallen short of the rhetoric. The 
President's defense budget request was riddled with overly optimistic 
economic assumptions and budget gimmicks, all of it directly linked, 
even held hostage, to the President's domestic political agenda on 
Social Security.
  But even with all of the political linkages, gamesmanship and 
gimmicks, the President's fiscal year 2000 defense budget request 
provided only about one-half of the funding necessary to meet the 
unfunded requirements identified by the Chiefs of Staff and only about 
one-half of the unfunded requirements identified over the 6-year budget 
plan.
  It is in this context that the committee has added, consistent with 
the budget resolution, more than $8 billion to the President's request 
and has targeted crucial additional funding for a variety of badly 
needed quality of life, readiness and equipment modernization needs. 
But despite the committee's best efforts, we are only managing the 
growing risk to our national security, not eliminating them.
  In my view, a high risk strategy is an unacceptable strategy and 
certainly unworthy of the United States of America. Absent a long term 
sustained commitment to revitalizing America's Armed Forces, we will 
continue to run the inevitable risk that comes from asking our troops 
to do more with less.
  As Secretary of Defense Cohen recently said, ``We have a situation 
where we have a smaller force and we have more missions, and so we are 
wearing out systems, wearing out our people.''
  Mr. Chairman, in this increasingly dangerous world, there is no such 
thing as acceptable risk. Unless the Nation fields the forces and 
provides the resources necessary to execute the national military 
strategy, the inevitable alternative is for our country to retreat from 
its responsibilities and interests. This ought to be unacceptable to 
all Members and to all Americans.
  Mr. Chairman, I will leave a discussion of the many specific 
initiatives contained in this bill to my colleagues on the committee 
who have worked very hard since February to get us to the point we are 
at today. However, I would like to recognize the hard work of the 
subcommittee and panel chairmen and ranking members. Their leadership 
and bipartisan approach to issues has permitted our committee to 
significantly improve upon the administration's request in this bill.
  In closing, Mr. Chairman, I would also like to thank the staff. 
Without their expertise and tireless efforts, we would not be here 
today.
  Mr. Chairman, I support this bill.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in very strong support of H.R. 1401, the 
National Defense Authorization Act. For some time now I have been 
saying that we must make this the year of the troops. This bill goes a 
long way towards showing the men and women in our military that we are 
committed to taking care of them and committed to taking care of their 
families. This is an excellent bill, the best defense bill that we have 
had in this Chamber since the early 1980s. It deserves support from 
every Member in this House.
  Let me commend our colleague and friend, the Chairman of the 
Committee on Armed Services, the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. 
Spence), and thank him, as well as the subcommittee chairmen and the 
ranking members of our committee, for their leadership and diligence in 
putting this legislation together. The overwhelming committee support, 
a vote of 55 to 1, approved this bill, demonstrates that we on our 
committee were successful in the efforts in drafting a truly bipartisan 
measure.
  This bill is a very strong bill for our United States national 
security, which builds upon the President's proposal to increase 
defense spending by $112 billion over the next 6 years. But, most 
important, Mr. Chairman, the bill addresses the quality of life issues 
that are at the top of the agenda for the service members and their 
families. This is the year of the troops.
  The compensation package, which includes a 4.8 percent pay raise, pay 
table reform, and reform of the retirement system, will help address 
the problems in our Armed Forces. Other provisions will help in 
recruiting and retention, which is very, very important. Improvements 
in the Tricare military healthcare system and an increase in funding 
for military family housing, all of these go toward quality of life and 
helping to make life better for those who work in uniform as well as 
their families.
  In addition to quality of life improvements, I am pleased this bill 
includes increases for funding for procurement of weapons, for 
ammunition, for equipment, for research and development and for 
operations and maintenance. This will enable us to modernize our forces 
to where they should be.
  Mr. Chairman, the only reservation about this concerns problems 
relating to issues about the Federal Republic of Yugoslovia. In 
particular, section 1006 of this bill prohibits the use of funds 
authorized from this legislation for the conduct of either combat or 
peacekeeping operations in the Federal Republic of Yugoslovia. It is 
way too restrictive. It could result in funds being cut off while our 
troops are in the field.
  As we speak, we, America, the NATO forces, are on the one foot line 
and they are there nearing a victory. We do not walk away from the ball 
game with a victory well in hand. Moreover, it sends the wrong message 
to our troops, to the President of Yugoslovia, Mr. Milosevic. If this 
language remains in the DOD authorization bill, it will be subject to a 
veto by the President.
  Therefore, I urge all Members to support an amendment which I will 
have which requires a striking of section 1006.
  Mr. Chairman, there are other amendments that I would oppose of the 
gentleman from Indiana (Mr. Souder) and the gentlewoman from Florida 
(Mrs. Fowler), both relating to Yugoslovia. I would urge people to 
support the amendment of the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. Taylor), 
which outlines the goals for our operations in Yugoslovia.
  Basically, Mr. Chairman, this is an excellent bill, with the one wart 
which I spoke about. Let us pass this bill, but let us also pass the 
amendment I offer to strike that section which really does not belong 
here.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Bateman), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Military 
Readiness.
  Mr. BATEMAN. Mr. Chairman, I too rise today in strong support of this 
bill. I believe the committee has done a superb job in fulfilling its 
role and has done its best to provide the necessary funding and 
direction to support the readiness of our military forces. Is this 
enough to fix all of the readiness problems? Unfortunately, no. Is it 
in the right direction? Absolutely.
  For too many years now, the readiness for our military forces has 
been marred by an ever increasing number of contingency operations 
without any additional funding to accompany those operations. This 
pattern has led to the decline of our military readiness which we are 
all now too familiar with.
  At hearings in Washington and in the field, the committee repeatedly 
heard concerns and pleas for help to address readiness and quality of 
life problems in our military forces. As in previous years, these 
concerns focused on lack of spare parts, backlog of maintenance and 
repair of aging equipment and facilities, and a force that continues to 
do more with less.
  The committee also heard disturbing testimony on the shortfalls and 
problems at the services major combat training centers. These concerns 
are not new to us. Stories of back-to-back deployment, cannibalizing 
combat equipment for spare parts and personnel shortages are not new to 
me or to anyone else on my subcommittee.
  I am happy to report this year that such stories are finally reaching 
and affecting the administration. Leaders within the Department of 
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military services, have at last come forward to express their own 
concerns with the status of readiness. This year the President's budget 
did increase the level of spending for operation and maintenance. 
However, an analysis of the budget quickly revealed that the touted 
increase in funding was much more than a mirage. Behind the smoke and 
mirrors, the committee could not find the increases needed to do more 
than slow down the decline in readiness. Nevertheless, the 
administration's recognition of the problem is a positive and welcome 
step forward.
  I would like to quickly outline the areas in which the committee is 
most concerned and was able to increase the level of funding beyond the 
President's request.

                              {time}  1245

  The bill recommends an increase of $271 million for aircraft spare 
parts, $340 million for depot maintenance, $112 million to improve 
training center operations, equipment, and facilities, and finally, 
$1.6 billion to address the backlog of facilities maintenance and 
shortfalls in base operation funding.
  The bill also provides funding to improve the day-to-day life of our 
military men and women, such as providing additional funding for cold 
weather gear, maintenance and corrosion control of aging equipment.
  As I stated earlier, this bill will not fix all the readiness and 
quality of life problems of our military forces, but it will go a long 
way to putting them on the road to recovery.
  I want to thank all the members of the subcommittee for their 
commitment to this area of our national defense. I particularly want to 
thank the ranking member of the Subcommittee on Military Readiness, my 
good friend, the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Ortiz). His leadership and 
knowledge of the issues has enabled the subcommittee to deal with 
several difficult issues that have transcended political lines.
  I also rise to express my strong support for the recommendations of 
the Merchant Marine Panel, which I also chair. They are contained in 
this legislation, as well. The Merchant Marine Panel's recommendation 
consists of two parts. The first is the annual authorization for the 
United States Maritime Administration. This bill fully funds the 
Administration's request for the Maritime Administration, and provides 
a much needed increase of $7.6 million for the United States Maritime 
Academy. This money will begin to address the Academy's most serious 
capital maintenance problems.
  In addition, the bill includes a $25 million increase to Title XI 
shipbuilding loan guarantee programs in order to address the expected 
shortfall of available shipbuilding loan guarantees.
  H.R. 1401 also contains the panel's recommendations for the Panama 
Canal Commission. I should note that this will be the final 
authorization for expenditures for the Panama Canal Commission. Since 
the canal began operations on August 15, 1914, the United States 
Congress has overseen the operations of this critical waterway. This 
bill funds the Commission through the first quarter of Fiscal Year 
2000, and includes several administrative provisions related to the 
transfer of the canal from the jurisdiction of the United States to the 
Republic of Panama on December 31, 1999.
  Mr. Chairman, H.R. 1401 is a responsible, meaningful bill that will 
provide adequate resources for the improvement of readiness in our 
armed forces, and provides the necessary funding for the United States 
Maritime Administration and the Panama Canal Commission.
  I urge my colleagues to vote yes on this important measure.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Sisisky).
  Mr. SISISKY. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask all of my colleagues to support the FY 2000 
defense authorization bill. As the ranking member on the Subcommittee 
on Military Procurement, I think we have produced a balanced bill that 
begins to reverse the downward spiral of procurement budgets over the 
last few years.
  One of the strong points of the procurement section is that we have 
authorized multiyear procurements for a number of key programs. They 
include the Navy's F18-E and F, the Javelin missile, Bradley fighting 
vehicles, the Army Apache Longbow helicopter and Abrams tank upgrades.
  Multiyear procurement is a good way to stabilize production while 
reducing costs for the taxpayer. I congratulate the gentleman from 
California (Chairman Hunter) on deciding to do it. It makes good sense.
  I also want to thank him for his leadership in other areas. One in 
particular is laying out the plan to use alternate technology in the 
orderly and systematic and safe destruction of chemical weapons.
  We have also tried to lay out a plan for the systematic review and 
oversight of the F-22 program. We all worry about the projected costs 
of this program, and this bill requires the United States Air Force to 
inform Congress early about any potential problems. We do this without 
prejudice, and the one thing we have learned in Yugoslavia is that we 
need to keep the technical edge.
  Another thing I want to mention is that even with what we had, and we 
had a limited amount of money, that said, I will affirm that the 
consideration given to all members in matching their interest with the 
services' unfunded requirement list was fair and evenhanded. We did the 
best we could under the circumstances in a way that achieves everyone's 
goal of building a stronger national defense.
  For those reasons, I ask all of my colleagues to support the bill.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Hunter), the chairman of our Subcommittee on 
Military Procurement.
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I want to start by thanking our chairman, 
the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Floyd Spence) for his great 
leadership. The gentleman is a very interesting person and a very 
unique person. He is a guy who has us put together this defense bill 
without ever making requests for his own district, only giving to us 
the direction that we do what is right for America. I think under his 
leadership we have done that in this particular bill. I thank the 
gentleman from South Carolina for all his friendship and leadership.
  I want to thank my friend, too, the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. 
Sisisky), my compadre and partner in putting this bill together, along 
with the rest of the members of the Subcommittee on Military 
Procurement. The gentleman from Virginia is a person with a lot of 
wisdom. He has a great service background of his own, and he 
understands the military, he understands people, and he understands 
systems, and most importantly, business practices. He has injected a 
lot of those business practices and that philosophy into his work. I 
want to thank him for that.
  I would also thank my good friend, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. 
Ike Skelton), who has fought long and hard especially to give this 
country long-range air power capability. That challenge is still before 
us with respect to stealth capability, and I want to thank the 
gentleman. I know he has been monitoring the success of the B-2 bomber 
in its recent flights. I know it has done only a fraction of the 
sorties, yet it has knocked out a very large percentage of the targets. 
That stealth capability, married up with precision weapons, is a very 
important thing.

  Mr. Chairman, we had a couple of themes a couple of years ago when we 
realized that we were not going to be building more B-2 bombers. We 
decided to try to arm as best we could the ones that we have. We put a 
lot of money, additional money, up against this challenge of arming the 
B-2 bombers, giving our long-range air wing what it would take to 
strike targets and to return safely.
  We have another theme that we have embarked upon. That is to build 
and buy as many precision weapons as this country needs, and hopefully 
actually to produce a margin, a safety margin in our weapons bin so we 
do not run out of these precision weapons, and especially precision 
standoff weapons.
  Now, everybody knows that for those standoff weapons, they are 
weapons you can launch from an aircraft. For example, if you are 
talking about an air launch cruise missile, hundreds of miles before 
you reach that heavily protected target with your aircraft and put your 
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can turn around and go back without having to enter that area of 
jeopardy. That saves pilot's lives, it saves equipment.
  We can only do that when we have a sufficient number of long-range 
standoff systems that are precision systems. I am here to inform my 
colleagues regretfully that we do not have enough of those systems 
today.
  Similarly, with the Tomahawk cruise missile, which can also launch 
from many hundreds of miles away and save that pilot that otherwise 
would have to fly directly over a target and drop an atom bomb. We are 
restarting that Tomahawk line. That will give us the power hopefully to 
maintain a standoff capability.
  Mr. Chairman, I want to thank all my colleagues who helped to put 
this bill together, and urge everyone in the House to vote for it. It 
is a turnaround for defense, it is a turnaround for rebuilding our 
weapons systems.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, I might add just a footnote to what my friend, the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) said regarding the B-2. An 
article was written not long ago about the success of that weapons 
system, and that it was a great surprise in this conflict regarding 
Yugoslavia.
  However, to those of us that did work hard and long, it is not a 
surprise that it is working just as planned. We are very, very pleased 
with those at Whiteman Air Force Base and those pilots and the ground 
crew who operate the B-2 system.
  Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Texas (Mr. 
Ortiz).
  Mr. ORTIZ. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to echo what my good friend, the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Hunter) just stated, for the leadership provided 
to this committee by our chairman and our good friend, the gentleman 
from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), and, of course, the ranking member, 
the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), and the rest of the 
subcommittee chairmen and committee chairmen for the leadership they 
have given to us.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of H.R. 1401, the defense 
authorization bill for Fiscal Year 2000. The committee and particularly 
the Subcommittee on Military Readiness had a very challenging 
assignment this session. We not only spent time here gathering 
information, but we had the opportunity of visiting our forces in the 
field, both here in the United States and in Europe, witnessing 
firsthand readiness as seen by those brave soldiers, sailors, and 
airmen who shoulder the responsibility of carrying out our military 
strategy. For their effort, we can all be proud.
  It is personally satisfying to see that some improvements are being 
made in the readiness posture of the total force, but I do not believe 
that any of us would agree that we are out of the woods yet. The 
readiness of the first-to-deploy forces comes at a price of reduced 
support for deploying future forces and for vital infrastructure 
support.
  I remain concerned that the Department's budget is built on 
assumptions about savings from efficiencies, outsourcing, and 
privatization activities that have not materialized in the past and 
probably would not in the future. Migration of critical maintenance 
dollars remains a problem.
  I will say to my colleagues that this is a good bill. The committee 
has worked hard. We can be proud of our soldiers who are stationed all 
around the world. I ask my colleagues to support this bill.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Hefley), the chairman of our Subcommittee on Military 
Construction.
  Mr. HEFLEY. Mr. Chairman, I appreciate the gentleman yielding this 
time to me.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in very strong support of 1401. As the chairman 
of the Subcommittee on Military Installations and Facilities, I want to 
draw the attention of the House to the important provisions in this 
legislation concerning the military construction and family housing 
programs for the coming fiscal year.
  On a bipartisan basis, we have found the budget request inadequate to 
address the scope of the need identified by the military services. This 
has been a problem with the President's budget request for some time.
  The administration compounded the deficiencies in its budget proposal 
while building its fiscal year 2000 MILCON program on a risky fiscal 
foundation. The incremental funding of the military construction 
program on an outlay rate basis would surely lead to an increase in 
costs and delays in the delivery of facilities.
  H.R. 1401 would reject this proposal on most projects. The leadership 
of the full committee, the gentleman from South Carolina (Chairman 
Spence) and our ranking Democrat member, the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Ike Skelton) worked closely with the subcommittee to try to find a 
solution that would address the needs of the military services.
  H.R. 1401 would restore $3.1 billion in budget authority for military 
construction. That seems like a lot of money even in this town, and 
certainly there are a lot of competing demands for these funds. 
However, we felt very strongly that endorsing the incremental funding 
concept across-the-board would be shirking our responsibility to the 
taxpayer. No Member of the committee, Republican or Democrat, was 
willing to do that.
  With these funds, we set out first to fix the broken program left to 
us by the Department. Nowhere was the need to do this more apparent 
than in the area of military housing. The administration proposed to 
construct or renovate over 6,200 units of military family housing and 
begin the construction or renovation of 43 barracks, dormitories, and 
BEQs for the single enlisted. That requirement will cost nearly $1.4 
billion for the coming fiscal year.
  However, the administration asked for only $313 million, 22 cents on 
the dollar, to meet the fiscal year 2000 requirement. The legislation 
reported by the Committee on Armed Services would add nearly $1.1 
billion to the budget to ensure that this housing is built and occupied 
as soon as possible. In addition, our recommendations would fund an 
additional $75 million in military housing projects.
  Similarly, we have funded the training, readiness, and other 
requirements of the active and reserve components at the level required 
to get the job done, for the most part.
  As just one example, the administration funded a $251 million MILCON 
requirement for the Guard and Reserve at $78 million. This legislation 
would provide the additional $173 million in funding necessary to move 
forward on these requirements, and would also provide an additional 
$187 million in support of the reserve components.
  Regrettably, H.R. 1401 will not fix all of the problems in the 
President's budget request nor could the committee address adequately, 
in my judgment, the unfunded requirements that continue to pile up due 
to the broad inattention of the Department to critical infrastructure 
upgrades. I believe, however, we have done the prudent thing.
  With this legislation, we will minimize risk to the most essential 
military construction projects and programs of the military services. 
We will dedicate limited, additional resources to meeting the unfunded 
needs of the military services. We will also continue to urge the 
Department of Defense to exercise appropriate stewardship on behalf of 
the taxpayer in the military infrastructure and facilities that serve 
as the platform for the defense of the Nation. The soldiers, sailors, 
airmen, and Marines who serve every day deserve no less than that.
  In closing, I want to express again my appreciation to the members of 
the subcommittee I chair, especially the ranking Democratic member, 
Gene Taylor, for their contributions to this bill as well as their 
patience, understanding, and cooperation as we worked through a 
difficult budget request. The subcommittee's recommendations were 
adopted by voice vote in the full committee. This is truly bipartisan 
legislation and I urge all members to support H.R. 1401.
  Mr. Chairman, I would like to encourage my colleagues to support this 
bill overwhelmingly.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Pickett).

                              {time}  1300

  Mr. PICKETT. Mr. Chairman, I commend the committee chairman and the 
Members and staff for the balanced and responsive bill we have before 
us that has been thoughtfully and carefully

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put together within the constraints of a defense budget that continues 
to decline in purchasing power. In any undertaking of this kind, the 
defining of and the adherence to a system of priorities is essential 
for realistic and responsive program.
  My comments will relate primarily to the research and development 
part of the bill. The investment for basic research and for science and 
technology programs has been maintained at last year's level. It is 
widely acknowledged that these basic research and technology programs 
have been the crucial components in developing and fielding 
technologically superior weapon systems that have given our military 
forces a decided advantage over their adversaries.
  In spite of the success realized in developing and fielding improved 
weapons systems and weapon system upgrades, there is a constant 
struggle to appropriately and adequately prepare our forces for the 
unpredictable and speculative battlefield of the 21st century.
  The Army is continuing development of its top-priority new weapons 
systems, the Crusader Self-Propelled Howitzer and the Comanche 
helicopter. The Navy is moving ahead with the DD-21 Destroyer, the 
follow-on to the Nimitz aircraft carrier, and a new class of attack 
submarine. The Air Force is reaching the end of its development of the 
F-22 and is moving forward, along with the Navy and Marine Corps, in 
the development of the Joint Strike Fighter.
  These visible priority programs point the way to the military of the 
future. Nevertheless, the pursuit of lighter and more lethal weapons, 
the development of speedier and more stealthy equipment, and the quest 
for successful leap-ahead technologies continues.
  The Department of Defense has said many times that, if our forces are 
called into combat, we do not want a ``fair'' fight. We want our forces 
to have a clearly superior capability both in weapon systems and 
technology. That is the direction in which this bill continues to move 
our defense program, although I must say that the move is at a slower 
pace than I believe desirable.
  The committee and committee staff have been alert and diligent in 
reallocating resources to higher priority and more timely projects. 
Additional support has been provided to missile defense programs.
  Mr. Chairman, I ask Members to support this bill because I think that 
it moves that program in the right direction.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Saxton).
  Mr. SAXTON. Mr. Chairman, let me first congratulate the chairman of 
the committee on his usual fine job.
  Mr. Chairman, just before Secretary Cheney was due to leave office 
the better part of a decade ago, he said that we needed a smaller, more 
mobile force. He may have had in mind that we needed fewer Army 
divisions and fewer ships in our Navy and perhaps fewer fighter wings; 
but I am sure he did not have in mind at the time to hear statements 
like the ones that have been accurately stated here today relative to 
back-to-back deployments, relative to lack of spare parts, relative to 
aging, old aging equipment, relative to the effect on military 
personnel and decline of readiness. These were not issues that were in 
Secretary Cheney's mind when he talked about a smaller, more mobile 
force.
  I think that H.R. 1401 is a beginning point to change what we have 
done to create a more efficient, mobile, smaller force that will meet 
our readiness needs.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Illinois (Mr. Evans).
  Mr. EVANS. Mr. Chairman, the bill in front of us takes important 
steps to address the national security resources that are being 
seriously neglected, our Nation's arsenals.
  Our arsenals are an insurance policy that allow us to mobilize for 
war, produce special weapons on a moment's notice, as well as bringing 
technical improvements to current future weapons systems. These are 
unique capabilities that cannot be replaced.
  Unfortunately, the Pentagon's policy of privatization at any cost has 
brought the arsenals to the breaking point. The loss of workload 
associated with this policy is draining them of skilled labor. Workers 
are either getting pink slips or leaving on their own because of an 
uncertain future. Less workload also means rising overhead costs that 
make the arsenals less competitive. This has led to a downward spiral, 
actively promoted by both DOD and the weapons contractors.
  However, we can bring work to these facilities and preserve their 
vital capabilities. This bill does that in two significant ways. One, 
it extends the pilot program that allows the arsenals to sell 
manufactured articles and services without regard for their 
availability from commercial services. This provision, which only 
applies to defense contracts, will help lower high overhead rates due 
to low utilization.
  Second, the bill contains important report language that gives the 
arsenals challenge contracting authority for components of the 155mm 
lightweight Howitzer. This gives the arsenals, who are unsurpassed in 
Howitzer technology, a chance to assist this important but troubled 
program, which is 2 years behind the date at this point.
  While we still need to reverse DOD's policy of privatization at any 
cost, these provisions are an important first step in giving our 
arsenals the workload they need.
  I hope my colleagues will support this bill and its important 
measures to assist our arsenals.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Thornberry).
  Mr. THORNBERRY. Mr. Chairman, there are a number of important issues 
in this bill that will not be discussed adequately. One of them is how 
we can transform our military to deal with the challenges of the 
future.
  In last year's bill, we required a science board study to look at 
that question, and they came back and unanimously agreed there are 
compelling reasons for aggressive, urgent transformation instead of 
strategic pause. The task force found that ``change or die'' is a more 
suitable statement for the current strategic environment.
  This bill moves us ahead in some significant ways. It requires us to 
take a closer look at the use of space. It is essential for the 
operations going on in Kosovo, but we have got to look beyond that. 
Operations in space and from space have to be studied.
  We put more money into joint experimentation, which is also going to 
be essential if we make the most out of the resources that we have 
available. We also require an immediate assessment of innovative use of 
resources such as whether we should take old Trident submarines and 
convert them for more conventional purposes.
  Those are just some of the ways that in this bill we tried to move 
ahead, making sure that we are able to meet the challenges that 
confront us in the future.
  I commend the chairman and ranking member on the bill.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire as to how much time is 
remaining on our side as well as the other side, please?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) has 17\1/2\ 
minutes remaining. The gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) has 9 
minutes remaining.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Guam (Mr. Underwood).
  Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman from Missouri for 
yielding me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I join my colleagues today in strong support of H.R. 
1401, the Fiscal Year 2000 Defense Authorization bill. I want to 
congratulate the Chairman and the ranking member for this very strong 
bipartisan effort, which is well crafted and will go a long way towards 
ensuring that the bedrock of our security, our troops, will be well 
looked after at the dawn of the next millennium.
  This bill is essential to stemming the decline in readiness and 
buttressing the security of the United States and its territories. It 
is no secret that our forces are tired after 33 major deployments since 
the Persian Gulf War. We are having problems with recruitment and 
retention, and we want to make sure that we supply them with the best, 
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sure that the infrastructure that we provide them is the best 
available. This bill does exactly all of those things.
  But, Mr. Chairman, on a note of dissent, although H.R. 1401 has a 
multitude of good provisions, there is one provision, section 1006, 
that has rather serious overtones. This section, as drafted by the 
majority, if left unadulterated, will prohibit any funding authorized 
under this act from being used for the current NATO operations in 
Kosovo. This is impossible to enforce and to monitor and has a serious 
and demoralizing effect upon the morale and welfare of our troops 
currently engaged in NATO operations.
  Paraphrasing my good friend, the gentleman from Mississippi (Mr. 
Taylor), that is a hell of a message to send to our young troops 
fighting to save lives in the Balkans.
  I urge my colleagues to support the efforts to the contrary of the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) and to support his amendment that 
strikes this language.
  I also would like to point out that there are many amendments that 
will be offered today in light of the release of the Cox report. Some 
of them are bad policy. Although I support the Cox-Dicks amendment, and 
I will try to speak to that later, I want to strongly urge all Members 
to exercise caution and restraint when considering all these DOE-
related amendments as they may have some serious, unintended 
consequences for Asian and Pacific Americans. Sometimes in the rush to 
work hard on security issues, we sometimes stigmatize entire groups of 
people.
  Mr. Chairman, I join my colleagues today in support of H.R. 1401--the 
fiscal year 2000 Defense Authorization Bill. This bi-partisan effort is 
well crafted and will go a long way to ensure that the bedrock of our 
security--our troops--will be well looked after at the dawn of the next 
millennium. This bill is essential to stemming the decline in readiness 
and buttressing the security of the United States and its territories.
  Mr. Chairman, it appears that the ancient Greek curse--may you live 
in interesting times--has come true with a vengeance. Our global 
community is reeling from the effects of the post-Cold War order. Our 
military forces have been deployed in some 33 operations world-wide 
since the Persian Gulf War. At the same time our defense budget has 
been squeezed and capped arbitrarily without consideration or 
anticipation to the realities of America's security interests.
  At the same time, our foreign policy makers have been faced with the 
very difficult task of defining the future roles and priorities for our 
foreign interests. Indeed this unenviable task has been made all the 
more difficult as regional hegemons have challenged the peaceful 
balance of power that has been maintained by the United States and its 
allies. The Persian Gulf Region, the Korean Peninsula, East Africa, 
South and Central Asia and, of course, the Balkans have all been the 
most recent scenes of instability or armed strife, thus compelling U.S. 
forces to become engaged in one manner or another. America's foreign 
policy is not so much like a rudder-less boat; but more like a boat 
without navigational aids. Our boat's pilot and crew are well 
intentioned and determined but are unsure of the mission. It is in this 
environment that we, here in Congress, are charged with building a 
military for the 21st Century.
  Mr. Chairman, on a note of dissent, although H.R. 1401 has a 
multitude of good provisions, there is one such provision--Section 
1006--that has rather odious undertones. The section, as drafted by the 
Republican majority, if left unadulterated will prohibit any funding 
authorized under this act from being used for the current NATO 
operations in Kosovo. While almost impossible to enforce and monitor, 
this section has a demoralizing effect upon the morale and welfare of 
our troops engaged in the NATO operations. Paraphrasing my good friend, 
Congressman Gene Taylor, that's a hell of a message to send to our 
young troops fighting to save lives in the Balkans. This section is 
completely unnecessary and sends the wrong message to Slobodan 
Milosevic. I applaud Congressman Skelton's efforts to the contrary and 
urge my colleagues to support his amendment that strikes this language.
  Mr. Chairman, there are many amendments that will be offered today, 
in light of the release of the Cox Report, that are just bad policy. 
Although I support the bi-partisan Cox/Dicks Amendment, I strongly urge 
all members to exercise caution and restraint when considering the DOE 
related amendments as they may have some unintended consequences for 
Asian-Pacific Americans. Often under the guise of national security, 
especially when faced with a crisis, it is too easy to follow the road 
of assumptions. Our nation has done this in the past. We can all recall 
that during the Oklahoma City bombing that many were too quick to 
accuse Arab terrorists and thus Muslim-Americans were forced to suffer 
many indignities. In this current debate, we must recall the talent and 
dedication toward our national security that Asia-Pacific Americans 
have contributed to in great numbers.
  Nevertheless, Mr. Chairman, some of the measures that the people of 
Guam are concerned about have been included in this bill. In the realm 
of military construction, the military facilities located on Guam will 
benefit from over $100 million in new construction or improvements. 
Most notable are the MILCON projects for the Guam Army Guard Readiness 
Center and the U.S. Army Reserve Maintenance Shop--both desperately 
needed to maintain readiness and operational capabilities. 
Additionally, we were able to secure language that would allow the Guam 
Power Authority to upgrade two military transformer substations on 
Guam. I would like to thank MILCON subcommittee Chairman Hefley and 
Ranking Member Taylor, for their wise counsel and decision in 
recognizing the need for these vital military projects on Guam.
  I worked closely with Readiness subcommittee Chairman Herb Bateman on 
language that would further define the economic reporting requirement 
for A-76 completion studies. This language will, I hope, make the 
Department of Defense more accountable and thorough in their economic 
analyses of communities directly impact by an impending decision to 
perform an A-76 study. I also worked closely with several members from 
both sides of the isle to prevent the lifting of a moratorium on the 
outsourcing of DoD security guards. Additionally, I worked closely with 
Congressmen Abercrombie and Young to exempt Guam from any pilot program 
for military moving of household goods. This way Guam's small household 
moving market will be ensured of robust competition and protection from 
mainland conglomerates. Finally, I submitted additional views along 
with Messrs. Evans, Sisisky, Abercrombie, Allen and Ortiz voicing our 
skepticism over the Department's reliance on A-76 privatization 
measures to save money while sacrificing needed jobs.

  Mr. Chairman, I fully support Mr. Bereuter amendment to make 
permanent the waivers included in the FY 1999 Defense Authorization Act 
that allows the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (which is a 
component of the Defense Department's U.S. Pacific Command) to accept 
foreign gifts and donations to the center, and to allow certain foreign 
military officers and civilian officials to attend conferences, 
seminars and other educational activities held by the Asia Pacific 
Center without reimbursing the Defense Department for the costs of such 
activities. This Center, led by retired Marine Corps Lt. General H.C. 
Stackpole, is a corner-stone in the engagement program of military-to-
military exchanges through out the Asia-Pacific Region. This endeavor 
is a vital component in the goal of strengthening our ties with both 
our regional allies and potential allies. I strongly urge its adoption.
  Mr. Chairman, the House Armed Services Committee also manages an 
vital oversight function over the Maritime Administration (MARAD). As 
ranking member of the Merchant Marine Panel, I worked closely with the 
panel's chairman, Congressman Herb Bateman, to include directive report 
language that requires MARAD to report on the incidents of overseas 
ship repairs of U.S. flagged vessels in the Maritime Security Fleet. 
This was in response to the Guam Shipyard's unfair experiences with 
subsidized foreign competition in ship repair. This report places the 
MARAD on notice that Congress is watching and will respond if 
necessary. I worked closely with Chairman Bateman on this initiative 
and would like to thank him for his foresight in including this 
important provision.
  Finally, Mr. Chairman, I included additional views detailing Guam's 
need for a Weather Reconnaissance Squadron. In the late 1980s, one such 
unit on Guam was inactivated when it was deemed too costly to justify. 
Defense officials claimed that since there were no aircraft assets 
permanently stationed at Andersen, Air Force Base its mission could not 
be justified. Furthermore, it was maintained that improved weather 
imagery reconnaissance satellites would be adequate to protect the 
remaining military assets and the civilian population. The reality of 
the situation has proved otherwise. The Western Pacific is naked to 
accurate and readily deployable weather reconnaissance. I hope to work 
with my colleagues in Congress and the U.S. Air Force to explore this 
important resource for Guam and the Western Pacific.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge the passage of this bill, notwithstanding my 
personal reservation over the Kosovo spending limitation language.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Sanchez).
  Ms. SANCHEZ. Mr. Chairman, today I rise in support of this 
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 Democrats made it a top priority this year to take care of those in 
the armed services. And as a member of the Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel, I saw firsthand just how we are doing that.
  Our servicemen and women make sacrifices to protect our vital 
national interests every day. Unfortunately, skilled military personnel 
are leaving the armed services and several of our services have had 
difficulty meeting their recruitment goals.
  This legislation begins to redress numerous quality-of-life and other 
problems affecting today's Armed Forces. It restores a basis for the 
military pay raise process, and it goes a long way towards restoring 
the career incentive value of the military retirement system.
  Veterans in my community continue to voice their concern. They 
continue to talk about broken promises that our country has made to 
them. I want to go back to my district this weekend to let them know 
that their voices have been heard and that we are restoring vitality to 
the military services.
  Let us send a strong message of support to our troops and those men 
and women who had the ultimate sacrifice for this country.
  I urge my colleagues to vote yes on H.R. 1401.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Buyer), the chairman of our Subcommittee on Military 
Personnel.
  Mr. BUYER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman for yielding me this 
time, and I compliment the chairman and the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Skelton), the ranking member of the Committee on Armed Services.
  I rise in strong support and ask my colleagues to vote for H.R. 1401, 
the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000.
  In all candor, Mr. Chairman, this is a great bill for the troops, one 
of the strongest I have seen in the 7 years I have served on the 
Committee on Armed Services.
  As a matter of fact, I think we would have to put in big bold print 
neon lights that this bill says that ``people count.'' It has been an 
emphasis for a long time for the Subcommittee on Military Personnel of 
the Committee on Armed Services.
  A lot of times, the Pentagon liked to focus on buying ships and 
planes and all types of other things, and they do not always take care 
of those who actually are placed at risk. In fact, this is what this 
bill is going to do. It reflects on what we have heard from the field 
itself. People have told us what they needed, what needs to be done to 
help fix the problems they face.
  The gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. Abercrombie) and I, together with 
other members of the Subcommittee on Military Personnel worked hard at 
listening to the troops and their families throughout the country. As a 
result, this bill contains first a set of core pay and retirement 
reforms that were recommended by the chairman and the Joint Chiefs of 
Staff and the Secretary of Defense; and, second, additional corrective 
measures like the $440 million that we added beyond the request of the 
present in an effort to reduce housing costs that service members and 
their families are paying.
  Mr. Chairman, H.R. 1401 is as strong as it is in part because the 
Secretary of Defense and the Joint Chiefs spoke out forcefully in 
public to advocate for a core set of reforms and initiatives. I commend 
them for their effort. I am convinced that without the unanimous 
leadership of the Joint Chiefs and the Secretary, the core set of 
recruiting and retention initiatives would neither have been included 
in the budget request, nor be politically supported in Congress as 
strong as it presently is.
  That the DOD's senior leadership spoke out so forcefully only 
underscores how serious are DOD's recruiting and retention problems. 
While we believe that H.R. 1401 will help to address these challenges, 
we also know that the services' retention and recruiting problems will 
not be solved in 1 year. Rather, several years of efforts at least will 
be needed to restore the manpower readiness of the armed services and 
to win the two-front war of retention and recruiting.
  I believe that the committee will continue its strong, long-term 
commitment to national defense, and I urge my colleagues to not only 
join in that commitment, but also vote in favor of H.R. 1401. It is a 
good bill for America. It is a good bill for the men and women in 
uniform who serve this Nation.
  I also want to compliment the gentleman from Hawaii (Mr. 
Abercrombie). It was a pleasure to work with him on this bill as we 
move forward a host of bipartisan initiatives to address the serious 
recruiting, retention, and retirement pay compensation, and other 
things to help shore up the readiness of our military. I urge my 
colleagues to join me in voting for H.R. 1401.

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  Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself 1\1/4\ minutes.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today in support of this bill with one 
reservation. This bill is good for our troops, good for their families 
and good for the national security of this country.
  For the troops, we have increased readiness accounts to ensure that 
they have the equipment and the training that they need to be an 
effective fighting force. For their families, we have increased soldier 
pay, including even greater increases for experienced midlevel officers 
and NCOs, who today are being lured into the private sector with better 
paying salaries. We have fixed the retirement system to put all 
military personnel in an equal retirement system, and we have increased 
the basic housing allowance to help ensure that our soldiers and their 
families are not living in substandard homes.
  For national security we have increased the procurement accounts to 
ensure the current and near-term success of our military, and increased 
R&D accounts to ensure we maintain our position as a world leader long 
into the future.
  Like many of my Democratic colleagues, however, my main concern with 
this bill is in the inclusion of the Kosovo language. I intend to 
support the amendment of the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) to 
remove that language. If that language is eliminated, this, in my 
opinion, will be a great bill.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from California (Mr. McKeon).
  (Mr. McKEON asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. McKEON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of H.R. 1401.
  I want to thank Chairman Spence and ranking member Skelton for their 
work in bringing this vital piece of legislation to the floor.
  As many of my colleagues follow the military conflict in Kosovo, they 
may be surprised to hear that much of our success has been a direct 
result of the B-2 stealth bomber and its critical role as a key 
strategic component of our armed forces within the US-NATO mission.
  Contrary to what opponents have claimed in the past, the B-2 has 
proved to be extremely durable and reliable, even after flying through 
terrible rain storms and skies filled with dense clouds. In fact, it 
was the first manned aircraft to penetrate the Kosovo region at the 
outset of the air strikes while other types of aircraft were deterred 
from the bad weather conditions.
  As the B-2 missions were increased with the progression of the air 
strikes, the accuracy and reliability of the B-2 was confirmed. The 
incredible success of our most advanced strategic bomber only proves 
how critical it is to our national defense strategy.
  With our national security at stake, I am very pleased that H.R. 1401 
includes almost $500 million for the modernization of our B-2 fleet--
nearly $187 million more than the President had requested. These funds 
will be used to improve the B-2 stealth and communications 
capabilities, increase its memory capacity, and update targeting 
information to support reactive real-time targeting.
  Additionally, this critical funding will also provide for a software 
upgrade to increase the survivability and flexibility of the B-2 when 
attacking the most heavily defended enemy targets.
  I am proud to support H.R. 1401 and strongly urge my colleagues to 
vote in favor of this legislation.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), the chairman of the Subcommittee on Military 
Research and Development of the Committee on Armed Services.
  (Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to revise 
and extend his remarks.)
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chairman for yielding me this time, and I want to thank the 
distinguished ranking member and the chairman for their outstanding 
work on this bipartisan bill.
  I also want to thank the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Pickett), who I 
have the pleasure of working with on the Subcommittee on Military 
Research and Development, who is one of the tireless advocates on 
behalf of our Nation's national security.
  Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to rise and state, as I have many times, 
the fact that defense in this body has been bipartisan. There are 
Democrat and Republican leaders who tirelessly fight for what is right 
for our troops. Our battle has not been within the House, it has 
actually been between the White House and the Congress. And it has been 
a bipartisan effort over the past several years to restore dignity and 
support for our troops.
  This year in the R&D portion of our budget we had a very severe 
problem. The administration, while publicly saying they were going to 
increase defense spending, actually took a $3 billion cut out of the 
R&D account lines. They shifted that money over to procurement and 
called that an increase in defense spending. Now, I still cannot 
believe they did that. They cut the R&D account by $3 billion, shifted 
it to procurement, and they called that publicly a $3 billion increase 
in funding.
  They did not talk about what we were doing to those programs that are 
the future threats to America: The need to research weapons of mass 
destruction and how to deal with them; the need to deal with issues 
involving missile defense systems which are an emerging priority for 
all of us, both theater and national missile defense; and the need to 
deal with the issue of information dominance or what John Hamre calls 
cyber terrorism.
  So while the administration was talking a good game about refocusing 
its priority on national security, their words were not in fact 
following their deeds. These cuts were outrageous and they were beyond 
what we could live with.
  Working with the distinguished chairman and the ranking member of the 
full committee, we were able to find an additional $1.4 billion to 
restore a portion of that money that this administration proposed 
cutting. We could not restore the entire $3 billion, so there are some 
programs that we should be funding that will not be funded next year, 
but we did in fact find approximately one-half of that money that we 
are putting back in.
  In fact, in some areas, like information dominance, the supports, the 
great work of the services, especially the Army with their LIWA 
facility at Ft. Belvoir, we have increased funding by about $40 million 
more than what the administration asked for. We have also restored the 
only cooperative program with the Russians to build a stable 
relationship on the issue of missile defense. The administration 
actually proposed canceling the RAMOS project, which would have been 
devastating to building confidence. We restore that program in this 
bill and the effort to work in a more transparent way with the 
Russians.
  But let me say this, Mr. Chairman. While we do good things in this 
bill, we do not solve the problem. We need to understand that the need 
to commit to more funding is a long-term commitment, and I hope our 
colleagues will work together toward that end.
  Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Indiana (Mr. Hill).
  Mr. HILL of Indiana. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding 
me this time.
  Mr. Chairman, I am a new member of the House Committee on Armed 
Services, but I understand the importance of a strong military. I 
support this bill because I believe our Armed Forces have urgent 
unfunded needs, including the military infrastructure, equipment and 
spare parts. Most importantly, I believe that this is the year of the 
troops, and I support a pay raise, pay scale reform, and retirement 
benefits reform.
  I am also glad to see this bill includes $378 million for the Army's 
Environmental Restoration Account. The fund in this account benefits 
areas such as the Indiana Army Ammunition Plant in Charleston, Indiana. 
For many years, the Charleston facility and the men and women who 
worked there served our national defense by manufacturing essential 
parts of the ammunition used in combat in World War II, Korea and 
Vietnam.
  Now that our military no longer needs this facility, the Army Corps 
of Engineers is cleaning up this land and preparing it for the transfer 
to a civilian reuse authority. I am proud of the thousands of Hoosiers 
who worked in the ammunition plant over the years, and I am pleased 
that the army is helping these communities make the site an engine for 
future economic growth.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Utah (Mr. Hansen).
  (Mr. HANSEN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. HANSEN. Mr. Chairman, I rise in full support of this legislation.
  While I rise in support of this bill, and commend our Chairman for 
his diligent leadership, I believe that even he shares my mixed 
feelings.
  The good news is that for the fifth year in a row we were able to add 
billions of dollars to the President's grossly inadequate defense 
budget. This year we add some $8 billion to meet our most critical 
shortfalls. I sincerely hope that we can keep our word and match this 
increase during the appropriations process.
  I am proud that we funded a 4.8 percent pay raise for the troops--.4 
percent more than the President.
  That we added $2 billion to basic readiness accounts to reduce the 
maintenance backlog and purchase spare parts.
  That we added $300 million to purchase new Tomahawk missiles to 
replace the 700 missiles this President has fired in the last year 
alone.
  The bad news is that with all of the good work we did in this bill--
it is not nearly enough.
  Our investment in national security is dangerously inadequate.
  We spend less on defense today as a percentage of federal 
expenditures than at any time since Pearl Harbor. This trend must be 
reversed.
  The Joint Chiefs of Staff have testified that the President's budget 
is short by over $23 billion. I believe that we must commit a minimum 
of $40 billion per year to restore our American military preparedness.
  When the Air Force has less missiles than bombers to fire them;
  When F-16 fighters are falling from the sky in alarming rates;
  When Navy warships leave port with hundreds of battle stations 
unmanned;
  When the Air Force needs to implement a stop-loss for pilots and call 
up 2,000 reservists to handle a minor military engagement such as 
Kosovo;
  When all of the Services face a $13 billion shortage in basic 
ammunition, we must begin to act.
  The list of casualties in this administration's seven year campaign 
of military neglect goes on and on. I am still not sure what effect our 
air assault is having on the Serb military but I am sure that it is 
further degrading ours.
  I commend our Chairman for bringing these issues to our attention and 
doing the best job we could under the circumstances. But we need to do 
more. We need to do whatever it takes, including lifting the budget 
caps to insure America's Armed Forces remain the best equipped, the 
best trained and the most effective in the world.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield such time as he may consume to the 
gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. Pitts).
  (Mr. PITTS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. PITTS. Mr. Speaker, I rise in strong support of this bill.
  Mr. Chairman, today we are considering an excellent FY 2000 Defense 
Authorization bill, and I thank Chairman Spence for his leadership in 
bringing this bill to the floor.
  In Committee, we have spent the past several months hearing testimony 
from armed services personnel and military experts detailing the 
alarming state of our military.
  With rapidly growing threats worldwide to our national security, now 
is the time to begin to rebuild our military from years of decimation 
and escalating deployments. Mr. Chairman, this authorization responds 
to these concerns.
  As a former navigator and EWO of B-52 bombers, in the Air Force and a 
Vietnam veteran, I am particularly excited about the authorizations for 
upgrades and procurement of Air Force aircraft, as well as the 
replenishment of ammunition and the modernization of military 
equipment. Further, the pilot retention reforms contained in the 
Authorization are essential. We have the best Air Force in the world--
no country comes close. Yet we have trouble holding on to the best 
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  Most importantly, this Authorization reaches out a hand to military 
families. The 4.8 percent across-the-board pay increase and pay table 
reform, the major reform in military bonuses, and the implementation of 
new housing allowances helps close the pay gap with the private sector 
and will enable military personnel to better take care of their 
families.
  We frequently ask our men and women in the military to leave their 
families, fight for our national security, and even die for our freedom 
and liberty. Yet, we do not provide our service personnel with the pay 
or equipment it takes to get the job done right. It is appalling that 
even one of these families must seek welfare just to put food on the 
table and buy clothes for their children. I honestly believe that the 
authorization we have before us today will go a long way in correcting 
this problem.
  I urge my colleagues to support this authorization, which will 
provide for the dedicated soldiers in our armed services and adequately 
fund our military so that American families are safe from hostile 
threat.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Georgia (Mr. Chambliss).
  (Mr. CHAMBLISS asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. CHAMBLISS. Mr. Chairman, this bill is a bold step toward putting 
America's defense funding back on a sound footing. Our military is 
currently overextended and underfunded. Right now we have a quarter of 
a million American troops serving in 135 countries around the world. 
The military is 40 percent smaller than it was during the Persian Gulf 
War while operational commitments around the world have increased by 
300 percent.
  This bill establishes additional quality of life functions for the 
members of our Armed Services that are going to be of tremendous 
benefit. We also provide for four new Marine Corps KC-130J tankers, a 
14th JSTARS aircraft, long-lead funding for a 15th, and the F-22 
advanced technical fighter.
  Finally, we reaffirm our belief that depot maintenance capabilities 
for critical mission essential systems must be retained organically in 
the military depot system. The Air Force has chosen an ill-defined and 
unclear policy to support critical weapon systems in the future. This 
bill requires the Air Force to report to us on their future sustainment 
plans and specifically identify the core logistics requirements for the 
C-17 aircraft, a unique military system that has proven its importance 
in supporting our deployed forces.
  We owe it to our warfighters to ensure that core capabilities will be 
there when they are called upon in the future. I urge the support of 
this bill.
  Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, may I ask how much time is remaining on both 
sides?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Reyes) has 12 minutes 
remaining, and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) has 2 
minutes remaining.
  Mr. REYES. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Andrews).
  (Mr. ANDREWS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. ANDREWS. Mr. Chairman, I thank my friend for yielding me this 
time. I want to thank the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), 
and the ranking member, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) and 
all our colleagues on the committee for bringing this bill to the 
floor. I support it.
  I support it because it supports the men and women who wear the 
uniform of this country with such pride. I do not believe I have ever 
seen that strength more on display than I did a few weeks ago when I 
visited Fort Dix, which is in the District of my friend and neighbor 
the gentleman from New Jersey (Mr. Saxton), to visit with the ethnic 
Albanian refugees who had come to this country from the horror they had 
faced the in the Balkans.
  On the first night that they were in that camp, a little girl about 
the same age as my oldest daughter, who is 6, saw an American soldier 
walking toward her. Her reaction was to scream, to turn around and run 
as fast as she could in the other direction, telling her mother and 
father and sisters and brothers that they had to run away because the 
soldiers were coming. It is understandable why she would have had that 
reaction, given where she grew up.
  Her mother went over to her and comforted her and said that she did 
not have to run away; that here soldiers were different; that this was 
a different place; that soldiers could be trusted. And she reacted in a 
way that many of us would want to react in expressing support for 
people wearing a uniform. She ran in the other direction, she jumped up 
in the arms of that American soldier and hugged him around the neck as 
fiercely as she could.
  Our people are strong not only because of the strength of the weapons 
that we give them, of the training that they achieve, but they are 
strong because of the strength of their character. The best way that we 
can show our respect for that strength is to raise their pay, and this 
bill does that; it is to respect their retirement, and this bill does 
that; it is to provide better living conditions for their families, and 
this bill does that; and, finally, it is to give them the finest 
training and the finest weaponry, and this bill does that.
  Mr. Chairman, I am proud to support it.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Goodling), the chairman of the Committee on Education 
and the Workforce.
  (Mr. GOODLING asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me 
this time.
  At the present time there are 46,000 women, infants and children who 
belong to our military overseas who are not covered by WIC. 
Fortunately, thanks to this committee, that will be remedied and we 
will not have that imbalance. They will get the same benefits that they 
would get if they, as a matter of fact, were stationed in the United 
States.
  I want to also touch briefly on another area. Some years ago I came 
before the committee to indicate that we were buying our buoy chains 
from China, and I wondered where we were going to get them if we were 
in war, and this committee corrected that. And now we have the military 
buying weights for their exercise programs from China because they are 
cheap, because, of course, they are made with slave labor. And they 
have taken some steps in this legislation to correct that.
  So I would hope all would support this effort to make our military 
strong and proud once again, because for 4 of the last 6 years it has 
not been treated very well.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Brady).
  Mr. BRADY of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of H.R. 1401 and 
congratulate the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) and the 
ranking member, the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) for their 
leadership on this issue.
  There is one provision, though, that troubles me, and I respectfully 
raise it today. Section 113 concerns the U.S. Army's family of medium 
tactical vehicles. They are trucks for the army. Specifically, this 
section, 113, allows the U.S. Army to ignore the will of Congress, to 
drop a proven volume discount for producing the trucks and pursue a 
second source contract award without proving any economic savings to 
the government.
  Well, that does not make sense. Congress made it clear last year, in 
law, that we wanted justification from the Army. Now, they did a report 
to justify it, but they will not release it. Now, what does that tell 
us?
  We should not change the law to allow the Army to go forward on this 
because it is bad for the taxpayers and it is going to be proven to be 
very ill-advised. It is my sincere hope, Mr. Chairman, that the 
distinguished chairman and the ranking member and the Members to be 
named on the conference committee will provide the best trucks for the 
Army at the best price to the taxpayers.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Smith).
  Mr. SMITH of New Jersey. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for 
yielding me this time, and I want to commend the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Spence), the chairman, and the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Skelton), the ranking member, for an excellent bill that I think 
should get the full support of every Member here.
  I also want to especially thank the gentleman from Colorado (Mr. 
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for rejecting the Clinton administration's flawed and misguided 
proposal to gut administration's funding for our military construction 
through the Administration's phased funding scheme. Thankfully, that 
has been rejected. And I especially want to thank the gentleman from 
Colorado (Mr. Hefley) and the superb work of Phil Grone for including 
the super lab for Navy Lakehurst.

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  Nothing is launched from our aircraft carriers or recovered, the 
catapults and the arresting gear, unless it has first been prototyped 
and bugs worked out at Lakehurst.
  Lakehurst means safety for our pilots and the likelihood of a 
successful mission.
  Lakehurst has an impeccable record of success, of providing an 
expertise that keeps our aircraft capable. I am just so glad that this 
new superlab will be built and provide the synergism and take us into 
the next millennium. The superlab will give us that ability to continue 
to have a viable aircraft carrier force. The superlab is absolutely 
instrumental and important for that endeavor. I want to thank the 
gentleman from Colorado (Mr. Hefley) for his great service to our 
nation. I urge support for it.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Lee).
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentleman for yielding me the 
time.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise today to express my opposition to this defense 
authorization bill. I believe that this budget is counterproductive to 
our domestic requirements and goes far beyond our national security 
needs.
  Today national defense consumes 48 percent of our discretionary 
budget. The proposed 2000 budget will consume 51 percent of the 
discretionary budget. American cities receive only 25 cents for every 
$1 that the Pentagon collects. That 25 cents must be spread thin to 
protect our environment, feed and house families, educate our children, 
provide health care for the elderly, and to fund other essential 
programs.
  We must also make sure that our courageous men and women serving in 
the armed services are adequately compensated for their very courageous 
duty. However, we must stop giving the Pentagon more money than it asks 
for or that it requires, to the detriment of our country's basic needs.
  I urge a ``no'' vote on this costly bill.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Mississippi (Mr. Taylor).
  Mr. TAYLOR of Mississippi. Mr. Chairman, I would like to take this 
opportunity to respond to the previous speaker, who I do have the 
greatest respect for, who was elected by just as many people as I was 
elected by and represents just as many people.
  But I would encourage her to support the bill. Particularly, I would 
encourage her to support the bill because I think it is important that 
the minority Members of this body support an Armed Forces that has a 
more than fair share of minorities on board.
  We have a strange situation in our country where folks are willing to 
spend their money but not ask their children to serve. We have another 
group of people whose children serve but who say, you cannot have our 
money.
  We need to correct that. We need to treat those young people who are 
serving our country with respect. We need to fund the G.I. bill. We 
need to give them a good barracks. We need to see to it that they are 
well fed. We need to see to it that there are enough of them that they 
do not have to be gone from their families all the time.
  To my colleagues who are saying, you can have my money but not my 
son, I would encourage their children to enlist.
  The gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) and I have visited a 
corporate board last summer, a company that does 99 percent of its work 
with the United States Navy; and we asked that board, ``How many of you 
have a young son or young daughter in the Armed Forces?'' Not one hand 
went up.
  So I do think that what we are doing today is a step in the right 
direction. I want to compliment the chairman and the ranking member on 
that. I would encourage us to go on to fulfill our promise of lifetime 
health care to our military retirees. I do see that as a readiness 
problem.
  I want to see to it that our young people are able to have their 
ailments treated and their children born on a base hospital rather than 
to have to go out and put up with the hassle of Tricare. And above all, 
we need to start replacing these ancient weapon systems, like the 
HUEYs, like the CH-46s and 47s, that endanger the very young people 
that all of us care about, and see to it that they are given weapons 
worthy of them.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Florida (Mrs. Meek).
  Mrs. MEEK of Florida. Mr. Chairman, I thank my colleague and friend 
for yielding me this time to speak. My statement is in opposition to 
the Gilman-Goss amendment that is included here in this bill.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong opposition to the Gilman-Goss 
amendment because it would mandate the removal of our military support 
in Haiti. This amendment undercuts the President's authority as 
Commander in Chief to deploy forces abroad for noncombat purposes where 
important United States foreign policy and security interests are at 
stake.
  The withdrawal of our forces from Haiti at this time would send the 
wrong message, Mr. Chairman. It would have a serious destabilizing 
effect on Haiti at the very time that they approach their legislative 
elections. And these legislative elections will lead toward the full 
restoration of the Parliament and local governments.
  It is so significant that at this time we do our best to assist in 
restoring democracy to Haiti and not take troops out of Haiti but to 
try, if possible, to add more because this is a very, very crucial 
time. The supporters of this amendment speak generally of the need to 
evaluate our commitments carefully and the need to get out of something 
and not simply accumulate additional constituencies.
  All of us agree that we need to evaluate our commitments carefully. 
Yet adherence to this general principle has very, very little, Mr. 
Chairman, to do with this debate.
  It is instructive that none of the military authorities cited in the 
``Dear Colleague'' letter sent out about my fellow Floridian in support 
of the amendment states that we can or should withdraw all of our 
military forces from Haiti at this time. It is also instructive that 
none of the supporters of this amendment have offered a standard to be 
used in assessing whether to discontinue a military presence.
  What is the standard, Mr. Chairman? It has not been stated. Will 
there be one standard for Kosovo and one for Haiti? Lots of questions, 
Mr. Chairman. And I say that we should not support this part of the 
amendment.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  Mr. Chairman, let me take this opportunity to commend some very fine 
airmen and women, in particular those at Whiteman Air Force Base who 
are flying and working on and maintaining the B-2 stealth bomber.
  In this Chamber, for a number of times, we debated the issue as to 
whether we would build any such bombers. In this conflict over 
Yugoslavia, they have proven themselves, both the planes as well as the 
young men and women who work so hard with them and flying them, they 
have proved themselves to be invaluable. I am proud of them.
  Let me say a special word of thanks and gratitude to the leader, 
Brigadier General Leroy Barnidge, who is the Wing Commander of the 
509th bomb group at Whiteman Air Force Base. They are certainly today's 
heroes, and I thank them for their wonderful efforts for our country.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. SKELTON. I yield to the gentleman from Washington.
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend the gentleman for his 
leadership for the great work done at Whiteman Air Force Base, for the 
military construction facilities that are there. I know that he worked 
hard to make sure that that facility in his district was one of the 
finest in the country.
  He and I had the great privilege of going out there the first day 
that the B-2 flew in combat and to greet the first 4 pilots who had 
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planes, 2 pilots per plane. Thirty-one hours round-trip from Whiteman 
Air Force Base to Kosovo and back.
  I think it is a very important point to pause and think about the 
revolutionary impact of having a stealth bomber with precision-guided 
weapons. The accuracy, the number of targets that the B-2 hit, is just 
extraordinary.
  Also, I had a chance, I would tell my colleagues, to go and visit 
with our pilots at Fairfort, England, who flew the B-52s and the B-1s. 
And we have a small bomber force but a good one.
  In this very bill, I want to compliment the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Duncan Hunter), the chairman, and the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. 
Sisisky) for putting in the bomber package of money to enhance all of 
our existing bombers.
  I think this war has proven that these bombers are much more valuable 
than we gave them credit for. And the fact that the B-2 could fly in 
all weather, day, night, all weather, when nobody else could, was 
absolutely crucial in keeping the momentum of the air war early on.
  So, again, it was an honor to go out with my friend from Missouri. He 
and I came to Congress the same year. We have fought together four 
times on this floor to vote for the B-2. And I only wish that in the 
other body we had had the support to keep this program going, because I 
think it is one of the historic mistakes of this institution that we 
did not keep production of this airplane moving forward.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, reclaiming my time, we are very, very 
blessed to have the number of planes that we have. As my colleague 
knows, 10 are currently at Whiteman Air Force Base and a good number of 
them are being used in this effort.
  It is interesting to note that only 3 percent of the sorties, the 
entire sorties, were flown by B-2 stealth bombers but they did some 20 
percent of the strikes. That speaks well for the system, for the young 
men and young women at Whiteman Air Force Base.
  I thank the gentleman for his kind words about those people in 
Missouri who are doing so remarkably well.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I yield the balance of the time to the 
gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Hayes).
  (Mr. HAYES asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from North Carolina (Mr. Hayes) is 
recognized for 1 minute.
  Mr. HAYES. Mr. Chairman, I am proud to rise in support of the defense 
authorization bill. I commend all of my colleagues, especially the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence), the gentleman from Missouri 
(Mr. Skelton), the ranking member, for a fine bill.
  The committee has put forth legislation that signifies the great 
support this Congress has for the million and a half patriotic 
Americans who voluntarily defend our freedom.
  Mr. Chairman, I recently visited Ft. Bragg in the 8th District of 
North Carolina. Over the past 6 months, I have been to Ft. Bragg and 
Pope Air Force Base a number of times. My last visit was unique. I went 
to the base with my wife, Barbara, to speak with our soldiers and their 
spouses about issues important to our military families.
  Once again, we came away from our discussions thoroughly impressed by 
the quality of men and women who serve in the Armed Forces. After 
meeting with three separate groups of personnel, junior enlisted 
soldiers, senior commissioned officers, and junior officers, it was 
clear that our troops demonstrate a ``can do'' spirit and pride in 
their service unrivaled anywhere in the world. They deserve this bill.
  Unfortunately, we also heard stories of hardship from our soldiers 
and their families that made me ashamed, ashamed that the government of 
a Nation so rich in military tradition could be so negligent in meeting 
the needs of our military families. I came away convinced we should add 
to this budget things that take care of their needs.
  Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to report that the House Committee on 
Armed Services has successfully accomplished its mission and this bill 
reflects our efforts. We have included in the bill measures which will 
enhance quality of life for our personnel and their families, 4.8 
percent increase in pay, reform pay tables, repealed REDUX.
  Mr. Chairman, I look forward to returning to Bragg and Pope and 
telling those wonderful young soldiers that this is indeed the year of 
the troops. I thank the committee. Our troops protect us. We must 
support them. This bill does that.
  Ms. Jackson-Lee of Texas. Mr. Chairman, I rise today to discuss two 
recent events in my life; in order to better relate the common concerns 
among our troops and veterans. Our veterans and troops are concerned 
about military pay and benefits, readiness, and modernization 
shortfalls confronting our military services.
  Mr. Chairman, it has nearly been a month since I joined a 
congressional delegation that traveled to Germany, Albania, Macedonia, 
Italy and Belgium. While it was somewhat disheartening to see the 
effects of this tragedy up close, it was comforting to see the 
courageous spirit that persevered among our troops and the many non-
government organizations aiding in the current crisis in the Balkans.
  It is incomprehensible to imagine the scope of this tragedy until you 
see it in person. On the ground and among the refugees, I was able to 
interact and listen to the stories of this human tragedy. Putting faces 
behind tragic accounts, I heard about the killing of innocent men and 
boys, the wanton burning of homes, and the brutal rape of Kosovar 
women.
  In addition to confronting the humanitarian crisis, I had the good 
fortune of interacting with our troops. I am pleased to report that our 
troops had high spirits and that they remain committed to the NATO 
operation. As is customary with U.S. Armed Forces their preparedness, 
attention to detail, and commitment to duty and country was very 
impressive.
  Mr. Chairman, I also had the privilege of joining in the 50th 
Anniversary of the Houston Department of Veterans Affairs Medical 
Center. This Medical Center is dedicated to upholding President 
Lincoln's call ``to care for him who shall have borne the battle.'' The 
men and women of this facility have answered the challenge of their 
dedication by providing the best medical care to veterans residing in 
the Houston community and southeast Texas.
  The common theme from my two experiences has been the unwavering 
dedication to our nation's defense and national security interests 
displayed by our veterans in the past and by our young men and women 
today in the Balkan region and throughout the world. Mr. Speaker, as we 
approach the Memorial Day holiday we owe it to our nation to pass a 
defense authorization that will provide for a viable and cost effective 
defense. We owe it to the young service men and women I met during my 
trip to the Balkan region and to the veterans in the Houston Veterans 
Affairs Medical Center to address their concerns and issues.
  Mr. Chairman, this bill authorizes a total of $288.8 billion for 
defense programs. This request is approximately $8.3 billion (3%) more 
than the administration's request. On May 21, President Clinton signed 
H.R. 1141, which included an additional $1.8 billion to pay for 
increases in military pay and pensions in fiscal year 2000. Thus, the 
total increase over Clinton's defense budget request would be more than 
$10 million.
  This bill does reflect Congress's continuing efforts to address 
systemic quality of life, readiness and modernization shortfalls. The 
bill addresses those programs like pay, housing, retirement that have 
the most noticeable and direct effect on service personnel and their 
families. The bill also addresses other significant areas of military 
readiness including meeting the recruitment challenge and the training 
of our soldiers.
  While this bill addresses significant quality of life issues and 
provides significant funds for modernization and procurement of weapons 
systems, it fails in three significant aspects. First, this bill 
prohibits the use of FY 2000 funds authorized in this bill for ongoing 
operations in Yugoslavia, and directs the administration to submit a 
supplemental budget in the military operations continue into FY 2000.
  Mr. Chairman, if this body adopts this provision we would be sending 
the wrong message to the Yugoslavian President Slobodan Milosevic. As 
negotiations continue and the air campaign inflicts continuing damage 
on the Yugoslavian army and police units, this body cannot send mixed 
signals. This measure of the defense authorization bill will only 
encourage Milosevic to hold out against the NATO terms.
  This body must remain committed to NATO's objective of a peaceful 
multi-ethnic democratic Kosovo in which all its people live in 
security. You know when I was walking among the refugees in that camp 
in Albania, I had the chance to ask many of them, if they thought 
NATO's action were to blame for their current situation. Mr. Speaker, 
every person in that camp placed the responsibility for this crisis 
squarely at the feet of Milosevic. The body cannot relent from our 
mission of peace and must ensure that Milosevic pays a heavy price for 
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  The second area in which this bill fails, is its failure to eliminate 
a provision that interferes with a woman's right of choice. The fiscal 
1996 defense authorization law bars female service members or military 
dependents stationed overseas from obtaining abortions in U.S. military 
hospitals abroad, even if they pay for the procedure, except in cases 
where the pregnancy threatens the woman's life.
  This bill slightly expands current law by allowing the use of 
appropriated funds to support abortions for military beneficiaries 
whose pregnancy is the result of an act of forcible rape or incest--but 
only when such incidents have been reported to a law enforcement 
agency. Though this change is welcome the law still denies women who 
have volunteered to serve their country, their legally protected right 
to choose abortion, simply because they are stationed overseas. 
Prohibiting women from using their own funds to obtain abortion 
services at overseas military facilities continues to endanger women's 
health.
  Finally, I oppose the extent of funding increases for defense 
programs proposed in H.R. 1401. The democratic alternative provides for 
an increase over FY 1999 levels and ensures that critical readiness 
needs are met. Our plan allows for weapons modernization and proposes a 
generous military compensation package for our service men and women. 
But our plan ensures that other critical priorities like education and 
agriculture receive sufficient funding.
  This bill could be improved in these three areas while still 
providing for a viable defense and more importantly addressing the 
needs of our service men and women and of our veterans.
  Ms. GRANGER. Mr. Chairman, I want to commend Chairman Spence and the 
members of the House Armed Services Committee for their hard work and 
dedication to our nation's armed services. Like many members who spoke 
today, I am very concerned about the current state of our military and 
the very serious breech of national security information at our 
nation's Department of Energy Research laboratories. Once again, the 
Republican Congress has done the best we can to provide for our 
national defense, but the reality remains that more resources are 
needed if the United States is going to remain the world's last 
remaining Superpower.
  Members who know me, know that I am very supportive of the Marines' 
MV-22 ``Osprey'' and I believe--like the Acting Secretary of the Air 
Force--that we need many more new F-16s. But, I never forget the number 
one asset--and the best weapons--in our armed services: the men and 
women who proudly serve our nation.
  I have had the opportunity to visit with our servicemen and women 
around the world on several occasions since I was elected to Congress. 
After each visit I have come away with a greater appreciation for the 
dedication and capabilities of our military men and women. There is no 
question they are the best trained and most effective fighting force in 
the world. But we cannot take them for granted. We cannot continue to 
deploy them at the current rate. We cannot continue to ask them to do 
more with very old equipment, in some cases. We cannot continue to 
expect to retain our best officers and enlisted personnel when there is 
such a substantial pay differential between the military and civilian 
jobs.
  There has been much discussion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff's list of 
immediate unfunded requirements--totaling around $20 billion. This is 
very serious, but it should come as no surprise when you consider the 
way this administration has vastly increased the operations tempo of 
our military, while vastly under-funding its personnel, procurement, 
R&D, and modernization needs.
  That is a nice way of saying the Clinton administration's military 
and foreign polices have strained our military to the breaking point, 
first by failing to adequately invest in our national security and then 
by committing our forces to a disturbing number of missions around the 
world.
  H.R. 1401 deserves the support of every member of the House of 
Representatives because it addresses many of the disturbing long-term 
trends in our military, such as: (1) declining service-wide mission 
capable rates for aircraft; (2) equipment shortfalls; (3) service-wide 
problems with aging equipment; (4) acute shortfalls in basic ammunition 
in the Army and the Marine Corps; and (5) personnel shortages.
  All of these problems are very serious, but let me talk about aging 
equipment for a moment. The Marine Corps' new MV-22 tilt-rotor aircraft 
will replace a helicopter that is almost 40 years old, the CH-46. How 
many of you would drive a car that is 40 years old?
  We're not talking about a vintage car that you take out of the garage 
on nice, sunny, spring days. We're talking about a helicopter that we 
pack our young marines into and ask them to accomplish missions in 
dangerous situations--situations in which there can be no margin for 
error!
  This is an intolerable situation. While I applaud the Armed Services 
Committee's decision to add an additional MV-22 to the president's 
request, I strongly urge the House conferees to support the Senate's 
decision to add two MV-22s to the administration's FY 2000 budget 
request.
  I also want to thank the administration and the Armed Services 
Committee for recognizing the need for new F-16s, and that current 
operations are only increasing the need for new F-16s in the future. I 
strongly urge my colleagues on the Appropriations Defense Subcommittee 
to follow that sentiment of the House today, and the Senate, by fully 
funding the F-16 in fiscal year 2000.
  In conclusion, it is clear that we cannot continue to willingly send 
our troops all over the world when here at home we are unwilling to 
give our troops the equipment and the pay they need and deserve. To 
those who say we cannot afford to have the best military in the world, 
I say we cannot afford not to have it. To those who say we do not need 
the best military in the world, I say the events of the last few weeks 
show that we do.
  I am pleased to support passage of H.R. 1401 and I urge all of my 
colleagues to support our armed forces by voting for this very 
important legislation.
  Mr. GOODLING. Mr. Chairman, the United States has long been the 
leader in manufacturing. Our ingenuity and efficiency drove our economy 
from a largely agrarian society to the pulsing industrial powerhouse 
that it is today. However, over the years, many foreign countries with 
government controlled economies have steadily cut into our markets 
because their subsidized products clearly have an economic advantage in 
our open markets.
  While I applaud efforts of the United States government to level the 
playing field by controlling the flood of subsidized imports, I cannot 
condone the actions by our government that facilitate the continued 
import of these cheap products. I encountered these troubles during the 
103rd Congress when I shepherded legislation through the Congress 
requiring the U.S. Coast Guard to purchase buoy chain manufactured in 
the United States because an overabundance of their purchases relied on 
foreign sources. Today, a similar problem is occurring when the 
Department of Defense purchases free weight strength training 
equipment.
  Despite having quality, domestically manufactured products available 
to provide to our troops, various installations of the United States 
Armed Services are purchasing free weight strength training equipment 
manufactured in foreign countries, predominantly in the Peoples 
Republic of China. As a result, many of our troops are training with 
equipment that not only is manufactured by a Communist government that 
has worked to undermine the national security of the United States, but 
also might be manufactured with slave labor.
  These cheap, lower-grade Chinese products are imported by American 
fitness companies and sold to our government under domestic labels at 
the expense of our domestic manufacturers. Consequently, American 
producers have suffered.
  Buy American legislation was enacted to protect our domestic labor 
market by providing a preference for American goods in government 
purchases. This Act is critical to protecting the market share of our 
domestic producers from foreign government-subsidized manufacturers. 
However, the Buy American Act is not always obeyed.
  According to an audit conducted last year by the Inspector General of 
the Department of Defense, an astonishing 59 percent of the contracts 
procuring military clothing and related items did not include the 
appropriate clause to implement the Buy American Act. This troubles me 
because many of our domestic producers are the ones that feel the blow.
  Despite this audit and the subsequent instruction by the Defense 
Department to its procurement officials that the Buy American Act must 
be adhered to, to date, at least five defense installations provide 
predominately foreign made free weight products for their personnel to 
weight train. Unfortunately, I believe this may signify a trend in 
purchases of foreign manufactured free weights under the Department of 
Defense.
  For this reason, I have offered an amendment that would prohibit the 
Secretary of Defense from procuring free weight equipment used by our 
troops for strength training and conditioning if those weights were not 
domestically manufactured.
  Should Congress not agree with my estimation as to the depth of this 
problem and fail to end repeat occurrences, I prepared a second 
amendment that would require the Inspector General to further 
investigate the Defense Department's compliance with purchases of the 
Buy American Act for free weight strength training equipment. However, 
I think it is important to note that while this approach could 
successfully highlight the problem, it would only delay the process, 
thereby, further punishing our domestic producers.
  No one can argue that the physical fitness of our troops is vital. It 
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Pentagon that when you're physically fit, you're also mentally prepared 
for any conflict. It is the cornerstone of readiness. In fact, a recent 
survey of nearly 1,000 Marine Corps officers, whose results appeared in 
a May 5 article of the Marine Corps Times, cited fitness as the number 
one program offered under the Morale, Welfare and Recreation program.
  In addition, the importance of using free weights to train our 
military cannot be understated. The Marine Corps Times article further 
demonstrated the need for free weights by explaining the access to free 
weights was the number one requested activity by deployed units and the 
second most popular request by units about to be deployed; second only 
to E-mail access. Clearly, the demand for free weights is present.
  However, the fact that some of our troops use Chinese manufactured 
weights when a higher quality domestic product is available, I find 
remarkable.
  Although the Department of Defense may have taken steps to curb Buy 
American Act procurement abuses in the aftermath of the Inspector 
General's report on clothing procurement, I am concerned that 
widespread abuses of foreign free weight procurements may continue 
unless Congress acts to end this practice.
  I believe Congress needs to protect our domestic interests by 
ensuring that U.S. manufacturers are insulated from cheap imports being 
sold to the United States government, and that our troops train with a 
high quality product manufactured in the United States, not Communist 
China. Accordingly, it is my intention to prohibit our military from 
spending U.S. tax dollars on free weight strength training products 
that are produced by a Communist government that has little respect for 
our national security and human rights.
  The CHAIRMAN. All time for general debate has expired.
  Pursuant to the rule, the committee amendment in the nature of a 
substitute printed in the bill is considered as an original bill for 
the purpose of amendment and is considered read.
  The text of the committee amendment in the nature of a substitute is 
as follows:

                               H.R. 1401

       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 Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000''.

     SEC. 2. ORGANIZATION OF ACT INTO DIVISIONS; TABLE OF 
                   CONTENTS.

       (a) Divisions.--This Act is organized into three divisions 
     as follows:
       (1) Division A--Department of Defense Authorizations.
       (2) Division B--Military Construction Authorizations.
       (3) Division C--Department of Energy National Security 
     Authorizations and Other Authorizations.
       (b) Table of Contents.--The table of contents for this Act 
     is as follows:


Sec. 1. Short title.
Sec. 2. Organization of Act into divisions; table of contents.
Sec. 3. Congressional defense committees defined.

            DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

                          TITLE I--PROCUREMENT

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

Sec. 101. Army.
Sec. 102. Navy and Marine Corps.
Sec. 103. Air Force.
Sec. 104. Defense-wide activities.
Sec. 105. Reserve components.
Sec. 106. Defense Inspector General.
Sec. 107. Chemical demilitarization program.
Sec. 108. Defense health programs.
Sec. 109. Defense Export Loan Guarantee program.

                       Subtitle B--Army Programs

Sec. 111. Multiyear procurement authority for Army programs.
Sec. 112. Extension of pilot program on sales of manufactured articles 
              and services of certain Army industrial facilities 
              without regard to availability from domestic sources.
Sec. 113. Revision to conditions for award of a second-source 
              procurement contract for the Family of Medium Tactical 
              Vehicles.

                       Subtitle C--Navy Programs

Sec. 121. F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircraft program.

           Subtitle D--Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program

Sec. 141. Destruction of existing stockpile of lethal chemical agents 
              and munitions.
Sec. 142. Alternative technologies for destruction of assembled 
              chemical weapons.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

Sec. 151. Limitation on expenditures for satellite communications.

         TITLE II--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

Sec. 201. Authorization of appropriations.
Sec. 202. Amount for basic and applied research.

    Subtitle B--Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations

Sec. 211. Collaborative program to evaluate and demonstrate advanced 
              technologies for advanced capability combat vehicles.
Sec. 212. Revisions in manufacturing technology program.

                 Subtitle C--Ballistic Missile Defense

Sec. 231. Additional program elements for ballistic missile defense 
              programs.

                       Subtitle D--Other Matters

Sec. 241. Designation of Secretary of the Army as executive agent for 
              high energy laser technologies.

                  TITLE III--OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

Sec. 301. Operation and maintenance funding.
Sec. 302. Working capital funds.
Sec. 303. Armed Forces Retirement Home.
Sec. 304. Transfer from National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.
Sec. 305. Transfer to Defense Working Capital Funds to support Defense 
              Commissary Agency.

    Subtitle B--Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations

Sec. 311. Reimbursement of Navy Exchange Service Command for relocation 
              expenses.

                  Subtitle C--Environmental Provisions

Sec. 321. Remediation of asbestos and lead-based paint.

     Subtitle D--Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources

Sec. 331. Expansion of annual report on contracting for commercial and 
              industrial type functions.
Sec. 332. Congressional notification of A-76 cost comparison waivers.
Sec. 333. Improved evaluation of local economic effect of changing 
              defense functions to private sector performance.
Sec. 334. Annual reports on expenditures for performance of depot-level 
              maintenance and repair workloads by public and private 
              sectors.
Sec. 335. Applicability of competition requirement in contracting out 
              workloads performed by depot-level activities of 
              Department of Defense.
Sec. 336. Treatment of public sector winning bidders for contracts for 
              performance of depot-level maintenance and repair 
              workloads formerly performed at certain military 
              installations.
Sec. 337. Process for modernization of computer systems at Army 
              computer centers.
Sec. 338. Evaluation of total system performance responsibility 
              program.
Sec. 339. Identification of core logistics capability requirements for 
              maintenance and repair of C-17 aircraft.

                Subtitle E--Defense Dependents Education

Sec. 341. Assistance to local educational agencies that benefit 
              dependents of members of the Armed Forces and Department 
              of Defense civilian employees.
Sec. 342. Continuation of enrollment at Department of Defense domestic 
              dependent elementary and secondary schools.
Sec. 343. Technical amendments to Defense Dependents' Education Act of 
              1978.

                 Subtitle F--Military Readiness Issues

Sec. 351. Independent study of Department of Defense secondary 
              inventory and parts shortages.
Sec. 352. Independent study of adequacy of department restructured 
              sustainment and reengineered logistics product support 
              practices.
Sec. 353. Independent study of military readiness reporting system.
Sec. 354. Review of real property maintenance and its effect on 
              readiness.
Sec. 355. Establishment of logistics standards for sustained military 
              operations.

                       Subtitle G--Other Matters

Sec. 361. Discretionary authority to install telecommunication 
              equipment for persons performing voluntary services.
Sec. 362. Contracting authority for defense working capital funded 
              industrial facilities.
Sec. 363. Clarification of condition on sale of articles and services 
              of industrial facilities to persons outside Department of 
              Defense.
Sec. 364. Special authority of disbursing officials regarding automated 
              teller machines on naval vessels.
Sec. 365. Preservation of historic buildings and grounds at United 
              States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home, District of Columbia.
Sec. 366. Clarification of land conveyance authority, United States 
              Soldiers' and Airmen's Home.
Sec. 367. Treatment of Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam in defense household 
              goods moving programs.

              TITLE IV--MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS

                       Subtitle A--Active Forces

Sec. 401. End strengths for active forces.

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Sec. 402. Revision in permanent end strength minimum levels.
Sec. 403. Appointments to certain senior joint officer positions.

                       Subtitle B--Reserve Forces

Sec. 411. End strengths for Selected Reserve.
Sec. 412. End strengths for Reserves on active duty in support of the 
              reserves.
Sec. 413. End strengths for military technicians (dual status).
Sec. 414. Increase in number of Army and Air Force members in certain 
              grades authorized to serve on active duty in support of 
              the Reserves.
Sec. 415. Selected Reserve end strength flexibility.

              Subtitle C--Authorization of Appropriations

Sec. 421. Authorization of appropriations for military personnel.

                   TITLE V--MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY

                  Subtitle A--Officer Personnel Policy

Sec. 501. Recommendations for promotion by selection boards.
Sec. 502. Technical amendments relating to joint duty assignments.

           Subtitle B--Matters Relating to Reserve Components

Sec. 511. Continuation on Reserve active status list to complete 
              disciplinary action.
Sec. 512. Authority to order reserve component members to active duty 
              to complete a medical evaluation.
Sec. 513. Eligibility for consideration for promotion.
Sec. 514. Retention until completion of 20 years of service for reserve 
              component majors and lieutenant commanders who twice fail 
              of selection for promotion.
Sec. 515. Computation of years of service exclusion.
Sec. 516. Authority to retain reserve component chaplains until age 67.
Sec. 517. Expansion and codification of authority for space-required 
              travel for Reserves.
Sec. 518. Financial assistance program for specially selected members 
              of the Marine Corps Reserve.
Sec. 519. Options to improve recruiting for the Army Reserve.

                    Subtitle C--Military Technicians

Sec. 521. Revision to military technician (dual status) law.
Sec. 522. Civil service retirement of technicians.
Sec. 523. Revision to non-dual status technicians statute.
Sec. 524. Revision to authorities relating to National Guard 
              technicians.
Sec. 525. Effective date.
Sec. 526. Secretary of Defense review of Army technician costing 
              process.
Sec. 527. Fiscal year 2000 limitation on number of non-dual status 
              technicians.

                     Subtitle D--Service Academies

Sec. 531. Waiver of reimbursement of expenses for instruction at 
              service academies of persons from foreign countries.
Sec. 532. Compliance by United States Military Academy with statutory 
              limit on size of Corps of Cadets.
Sec. 533. Dean of Academic Board, United States Military Academy and 
              Dean of the Faculty, United States Air Force Academy.
Sec. 534. Exclusion from certain general and flag officer grade 
              strength limitations for the superintendents of the 
              service academies.

                   Subtitle E--Education and Training

Sec. 541. Establishment of a Department of Defense international 
              student program at the senior military colleges.
Sec. 542. Authority for Army War College to award degree of master of 
              strategic studies.
Sec. 543. Authority for air university to award graduate-level degrees.
Sec. 544. Correction of Reserve credit for participation in health 
              professional scholarship and financial assistance 
              program.
Sec. 545. Permanent expansion of ROTC program to include graduate 
              students.
Sec. 546. Increase in monthly subsistence allowance for senior ROTC 
              cadets selected for advanced training.
Sec. 547. Contingent funding increase for Junior ROTC program.
Sec. 548. Change from annual to biennial reporting under the Reserve 
              component Montgomery GI Bill.
Sec. 549. Recodification and consolidation of statutes denying Federal 
              grants and contracts by certain departments and agencies 
              to institutions of higher education that prohibit Senior 
              ROTC units or military recruiting on campus.

                   Subtitle F--Decorations and Awards

Sec. 551. Waiver of time limitations for award of certain decorations 
              to certain persons.
Sec. 552 Sense of Congress concerning Presidential Unit Citation for 
              crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS.

                       Subtitle G--Other Matters

Sec. 561. Revision in authority to order retired members to active 
              duty.
Sec. 562. Temporary authority for recall of retired aviators.
Sec. 563. Service review agencies covered by professional staffing 
              requirement.
Sec. 564. Conforming amendment to authorize Reserve officers and 
              retired regular officers to hold a civil office while 
              serving on active duty for not more than 270 days.
Sec. 565. Revision to requirement for honor guard details at funerals 
              of veterans.
Sec. 566. Purpose and funding limitations for National Guard Challenge 
              Program.
Sec. 567. Access to secondary school students for military recruiting 
              purposes.
Sec. 568. Survey of members leaving military service on attitudes 
              toward military service.
Sec. 569. Improvement in system for assigning personnel to warfighting 
              units.
Sec. 570. Requirement for Department of Defense regulations to protect 
              the confidentiality of communications between dependents 
              and professionals providing therapeutic or related 
              services regarding sexual or domestic abuse.

          TITLE VI--COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL BENEFITS

                     Subtitle A--Pay and Allowances

Sec. 601. Fiscal year 2000 increase in military basic pay and reform of 
              basic pay rates.
Sec. 602. Pay increases for fiscal years after fiscal year 2000.
Sec. 603. Additional amount available for fiscal year 2000 increase in 
              basic allowance for housing inside the United States.

           Subtitle B--Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays

Sec. 611. Extension of certain bonuses and special pay authorities for 
              reserve forces.
Sec. 612. Extension of certain bonuses and special pay authorities for 
              nurse officer candidates, registered nurses, and nurse 
              anesthetists.
Sec. 613. Extension of authorities relating to payment of other bonuses 
              and special pays.
Sec. 614. Aviation career incentive pay for air battle managers.
Sec. 615. Expansion of authority to provide special pay to aviation 
              career officers extending period of active duty.
Sec. 616. Diving duty special pay.
Sec. 617. Reenlistment bonus.
Sec. 618. Enlistment bonus.
Sec. 619. Revised eligibility requirements for reserve component prior 
              service enlistment bonus.
Sec. 620. Increase in special pay and bonuses for nuclear-qualified 
              officers.
Sec. 621. Increase in authorized monthly rate of foreign language 
              proficiency pay.
Sec. 622. Authorization of retention bonus for special warfare officers 
              extending period of active duty.
Sec. 623. Authorization of surface warfare officer continuation pay.
Sec. 624. Authorization of career enlisted flyer incentive pay.
Sec. 625. Authorization of judge advocate continuation pay.

            Subtitle C--Travel and Transportation Allowances

Sec. 631. Provision of lodging in kind for Reservists performing 
              training duty and not otherwise entitled to travel and 
              transportation allowances.
Sec. 632. Payment of temporary lodging expenses for members making 
              their first permanent change of station.
Sec. 633. Emergency leave travel cost limitations.

                     Subtitle D--Retired Pay Reform

Sec. 641. Redux retired pay system applicable only to members electing 
              new 15-year career status bonus.
Sec. 642. Authorization of 15-year career status bonus.
Sec. 643. Conforming amendments.
Sec. 644. Effective date.

       Subtitle E--Other Retired Pay and Survivor Benefit Matters

Sec. 651. Effective date of disability retirement for members dying in 
              civilian medical facilities.
Sec. 652. Extension of annuity eligibility for surviving spouses of 
              certain retirement eligible reserve members.
Sec. 653. Presentation of United States flag to retiring members of the 
              uniformed services not previously covered.
Sec. 654. Accrual funding for retirement system for commissioned corps 
              of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

                       Subtitle F--Other Matters

Sec. 671. Payments for unused accrued leave as part of reenlistment.
Sec. 672. Clarification of per diem eligibility for military 
              technicians serving on active duty without pay outside 
              the United States.
Sec. 673. Overseas special supplemental food program.
Sec. 674. Special compensation for severely disabled uniformed services 
              retirees.
Sec. 675. Tuition assistance for members deployed in a ---- contingency 
              operation.

                     TITLE VII--HEALTH CARE MATTERS

                    Subtitle A--Health Care Services

Sec. 701. Provision of health care to members on active duty at certain 
              remote locations.
Sec. 702. Provision of chiropractic health care.
Sec. 703. Continuation of provision of domiciliary and custodial care 
              for certain CHAMPUS beneficiaries.
Sec. 704. Removal of restrictions on use of funds for abortions in 
              certain cases of rape or incest.

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                      Subtitle B--TRICARE Program

Sec. 711. Improvements to claims processing under the TRICARE program.
Sec. 712. Authority to waive certain TRICARE deductibles.

                       Subtitle C--Other Matters

Sec. 721. Pharmacy benefits program.
Sec. 722. Improvements to third-party payer collection program.
Sec. 723. Authority of Armed Forces medical examiner to conduct 
              forensic pathology investigations.
Sec. 724. Trauma training center.
Sec. 725. Study on joint operations for the Defense Health Program.

  TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED 
                                MATTERS

Sec. 801. Sale, exchange, and waiver authority for coal and coke.
Sec. 802. Extension of authority to issue solicitations for purchases 
              of commercial items in excess of simplified acquisition 
              threshold.
Sec. 803. Expansion of applicability of requirement to make certain 
              procurements from small arms production industrial base.
Sec. 804. Repeal of termination of provision of credit towards 
              subcontracting goals for purchases benefiting severely 
              handicapped persons.
Sec. 805. Extension of test program for negotiation of comprehensive 
              small business subcontracting plans.
Sec. 806. Facilitation of national missile defense system.
Sec. 807. Options for accelerated acquisition of precision munitions.
Sec. 808. Program to increase opportunity for small business innovation 
              in defense acquisition programs.

      TITLE IX--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

Sec. 901. Limitation on amount available for contracted advisory and 
              assistance services.
Sec. 902. Responsibility for logistics and sustainment functions of the 
              Department of Defense.
Sec. 903. Management headquarters and headquarters support activities.
Sec. 904. Further reductions in defense acquisition and support 
              workforce.
Sec. 905. Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs.
Sec. 906. Responsibility within Office of the Secretary of Defense for 
              monitoring OPTEMPO and PERSTEMPO.
Sec. 907. Report on military space issues.
Sec. 908. Employment and compensation of civilian faculty members of 
              Department of Defense African Center for Strategic 
              Studies.
Sec. 909. Additional matters for annual report on joint warfighting 
              experimentation.

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                     Subtitle A--Financial Matters

Sec. 1001. Transfer authority.
Sec. 1002. Incorporation of classified annex.
Sec. 1003. Authorization of prior emergency military personnel 
              appropriations.
Sec. 1004. Repeal of requirement for two-year budget cycle for the 
              Department of Defense.
Sec. 1005. Consolidation of various Department of the Navy trust and 
              gift funds. 
Sec. 1006. Budgeting for operations in Yugoslavia.

                Subtitle B--Naval Vessels and Shipyards

Sec. 1011. Revision to congressional notice-and-wait period required 
              before transfer of a vessel stricken from the Naval 
              Vessel Register.
Sec. 1012. Authority to consent to retransfer of former naval vessel.
Sec. 1013. Report on naval vessel force structure requirements.
Sec. 1014. Auxiliary vessels acquisition program for the Department of 
              Defense.
Sec. 1015. Authority to provide advance payments for the National 
              Defense Features program.

        Subtitle C--Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities

Sec. 1021. Support for detection and monitoring activities in the 
              eastern Pacific Ocean.
Sec. 1022. Condition on development of forward operating locations for 
              United States Southern Command counter-drug detection and 
              monitoring flights.
Sec. 1023. United States military activities in Colombia.

                       Subtitle D--Other Matters

Sec. 1031. Identification in budget materials of amounts for 
              declassification activities and limitation on 
              expenditures for such activities.
Sec. 1032. Notice to congressional committees of compromise of 
              classified information within defense programs of the 
              United States.
Sec. 1033. Revision to limitation on retirement or dismantlement of 
              strategic nuclear delivery systems.
Sec. 1034. Annual report by Chairman of Joint Chiefs of Staff on the 
              risks in executing the missions called for under the 
              National Military Strategy.
Sec. 1035. Requirement to address unit operations tempo and personnel 
              tempo in Department of Defense annual report.
Sec. 1036. Preservation of certain defense reporting requirements.
Sec. 1037. Technical and clerical amendments.
Sec. 1038. Contributions for Spirit of Hope endowment fund of United 
              Service Organizations, Incorporated.
Sec. 1039. Chemical defense training facility.

           TITLE XI--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL

Sec. 1101. Increase of pay cap for nonappropriated fund senior 
              executive employees.
Sec. 1102. Restoration of leave for certain Department of Defense 
              employees who deploy to a combat zone outside the United 
              States.
Sec. 1103. Expansion of Guard-and-Reserve purposes for which leave 
              under section 6323 of title 5, United States Code, may be 
              used.

              TITLE XII--MATTERS RELATING TO OTHER NATIONS

Sec. 1201. Report on strategic stability under START III.
Sec. 1202. One-year extension of counterproliferation authorities for 
              support of United Nations weapons inspection regime in 
              Iraq.
Sec. 1203. Military-to-military contacts with Chinese People's 
              Liberation Army.
Sec. 1204. Report on allied capabilities to contribute to major theater 
              wars.
Sec. 1205. Limitation on funds for Bosnia peacekeeping operations for 
              fiscal year 2000.

  TITLE XIII--COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION WITH STATES OF THE FORMER 
                              SOVIET UNION

Sec. 1301. Specification of Cooperative Threat Reduction programs and 
              funds.
Sec. 1302. Funding allocations.
Sec. 1303. Prohibition on use of funds for specified purposes.
Sec. 1304. Limitations on use of funds for fissile material storage 
              facility.
Sec. 1305. Limitation on use of funds for chemical weapons destruction.
Sec. 1306. Limitation on use of funds for biological weapons 
              proliferation prevention activities.
Sec. 1307. Limitation on use of funds until submission of report and 
              multiyear plan.
Sec. 1308. Requirement to submit report.
Sec. 1309. Report on Expanded Threat Reduction Initiative.

            DIVISION B--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS

Sec. 2001. Short title.

                            TITLE XXI--ARMY

Sec. 2101. Authorized Army construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2102. Family housing.
Sec. 2103. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2104. Authorization of appropriations, Army.

                            TITLE XXII--NAVY

Sec. 2201. Authorized Navy construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2202. Family housing.
Sec. 2203. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2204. Authorization of appropriations, Navy.
Sec. 2205. Authorization to accept electrical substation improvements, 
              Guam.
Sec. 2206. Correction in authorized use of funds, Marine Corps Combat 
              Development Command, Quantico, Virginia.

                         TITLE XXIII--AIR FORCE

Sec. 2301. Authorized Air Force construction and land acquisition 
              projects.
Sec. 2302. Family housing.
Sec. 2303. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2304. Authorization of appropriations, Air Force.

                      TITLE XXIV--DEFENSE AGENCIES

Sec. 2401. Authorized Defense Agencies construction and land 
              acquisition projects.
Sec. 2402. Improvements to military family housing units.
Sec. 2403. Military housing improvement program.
Sec. 2404. Energy conservation projects.
Sec. 2405. Authorization of appropriations, Defense Agencies.
Sec. 2406. Increase in fiscal year 1997 authorization for military 
              construction projects at Pueblo Chemical Activity, 
              Colorado.
Sec. 2407. Condition on obligation of military construction funds for 
              drug interdiction and counter-drug activities.

   TITLE XXV--NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SECURITY INVESTMENT 
                                PROGRAM

Sec. 2501. Authorized NATO construction and land acquisition projects.
Sec. 2502. Authorization of appropriations, NATO.

            TITLE XXVI--GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES

Sec. 2601. Authorized Guard and Reserve construction and land 
              acquisition projects.

        TITLE XXVII--EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS

Sec. 2701. Expiration of authorizations and amounts required to be 
              specified by law.

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Sec. 2702. Extension of authorizations of certain fiscal year 1997 
              projects.
Sec. 2703. Extension of authorizations of certain fiscal year 1996 
              projects.
Sec. 2704. Effective date.

                    TITLE XXVIII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

 Subtitle A--Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing 
                                Changes

Sec. 2801. Contributions for North Atlantic Treaty Organizations 
              Security Investment.
Sec. 2802. Development of Ford Island, Hawaii.
Sec. 2803. Restriction on authority to acquire or construct ancillary 
              supporting facilities for housing units.
Sec. 2804. Planning and design for military construction projects for 
              reserve components.
Sec. 2805. Limitations on authority to carry out small projects for 
              acquisition of facilities for reserve components.
Sec. 2806. Expansion of entities eligible to participate in alternative 
              authority for acquisition and improvement of military 
              housing.

        Subtitle B--Real Property and Facilities Administration

Sec. 2811. Extension of authority for lease of land for special 
              operations activities.
Sec. 2812. Utility privatization authority.
Sec. 2813. Acceptance of funds to cover administrative expenses 
              relating to certain real property transactions.
Sec. 2814. Study and report on impacts to military readiness of 
              proposed land management changes on public lands in Utah.

            Subtitle C--Defense Base Closure and Realignment

Sec. 2821. Continuation of authority to use Department of Defense Base 
              Closure Account 1990 for activities required to close or 
              realign military installations.

                      Subtitle D--Land Conveyances

                        Part I--Army Conveyances

Sec. 2831. Transfer of jurisdiction, Fort Sam Houston, Texas.
Sec. 2832. Land conveyance, Army Reserve Center, Kankakee, Illinois.
Sec. 2833. Land conveyance, Fort Des Moines, Iowa.
Sec. 2834. Land conveyance, Army Maintenance Support Activity (Marine) 
              Number 84, Marcus Hook, Pennsylvania.
Sec. 2835. Land conveyances, Army docks and related property, Alaska.
Sec. 2836. Land conveyance, Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
Sec. 2837. Land conveyance, Army Reserve Center, Cannon Falls, 
              Minnesota.
Sec. 2838. Land conveyance, Nike Battery 80 family housing site, East 
              Hanover Township, New Jersey.
Sec. 2839. Land exchange, Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois.
Sec. 2840. Modification of land conveyance, Joliet Army Ammunition 
              Plant, Illinois.
Sec. 2841. Land conveyances, Twin Cities Army Ammunition Plant, 
              Minnesota.

                       Part II--Navy Conveyances

Sec. 2851. Land conveyance, Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant No. 
              387, Dallas, Texas.
Sec. 2852. Land conveyance, Naval and Marine Corps Reserve Center, 
              Orange, Texas.
Sec. 2853. Land conveyance, Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, 
              North Carolina.

                    Part III--Air Force Conveyances

Sec. 2861. Conveyance of fuel supply line, Pease Air Force Base, New 
              Hampshire.
Sec. 2862. Land conveyance, Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.
Sec. 2863. Land conveyance, Port of Anchorage, Alaska.
Sec. 2864. Land conveyance, Forestport Test Annex, New York.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

Sec. 2871. Expansion of Arlington National Cemetery.

 DIVISION C--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND 
                          OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS

      TITLE XXXI--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS

         Subtitle A--National Security Programs Authorizations

Sec. 3101. Weapons activities.
Sec. 3102. Defense environmental restoration and waste management.
Sec. 3103. Other defense activities.
Sec. 3104. Defense nuclear waste disposal.
Sec. 3105. Defense environmental management privatization.

                Subtitle B--Recurring General Provisions

Sec. 3121. Reprogramming.
Sec. 3122. Limits on general plant projects.
Sec. 3123. Limits on construction projects.
Sec. 3124. Fund transfer authority.
Sec. 3125. Authority for conceptual and construction design.
Sec. 3126. Authority for emergency planning, design, and construction 
              activities.
Sec. 3127. Funds available for all national security programs of the 
              Department of Energy.
Sec. 3128. Availability of funds.
Sec. 3129. Transfers of defense environmental management funds.

   Subtitle C--Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations

Sec. 3131. Limitation on use at Department of Energy laboratories of 
              funds appropriated for the initiatives for proliferation 
              prevention program.
Sec. 3132. Prohibition on use for payment of Russian Government taxes 
              and customs duties of funds appropriated for the 
              initiatives for proliferation prevention program.
Sec. 3133. Modification of laboratory-directed research and development 
              to provide funds for theater ballistic missile defense.
Sec. 3134. Support of theater ballistic missile defense activities of 
              the Department of Defense.

          Subtitle D--Commission on Nuclear Weapons Management

Sec. 3151. Establishment of commission.
Sec. 3152. Duties of commission.
Sec. 3153. Reports.
Sec. 3154. Powers.
Sec. 3155. Commission procedures.
Sec. 3156. Personnel matters.
Sec. 3157. Miscellaneous administrative provisions.
Sec. 3158. Funding.
Sec. 3159. Termination of the commission.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

Sec. 3161. Procedures for meeting tritium production requirements.
Sec. 3162. Extension of authority of Department of Energy to pay 
              voluntary separation incentive payments.
Sec. 3163. Fellowship program for development of skills critical to the 
              Department of Energy nuclear weapons complex.
Sec. 3164. Department of Energy records declassification.
Sec. 3165. Management of nuclear weapons production facilities and 
              national laboratories.
Sec. 3166. Notice to congressional committees of compromise of 
              classified information within nuclear energy defense 
              programs.

          TITLE XXXII--DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD

Sec. 3201. Authorization.

                TITLE XXXIII--NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE

Sec. 3301. Definitions.
Sec. 3302. Authorized uses of stockpile funds.
Sec. 3303. Elimination of congressionally imposed disposal restrictions 
              on specific stockpile materials.

                  TITLE XXXIV--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

Sec. 3401. Short title.
Sec. 3402. Authorization of appropriations for fiscal year 2000.
Sec. 3403. Amendments to title XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936.
Sec. 3404. Extension of war risk insurance authority.
Sec. 3405. Ownership of the JEREMIAH O'BRIEN.

                  TITLE XXXV--PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION

Sec. 3501. Short title.
Sec. 3502. Authorization of expenditures.
Sec. 3503. Purchase of vehicles.
Sec. 3504. Office of Transition Administration.

     SEC. 3. CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES DEFINED.

       For purposes of this Act, the term ``congressional defense 
     committees'' means--
       (1) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the Senate; and
       (2) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on 
     Appropriations of the House of Representatives.

            DIVISION A--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AUTHORIZATIONS

                          TITLE I--PROCUREMENT

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

     SEC. 101. ARMY.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for procurement for the Army as follows:
       (1) For aircraft, $1,415,211,000.
       (2) For missiles, $1,415,959,000.
       (3) For weapons and tracked combat vehicles, 
     $1,575,096,000.
       (4) For ammunition, $1,196,216,000.
       (5) For other procurement, $3,799,895,000.

     SEC. 102. NAVY AND MARINE CORPS.

       (a) Navy.--Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated 
     for fiscal year 2000 for procurement for the Navy as follows:
       (1) For aircraft, $8,804,051,000.
       (2) For weapons, including missiles and torpedoes, 
     $1,764,655,000.
       (3) For shipbuilding and conversion, $6,687,172,000.
       (4) For other procurement, $4,260,444,000.
       (b) Marine Corps.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2000 for procurement for the 
     Marine Corps in the amount of 1,297,463,000.
       (c) Navy and Marine Corps Ammunition.--Funds are hereby 
     authorized to be appropriated for procurement of ammunition 
     for the Navy and the Marine Corps in the amount of 
     $612,900,000.

     SEC. 103. AIR FORCE.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for procurement for the Air Force as follows:
       (1) For aircraft, $9,647,651,000.
       (2) For missiles, $2,303,661,000.
       (3) For ammunition, $560,537,000.
       (4) For other procurement, $7,077,762,000.

     SEC. 104. DEFENSE-WIDE ACTIVITIES.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for Defense-wide procurement in the amount of 
     $2,107,839,000.

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     SEC. 105. RESERVE COMPONENTS.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for procurement of aircraft, vehicles, 
     communications equipment, and other equipment for the reserve 
     components of the Armed Forces as follows:
       (1) For the Army National Guard, $10,000,000.
       (2) For the Air National Guard, $10,000,000.
       (3) For the Army Reserve, $10,000,000.
       (4) For the Naval Reserve, $10,000,000.
       (5) For the Air Force Reserve, $10,000,00.
       (6) For the Marine Corps Reserve, $10,000,000.

     SEC. 106. DEFENSE INSPECTOR GENERAL.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for procurement for the Inspector General of the 
     Department of Defense in the amount of $2,100,000.

     SEC. 107. CHEMICAL DEMILITARIZATION PROGRAM.

       There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 the amount of $1,012,000,000 for--
       (1) the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions 
     in accordance with section 1412 of the Department of Defense 
     Authorization Act, 1986 (50 U.S.C. 1521); and
       (2) the destruction of chemical warfare materiel of the 
     United States that is not covered by section 1412 of such 
     Act.

     SEC. 108. DEFENSE HEALTH PROGRAMS.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for the Department of Defense for procurement for 
     carrying out health care programs, projects, and activities 
     of the Department of Defense in the total amount of 
     $356,970,000.

     SEC. 109. DEFENSE EXPORT LOAN GUARANTEE PROGRAM.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for the Department of Defense for carrying out the 
     Defense Export Loan Guarantee Program under section 2540 of 
     title 10, United States Code, in the total amount of 
     $1,250,000.

                       Subtitle B--Army Programs

     SEC. 111. MULTIYEAR PROCUREMENT AUTHORITY FOR ARMY PROGRAMS.

       (a) Multiyear Procurement Authority.--Subject to subsection 
     (b), the Secretary of the Army may, in accordance with 
     section 2306b of title 10, United States Code, enter into a 
     multiyear procurement contract beginning with the fiscal year 
     2000 program year for procurement for each of the following 
     programs.
       (1) The Javelin missile system.
       (2) M2A3 Bradley fighting vehicles.
       (3) AH-64D Longbow Apache attack helicopters.
       (4) The M1A2 Abrams main battle tank upgrade program 
     combined with the Heavy Assault Bridge program.
       (b) Required Report.--The Secretary of the Army may not 
     enter into a multiyear contract under subsection (a) for a 
     program named in one of the paragraphs of that subsection 
     until the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional 
     defense committees a report with respect to that contract 
     that provides the following information, shown for each year 
     in the current future-years defense program and in the 
     aggregate over the period of the current future-years defense 
     program:
       (1) The amount of total obligational authority under the 
     contract and the percentage that such amount represents of 
     (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) the service 
     procurement total.
       (2) The amount of total obligational authority under all 
     Army multiyear procurements (determined without regard to the 
     amount of the multiyear contract) under multiyear contracts 
     in effect immediately before the contract under subsection 
     (a) is entered into and the percentage that such amount 
     represents of (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) 
     the service procurement total.
       (3) The amount equal to the sum of the amounts under 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) and the percentage that such amount 
     represents of (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) 
     the service procurement total.
       (4) The amount of total obligational authority under all 
     Department of Defense multiyear procurements (determined 
     without regard to the amount of the multiyear contract), 
     including the contract under subsection (a) and each 
     additional multiyear contract authorized by this Act, and the 
     percentage that such amount represents of the procurement 
     accounts of the Department of Defense treated in the 
     aggregate.
       (5) For purposes of this subsection:
       (A) The term ``applicable procurement account'' means, with 
     respect to the multiyear contract under subsection (a), the 
     Department of the Army procurement account from which funds 
     to discharge obligations under the contract will be provided.
       (B) The term ``service procurement total'' means, with 
     respect to the multiyear contract under subsection (a), the 
     procurement accounts of the Army treated in the aggregate.

     SEC. 112. EXTENSION OF PILOT PROGRAM ON SALES OF MANUFACTURED 
                   ARTICLES AND SERVICES OF CERTAIN ARMY 
                   INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES WITHOUT REGARD TO 
                   AVAILABILITY FROM DOMESTIC SOURCES.

       Section 141 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 10 U.S.C. 4543 note) is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``fiscal years 1998 and 
     1999'' and inserting ``fiscal years 1998 through 2001'';
       (2) in subsection (b), by striking ``fiscal year 1998 or 
     1999'' and inserting ``the period during which the pilot 
     program is being conducted''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(d) Update of Report.--Not later March 1, 2001, the 
     Inspector General of the Department of Defense shall submit 
     to Congress an update of the report required to be submitted 
     under subsection (c) and an assessment of the success of the 
     pilot program.''.

     SEC. 113. REVISION TO CONDITIONS FOR AWARD OF A SECOND-SOURCE 
                   PROCUREMENT CONTRACT FOR THE FAMILY OF MEDIUM 
                   TACTICAL VEHICLES.

       The text of section 112 of the Strom Thurmond National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 
     105-261; 112 Stat. 1973) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Limitation on Second-Source Award.--The Secretary of 
     the Army may award a full-rate production contract (known as 
     a Phase III contract) for production of the Family of Medium 
     Tactical Vehicles to a second source only after the Secretary 
     submits to the congressional defense committees a 
     certification in writing of the following:
       ``(1) That the total quantity of trucks within the Family 
     of Medium Tactical Vehicles program that the Secretary will 
     require to be delivered (under all contracts) in any 12-month 
     period will be sufficient to enable the prime contractor to 
     maintain a minimum production level of 150 trucks per month.
       ``(2) That the total cost to the Army of the procurements 
     under the prime and second-source contracts over the period 
     of those contracts will be the same as or lower than the 
     amount that would be the total cost of the procurements if 
     such a second-source contract were not awarded.
       ``(3) That the trucks to be produced under those contracts 
     will be produced with common components that will be 
     interchangeable among similarly configured models.
       ``(b) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The term `prime contractor' means the contractor 
     under the production contract for the Family of Medium 
     Tactical Vehicles program as of the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.
       ``(2) The term `second source' means a firm other than the 
     prime contractor.''.

                       Subtitle C--Navy Programs

     SEC. 121. F/A-18E/F SUPER HORNET AIRCRAFT PROGRAM.

       (a) Multiyear Procurement Authority.--Subject to subsection 
     (b) and (c), the Secretary of the Navy may, in accordance 
     with section 2306b of title 10, United States Code, enter 
     into a multiyear procurement contract beginning with the 
     fiscal year 2000 program year for procurement for the F/A-
     18E/F aircraft program.
       (b) Required Report.--The Secretary of the Navy may not 
     enter into a multiyear contract under subsection (a) until 
     the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional defense 
     committees a report with respect to that contract that 
     provides the following information, shown for each year in 
     the current future-years defense program and in the aggregate 
     over the period of the current future-years defense program:
       (1) The amount of total obligational authority under the 
     contract and the percentage that such amount represents of 
     (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) the service 
     procurement total.
       (2) The amount of total obligational authority under all 
     Navy multiyear procurements (determined without regard to the 
     amount of the multiyear contract) under multiyear contracts 
     in effect immediately before the contract under subsection 
     (a) is entered into and the percentage that such amount 
     represents of (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) 
     the service procurement total.
       (3) The amount equal to the sum of the amounts under 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) and the percentage that such amount 
     represents of (A) the applicable procurement account, and (B) 
     the service procurement total.
       (4) The amount of total obligational authority under all 
     Department of Defense multiyear procurements (determined 
     without regard to the amount of the multiyear contract), 
     including the contract under subsection (a) and each 
     additional multiyear contract authorized by this Act, and the 
     percentage that such amount represents of the procurement 
     accounts of the Department of Defense treated in the 
     aggregate.
       (5) For purposes of this subsection:
       (A) The term ``applicable procurement account'' means, with 
     respect to the multiyear contract under subsection (a), the 
     Aircraft Procurement, Navy account.
       (B) The term ``service procurement total'' means, with 
     respect to the multiyear contract under subsection (a), the 
     procurement accounts of the Navy treated in the aggregate.
       (c) Limitation With Respect To Operational Test and 
     Evaluation.--The Secretary of the Navy may not enter into a 
     multiyear procurement contract authorized by subsection (a) 
     until--
       (1) the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional 
     defense committees a certification described in subsection 
     (c); and
       (2) a period of 30 continuous days of a Congress (as 
     determined under subsection (d)) elapses after the submission 
     of that certification.
       (d) Required Certification.--A certification referred to in 
     subsection (c)(1) is a certification by the Secretary of 
     Defense of each of the following:
       (1) That the results of the Operational Test and Evaluation 
     program for the F/A-18E/F aircraft indicate--
       (A) that the aircraft meets the requirements for 
     operational effectiveness and suitability established by the 
     Secretary of the Navy; and
       (B) that the aircraft meets key performance specifications 
     established by the Secretary of the Navy.
       (2) That the cost of procurement of that aircraft using a 
     multiyear procurement contract as authorized by subsection 
     (a), assuming procurement of 222 aircraft, is at least 7.4 
     percent less

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     than the cost of procurement of the same number of aircraft 
     through annual contracts.
       (e) Continuity of Congress.--For purposes of subsection 
     (c)(2)--
       (1) the continuity of a Congress is broken only by an 
     adjournment of the Congress sine die at the end of the final 
     session of the Congress; and
       (2) any day on which either House of Congress is not in 
     session because of an adjournment of more than three days to 
     a day certain, or because of an adjournment sine die at the 
     end of the first session of a Congress, shall be excluded in 
     the computation of such 30-day period.

           Subtitle D--Chemical Stockpile Destruction Program

     SEC. 141. DESTRUCTION OF EXISTING STOCKPILE OF LETHAL 
                   CHEMICAL AGENTS AND MUNITIONS.

       (a) Program Assessment.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall 
     conduct an assessment of the current program for destruction 
     of the United States' stockpile of chemical agents and 
     munitions, including the Assembled Chemical Weapons 
     Assessment, for the purpose of reducing significantly the 
     cost of such program and ensuring completion of such program 
     in accordance with the obligations of the United States under 
     the Chemical Weapons Convention while maintaining maximum 
     protection of the general public, the personnel involved in 
     the demilitarization program, and the environment.
       (2) Based on the results of the assessment conducted under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary may take those actions 
     identified in the assessment that may be accomplished under 
     existing law to achieve the purposes of such assessment and 
     the chemical agents and munitions stockpile destruction 
     program.
       (3) Not later than March 1, 2000, the Secretary shall 
     submit to Congress a report on--
       (A) those actions taken, or planned to be taken, under 
     paragraph (2); and
       (B) any recommendations for additional legislation that may 
     be required to achieve the purposes of the assessment 
     conducted under paragraph (1) and of the chemical agents and 
     munitions stockpile destruction program.
       (b) Changes and Clarifications Regarding Program.--Section 
     1412 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 
     (Public Law 99-145; 50 U.S.C. 1521) is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (2) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(2) Facilities constructed to carry out this section 
     shall, when no longer needed for the purposes for which they 
     were constructed, be disposed of in accordance with 
     applicable laws and regulations and mutual agreements between 
     the Secretary of the Army and the Governor of the State in 
     which the facility is located.'';
       (B) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
     (4) and (5), respectively; and
       (C) by inserting after paragraph (2) (as amended by 
     subparagraph (A)) the following new paragraph:
       ``(3)(A) Facilities constructed to carry out this section 
     may not be used for a purpose other than the destruction of 
     the stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions that 
     exists on November 8, 1985.
       ``(B) The prohibition in subparagraph (A) shall not apply 
     with respect to items designated by the Secretary of Defense 
     as lethal chemical agents, munitions, or related materials 
     after November 8, 1985, if the State in which a destruction 
     facility is located issues the appropriate permit or permits 
     for the destruction of such items at the facility.'';
       (2) in subsection (f)(2), by striking ``(c)(4)'' and 
     inserting ``(c)(5)''; and
       (3) in subsection (g)(2)(B), by striking ``(c)(3)'' and 
     inserting ``(c)(4)''.
       (c) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       (1) The term ``Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment'' 
     means the pilot program carried out under section 8065 of the 
     Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1997 (section 
     101(b) of Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-101; 50 U.S.C. 
     1521 note).
       (2) The term ``Chemical Weapons Convention'' means the 
     Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, 
     Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and Their 
     Destruction, ratified by the United States on April 25, 1997, 
     and entered into force on April 29, 1997.

     SEC. 142. ALTERNATIVE TECHNOLOGIES FOR DESTRUCTION OF 
                   ASSEMBLED CHEMICAL WEAPONS.

       Section 142(a) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 
     50 U.S.C. 1521 note) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Program Management.--(1) The program manager for the 
     Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program shall manage 
     the development and testing of technologies for the 
     destruction of lethal chemical munitions that are potential 
     or demonstrated alternatives to the baseline incineration 
     program.
       ``(2) The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
     Technology and the Secretary of the Army shall jointly submit 
     to Congress, not later than December 1, 1999, a plan for the 
     transfer of oversight of the Assembled Chemical Weapons 
     Assessment program from the Under Secretary to the Secretary.
       ``(3) Oversight of the Assembled Chemical Weapons 
     Assessment program shall be transferred from the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology to the 
     Secretary of the Army pursuant to the plan submitted under 
     paragraph (2) not later than 90 days after the date of the 
     submission of the notice required under section 152(f)(2) of 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
     (Public Law 104-106; 50 U.S.C. 1521).
       ``(4) The Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
     Technology and the Secretary of the Army shall ensure 
     coordination of the activities and plans of the program 
     manager for the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment program 
     and the program manager for Chemical Demilitarization during 
     the demonstration and pilot plant facility phase for an 
     alternative technology.
       ``(5) For those baseline demilitarization facilities for 
     which the Secretary decides that implementation of an 
     alternative technology may be recommended, the Secretary may 
     take those measures necessary to facilitate the integration 
     of the alternative technology.''.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

     SEC. 151. LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES FOR SATELLITE 
                   COMMUNICATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 136 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 2282. Purchase or lease of communications services: 
       limitation

       ``The Secretary of Defense may not obligate any funds after 
     September 30, 2000, to buy a commercial satellite 
     communications system or to lease a communications service, 
     including mobile satellite communications, unless the 
     Secretary determines that the system or service to be 
     purchased or leased has been proven through independent 
     testing--
       ``(1) not to cause harmful interference to, or to disrupt 
     the use of, colocated commercial or military Global 
     Positioning System receivers used by the Department of 
     Defense; and
       ``(2) to be safe for use with such receivers in all other 
     respects.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new item:

``2282. Purchase or lease of communications services: limitation.''.

         TITLE II--RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

     SEC. 201. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for the use of the Department of Defense for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation as follows:
       (1) For the Army, $4,708,194,000.
       (2) For the Navy, $8,358,529,000.
       (3) For the Air Force, $13,212,671,000.
       (4) For Defense-wide activities, $9,556,285,000, of which--
       (A) $253,457,000 is authorized for the activities of the 
     Director, Test and Evaluation; and
       (B) $24,434,000 is authorized for the Director of 
     Operational Test and Evaluation.

     SEC. 202. AMOUNT FOR BASIC AND APPLIED RESEARCH.

       (a) Fiscal Year 2000.--Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated by section 201, $4,248,465,000 shall be 
     available for basic research and applied research projects.
       (b) Basic Research and Applied Research Defined.--For 
     purposes of this section, the term ``basic research and 
     applied research'' means work funded in program elements for 
     defense research and development under Department of Defense 
     category 6.1 or 6.2.

    Subtitle B--Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations

     SEC. 211. COLLABORATIVE PROGRAM TO EVALUATE AND DEMONSTRATE 
                   ADVANCED TECHNOLOGIES FOR ADVANCED CAPABILITY 
                   COMBAT VEHICLES.

       (a) Establishment of Program.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall establish and carry out a program to provide for the 
     evaluation and competitive demonstration of concepts for 
     advanced capability combat vehicles for the Army.
       (b) Covered Program.--The program under subsection (a) 
     shall be carried out collaboratively pursuant to a memorandum 
     of agreement to be entered into between the Secretary of the 
     Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research 
     Projects Agency. The program shall include the following 
     activities:
       (1) Consideration and evaluation of technologies having the 
     potential to enable the development of advanced capability 
     combat vehicles that are significantly superior to the 
     existing M1 series of tanks in terms of capability for 
     combat, survival, support, and deployment, including but not 
     limited to the following technologies:
       (A) Weapon systems using electromagnetic power, directed 
     energy, and kinetic energy.
       (B) Propulsion systems using hybrid electric drive.
       (C) Mobility systems using active and semi-active 
     suspension and wheeled vehicle suspension.
       (D) Protection systems using signature management, 
     lightweight materials, and full-spectrum active protection.
       (E) Advanced robotics, displays, man-machine interfaces, 
     and embedded training.
       (F) Advanced sensory systems and advanced systems for 
     combat identification, tactical navigation, communication, 
     systems status monitoring, and reconnaissance.
       (G) Revolutionary methods of manufacturing combat vehicles.
       (2) Incorporation of the most promising such technologies 
     into demonstration models.
       (3) Competitive testing and evaluation of such 
     demonstration models.
       (4) Identification of the most promising such demonstration 
     models within a period of time to enable preparation of a 
     full development program capable of beginning by fiscal year 
     2007.
       (c) Report.--Not later than January 31, 2000, the Secretary 
     of the Army and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research 
     Projects Agency shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a joint report on the implementation of the 
     program under subsection (a). The report shall include the 
     following:

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       (1) A description of the memorandum of agreement referred 
     to in subsection (b).
       (2) A schedule for the program.
       (3) An identification of the funding required for fiscal 
     year 2001 and for the future-years defense program to carry 
     out the program.
       (4) A description and assessment of the acquisition 
     strategy for combat vehicles planned by the Secretary of the 
     Army that would sustain the existing force of M1-series 
     tanks, together with a complete identification of all 
     operation, support, ownership, and other costs required to 
     carry out such strategy through the year 2030.
       (5) A description and assessment of one or more acquisition 
     strategies for combat vehicles, alternative to the strategy 
     referred to in paragraph (4), that would develop a force of 
     advanced capability combat vehicles significantly superior to 
     the existing force of M1-series tanks and, for each such 
     alternative acquisition strategy, an estimate of the funding 
     required to carry out such strategy.
       (d) Funds.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for 
     Defense-wide activities by section 201(4) for the Defense 
     Advanced Research Projects Agency, $56,200,000 shall be 
     available only to carry out the program under subsection (a).

     SEC. 212. REVISIONS IN MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM.

       (a) Additional Purpose of Program.--Subsection (b) of 
     section 2525 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (4) through (8) as 
     paragraphs (5) through (9), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) to address broad defense-related manufacturing 
     inefficiencies and requirements;''.
       (b) Repeal of Cost-Share Goal.--Subsection (d) of such 
     section is amended by striking paragraph (3).

                 Subtitle C--Ballistic Missile Defense

     SEC. 231. ADDITIONAL PROGRAM ELEMENTS FOR BALLISTIC MISSILE 
                   DEFENSE PROGRAMS.

       Section 223(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (12) as 
     paragraphs (6) through (13), respectively;
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph (5):
       ``(5) Upper Tier.''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(14) Space Based Infrared System Low.
       ``(15) Space Based Infrared System High.''.

                       Subtitle D--Other Matters

     SEC. 241. DESIGNATION OF SECRETARY OF THE ARMY AS EXECUTIVE 
                   AGENT FOR HIGH ENERGY LASER TECHNOLOGIES.

       (a) Designation.--The Secretary of Defense shall designate 
     the Secretary of the Army as the Department of Defense 
     executive agent for oversight of research, development, test, 
     and evaluation of specified high energy laser technologies.
       (b) Location for Carrying Out Oversight Functions.--The 
     functions of the Secretary of the Army as such executive 
     agent shall be carried out through the Army Space and Missile 
     Defense Command at the High Energy Laser Systems Test 
     Facility at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico.
       (c) Functions.--The responsibilities of the Secretary of 
     the Army as such executive agent shall include the following:
       (1) Developing policy and overseeing the establishment of, 
     and adherence to, procedures for ensuring that projects of 
     the Department of Defense involving specified high energy 
     laser technologies are initiated and administered 
     effectively.
       (2) Assessing and making recommendations to the Secretary 
     of Defense regarding the capabilities demonstrated by 
     specified high energy laser technologies and the potential of 
     such technologies to meet operational military requirements.
       (d) Specified High Energy Laser Technologies.--For purposes 
     of this section, the term ``specified high energy laser 
     technologies'' means technologies that--
       (1) use lasers of one or more kilowatts; and
       (2) have potential weapons applications.

                  TITLE III--OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

              Subtitle A--Authorization of Appropriations

     SEC. 301. OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE FUNDING.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for the use of the Armed Forces and other 
     activities and agencies of the Department of Defense for 
     expenses, not otherwise provided for, for operation and 
     maintenance, in amounts as follows:
       (1) For the Army, $19,476,694,000.
       (2) For the Navy, $22,785,215,000.
       (3) For the Marine Corps, $2,777,429,000.
       (4) For the Air Force, $21,514,958,000.
       (5) For Defense-wide activities, $10,968,614,000.
       (6) For the Army Reserve, $1,512,513,000.
       (7) For the Naval Reserve, $965,847,000.
       (8) For the Marine Corps Reserve, $137,266,000.
       (9) For the Air Force Reserve, $1,730,937,000.
       (10) For the Army National Guard, $3,141,049,000.
       (11) For the Air National Guard, $3,185,918,000.
       (12) For the Defense Inspector General, $130,744,000.
       (13) For the United States Court of Appeals for the Armed 
     Forces, $7,621,000.
       (14) For Environmental Restoration, Army, $378,170,000.
       (15) For Environmental Restoration, Navy, $284,000,000.
       (16) For Environmental Restoration, Air Force, 
     $376,800,000.
       (17) For Environmental Restoration, Defense-wide, 
     $25,370,000.
       (18) For Environmental Restoration, Formerly Used Defense 
     Sites, $199,214,000.
       (19) For Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster, and Civic Aid 
     programs, $50,000,000.
       (20) For Drug Interdiction and Counter-drug Activities, 
     Defense-wide, $811,700,000.
       (21) For the Kaho'olawe Island Conveyance, Remediation, and 
     Environmental Restoration Trust Fund, $15,000,000.
       (22) For Defense Health Program, $10,496,687,000.
       (23) For Cooperative Threat Reduction programs, 
     $444,100,000.
       (24) For Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund, 
     $2,387,600,000.
       (25) For Quality of Life Enhancements, $1,845,370,000.

     SEC. 302. WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 for the use of the Armed Forces and other 
     activities and agencies of the Department of Defense for 
     providing capital for working capital and revolving funds in 
     amounts as follows:
       (1) For the Defense Working Capital Funds, $90,344,000.
       (2) For the National Defense Sealift Fund, $434,700,000.

     SEC. 303. ARMED FORCES RETIREMENT HOME.

       There is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     year 2000 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund 
     the sum of $68,295,000 for the operation of the Armed Forces 
     Retirement Home, including the United States Soldiers' and 
     Airmen's Home and the Naval Home.

     SEC. 304. TRANSFER FROM NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE 
                   TRANSACTION FUND.

       (a) Transfer Authority.--To the extent provided in 
     appropriations Acts, not more than $150,000,000 is authorized 
     to be transferred from the National Defense Stockpile 
     Transaction Fund to operation and maintenance accounts for 
     fiscal year 2000 in amounts as follows:
       (1) For the Army, $50,000,000.
       (2) For the Navy, $50,000,000.
       (3) For the Air Force, $50,000,000.
       (b) Treatment of Transfers.--Amounts transferred under this 
     section--
       (1) shall be merged with, and be available for the same 
     purposes and the same period as, the amounts in the accounts 
     to which transferred; and
       (2) may not be expended for an item that has been denied 
     authorization of appropriations by Congress.
       (c) Relationship to Other Transfer Authority.--The transfer 
     authority provided in this section is in addition to the 
     transfer authority provided in section 1001.

     SEC. 305. TRANSFER TO DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL FUNDS TO 
                   SUPPORT DEFENSE COMMISSARY AGENCY.

       (a) Army Operation and Maintenance Funds.--The Secretary of 
     the Army shall transfer $346,154,000 of the amount authorized 
     to be appropriated by section 301(1) for operation and 
     maintenance for the Army to the Defense Working Capital Funds 
     for the purpose of funding operations of the Defense 
     Commissary Agency.
       (b) Navy Operation and Maintenance Funds.--The Secretary of 
     the Navy shall transfer $263,070,000 of the amount authorized 
     to be appropriated by section 301(2) for operation and 
     maintenance for the Navy to the Defense Working Capital Funds 
     for the purpose of funding operations of the Defense 
     Commissary Agency.
       (c) Marine Corps Operation and Maintenance Funds.--The 
     Secretary of the Navy shall transfer $90,834,000 of the 
     amount authorized to be appropriated by section 301(3) for 
     operation and maintenance for the Marine Corps to the Defense 
     Working Capital Funds for the purpose of funding operations 
     of the Defense Commissary Agency.
       (d) Air Force Operation and Maintenance Funds.--The 
     Secretary of the Air Force shall transfer $309,061,000 of the 
     amount authorized to be appropriated by section 301(4) for 
     operation and maintenance for the Air Force to the Defense 
     Working Capital Funds for the purpose of funding operations 
     of the Defense Commissary Agency.
       (e) Treatment of Transfers.--Amounts transferred under this 
     section--
       (1) shall be merged with, and be available for the same 
     purposes and the same period as, other amounts in the Defense 
     Working Capital Funds available for the purpose of funding 
     operations of the Defense Commissary Agency; and
       (2) may not be expended for an item that has been denied 
     authorization of appropriations by Congress.
       (f) Relationship to Other Transfer Authority.--The 
     transfers required by this section are in addition to the 
     transfer authority provided in section 1001.

    Subtitle B--Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations

     SEC. 311. REIMBURSEMENT OF NAVY EXCHANGE SERVICE COMMAND FOR 
                   RELOCATION EXPENSES.

       Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 
     301(5) for operation and maintenance for Defense-wide 
     activities, $8,700,000 shall be available to the Secretary of 
     Defense for the purpose of reimbursing the Navy Exchange 
     Service Command for costs incurred by the Navy Exchange 
     Service Command, and ultimately paid by the Navy Exchange 
     Service Command using nonappropriated funds, to relocate to 
     Virginia Beach, Virginia, and to lease headquarters space in 
     Virginia Beach.

                  Subtitle C--Environmental Provisions

     SEC. 321. REMEDIATION OF ASBESTOS AND LEAD-BASED PAINT.

       (a) Use of Certain Contracts.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall use Army Corps of Engineers indefinite delivery, 
     indefinite quantity

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     contracts for the remediation of asbestos and lead-based 
     paint at military installations within the United States in 
     accordance with all applicable Federal and State laws and 
     Department of Defense regulations.
       (b) Waiver Authority.--The Secretary of Defense may waive 
     subsection (a) with regard to a military installation that 
     requires asbestos or lead-based paint remediation if the 
     military installation is not included in an Army Corps of 
     Engineers indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract. 
     The Secretary shall grant any such waiver on a case-by-case 
     basis.

     Subtitle D--Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources

     SEC. 331. EXPANSION OF ANNUAL REPORT ON CONTRACTING FOR 
                   COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL TYPE FUNCTIONS.

       Section 2461(g) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before the first sentence;
       (2) in the second sentence, by striking ``The Secretary 
     shall'' and inserting the following:
       ``(3) The Secretary shall also''; and
       (3) by inserting after the first sentence the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) The Secretary shall include in each such report a 
     summary of the number of work year equivalents performed by 
     employees of private contractors in providing services to the 
     Department (including both direct and indirect labor 
     attributable to the provision of the services) and the total 
     value of the contracted services. The work year equivalents 
     and total value of the services shall be categorized by 
     Federal supply class or service code (using the first 
     character of the code), the appropriation from which the 
     services were funded, and the major organizational element of 
     the Department procuring the services.''.

     SEC. 332. CONGRESSIONAL NOTIFICATION OF A-76 COST COMPARISON 
                   WAIVERS.

       (a) Notification Required.--Section 2467 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new subsection:
       ``(c) Congressional Notification of Cost Comparison 
     Waiver.--(1) Not later than 10 days after a decision is made 
     to waive the cost comparison study otherwise required under 
     Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76 as part of the 
     process to convert to contractor performance any commercial 
     activity of the Department of Defense, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to Congress a report describing the 
     commercial activity subject to the waiver and the rationale 
     for the waiver.
       ``(2) The report shall also include the following:
       ``(A) The total number of civilian employees or military 
     personnel adversely affected by the decision to waive the 
     cost comparison study and convert the commercial activity to 
     contractor performance.
       ``(B) An explanation of whether the contractor was 
     selected, or will be selected, on a competitive basis or sole 
     source basis.
       ``(C) The anticipated savings to result from the waiver and 
     resulting conversion to contractor performance.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section 
     is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 2467. Cost comparisons: inclusion of retirement costs; 
       consultation with employees; waiver of comparison''.

       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 146 
     of such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
     section 2467 and inserting the following new item:

``2467. Cost comparisons: inclusion of retirement costs; consultation 
              with employees; waiver of comparison.''.

     SEC. 333. IMPROVED EVALUATION OF LOCAL ECONOMIC EFFECT OF 
                   CHANGING DEFENSE FUNCTIONS TO PRIVATE SECTOR 
                   PERFORMANCE.

       Section 2461(b)(3)(B) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking clause (ii) and inserting the following 
     new clause (ii):
       ``(ii) The local community and the local economy, 
     identifying and taking into consideration any unique 
     circumstances affecting the local community or the local 
     economy, if more than 50 employees of the Department of 
     Defense perform the function.''.

     SEC. 334. ANNUAL REPORTS ON EXPENDITURES FOR PERFORMANCE OF 
                   DEPOT-LEVEL MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORKLOADS BY 
                   PUBLIC AND PRIVATE SECTORS.

       Subsection (e) of section 2466 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(e) Annual Reports.--(1) Not later than February 1 of 
     each year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress 
     a report identifying, for each of the armed forces (other 
     than the Coast Guard) and each Defense Agency, the percentage 
     of the funds referred to in subsection (a) that were expended 
     during the preceding two fiscal years for performance of 
     depot-level maintenance and repair workloads by the public 
     and private sectors, as required by this section.
       ``(2) Not later than April 1 of each year, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall submit to Congress a report identifying, for 
     each of the armed forces (other than the Coast Guard) and 
     each Defense Agency, the percentage of the funds referred to 
     in subsection (a) that are projected to be expended during 
     each of the next five fiscal years for performance of depot-
     level maintenance and repair workloads by the public and 
     private sectors, as required by this section.
       ``(3) Not later than 60 days after the date on which the 
     Secretary submits a report under this subsection, the 
     Comptroller General shall submit to Congress the Comptroller 
     General's views on whether--
       ``(A) in the case of a report under paragraph (1), the 
     Department of Defense has complied with the requirements of 
     subsection (a) for the fiscal years covered by the report; 
     and
       ``(B) in the case of a report under paragraph (2), the 
     expenditure projections for future fiscal years are 
     reasonable.''.

     SEC. 335. APPLICABILITY OF COMPETITION REQUIREMENT IN 
                   CONTRACTING OUT WORKLOADS PERFORMED BY DEPOT-
                   LEVEL ACTIVITIES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       Section 2469(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by inserting ``(including the cost of labor and materials)'' 
     after ``$3,000,000''.

     SEC. 336. TREATMENT OF PUBLIC SECTOR WINNING BIDDERS FOR 
                   CONTRACTS FOR PERFORMANCE OF DEPOT-LEVEL 
                   MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR WORKLOADS FORMERLY 
                   PERFORMED AT CERTAIN MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

       Section 2469a of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(i) Oversight of Contracts Awarded Public Entities.--The 
     Secretary of Defense or the Secretary concerned may not 
     impose on a public sector entity awarded a contract for the 
     performance of any depot-level maintenance and repair 
     workload described in subsection (b) any requirements 
     regarding management systems, reviews, oversight, or 
     reporting different from the requirements used in the 
     performance and management of other depot-level maintenance 
     and repair workloads by the entity, unless specifically 
     provided in the solicitation for the contract.''.

     SEC. 337. PROCESS FOR MODERNIZATION OF COMPUTER SYSTEMS AT 
                   ARMY COMPUTER CENTERS.

       (a) Covered Army Computer Centers.--This section applies 
     with respect to the following computer centers of the of the 
     Army Communications Electronics Command of the Army Material 
     Command:
       (1) Logistics Systems Support Center in St. Louis, 
     Missouri.
       (2) Industrial Logistics System Center in Chambersburg, 
     Pennsylvania.
       (b) Development of Most Efficient Organization.--Before 
     selecting any entity to develop and implement a new computer 
     system for the Army Material Command to perform the functions 
     currently performed by the Army computer centers specified in 
     subsection (a), the Secretary of the Army shall provide the 
     computer centers with an opportunity to establish their most 
     efficient organization. The most efficient organization shall 
     be in place not later than May 31, 2001.
       (c) Modernization Process.--After the most efficient 
     organization is in place at the Army computer centers 
     specified in subsection (a), civilian employees of the 
     Department of Defense at these centers shall work in 
     partnership with the entity selected to develop and implement 
     a new computer system to perform the functions currently 
     performed by these centers to--
       (1) ensure that the current computer system remains 
     operational to meet the needs of the Army Material Command 
     until the replacement computer system is fully operational 
     and successfully evaluated; and
       (2) to provide transition assistance to the entity for the 
     duration of the transition from the current computer system 
     to the replacement computer system.

     SEC. 338. EVALUATION OF TOTAL SYSTEM PERFORMANCE 
                   RESPONSIBILITY PROGRAM.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than February 1, 2000, the 
     Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to Congress a report 
     identifying all Air Force programs that--
       (1) are currently managed under the Total System 
     Performance Responsibility Program or similar programs; or
       (2) are presently planned to be managed using the Total 
     System Performance Responsibility Program or a similar 
     program.
       (b) Evaluation.--As part of the report required by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary of the Air Force shall include 
     an evaluation of the following:
       (1) The manner in which the Total System Performance 
     Responsibility Program and similar programs support the 
     readiness and warfighting capability of the Armed Forces and 
     complement the support of the logistics depots.
       (2) The effect of the Total System Performance 
     Responsibility Program and similar programs on the long-term 
     viability of core Government logistics management skills.
       (3) The process and criteria used by the Air Force to 
     determine whether or not Government employees can perform 
     sustainment management functions more cost effectively than 
     the private sector.
       (c) Comptroller General Review.--Not later than 30 days 
     after the date on which the report required by subsection (a) 
     is submitted to Congress, the Comptroller General shall 
     review the report and submit to Congress a briefing 
     evaluating the report.

     SEC. 339. IDENTIFICATION OF CORE LOGISTICS CAPABILITY 
                   REQUIREMENTS FOR MAINTENANCE AND REPAIR OF C-17 
                   AIRCRAFT.

       (a) Identification Report Required.--Building upon the plan 
     required by section 351 of the Strom Thurmond National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 
     105-261), the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to 
     Congress a report identifying the core logistics capability 
     requirements for depot-level maintenance and repair for the 
     C-17 aircraft. To identify such requirements, the Secretary 
     shall comply with section 2464 of title 10, United States 
     Code. The Secretary shall submit the report to Congress not 
     later than February 1, 2000.
       (b) Effect on Existing Contract.--After February 1, 2000, 
     the Secretary of the Air Force may not extend the Interim 
     Contract for the C-17 Flexible Sustainment Program before the 
     end of the 60-day period beginning on the date on which the 
     report required by subsection (a) is received by Congress.
       (c) Comptroller General Review.--During the period 
     specified in subsection (b), the Comptroller General shall 
     review the report submitted

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     under subsection (a) and submit to Congress a report 
     evaluating the following:
       (1) The merits of the report submitted under subsection 
     (a).
       (2) The extent to which the Air Force is relying on systems 
     for core logistics capability where the workload of 
     Government-owned and Government-operated depots is phasing 
     down because the systems are phasing out of the inventory.
       (3) The cost effectiveness of the C-17 Flexible Sustainment 
     Program--
       (A) by identifying depot maintenance and materiel costs for 
     contractor support; and
       (B) by comparing those costs to the costs originally 
     estimated by the Air Force and to the cost of similar work in 
     an Air Force Logistics Center.

                Subtitle E--Defense Dependents Education

     SEC. 341. ASSISTANCE TO LOCAL EDUCATIONAL AGENCIES THAT 
                   BENEFIT DEPENDENTS OF MEMBERS OF THE ARMED 
                   FORCES AND DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN 
                   EMPLOYEES.

       (a) Modified Department of Defense Program for Fiscal Year 
     2000.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 
     301(5) for operation and maintenance for Defense-wide 
     activities, $35,000,000 shall be available only for the 
     purpose of providing educational agencies assistance (as 
     defined in subsection (d)(1)) to local educational agencies.
       (b) Notification.--Not later than June 30, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall notify each local educational 
     agency that is eligible for educational agencies assistance 
     for fiscal year 2000 of--
       (1) that agency's eligibility for educational agencies 
     assistance; and
       (2) the amount of the educational agencies assistance for 
     which that agency is eligible.
       (c) Disbursement of Funds.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     disburse funds made available under subsection (a) not later 
     than 30 days after the date on which notification to the 
     eligible local educational agencies is provided pursuant to 
     subsection (b).
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``educational agencies assistance'' means 
     assistance authorized under section 386(b) of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 
     102-484; 20 U.S.C. 7703 note).
       (2) The term ``local educational agency'' has the meaning 
     given that term in section 8013(9) of the Elementary and 
     Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7713(9)).
       (e) Determination of Eligible Local Educational Agencies.--
     Section 386(c)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1993 (Public Law 102-484; 20 U.S.C. 7703 
     note) is amended by striking ``in that fiscal year are'' and 
     inserting ``during the preceding school year were''.

     SEC. 342. CONTINUATION OF ENROLLMENT AT DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   DOMESTIC DEPENDENT ELEMENTARY AND SECONDARY 
                   SCHOOLS.

       Section 2164 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (c), by striking paragraph (3); and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(h) Continuation of Enrollment Despite Change in 
     Status.--(1) A dependent of a member of the armed forces or a 
     dependent of a Federal employee may continue enrollment in an 
     educational program provided by the Secretary of Defense 
     pursuant to subsection (a) for the remainder of a school year 
     notwithstanding a change during such school year in the 
     status of the member or Federal employee that, except for 
     this paragraph, would otherwise terminate the eligibility of 
     the dependent to be enrolled in the program.
       ``(2) A dependent of a member of the armed forces, or a 
     dependent of a Federal employee, who was enrolled in an 
     educational program provided by the Secretary pursuant to 
     subsection (a) while a junior in that program may be enrolled 
     as a senior in that program in the next school year, 
     notwithstanding a change in the enrollment eligibility status 
     of the dependent that, except for this paragraph, would 
     otherwise terminate the eligibility of the dependent to be 
     enrolled in the program.
       ``(3) Paragraphs (1) and (2) do not limit the authority of 
     the Secretary to remove a dependent from enrollment in an 
     educational program provided by the Secretary pursuant to 
     subsection (a) at any time for good cause determined by the 
     Secretary.''.

     SEC. 343. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS TO DEFENSE DEPENDENTS' 
                   EDUCATION ACT OF 1978.

       The Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 (title XIV of 
     Public Law 95-561) is amended as follows:
       (1) Section 1402(b)(1) (20 U.S.C. 921(b)(1)) is amended by 
     striking ``recieve'' and inserting ``receive''.
       (2) Section 1403 (20 U.S.C. 922) is amended--
       (A) by striking the matter in that section preceding 
     subsection (b) and inserting the following:


        ``administration of defense dependents' education system

       ``Sec. 1403. (a) The defense dependents' education system 
     is operated through the field activity of the Department of 
     Defense known as the Department of Defense Education 
     Activity. That activity is headed by a Director, who is a 
     civilian and is selected by the Secretary of Defense. The 
     Director reports to an Assistant Secretary of Defense 
     designated by the Secretary of Defense for purposes of this 
     title.'';
       (B) in subsection (b), by striking ``this Act'' and 
     inserting ``this title'';
       (C) in subsection (c)(1), by inserting ``(20 U.S.C. 901 et 
     seq.)'' after ``Personnel Practices Act'';
       (D) in subsection (c)(2), by striking the period at the end 
     and inserting a comma;
       (E) in subsection (c)(6), by striking ``Assistant Secretary 
     of Defense for Manpower, Reserve Affairs, and Logistics'' and 
     inserting ``the Assistant Secretary of Defense designated 
     under subsection (a)'';
       (F) in subsection (d)(1), by striking ``for the Office of 
     Dependents' Education'';
       (G) in subsection (d)(2)--
       (i) by striking the first sentence;
       (ii) by striking ``Whenever the Office of Dependents' 
     Education'' and inserting ``Whenever the Department of 
     Defense Education Activity'';
       (iii) by striking ``after the submission of the report 
     required under the preceding sentence'' and inserting ``in a 
     manner that affects the defense dependents' education 
     system''; and
       (iv) by striking ``an additional report'' and inserting ``a 
     report''; and
       (H) in subsection (d)(3), by striking ``the Office of 
     Dependents' Education'' and inserting ``the Department of 
     Defense Education Activity''.
       (3) Section 1409 (20 U.S.C. 927) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (b), by striking ``Department of Health, 
     Education, and Welfare in accordance with section 431 of the 
     General Education Provisions Act'' and inserting ``Secretary 
     of Education in accordance with section 437 of the General 
     Education Provisions Act (20 U.S.C. 1232)'';
       (B) in subsection (c)(1), by striking ``by academic year 
     1993-1994''; and
       (C) in subsection (c)(3)--
       (i) by striking ``Implementation timelines.--In carrying 
     out'' and all that follows through ``a comprehensive'' and 
     inserting ``Implementation.--In carrying out paragraph (2), 
     the Secretary shall have in effect a comprehensive'';
       (ii) by striking the semicolon after ``such individuals'' 
     and inserting a period; and
       (iii) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C).
       (4) Section 1411(d) (20 U.S.C. 929(d)) is amended by 
     striking ``grade GS-18 in section 5332 of title 5, United 
     States Code'' and inserting ``level IV of the Executive 
     Schedule under section 5315 of title 5, United States Code''.
       (5) Section 1412 (20 U.S.C. 930) is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (i) by striking ``As soon as'' and all that follows through 
     ``shall provide for'' and inserting ``The Director may from 
     time to time, but not more frequently than once a year, 
     provide for''; and
       (ii) by striking ``system, which'' and inserting ``system. 
     Any such study'';
       (B) in subsection (a)(2)--
       (i) by striking ``The study required by this subsection'' 
     and inserting ``Any study under paragraph (1)''; and
       (ii) by striking ``not later than two years after the 
     effective date of this title'';
       (C) in subsection (b), by striking ``the study'' and 
     inserting ``any study'';
       (D) in subsection (c)--
       (i) by striking ``not later than one year after the 
     effective date of this title the report'' and inserting ``any 
     report''; and
       (ii) by striking ``the study'' and inserting ``a study''; 
     and
       (E) by striking subsection (d).
       (6) Section 1413 (20 U.S.C. 931) is amended by striking 
     ``Not later than 180 days after the effective date of this 
     title, the'' and inserting ``The''.
       (7) Section 1414 (20 U.S.C. 932) is amended by adding at 
     the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(6) The term `Director' means the Director of the 
     Department of Defense Education Activity.''.

                 Subtitle F--Military Readiness Issues

     SEC. 351. INDEPENDENT STUDY OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   SECONDARY INVENTORY AND PARTS SHORTAGES.

       (a) Independent Study Required.--In accordance with this 
     section, the Secretary of Defense shall provide for an 
     independent study of--
       (1) current levels of Department of Defense inventories of 
     spare parts and other supplies, known as secondary inventory 
     items, including wholesale and retail inventories; and
       (2) reports and evidence of Department of Defense inventory 
     shortages adversely affecting readiness.
       (b) Performance by Independent Entity.--To conduct the 
     study under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     select a private sector entity or other entity outside the 
     Department of Defense that has experience in parts and 
     secondary inventory management.
       (c) Matters To Be Included in Study.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall require the entity conducting the study under 
     this section to specifically evaluate the following:
       (1) How much of the secondary inventory retained by the 
     Department of Defense for economic, contingency, and 
     potential reutilization during the five-year period ending 
     December 31, 1998, was actually used during each year of the 
     period.
       (2) How much of the retained secondary inventory currently 
     held by the Department could be declared to be excess.
       (3) Alternative methods for the disposal or other 
     disposition of excess inventory and the cost to the 
     Department to dispose of excess inventory under each 
     alternative.
       (4) The total cost per year of storing secondary inventory, 
     to be determined using traditional private sector cost 
     calculation models.
       (d) Timetable for Elimination of Excess Inventory.--As part 
     of the consideration of alternative methods to dispose of 
     excess secondary inventory, as required by subsection (c)(3), 
     the entity conducting the study under this section shall 
     prepare a timetable for disposal of the excess inventory over 
     a period of time not to exceed three years.
       (e) Report on Results of Study.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall require the entity conducting the study under this 
     section to submit to

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     the Secretary and to the Comptroller General a report 
     containing the results of the study, including the entity's 
     findings and conclusions concerning each of the matters 
     specified in subsection (c), and the disposal timetable 
     required by subsection (d). The entity shall submit the 
     report at such time as to permit the Secretary to comply with 
     subsection (f).
       (f) Review and Comments of the Secretary of Defense.--Not 
     later than September 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress a report containing the following:
       (1) The report submitted under subsection (d), together 
     with the Secretary's comments and recommendations regarding 
     the report.
       (2) A plan to address the issues of excess and excessive 
     inactive inventory and part shortages and a timetable to 
     implement the plan throughout the Department.
       (g) GAO Evaluation.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     Secretary of Defense submits to Congress the report under 
     subsection (f), the Comptroller General shall submit to 
     Congress an evaluation of the report submitted by the 
     independent entity under subsection (e) and the report 
     submitted by the Secretary under subsection (f).

     SEC. 352. INDEPENDENT STUDY OF ADEQUACY OF DEPARTMENT 
                   RESTRUCTURED SUSTAINMENT AND REENGINEERED 
                   LOGISTICS PRODUCT SUPPORT PRACTICES.

       (a) Independent Study Required.--In accordance with this 
     section, the Secretary of Defense shall provide for an 
     independent study of restructured sustainment and 
     reengineered logistics product support practices within the 
     Department of Defense, which are designed to provide spare 
     parts and other supplies to military units and installations 
     as needed during a transition to war fighting rather than 
     relying on large stockpiles of such spare parts and supplies. 
     The purpose of the study is to determine whether restructured 
     sustainment and reengineered logistics product support 
     practices would be able to provide adequate sustainment 
     supplies to military units and installations should it ever 
     be necessary to execute the National Military Strategy 
     prescribed by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
       (b) Performance by Independent Entity.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall select an experienced private sector entity or 
     other entity outside the Department of Defense to conduct the 
     study under this section.
       (c) Matters To Be Included in Study.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall require the entity conducting the study under 
     this section to specifically evaluate (and recommend 
     improvements in) the following:
       (1) The assumptions that are used to determine required 
     levels of war reserve and prepositioned stocks.
       (2) The adequacy of supplies projected to be available to 
     support the fighting of two, nearly simultaneous, major 
     theater wars, as required by the National Military Strategy.
       (3) The expected availability through the national 
     technology and industrial base of spare parts and supplies 
     not readily available in the Department inventories, such as 
     parts for aging equipment that no longer have active vendor 
     support.
       (d) Report on Results of Study.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall require the entity conducting the study under this 
     section to submit to the Secretary and to the Comptroller 
     General a report containing the results of the study, 
     including the entity's findings, conclusions, and 
     recommendations concerning each of the matters specified in 
     subsection (c). The entity shall submit the report at such 
     time as to permit the Secretary to comply with subsection 
     (e).
       (e) Review and Comments of the Secretary of Defense.--Not 
     later than March 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress a report containing the report submitted 
     under subsection (d), together with the Secretary's comments 
     and recommendations regarding the report.
       (f) GAO Evaluation.--Not later than 180 days after the 
     Secretary of Defense submits to Congress the report under 
     subsection (e), the Comptroller General shall submit to 
     Congress an evaluation of the report submitted by the 
     independent entity under subsection (d) and the report 
     submitted by the Secretary under subsection (e).

     SEC. 353. INDEPENDENT STUDY OF MILITARY READINESS REPORTING 
                   SYSTEM.

       (a) Independent Study Required.--(1) The Secretary of 
     Defense shall provide for an independent study of 
     requirements for a comprehensive readiness reporting system 
     for the Department of Defense as provided in section 117 of 
     title 10, United States Code (as added by section 373 of the 
     Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 1990).
       (2) The Secretary shall provide for the study to be 
     conducted by the Rand Corporation. The amount of a contract 
     for the study may not exceed $1,000,000.
       (3) The Secretary shall require that all components of the 
     Department of Defense cooperate fully with the organization 
     carrying out the study.
       (b) Matters To Be Included in Study.--The Secretary shall 
     require that the organization conducting the study under this 
     section specifically consider the requirements for providing 
     an objective, accurate, and timely readiness reporting system 
     for the Department of Defense meeting the characteristics and 
     having the capabilities established in section 373 of the 
     Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1999.
       (c) Report.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall require the 
     organization conducting the study under this section to 
     submit to the Secretary a report on the study not later than 
     March 1, 2000. The organization shall include in the report 
     its findings and conclusions concerning each of the matters 
     specified in subsection (b).
       (2) The Secretary shall submit the report under paragraph 
     (1), together with the Secretary's comments on the report, to 
     Congress not later than April 1, 2000.

     SEC. 354. REVIEW OF REAL PROPERTY MAINTENANCE AND ITS EFFECT 
                   ON READINESS.

       (a) Review Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     conduct a review of the impact that the consistent lack of 
     adequate funding for real property maintenance of military 
     installations during the five-year period ending December 31, 
     1998, has had on readiness, the quality of life of members of 
     the Armed Forces and their dependents, and the infrastructure 
     on military installations.
       (b) Matters To Be Included in Review.--In conducting the 
     review under this section, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     specifically consider the following for the Army, Navy, 
     Marine Corps, and Air Force:
       (1) For each year of the covered five-year period, the 
     extent to which unit training and operating funds were 
     diverted to meet basic base operations and real property 
     maintenance needs.
       (2) The types of training delayed, canceled, or curtailed 
     as a result of the diversion of such funds.
       (3) The level of funding required to eliminate the real 
     property maintenance backlog at military installations so 
     that facilities meet the standards necessary for optimum 
     utilization during times of mobilization.
       (c) Participation of Independent Entity.--(1) As part of 
     the review conducted under this section, Secretary of Defense 
     shall select an independent entity--
       (A) to review the method of command and management of 
     military installations for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and 
     Air Force;
       (B) to develop, based on such review, a service-specific 
     plan for the optimum command structure for military 
     installations, to have major command status, which is 
     designed to enhance the development of installations 
     doctrine, privatization and outsourcing, commercial 
     activities, environmental compliance programs, installation 
     restoration, and military construction; and
       (C) to recommend a timetable for the implementation of the 
     plan for each service.
       (2) The Secretary of Defense shall select an experienced 
     private sector entity or other entity outside the Department 
     of Defense to carry out this subsection.
       (d) Report Required.--Not later than March 1, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report 
     containing the results of the review required under this 
     section and the plan for an optimum command structure 
     required by subsection (c), together with the Secretary's 
     comments and recommendations regarding the plan.

     SEC. 355. ESTABLISHMENT OF LOGISTICS STANDARDS FOR SUSTAINED 
                   MILITARY OPERATIONS.

       (a) Establishment of Standards.--The Secretary of Defense, 
     in consultation with senior military commanders and the 
     Secretaries of the military departments, shall establish 
     standards for deployable units of the Armed Forces 
     regarding--
       (1) the level of spare parts that the units must have on 
     hand; and
       (2) similar logistics and sustainment needs of the units.
       (b) Basis for Standards.--The standards to be established 
     under subsection (a) shall be based upon the following:
       (1) The unit's wartime mission, as reflected in the war-
     fighting plans of the relevant combatant commanders.
       (2) An assessment of the likely requirement for sustained 
     operations under each such war-fighting plan.
       (3) An assessment of the likely requirement for that unit 
     to conduct sustained operations in an austere environment, 
     while drawing exclusively on its own internal logistics 
     capabilities.
       (c) Sufficiency Capabilities.--The standards to be 
     established under subsection (a) shall reflect those spare 
     parts and similar logistics capabilities that the Secretary 
     of Defense considers sufficient for units of the Armed Forces 
     to successfully execute their missions under the conditions 
     described in subsection (b).
       (d) Relation to Readiness Reporting System.--The standards 
     established under subsection (a) shall be taken into account 
     in designing the comprehensive readiness reporting system for 
     the Department of Defense required by section 117 of title 
     10, United States Code, and shall be an element in 
     determining a unit's readiness status.
       (e) Relation to Annual Funding Needs.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall consider the standards established under 
     subsection (a) in establishing the annual funding 
     requirements for the Department of Defense.
       (f) Reporting Requirement.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     include in the annual report required by section 113(c) of 
     title 10, United States Code, an analysis of the then current 
     spare parts, logistics, and sustainment standards of the 
     Armed Forces, as described in subsection (a), including any 
     shortfalls and the cost of addressing these shortfalls.

                       Subtitle G--Other Matters

     SEC. 361. DISCRETIONARY AUTHORITY TO INSTALL 
                   TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT FOR PERSONS 
                   PERFORMING VOLUNTARY SERVICES.

       Section 1588 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(f) Authority To Install Equipment.--(1) The Secretary 
     concerned may install telephone lines and any necessary 
     telecommunication equipment in the private residences of 
     designated persons providing voluntary services accepted 
     under subsection (a)(3) and pay the

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     charges incurred for the use of the equipment for authorized 
     purposes.
       ``(2) Notwithstanding section 1348 of title 31, the 
     Secretary concerned may use appropriated or nonappropriated 
     funds of the military department under the jurisdiction of 
     the Secretary or, with respect to the Coast Guard, the 
     department in which the Coast Guard is operating, to carry 
     out this subsection.
       ``(3) The Secretary of Defense and, with respect to the 
     Coast Guard, the Secretary of the department in which the 
     Coast Guard is operating, shall prescribe regulations to 
     carry out this subsection.''.

     SEC. 362. CONTRACTING AUTHORITY FOR DEFENSE WORKING CAPITAL 
                   FUNDED INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES.

       Section 2208(j) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking ``or 
     remanufacturing'' and inserting ``, remanufacturing, and 
     engineering'';
       (2) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``or a subcontract under 
     a Department of Defense contract'' before the semicolon; and
       (3) in paragraph (2), by striking ``Department of Defense 
     solicitation for such contract'' and inserting ``solicitation 
     for the contract or subcontract''.

     SEC. 363. CLARIFICATION OF CONDITION ON SALE OF ARTICLES AND 
                   SERVICES OF INDUSTRIAL FACILITIES TO PERSONS 
                   OUTSIDE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       Section 2553(g) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(2) The term `not available', with respect to an article 
     or service proposed to be sold under this section, means that 
     the article or service is unavailable from a commercial 
     source in the required quantity and quality, within the time 
     required, or at prices less than the price available through 
     an industrial facility of the armed forces.''.

     SEC. 364. SPECIAL AUTHORITY OF DISBURSING OFFICIALS REGARDING 
                   AUTOMATED TELLER MACHINES ON NAVAL VESSELS.

       Section 3342 of title 31, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(f) With respect to automated teller machines on naval 
     vessels of the Navy, the authority of a disbursing official 
     of the United States Government under subsection (a) also 
     includes the following:
       ``(1) The authority to provide operating funds to the 
     automated teller machines.
       ``(2) The authority to accept, for safekeeping, deposits 
     and transfers of funds made through the automated teller 
     machines.''.

     SEC. 365. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS AT 
                   UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME, 
                   DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

       The Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 (title XV of 
     Public Law 101-510; 24 U.S.C. 401 et seq.) is amended by 
     adding at the end of subtitle A the following new section:

     ``SEC. 1523. PRESERVATION OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS 
                   AT UNITED STATES SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME

       ``(a) Historic Nature of Facility.--Congress finds the 
     following:
       ``(1) Four buildings located on six acres of the 
     establishment of the Retirement Home known as the United 
     States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home are included on the 
     National Register of Historic Places maintained by the 
     Secretary of the Interior.
       ``(2) Amounts in the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust 
     Fund, which consists primarily of deductions from the pay of 
     members of the Armed Forces, are insufficient to both 
     maintain and operate the Retirement Home for the benefit of 
     the residents of the Retirement Home and adequately maintain, 
     repair, and preserve these historic buildings and grounds.
       ``(3) Other sources of funding are available to contribute 
     to the maintenance, repair, and preservation of these 
     historic buildings and grounds.
       ``(b) Authority To Accept Assistance.--The Chairman of the 
     Retirement Home Board and the Director of the United States 
     Soldiers' and Airmen's Home may apply for and accept a direct 
     grant from the Secretary of the Interior under section 
     101(e)(3) of the National Historic Preservation Act (16 
     U.S.C. 470a(e)(3)) for the purpose of maintaining, repairing, 
     and preserving the historic buildings and grounds of the 
     United States Soldiers' and Airmen's Home included on the 
     National Register of Historic Places.
       ``(c) Requirements and Limitations.--Amounts received as a 
     grant under subsection (b) shall be deposited in the Fund, 
     but shall be kept separate from other amounts in the Fund. 
     The amounts received may only be used for the purpose 
     specified in subsection (b).''.

     SEC. 366. CLARIFICATION OF LAND CONVEYANCE AUTHORITY, UNITED 
                   STATES SOLDIERS' AND AIRMEN'S HOME.

       (a) Manner of Conveyance.--Subsection (a)(1) of section 
     1053 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2650) is amended by 
     striking ``convey by sale'' and inserting ``convey, by sale 
     or lease,''.
       (b) Time for Conveyance.--Subsection (a)(2) of such section 
     is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) The Armed Forces Retirement Home Board shall sell or 
     lease the property described in subsection (a) within 12 
     months after the date of the enactment of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000.''.
       (c) Manner, Terms, and Conditions of Conveyance.--
     Subsection (b) of such section is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1) and inserting the following 
     new paragraph: ``(1) The Armed Forces Retirement Home Board 
     shall determine the manner, terms, and conditions for the 
     sale or lease of the real property under subsection (a), 
     except as follows:
       ``(A) Any lease of the real property under subsection (a) 
     shall include an option to purchase.
       ``(B) The conveyance may not involve any form of public/
     private partnership, but shall be limited to fee-simple sale 
     or long-term lease.
       ``(C) Before conveying the property by sale or lease to any 
     other person or entity, the Board shall provide the Catholic 
     University of America with the opportunity to match or exceed 
     the highest bona fide offer otherwise received for the 
     purchase or lease of the property, as the case may be, and to 
     acquire the property.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following 
     new sentence: ``In no event shall the sale or lease of the 
     property be for less than the appraised value of the property 
     in its existing condition and on the basis of its highest and 
     best use.''.

     SEC. 367. TREATMENT OF ALASKA, HAWAII, AND GUAM IN DEFENSE 
                   HOUSEHOLD GOODS MOVING PROGRAMS.

       (a) Limitation on Inclusion in Test Programs.--Alaska, 
     Hawaii, and Guam shall not be included as a point of origin 
     in any test or demonstration program of the Department of 
     Defense regarding the moving of household goods of members of 
     the Armed Forces.
       (b) Separate Regions; Destinations.--In any Department of 
     Defense household goods moving program that is not subject to 
     the prohibition in subsection (a)--
       (1) Alaska, Hawaii, and Guam shall each constitute a 
     separate region; and
       (2) Hawaii and Guam shall be considered international 
     destinations.

              TITLE IV--MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS

                       Subtitle A--Active Forces

     SEC. 401. END STRENGTHS FOR ACTIVE FORCES.

       The Armed Forces are authorized strengths for active duty 
     personel as of September 30, 2000, as follows:
       (1) The Army, 480,000.
       (2) The Navy, 372,037.
       (3) The Marine Corps, 172,518.
       (4) The Air Force, 360,877.

     SEC. 402. REVISION IN PERMANENT END STRENGTH MINIMUM LEVELS.

       (a) Revised End Strength Floors.--Section 691(b) of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``372,696'' and inserting 
     ``371,781'';
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``172,200'' and inserting 
     ``172,148''; and
       (3) in paragraph (4), by striking ``370,802'' and inserting 
     ``360,877''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendments made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on October 1, 1999.

     SEC. 403. APPOINTMENTS TO CERTAIN SENIOR JOINT OFFICER 
                   POSITIONS.

       (a) Permanent Exemption Authority.--Paragraph (5) of 
     section 525(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking subparagraph (C).
       (b) Permanent Requirement for Military Department 
     Submissions for Certain Joint 4-Star Duty Assignments.--
     Section 604 of such title is amended by striking subsection 
     (c).
       (c) Clarification of Certain Limitations on Number of 
     Active-Duty Generals and Admirals.--Paragraph (5) of section 
     525(b) of such title is further amended by adding at the end 
     of subparagraph (A) the following new sentence: ``Any 
     increase by reason of the preceding sentence in the number of 
     officers of an armed force serving on active duty in grades 
     above major general or rear admiral may only be realized by 
     an increase in the number of lieutenant generals or vice 
     admirals, as the case may, serving on active duty, and any 
     such increase may not be construed as authorizing an increase 
     in the limitation on the total number of general or flag 
     officers for that armed force under section 526(a) of this 
     title or in the number of general and flag officers that may 
     be designated under section 526(b) of this title.''.

                       Subtitle B--Reserve Forces

     SEC. 411. END STRENGTHS FOR SELECTED RESERVE.

       (a) In General.--The Armed Forces are authorized strengths 
     for Selected Reserve personnel of the reserve components as 
     of September 30, 2000, as follows:
       (1) The Army National Guard of the United States, 350,000.
       (2) The Army Reserve, 205,000.
       (3) The Naval Reserve, 90,288.
       (4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 39,624.
       (5) The Air National Guard of the United States, 106,678.
       (6) The Air Force Reserve, 73,708.
       (7) The Coast Guard Reserve, 8,000.
       (b) Adjustments.--The end strengths prescribed by 
     subsection (a) for the Selected Reserve of any reserve 
     component shall be proportionately reduced by--
       (1) the total authorized strength of units organized to 
     serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such component 
     which are on active duty (other than for training) at the end 
     of the fiscal year; and
       (2) the total number of individual members not in units 
     organized to serve as units of the Selected Reserve of such 
     component who are on active duty (other than for training or 
     for unsatisfactory participation in training) without their 
     consent at the end of the fiscal year.

     Whenever such units or such individual members are released 
     from active duty during any

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     fiscal year, the end strength prescribed for such fiscal year 
     for the Selected Reserve of such reserve component shall be 
     proportionately increased by the total authorized strengths 
     of such units and by the total number of such individual 
     members.

     SEC. 412. END STRENGTHS FOR RESERVES ON ACTIVE DUTY IN 
                   SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.

       Within the end strengths prescribed in section 411(a), the 
     reserve components of the Armed Forces are authorized, as of 
     September 30, 2000, the following number of Reserves to be 
     serving on full-time active duty or full-time duty, in the 
     case of members of the National Guard, for the purpose of 
     organizing, administering, recruiting, instructing, or 
     training the reserve components:
       (1) The Army National Guard of the United States, 22,563.
       (2) The Army Reserve, 12,804.
       (3) The Naval Reserve, 15,010.
       (4) The Marine Corps Reserve, 2,272.
       (5) The Air National Guard of the United States, 11,025.
       (6) The Air Force Reserve, 1,078.

     SEC. 413. END STRENGTHS FOR MILITARY TECHNICIANS (DUAL 
                   STATUS).

       The minimum number of military technicians (dual status) as 
     of the last day of fiscal year 2000 for the reserve 
     components of the Army and the Air Force (notwithstanding 
     section 129 of title 10, United States Code) shall be the 
     following:
       (1) For the Army Reserve, 6,474.
       (2) For the Army National Guard of the United States, 
     23,125.
       (3) For the Air Force Reserve, 9,785.
       (4) For the Air National Guard of the United States, 
     22,247.

     SEC. 414. INCREASE IN NUMBER OF ARMY AND AIR FORCE MEMBERS IN 
                   CERTAIN GRADES AUTHORIZED TO SERVE ON ACTIVE 
                   DUTY IN SUPPORT OF THE RESERVES.

       (a) Officers.--The table in section 12011(a) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended to read as follows:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                          Air     Marine
                ``Grade                 Army     Navy    Force    Corps
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Major or Lieutenant Commander.......    3,219    1,071      843      140
Lieutenant Colonel or Commander.....    1,595      520      746       90
Colonel or Navy Captain.............      471      188      297    30''.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       (b) Senior Enlisted Members.--The table in section 12012(a) 
     of such title is amended to read as follows:


------------------------------------------------------------------------
                                                          Air     Marine
                ``Grade                 Army     Navy    Force    Corps
------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-9.................................      645      202      403       20
E-8.................................    2,585      429    1,029    94''.
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 1999.

     SEC. 415. SELECTED RESERVE END STRENGTH FLEXIBILITY.

       Section 115(c) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (1);
       (2) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (2) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) vary the end strength authorized pursuant to 
     subsection (a)(2) for a fiscal year for the Selected Reserve 
     of any of the reserve components by a number equal to not 
     more than 2 percent of that end strength.''.

              Subtitle C--Authorization of Appropriations

     SEC. 421. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR MILITARY 
                   PERSONNEL.

       There is hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Department of Defense for military personnel for fiscal year 
     2000 a total of $72,115,367,000. The authorization in the 
     preceding sentence supersedes any other authorization of 
     appropriations (definite or indefinite) for such purpose for 
     fiscal year 2000.

                   TITLE V--MILITARY PERSONNEL POLICY

                  Subtitle A--Officer Personnel Policy

     SEC. 501. RECOMMENDATIONS FOR PROMOTION BY SELECTION BOARDS.

       Section 575(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``If 
     the number determined under this subsection within a grade 
     (or grade and competitive category) is less than one, the 
     board may recommend one such officer from within that grade 
     (or grade and competitive category).''.

     SEC. 502. TECHNICAL AMENDMENTS RELATING TO JOINT DUTY 
                   ASSIGNMENTS.

       (a) Joint Duty Assignments for General and Flag Officers.--
     Subsection (g) of section 619a of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(g) Limitation for General and Flag Officers Previously 
     Receiving Joint Duty Assignment Waiver.--A general officer or 
     flag officer who before January 1, 1999, received a waiver of 
     subsection (a) under the authority of this subsection (as in 
     effect before that date) may not be appointed to the grade of 
     lieutenant general of vice admiral until the officer 
     completes a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment.''.
       (b) Nuclear Propulsion Officers.--Subsection (h) of that 
     section is amended--
       (1) by striking ``(1) Until January 1, 1997, an'' inserting 
     ``An'';
       (2) by striking ``may be'' and inserting ``who before 
     January 1, 1997, is'';
       (3) by striking ``. An officer so appointed''; and
       (4) by striking paragraph (2).

           Subtitle B--Matters Relating to Reserve Components

     SEC. 511. CONTINUATION ON RESERVE ACTIVE STATUS LIST TO 
                   COMPLETE DISCIPLINARY ACTION.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 1407 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 14518. Continuation on reserve active status list to 
       complete disciplinary action

       ``When an action is commenced against a Reserve officer 
     with a view to trying the officer by court-martial, as 
     authorized by section 802(d) of this title, the Secretary 
     concerned may delay the separation or retirement of the 
     officer under this chapter until the completion of the 
     disciplinary action under chapter 47 of this title.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter 1407 is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new item:

``14518. Continuation on reserve active status list to complete 
              disciplinary action.''.

     SEC. 512. AUTHORITY TO ORDER RESERVE COMPONENT MEMBERS TO 
                   ACTIVE DUTY TO COMPLETE A MEDICAL EVALUATION.

       Section 12301 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(h)(1) When authorized by the Secretary of Defense, the 
     Secretary of the military department concerned may order a 
     member of a reserve component to active duty, with the 
     consent of that member, to receive authorized medical care, 
     to be medically evaluated for disability or other purposes, 
     or to complete a required Department of Defense health care 
     study, which may include an associated medical evaluation of 
     the member.
       ``(2) A member ordered to active duty under this subsection 
     may be retained with the member's consent, when the Secretary 
     concerned considers it appropriate, for medical treatment for 
     a condition associated with the study or evaluation, if that 
     treatment of the member otherwise is authorized by law.
       ``(3) A member of the Army National Guard of the United 
     States or the Air National Guard of the United States may not 
     be ordered to active duty under this subsection without the 
     consent of the Governor or other appropriate authority of the 
     State concerned.''.

     SEC. 513. ELIGIBILITY FOR CONSIDERATION FOR PROMOTION.

       (a) Amendment.--Section 14301 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(h) Officers on Educational Delay.--A Reserve officer who 
     is in an educational delay status for the purpose of 
     attending an approved institution of higher education for 
     advanced training, subsidized by the military department 
     concerned in the form of a scholarship or stipend, is 
     ineligible for consideration for promotion while in that 
     status. The officer shall remain on the Reserve active status 
     list while in such an educational delay status.''.
       (b) Retroactive Effect.--The Secretary concerned, upon 
     application, shall expunge from the record of any officer a 
     nonselection for promotion if the nonselection occurred 
     during a period the officer was serving in an educational 
     delay status that occurred during the period beginning on 
     October 1, 1996, and ending on the date of the enactment of 
     this Act.

     SEC. 514. RETENTION UNTIL COMPLETION OF 20 YEARS OF SERVICE 
                   FOR RESERVE COMPONENT MAJORS AND LIEUTENANT 
                   COMMANDERS WHO TWICE FAIL OF SELECTION FOR 
                   PROMOTION.

       Section 14506 of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by striking ``section 14513'' and all that follows and 
     inserting ``section 14513 of this title on the later of--
       ``(1) the first day of the month after the month in which 
     the officer completes 20 years of commissioned service; or
       ``(2) the first day of the seventh month after the month in 
     which the President approves the report of the board which 
     considered the officer for the second time.''.

     SEC. 515. COMPUTATION OF YEARS OF SERVICE EXCLUSION.

       The text of section 14706 of title 10, United States Code, 
     is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) For the purpose of this chapter and chapter 1407 of 
     this title, a Reserve officer's years of service include all 
     service of the officer as a commissioned officer of a 
     uniformed service other than--
       ``(1) service as a warrant officer;
       ``(2) constructive service; and
       ``(3) service after appointment as a commissioned officer 
     of a reserve component while in a program of advanced 
     education to obtain the first professional degree required 
     for appointment, designation, or assignment as an officer in 
     the Medical Corps, the Dental Corps, the Veterinary Corps, 
     the Medical Service Corps, the Nurse Corps, the Army Medical 
     Specialists Corps, or as an officer designated as a chaplain 
     or judge advocate, provided such service occurs before the 
     officer commences initial service on active duty or initial 
     service in the Ready Reserve in the specialty that results 
     from such a degree.
       ``(b) The exclusion under subsection (a)(3) does not apply 
     to service performed by an officer who previously served on 
     active duty or participated as a member of the Ready Reserve 
     in other than a student status for the period of

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     service preceding the member's service in a student 
     status.''.

     SEC. 516. AUTHORITY TO RETAIN RESERVE COMPONENT CHAPLAINS 
                   UNTIL AGE 67.

       Section 14703(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``(or, in the case of a Reserve officer 
     of the Army in the Chaplains or a Reserve officer of the Air 
     Force designated as a chaplain, 60 years of age)''.

     SEC. 517. EXPANSION AND CODIFICATION OF AUTHORITY FOR SPACE-
                   REQUIRED TRAVEL FOR RESERVES.

       (a) Codification.--(1) Chapter 1209 of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section:

     ``Sec. 12323. Space-required travel for Reserves

       ``A member of a reserve component is authorized to travel 
     in a space-required status on aircraft of the armed forces 
     between home and place of inactive duty training, or place of 
     duty in lieu of unit training assembly, when there is no road 
     or railroad transportation (or combination of road and 
     railroad transportation) between those locations. A member 
     traveling in that status on a military aircraft pursuant to 
     the authority provided in this section is not authorized to 
     receive travel, transportation, or per diem allowances in 
     connection with that travel.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``12323. Space-required travel for Reserves.''.

       (b) Effective Date.--Section 12323 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on 
     October 1, 1999.

     SEC. 518. FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR SPECIALLY SELECTED 
                   MEMBERS OF THE MARINE CORPS RESERVE.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 1205 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 12216. Financial assistance for members of the Marine 
       Corps platoon leader's class program

       ``(a) Program Authority.--The Secretary of the Navy may 
     provide payment of not more than $5,200 per year for a period 
     not to exceed three consecutive years of educational expenses 
     (including tuition, fees, books, and laboratory expenses) to 
     an eligible enlisted member of the Marine Corps Reserve for 
     completion of--
       ``(1) baccalaureate degree requirements in an approved 
     academic program that requires less than five academic years 
     to complete; or
       ``(2) doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree 
     requirements in an approved academic program which requires 
     not more than three years to complete.
       ``(b) Eligible Reservists.--To be eligible for receipt of 
     educational expenses as authorized by subsection (a), an 
     enlisted member of the Marine Corps Reserve must--
       ``(1) either--
       ``(A) be under 27 years of age on June 30 of the calendar 
     year in which the member is eligible for appointment as a 
     second lieutenant in the Marine Corps for such persons in a 
     baccalaureate degree program described in subsection (a)(1), 
     except that any such member who has served on active duty in 
     the armed forces may exceed such age limitation on such date 
     by a period equal to the period such member served on active 
     duty, but only if such member will be under 30 years of age 
     on such date; or
       ``(B) be under 31 years of age on June 30 of the calendar 
     year in which the member is eligible for appointment as a 
     second lieutenant in the Marine Corps for such persons in a 
     doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of laws degree program 
     described in subsection (a)(2), except that any such member 
     who has served on active duty in the armed forces may exceed 
     such age limitation on such date by a period equal to the 
     period such member served on active duty, but only if such 
     member will be under 35 years of age on such date;
       ``(2) be satisfactorily enrolled at any accredited civilian 
     educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate, 
     doctor of jurisprudence or bachelor of law degrees;
       ``(3) be selected as an officer candidate in the Marine 
     Corps Platoon Leader's Class Program and successfully 
     complete one increment of military training of not less than 
     six weeks' duration; and
       ``(4) agree in writing--
       ``(A) to accept an appointment as a commissioned officer in 
     the Marine Corps, if tendered by the President;
       ``(B) to serve on active duty for a minimum of five years; 
     and
       ``(C) under such terms and conditions as shall be 
     prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, to serve in the 
     Marine Corps Reserve until the eighth anniversary of the 
     receipt of such appointment.
       ``(c) Appointment.--Upon satisfactorily completing the 
     academic and military requirements of the Marine Corps 
     Platoon Leaders Class Program, an officer candidate may be 
     appointed by the President as a Reserve officer in the Marine 
     Corps in the grade of second lieutenant.
       ``(d) Limitation on Number.--Not more than 1,200 officer 
     candidates may participate in the financial assistance 
     program authorized by this section at any one time.
       ``(e) Remedial Authority of Secretary.--An officer 
     candidate may be ordered to active duty in the Marine Corps 
     by the Secretary of the Navy to serve in an appropriate 
     enlisted grade for such period of time as the Secretary 
     prescribes, but not for more than four years, when such 
     person--
       ``(1) accepted financial assistance under this section; and
       ``(2) either--
       ``(A) completes the military and academic requirements of 
     the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class Program and refuses to 
     accept a commission when offered;
       ``(B) fails to complete the military or academic 
     requirements of the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class 
     Program; or
       ``(C) is disenrolled from the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders 
     Class Program for failure to maintain eligibility for an 
     original appointment as a commissioned officer under section 
     532 of this title.
       ``(d) Persons Not Qualified for Appointment.--Except under 
     regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Navy, a person 
     who is not physically qualified for appointment under section 
     532 of this title and subsequently is determined by the 
     Secretary of the Navy under section 505 of this title to be 
     unqualified for service as an enlisted member of the Marine 
     Corps due to a physical or medical condition that was not the 
     result of misconduct or grossly negligent conduct may request 
     a waiver of obligated service of such financial 
     assistance.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new item:

``12216. Financial assistance for members of the Marine Corps platoon 
              leader's class program.''.

       (c) Computation of Service Creditable.--Section 205 of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(f) Notwithstanding subsection (a), a commissioned 
     officer appointed under sections 12209 and 12216 of title 10 
     may not count in computing basic pay a period of service 
     after January 1, 2000, that the officer performed 
     concurrently as a member of the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders 
     Class Program and the Marine Corps Reserve, except that 
     service after that date that the officer performed before 
     commissioning while serving as an enlisted member on active 
     duty or as a member of the Selected Reserve may be so 
     counted.''.
       (d) Transition Provision.--An enlisted member of the Marine 
     Corps Reserve selected for training as officer candidates 
     under section 12209 of title 10, United States Code, before 
     October 1, 2000 may, upon submitting an appropriate 
     application, participate in the financial assistance program 
     established in subsection (a) if--
       (1) the member is eligible for financial assistance under 
     the qualification requirements of subsection (a);
       (2) the member submits to the Secretary of the Navy a 
     request for such financial assistance not later than 180 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act; and
       (3) the member agrees in writing to accept an appointment, 
     if offered in the Marine Corps Reserve, and to comply with 
     the length of obligated service provisions in subsection 
     (a)(2)(D) of section 12216 of title 10, United States Code, 
     as added by subsection (a).
       (e) Limitation on Crediting of Prior Service.--In computing 
     length of service for any purpose, a person who requests 
     financial assistance under subsection (d) may not be credited 
     with service either as an officer candidate or concurrent 
     enlisted service, other than concurrent enlisted service 
     while serving on active duty other than for training while a 
     member of the Marine Corps Reserve.

     SEC. 519. OPTIONS TO IMPROVE RECRUITING FOR THE ARMY RESERVE.

       (a) Review.--The Secretary of the Army shall conduct a 
     review of the manner, process, and organization used by the 
     Army to recruit new members for the Army Reserve. The review 
     shall seek to determine the reasons for the continuing 
     inability of the Army to meet recruiting objectives for the 
     Army Reserve and to identify measures the Secretary could 
     take to correct that inability.
       (b) Reorganization To Be Considered.--Among the possible 
     corrective measures to be examined by the Secretary of the 
     Army as part of the review shall be a transfer of the 
     recruiting function for the Army Reserve from the Army 
     Recruiting Command to a new, fully resourced recruiting 
     organization under the command and control of the Chief, Army 
     Reserve.
       (c) Report.--Not later than July 1, 2000, the Secretary 
     shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
     and the Committee on Armed Service of the House of 
     Representatives a report setting forth the results of the 
     review under this section. The report shall include a 
     description of any corrective measures the Secretary intends 
     to implement.

                    Subtitle C--Military Technicians

     SEC. 521. REVISION TO MILITARY TECHNICIAN (DUAL STATUS) LAW.

       (a) Definition.--Subsection (a)(1) of section 10216 of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``section 709'' and 
     inserting ``section 709(b)''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (C), by inserting ``civilian'' after 
     ``is assigned to a''.
       (b) Dual Status Requirement.--Subsection (e) of such 
     section is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by inserting ``(dual status)'' after 
     ``military technician'' the second place it appears; and
       (2) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``The Secretary'' and inserting ``Except as 
     otherwise provided by law, the Secretary''; and
       (B) by striking ``six months'' and inserting ``up to 12 
     months''.

     SEC. 522. CIVIL SERVICE RETIREMENT OF TECHNICIANS.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 1007 of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section:

     ``Sec. 10218. Army and Air Force Reserve Technicians: 
       conditions for retention; mandatory retirement under civil 
       service laws

       ``(a) Separation and Retirement of Military Technicians 
     (Dual Status).--(1) An individual employed by the Army 
     Reserve or the Air

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     Force Reserve as a military technician (dual status) who 
     after the date of the enactment of this section loses dual 
     status is subject to paragraph (2) or (3), as the case may 
     be.
       ``(2) If a technician described in paragraph (1) is 
     eligible at the time dual status is lost for an unreduced 
     annuity, the technician shall be separated, subject to 
     subsection (e), not later than 30 days after the date on 
     which dual status is lost.
       ``(3)(A) If a technician described in paragraph (1) is not 
     eligible at the time dual status is lost for an unreduced 
     annuity, the technician shall be offered the opportunity to--
       ``(i) reapply for, and if qualified be appointed to, a 
     position as a military technician (dual status); or
       ``(ii) apply for a civil service position that is not a 
     technician position.
       ``(B) If such a technician continues employment with the 
     Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve as a non-dual status 
     technician, the technician--
       ``(i) shall not be permitted, after the end of the one-year 
     period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
     subsection, to apply for any voluntary personnel action; and
       ``(ii) shall, subject to subsection (e), be separated or 
     retired--
       ``(I) in the case of a technician first hired as a military 
     technician (dual status) on or before February 10, 1996, not 
     later than 30 days after becoming eligible for an unreduced 
     annuity; and
       ``(II) in the case of a technician first hired as a 
     military technician (dual status) after February 10, 1996, 
     not later than one year after the date on which dual status 
     is lost.
       ``(4) For purposes of this subsection, a military 
     technician is considered to lose dual status upon--
       ``(A) being separated from the Selected Reserve; or
       ``(B) ceasing to hold the military grade specified by the 
     Secretary concerned for the position held by the technician.
       ``(b) Non-Dual Status Technicians.--(1) An individual who 
     on the date of the enactment of this section is employed by 
     the Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve as a non-dual 
     status technician and who on that date is eligible for an 
     unreduced annuity shall, subject to subsection (e), be 
     separated not later than six months after the date of the 
     enactment of this section.
       ``(2)(A) An individual who on the date of the enactment of 
     this section is employed by the Army Reserve or the Air Force 
     Reserve as a non-dual status technician and who on that date 
     is not eligible for an unreduced annuity shall be offered the 
     opportunity to--
       ``(i) reapply for, and if qualified be appointed to, a 
     position as a military technician (dual status); or
       ``(ii) apply for a civil service position that is not a 
     technician position.
       ``(B) If such a technician continues employment with the 
     Army Reserve or the Air Force Reserve as a non-dual status 
     technician, the technician--
       ``(i) shall not be permitted, after the end of the one-year 
     period beginning on the date of the enactment of this 
     subsection, to apply for any voluntary personnel action; and
       ``(ii) shall, subject to subsection (e), be separated or 
     retired--
       ``(I) in the case of a technician first hired as a 
     technician on or before February 10, 1996, and who on the 
     date of the enactment of this section is a non-dual status 
     technician, not later than 30 days after becoming eligible 
     for an unreduced annuity; and
       ``(II) in the case of a technician first hired as a 
     technician after February 10, 1996, and who on the date of 
     the enactment of this section is a non-dual status 
     technician, not later than one year after the date on which 
     dual status is lost.
       ``(3) An individual employed by the Army Reserve or the Air 
     Force Reserve as a non-dual status technician who is 
     ineligible for appointment to a military technician (dual 
     status) position, or who decides not to apply for appointment 
     to such a position, or who, within six months of the date of 
     the enactment of this section is not appointed to such a 
     position, shall for reduction-in-force purposes be in a 
     separate competitive category from employees who are military 
     technicians (dual status).
       ``(c) Unreduced Annuity Defined.--For purposes of this 
     section, a technician shall be considered to be eligible for 
     an unreduced annuity if the technician is eligible for an 
     annuity under section 8336, 8412, or 8414 of title 5 that is 
     not subject to a reduction by reason of the age or years of 
     service of the technician.
       ``(d) Voluntary Personnel Action Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `voluntary personnel action', with respect to a non-
     dual status technician, means any of the following:
       ``(1) The hiring, entry, appointment, reassignment, 
     promotion, or transfer of the technician into a position for 
     which the Secretary concerned has established a requirement 
     that the person occupying the position be a military 
     technician (dual status).
       ``(2) Promotion to a higher grade if the technician is in a 
     position for which the Secretary concerned has established a 
     requirement that the person occupying the position be a 
     military technician (dual status).
       ``(e) Annual Limitation on Mandatory Retirements.--Until 
     October 1, 2004, the Secretary of the Army and the Secretary 
     of the Air Force may not during any fiscal year approve a 
     total of more than 25 mandatory retirements under this 
     section. A technician who is subject to mandatory separation 
     under this section in any fiscal year and who, but for this 
     subsection, would be eligible to be retired with an unreduced 
     annuity shall, if not sooner separated under some other 
     provision of law, be eligible to be retained in service until 
     mandatorily retired consistent with the limitation in this 
     subsection.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``10218. Army and Air Force Reserve Technicians: conditions for 
              retention; mandatory retirement under civil service 
              laws.''.
       (3) During the six-month period beginning on the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the provisions of subsections 
     (a)(3)(B)(ii)(I) and (b)(2)(B)(ii)(I) of section 10218 of 
     title 10, United States Code, as added by paragraph (1), 
     shall be applied by substituting ``six months'' for ``30 
     days''.
       (b) Early Retirement.--Section 8414(c) of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c)(1) An employee who was hired as a military reserve 
     technician on or before February 10, 1996 (under the 
     provisions of this title in effect before that date), and who 
     is separated from technician service, after becoming 50 years 
     of age and completing 25 years of service, by reason of being 
     separated from the Selected Reserve of the employee's reserve 
     component or ceasing to hold the military grade specified by 
     the Secretary concerned for the position held by the employee 
     is entitled to an annuity.
       ``(2) An employee who is initially hired as a military 
     technician (dual status) after February 10, 1996, and who is 
     separated from the Selected Reserve or ceases to hold the 
     military grade specified by the Secretary concerned for the 
     position held by the technician--
       ``(A) after completing 25 years of service as a military 
     technician (dual status), or
       ``(B) after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 
     years of service as a military technician (dual status),
     is entitled to an annuity.''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--Chapter 84 of title 5, United 
     States Code, is amended as follows:
       (1) Section 8415(g)(2) is amended by striking ``military 
     reserve technician'' and inserting ``military technician 
     (dual status)''.
       (2) Section 8401(30) is amended to read as follows:
       ``(30) the term `military technician (dual status)' means 
     an employee described in section 10216 of title 10;''.
       (d) Disability Retirement.--Section 8337(h) of title 5, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1)--
       (A) by inserting ``or section 10216 of title 10'' after 
     ``title 32'';
       (B) by striking ``such title'' and all that follows through 
     the period and inserting ``title 32 or section 10216 of title 
     10, respectively, to be a member of the Selected Reserve.'';
       (2) in paragraph (2)(A)(i)--
       (A) by inserting ``or section 10216 of title 10'' after 
     ``title 32''; and
       (B) by striking ``National Guard or from holding the 
     military grade required for such employment'' and inserting 
     ``Selected Reserve''; and
       (3) in paragraph (3)(C), by inserting ``or section 10216 of 
     title 10'' after ``title 32''.

     SEC. 523. REVISION TO NON-DUAL STATUS TECHNICIANS STATUTE.

       (a) Revision.--Section 10217 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking ``military'' after ``non-dual status'' in 
     the matter preceding paragraph (1); and
       (B) by striking paragraphs (1) and (2) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(1) was hired as a technician before November 18, 1997, 
     under any of the authorities specified in subsection (b) and 
     as of that date is not a member of the Selected Reserve or 
     after such date has ceased to be a member of the Selected 
     Reserve; or
       ``(2) is employed under section 709 of title 32 in a 
     position designated under subsection (c) of that section and 
     when hired was not required to maintain membership in the 
     Selected Reserve.''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Permanent Limitations on Number.--(1) Effective 
     October 1, 2007, the total number of non-dual status 
     technicians employed by the Army Reserve and Air Force 
     Reserve may not exceed 175. If at any time after the 
     preceding sentence takes effect the number of non-dual status 
     technicians employed by the Army Reserve and Air Force 
     Reserve exceeds the number specified in the limitation in the 
     preceding sentence, the Secretary of Defense shall require 
     that the Secretary of the Army or the Secretary of the Air 
     Force, or both, take immediate steps to reduce the number of 
     such technicians in order to comply with such limitation.
       ``(2) Effective October 1, 2001, the total number of non-
     dual status technicians employed by the National Guard may 
     not exceed 1,950. If at any time after the preceding sentence 
     takes effect the number of non-dual status technicians 
     employed by the National Guard exceeds the number specified 
     in the limitation in the preceding sentence, the Secretary of 
     Defense shall require that the Secretary of the Army or the 
     Secretary of the Air Force, or both, take immediate steps to 
     reduce the number of such technicians in order to comply with 
     such limitation.''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--The heading of such section and 
     the item relating to such section in the table of sections at 
     the beginning of chapter 1007 of such title are each amended 
     by striking the penultimate word.

     SEC. 524. REVISION TO AUTHORITIES RELATING TO NATIONAL GUARD 
                   TECHNICIANS.

       Section 709 of title 32, United States Code, is amended to 
     read as follows:

     ``Sec. 709. Technicians: employment, use, status

       ``(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the 
     Army or the Secretary of the Air Force, as the case may be, 
     and subject to subsections (b) and (c), persons may be 
     employed as technicians in--
       ``(1) the administration and training of the National 
     Guard; and

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       ``(2) the maintenance and repair of supplies issued to the 
     National Guard or the armed forces.
       ``(b) Except as authorized in subsection (c), a person 
     employed under subsection (a) must meet each of the following 
     requirements:
       ``(1) Be a military technician (dual status) as defined in 
     section 10216(a) of title 10.
       ``(2) Be a member of the National Guard.
       ``(3) Hold the military grade specified by the Secretary 
     concerned for that position.
       ``(4) While performing duties as a military technician 
     (dual status), wear the uniform appropriate for the member's 
     grade and component of the armed forces .
       ``(c)(1) A person may be employed under subsection (a) as a 
     non-dual status technician (as defined by section 10217 of 
     title 10) if the technician position occupied by the person 
     has been designated by the Secretary concerned to be filled 
     only by a non-dual status technician.
       ``(2) The total number of non-dual status technicians in 
     the National Guard is specified in section 10217(c)(2) of 
     title 10.
       ``(d) The Secretary concerned shall designate the adjutants 
     general referred to in section 314 of this title to employ 
     and administer the technicians authorized by this section.
       ``(e) A technician employed under subsection (a) is an 
     employee of the Department of the Army or the Department of 
     the Air Force, as the case may be, and an employee of the 
     United States. However, a position authorized by this section 
     is outside the competitive service if the technician employed 
     in that position is required under subsection (b) to be a 
     member of the National Guard.
       ``(f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law and under 
     regulations prescribed by the Secretary concerned--
       ``(1) a person employed under subsection (a) who is a 
     military technician (dual status) and otherwise subject to 
     the requirements of subsection (b) who--
       ``(A) is separated from the National Guard or ceases to 
     hold the military grade specified by the Secretary concerned 
     for that position shall be promptly separated from military 
     technician (dual status) employment by the adjutant general 
     of the jurisdiction concerned; and
       ``(B) fails to meet the military security standards 
     established by the Secretary concerned for a member of a 
     reserve component under his jurisdiction may be separated 
     from employment as a military technician (dual status) and 
     concurrently discharged from the National Guard by the 
     adjutant general of the jurisdiction concerned;
       ``(2) a technician may, at any time, be separated from his 
     technician employment for cause by the adjutant general of 
     the jurisdiction concerned;
       ``(3) a reduction in force, removal, or an adverse action 
     involving discharge from technician employment, suspension, 
     furlough without pay, or reduction in rank or compensation 
     shall be accomplished by the adjutant general of the 
     jurisdiction concerned;
       ``(4) a right of appeal which may exist with respect to 
     paragraph (1), (2), or (3) shall not extend beyond the 
     adjutant general of the jurisdiction concerned; and
       ``(5) a technician shall be notified in writing of the 
     termination of his employment as a technician and, unless the 
     technician is serving under a temporary appointment, is 
     serving in a trial or probationary period, or has voluntarily 
     ceased to be a member of the National Guard when such 
     membership is a condition of employment, such notification 
     shall be given at least 30 days before the termination date 
     of such employment.
       ``(g) Sections 2108, 3502, 7511, and 7512 of title 5 do not 
     apply to a person employed under this section.
       ``(h) Notwithstanding sections 5544(a) and 6101(a) of title 
     5 or any other provision of law, the Secretary concerned may 
     prescribe the hours of duty for technicians. Notwithstanding 
     sections 5542 and 5543 of title 5 or any other provision of 
     law, such technicians shall be granted an amount of 
     compensatory time off from their scheduled tour of duty equal 
     to the amount of any time spent by them in irregular or 
     overtime work, and shall not be entitled to compensation for 
     such work.
       ``(i) The Secretary concerned may not prescribe for 
     purposes of eligibility for Federal recognition under section 
     301 of this title a qualification applicable to technicians 
     employed under subsection (a) that is not applicable pursuant 
     to that section to the other members of the National Guard in 
     the same grade, branch, position, and type of unit or 
     organization involved.''.

     SEC. 525. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       The amendments made by sections 523 and 524 shall take 
     effect 180 days after the date of the receipt by Congress of 
     the plan required by section 523(d) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 
     111 Stat. 1737) or a report by the Secretary of Defense 
     providing an alternative proposal to the plan required by 
     that section.

     SEC. 526. SECRETARY OF DEFENSE REVIEW OF ARMY TECHNICIAN 
                   COSTING PROCESS.

       (a) Review.--The Secretary of Defense shall review the 
     process used by the Army, including use of the Civilian 
     Manpower Obligation Resources (CMOR) model, to develop 
     estimates of the annual authorizations and appropriations 
     required for civilian personnel of the Department of the Army 
     generally and for National Guard and Army Reserve technicians 
     in particular. Based upon the review, the Secretary shall 
     direct that any appropriate revisions to that process be 
     implemented.
       (b) Purpose of Review.--The purpose of the review shall be 
     to ensure that the process referred to in subsection (a) does 
     the following:
       (1) Accurately and fully incorporates all the actual cost 
     factors for such personnel, including particularly those 
     factors necessary to recruit, train, and sustain a qualified 
     technician workforce.
       (2) Provides estimates of required annual appropriations 
     required to fully fund all the technicians (both dual status 
     and non-dual status) requested in the President's budget.
       (3) Eliminates inaccuracies in the process that compel both 
     the Army Reserve and the Army National Guard either (A) to 
     reduce the number of military technicians (dual status) below 
     the statutory floors without corresponding force structure 
     reductions, or (B) to transfer funds from other 
     appropriations simply to provide the required funding for 
     military technicians (dual status).
       (c) Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
     on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report 
     containing the results of the review undertaken under this 
     section, together with a description of corrective actions 
     taken and proposed, not later than March 31, 2000.

     SEC. 527. FISCAL YEAR 2000 LIMITATION ON NUMBER OF NON-DUAL 
                   STATUS TECHNICIANS.

       The number of civilian employees who are non-dual status 
     technicians of a reserve component of the Army or Air Force 
     as of September 30, 2000, may not exceed the following:
       (1) For the Army Reserve, 1,295.
       (2) For the Army National Guard of the United States, 
     1,800.
       (3) For the Air Force Reserve, 0.
       (4) For the Air National Guard of the United States, 342.

                     Subtitle D--Service Academies

     SEC. 531. WAIVER OF REIMBURSEMENT OF EXPENSES FOR INSTRUCTION 
                   AT SERVICE ACADEMIES OF PERSONS FROM FOREIGN 
                   COUNTRIES.

       (a) United States Military Academy.--Section 4344(b)(3) of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``35 percent'' and inserting ``50 
     percent''; and
       (2) by striking ``five persons'' and inserting ``20 
     persons''.
       (b) Naval Academy.--Section 6957(b)(3) of such title is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``35 percent'' and inserting ``50 
     percent''; and
       (2) by striking ``five persons'' and inserting ``20 
     persons''.
       (c) Air Force Academy.--Section 9344(b)(3) of such title is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``35 percent'' and inserting ``50 
     percent''; and
       (2) by striking ``five persons'' and inserting ``20 
     persons''.
       (d) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     apply with respect to students from a foreign country 
     entering the United States Military Academy, the United 
     States Naval Academy, or the United States Air Force Academy 
     on or after May 1, 1999.

     SEC. 532. COMPLIANCE BY UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY WITH 
                   STATUTORY LIMIT ON SIZE OF CORPS OF CADETS.

       (a) Compliance Required.--(1) The Secretary of the Army 
     shall take such action as necessary to ensure that the United 
     States Military Academy is in compliance with the USMA cadet 
     strength limit not later than the day before the last day of 
     the 2001-2001 academic year.
       (2) The Secretary of the Army may provide for a variance to 
     the USMA cadet strength limit--
       (A) as of the day before the last day of the 1999-2000 
     academic year of not more than 5 percent; and
       (B) as of the day before the last day of the 2000-2001 
     academic year of not more than 2\1/2\ percent.
       (3) For purposes of this subsection--
       (A) the USMA cadet strength limit is the maximum of 4,000 
     cadets established for the Corps of Cadets at the United 
     States Military Academy by section 511 of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 
     (Public Law 102-190; 10 U.S.C. 4342 note), reenacted in 
     section 4342(a) of title 10, United States Code, by the 
     amendment made by subsection (b)(1); and
       (B) the last day of the 2001-2002 academic year is the day 
     on which the class of 2002 graduates.
       (b) Reenactment of Limitation.--
       (1) Army.--Section 4342 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``is as follows:'' in 
     the matter preceding paragraph (1) and inserting 
     ``(determined for any year as of the day before the last day 
     of the academic year) is 4,000. Subject to that limitation, 
     cadets are selected as follows:''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(i) For purposes of the limitation under subsection (a), 
     the last day of an academic year is graduation day.''.
       (2) Navy.--Section 6954 of such title is amended--
       (A) by striking the matter preceding paragraph (1) and 
     inserting the following:
       ``(a) The authorized strength of the Brigade of Midshipmen 
     (determined for any year as of the day before the last day of 
     the academic year) is 4,000. Subject to that limitation, 
     midshipmen are selected as follows:''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(g) For purposes of the limitation under subsection (a), 
     the last day of an academic year is graduation day.''.

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       (3) Air force.--Section 9342 of such title is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a), by striking ``is as follows:'' in 
     the matter preceding paragraph (1) and inserting 
     ``(determined for any year as of the day before the last day 
     of the academic year) is 4,000. Subject to that limitation, 
     Air Force Cadets are selected as follows:''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(i) For purposes of the limitation under subsection (a), 
     the last day of an academic year is graduation day.''.
       (4) Conforming repeal.--Section 511 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 
     102-190; 10 U.S.C. 4342 note) is repealed.

     SEC. 533. DEAN OF ACADEMIC BOARD, UNITED STATES MILITARY 
                   ACADEMY AND DEAN OF THE FACULTY, UNITED STATES 
                   AIR FORCE ACADEMY.

       (a) Dean of the Academic Board, USMA.--Section 4335 of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(c) While serving as Dean of the Academic Board, an 
     officer of the Army who holds a grade lower than brigadier 
     general shall hold the grade of brigadier general, if 
     appointed to that grade by the President, by and with the 
     advice and consent of the Senate. The retirement age of an 
     officer so appointed is that of a permanent professor of the 
     Academy. An officer so appointed is counted for purposes of 
     the limitation in section 526(a) of this title on general 
     officers of the Army on active duty.''.
       (b) Dean of the Faculty, USAFA.--Section 9335 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a)'' at the beginning of the text of 
     the section; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) While serving as Dean of the Faculty, an officer of 
     the Air Force who holds a grade lower than brigadier general 
     shall hold the grade of brigadier general, if appointed to 
     that grade by the President, by and with the advice and 
     consent of the Senate. The retirement age of an officer so 
     appointed is that of a permanent professor of the Academy An 
     officer so appointed is counted for purposes of the 
     limitation in section 526(a) of this title on general 
     officers of the Air Force on active duty.''.

     SEC. 534. EXCLUSION FROM CERTAIN GENERAL AND FLAG OFFICER 
                   GRADE STRENGTH LIMITATIONS FOR THE 
                   SUPERINTENDENTS OF THE SERVICE ACADEMIES.

       Section 525(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(7) An officer of the Army while serving as 
     Superintendent of the United States Military Academy, if 
     serving in the grade of lieutenant general, is in addition to 
     the number that would otherwise be permitted for the Army for 
     officers serving on active duty in grades above major general 
     under paragraph (1). An officer of the Navy or Marine Corps 
     while serving as Superintendent of the United States Naval 
     Academy, if serving in the grade of vice admiral or 
     lieutenant general, is in addition to the number that would 
     otherwise be permitted for the Navy or Marine Corps, 
     respectively, for officers serving on active duty in grades 
     above major general or rear admiral under paragraph (1) or 
     (2). An officer while serving as Superintendent of the United 
     Air Force Academy, if serving in the grade of lieutenant 
     general, is in addition to the number that would otherwise be 
     permitted for the Air Force for officers serving on active 
     duty in grades above major general under paragraph (1).''.

                   Subtitle E--Education and Training

     SEC. 541. ESTABLISHMENT OF A DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE 
                   INTERNATIONAL STUDENT PROGRAM AT THE SENIOR 
                   MILITARY COLLEGES.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 103 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 2111b. Senior military colleges: Department of Defense 
       international student program

       ``(a) Program Requirement.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     establish a program to facilitate the enrollment and 
     instruction of persons from foreign countries as 
     international students at the senior military colleges.
       ``(b) Purposes.--The purposes of the program shall be--
       ``(1) to provide a high-quality, cost-effective military-
     based educational experience for international students in 
     furtherance of the military-to-military program objectives of 
     the Department of Defense; and
       ``(2) to enhance the educational experience and preparation 
     of future United States military leaders through increased, 
     extended interaction with highly qualified potential foreign 
     military leaders.
       ``(c) Coordination with the Senior Military Colleges.--
     Guidelines for implementation of the program shall be 
     developed in coordination with the senior military colleges.
       ``(d) Recommendations for Admission of Students Under the 
     Program.--The Secretary of Defense shall annually identify to 
     the senior military colleges the international students who, 
     based on criteria established by the Secretary, the Secretary 
     recommends be considered for admission under the program. The 
     Secretary shall identify the recommended international 
     students to the senior military colleges as early as possible 
     each year to enable those colleges to consider them in a 
     timely manner in their respective admissions processes.
       ``(e) DOD Financial Support.--An international student who 
     is admitted to a senior military college under the program 
     under this section is responsible for the cost of instruction 
     at that college. The Secretary of Defense may, from funds 
     available to the Department of Defense other than funds 
     available for financial assistance under section 2107a of 
     this title, provide some or all of the costs of instruction 
     for any such student.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``2111b. Senior military colleges: Department of Defense international 
              student program.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     implement the program under section 2111b of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (a), with students 
     entering the senior military colleges after May 1, 2000.
       (c) Repeal of Obsolete Provision.--Section 2111a(e)(1) of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking the 
     second sentence.
       (d) Fiscal Year 2000 Funding.--Of the amounts made 
     available to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 2000 
     pursuant to section 301, $2,000,000 shall be available for 
     financial support for international students under section 
     2111b of title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection 
     (a).

     SEC. 542. AUTHORITY FOR ARMY WAR COLLEGE TO AWARD DEGREE OF 
                   MASTER OF STRATEGIC STUDIES.

       (a) Authority.--Chapter 401 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     Sec. 4321. United States Army War College: master of 
       strategic studies degree

       ``Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the 
     Army, the Commandant of the United States Army War College, 
     upon the recommendation of the faculty and dean of the 
     college, may confer the degree of master of strategic studies 
     upon graduates of the college who have fulfilled the 
     requirements for that degree.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new item:

``4321. United States Army War College: master of strategic studies 
              degree.''.

     SEC. 543. AUTHORITY FOR AIR UNIVERSITY TO AWARD GRADUATE-
                   LEVEL DEGREES.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 9317 of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Authority.--Upon recommendation of the faculty of the 
     appropriate school, the commander of the Air University may 
     confer--
       ``(1) the degree of master of strategic studies upon 
     graduates of the Air War College who fulfill the requirements 
     for that degree;
       ``(2) the degree of master of military operational art and 
     science upon graduates of the Air Command and Staff College 
     who fulfill the requirements for that degree; and
       ``(3) the degree of master of airpower art and science upon 
     graduates of the School of Advanced Air power Studies who 
     fulfill the requirements for that degree.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading for that section 
     is amended to read:

     ``Sec. 9317. Air University: graduate-level degrees''.

       (2) The item relating to that section in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of chapter 901 of such title is 
     amended to read as follows:

``9317. Air University: graduate-level degrees.''.

     SEC. 544. CORRECTION OF RESERVE CREDIT FOR PARTICIPATION IN 
                   HEALTH PROFESSIONAL SCHOLARSHIP AND FINANCIAL 
                   ASSISTANCE PROGRAM.

       Section 2126(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2)--
       (A) by striking ``only for'' and all that follows through 
     ``Award of'' and inserting ``only for the award of''; and
       (B) by striking subparagraph (B);
       (2) in paragraph (3) by striking ``paragraph (2)(A), a 
     member'' and inserting ``paragraph (2), a member who 
     completes a satisfactory year of service in the Selected 
     Reserve'';
       (3) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph (6); and
       (4) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph (5):
       ``(5) A member of the Selected Reserve who is awarded 
     points or service credit under this subsection shall not be 
     considered to have been in an active status, by reason of the 
     award of the points or credit, while pursuing a course of 
     study under this subchapter for purposes of any provision of 
     law other than sections 12732(a) and 12733(3) of this 
     title.''.

     SEC. 545. PERMANENT EXPANSION OF ROTC PROGRAM TO INCLUDE 
                   GRADUATE STUDENTS.

       (a) Permanent Authority for the ROTC Graduate Program.--
     Paragraph (2) of section 2107(c)(2) of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) The Secretary concerned may provide financial 
     assistance, as described in paragraph (1), to a student 
     enrolled in an advanced education program beyond the 
     baccalaureate degree level if the student also is a cadet or 
     midshipman in an advanced training program. Not more than 15 
     percent of the total number of scholarships awarded under 
     this section in any year may be awarded under the program.''.
       (b) Authority To Enroll in Advanced Training Program.--
     Section 2101(3) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by inserting ``students enrolled in an advanced education 
     program beyond the baccalaureate degree level or to'' after 
     ``instruction offered in the Senior Reserve Officers' 
     Training Corps to''.

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     SEC. 546. INCREASE IN MONTHLY SUBSISTENCE ALLOWANCE FOR 
                   SENIOR ROTC CADETS SELECTED FOR ADVANCED 
                   TRAINING.

       (a) Increase.--Section 209(a) of title 37, United States 
     Code, is amended by striking ``$150 a month'' and inserting 
     ``$200 a month''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on October 1, 1999.

     SEC. 547. CONTINGENT FUNDING INCREASE FOR JUNIOR ROTC 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 102 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 2033. Contingent funding increase

       ``If for any fiscal year the amount appropriated for the 
     National Guard Challenge Program under section 509 of title 
     32 is in excess of $62,500,000, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall (notwithstanding any other provision of law) make the 
     amount in excess of $62,500,000 available for the Junior 
     Reserve Officers' Training Corps program under section 2031 
     of this title, and such excess amount may not be used for any 
     other purpose.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``2033. Contingent funding increase.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--Section 2033 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply only 
     with respect to funds appropriated for fiscal years after 
     fiscal year 1999.

     SEC. 548. CHANGE FROM ANNUAL TO BIENNIAL REPORTING UNDER THE 
                   RESERVE COMPONENT MONTGOMERY GI BILL.

       (a) In General.--Section 16137 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 16137. Biennial report to Congress

       ``The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a 
     report not later than March 1 of each odd-numbered year 
     concerning the operation of the educational assistance 
     program established by this chapter during the preceding two 
     fiscal years. Each such report shall include the number of 
     members of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of each 
     armed force receiving, and the number entitled to receive, 
     educational assistance under this chapter during those fiscal 
     years.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 1606 of such title is amended to read as 
     follows:

``16137. Biennial report to Congress.''.

     SEC. 549. RECODIFICATION AND CONSOLIDATION OF STATUTES 
                   DENYING FEDERAL GRANTS AND CONTRACTS BY CERTAIN 
                   DEPARTMENTS AND AGENCIES TO INSTITUTIONS OF 
                   HIGHER EDUCATION THAT PROHIBIT SENIOR ROTC 
                   UNITS OR MILITARY RECRUITING ON CAMPUS.

       (a) Recodification and Consolidation for Limitations on 
     Federal Grants and Contracts.--(1) Section 983 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 983. Institutions of higher education that prevent 
       ROTC access or military recruiting on campus: denial of 
       grants and contracts from Department of Defense, Department 
       of Education, and certain other departments and agencies

       ``(a) Denial of Funds for Preventing ROTC Access to 
     Campus.--No funds described in subsection (d) may be provided 
     by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be 
     available for student aid) to a covered educational entity if 
     the Secretary of Defense determines that the covered 
     educational entity has a policy or practice (regardless of 
     when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect 
     prevents--
       ``(1) the Secretary of a military department from 
     maintaining, establishing, or operating a unit of the Senior 
     Reserve Officer Training Corps (in accordance with section 
     654 of this title and other applicable Federal laws) at the 
     covered educational entity; or
       ``(2) a student at the covered educational entity from 
     enrolling in a unit of the Senior Reserve Officer Training 
     Corps at another institution of higher education.
       ``(b) Denial of Funds for Preventing Military Recruiting on 
     Campus.--No funds described in subsection (d) may be provided 
     by contract or by grant (including a grant of funds to be 
     available for student aid) to a covered educational entity if 
     the Secretary of Defense determines that the covered 
     educational entity has a policy or practice (regardless of 
     when implemented) that either prohibits, or in effect 
     prevents--
       ``(1) the Secretary of a military department from gaining 
     entry to campuses, or access to students (who are 17 years of 
     age or older) on campuses, for purposes of military 
     recruiting; or
       ``(2) access by military recruiters for purposes of 
     military recruiting to the following information pertaining 
     to students (who are 17 years of age or older) enrolled at 
     the covered educational entity:
       ``(A) Names, addresses, and telephone listings.
       ``(B) Date and place of birth, levels of education, 
     academic majors, degrees received, and the most recent 
     educational institution enrolled in by the student.
       ``(c) Exceptions.--The limitation established in subsection 
     (a) or (b) shall not apply to a covered educational entity if 
     the Secretary of Defense determines that--
       ``(1) the covered educational entity has ceased the policy 
     or practice described in that subsection; or
       ``(2) the institution of higher education involved has a 
     longstanding policy of pacifism based on historical religious 
     affiliation.
       ``(d) Covered Funds.--The limitations established in 
     subsections (a) and (b) apply to the following:
       ``(1) Any funds made available for the Department of 
     Defense.
       ``(2) Any funds made available in a Departments of Labor, 
     Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related 
     Agencies Appropriations Act.
       ``(e) Notice of Determinations.--Whenever the Secretary of 
     Defense makes a determination under subsection (a), (b), or 
     (c), the Secretary--
       ``(1) shall transmit a notice of the determination to the 
     Secretary of Education and to Congress; and
       ``(2) shall publish in the Federal Register a notice of the 
     determination and the effect of the determination on the 
     eligibility of the covered educational entity for contracts 
     and grants.
       ``(f) Semiannual Notice in Federal Register.--The Secretary 
     of Defense shall publish in the Federal Register once every 
     six months a list of each covered educational entity that is 
     currently ineligible for contracts and grants by reason of a 
     determination of the Secretary under subsection (a) or (b).
       ``(g) Covered Educational Entity.--In this section, the 
     term `covered educational entity' means an institution of 
     higher education, or a subelement of an institution of higher 
     education.''.
       (2) The item relating to section 983 in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of such chapter is amended to read 
     as follows:

``983. Institutions of higher education that prevent ROTC access or 
              military recruiting on campus: denial of grants and 
              contracts from Department of Defense, Department of 
              Education, and certain other departments and agencies.''.
       (b) Repeal of Codified Provisions.--The following 
     provisions of law are repealed:
       (1) Section 558 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103-337; 10 U.S.C. 503 
     note).
       (2) Section 514 of the Departments of Labor, Health and 
     Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies 
     Appropriations Act, 1997 (as contained in section 101(e) of 
     division A of Public Law 104-208; 110 Stat. 3009-270; 10 
     U.S.C. 503 note).

                   Subtitle F--Decorations and Awards

     SEC. 551. WAIVER OF TIME LIMITATIONS FOR AWARD OF CERTAIN 
                   DECORATIONS TO CERTAIN PERSONS.

       (a) Waiver.--Any limitation established by law or policy 
     for the time within which a recommendation for the award of a 
     military decoration or award must be submitted shall not 
     apply to awards of decorations described in this section, the 
     award of each such decoration having been determined by the 
     Secretary of the military department concerned to be 
     warranted in accordance with section 1130 of title 10, United 
     States Code.
       (b) Distinguished Flying Cross.--Subsection (a) applies to 
     the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross for service 
     during World War II or Korea (including multiple awards to 
     the same individual) in the case of each individual 
     concerning whom the Secretary of the Navy (or an officer of 
     the Navy acting on behalf of the Secretary) submitted to the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
     and the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate, during the 
     period beginning on October 17, 1998, and ending on the day 
     before the date of the enactment of this Act, a notice as 
     provided in section 1130(b) of title 10, United States Code, 
     that the award of the Distinguished Flying Cross to that 
     individual is warranted and that a waiver of time 
     restrictions prescribed by law for recommendation for such 
     award is recommended.

     SEC. 552. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING PRESIDENTIAL UNIT 
                   CITATION FOR CREW OF THE U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress reaffirms the findings made in 
     section 1052(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 2844) that 
     the heavy cruiser U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35)--
       (1) served the people of the United States with valor and 
     distinction throughout World War II in action against enemy 
     forces in the Pacific Theater of Operations from December 7, 
     1941 to July 29, 1945;
       (2) with her courageous and capable crew, compiled an 
     impressive combat record during the war in the Pacific, 
     receiving in the process 10 battle stars in actions from the 
     Aleutians to Okinawa;
       (3) rendered invaluable service in anti-shipping, shore 
     bombardment, anti-air, and invasion support roles and serving 
     as flagship for the Fifth Fleet under Admiral Raymond 
     Spruance and flagship for the Third Fleet under Admiral 
     William F. Halsey; and
        (4) transported the world's first operational atomic bomb 
     from the United States to the Island of Tinian, accomplishing 
     that mission at a record average speed of 29 knots.
       (b) Further Findings.--Congress further finds that--
       (1) from participation in the earliest offensive actions in 
     the Pacific during World War II to her pivotal role in 
     delivering the weapon that brought the war to an end, the 
     U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS and her crew left an indelible imprint on 
     the Nation's struggle to eventual victory in the war in the 
     Pacific; and
       (2) the selfless, courageous, and outstanding performance 
     of duty by that ship and her crew throughout the war in the 
     Pacific reflects great credit upon the ship and her crew, 
     thus upholding the very highest traditions of the United 
     States Navy.
       (c) Sense of Congress.--It is the sense of Congress that 
     the President should award a Presidential Unit Citation to 
     the crew of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS (CA-35) in recognition of 
     the courage and skill displayed by the members of the crew of 
     that vessel throughout World War II.
       (2) A citation described in paragraph (1) may be awarded 
     without regard to any provision of

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     law or regulation prescribing a time limitation that is 
     otherwise applicable with respect to recommendation for, or 
     the award of, such a citation.

                       Subtitle G--Other Matters

     SEC. 561. REVISION IN AUTHORITY TO ORDER RETIRED MEMBERS TO 
                   ACTIVE DUTY.

       (a) Period of Recall Service for Retired Members Ordered To 
     Active Duty.--Section 688(e) of title 10, United States Code, 
     is amended by striking ``for more than 12 months within 24 
     months'' and inserting ``for more than 36 months within 48 
     months''.
       (b) Limitation on Number.--Section 690(b)(1) of such title 
     is amended by striking ``Not more than 25 officers'' and 
     inserting ``In addition to the officers subject to subsection 
     (a), not more than 150 officers''.
       (c) Exclusion From Limitation of Members of Retiree 
     Councils.--Section 690(b)(2) of such title is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(D) Any officer assigned to duty as a member of the Army, 
     Navy, or Air Force Retiree Council for the period of active 
     duty to which ordered.''.
       (d) Exclusion From Limitation of Officers Recalled for 60 
     Days or Less.--Section 690 of such title is further amended--
       (1) by striking the second sentence of subsection (a);
       (2) by redesignating subsection (c) as subsection (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (b) the following new 
     subsection (c):
       ``(c) Exclusion From Limitations of Officers Recalled for 
     60 Days or Less.--A retired officer ordered to active duty 
     for a period of 60 days or less shall not be counted for the 
     purposes of subsection (a) or (b).''.

     SEC. 562. TEMPORARY AUTHORITY FOR RECALL OF RETIRED AVIATORS.

       (a) Authority.--During the retired aviator recall period, 
     the Secretary of a military department may recall to active 
     duty any retired officer having expertise as an aviator to 
     fill staff positions normally filled by active duty aviators. 
     Any such recall may only be with the consent of the officer 
     recalled.
       (b) Limitation.--No more than a total of 500 officers may 
     be on active duty at any time under subsection (a).
       (c) Termination.--Each officer recalled to active duty 
     under subsection (a) during the retired aviator recall period 
     shall be released from active duty not later than one year 
     after the end of such period.
       (d) Waivers.--Officers recalled to active duty under 
     subsection (a) shall not be counted for purposes of section 
     668 or 690 of title 10, United States Code.
       (e) Retired Aviator Recall Period.--For purposes of this 
     section, the term ``retired aviator recall period'' means the 
     period beginning on October 1, 1999, and ending on September 
     30, 2002.
       (f) Report.--Not later than March 31, 2002, the Secretary 
     of Defense submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Armed Service of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the use of the authority under 
     this section, together with the Secretary's recommendation 
     for extension of that authority.

     SEC. 563. SERVICE REVIEW AGENCIES COVERED BY PROFESSIONAL 
                   STAFFING REQUIREMENT.

       Section 1555(c)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting ``the Navy Council of Personnel Boards 
     and'' after ``Department of the Navy,''.

     SEC. 564. CONFORMING AMENDMENT TO AUTHORIZE RESERVE OFFICERS 
                   AND RETIRED REGULAR OFFICERS TO HOLD A CIVIL 
                   OFFICE WHILE SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY FOR NOT 
                   MORE THAN 270 DAYS.

       Section 973(b)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``180 days'' and 
     inserting ``270 days''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (C), by striking ``180 days'' and 
     inserting ``270 days''.

     SEC. 565. REVISION TO REQUIREMENT FOR HONOR GUARD DETAILS AT 
                   FUNERALS OF VETERANS.

       (a) Composition of Honor Guard Details.--Subsection (b) of 
     section 1491 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``consists of'' and all that follows through the 
     period and inserting ``consists of not less than two persons, 
     who shall, at a minimum, perform a ceremony to fold and 
     present a United States flag to the deceased veteran's family 
     and who shall (unless a bugler is part of the detail) have 
     the capability to play a recorded version of Taps. At least 
     one member of an honor guard detail provided in response to a 
     request to the Department of Defense shall be a member of the 
     same armed force as the deceased veteran.''.
       (b) Support for Nongovernmental Organizations.--Such 
     section is further amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (d), (e), and (f) as 
     subsections (e), (f), and (h), respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (c) the following new 
     subsection (d):
       ``(d) Support for Nongovernmental Organizations.--The 
     Secretary of a military department may provide material, 
     equipment, and training to support nongovernmental 
     organizations, as necessary for the support of honor guard 
     activities.''.
       (c) Implementing OSD Regulations.--Subsection (e) of such 
     section, as redesignated by subsection (b)(1), is amended by 
     striking the last two sentences and inserting the following: 
     ``The Secretary shall require that procedures be established 
     by the Secretaries of the military departments for 
     coordinating and responding to requests for honor guard 
     details, for establishing standards and protocols for, 
     responding to requests for and conducting military funeral 
     honors, and for providing training and quality control.''.
       (d) Waiver Authority.--Such section is further amended by 
     inserting after subsection (f), as redesignated by subsection 
     (b)(1), the following new subsection:
       ``(g) Waiver Authority.--(1) The Secretary of Defense may 
     waive any of the provisions of this section when the 
     Secretary determines that such a waiver is necessary because 
     of a contingency operation or when the Secretary otherwise 
     considers such a waiver to be necessary to meet military 
     requirements. The authority to make such a waiver may not be 
     delegated to any official of a military department other than 
     the Secretary of the military department and may not be 
     delegated within the Office of the Secretary of Defense to an 
     official at a level below Under Secretary of Defense.''.
       ``(2) Whenever a waiver is granted under paragraph (1), the 
     Secretary of Defense shall promptly submit notice of the 
     waiver to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and 
     the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives.''.
       (e) Coverage of Certain Reservists.--Such section is 
     further amended by striking the period at the end of 
     subsection (h), as redesignated by subsection (b)(1), and 
     inserting ``and includes a deceased member or former member 
     of the Selected Reserve described in section 2301(f) of title 
     38.''.
       (f) Authority To Accept Voluntary Services.--Section 
     1588(a) of such title is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(4) Voluntary services as a member of an honor guard 
     detail under section 1491 of this title.''.
       (g) Effective Date.--(1) Section 1491 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as amended by this section, shall apply with 
     respect to funerals of veterans that occur after December 31, 
     1999.
       (2) Subsection (a) of such section is amended by striking 
     ``that occurs after December 31, 1999''.
       (h) National Guard Funeral Honors Duty.--(1) Section 114 of 
     title 32, United States Code, is amended--
       (A) by striking ``honor guard'' both places it appears and 
     inserting ``funeral honors''; and
       (B) by striking ``otherwise required'' and inserting ``, 
     but may be performed as funeral honors duty as prescribed in 
     section 115 of this title''.
       (2) Chapter 1 of such title is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:

     ``Sec. 115. Funeral honors duty performed as a Federal 
       function

       ``(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of 
     Defense, a member of the Army National Guard of the United 
     States or the Air National Guard of the United States may be 
     ordered to funeral honors duty, with the consent of the 
     member, to prepare for or perform funeral honors functions at 
     the funeral of a veteran (as defined in section 1491 of title 
     10).
       ``(b) A member ordered to funeral honors duty under this 
     section shall be required to perform a minimum of two hours 
     of such duty in order to receive service credit under section 
     1273(a)(2)(E) of title 10 and compensation under section 435 
     of title 37 if authorized by the Secretary concerned.
       ``(c) Funeral honors duty (and travel directly to and from 
     that duty) under this section shall be treated as the 
     equivalent of inactive-duty training (and travel directly to 
     and from that training) for the purposes of this section and 
     the provisions of title 10, title 37, and title 38, including 
     provisions relating to the determination of eligibility for 
     and the receipt of benefits and entitlements provided under 
     those titles for Reserves performing inactive-duty training 
     and for their dependents and survivors, except that a member 
     is not entitled by reason of performance of funeral honors 
     duty to any pay, allowances, or other compensation provided 
     for in title 37 other than that provided in section 435 of 
     that title and in subsection (d).
       ``(d) A member who performs funeral honors duty under this 
     section is entitled to reimbursement for travel and 
     transportation expenses incurred in conjunction with such 
     duty as authorized under chapter 7 of title 37, if such duty 
     is performed at a location 50 miles or more from the member's 
     residence.''.
       (3)(A) The heading of section 114 of such title is amended 
     to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 114. Funeral honors functions at funerals for 
       veterans''.

       (B) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 1 of 
     such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
     section 114 and inserting the following:

``114. Funeral honors functions at funerals for veterans.
``115. Funeral honors duty performed as a Federal function.''.
       (i) Ready Reserve Funeral Honors Duty.--(1)(A) Chapter 1213 
     of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 12503. Ready Reserve: funeral honors duty

       ``(a) Under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of 
     Defense, a member of the Ready Reserve may be ordered to 
     funeral honors duty, with the consent of the member, in 
     preparation for or to perform funeral honors functions at the 
     funeral of a veteran (as defined in section 1491 of this 
     title). However, a member of the Army National Guard of the 
     United States or the Air National Guard of the United States 
     may not be ordered to perform funeral honors functions under 
     this section without the consent of the Governor or other 
     appropriate authority of the State concerned.
       ``(b) A member ordered to funeral honors duty under this 
     section shall be required to perform a minimum of two hours 
     of such duty in order to

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     receive service credit under section 12732(a)(2)(E) of this 
     title and compensation under section 435 of title 37 if 
     authorized by the Secretary concerned.
       ``(c) Funeral honors duty (and travel directly to and from 
     that duty) under this section shall be treated as the 
     equivalent of inactive-duty training (and travel directly to 
     and from that training) for the purposes of this title, title 
     37, and title 38, including provisions relating to the 
     determination of eligibility for and receipt of benefits and 
     entitlements provided under those titles for Reserves 
     performing inactive-duty training and for their dependents 
     and survivors, except that a member is not entitled by reason 
     of performance of funeral honors duty to any pay, allowances, 
     or other compensation provided for in title 37 other than 
     that provided in section 435 of that title and in subsection 
     (d).
       ``(d) A member who performs funeral honors duty under this 
     section is entitled to reimbursement for travel and 
     transportation expenses incurred in conjunction with such 
     duty as authorized under chapter 7 of title 37, if such duty 
     is performed at a location 50 miles or more from the member's 
     residence.''.
       (B) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``12503. Ready Reserve: funeral honors duty.''.
       (2)(A) Section 12552 of such title is amended to read as 
     follows:

     ``Sec. 12552. Funeral honors functions at funerals for 
       veterans

       ``Performance by a Reserve of funeral honors functions at 
     the funeral of a veteran (as defined in section 1491 of this 
     title) may not be considered to be a period of drill or 
     training, but may be performed as funeral honors duty under 
     section 12503 of this title.''.
       (B) The item relating to such section in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of chapter 1215 of such title is 
     amended to read as follows:

``12552. Funeral honors functions at funerals for veterans.''.
       (j) Crediting for Retirement Purposes.--Paragraph (2) of 
     section 12732(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting after subparagraph (D) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(E) One point for each day in which funeral honors 
     functions were performed under section 12503 of this title or 
     section 115 of title 32.''; and
       (2) by striking ``and (D)'' in the last sentence of such 
     paragraph and inserting ``(D), and (E)''.
       (k) Allowance for Funeral Honors Duty.--(1) Chapter 7 of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new section:

     ``Sec. 435. Funeral honors duty: flat rate allowance

       ``(a) Allowance Authorized.--Under uniform regulations 
     prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, a member of the Ready 
     Reserve of an armed force may be paid an allowance of $50, at 
     the discretion of the Secretary concerned, for funeral honors 
     duty performed pursuant to section 12305 of title 10 or 
     section 115 of title 32, if the member is engaged in the 
     performance of that duty for at least two hours.
       ``(b) Relation to Performance of Funeral Honors Duty.--The 
     allowance under this section shall constitute the single, 
     flat-rate monetary allowance authorized for the performance 
     of funeral honors duty pursuant to section 12503 of title 10 
     or section 115 of title 32 and shall constitute payment in 
     full to the member, regardless of grade in which serving.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``435. Funeral honors duty: flat rate allowance.''.

     SEC. 566. PURPOSE AND FUNDING LIMITATIONS FOR NATIONAL GUARD 
                   CHALLENGE PROGRAM.

       (a) Program Authority and Purpose.--Subsection (a) of 
     section 509 of title 32, United States Code, is amended to 
     read as follows:
       ``(a) Program Authority and Purpose.--The Secretary of 
     Defense, acting through the Chief of the National Guard 
     Bureau, may use the National Guard to conduct a civilian 
     youth opportunities program, to be known as the `National 
     Guard Challenge Program', which shall consist of at least a 
     22-week residential program and a 12-month post-residential 
     mentoring period. The National Guard Challenge Program shall 
     seek to improve life skills and employment potential of 
     participants by providing military-based training and 
     supervised work experience, together with the core program 
     components of assisting participants to receive a high school 
     diploma or its equivalent, leadership development, promoting 
     fellowship and community service, developing life coping 
     skills and job skills, and improving physical fitness and 
     health and hygiene.''.
       (b) Annual Funding Limitation.--Subsection (b) of such 
     section is amended by striking ``$50,000,000'' and inserting 
     ``$62,500,000''.

     SEC. 567. ACCESS TO SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS FOR MILITARY 
                   RECRUITING PURPOSES.

       Section 503 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Each local educational agency is requested to provide 
     to the Department of Defense, upon a request made for 
     military recruiting purposes, the same access to secondary 
     school students, and to directory information concerning such 
     students, as is provided generally to post-secondary 
     educational institutions or to prospective employers of those 
     students.''.

     SEC. 568. SURVEY OF MEMBERS LEAVING MILITARY SERVICE ON 
                   ATTITUDES TOWARD MILITARY SERVICE.

       (a) Exit Survey.--The Secretary of Defense shall develop 
     and implement a survey on attitudes toward military service 
     to be completed by all members of the Armed Forces who during 
     the period beginning on January 1, 2000, and ending on June 
     30, 2000, are discharged or separated from the Armed Forces 
     or transfer from a regular component to a reserve component.
       (b) Matters To Be Covered.--The survey shall, at a minimum, 
     cover the following subjects:
       (1) Reasons for leaving military service.
       (2) Command climate.
       (3) Attitude toward civilian and military leadership.
       (4) Attitude toward pay and benefits.
       (5) Job satisfaction.
       (6) Such other matters as the Secretary determines 
     appropriate to the survey concerning reasons why military 
     personnel are leaving military service.
       (c) Report to Congress.--Not later than October 1, 2000, 
     the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report containing 
     the results of the survey under subsection (a). The Secretary 
     shall compile the information in the report so as to assist 
     in assessing reasons why military personnel are leaving 
     military service.

     SEC. 569. IMPROVEMENT IN SYSTEM FOR ASSIGNING PERSONNEL TO 
                   WARFIGHTING UNITS.

       (a) Review of Personnel Assignment Systems.--The Secretary 
     of each military department shall review the military 
     personnel system under that Secretary's jurisdiction in order 
     to identify those policies that prevent warfighting units 
     from being fully manned.
       (b) Revision to Policies.--Following the review under 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall alter the policies 
     identified in the review with the goal of raising the 
     priority in the personnel system for the assignment of 
     personnel to warfighting units.
       (c) Report.--Not later than December 31, 2000, the 
     Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the Senate and Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives a report on the changes to the military 
     personnel system under that Secretary's jurisdiction that 
     have been, or will be, adopted under subsection (b).
       (d) Definition.--For the purposes of this section, the term 
     ``warfighting unit'' means a battalion, squadron, or vessel 
     that (1) has a combat, combat support, or combat service 
     support mission, and (2) is not considered to be in the 
     supporting establishment for its service.

     SEC. 570. REQUIREMENT FOR DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE REGULATIONS 
                   TO PROTECT THE CONFIDENTIALITY OF 
                   COMMUNICATIONS BETWEEN DEPENDENTS AND 
                   PROFESSIONALS PROVIDING THERAPEUTIC OR RELATED 
                   SERVICES REGARDING SEXUAL OR DOMESTIC ABUSE.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 80 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 1562. Confidentiality of communications between 
       dependents and professionals providing therapeutic or 
       related services regarding sexual or domestic abuse

       ``(a) Regulations.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     prescribe in regulations such policies and procedures as the 
     Secretary considers necessary to provide the maximum possible 
     protection for the confidentiality of communications 
     described in subsection (b) relating to misconduct described 
     in that subsection. Those regulations shall be consistent 
     with--
       ``(1) the standards of confidentiality and ethical 
     standards issued by relevant professional organizations;
       ``(2) applicable requirements of Federal and State law;
       ``(3) the best interest of victims of sexual harassment, 
     sexual assault, or intrafamily abuse; and
       ``(4) such other factors as the Secretary, in consultation 
     with the Attorney General, considers appropriate.
       ``(b) Covered Communications.--Subsection (a) applies to 
     communications between--
       ``(1) a dependent of a member of the armed forces who--
       ``(A) is a victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or 
     intrafamily abuse; or
       ``(B) has engaged in such misconduct; and
       ``(2) a therapist, counselor, advocate, or other 
     professional from whom the dependent seeks professional 
     services in connection with effects of such misconduct.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``1562. Confidentiality of communications between dependents and 
              professionals providing therapeutic or related services 
              regarding sexual or domestic abuse.''.
       (b) GAO Study.--(1) The Comptroller General shall study the 
     policies, procedures, and practices of the military 
     departments for protecting the confidentiality of 
     communications between--
       (A) a dependent of a member of the Armed Forces who--
       (i) is a victim of sexual harassment, sexual assault, or 
     intrafamily abuse; or
       (ii) has engaged in such misconduct; and
       (B) a therapist, counselor, advocate, or other professional 
     from whom the dependent seeks professional services in 
     connection with effects of such misconduct.
       (2) The Comptroller General shall conclude the study and 
     submit to the Secretary of Defense and Congress a report on 
     the results of the study. The report shall be submitted not 
     later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.
       (c) Initial Regulations.--The initial regulations under 
     section 1562 of title 10, United States

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     Code, as added by subsection (a), shall be prescribed not 
     later than 90 days after the date on which the Secretary of 
     Defense receives the report of the Comptroller General under 
     subsection (b). In prescribing those regulations, the 
     Secretary shall ensure that those regulations are consistent 
     with the findings of the Comptroller General in that report.

          TITLE VI--COMPENSATION AND OTHER PERSONNEL BENEFITS

                     Subtitle A--Pay and Allowances

     SEC. 601. FISCAL YEAR 2000 INCREASE IN MILITARY BASIC PAY AND 
                   REFORM OF BASIC PAY RATES.

       (a) Waiver of Section 1009 Adjustment.--The adjustment to 
     become effective during fiscal year 2000 required by section 
     1009 of title 37, United States Code, in the rates of monthly 
     basic pay authorized members of the uniformed services shall 
     not be made.
       (b) January 1, 2000, Increase in Basic Pay.--Effective on 
     January 1, 2000, the rates of monthly basic pay for members 
     of the uniformed services are increased by 4.8 percent.
       (c) Reform of Basic Pay Rates.--Effective on July 1, 2000, 
     the rates of monthly basic pay for members of the uniformed 
     services within each pay grade are as follows:
       

                        COMMISSIONED OFFICERS \1\
 Years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States
                                  Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Pay Grade     2 or less    Over 2     Over 3     Over 4     Over 6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
O-10 \2\........      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00       $0.00
O-9.............       0.00       0.00       0.00       0.00        0.00
O-8.............   6,594.30   6,810.30   6,953.10   6,993.30    7,171.80
O-7.............   5,479.50   5,851.80   5,851.50   5,894.40    6,114.60
O-6.............   4,061.10   4,461.60   4,754.40   4,754.40    4,772.40
O-5.............   3,248.40   3,813.90   4,077.90   4,127.70    4,291.80
O-4.............   2,737.80   3,333.90   3,556.20   3,606.04    3,812.40
O-3 \3\.........   2,544.00   2,884.20   3,112.80   3,364.80    3,525.90
O-2 \3\.........   2,218.80   2,527.20   2,910.90   3,000.00    3,071.10
O-1 \3\.........   1,926.30   2,004.90   2,423.10   2,423.10    2,423.10
                 -------------------------------------------------------
                    Over 8    Over 10    Over 12    Over 14     Over 16
                 -------------------------------------------------------
O-10 \2\........      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00       $0.00
O-9.............       0.00       0.00       0.00       0.00        0.00
O-8.............   7,471.50   7,540.80   7,824.60   7,906.20    8,150.10
O-7.............   6,282.00   6,475.80   6,669.00   6,863.10    7,471.50
O-6.............   4,976.70   5,004.00   5,004.00   5,169.30    5,791.20
O-5.............   4,291.80   4,420.80   4,659.30   4,971.90    5,286.00
O-4.............   3,980.40   4,251.50   4,464.00   4,611.00    4,758.90
O-3 \3\.........   3,702.60   3,850.20   4,040.40   4,139.10    4,139.10
O-2 \3\.........   3,071.10   3,071.10   3,071.10   3,071.10    3,071.10
O-1 \3\.........   2,423.10   2,423.10   2,423.10   2,423.10    2,423.10
                 -------------------------------------------------------
                   Over 18    Over 20    Over 22    Over 24     Over 26
                 -------------------------------------------------------
O-10 \2\........      $0.00  $10,655.1  $10,707.6  $10,930.2  $11,318.40
                                     0          0          0
O-9.............       0.00   9,319.50   9,453.60   9,647.70    9,986.40
O-8.............   8,503.80   8,830.20   9,048.00   9,048.00    9,048.00
O-7.............   7,985.40   7,985.40   7,985.40   7,985.40    8,025.60
O-6.............   6,086.10   6,381.30   6,549.00   6,719.10    7,049.10
O-5.............   5,436.00   5,583.60   5,751.90   5,751.90    5,751.90
O-4.............   4,808.70   4,808.70   4,808.70   4,808.70    4,808.70
O-3 \3\.........   4,139.10   4,139.10   4,139.10   4,139.10    4,139.10
O-2 \3\.........   3,071.10   3,071.10   3,071.10   3,071.10    3,071.10
O-1 \3\.........   2,423.10   2,423.10   2,423.10   2,423.10   2,423.10
------------------------------------------------------------------------
\1\ Notwithstanding the pay rates specified in this table, the actual
  basic pay for commissioned officers in grades 0-7 through O-10 may not
  exceed the rate of pay for level III of the Executive Schedule and the
  actual basic pay for all other officers, including warrant officers,
  may not exceed the rate of pay for level V of the Executive Schedule.
\2\ Subject to the preceding footnote, while serving as Chairman or Vice
  Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Chief of Staff of the Army,
  Chief of Naval Operations, Chief of Staff of the Air Force, Commandant
  of the Marine Corps, or Commandant of the Coast Guard, basic pay for
  this grade is calculated to be $12,441.00, regardless of cumulative
  years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States
  Code.
\3\ This table does not apply to commissioned officers in the grade O-1,
  O-2, or O-3 who have been credited with over 4 years of active duty
  service as an enlisted member or warrant officer.


  COMMISSIONED OFFICERS WITH OVER 4 YEARS OF ACTIVE DUTY SERVICE AS AN
                   ENLISTED MEMBER OR WARRANT OFFICER
 Years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States
                                  Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Pay Grade     2 or less    Over 2     Over 3     Over 4     Over 6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
O-3E............      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00  $3,364.80   $3,525.90
O-2E............       0.00       0.00       0.00   3,009.00    3,071.10
O-1E............       0.00       0.00       0.00   2,423.10    2,588.40
                 -------------------------------------------------------
                    Over 8    Over 10    Over 12    Over 14     Over 16
                 -------------------------------------------------------
O-3E............  $3,702.60  $3,850.20  $4,040.40  $4,200.30   $4,291.80
O-2E............   3,168.60   3,333.90   3,461.40   3,556.20    3,556.20
O-1E............   2,683.80   2,781.30   2,877.60   3,009.00    3,009.00
                 -------------------------------------------------------
                   Over 18    Over 20    Over 22    Over 24     Over 26
                 -------------------------------------------------------
O-3E............  $4,416.90  $4,416.90  $4,416.90  $4,416.90   $4,416.90
O-2E............   3,556.20   3,556.20   3,556.20   3,556.20    3,556.20
O-1E............   3,009.00   3,009.00   3,009.00   3,009.00    3,009.00
------------------------------------------------------------------------



                            WARRANT OFFICERS
 Years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States
                                  Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Pay Grade      2 or less    Over 2     Over 3     Over 4     Over 6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
W-5..............      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00
W-4..............   2,592.00   2,788.50   2,868.60   2,947.50   3,083.40
W-3..............   2,355.90   2,555.40   2,555.40   2,588.40   2,694.30
W-2..............   2,063.40   2,232.60   2,232.60   2,305.80   2,423.10
W-1..............   1,719.00   1,971.00   1,971.00   2,135.70   2,232.60
                  ------------------------------------------------------

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                     Over 8    Over 10    Over 12    Over 14    Over 16
                  ------------------------------------------------------
W-5..............      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00
W-4..............   3,217.20   3,352.80   3,485.10   3,622.20   3,753.60
W-3..............   2,814.90   2,974.20   3,071.10   3,177.00   3,298.20
W-2..............   2,555.40   2,852.60   2,749.80   2,844.30   2,949.00
W-1..............   2,332.80   2,433.30   2,533.20   2,634.00   2,734.80
                  ------------------------------------------------------
                    Over 18    Over 20    Over 22    Over 24    Over 26
                  ------------------------------------------------------
W-5..............      $0.00  $4,475.10  $4,628.70  $4,782.90  $4,937.40
W-4..............   3,888.00   4,019.00   4,155.60   4,289.70   4,427.10
W-3..............   3,418.50   3,539.10   3,659.40   3,780.00   3,900.90
W-2..............   3,058.40   3,163.80   3,270.90   3,378.30   3,378.30
W-1..............   2,835.00   2,910.90   2,910.90   2,910.90   2,910.90
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                          ENLISTED MEMBERS \1\
 Years of service computed under section 205 of title 37, United States
                                  Code
------------------------------------------------------------------------
    Pay Grade      2 or less    Over 2     Over 3     Over 4     Over 6
------------------------------------------------------------------------
E-9 \2\..........      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00      $0.00
E-8..............       0.00       0.00       0.00       0.00       0.00
E-7..............   1,765.80   1,927.80   2,001.00   2,073.00   2,147.70
E-6..............   1,518.90   1,678.20   1,752.60   1,824.30   1,899.30
E-5..............   1,332.60   1,494.00   1,566.00   1,640.40   1,714.50
E-4..............   1,242.90   1,373.10   1,447.20   1,520.10   1,593.90
E-3..............   1,171.50   1,260.60   1,334.10   1,335.90   1,335.90
E-2..............   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40
E-1..............        \3\   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60
                    1,005.60
                  ------------------------------------------------------
                     Over 8    Over 10    Over 12    Over 14    Over 16
                  ------------------------------------------------------
E-9 \2\..........      $0.00  $3,015.30  $3,083.40  $3,169.80  $3,271.50
E-8..............   2,528.40   2,601.60   2,669.70   2,751.60   2,840.10
E-7..............   2,220.90   2,294.10   2,367.30   2,439.30   2,514.00
E-6..............   1,973.10   2,047.20   2,118.60   2,191.50   2,244.60
E-5..............   1,789.50   1,861.50   1,936.20   1,936.20   1,936.20
E-4..............   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90
E-3..............   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90
E-2..............   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40
E-1..............   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60
                  ------------------------------------------------------
                    Over 18    Over 20    Over 22    Over 24    Over 26
                  ------------------------------------------------------
E-9 \2\..........  $3,373.20  $3,473.40  $3,609.30  $3,744.00  $3,915.80
E-8..............   2,932.50   3,026.10   3,161.10   3,295.50   3,483.60
E-7..............   2,588.10   2,660.40   2,787.60   2,926.20   3,134.40
E-6..............   2,283.30   2,283.30   2,285.70   2,285.70   2,285.70
E-5..............   1,936.20   1,936.20   1,936.20   1,936.20   1,936.20
E-4..............   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90   1,593.90
E-3..............   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90   1,335.90
E-2..............   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,127.40   1,123.20   1,127.40
E-1..............   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60   1,005.60  1,005.60
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\1\ Notwithstanding the pay rates specified in this table, the actual
  basic pay for enlisted members may not exceed the rate of pay for
  level V of the Executive Schedule.
\2\ Subject to the preceding footnote, while serving as Sergeant Major
  of the Army, Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy, Chief Master
  Sergeant of the Air Force, Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps, or
  Master Chief Petty Officer of the Coast Guard, basic pay for this
  grade is $4,701.00, regardless of cumulative years of service computed
  under section 205 of title 37, United States Code.
\3\ In the case of members in the grade E-1 who have served less than 4
  months on active duty, basic pay is $930.30.

       (d) Limitation on Pay Adjustments.--Section 1009(a) of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``Whenever''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) On and after April 30, 1999, the actual basic pay for 
     commissioned officers in grades 0-7 through O-10 may not 
     exceed the rate of pay for level III of the Executive 
     Schedule, and the actual basic pay for all other officers and 
     enlisted members may not exceed the rate of pay for level V 
     of the Executive Schedule.''.

     SEC. 602. PAY INCREASES FOR FISCAL YEARS AFTER FISCAL YEAR 
                   2000.

       Effective on October 1, 2000, subsection (c) of section 
     1009 of title 37, United States Code, is amended to read as 
     follows:
       ``(c) Percentage Increase for All Members.--(1) Subject to 
     subsection (d), an adjustment taking effect under this 
     section during a fiscal year shall provide all eligible 
     members with an increase in the monthly basic pay by the 
     percentage equal to the sum of--
       ``(A) 0.5 percent; plus
       ``(B) the percentage calculated as provided under section 
     5303(a) of title 5.
       ``(2) The calculation required by paragraph (1)(B) shall be 
     made without regard to whether rates of pay under the 
     statutory pay systems (as defined in section 5302 of title 5) 
     are actually increased during that fiscal year under section 
     5303 of such title by the percentage so calculated.''.

     SEC. 603. ADDITIONAL AMOUNT AVAILABLE FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000 
                   INCREASE IN BASIC ALLOWANCE FOR HOUSING INSIDE 
                   THE UNITED STATES.

       In addition to the amount determined by the Secretary of 
     Defense under section 403(b)(3) of title 37, United States 
     Code, to be the total amount that may be paid during fiscal 
     year 2000 for the basic allowance for housing for military 
     housing areas inside the United States, $442,500,000 of the 
     amount authorized to be appropriated by section 421 for 
     military personnel shall be used by the Secretary to further 
     increase the total amount available for the basic allowance 
     for housing for military housing areas inside the United 
     States.

           Subtitle B--Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays

     SEC. 611. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN BONUSES AND SPECIAL PAY 
                   AUTHORITIES FOR RESERVE FORCES.

       (a) Special Pay for Health Professionals in Critically 
     Short Wartime Specialties.--Section 302g(f) of title 37, 
     United States Code, is amended by striking ``December 31, 
     1999'' and inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (b) Selected Reserve Reenlistment Bonus.--Section 308b(f) 
     of such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' 
     and inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (c) Selected Reserve Enlistment Bonus.--Section 308c(e) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and 
     inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (d) Special Pay for Enlisted Members Assigned to Certain 
     High Priority Units.--Section 308d(c) of such title is 
     amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting 
     ``December 31, 2000''.
       (e) Selected Reserve Affiliation Bonus.--Section 308e(e) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and 
     inserting ``December 31, 2000''.

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       (f) Ready Reserve Enlistment and Reenlistment Bonus.--
     Section 308h(g) of such title is amended by striking 
     ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (g) Prior Service Enlistment Bonus.--Section 308i(f) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and 
     inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (h) Repayment of Education Loans for Certain Health 
     Professionals Who Serve in the Selected Reserve.--Section 
     16302(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``January 1, 2000'' and inserting ``January 1, 
     2001''.

     SEC. 612. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN BONUSES AND SPECIAL PAY 
                   AUTHORITIES FOR NURSE OFFICER CANDIDATES, 
                   REGISTERED NURSES, AND NURSE ANESTHETISTS.

       (a) Nurse Officer Candidate Accession Program.--Section 
     2130a(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting ``December 31, 
     2000''.
       (b) Accession Bonus for Registered Nurses.--Section 
     302d(a)(1) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting ``December 31, 
     2000''.
       (c) Incentive Special Pay for Nurse Anesthetists.--Section 
     302e(a)(1) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting ``December 31, 
     2000''.

     SEC. 613. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITIES RELATING TO PAYMENT OF 
                   OTHER BONUSES AND SPECIAL PAYS.

       (a) Aviation Officer Retention Bonus.--Section 301b(a) of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended by striking 
     ``December 31, 1999,'' and inserting ``December 31, 2000,''.
       (b) Reenlistment Bonus for Active Members.--Section 308(g) 
     of such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' 
     and inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (c) Enlistment Bonus for Persons With Critical Skills.--
     Section 308a(d) of such title, as redesignated by section 
     618(b), is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and 
     inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (d) Army Enlistment Bonus.--Section 308f(c) of such title 
     is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting 
     ``December 31, 2000''.
       (e) Special Pay for Nuclear-Qualified Officers Extending 
     Period of Active Service.--Section 312(e) of such title is 
     amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and inserting 
     ``December 31, 2000''.
       (f) Nuclear Career Accession Bonus.--Section 312b(c) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``December 31, 1999'' and 
     inserting ``December 31, 2000''.
       (g) Nuclear Career Annual Incentive Bonus.--Section 312c(d) 
     of such title is amended by striking ``October 1, 1998,'' and 
     all that follows through the period at the end and inserting 
     ``December 31, 2000.''.

     SEC. 614. AVIATION CAREER INCENTIVE PAY FOR AIR BATTLE 
                   MANAGERS.

       (a) Availability of Incentive Pay.--Section 301a(b) of 
     title 37, United States Code is amended by adding at the end 
     the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) An officer serving as an air battle manager who is 
     entitled to aviation career incentive pay under this section 
     and who, before becoming entitled to aviation career 
     incentive pay, was entitled to incentive pay under section 
     301(a)(11) of this title, is entitled to monthly incentive 
     pay at a rate equal to the greater of the following:
       ``(A) The rate applicable under this subsection.
       ``(B) The rate at which the member was receiving incentive 
     pay under section 301(c)(2)(A) of this title immediately 
     before the member's entitlement to aviation career incentive 
     pay under this section.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on the first day of the first month that 
     begins on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 615. EXPANSION OF AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE SPECIAL PAY TO 
                   AVIATION CAREER OFFICERS EXTENDING PERIOD OF 
                   ACTIVE DUTY.

       (a) Eligibility Criteria.--Subsection (b) of section 301b 
     of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (5);
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking ``grade O-6'' and 
     inserting ``grade O-7'';
       (3) by inserting ``and'' at the end of paragraph (4); and
       (4) by redesignating paragraphs (3), (4), and (6) as 
     paragraphs (2), (3), and (4), respectively.
       (b) Amount of Bonus.--Subsection (c) of such section is 
     amended by striking ``than--'' and all that follows through 
     the period at the end and inserting ``than $25,000 for each 
     year covered by the written agreement to remain on active 
     duty.''.
       (c) Proration Authority for Coverage of Increased Period of 
     Eligibility.--Subsection (d) of such section is amended by 
     striking ``14 years of commissioned service'' and inserting 
     ``25 years of aviation service''.
       (d) Repeal of Content Requirements for Annual Report.--
     Subsection (i)(1) of such section is amended by striking the 
     second sentence.
       (e) Definitions Regarding Aviation Specialty.--Subsection 
     (j) of such section is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3); and
       (2) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (2).
       (f) Technical Amendment.--Subsection (g)(3) of such section 
     if amended by striking the second sentence.
       (g) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on the first day of the first month that 
     begins on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 616. DIVING DUTY SPECIAL PAY.

       (a) Increase in Payment Amount.--Subsection (b) of section 
     304 of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``$200'' and inserting ``$240''; and
       (2) by striking ``$300'' and inserting ``$340''.
       (b) Relation to Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay.--Subsection 
     (c) of such section 304 is amended to read as follows:
       ``(c) If, in addition to diving duty, a member is assigned 
     by orders to one or more hazardous duties described in 
     section 301 of this title, the member may be paid, for the 
     same period of service, special pay under this section and 
     incentive pay under such section 301 for each hazardous duty 
     for which the member is qualified.''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on the first day of the first month that 
     begins on or after the date of the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 617. REENLISTMENT BONUS.

       (a) Minimum Months of Active Duty.--Subsection (a)(1)(A) of 
     section 308 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by 
     striking ``twenty-one months'' and inserting ``17 months''.
       (b) Amount of Bonus.--Subsection (a)(2) of such section is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A)(i), by striking ``ten'' and 
     inserting ``15''; and
       (2) in subparagraph (B), by striking ``$45,000'' and 
     inserting ``$60,000''.

     SEC. 618. ENLISTMENT BONUS.

       (a) Increase in Bonus Amount.--Subsection (a) of section 
     308a of title 37, United States Code, is amended by striking 
     ``$12,000'' and inserting ``$20,000''.
       (b) Payment Methods.--Such section is further amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking the second sentence;
       (2) by redesignating subsections (b) and (c) as subsections 
     (c) and (d); and
       (3) by inserting after subsection (a) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(b) Payment Methods.--A bonus under this section may be 
     paid in a single lump sum, or in periodic installments, to 
     provide an extra incentive for a member to successfully 
     complete the training necessary for the member to be 
     technically qualified in the skill for which the bonus is 
     paid.''.
       (c) Stylistic Amendments.--Such section is further 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``Bonus Authorized; 
     Bonus Amount.--'' after ``(a)'';
       (2) in subsection (c), as redesignated by subsection (b)(2) 
     of this section, by inserting ``Repayment of Bonus.--'' after 
     ``(c)''; and
       (3) in subsection (d), as redesignated by subsection (b)(2) 
     of this section, by inserting ``Termination of Authority.--'' 
     after ``(d)''.

     SEC. 619. REVISED ELIGIBILITY REQUIREMENTS FOR RESERVE 
                   COMPONENT PRIOR SERVICE ENLISTMENT BONUS.

       Paragraph (2) of section 308i(a) of title 37, United States 
     Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(2) A bonus may only be paid under this section to a 
     person who meets each of the following requirements:
       ``(A) The person has completed a military service 
     obligation, but has less than 14 years of total military 
     service, and received an honorable discharge at the 
     conclusion of that military service obligation.
       ``(B) The person was not released, or is not being 
     released, from active service for the purpose of enlistment 
     in a reserve component.
       ``(C) The person is projected to occupy, or is occupying, a 
     position as a member of the Selected Reserve in a specialty 
     in which the person--
       ``(i) successfully served while a member on active duty and 
     attained a level of qualification while on active duty 
     commensurate with the grade and years of service of the 
     member; or
       ``(ii) has completed training or retraining in the 
     specialty skill that is designated as critically short and 
     attained a level of qualification in the specialty skill that 
     is commensurate with the grade and years of service of the 
     member.
       ``(D) The person has not previously been paid a bonus 
     (except under this section) for enlistment, reenlistment, or 
     extension of enlistment in a reserve component.''.

     SEC. 620. INCREASE IN SPECIAL PAY AND BONUSES FOR NUCLEAR-
                   QUALIFIED OFFICERS.

       (a) Special Pay for Nuclear-Qualified Officers Extending 
     Period of Active Service.--Section 312(a) of title 37, United 
     States Code, is amended by striking ``$15,000'' and inserting 
     ``$25,000''.
       (b) Nuclear Career Accession Bonus.--Section 312b(a)(1) of 
     such title is amended by striking ``$10,000'' and inserting 
     ``$20,000''.
       (c) Nuclear Career Annual Incentive Bonuses.--Section 312c 
     of such title is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1), by striking ``$12,000'' and 
     inserting ``$22,000''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``$5,500'' and 
     inserting ``$10,000''.
       (d) Effective Date.--(1) The amendments made by this 
     section shall take effect on October 1, 1999.
       (2) The amendments made by subsections (a) and (b) shall 
     apply with respect to agreements accepted under section 
     312(a) and 312b(a), respectively, of title 37, United States 
     Code, on or after October 1, 1999.
       (3) The amendments made by subsection (c) shall apply with 
     respect to nuclear service years beginning on or after 
     October 1, 1999.

     SEC. 621. INCREASE IN AUTHORIZED MONTHLY RATE OF FOREIGN 
                   LANGUAGE PROFICIENCY PAY.

       (a) Increase.--Section 316(b) of title 37, United States 
     Code, is amended by striking ``$100'' and inserting ``$300''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall take effect on the first

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     day of the first month that begins on or after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 622. AUTHORIZATION OF RETENTION BONUS FOR SPECIAL 
                   WARFARE OFFICERS EXTENDING PERIODS OF ACTIVE 
                   DUTY.

       (a) Bonus Authorized.--Chapter 5 of title 37, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 318. Special pay: special warfare officers extending 
       period of active duty

       ``(a) Special Warfare Officer Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `special warfare officer' means an officer of a 
     uniformed service who--
       ``(1) is qualified for a military occupational specialty or 
     designator identified by the Secretary concerned as a special 
     warfare military occupational specialty or designator; and
       ``(2) is serving in a position for which that specialty or 
     designator is authorized.
       ``(b) Retention Bonus Authorized.--A special warfare 
     officer who meets the eligibility requirements specified in 
     subsection (c) and who executes a written agreement, on or 
     after October 1, 1999, to remain on active duty in special 
     warfare service for at least one year may, upon the 
     acceptance of the agreement by the Secretary concerned, be 
     paid a retention bonus as provided in this section.
       ``(c) Eligible Officers.--A special warfare officer may 
     apply to enter into an agreement referred to in subsection 
     (b) if the officer--
       ``(1) is in pay grade O-3, or is in pay grade O-4 and is 
     not on a list of officers recommended for promotion, at the 
     time the officer applies to enter into the agreement;
       ``(2) has completed at least 6, but not more than 14, years 
     of active commissioned service; and
       ``(3) has completed any service commitment incurred to be 
     commissioned as an officer.
       ``(d) Amount of Bonus.--The amount of a retention bonus 
     paid under this section may not be more than $15,000 for each 
     year covered by the agreement.
       ``(e) Proration.--The term of an agreement under subsection 
     (b) and the amount of the retention bonus payable under 
     subsection (d) may be prorated as long as the agreement does 
     not extend beyond the date on which the officer executing the 
     agreement would complete 14 years of active commissioned 
     service.
       ``(f) Payment Methods.--(1) Upon acceptance of an agreement 
     under subsection (b) by the Secretary concerned, the total 
     amount payable pursuant to the agreement becomes fixed.
       ``(2) The amount of the retention bonus may be paid as 
     follows:
       ``(A) At the time the agreement is accepted by the 
     Secretary concerned, the Secretary may make a lump sum 
     payment equal to half the total amount payable under the 
     agreement. The balance of the bonus amount shall be paid in 
     equal annual installments on the anniversary of the 
     acceptance of the agreement.
       ``(B) The Secretary concerned may make graduated annual 
     payments under regulations prescribed by the Secretary, with 
     the first payment being payable at the time the agreement is 
     accepted by the Secretary and subsequent payments being 
     payable on the anniversary of the acceptance of the 
     agreement.
       ``(g) Additional Pay.--A retention bonus paid under this 
     section is in addition to any other pay and allowances to 
     which an officer is entitled.
       ``(h) Repayment.--(1) If an officer who has entered into an 
     agreement under subsection (b) and has received all or part 
     of a retention bonus under this section fails to complete the 
     total period of active duty in special warfare service as 
     specified in the agreement, the Secretary concerned may 
     require the officer to repay the United States, on a pro rata 
     basis and to the extent that the Secretary determines 
     conditions and circumstances warrant, all sums paid the 
     officer under this section.
       ``(2) An obligation to repay the United States imposed 
     under paragraph (1) is for all purposes a debt owed to the 
     United States.
       ``(3) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 that is 
     entered less than five years after the termination of an 
     agreement entered into under subsection (a) does not 
     discharge the officer signing the agreement from a debt 
     arising under such agreement or under paragraph (1).
       ``(i) Regulations.--The Secretaries concerned shall 
     prescribe regulations to carry out this section, including 
     the definition of the term `special warfare service' for 
     purposes of this section. Regulations prescribed by the 
     Secretary of a military department under this section shall 
     be subject to the approval of the Secretary of Defense.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``318. Special pay: special warfare officers extending period of active 
              duty.''.

     SEC. 623. AUTHORIZATION OF SURFACE WARFARE OFFICER 
                   CONTINUATION PAY.

       (a) Incentive Pay Authorized.--Chapter 5 of title 37, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
     318, as added by section 622, the following new section:

     ``Sec. 319. Special pay: surface warfare officer continuation 
       pay

       ``(a) Eligible Surface Warfare Officer Defined.--In this 
     section, the term `eligible surface warfare officer' means an 
     officer of the Regular Navy or Naval Reserve on active duty 
     who--
       ``(1) is qualified and serving as a surface warfare 
     officer;
       ``(2) has been selected for assignment as a department head 
     on a surface vessel; and
       ``(3) has completed any service commitment incurred through 
     the officer's original commissioning program.
       ``(b) Special Pay Authorized.--An eligible surface warfare 
     officer who executes a written agreement, on or after October 
     1, 1999, to remain on active duty to complete one or more 
     tours of duty to which the officer may be ordered as a 
     department head on a surface ship may, upon the acceptance of 
     the agreement by the Secretary of the Navy, be paid an amount 
     not to exceed $50,000.
       ``(c) Proration.--The term of the written agreement under 
     subsection (b) and the amount payable under the agreement may 
     be prorated.
       ``(d) Payment Methods.--Upon acceptance of the written 
     agreement under subsection (b) by the Secretary of the Navy, 
     the total amount payable pursuant to the agreement becomes 
     fixed. The Secretary shall prepare an implementation plan 
     specifying the amount of each installment payment under the 
     agreement and the times for payment of the installments.
       ``(e) Additional Pay.--Any amount paid under this section 
     is in addition to any other pay and allowances to which an 
     officer is entitled.
       ``(f) Repayment.--(1) If an officer who has entered into a 
     written agreement under subsection (b) and has received all 
     or part of the amount payable under the agreement fails to 
     complete the total period of active duty as a department head 
     on a surface ship specified in the agreement, the Secretary 
     of the Navy may require the officer to repay the United 
     States, to the extent that the Secretary of the Navy 
     determines conditions and circumstances warrant, any or all 
     sums paid under this section.
       ``(2) An obligation to repay the United States imposed 
     under paragraph (1) is for all purposes a debt owned to the 
     United States.
       ``(3) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 that is 
     entered less than five years after the termination of an 
     agreement entered into under subsection (b) does not 
     discharge the officer signing the agreement from a debt 
     arising under such agreement or under paragraph (1).
       ``(g) Regulations.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
     prescribe regulations to carry out this section.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting after the item relating to section 318 
     the following new item:

``319. Special pay: surface warfare officer continuation pay''.

     SEC. 624. AUTHORIZATION OF CAREER ENLISTED FLYER INCENTIVE 
                   PAY.

       (a) Incentive Pay Authorized.--Chapter 5 of title 37, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
     319, as added by section 623, the following new section:

     ``Sec. 320. Incentive pay: career enlisted flyers

       ``(a) Eligible Career Enlisted Flyer Defined.--In this 
     section, the term `eligible career enlisted flyer' means an 
     enlisted member of the armed forces who--
       ``(1) is entitled to basic pay under section 204 of this 
     title, or is entitled to pay under section 206 of this title 
     as described in subsection (e) of this section;
       ``(2) holds an enlisted military occupational specialty or 
     enlisted military rating designated as a career enlisted 
     flyer specialty or rating by the Secretary concerned, 
     performs duty as a dropsonde system operator, or is in 
     training leading to qualification and designation of such a 
     specialty or rating or the performance of such duty;
       ``(3) is qualified for aviation service under regulations 
     prescribed by the Secretary concerned; and
       ``(4) satisfies the operational flying duty requirements 
     applicable under subsection (c).
       ``(b) Incentive Pay Authorized.--(1) The Secretary 
     concerned may pay monthly incentive pay to an eligible career 
     enlisted flyer in an amount not to exceed the monthly maximum 
     amounts specified in subsection (d). The incentive pay may be 
     paid as continuous monthly incentive pay or on a month-to-
     month basis, dependent upon the operational flying duty 
     performed by the eligible career enlisted flyer as prescribed 
     in subsection (c).
       ``(2) Continuous monthly incentive pay may not be paid to 
     an eligible career enlisted flyer after the member completes 
     25 years of aviation service. Thereafter, an eligible career 
     enlisted flyer may still receive incentive pay on a month-to-
     month basis under subsection (c)(4) for the frequent and 
     regular performance of operational flying duty.
       ``(c) Operational Flying Duty Requirements.--(1) An 
     eligible career enlisted flyer must perform operational 
     flying duties for 6 of the first 10, 9 of the first 15, and 
     14 of the first 20 years of aviation service, to be eligible 
     for continuous monthly incentive pay under this section.
       ``(2) Upon completion of 10, 15, or 20 years of aviation 
     service, an enlisted member who has not performed the minimum 
     required operational flying duties specified in paragraph (1) 
     during the prescribed period, although otherwise meeting the 
     definition in subsection (a), may no longer be paid 
     continuous monthly incentive pay except as provided in 
     paragraph (3). Payment of continuous monthly incentive pay if 
     the member meets the minimum operational flying duty 
     requirement upon completion of the next established period of 
     aviation service.
       ``(3) For the needs of the service, the Secretary concerned 
     may permit, on a case-by-case basis, a member to continue to 
     receive continuous monthly incentive pay despite the member's 
     failure to perform the operational flying duty required 
     during the first 10, 15, or 20 years of aviation service, but 
     only if the member otherwise meets the definition in 
     subsection (a) and has performed at least 5 years of 
     operational flying duties during the first 10 years of 
     aviation service, 8 years of operational flying duties during 
     the first 15 years of aviation service, or

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     12 years of operational flying duty during the first 20 years 
     of aviation service. The authority of the Secretary concerned 
     under this paragraph may not be delegated below the level of 
     the Service Personnel Chief.
       ``(4) If the eligibility of an eligible career enlisted 
     flyer to continuous monthly incentive pay ceases under 
     subsection (b)(2) or paragraph (2), the member may still 
     receive month-to-month incentive pay for subsequent frequent 
     and regular performance of operational flying duty. The rate 
     payable is the same rate authorized by the Secretary 
     concerned under subsection (d) for a member of corresponding 
     years of aviation service.
       ``(d) Monthly Maximum Incentive Pay.--The monthly rate for 
     incentive pay under this section may not exceed the amounts 
     specified in the following table for the applicable years of 
     aviation service:
                                                                Monthly
``Years of aviation service:                                     rate  
  4 or less...................................................$150 ....

  Over 4......................................................$225 ....

  Over 8......................................................$350 ....

  Over 14.....................................................$400 ....

       ``(e) Eligibility of Reserve Component Members When 
     Performing Inactive Duty Training.--Under regulations 
     prescribed by the Secretary concerned, when a member of a 
     reserve component or the National Guard, who is entitled to 
     compensation under section 206 of this title, meets the 
     definition of eligible career enlisted flyer, the Secretary 
     concerned may increase the member's compensation by an amount 
     equal to \1/30\ of the monthly incentive pay authorized by 
     the Secretary concerned under subsection (d) for a member of 
     corresponding years of aviation service who is entitled to 
     basic pay under section 204 of this title. The reserve 
     component member may receive the increase for as long as the 
     member is qualified for it, for each regular period of 
     instruction or period of appropriate duty, at which the 
     member is engaged for at least two hours, or for the 
     performance of such other equivalent training, instruction, 
     duty or appropriate duties, as the Secretary may prescribe 
     under section 206(a) of this title.
       ``(f) Relation to Hazardous Duty Incentive Pay or Diving 
     Duty Special Pay.--A member receiving special pay under 
     section 301(a) or 304 of this title may not be paid incentive 
     pay under this section for the same period of service.
       ``(g) Save Pay Provision.--If, immediately before a member 
     receives incentive pay under this section, the member was 
     entitled to incentive pay under section 301(a) of this title, 
     the rate at which the member is paid incentive pay under this 
     section shall be equal to the higher of the monthly amount 
     applicable under subsection (d) or the rate of incentive pay 
     the member was receiving under subsection (b) or (c)(2)(A) of 
     section 301 of this title.
       ``(h) Specialty Code of Dropsonde System Operators.--Within 
     the Air Force, the Secretary of the Air Force shall assign to 
     members who are dropsonde system operators a specialty code 
     that identifies such members as serving in a weather 
     specialty.
       ``(i) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The term `aviation service' means participation in 
     aerial flight performed, under regulations prescribed by the 
     Secretary concerned, by an eligible career enlisted flyer.
       ``(2) The term `operational flying duty' means flying 
     performed under competent orders while serving in 
     assignments, including an assignment as a dropsonde system 
     operator, in which basic flying skills normally are 
     maintained in the performance of assigned duties as 
     determined by the Secretary concerned, and flying duty 
     performed by members in training that leads to the award of 
     an enlisted aviation rating or military occupational 
     specialty designated as a career enlisted flyer rating or 
     specialty by the Secretary concerned.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 5 of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting after the item relating to section 319 
     the following new item:

``320. Incentive pay: career enlisted flyers.''.

     SEC. 625. AUTHORIZATION OF JUDGE ADVOCATE CONTINUATION PAY.

       (a) Incentive Pay Authorized.--(1) Chapter 5 of title 37, 
     United States Code, is amended by inserting after section 
     320, as added by section 624, the following new section:

     ``Sec. 321. Special pay: judge advocate continuation pay

       ``(a) Eligible Judge Advocate Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `eligible judge advocate' means an officer of the 
     armed forces on full-time active duty who--
       ``(1) is qualified and serving as a judge advocate, as 
     defined in section 801 of title 10; and
       ``(2) has completed any service commitment incurred through 
     the officer's original commissioning program.
       ``(b) Special Pay Authorized.--An eligible judge advocate 
     who executes a written agreement, on or after October 1, 
     1999, to remain on active duty for a period of obligated 
     service specified in the agreement may, upon the acceptance 
     of the agreement by the Secretary concerned, be paid an 
     amount not to exceed $60,000.
       ``(c) Proration.--The term of the written agreement under 
     subsection (b) and the amount payable under the agreement may 
     be prorated.
       ``(d) Payment Methods.--Upon acceptance of the written 
     agreement under subsection (b) by the Secretary concerned, 
     the total amount payable pursuant to the agreement becomes 
     fixed. The Secretary shall prepare an implementation plan 
     specifying the amount of each installment payment under the 
     agreement and the times for payment of the installments.
       ``(e) Additional Pay.--Any amount paid under this section 
     is in addition to any other pay and allowances to which an 
     officer is entitled.
       ``(f) Repayment.--(1) If an officer who has entered into a 
     written agreement under subsection (b) and has received all 
     or part of the amount payable under the agreement fails to 
     complete the total period of active duty specified in the 
     agreement, the Secretary concerned may require the officer to 
     repay the United States, to the extent that the Secretary 
     determines conditions and circumstances warrant, any or all 
     sums paid under this section.
       ``(2) An obligation to repay the United States imposed 
     under paragraph (1) is for all purposes a debt owned to the 
     United States.
       ``(3) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 that is 
     entered less than five years after the termination of an 
     agreement entered into under subsection (b) does not 
     discharge the officer signing the agreement from a debt 
     arising under such agreement or under paragraph (1).
       ``(g) Regulations.--The Secretary concerned shall prescribe 
     regulations to carry out this section.''
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 5 of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended by inserting after 
     the item relating to section 320 the following new item:

``321. Special pay: judge advocate continuation pay.''.

       (b) Study and Report on Additional Recruitment and 
     Retention Initiatives.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall 
     conduct a study regarding the need for additional incentives 
     to improve the recruitment and retention of judge advocates 
     for the Armed Forces. At a minimum, the Secretary shall 
     consider as possible incentives constructive service credit 
     for basic pay, educational loan repayment, and Federal 
     student loan relief.
       (2) Not later than March 31, 2000, the Secretary shall 
     submit to Congress a report containing the findings and 
     recommendations resulting from the study.

            Subtitle C--Travel and Transportation Allowances

     SEC. 631. PROVISION OF LODGING IN KIND FOR RESERVISTS 
                   PERFORMING TRAINING DUTY AND NOT OTHERWISE 
                   ENTITLED TO TRAVEL AND TRANSPORTATION 
                   ALLOWANCES.

       Section 404(i) of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following 
     new sentence: ``If transient government housing is 
     unavailable, the Secretary concerned may provide the member 
     with lodging in kind in the same manner as members entitled 
     to such allowances under subsection (a).''; and
       (2) in paragraph (3)--
       (A) by inserting after ``paragraph (1)'' the following: 
     ``and expenses of providing lodging in kind under such 
     paragraph''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new sentence: ``Use 
     of Government charge cards is authorized for payment of these 
     expenses.''.

     SEC. 632. PAYMENT OF TEMPORARY LODGING EXPENSES FOR MEMBERS 
                   MAKING THEIR FIRST PERMANENT CHANGE OF STATION.

       (a) Authority to Pay or Reimburse.--Section 404a(a) of 
     title 37, United States Code, is amended
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (2) in paragraph (2), by inserting ``or'' after the 
     semicolon; and
       (3) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(3) in the case of an enlisted member who is reporting to 
     the member's first permanent duty station, from the member's 
     home of record or initial technical school to that first 
     permanent duty station;''.
       (b) Duration.--Such section is further amended--
       (1) in the second sentence, by striking ``clause (1)'' and 
     inserting ``paragraph (1) or (3)''; and
       (2) in the third sentence, by striking ``clause (2)'' and 
     inserting ``paragraph (2)''.

     SEC. 633. EMERGENCY LEAVE TRAVEL COST LIMITATIONS.

       Section 411d(b)(1) of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subparagraph (A), by striking ``or'' at the end;
       (2) by redesignating subparagraph (B) as subparagraph (C); 
     and
       (3) by inserting after subparagraph (A) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(B) to any airport in the continental United States to 
     which travel can be arranged at the same or a lower cost as 
     travel obtained under subparagraph (A); or''.

                     Subtitle D--Retired Pay Reform

     SEC. 641. REDUX RETIRED PAY SYSTEM APPLICABLE ONLY TO MEMBERS 
                   ELECTING NEW 15-YEAR CAREER STATUS BONUS.

       (a) Retired Pay Multiplier.--Paragraph (2) of section 
     1409(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     inserting ``has elected to receive a bonus under section 321 
     of title 37,'' after ``July 31, 1986,''.
       (b) Cost-of-Living Adjustments.--Paragraph (3) of section 
     1401a(b) of such title is amended to read as follows:
       ``(3) Post-august 1, 1986 members.--
       ``(A) Members electing 15-year career status bonus.--In the 
     case of a member or former member who first became a member 
     on or after August 1, 1986, and who elected to receive a 
     bonus under section 321 of title 37, the Secretary shall 
     increase the retired pay of the member or former member 
     (unless the percent determined under paragraph (2) is less 
     than 1 percent) by the difference between--
       ``(i) the percent determined under paragraph (2); and
       ``(ii) 1 percent.
       ``(B) Members not electing 15-year career status bonus.--In 
     the case of a member or

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     former member who first became a member on or after August 1, 
     1986, and who did not elect to receive a bonus under section 
     321 of title 37, the Secretary shall increase the retired pay 
     of the member or former member--
       ``(i) if the percent determined under paragraph (2) is 
     equal to or greater than 3 percent, by the difference 
     between--

       ``(I) the percent determined under paragraph (2); and
       ``(II) 1 percent; and

       ``(ii) if the percent determined under paragraph (2) is 
     less than 3 percent, by the lesser of--

       ``(I) the percent determined under paragraph (2); or
       ``(II) 2 percent.''.

       (c) Recomputation of Retired Pay At Age 62.--Section 1410 
     of such title is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a) In General.--'' before ``In the case 
     of'';
       (2) by inserting after ``62 years of age,'' the following: 
     ``in accordance with subsection (b) or (c), as applicable.
       ``(b) Members Receiving Career Status Bonus.--In the case 
     of a member or former member described in subsection (a) who 
     received a bonus under section 321 of title 37, the retired 
     pay of the member or former member shall be recomputed under 
     subsection (a)'';
       (3) by striking ``that date'' and inserting ``the effective 
     date of the recomputation''; and
       (4) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(c) Members Not Receiving Career Status Bonus.--In the 
     case of a member or former member described in subsection (a) 
     who did not receive a bonus under section 321 of title 37, 
     the retired pay of the member or former member shall be 
     recomputed under subsection (a) so as to be the amount equal 
     to the amount of retired pay to which the member or former 
     member would be entitled on the effective date of the 
     recomputation if increases in the retired pay of the member 
     or former member under section 1401a(b) of this title had 
     been computed as provided in paragraph (2) of that section 
     (rather than under paragraph (3)(B) of that section).''.

     SEC. 642. AUTHORIZATION OF 15-YEAR CAREER STATUS BONUS.

       (a) Career Service Bonus.--Chapter 5 of title 37, United 
     States Code, is amended by inserting after section 321, as 
     added by section 625, the following new section:

     ``Sec. 322. Special pay: 15-year career status bonus for 
       members entering service on or after August 1, 1986

       ``(a) Eligible Career Bonus Member Defined.--In this 
     section, the term `eligible career bonus member' means a 
     member of a uniformed service serving on active duty who--
       ``(1) first became a member on or after August 1, 1986; and
       ``(2) has completed 15 years of active duty in the 
     uniformed services (or has received notification under 
     subsection (e) that the member is about to complete that 
     duty).
       ``(b) Availability of Bonus.--The Secretary concerned shall 
     pay a bonus under this section to an eligible career bonus 
     member if the member--
       ``(1) elects to receive the bonus under this section; and
       ``(2) executes a written agreement (prescribed by the 
     Secretary concerned) to remain continuously on active duty 
     until the member has completed 20 years of active-duty 
     service creditable under section 1405 of title 10, if the 
     member is not already obligated to remain on active duty for 
     a period that would result in at least 20 years of active-
     duty service.
       ``(c) Election Method.--The election under subsection 
     (b)(1) shall be made in such form and within such period as 
     the Secretary concerned may prescribe. An election under such 
     subsection is irrevocable.
       ``(d) Amount of Bonus; Payment.--(1) A bonus under this 
     section shall be paid in one lump sum of $30,000.
       ``(2) The bonus shall be paid to an eligible career bonus 
     member not later than the first month that begins on or after 
     the date that is 60 days after the date on which the 
     Secretary concerned receives from the member the election 
     required under subsection (b)(1) and the written agreement 
     required under subsection (b)(2), if applicable.
       ``(e) Notification of Eligibility.--(1) The Secretary 
     concerned shall transmit to each member who satisfies the 
     definition of eligible career bonus member a written 
     notification of the opportunity of the member to elect to 
     receive a bonus under this section. The Secretary shall 
     provide the notification not later than 180 days before the 
     date on which the member will complete 15 years of active 
     duty.
       ``(2) The notification shall include the following:
       ``(A) The procedures for electing to receive the bonus.
       ``(B) An explanation of the effects under sections 1401a, 
     1409, and 1410 of title 10 that such an election has on the 
     computation of any retired or retainer pay that the member 
     may become eligible to receive.
       ``(f) Repayment of Bonus.--(1) If a person paid a bonus 
     under this section fails to complete the total period of 
     active duty specified in subsection (b)(2), the person shall 
     refund to the United States the amount that bears the same 
     ratio to the amount of the bonus payment as the unserved part 
     of that total period bears to the total period.
       ``(2) Subject to paragraph (3), an obligation to reimburse 
     the United States imposed under paragraph (1) is for all 
     purposes a debt owed to the United States.
       ``(3) The Secretary concerned may waive, in whole or in 
     part, a refund required under paragraph (1) if the Secretary 
     concerned determines that recovery would be against equity 
     and good conscience or would be contrary to the best 
     interests of the United States.
       ``(4) A discharge in bankruptcy under title 11 that is 
     entered less than five years after the termination of an 
     agreement under this section does not discharge the member 
     signing such agreement from a debt arising under the 
     agreement or this subsection.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 321 the following new item:

``322. Special pay: 15-year career status bonus for members entering 
              service on or after August 1, 1986.''.

     SEC. 643. CONFORMING AMENDMENTS.

       (a) Conforming Amendment to Survivor Benefit Plan 
     Provision.--Section 1451(h)(3) of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting ``of certain members'' after 
     ``retirement''.
       (b) Related Technical Amendments.--Chapter 71 of such title 
     is amended as follows:
       (1) Section 1401a(b) is amended by striking the heading for 
     paragraph (1) and inserting ``Increase required.--''.
       (2) Section 1409(b)(2) is amended by inserting ``certain'' 
     in the paragraph heading after ``Reduction applicable to''.

     SEC. 644. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       The amendments made by sections 641, 642, and 643 shall 
     take effect on October 1, 1999.

       Subtitle E--Other Retired Pay and Survivor Benefit Matters

     SEC. 651. EFFECTIVE DATE OF DISABILITY RETIREMENT FOR MEMBERS 
                   DYING IN CIVILIAN MEDICAL FACILITIES.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 61 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 1219 the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 1220. Members dying in civilian medical facilities: 
       authority for determination of later time of death to allow 
       disability retirement

       ``(a) Authority for Later Time-of-Death Determination To 
     Allow Disability Retirement.--In the case of a member of the 
     armed forces who dies in a civilian medical facility in a 
     State, the Secretary concerned may, solely for the purpose of 
     allowing retirement of the member under section 1201 or 1204 
     of this title and subject to subsection (b), specify a date 
     and time of death of the member later than the date and time 
     of death determined by the attending physician in that 
     civilian medical facility.
       ``(b) Limitations.--A date and time of death may be 
     determined by the Secretary concerned under subsection (a) 
     only if that date and time--
       ``(1) are consistent with the date and time of death that 
     reasonably could have been determined by an attending 
     physician in a military medical facility if the member had 
     died in a military medical facility in the same State as the 
     civilian medical facility; and
       ``(2) are not more than 48 hours later than the date and 
     time of death determined by the attending physician in the 
     civilian medical facility.
       ``(c) State Defined.--In this section, the term `State' 
     includes the District of Columbia and any Commonwealth or 
     possession of the United States.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
     1219 the following new item:

``1220. Members dying in civilian medical facilities: authority for 
              determination of later time of death to allow disability 
              retirement.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--(1) Section 1220 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall apply with 
     respect to any member of the Armed Forces dying in a civilian 
     medical facility on or after January 1, 1998.
       (2) In the case of any such member dying on or after such 
     date and before the date of the enactment of this Act, any 
     specification by the Secretary concerned under such section 
     with respect to the date and time of death of such member 
     shall be made not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 652. EXTENSION OF ANNUITY ELIGIBILITY FOR SURVIVING 
                   SPOUSES OF CERTAIN RETIREMENT ELIGIBLE RESERVE 
                   MEMBERS.

       (a) Coverage of Surviving Spouses of All Gray Area 
     Retirees.--Section 644(a)(1)(B) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 
     111 Stat. 1800) is amended by striking ``during the period 
     beginning on September 21, 1972, and ending on'' and 
     inserting ``before''.
       (b) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall apply with respect to annuities payable for months 
     beginning after September 30, 1999.

     SEC. 653. PRESENTATION OF UNITED STATES FLAG TO RETIRING 
                   MEMBERS OF THE UNIFORMED SERVICES NOT 
                   PREVIOUSLY COVERED.

       (a) Nonregular Service Military Retirees.--(1) Chapter 1217 
     of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the 
     end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 12605. Presentation of United States flag: members 
       transferred from an active status or discharged after 
       completion of eligibility for retired pay

       ``(a) Presentation of Flag.--Upon the transfer from an 
     active status or discharge of a Reserve who has completed the 
     years of service required for eligibility for retired pay 
     under chapter 1223 of this title, the Secretary concerned 
     shall present a United States flag to the member.
       ``(b) Multiple Presentations Not Authorized.--A member is 
     not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) 
     if the member has previously been presented a flag under this 
     section or any provision of law providing for the 
     presentation of a United States flag incident to release from 
     active service for retirement.

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       ``(c) No Cost to Recipient.--The presentation of a flag 
     under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``12605. Presentation of United States flag: members transferred from 
              an active status or discharged after completion of 
              eligibility for retired pay.''.

       (b) Public Health Service.--Title II of the Public Health 
     Service Act is amended by inserting after section 212 (42 
     U.S.C. 213) the following new section:


          ``presentation of united states flag upon retirement

       ``Sec. 213. (a) Upon the release of an officer of the 
     commissioned corps of the Service from active commissioned 
     service for retirement, the Secretary of Health and Human 
     Services shall present a United States flag to the officer.
       ``(b) Multiple Presentations Not Authorized.--An officer is 
     not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) 
     if the officer has previously been presented a flag under 
     this section or any other provision of law providing for the 
     presentation of a United States flag incident to release from 
     active service for retirement.
       ``(c) No Cost to Recipient.--The presentation of a flag 
     under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.''.
       (c) National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.--The 
     Coast and Geodetic Survey Commissioned Officers' Act of 1948 
     is amended by inserting after section 24 (33 U.S.C. 853u) the 
     following new section:
       ``Sec. 25. (a) Upon the release of a commissioned officer 
     from active commissioned service for retirement, the 
     Secretary of Commerce shall present a United States flag to 
     the officer.
       ``(b) Multiple Presentations Not Authorized.--An officer is 
     not eligible for presentation of a flag under subsection (a) 
     if the officer has previously been presented a flag under 
     this section or any other provision of law providing for the 
     presentation of a United States flag incident to release from 
     active service for retirement.
       ``(c) No Cost to Recipient.--The presentation of a flag 
     under this section shall be at no cost to the recipient.''.
       (d) Effective Date.--Section 12605 of title 10, United 
     States Code (as added by subsection (a)), section 413 of the 
     Public Health Service Act (as added by subsection (b)), and 
     section 25 of the Coast and Geodetic Survey Commissioned 
     Officers' Act of 1948 (as added by subsection (c)) shall 
     apply with respect to releases from service described in 
     those sections on or after October 1, 1999.
       (e) Conforming Amendments to Prior Law.--Sections 3681(b), 
     6141(b), and 8681(b) of title 10, United States Code, and 
     section 516(b) of title 14, United States Code, are each 
     amended by striking ``under this section'' and all that 
     follows through the period and inserting ``under this section 
     or any other provision of law providing for the presentation 
     of a United States flag incident to release from active 
     service for retirement.''.

     SEC. 654. ACCRUAL FUNDING FOR RETIREMENT SYSTEM FOR 
                   COMMISSIONED CORPS OF NATIONAL OCEANIC AND 
                   ATMOSPHERIC ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) Inclusion of NOAA Officers in DOD Military Retirement 
     Fund.--Section 1461 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by inserting ``and the Department of 
     Commerce'' after ``Department of Defense'';
       (2) in subsection (b)--
       (A) by inserting ``and the Coast and Geodetic Survey 
     Commissioned Officers' Act of 1948 (33 U.S.C. 853a et seq.)'' 
     in paragraph (1) after ``this title'';
       (B) by striking ``and'' at the end of paragraph (2);
       (C) by striking the period at the end of paragraph (3) and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (D) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) the programs under the jurisdiction of the Department 
     of Commerce providing annuities for survivors of members and 
     former members of the NOAA Corps.''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) In this chapter, the term `NOAA Corps' means the 
     National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Commissioned 
     Corps and its predecessors.''.
       (b) Payments From the Fund.--Section 1463(a) of such title 
     is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by striking ``and Marine Corps'' and 
     inserting ``Marine Corps, and the NOAA Corps''; and
       (2) in paragraph (4)--
       (A) by inserting ``and the Department of Commerce'' after 
     ``Department of Defense''; and
       (B) by striking ``armed forces'' and inserting ``uniformed 
     services''.
       (c) Reports by Board of Actuaries.--Section 1464(b) of such 
     title is amended by inserting ``and the Secretary of Commerce 
     with respect to the NOAA Corps'' after ``Secretary of 
     Defense''.
       (d) Department of Commerce Contributions to the Fund.--
     Section 1465 of such title is amended as follows:
       (1) Subsection (a) is amended--
       (A) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(a)''; and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) Not later than January 1, 2000, the Secretary of 
     Commerce shall provide to the Board the amount that is the 
     present value (as of October 1, 1999) of future benefits 
     payable from the Fund that are attributable to service in the 
     NOAA Corps performed before October 1, 1999. That amount is 
     the NOAA Corps original unfunded liability of the Fund. The 
     Board shall determine the period of time over which that 
     unfunded liability should be liquidated and shall determine 
     an amortization schedule for the liquidation of such 
     liability over that period. Contributions to the Fund for the 
     liquidation of the original unfunded liability in accordance 
     with that schedule shall be made as provided in section 
     1466(b) of this title.''.
       (2) Subsection (b) is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by inserting ``and the Secretary of Commerce'' after 
     ``Secretary of Defense'' in the matter preceding subparagraph 
     (A);
       (ii) by inserting ``and the Department of Commerce 
     contributions with respect to the NOAA Corps'' after 
     ``Department of Defense contributions'' in the matter 
     preceding subparagraph (A); and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) The product of--
       ``(i) the current estimate of the value of the single level 
     percentage of basic pay to be determined under subsection 
     (c)(1)(C) at the time of the next actuarial valuation under 
     subsection (c); and
       ``(ii) the total amount of basic pay expected to be paid 
     during that fiscal year to members of the NOAA Corps.''; and
       (B) in paragraph (2)--
       (i) by inserting ``and the Department of Commerce'' after 
     ``Department of Defense''; and
       (ii) by inserting ``and shall include separate amounts for 
     the Department of Defense and the Department of Commerce'' 
     after ``section 1105 of title 31''.
       (3) Subsection (c)(1) is amended--
       (A) by inserting ``and the Secretary of Commerce with 
     respect to the NOAA Corps'' in the first sentence after 
     ``Secretary of Defense'';
       (B) by striking ``and'' at the end of subparagraph (A);
       (C) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (B) 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (D) by inserting after subparagraph (B) the following new 
     subparagraph:
       ``(C) a determination (using the aggregate entry-age normal 
     cost method) of a single level percentage of basic pay for 
     members of the NOAA Corps.''.
       (e) Payments Into the Fund.--Section 1466 of such title is 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by inserting ``and the Secretary of Commerce with 
     respect to the NOAA Corps'' after ``Secretary of Defense'';
       (B) by striking ``Department of Defense'' after ``each 
     month as the'';
       (C) by inserting ``and 1465(c)(1)(C)'' in paragraph (1)(A) 
     after ``section 1465(c)(1)(A)'';
       (D) by inserting ``and by members of the NOAA Corps'' in 
     paragraph (1)(B) before the period; and
       (E) by inserting ``or members of the NOAA Corps'' before 
     the period at the end of the last sentence of that 
     subsection;
       (2) in subsection (b)(2), by inserting ``and the NOAA 
     original unfunded liability'' after ``original unfunded 
     liability''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c)(1) The Secretary of Transportation shall process, on 
     behalf of the Fund, payments under section 1463 of this title 
     to members on the retired list of the NOAA Corps and to 
     survivors of members and former members of the NOAA Corps.
       ``(2) Payments made by the Secretary of Transportation 
     under paragraph (1) shall be charged against the Fund.''.
       (f) Effective Date.--The amendments made by this section 
     shall take effect on October 1, 1999.

                       Subtitle F--Other Matters

     SEC. 671. PAYMENTS FOR UNUSED ACCRUED LEAVE AS PART OF 
                   REENLISTMENT.

       Section 501 of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (A) by striking ``conditions or'' and inserting 
     ``conditions,''; and
       (B) by adding before the semicolon the following: ``, or a 
     reenlistment of the member (regardless of when the 
     reenlistment occurs)''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(2), by striking ``, or entering into 
     an enlistment,''.

     SEC. 672. CLARIFICATION OF PER DIEM ELIGIBILITY FOR MILITARY 
                   TECHNICIANS SERVING ON ACTIVE DUTY WITHOUT PAY 
                   OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

       (a) Authority to Provide Per Diem Allowance.--Section 
     1002(b) of title 37, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' after ``(b)''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) If a military technician (dual status), as described 
     in section 10216 of title 10, is performing active duty 
     without pay while on leave from technician employment, as 
     authorized by section 6323(d) of title 5, the Secretary 
     concerned may authorize the payment of a per diem allowance 
     to the military technician in lieu of commutation for 
     subsistence and quarters under paragraph (1).''.
       (b) Types of Overseas Operations.--Section 6323(d)(1) of 
     title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking 
     ``noncombat''.
       (c) Effective Date.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall be effective as of February 10, 1996, as if included in 
     section 1039 of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat.432).

     SEC. 673. OVERSEAS SPECIAL SUPPLEMENTAL FOOD PROGRAM.

       (a) Program Required.--Subsection (a) of section 1060a of 
     title 10, United States Code, is amended by striking 
     ``Authority.--The Secretary of Defense may'' and inserting 
     ``Program Required.--The Secretary of Defense shall''.
       (b) Funding Source.--Subsection (b) of such section is 
     amended to read as follows:

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       ``(b) Funding Mechanism.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     use funds available for the Department of Defense to carry 
     out the program under subsection (a).''.
       (c) Program Administration.--Subsection (c) of such section 
     is amended--
       (1) by striking paragraph (1)(B) and inserting the 
     following:
       ``(B) In determining income eligibility standards for 
     families of individuals participating in the program under 
     this section, the Secretary of Defense shall, to the extent 
     practicable, use the criterion described in subparagraph (A). 
     The Secretary shall also consider the value of housing in 
     kind provided to the individual when determining program 
     eligibility.'';
       (2) in paragraph (2), by adding before the period at the 
     end the following: ``, particularly with respect to nutrition 
     education and counseling''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide technical 
     assistance to the Secretary of Defense, if so requested by 
     the Secretary of Defense, for the purpose of carrying out the 
     program under subsection (a).''.
       (d) Conforming Amendment.--Section 17 of the Child 
     Nutrition Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 1786) is amended by adding 
     at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(q) The Secretary of Agriculture shall provide technical 
     assistance to the Secretary of Defense, if so requested by 
     the Secretary of Defense, for the purpose of carrying out the 
     overseas special supplemental food program established under 
     section 1060a(a) of title 10, United States Code.''.

     SEC. 674. SPECIAL COMPENSATION FOR SEVERELY DISABLED 
                   UNIFORMED SERVICES RETIREES.

       (a) Authority.--(1) Chapter 71 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 1413. Special compensation for certain severely 
       disabled uniformed services retirees

       ``(a) Authority.--The Secretary concerned shall, subject to 
     the availability of appropriations for such purpose, pay to 
     each eligible disabled uniformed services retiree a monthly 
     amount determined under subsection (b).
       ``(b) Amount.--The amount to be paid (subject to the 
     availability of appropriations) to an eligible disabled 
     uniformed services retiree in accordance with subsection (a) 
     is the following:
       ``(1) For any month for which the retiree has a qualifying 
     service-connected disability rated as total, $300.
       ``(2) For any month for which the retiree has a qualifying 
     service-connected disability rated as 90 percent, $200.
       ``(3) For any month for which the retiree has a qualifying 
     service-connected disability rated as 80 percent or 70 
     percent, $100.
       ``(c) Eligible Disabled Uniformed Services Retiree 
     Defined.--In this section, the term `eligible disabled 
     military retiree' means a member of the uniformed services in 
     a retired status (who is retired under a provision of law 
     other than chapter 61 of this title) who--
       ``(1) completed at least 20 years of service in the 
     uniformed services that are creditable for purposes of 
     computing the amount of retired pay to which the member is 
     entitled; and
       ``(2) has a qualifying service-connected disability.
       ``(d) Qualifying Service-Connected Disability Defined.--In 
     this section, the term `qualifying service-connected 
     disability' means a service-connected disability that--
       ``(1) was incurred or aggravated in the performance of duty 
     as a member of a uniformed service, as determined by the 
     Secretary concerned; and
       ``(2) is rated as not less than 70 percent disabling--
       ``(A) by the Secretary concerned as of the date on which 
     the member is retired from the uniformed services; or
       ``(B) by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs within four 
     years following the date on which the member is retired from 
     the uniformed services.
       ``(e) Status of Payments.--Payments under this section are 
     not retired pay.
       ``(f) Source of Funds.--(1) Payments under this section for 
     any fiscal year shall be paid out of funds appropriated for 
     pay and allowances payable by the Secretary concerned for 
     that fiscal year.
       ``(2) If the amount of funds available to the Secretary 
     concerned for any fiscal year for payments under this section 
     is less than the amount required to make such payments to all 
     eligible disabled uniformed services retirees for that year, 
     the Secretary shall make such payments first to retirees 
     described in paragraph (1) of subsection (b), then (to the 
     extent funds are available) to retirees described in 
     paragraph (2) of that subsection, and then (to the extent 
     funds are available) to retirees described in paragraph (3) 
     of that subsection.
       ``(g) Other Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The terms `compensation' and `service-connected' have 
     the meanings given those terms in section 101 of title 38.
       ``(2) The term `disability rated as total' means--
       ``(A) a disability that is rated as total under the 
     standard schedule of rating disabilities in use by the 
     Department of Veterans Affairs; or
       ``(B) a disability for which the schedular rating is less 
     than total but for which a rating of total is assigned by 
     reason of inability of the disabled person concerned to 
     secure or follow a substantially gainful occupation as a 
     result of service-connected disabilities.
       ``(3) The term `retired pay' includes retainer pay, 
     emergency officers' retirement pay, and naval pension.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``1413. Special compensation for certain severely disabled uniformed 
              services retirees.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--Section 1413 of title 10, United 
     States Code, as added by subsection (a), shall take effect on 
     October 1, 1999, and shall apply to months that begin on or 
     after that date. No benefit may be paid to any person by 
     reason of that section for any period before that date.

     SEC. 675. TUITION ASSISTANCE FOR MEMBERS DEPLOYED IN A ---- 
                   CONTINGENCY OPERATION.

       Section 2007(a) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) in paragraph (2), by striking ``and'';
       (2) in paragraph (3), by striking the period at the end and 
     inserting ``; and''; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) in the case of a member serving in a contingency 
     operation or similar operational mission (other than for 
     training) designated by the Secretary concerned, all of the 
     charges may be paid.''.

                     TITLE VII--HEALTH CARE MATTERS

                    Subtitle A--Health Care Services

     SEC. 701. PROVISION OF HEALTH CARE TO MEMBERS ON ACTIVE DUTY 
                   AT CERTAIN REMOTE LOCATIONS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall enter into 
     agreements with designated providers under which such 
     providers will provide health care services in or through 
     managed care plans to an eligible member of the Armed Forces 
     who resides within the service area of the designated 
     provider. The provisions in section 722(b)(2) of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 
     104-201; 10 U.S.C. 1073 note) shall apply with respect to 
     such agreements.
       (b) Adherence to TRICARE Prime Remote Program Policies.--A 
     designated provider who provides health care to an eligible 
     member described in subsection (a) shall, in providing such 
     care, adhere to policies of the Department of Defense with 
     respect to the TRICARE Prime Remote program, including 
     policies regarding coordination with appropriate military 
     medical authorities for specialty referrals and 
     hospitalization.
       (c) Reimbursement Rates.--The Secretary shall negotiate 
     with each designated provider reimbursement rates that do not 
     exceed reimbursement rates allowable under TRICARE Standard.
       (d) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``eligible member'' has the meaning given that 
     term in section 731(c) of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 10 U.S.C. 1074 
     note).
       (1) The term ``designated provider'' has the meaning given 
     that term in section 721(5) of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 
     10 U.S.C. 1073 note).

     SEC. 702. PROVISION OF CHIROPRACTIC HEALTH CARE.

       (a) In General.--Section 731 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (Public Law 103-337; 
     10 U.S.C. 1092 note) is amended--
       (1) in the heading, by striking ``demonstration program'';
       (2) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following 
     new paragraph:
       ``(4) During fiscal year 2000, the Secretary shall continue 
     to furnish the same chiropractic care in the military medical 
     treatment facilities designated pursuant to paragraph (2)(A) 
     as the chiropractic care furnished during the demonstration 
     program.'';
       (3) in subsection (c)--
       (A) in paragraph (3), by striking ``Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security 
     of the House of Representatives'' and inserting ``Committees 
     on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of 
     Representatives''; and
       (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ``May 1, 2000'' and 
     inserting ``January 31, 2000'';
       (4) in subsection (d)--
       (A) in paragraph (3)--
       (i) by striking ``; and'' at the end of subparagraph (C) 
     and inserting a semicolon;
       (ii) by striking the period at the end of subparagraph (D) 
     and inserting ``; and''; and
       (iii) by adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(E) if the Secretary submits an implementation plan 
     pursuant to subsection (e), the preparation of such plan.''; 
     and
       (B) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(5) The Secretary shall--
       ``(A) make full use of the oversight advisory committee in 
     preparing--
       ``(i) the final report on the demonstration program 
     conducted under this section; and
       ``(ii) the implementation plan described in subsection (e); 
     and
       ``(B) provide opportunities for members of the committee to 
     provide views as part of such final report and plan.'';
       (5) by redesignating subsection (e) as subsection (f); and
       (6) by inserting after subsection (d) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(e) Implementation Plan.--If the Secretary of Defense 
     recommends in the final report submitted under subsection (c) 
     that chiropractic health care services should be offered in 
     medical care facilities of the Armed Forces or as a health 
     care service covered under the TRICARE program, the Secretary 
     shall, not later than March 31, 2000, submit to the 
     Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
     and the Senate an implementation plan for the full 
     integration of chiropractic health care services into the 
     military health care system of the Department of Defense, 
     including the TRICARE program. Such implementation plan shall 
     include--

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       ``(1) a detailed analysis of the projected costs of fully 
     integrating chiropractic health care services into the 
     military health care system;
       ``(2) the proposed scope of practice for chiropractors who 
     would provide services to covered beneficiaries under chapter 
     55 of title 10, United States Code;
       ``(3) the proposed military medical treatment facilities at 
     which such services would be provided;
       ``(4) the military readiness requirements for chiropractors 
     who would provide services to such covered beneficiaries; and
       ``(5) any other relevant factors that the Secretary 
     considers appropriate.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--The item relating to section 731 
     in the table of contents at the beginning of such Act is 
     amended to read as follows:

``731. Chiropractic health care.''

     SEC. 703. CONTINUATION OF PROVISION OF DOMICILIARY AND 
                   CUSTODIAL CARE FOR CERTAIN CHAMPUS 
                   BENEFICIARIES.

       (a) Continuation of Care.--(1) The Secretary of Defense 
     may, in any case in which the Secretary makes the 
     determination described in paragraph (2), continue to provide 
     payment under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the 
     Uniformed Services (as defined in section 1072 of title 10, 
     United States Code), for domiciliary or custodial care 
     services provided to an eligible beneficiary that would 
     otherwise be excluded from coverage under regulations 
     implementing section 1077(b)(1) of such title.
       (2) A determination under this paragraph is a determination 
     that discontinuation of payment for domiciliary or custodial 
     care services or transition to provision of care under the 
     individual case management program authorized by section 
     1079(a)(17) of such title would be--
       (A) inadequate to meet the needs of the eligible 
     beneficiary; and
       (B) unjust to such beneficiary.
       (b) Eligible Beneficiary Defined.--As used in this section, 
     the term ``eligible beneficiary'' means a covered beneficiary 
     (as that term is defined in section 1072 of title 10, United 
     States Code) who, before the effective date of final 
     regulations to implement the individual case management 
     program authorized by section 1079(a)(17) of such title, were 
     provided domiciliary or custodial care services for which the 
     Secretary provided payment.

     SEC. 704. REMOVAL OF RESTRICTION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR 
                   ABORTIONS IN CERTAIN CASES OF RAPE OR INCEST.

       Section 1093(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by inserting ``or in a case in which the pregnancy is the 
     result of an act of forcible rape or incest which has been 
     reported to a law enforcement agency'' before the period.

                      Subtitle B--TRICARE Program

     SEC. 711. IMPROVEMENTS TO CLAIMS PROCESSING UNDER THE TRICARE 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 1095b the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 1095c. TRICARE program: facilitation of processing of 
       claims

       ``(a) Reduction of Processing Time.--(1) With respect to 
     claims for payment for medical care provided under the 
     TRICARE program, the Secretary of Defense shall implement a 
     system for processing of claims under which--
       ``(A) 95 percent of all mistake-free claims must be 
     processed not later than 30 days after the date that such 
     claims are submitted to the claims processor; and
       ``(B) 100 percent of all mistake-free claims must be 
     processed not later than 100 days after the date that such 
     claims are submitted to the claims processor.
       ``(2) The Secretary may, under the system required by 
     paragraph (1) and consistent with the provisions in chapter 
     39 of title 31, United States Code (commonly referred to as 
     the `Prompt Payment Act'), require that interest be paid on 
     claims that are not processed within 30 days.
       ``(b) Requirement to Provide Start-up Time For Certain 
     Contractors.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall not require 
     that a contractor described in paragraph (2) begin to provide 
     managed care support pursuant to a contract to provide such 
     support under the TRICARE program until at least nine months 
     after the date of the award of the contract. In such case the 
     contractor may begin to provide managed care support pursuant 
     to the contract as soon as practicable after the award of the 
     contract, but in no case later than one year after the date 
     of such award.
       ``(2) A contractor under this paragraph is a contractor who 
     is awarded a contract to provide managed care support under 
     the TRICARE program--
       ``(A) who has not previously been awarded such a contract 
     by the Department of Defense; or
       ``(B) who has previously been awarded such a contract by 
     the Department of Defense but for whom the subcontractors 
     have not previously been awarded the subcontracts for such a 
     contract.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
     1095b the following new item:

``1095c. TRICARE program: facilitation of processing of claims.''.
       (b) Report.--Not later than 6 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to Congress a report on--
       (1) the status of claims processing backlogs in each 
     TRICARE region;
       (2) the estimated time frame for resolution of such 
     backlogs;
       (3) efforts to reduce the number of change orders with 
     respect to contracts to provide managed care support under 
     the TRICARE program and to make such change orders in groups 
     on a quarterly basis rather than one at a time;
       (4) the extent of success in simplifying claims processing 
     procedures through reduction of reliance of the Department of 
     Defense on, and the complexity of, the health care service 
     record;
       (5) application of best industry practices with respect to 
     claims processing, including electronic claims processing; 
     and
       (6) any other initiatives of the Department of Defense to 
     improve claims processing procedures.
       (c) Deadline For Implementation.--The system for processing 
     claims required under section 1095c(a) of title 10, United 
     States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall be 
     implemented not later than 6 months after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (d) Applicability.--Section 1095c(b) of title 10, United 
     States Code (as added by subsection (a)), shall apply with 
     respect to any contract to provide managed care support under 
     the TRICARE program negotiated after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.

     SEC. 712. AUTHORITY TO WAIVE CERTAIN TRICARE DEDUCTIBLES.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 1095c (as added 
     by section 711) the following new section:

     ``Sec. 1095d. TRICARE program: waiver of certain deductibles

       ``(a) Waiver Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense may 
     waive the deductible payable for medical care provided under 
     the TRICARE program to an eligible dependent of--
       ``(1) a member of a reserve component on active duty 
     pursuant to a call or order to active duty for a period of 
     less than one year; or
       ``(2) a member of the National Guard on full-time National 
     Guard duty pursuant to a call or order to full-time National 
     Guard duty for a period of less than one year.
       ``(b) Eligible Dependent.--As used in this section, the 
     term `eligible dependent' means a dependent described 
     subparagraphs (A), (D), or (I) of section 1072(2) of this 
     title.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by inserting after the 
     item relating to section 1095c the following new item:

``1095d. TRICARE: program waiver of certain deductibles.''.

                       Subtitle C--Other Matters

     SEC. 721. PHARMACY BENEFITS PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 55 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by inserting after section 1074f the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 1074g. Pharmacy benefits program

       ``(a) Pharmacy Benefits.--(1) The Secretary of Defense, 
     after consultation with the other administering Secretaries, 
     shall establish an effective, efficient, integrated pharmacy 
     benefits program under this chapter (hereinafter in this 
     section referred to as the `pharmacy benefits program').
       ``(2)(A) The pharmacy benefits program shall include a 
     uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents, which shall 
     assure the availability of pharmaceutical agents in a 
     complete range of therapeutic classes. The selection for 
     inclusion on the uniform formulary of particular 
     pharmaceutical agents in each therapeutic class shall be 
     based on the relative clinical and cost effectiveness of the 
     agents in such class.
       ``(B) The Secretary shall establish procedures for the 
     selection of particular pharmaceutical agents for the uniform 
     formulary, and shall begin to implement the uniform formulary 
     not later than October 1, 2000.
       ``(C) Pharmaceutical agents included on the uniform 
     formulary shall be available to eligible covered 
     beneficiaries through--
       ``(i) facilities of the uniformed services, consistent with 
     the scope of health care services offered in such facilities;
       ``(ii) retail pharmacies designated or eligible under the 
     TRICARE program or the Civilian Health and Medical Program of 
     the Uniformed Services to provide pharmaceutical agents to 
     eligible covered beneficiaries; or
       ``(iii) the national mail order pharmacy program.
       ``(3) The pharmacy benefits program shall assure the 
     availability of clinically appropriate pharmaceutical agents 
     to members of the armed forces, including, if appropriate, 
     agents not included on the uniform formulary described in 
     paragraph (2).
       ``(4) The pharmacy benefits program may provide that prior 
     authorization be required for certain categories of 
     pharmaceutical agents to assure that the use of such agents 
     is clinically appropriate. Such categories shall be the 
     following:
       ``(A) High-cost injectable agents.
       ``(B) High-cost biotechnology agents.
       ``(C) Pharmaceutical agents with high potential for 
     inappropriate use.
       ``(D) Pharmaceutical agents otherwise determined by the 
     Secretary to require prior authorization.
       ``(5)(A) The pharmacy benefits program shall include 
     procedures for eligible covered beneficiaries to receive 
     pharmaceutical agents not included on the uniform formulary. 
     Such procedures shall include peer review procedures under 
     which the Secretary may determine that there is a clinical 
     justification for the use of a pharmaceutical agent that is 
     not on the uniform formulary, in which case the 
     pharmaceutical agent shall be provided under the same terms 
     and conditions as an agent on the uniform formulary.
       ``(B) If the Secretary determines that there is not a 
     clinical justification for the use of a pharmaceutical agent 
     that is not on the uniform formulary under the procedures 
     established pursuant to subparagraph (A), such pharmaceutical

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     agent shall be available through at least one of the means 
     described in paragraph (2)(C) under terms and conditions that 
     may include cost sharing by the eligible covered beneficiary 
     in addition to any such cost sharing applicable to agents on 
     the uniform formulary.
       ``(6) The Secretary of Defense shall, after consultation 
     with the other administering Secretaries, promulgate 
     regulations to carry out this subsection.
       ``(7) Nothing in this subsection shall be construed as 
     authorizing a contractor to penalize an eligible covered 
     beneficiary with respect to, or decline coverage for, a 
     maintenance pharmaceutical that is not on the list of 
     preferred pharmaceuticals of the contractor and that was 
     prescribed for the beneficiary before the date of the 
     enactment of this section and stabilized the medical 
     condition of the beneficiary.
       ``(b) Establishment of Committee.--(1) The Secretary of 
     Defense shall, in consultation with the Secretaries of the 
     military departments, establish a pharmaceutical and 
     therapeutics committee for the purpose of developing the 
     uniform formulary of pharmaceutical agents required by 
     subsection (a), reviewing such formulary on a periodic basis, 
     and making additional recommendations regarding the formulary 
     as the committee determines necessary and appropriate. The 
     committee shall include representatives of pharmacies of the 
     uniformed services facilities, contractors responsible for 
     the TRICARE retail pharmacy program, contractors responsible 
     for the national mail order pharmacy program, providers in 
     facilities of the uniformed services, and TRICARE network 
     providers. Committee members shall have expertise in treating 
     the medical needs of the populations served through such 
     entities and in the range of pharmaceutical and biological 
     medicines available for treating such populations.
       ``(2) Not later than 90 days after the establishment of the 
     pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee by the Secretary, 
     the committee shall submit a proposed uniform formulary to 
     the Secretary .
       ``(c) Advisory Panel.--(1) Concurrent with the 
     establishment of the pharmaceutical and therapeutics 
     committee under subsection (b), the Secretary shall establish 
     a Uniform Formulary Beneficiary Advisory Panel to review and 
     comment on the development of the uniform formulary. The 
     Secretary shall consider the comments of the panel before 
     implementing the uniform formulary or implementing changes to 
     the uniform formulary.
       ``(2) The Secretary shall determine the size and membership 
     of the panel established under paragraph (1), which shall 
     include members that represent nongovernmental organizations 
     and associations that represent the views and interests of a 
     large number of eligible covered beneficiaries.
       ``(d) Procedures.--In the operation of the pharmacy 
     benefits program under subsection (a), the Secretary of 
     Defense shall assure through management and new contractual 
     arrangements that financial resources are aligned such that 
     the cost of prescriptions is borne by the organization that 
     is financially responsible for the health care of the 
     eligible covered beneficiary.
       ``(e) Pharmacy Data Transaction Service.--Not later than 
     April 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall implement the 
     use of the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service in all fixed 
     facilities of the uniformed services under the jurisdiction 
     of the Secretary, the TRICARE network retail pharmacy 
     program, and the national mail order pharmacy program.
       ``(f) Definition of Eligible Covered Beneficiary.--As used 
     in this section, the term `eligible covered beneficiary' 
     means a covered beneficiary for whom eligibility to receive 
     pharmacy benefits through the means described in subsection 
     (a)(2)(C) is established under this chapter or another 
     provision of law.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by inserting after the item relating to section 
     1074f the following new item:

``1074g. Pharmacy benefits program.''.
       (b) Deadline For Establishment of Committee.--The Secretary 
     shall establish the pharmaceutical and therapeutics committee 
     required under section 1074g(b) of title 10, United States 
     Code, not later than 30 days after the date of enactment of 
     this Act.
       (c) Reports Required.--Not later than April 1 and October 1 
     of fiscal years 2000 and 2001, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to Congress a report on--
       (1) implementation of the uniform formulary required under 
     subsection (a) of section 1074g of title 10, United States 
     Code (as added by subsection (a));
       (2) the results of a confidential survey conducted by the 
     Secretary of prescribers for military medical treatment 
     facilities and TRICARE contractors to determine--
       (A) during the most recent fiscal year, how often 
     prescribers attempted to prescribe non-formulary or non-
     preferred prescription drugs, how often such prescribers were 
     able to do so, and whether covered beneficiaries were able to 
     fill such prescriptions without undue delay;
       (B) the understanding by prescribers of the reasons that 
     military medical treatment facilities or civilian contractors 
     preferred certain pharmaceuticals to others; and
       (C) the impact of any restrictions on access to non-
     formulary prescriptions on the clinical decisions of the 
     prescribers and the aggregate cost, quality, and 
     accessibility of health care provided to covered 
     beneficiaries;
       (3) the operation of the Pharmacy Data Transaction Service 
     required by subsection (e) of such section 1074g; and
       (4) any other actions taken by the Secretary to improve 
     management of the pharmacy benefits program under such 
     section.
       (d) Study for Design of Pharmacy Benefit for Certain 
     Covered Beneficiaries.--(1) Not later than April 15, 2001, 
     the Secretary of Defense shall prepare and submit to 
     Congress--
       (A) a study on a design for a comprehensive pharmacy 
     benefit for covered beneficiaries under chapter 55 of title 
     10, United States Code, who are entitled to benefits under 
     part A, and enrolled under part B, of title XVIII of the 
     Social Security Act; and
       (B) an estimate of the costs of implementing and operating 
     such design.
       (2) The design described in paragraph (1)(A) shall 
     incorporate the elements of the pharmacy benefits program 
     required to be established under section 1074g of title 10, 
     United States Code (as added by subsection (a)).

     SEC. 722. IMPROVEMENTS TO THIRD-PARTY PAYER COLLECTION 
                   PROGRAM.

       Section 1095 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (A) by striking ``the reasonable costs of'' and inserting 
     ``reasonable charges for'';
       (B) by striking ``such costs'' and inserting ``such 
     charges''; and
       (C) by striking ``the reasonable cost of'' and inserting 
     ``a reasonable charge for'';
       (2) by amending subsection (f) to read as follows:
       ``(f) The Secretary of Defense, in consultation with the 
     other administering Secretaries, shall prescribe regulations 
     for the administration of this section. Such regulations 
     shall provide for the computation of reasonable charges for 
     inpatient services, outpatient services, and other health 
     care services. Computation of such reasonable charges may be 
     based on--
       ``(1) per diem rates;
       ``(2) all-inclusive per visit rates;
       ``(3) diagnosis-related groups;
       ``(4) rates prescribed under the regulations prescribed to 
     implement sections 1079 and 1086 of this title; or
       ``(5) such other method as may be appropriate.'';
       (3) in subsection (g), by striking ``the costs of''; and
       (4) in subsection (h)(1), by striking the first sentence 
     and inserting ``The term `third-party payer' means an entity 
     that provides an insurance, medical service, or health plan 
     by contract or agreement, including an automobile liability 
     insurance or no fault insurance carrier, and any other plan 
     or program that is designed to provide compensation or 
     coverage for expenses incurred by a beneficiary for health 
     care services or products.''.

     SEC. 723. AUTHORITY OF ARMED FORCES MEDICAL EXAMINER TO 
                   CONDUCT FORENSIC PATHOLOGY INVESTIGATIONS.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 3 of title 10, United States Code, 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 130b. Authority of armed forces medical examiner to 
       conduct forensic pathology investigations

       ``(a) In General.--The Armed Forces Medical Examiner may 
     conduct a forensic pathology investigation, including an 
     autopsy, to determine the cause or manner of death of an 
     individual in any case in which--
       ``(1) the individual was killed, or from any cause died an 
     unnatural death;
       ``(2) the cause or manner of death is unknown;
       ``(3) there is reasonable suspicion that the death was by 
     unlawful means;
       ``(4) the death appears to be from an infectious disease or 
     the result of the effects of a hazardous material that may 
     have an adverse effect on the installation or community in 
     which the individual died or was found dead; or
       ``(5) the identity of the deceased individual is unknown.
       ``(b) Limitations on Authority.--(1) The authority provided 
     under subsection (a) may only be exercised with respect to an 
     individual in a case in which--
       ``(A) the individual died or is found dead at an 
     installation garrisoned by units of the armed forces and 
     under the exclusive jurisdiction of the United States;
       ``(B) the individual was, at the time of death, a member of 
     the armed forces on active duty or inactive duty for training 
     or a member of the armed forces who recently retired under 
     chapter 61 of this title and died as a result of an injury or 
     illness incurred while on active duty;
       ``(C) the individual was a civilian dependent of a member 
     of the armed forces and died or was found dead at a location 
     outside the United States;
       ``(D) the Armed Forces Medical Examiner determines, 
     pursuant to an authorized investigation by the Department of 
     Defense of matters involving the death of an individual or 
     individuals, that a factual determination of the cause or 
     manner of the death of the individual is necessary; or
       ``(E) pursuant to an authorized investigation being 
     conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the 
     National Transportation Safety Board, or other Federal 
     agency, an official of such agency with authority to direct a 
     forensic pathology investigation requests that an 
     investigation be conducted by the Armed Forces Medical 
     Examiner.
       ``(2) The authority provided in subsection (a) shall be 
     subject to the primary jurisdiction, to the extent exercised, 
     of a State or local government with respect to the conduct of 
     an investigation or, if outside the United States, of 
     authority exercised under any applicable Status-of-Forces or 
     other international agreement between the United States and 
     the country in which the individual died or was found dead.
       ``(c) Designation of Pathologist.--The Armed Forces Medical 
     Examiner may designate any qualified pathologist to carry out 
     the authority provided in subsection (a).''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following:


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``130b. Authority of armed forces medical examiner to conduct forensic 
              pathology investigations.''.

     SEC. 724. TRAUMA TRAINING CENTER.

       (a) Start-up Costs.--Of the funds authorized to be 
     appropriated in section 301(22) for the Defense Health 
     Program, $4,000,000, shall be used for startup costs for a 
     Trauma Training Center to enhance the capability of the Army 
     to train forward surgical teams.
       (b) Amendment to Existing Authority.--Section 742 of the 
     Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2074) is amended to 
     read as follows:

     ``SEC. 742. AUTHORIZATION TO ESTABLISH A TRAUMA TRAINING 
                   CENTER.

       ``The Secretary of the Army is hereby authorized to 
     establish a Trauma Training Center in order to provide the 
     Army with a trauma center capable of training forward 
     surgical teams.''.

     SEC. 725. STUDY ON JOINT OPERATIONS FOR THE DEFENSE HEALTH 
                   PROGRAM.

       Not later than October 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall prepare and submit to Congress a study identifying 
     areas with respect to the Defense Health Program for which 
     joint operations might be increased, including organization, 
     training, patient care, hospital management, and budgeting. 
     The study shall include a discussion of the merits and 
     feasibility of--
       (1) establishing a joint command for the Defense Health 
     Program as a military counterpart to the Assistant Secretary 
     of Defense for Health Affairs;
       (2) establishing a joint training curriculum for the 
     Defense Health Program; and
       (3) creating a unified chain of command and budgeting 
     authority for the Defense Health Program.

  TITLE VIII--ACQUISITION POLICY, ACQUISITION MANAGEMENT, AND RELATED 
                                MATTERS

     SEC. 801. SALE, EXCHANGE, AND WAIVER AUTHORITY FOR COAL AND 
                   COKE.

       (a) In General.--Section 2404 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking 
     ``petroleum or natural gas'' and inserting ``a defined fuel 
     source'';
       (B) in paragraph (1)--
       (i) by striking ``petroleum market conditions or natural 
     gas market conditions, as the case may be,'' and inserting 
     ``market conditions for the defined fuel source''; and
       (ii) by striking ``acquisition of petroleum or acquisition 
     of natural gas, respectively,'' and inserting ``acquisition 
     of that defined fuel source''; and
       (C) in paragraph (2), by striking ``petroleum or natural 
     gas, as the case may be,'' and inserting ``that defined fuel 
     source'';
       (3) in subsection (b), by striking ``petroleum or natural 
     gas'' in the second sentence and inserting ``a defined fuel 
     source'';
       (4) in subsection (c), by striking ``petroleum'' and all 
     that follows through the period and inserting ``a defined 
     fuel source or services related to a defined fuel source by 
     exchange of a defined fuel source or services related to a 
     defined fuel source.'';
       (5) in subsection (d)--
       (A) by striking ``petroleum or natural gas'' in the first 
     sentence and inserting ``a defined fuel source''; and
       (B) by striking ``petroleum'' in the second sentence and 
     all that follows through the period and inserting ``a defined 
     fuel source or services related to a defined fuel source.''; 
     and
       (6) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(f) Defined Fuel Sources.--In this section, the term 
     `defined fuel source' means any of the following:
       ``(1) Petroleum.
       ``(2) Natural gas.
       ``(3) Coal.
       ``(4) Coke.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of such section 
     is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 2404. Acquisition of certain fuel sources: authority 
       to waive contract procedures; acquisition by exchange; 
       sales authority''.

       (2) The item relating to such section in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of chapter 141 of such title is 
     amended to read as follows:

``2404. Acquisition of certain fuel sources: authority to waive 
              contract procedures; acquisition by exchange; sales 
              authority.''.

     SEC. 802. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY TO ISSUE SOLICITATIONS FOR 
                   PURCHASES OF COMMERCIAL ITEMS IN EXCESS OF 
                   SIMPLIFIED ACQUISITION THRESHOLD.

       Section 4202(e) of the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 (divisions 
     D and E of Public Law 104-106; 10 U.S.C. 2304 note) is 
     amended by striking ``three years after the date on which 
     such amendments take effect pursuant to section 4401(b)'' and 
     inserting ``January 1, 2002''.

     SEC. 803. EXPANSION OF APPLICABILITY OF REQUIREMENT TO MAKE 
                   CERTAIN PROCUREMENTS FROM SMALL ARMS PRODUCTION 
                   INDUSTRIAL BASE.

       Section 2473(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(6) M2 machine gun.
       ``(7) M60 machine gun.''.

     SEC. 804. REPEAL OF TERMINATION OF PROVISION OF CREDIT 
                   TOWARDS SUBCONTRACTING GOALS FOR PURCHASES 
                   BENEFITING SEVERELY HANDICAPPED PERSONS.

       Section 2410d(c) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     repealed.

     SEC. 805. EXTENSION OF TEST PROGRAM FOR NEGOTIATION OF 
                   COMPREHENSIVE SMALL BUSINESS SUBCONTRACTING 
                   PLANS.

       Subsection (e) of section 834 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 (Public Law 
     101-189; 15 U.S.C. 637 note) is amended by striking ``2000.'' 
     and inserting ``2003''.

     SEC. 806. FACILITATION OF NATIONAL MISSILE DEFENSE SYSTEM.

       (a) Authorization of Waiver of Requirement for Completion 
     of Initial OT&E Before Production Begins.--Notwithstanding 
     section 2399(a) of title 10, United States Code, the 
     Secretary of Defense may make a determination to proceed with 
     production of a national missile defense system without 
     regard to whether initial operational testing and evaluation 
     of the system has been completed.
       (b) Requirement for Completion of Initial OT&E.--If the 
     Secretary makes such a determination as provided by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary shall ensure that such a 
     national missile defense system successfully completes an 
     adequate operational test and evaluation as soon as 
     practicable following that determination and before the 
     operational deployment of such system.
       (c) Notification to Congressional Committees.--The 
     Secretary shall promptly notify the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the House of Representatives, in writing, upon making a 
     determination that production of a national missile defense 
     system may be carried out before initial operational testing 
     and evaluation of that system has been completed, as 
     authorized by subsection (a).

     SEC. 807. OPTIONS FOR ACCELERATED ACQUISITION OF PRECISION 
                   MUNITIONS.

       (a) Findings.--Congress finds the following:
       (1) Current inventories of many precision munitions of the 
     United States do not meet the requirements of the Department 
     of Defense for two Major Theater Wars, and with respect to 
     some precision munitions, such requirements will not be met 
     even after planned acquisitions are made.
       (2) Production lines for certain critical precision 
     munitions have been shut down, and the start-up production of 
     replacement precision munitions leaves a critical gap in 
     acquisition of follow-on precision munitions.
       (3) Shortages of conventional air-launched cruise missiles 
     and Tomahawk missiles during Operation Allied Force indicate 
     the critical need to maintain robust inventories of precision 
     munitions.
       (b) Reports.--(1) Not later than 90 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a report on 
     the requirements of the Department of Defense for quantities 
     of precision munitions for two Major Theater Wars, and when 
     such requirements will be met for each precision munition.
       (2) Not later than March 15, 2000, the Secretary shall 
     submit to the congressional defense committees a report on--
       (A) the options recommended by the teams formed under 
     subsection (c) for acceleration of acquisition of precision 
     munitions; and
       (B) a plan for implementing such options.
       (c) Recommendations for Options.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall form teams of experts from industry and the military 
     departments to recommend to the Secretary options for 
     accelerating the acquisition of precision munitions in order 
     that, with respect to any such munition for which the 
     requirements of the Department of Defense for two Major 
     Theater Wars are not expected to be met by October 1, 2002, 
     such requirements may be met for such munitions by such date.

     SEC. 808. PROGRAM TO INCREASE OPPORTUNITY FOR SMALL BUSINESS 
                   INNOVATION IN DEFENSE ACQUISITION PROGRAMS.

       (a) Requirement to Implement Program.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall implement a program to provide for increased 
     opportunity for small-business concerns to provide innovative 
     technology for acquisition programs of the Department of 
     Defense.
       (b) Elements of Program.--The program required by 
     subsection (a) shall consist of the following elements:
       (1) The Secretary shall establish procedures through which 
     small-business concerns may submit challenge proposals to 
     existing components of acquisition programs of the Department 
     of Defense which shall be designed to encourage small-
     business concerns to recommend cost-saving and innovative 
     ideas to acquisition program managers.
       (2) The Secretary shall establish a challenge proposal 
     review board, the purpose of which shall be to review and 
     make recommendations on the merit and viability of the 
     challenge proposals submitted under paragraph (1). The 
     Secretary shall ensure that such recommendations receive 
     active consideration for incorporation into applicable 
     acquisition programs of the Department of Defense at the 
     appropriate point in the acquisition cycle.
       (c) Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall report to 
     Congress annually on the implementation of this section and 
     the progress of providing increased opportunity for small-
     business concerns to provide innovative technology for 
     acquisition programs of the Department of Defense.
       (d) Small-Business Concern Defined.--In this section, the 
     term ``small-business concern'' has the same meaning as the 
     meaning of such term as used in the Small Business Act (15 
     U.S.C. 631 et seq.).

      TITLE IX--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT

     SEC. 901. LIMITATION ON AMOUNT AVAILABLE FOR CONTRACTED 
                   ADVISORY AND ASSISTANCE SERVICES.

       (a) Reduction.--From amounts appropriated for the 
     Department of Defense for fiscal year

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     2000, the total amount obligated for contracted advisory and 
     assistance services may not exceed the amount equal to the 
     sum of the amounts specified in the President's budget for 
     fiscal year 2000 for those services for components of the 
     Department of Defense reduced by $100,000,000.
       (b) Limitation Pending Receipt of Required Report.--Not 
     more than 90 percent of the amount available to the 
     Department of Defense for fiscal year 2000 for contracted 
     advisory and assistance services (taking into account the 
     limitation under subsection (a)) may be obligated until the 
     Secretary of Defense submits to Congress the first annual 
     report under section 2212(c) of title 10, United States Code.

     SEC. 902. RESPONSIBILITY FOR LOGISTICS AND SUSTAINMENT 
                   FUNCTIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
     Technology.--(1) The position of Under Secretary of Defense 
     for Acquisition and Technology in the Department of Defense 
     is hereby redesignated as the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics. Any reference in any 
     law, regulation, document, or other record of the United 
     States to the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and 
     Technology shall be treated as referring to the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
     Logistics.
       (2) Section 133 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (A) in subsections (a), (b), and (e)(1), by striking 
     ``Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology'' 
     and inserting ``Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
     Technology, and Logistics''; and
       (B) in subsection (b)--
       (i) by striking ``logistics,'' in paragraph (2);
       (ii) by redesignating paragraphs (3) and (4) as paragraphs 
     (4) and (5), respectively; and
       (iii) by inserting after paragraph (2) the following new 
     paragraph (3):
       ``(3) establishing policies for logistics, maintenance, and 
     sustainment support for all elements of the Department of 
     Defense;''.
       (b) New Deputy Under Secretary for Logistics and Materiel 
     Readiness.--(1) Chapter 4 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting after section 133a the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 133b. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics 
       and Materiel Readiness

       ``(a) There is a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Logistics and Materiel Readiness, appointed from civilian 
     life by the President by and with the advice and consent of 
     the Senate. The Deputy Under Secretary shall be appointed 
     from among persons with an extensive background in the 
     sustainment of major weapon systems and combat support 
     equipment.
       ``(b) The Deputy Under Secretary is the principal adviser 
     to the Secretary and the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics on logistics and 
     materiel readiness in the Department of Defense and is the 
     principal logistics official within the senior management of 
     the Department of Defense.
       ``(c) The Deputy Under Secretary shall perform such duties 
     relating to logistics and materiel readiness as the Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and 
     Logistics may assign, including--
       ``(1) prescribing, by authority of the Secretary of 
     Defense, policies and procedures for the conduct of 
     logistics, maintenance, materiel readiness, and sustainment 
     support in the Department of Defense;
       ``(2) advising and assisting the Secretary of Defense, the 
     Deputy Secretary of Defense, and the Under Secretary of 
     Defense for Acquisition and Technology, and providing 
     guidance to and consulting with the Secretaries of the 
     military departments, with respect to logistics, maintenance, 
     materiel readiness, and sustainment support in the Department 
     of Defense; and
       ``(3) monitoring and reviewing all logistics, maintenance, 
     materiel readiness, and sustainment support programs in the 
     Department of Defense.''.
       (2) Section 5314 of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
     by inserting after the paragraph relating to the Deputy Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and 
     Materiel Readiness.''.
       (c) Revisions to Law Providing for Deputy Under Secretary 
     for Acquisition and Technology.--Section 133a(b) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by striking ``his duties'' in the first sentence and 
     inserting ``the Under Secretary's duties relating to 
     acquisition and technology''; and
       (2) by striking the second sentence.
       (d) Conforming Amendments to Chapter 4.-- Chapter 4 of such 
     title is further amended as follows:
       (1) Sections 131(b)(2), 134(c), 137(b), and 139(b) are 
     amended by striking ``Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Acquisition and Technology'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
     Technology, and Logistics''.
       (2) The heading of section 133 is amended to read as 
     follows:

     ``Sec. 133. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
       Technology, and Logistics''.

       (3) The table of sections at the beginning of the chapter 
     is amended--
       (A) by striking the item relating to section 133 and 
     inserting the following:

``133. Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and 
              Logistics.'';
     and
       (B) by inserting after the item relating to section 133a 
     the following new item:

``133b. Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Logistics and Materiel 
              Readiness.''.
       (e) Additional Conforming Amendments.--Section 5313 of 
     title 5, United States Code, is amended by striking ``Under 
     Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Technology'' and 
     inserting ``Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, 
     Technology, and Logistics''.

     SEC. 903. MANAGEMENT HEADQUARTERS AND HEADQUARTERS SUPPORT 
                   ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Revision to Defense Directive Relating to Management 
     Headquarters and Headquarters Support Activities.--Not later 
     than October 1, 2000, the Secretary of Defense shall issue a 
     revision to Department of Defense Directive 5100.73, entitled 
     ``Department of Defense Management Headquarters and 
     Headquarters Support Activities'', so as to incorporate in 
     that directive the following:
       (1) A threshold specified by command (or other 
     organizational element) such that any headquarters activity 
     below the threshold is not considered for the purpose of the 
     directive to be a management headquarters or headquarters 
     support activity.
       (2) A definition of the term ``management headquarters and 
     headquarters support activities'' that (A) is based upon 
     function (rather than organization), and (B) includes any 
     activity (other than an operational activity) that reports 
     directly to such an activity.
       (3) Uniform application of those definitions throughout the 
     Department of Defense.
       (b) Technical Amendments to Update Limitation on OSD 
     Personnel.--Effective October 1, 1999, section 143 of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)--
       (A) by striking ``Effective October 1, 1999, the'' and 
     inserting ``The''; and
       (B) by striking ``75 percent of the baseline number'' and 
     inserting ``3,767''.
       (2) by striking subsections (b), (c), and (f); and
       (3) by redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections 
     (b) and (c), respectively.

     SEC. 904. FURTHER REDUCTIONS IN DEFENSE ACQUISITION AND 
                   SUPPORT WORKFORCE.

       (a) Reduction of Defense Acquisition and Support 
     Workforce.--The Secretary of Defense shall accomplish 
     reductions in defense acquisition and support personnel 
     positions during fiscal year 2000 so that the total number of 
     such personnel as of October 1, 2000, is less than the total 
     number of such personnel as of October 1, 1999, by at least 
     25,000.
       (b) Defense Acquisition and Support Personnel Defined.--For 
     purposes of this section, the term ``defense acquisition and 
     support personnel'' means military and civilian personnel 
     (other than civilian personnel who are employed at a 
     maintenance depot) who are assigned to, or employed in, 
     acquisition organizations of the Department of Defense (as 
     specified in Department of Defense Instruction numbered 
     5000.58 dated January 14, 1992), and any other organizations 
     which the Secretary may determine to have a predominantly 
     acquisition mission.

     SEC. 905. CENTER FOR THE STUDY OF CHINESE MILITARY AFFAIRS.

       (a) Findings.--The Congress finds the following:
       (1) The strategic relationship between the United States 
     and the People's Republic of China will be very important for 
     future peace and security, not only in the Asia-Pacific 
     region but around the world.
       (2) The United States does not view China as an enemy, nor 
     consider that the coming century necessarily will see a new 
     great power competition between the two nations.
       (3) The end of the cold war has eliminated what had been 
     the one fundamental common strategic interest of the United 
     States and China, that of containing the Soviet Union.
       (4) The sustained economic rise, stated geopolitical 
     ambitions, and increasingly confrontational actions of China 
     cast doubt on whether the United States will be able to form 
     a satisfactory strategic partnership with the People's 
     Republic of China and will pose challenges that will require 
     careful management in order to preserve peace and protect the 
     national security interests of the United States.
       (5) The ability of the Department of Defense, and the 
     United States Government more generally, to develop sound 
     security and military strategies is hampered by a limited 
     understanding of Chinese strategic goals and military 
     capabilities. The low priority accorded the study of Chinese 
     strategic and military affairs within the Government and 
     within the academic community has contributed to this limited 
     understanding.
       (6) There is a need for a United States national institute 
     for research and assessment of political, strategic, and 
     military affairs in the People's Republic of China. Such an 
     institute should be capable of providing analysis for the 
     purpose of shaping United States military strategy and policy 
     with regard to China and should be readily accessible to 
     senior leaders within the Department of Defense, but should 
     maintain academic and intellectual independence so that that 
     analysis is not first shaped by policy.
       (b) Establishment of Center for the Study of Chinese 
     Military Affairs.--(1) Chapter 108 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 2166. National Defense University: Center for the 
       Study of Chinese Military Affairs

       ``(a) Establishment.--(1) The Secretary of Defense shall 
     establish a Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs 
     (hereinafter in this section referred to as the `Center') as 
     part of the National Defense University. The Center shall be 
     organized as an independent institute under the University.
       ``(2) The Director of the Center shall be appointed by the 
     Secretary of Defense. The Secretary shall appoint as the 
     Director an individual who is a distinguished scholar of 
     proven

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     academic, management, and leadership credentials with a 
     superior record of achievement and publication regarding 
     Chinese political, strategic, and military affairs.
       ``(b) Mission.--The mission of the Center is to study the 
     national goals and strategic posture of the People's Republic 
     of China and the ability of that nation to develop, field, 
     and deploy an effective military instrument in support of its 
     national strategic objectives.
       ``(c) Areas of Study.--The Center shall conduct research 
     relating to the People's Republic of China as follows:
       ``(1) To assess the potential of that nation to act as a 
     global great power, the Center shall conduct research that 
     considers the policies and capabilities of that nation in a 
     regional and world-wide context, including Central Asia, 
     Southwest Asia, Europe, and Latin America, as well as the 
     Asia-Pacific region.
       ``(2) To provide a fuller assessment of the areas of study 
     referred to in paragraph (1), the Center shall conduct 
     research on--
       ``(A) economic trends relative to strategic goals and 
     military capabilities;
       ``(B) strengths and weaknesses in the scientific and 
     technological sector; and
       ``(C) relevant demographic and human resource factors on 
     progress in the military sphere.
       ``(3) The Center shall conduct research on the armed forces 
     of the People's Republic of China, taking into account the 
     character of those armed forces and their role in Chinese 
     society and economy, the degree of their technological 
     sophistication, and their organizational and doctrinal 
     concepts. That research shall include inquiry into the 
     following matters:
       ``(A) Concepts concerning national interests, objectives, 
     and strategic culture.
       ``(B) Grand strategy, military strategy, military 
     operations, and tactics.
       ``(C) Doctrinal concepts at each of the four levels 
     specified in subparagraph (B).
       ``(D) The impact of doctrine on China's force structure 
     choices.
       ``(E) The interaction of doctrine and force structure at 
     each level to create an integrated system of military 
     capabilities through procurement, officer education, 
     training, and practice and other similar factors.
       ``(d) Faculty of the Center.--(1) The core faculty of the 
     Center should comprise scholars capable of providing diverse 
     perspectives on Chinese political, strategic, and military 
     thought. Center scholars shall demonstrate the following 
     competencies and capabilities:
       ``(A) Analysis of national strategy, military strategy, and 
     doctrine.
       ``(B) Analysis of force structure and military 
     capabilities.
       ``(C) Analysis of--
       ``(i) issues relating to weapons of mass destruction, 
     military intelligence, defense economics, trade, and 
     international economics; and
       ``(ii) the relationship between those issues and grand 
     strategy, science and technology, the sociology of human 
     resources and demography, and political science.
       ``(2) A substantial number of Center scholars shall be 
     competent in the Chinese language. The Center shall include a 
     core of junior scholars capable of providing linguistics and 
     translation support to the Center.
       ``(e) Activities of the Center.--The activities of the 
     Center shall include other elements appropriate to its 
     mission, including the following:
       ``(1) The Center should include an active conference 
     program with an international reach.
       ``(2) The Center should conduct an international 
     competition for a Visiting Fellowship in Chinese Military 
     Affairs and Chinese Security Issues. The term of the 
     fellowship should be for one year, renewable for a second.
       ``(3) The Center shall provide funds to support at least 
     one trip per analyst per year to China and the region and to 
     support visits of Chinese military leaders to the Center.
       ``(4) The Center shall support well defined, distinguished, 
     signature publications.
       ``(5) Center scholars shall have appropriate access to 
     intelligence community assessments of Chinese military 
     affairs.
       ``(f) Studies and Reports.--The Director may contract for 
     studies and reports from the private sector to supplement the 
     work of the Center.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``2166. National Defense University: Center for the Study of Chinese 
              Military Affairs.''.
       (c) Implementation Report.--Not later than January 1, 2000, 
     the Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report 
     stating the timetable and organizational plan for 
     establishing the Center for the Study of Chinese Military 
     Affairs under section 2166 of title 10, United States Code, 
     as added by subsection (b).
       (d) Startup of Center.--The Secretary shall establish the 
     Center for the Study of Chinese Military Affairs under 
     section 2166 of title 10, United States Code, as added by 
     subsection (b), not later than March 1, 2000, and shall 
     appoint the first Director of the Center not later than June 
     1, 2000.

     SEC. 906. RESPONSIBILITY WITHIN OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY OF 
                   DEFENSE FOR MONITORING OPTEMPO AND PERSTEMPO.

       Section 136 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(d) The Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and 
     Readiness is responsible, subject to the authority, 
     direction, and control of the Secretary of Defense, for the 
     monitoring of the operations tempo and personnel tempo of the 
     armed forces. The Under Secretary shall establish, to the 
     extent practicable, uniform standards within the Department 
     of Defense for terminology and policies relating to 
     deployment of units and personnel away from their assigned 
     duty stations (including the length of time units or 
     personnel may be away for such a deployment) and shall 
     establish uniform reporting systems for tracking 
     deployments.''.

     SEC. 907. REPORT ON MILITARY SPACE ISSUES.

       (a) Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee 
     on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report on 
     United States military space policy. The report shall address 
     current and projected United States efforts to fully exploit 
     space in preparation for possible conflicts in 2010 and 
     beyond. The report shall specifically address the following:
       (1) The general organization of the Department of Defense 
     for addressing space issues, the functions of the various 
     Department of Defense and military agencies, components, and 
     elements with responsibility for military space issues, the 
     practical effect of creating a new military service with 
     responsibility for military operations in space, and the 
     advisability of establishing an Assistant Secretary of 
     Defense for Space.
       (2) The manner in which current national military space 
     policy is incorporated into overall United States national 
     space policy.
       (3) The manner in which the Department of Defense is 
     organized to develop doctrine for the military use of space.
       (4) The manner in which military space issues are addressed 
     by professional military education institutions, to include a 
     listing of specific courses offered at those institutions 
     that focuses on military space policy.
       (5) The manner in which space control issues are 
     incorporated into current and planned experiments and 
     exercises.
       (6) The manner in which military space assets are being 
     fully exploited to provide support for United States 
     contingency operations.
       (7) United States policy toward the use of commercial 
     launch vehicles and facilities for the launch of military 
     assets.
       (8) The current interagency coordination process regarding 
     the operation of military space assets, including 
     identification of interoperability and communications issues.
       (9) Policies and procedures for sharing missile launch 
     early warning data with United States allies and friendly 
     countries.
       (10) Issues regarding the capability to detect threats to 
     United States space assets.
       (11) The manner in which the presence of space debris is 
     expected to affect United States military space launch policy 
     and the future design of military spacecraft.
       (12) Whether military space programs should be funded 
     separately from other service programs and whether the Global 
     Positioning System should be funded through a Defense-wide 
     appropriation account.
       (b) Classification and Deadline for Report.--The report 
     required by subsection (a) shall be prepared in both 
     classified and unclassified form and shall be submitted not 
     later than March 1, 2000.

     SEC. 908. EMPLOYMENT AND COMPENSATION OF CIVILIAN FACULTY 
                   MEMBERS OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE AFRICAN CENTER 
                   FOR STRATEGIC STUDIES.

       (a) Faculty.--Subsection (c) of section 1595 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new paragraph:
       ``(6) The African Center for Strategic Studies.''.
       (b) Director and Deputy Director.--Subsection (e) of such 
     section is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) The African Center for Strategic Studies.''.

     SEC. 909. ADDITIONAL MATTERS FOR ANNUAL REPORT ON JOINT 
                   WARFIGHTING EXPERIMENTATION.

       Section 485(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(5) With respect to interoperability of equipment and 
     forces, any recommendations that the commander considers 
     appropriate, developed on the basis of joint warfighting 
     experimentation, for reducing unnecessary redundancy of 
     equipment and forces, including guidance regarding the 
     synchronization of the fielding of advanced technologies 
     among the armed forces to enable the development and 
     execution of joint operational concepts.
       ``(6) Recommendations for mission needs statements and 
     operational requirements related to the joint experimentation 
     and evaluation process.
       ``(7) Recommendations based on the results of joint 
     experimentation for the relative priorities for acquisition 
     programs to meet joint requirements.''.

                      TITLE X--GENERAL PROVISIONS

                     Subtitle A--Financial Matters

     SEC. 1001. TRANSFER AUTHORITY.

       (a) Authority To Transfer Authorizations.--(1) Upon 
     determination by the Secretary of Defense that such action is 
     necessary in the national interest, the Secretary may 
     transfer amounts of authorizations made available to the 
     Department of Defense in this division for fiscal year 2000 
     between any such authorizations for that fiscal year (or any 
     subdivisions thereof). Amounts of authorizations so 
     transferred shall be merged with and be available for the 
     same purposes as the authorization to which transferred.
       (2) The total amount of authorizations that the Secretary 
     may transfer under the authority of this section may not 
     exceed $2,000,000,000.
       (b) Limitations.--The authority provided by this section to 
     transfer authorizations--
       (1) may only be used to provide authority for items that 
     have a higher priority than the items from which authority is 
     transferred; and

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       (2) may not be used to provide authority for an item that 
     has been denied authorization by Congress.
       (c) Effect on Authorization Amounts.--A transfer made from 
     one account to another under the authority of this section 
     shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized for the 
     account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal 
     to the amount transferred.
       (d) Notice to Congress.--The Secretary shall promptly 
     notify Congress of each transfer made under subsection (a).

     SEC. 1002. INCORPORATION OF CLASSIFIED ANNEX.

       (a) Status of Classified Annex.--The Classified Annex 
     prepared by the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives to accompany its report on the bill H.R. 1401 
     of the One Hundred Sixth Congress and transmitted to the 
     President is hereby incorporated into this Act.
       (b) Construction With Other Provisions of Act.--The amounts 
     specified in the Classified Annex are not in addition to 
     amounts authorized to be appropriated by other provisions of 
     this Act.
       (c) Limitation on Use of Funds.--Funds appropriated 
     pursuant to an authorization contained in this Act that are 
     made available for a program, project, or activity referred 
     to in the Classified Annex may only be expended for such 
     program, project, or activity in accordance with such terms, 
     conditions, limitations, restrictions, and requirements as 
     are set out for that program, project, or activity in the 
     Classified Annex.
       (d) Distribution of Classified Annex.--The President shall 
     provide for appropriate distribution of the Classified Annex, 
     or of appropriate portions of the annex, within the executive 
     branch of the Government.

     SEC. 1003. AUTHORIZATION OF PRIOR EMERGENCY MILITARY 
                   PERSONNEL APPROPRIATIONS.

       There is authorized to be appropriated the amount of 
     $1,838,426,000 appropriated to the Department of Defense for 
     military personnel accounts in section 2012 of the 1999 
     Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act.

     SEC. 1004. REPEAL OF REQUIREMENT FOR TWO-YEAR BUDGET CYCLE 
                   FOR THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       Section 1405 of the Department of Defense Authorization 
     Act, 1986 (31 U.S.C. 1105 note), is repealed.

     SEC. 1005. CONSOLIDATION OF VARIOUS DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY 
                   TRUST AND GIFT FUNDS.

       (a) Consolidation of Naval Academy General Gift Fund and 
     Museum Fund.--(1) Subsection (a) of section 6973 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended to read as follows:
       ``(a)(1) The Secretary of the Navy may accept, hold, 
     administer, and spend gifts and bequests of personal 
     property, and loans of personal property other than money, 
     made on the condition that the personal property be used for 
     the benefit of, or in connection with, the Naval Academy or 
     the Naval Academy Museum, its collection, or its services.
       ``(2) Gifts or bequests of money, and the proceeds from the 
     sales of property received as a gift or bequest, shall be 
     deposited in the Treasury in the fund called `United States 
     Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund'. The Secretary may 
     disburse funds deposited under this paragraph for the benefit 
     or use of the Naval Academy or the Naval Academy Museum 
     subject to the terms of the gift or bequest.''.
       (2) Subsection (c) of such section is amended by striking 
     ``United States Naval Academy general gift fund'' both places 
     it appears and inserting ``United States Naval Academy Gift 
     and Museum Fund''.
       (3) Such section is further amended by adding at the end 
     the following new subsection:
       ``(d) The Secretary shall develop written guidelines to be 
     used in determining whether the acceptance of money, personal 
     property, or loans of personal property under subsection (a) 
     would--
       ``(1) reflect unfavorably upon the ability of the 
     Department of the Navy to carry out its responsibilities in a 
     fair and objective manner;
       ``(2) reflect unfavorably upon the ability of any employee 
     of the Department of the Navy to carry out the employee's 
     official duties in a fair and objective manner; or
       ``(3) compromise the integrity, or the appearance of the 
     integrity, of Navy programs or any employee involved in such 
     programs.''.
       (b) Repeal of Naval Academy Museum Fund.--Section 6974 of 
     title 10, United States Code, is repealed.
       (c) Repeal of Naval Historical Center Fund.--Section 7222 
     of such title is repealed.
       (d) Transfer of Funds.--The Secretary of the Navy shall 
     transfer--
       (1) all funds in the United States Naval Academy Museum 
     Fund as of the date of the enactment of this Act to the 
     United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund established 
     by section 6973(a) of title 10, United States Code, as 
     amended by subsection (a); and
       (2) all funds in the Naval Historical Center Fund as of the 
     date of the enactment of this Act to the Department of the 
     Navy General Gift Fund established by section 2601(b)(2) of 
     such title.
       (e) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The table of sections at the 
     beginning of chapter 603 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking the item relating to section 6974.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 631 
     of such title is amended by striking the item relating to 
     section 7222.

     SEC. 1006. BUDGETING FOR OPERATIONS IN YUGOSLAVIA.

       (a) In General.--None of the funds appropriated pursuant to 
     the authorizations of appropriations in this Act may be used 
     for the conduct of combat or peacekeeping operations in the 
     Federal Republic of Yugoslavia.
       (b) Supplemental Appropriations Request for Operations in 
     Yugoslavia.--If the President determines that it is in the 
     national security interest of the United States to conduct 
     combat or peacekeeping operations in the Federal Republic of 
     Yugoslavia during fiscal year 2000, the President shall 
     transmit to the Congress a supplemental appropriations 
     request for the Department of Defense for such amounts as are 
     necessary for the costs of any such operation.

                Subtitle B--Naval Vessels and Shipyards

     SEC. 1011. REVISION TO CONGRESSIONAL NOTICE-AND-WAIT PERIOD 
                   REQUIRED BEFORE TRANSFER OF A VESSEL STRICKEN 
                   FROM THE NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER.

       Section 7306(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     to read as follows:
       ``(d) Congressional Notice-and-Wait Period.--(1) A transfer 
     under this section may not take effect until--
       ``(A) the Secretary submits to Congress notice of the 
     proposed transfer; and
       ``(B) 30 days of session of Congress have expired following 
     the date on which the notice is sent to Congress.
       ``(2) For purposes of paragraph (1)(B)--
       ``(A) the period of a session of Congress is broken only by 
     an adjournment of Congress sine die at the end of the final 
     session of a Congress; and
       ``(B) any day on which either House of Congress is not in 
     session because of an adjournment of more than 3 days to a 
     day certain, or because of an adjournment sine die at the end 
     of the first session of a Congress, shall be excluded in the 
     computation of such 30-day period.''.

     SEC. 1012. AUTHORITY TO CONSENT TO RETRANSFER OF FORMER NAVAL 
                   VESSEL.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the President 
     may consent to the retransfer by the Government of Greece of 
     HS Rodos (ex-USS BOWMAN COUNTY (LST 391)) to the USS LST Ship 
     Memorial, Inc., a not-for-profit organization operating under 
     the laws of the State of Pennsylvania.
       (b) Conditions for Consent.--The President should not 
     exercise the authority under subsection (a) unless the USS 
     LST Memorial, Inc. agrees--
       (1) to use the vessel for public, nonprofit, museum-related 
     purposes; and
       (2) to comply with applicable law with respect to the 
     vessel, including those requirements related to facilitating 
     monitoring by the United States of, and mitigating potential 
     environmental hazards associated with, aging vessels, and has 
     a demonstrated financial capability to so comply.

     SEC. 1013. REPORT ON NAVAL VESSEL FORCE STRUCTURE 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Requirement.--Not later than February, 1, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed 
     Service of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the House of Representatives a report on naval vessel force 
     structure requirements.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.-- The report shall provide--
       (1) a statement of the naval vessel force structure 
     required to carry out the National Military Strategy, 
     including that structure required to meet joint and combined 
     warfighting requirements and missions relating to crisis 
     response, overseas presence, and support to contingency 
     operations; and
       (2) a statement of the naval vessel force structure that is 
     supported and funded in the President's budget for fiscal 
     year 2001 and in the current future-years defense program.

     SEC. 1014. AUXILIARY VESSELS ACQUISITION PROGRAM FOR THE 
                   DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Program Authorization.--(1) Chapter 631 of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new section:

     ``Sec. 7233. Auxiliary vessels: extended lease authority

       ``(a) Authorized Contracts.--After September 30, 1999, the 
     Secretary of the Navy, subject to subsection (b), may enter 
     into contracts with private United States shipyards for the 
     construction of new surface vessels to be long-term leased by 
     the United States from the shipyard or other private person 
     for any of the following:
       ``(1) The combat logistics force of the Navy.
       ``(2) The strategic sealift force of the Navy.
       ``(3) Other auxiliary support vessels for the Department of 
     Defense.
       ``(b) Contracts Required To Be Authorized by Law.--A 
     contract may be entered into under subsection (a) with 
     respect to a specific vessel only if the Secretary is 
     specifically authorized by law to enter into such a contract 
     with respect to that vessel.
       ``(c) Funds for Contract Payments.--The Secretary may make 
     payments for contracts entered into under subsection (a) and 
     under subsection (g) using funds available for obligation 
     from operation and maintenance accounts during the fiscal 
     year for which the payments are required to be made. Any such 
     contract shall provide that the United States is not required 
     to make a payment under the contract (other than a 
     termination payment, if required) before October 1, 2001.
       ``(d) Term of Contract.--In this section, the term `long-
     term lease' means a lease, bareboat charter, or conditional 
     sale agreement with respect to a vessel the term of which 
     (including any option period) is for a period of 20 years or 
     more.
       ``(e) Option To Buy.--A contract entered into under 
     subsection (a) may include options for the United States to 
     purchase one or more of the vessels covered by the contract 
     at any time during, or at the end of, the contract period 
     (including any option period) upon payment of an

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     amount equal to the lesser of (1) the unamortized portion of 
     the cost of the vessel plus amounts incurred in connection 
     with the termination of the financing arrangements associated 
     with the vessel, or (2) the fair market value of the vessel.
       ``(f) Domestic Construction.--The Secretary shall require 
     in any contract entered into under this section that each 
     vessel to which the contract applies--
       ``(1) shall have been constructed in a shipyard within the 
     United States; and
       ``(2) upon delivery, shall be documented under the laws of 
     the United States.
       ``(g) Vessel Operation.--(1) The Secretary shall operate a 
     vessel held by the Secretary under a long-term lease under 
     this section through a contract with a United States 
     domiciled corporation with experience in the operation of 
     vessels for the United States. Any such contract shall be for 
     a term as determined by the Secretary.
       ``(2) The Secretary may provide a crew for any such vessel 
     using civil service mariners only after an evaluation and 
     competition taking into account--
       ``(A) the fully burdened cost of a civil service crew over 
     the expected useful life of the vessel;
       ``(B) the effect on the private sector manpower pool; and
       ``(C) the operational requirements of the Department of the 
     Navy.
       ``(h) Contingent Waiver of Other Provisions of Law.--A 
     contract authorized by this section may be entered into 
     without regard to section 2401 or 2401a of this title if the 
     Secretary of Defense makes the following findings with 
     respect to that contract:
       ``(1) The need for the vessels or services to be provided 
     under the contract is expected to remain substantially 
     unchanged during the contemplated contract or option period.
       ``(2) There is a reasonable expectation that throughout the 
     contemplated contract or option period the Secretary of the 
     Navy (or, if the contract is for services to be provided to, 
     and funded by, another military department, the Secretary of 
     that military department) will request funding for the 
     contract at the level required to avoid contract 
     cancellation.
       ``(3) The use of such contract or the exercise of such 
     option is in the interest of the national defense.
       ``(i) Source of Funds for Termination Liability.--If a 
     contract entered into under this section is terminated, the 
     costs of such termination may be paid from--
       ``(1) amounts originally made available for performance of 
     the contract;
       ``(2) amounts currently available for operation and 
     maintenance of the type of vessels or services concerned and 
     not otherwise obligated; or
       ``(3) funds appropriated for those costs.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``7233. Auxiliary vessels: extended lease authority.''.
       (b) Definition of Department of Defense Sealift Vessel.--
     Section 2218(k)(2) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``that is--'' in the matter preceding 
     subparagraph (A) and inserting ``that is any of the 
     following:'';
       (2) by striking ``a'' at the beginning of subparagraphs 
     (A), (B), and (E) and inserting ``A'';
       (3) by striking ``an'' at the beginning of subparagraphs 
     (C) and (D) and inserting ``An'';
       (4) by striking the semicolon at the end of subparagraphs 
     (A), (B), and (C) and inserting a period;
       (5) by striking ``; or'' at the end of subparagraph (D) and 
     inserting a period; and
       (6) by adding at the end the following new subparagraphs:
       ``(F) A large medium-speed roll-on/roll-off ship.
       ``(G) A combat logistics force ship.
       ``(H) Any other auxiliary support vessel.''.

     SEC. 1015. AUTHORITY TO PROVIDE ADVANCE PAYMENTS FOR THE 
                   NATIONAL DEFENSE FEATURES PROGRAM.

       (a) In General.--Section 2218 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsection (k) as subsection (l); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (j) the following new 
     subsection (k):
       ``(k)(1) The Secretary of Defense, after making a 
     determination of economic soundness for any proposed offer, 
     may provide advance payments to a contractor by lump sum or 
     annual payments (or a combination thereof) for the following 
     costs associated with inclusion or incorporation of defense 
     features in a commercial vessel:
       ``(A) Costs to build, procure, and install the defense 
     features in the vessel.
       ``(B) Costs to periodically maintain and test the defense 
     features on the vessel.
       ``(C) Any increased costs of operation or any loss of 
     revenue attributable to the inclusion or incorporation of the 
     defense feature on the vessel.
       ``(D) Any additional costs associated with the terms and 
     conditions of the contract to install and incorporate defense 
     features.
       ``(2) For any contract under which the United States 
     provides advance payments under paragraph (1) for the costs 
     associated with incorporation or inclusion of defense 
     features in a commercial vessel, the contractor shall provide 
     to the United States such security interests, which may 
     include a preferred mortgage under section 31322 of title 46, 
     on the vessel as the Secretary may prescribe to project the 
     interests of the United States relating to all costs 
     associated with incorporation or inclusion of defense 
     features in such vessel or vessels.
       ``(3) The functions of the Secretary under this subsection 
     may not be delegated to an officer or employee in a position 
     below the head of the procuring activity, as defined in 
     section 2304(f)(6)(A) of this title.''.
       (b) Effective Date.--Subsection (j) of section 2218 of 
     title 10, United States Code, as added by subsection (a), 
     shall apply to contracts entered into after September 30, 
     1999.

        Subtitle C--Matters Relating to Counter Drug Activities

     SEC. 1021. SUPPORT FOR DETECTION AND MONITORING ACTIVITIES IN 
                   THE EASTERN PACIFIC OCEAN.

       (a) Operation Caper Focus.--Of the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated by section 301(20) for drug interdiction and 
     counter-drug activities, $6,000,000 shall be available for 
     the purpose of conducting the counter-drug operation known as 
     Caper Focus, which targets the maritime movement of cocaine 
     on vessels in the eastern Pacific Ocean.
       (b) Funds for Conversion of Wide Aperture Radar Facility to 
     Operational Status.--Of the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated by such section, $17,500,000 shall be available 
     for the purpose of--
       (1) converting the Over-The-Horizon Radar facility known as 
     the Wide Aperture Radar Facility in southern California from 
     a research to operational status; and
       (2) using the facility on a full-time basis to detect and 
     track both air and maritime drug traffic in the eastern 
     Pacific Ocean and to monitor the international border in the 
     southwestern United States.
       (c) Contribution of Assets.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     shall make available for use at the Wide Aperture Radar 
     Facility described in subsection (b) two OTH-B Continental 
     100 KW transmitters and necessary spare parts to ensure the 
     conversion of the facility to operational status.
       (d) Test Against Go-Fast Boats.--As part of the conversion 
     of the Wide Aperture Radar Facility described in subsection 
     (b) to operational status, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     evaluate the ability of the facility to detect and track the 
     high-speed maritime vessels typically used in the 
     transportation of illegal drugs by water.
       (e) Progress Report.--Not later than April 15, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to Congress 
     evaluating the effectiveness of the Wide Aperture Radar 
     Facility described in subsection (b) in counter-drug 
     detection monitoring and border surveillance.

     SEC. 1022. CONDITION ON DEVELOPMENT OF FORWARD OPERATING 
                   LOCATIONS FOR UNITED STATES SOUTHERN COMMAND 
                   COUNTER-DRUG DETECTION AND MONITORING FLIGHTS.

       None of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available 
     to the Department of Defense for any fiscal year may be 
     obligated or expended for the purpose of improving the 
     physical infrastructure at any proposed forward operating 
     location outside the United States from which the United 
     States Southern Command may conduct counter-drug detection 
     and monitoring flights until a formal agreement regarding the 
     extent and use of, and host nation support for, the forward 
     operating location is executed by both the host nation and 
     the United States.

     SEC. 1023. UNITED STATES MILITARY ACTIVITIES IN COLOMBIA.

       Section 1033(f) of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 111 U.S.C. 1881) is 
     amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraph (4) as paragraph (5) and, in 
     such paragraph, by striking ``National Security'' and 
     inserting ``Armed Services''; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (3) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(4) Not later than January 1 of each year, the Secretary 
     shall submit to the congressional committees a report 
     detailing the number of United States military personnel 
     deployed or otherwise assigned to duty in Colombia at any 
     time during the preceding year, the length and purpose of the 
     deployment or assignment, and the costs and force protection 
     risks associated with such deployments and assignments.''.

                       Subtitle D--Other Matters

     SEC. 1031. IDENTIFICATION IN BUDGET MATERIALS OF AMOUNTS FOR 
                   DECLASSIFICATION ACTIVITIES AND LIMITATION ON 
                   EXPENDITURES FOR SUCH ACTIVITIES.

       (a) In General.--(1) Chapter 9 of title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     section:

     ``Sec. 229. Amounts for declassification of records

       ``(a) Specific Identification in Budget.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall include in the budget justification materials 
     submitted to Congress in support of the Department of Defense 
     budget for any fiscal year (as submitted with the budget of 
     the President under section 1105(a) of title 31) specific 
     identification, as a budgetary line item, of the amounts 
     required to carry out programmed activities during that 
     fiscal year to declassify records pursuant to Executive Order 
     12958 (50 U.S.C. 435 note), or any successor Executive order, 
     or to comply with any statutory requirement to declassify 
     Government records.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such chapter 
     is amended by adding at the end the following new item:

``229. Amounts for declassification of records.''.
       (b) Limitation on Expenditures.--The total amount expended 
     by the Department of Defense during fiscal year 2000 to carry 
     out activities to declassify records pursuant to Executive 
     Order 12958 (50 U.S.C. 435 note), or any successor Executive 
     order, or to comply with any statutory requirement to 
     declassify Government records may not exceed $20,000,000.

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     SEC. 1032. NOTICE TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES OF COMPROMISE 
                   OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WITHIN DEFENSE 
                   PROGRAMS OF THE UNITED STATES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall notify the 
     committees specified in subsection (c) of any information, 
     regardless of its origin, that the Secretary receives that 
     indicates that classified information relating to any defense 
     operation, system, or technology of the United States is 
     being, or may have been, disclosed in an unauthorized manner 
     to a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power.
       (b) Manner of Notification.--A notification under 
     subsection (a) shall be provided, in writing, not later than 
     30 days after the date of the initial receipt of such 
     information by the Department of Defense.
       (c) Specified Committees.--The committees referred to in 
     subsection (a) are the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Armed Service of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (d) Foreign Power.--For purposes of this section, the terms 
     ``foreign power'' and ``agent of a foreign power'' have the 
     meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Foreign 
     Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).

     SEC. 1033. REVISION TO LIMITATION ON RETIREMENT OR 
                   DISMANTLEMENT OF STRATEGIC NUCLEAR DELIVERY 
                   SYSTEMS.

       (a) Revised Limitation.--Subsections (a) and (b) of section 
     1302 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85) are amended to read as follows:
       ``(a) Funding Limitation.--(1) Except as provided in 
     paragraph (2), funds available to the Department of Defense 
     may not be obligated or expended for retiring or dismantling, 
     or for preparing to retire or dismantle, any of the following 
     strategic nuclear delivery systems below the specified 
     levels:
       ``(A) 76 B-52H bomber aircraft.
       ``(B) 18 Trident ballistic missile submarines.
       ``(C) 500 Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic 
     missiles.
       ``(D) 50 Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles.
       ``(2) The limitation in paragraph (1) shall cease to apply 
     upon a certification by the President to Congress of the 
     following:
       ``(A) That the effectiveness of the United States strategic 
     deterrent will not be decreased by reductions in strategic 
     nuclear delivery systems.
       ``(B) That the requirements of the Single Integrated 
     Operational Plan can be met with a reduced number of 
     strategic nuclear delivery systems.
       ``(C) That reducing the number of strategic nuclear 
     delivery systems will not, in the judgment of the President, 
     provide a disincentive for Russia to ratify the START II 
     treaty or serve to undermine future arms control 
     negotiations.
       ``(3) If the Presidents submits the certification described 
     in paragraph (2), then effective upon the submission of that 
     certification, funds available to the Department of Defense 
     may not be obligated or expended to maintain a United States 
     force structure of strategic nuclear delivery systems with a 
     total capacity in warheads that is less than 98 percent of 
     the 6,000 warhead limitation applicable to the United States 
     and in effect under the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty.
       ``(b) Waiver Authority.--If the START II treaty enters into 
     force, the President may waive the application of the 
     limitation in effect under paragraph (1) or (3) of subsection 
     (a), as the case may be, to the extent that the President 
     determines such a waiver to be necessary in order to 
     implement the treaty.''.
       (b) Covered Systems.--(1) Subsection (e) of such section is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(e) Strategic Nuclear Delivery Systems Defined.--For 
     purposes of this section, the term `strategic nuclear 
     delivery systems' means the following:
       ``(1) B-52H bomber aircraft.
       ``(2) Trident ballistic missile submarines.
       ``(3) Minuteman III intercontinental ballistic missiles.
       ``(4) Peacekeeper intercontinental ballistic missiles.''.
       (2) Subsection (c)(2) of such section is amended by 
     striking ``specified in subsection (a)''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--Such section is further 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)(2), by striking ``during the 
     strategic delivery systems retirement limitation period'' and 
     inserting ``during the fiscal year during which the START II 
     Treaty enters into force''; and
       (2) by striking subsection (g).

     SEC. 1034. ANNUAL REPORT BY CHAIRMAN OF JOINT CHIEFS OF STAFF 
                   ON THE RISKS IN EXECUTING THE MISSIONS CALLED 
                   FOR UNDER THE NATIONAL MILITARY STRATEGY.

       Section 153 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(c) Risks Under National Military Strategy.--(1) Not 
     later than January 1 each year, the Chairman shall submit to 
     the Secretary of Defense a report providing the Chairman's 
     assessment of the nature and magnitude of the strategic and 
     military risks associated with executing the missions called 
     for under the current National Military Strategy.
       ``(2) The Secretary shall forward the report received under 
     paragraph (1) in any year, with the Secretary's comments 
     thereon (if any), to Congress with the Secretary's next 
     transmission to Congress of the annual Department of Defense 
     budget justification materials in support of the Department 
     of Defense component of the budget of the President submitted 
     under section 1105 of title 31 for the next fiscal year. If 
     the Chairman's assessment in such report in any year is that 
     risk associated with executing the missions called for under 
     the National Military Strategy is significant, the Secretary 
     shall include with the report as submitted to Congress the 
     Secretary's plan for mitigating that risk.''.

     SEC. 1035. REQUIREMENT TO ADDRESS UNIT OPERATIONS TEMPO AND 
                   PERSONNEL TEMPO IN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ANNUAL 
                   REPORT.

       (a) Reporting Requirements.--Chapter 23 of title 10, United 
     States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following 
     new section:

     ``Sec. 486. Unit operations tempo and personnel tempo: annual 
       report

       ``(a) Inclusion in Annual Report.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall include in the annual report required by section 113(c) 
     of this title a description of the operations tempo and 
     personnel tempo of the armed forces.
       ``(b) Specific Reporting Requirements.--To satisfy 
     subsection (a), the report shall include the following:
       ``(1) A description of the methods by which each of the 
     armed forces measures operations tempo and personnel tempo.
       ``(2) A description of the personnel tempo policies of each 
     of the armed forces and any changes to these policies since 
     the preceding report.
       ``(3) A table depicting the active duty end strength for 
     each of the armed forces for each of the preceding five years 
     and also depicting the number of members of each of the armed 
     forces deployed over the same period, as determined by the 
     Secretary concerned.
       ``(4) An identification of the active and reserve component 
     units of the armed forces participating at the battalion, 
     squadron, or an equivalent level (or a higher level) in 
     contingency operations, major training events, and other 
     exercises and contingencies of such a scale that the 
     exercises and contingencies receive an official designation, 
     that were conducted during the period covered by the report 
     and the duration of their participation.
       ``(5) For each of the armed forces, the average number of 
     days a member of that armed force was deployed away from the 
     member's home station during the period covered by the report 
     as compared to recent previous years for which such 
     information is available.
       ``(6) For each of the armed forces, the number of days that 
     high demand, low density units (as defined by the Chairman of 
     the Joint Chiefs of Staff) were deployed during the period 
     covered by the report, and whether these units met the force 
     goals for limiting deployments, as described in the personnel 
     tempo policies applicable to that armed force.
       ``(c) Definitions.--In this section:
       ``(1) The term `operations tempo' means the rate at which 
     units of the armed forces are involved in all military 
     activities, including contingency operations, exercises, and 
     training deployments.
       ``(2) The term `personnel tempo' means the amount of time 
     members of the armed forces are engaged in their official 
     duties, including the rate at which members are required, as 
     a result of these duties, to spend nights away from home.
       ``(3) The term `armed forces' does not include the Coast 
     Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Department 
     of the Navy.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections at the 
     beginning of such chapter is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new item:

``486. Unit operations tempo and personnel tempo: annual report.''.

     SEC. 1036. PRESERVATION OF CERTAIN DEFENSE REPORTING 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       Section 3003(a)(1) of the Federal Reports Elimination and 
     Sunset Act of 1995 (31 U.S.C. 1113 note) does not apply to 
     any report required to be submitted under any of the 
     following provisions of law:
       (1) The following sections of title 10, United States Code: 
     sections 113, 115a, 116, 139(f), 221, 226, 401(d), 667, 
     2011(e), 2391(c), 2431(a), 2432, 2457(d), 2537, 2662(b), 
     2706(b), 2861, 2902(g)(2), 4542(g)(2), 7424(b), 7425(b), 
     10541, 10542, and 12302(d).
       (2) Sections 301a(f) and 1008 of title 37, United States 
     Code.
       (3) Sections 11 and 14 of the Strategic and Critical 
     Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h-2, 98h-5).
       (4) Section 4(a) of Public Law 85-804 (50 U.S.C. 1434(a)).
       (5) Section 10(g) of the Military Selective Service Act (50 
     U.S.C. App. 460(g)).
       (6) Section 3134 of the National Defense Authorization Act, 
     Fiscal Year 1991 (42 U.S.C. 7274c).
       (7) Section 822(b) of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (42 U.S.C. 6687(b)).
       (8) Section 1097 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (22 U.S.C. 2751 note).
       (9) Sections 208, 901(b)(2), and 1211 of the Merchant 
     Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1118, 1241(b)(2), 1291).
       (10) Section 12 of the Act of March 9, 1920 (popularly 
     known as the ``Suits in Admiralty Act'') (46 App. U.S.C. 
     752).

     SEC. 1037. TECHNICAL AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.

       (a) Title 10, United States Code.--Title 10, United States 
     Code, is amended as follows:
       (1) Section 136(a) is amended by inserting ``advice and'' 
     after ``by and with the''.
       (2) Section 180(d) is amended by striking ``grade GS-18 of 
     the General Schedule under section 5332 of title 5'' and 
     inserting ``Executive Schedule Level IV under section 5376 of 
     title 5''.
       (3) Section 192(d) is amended by striking ``the date of the 
     enactment of this subsection'' and inserting ``October 17, 
     1998''.
       (4) Section 374(b) is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by aligning subparagraphs (C) and (D) 
     with subparagraphs (A) and (B); and

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       (B) in paragraph (2)(F), by striking the second semicolon 
     at the end of clause (i).
       (5) Section 664(i)(2)(A) is amended by striking ``the date 
     of the enactment of this subsection'' and inserting 
     ``February 10, 1996''.
       (6) Section 777(d)(1) is amended by striking ``may not 
     exceed'' and all that follows and inserting ``may not exceed 
     35.''.
       (7) Section 977(d)(2) is amended by striking ``the lesser 
     of'' and all that follows through ``(B)''.
       (8) Section 1073 is amended by inserting ``(42 U.S.C. 14401 
     et seq.)'' before the period at the end of the second 
     sentence.
       (9) Section 1076a(j)(2) is amended by striking ``1 year'' 
     and inserting ``one year''.
       (10) Section 1370(d) is amended--
       (A) in paragraph (1), by striking ``chapter 1225'' and 
     inserting ``chapter 1223''; and
       (B) in paragraph (5), by striking ``the date of the 
     enactment of this paragraph'' and inserting ``October 17, 
     1998,''.
       (11) Section 1401a(b)(2) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``members'' and all that follows through 
     ``The Secretary shall'' and inserting ``members.--The 
     Secretary shall'';
       (B) by striking subparagraphs (B) and (C); and
       (C) by redesignating clauses (i) and (ii) as subparagraphs 
     (A) and (B) and realigning those subparagraphs, as so 
     redesignated, so as to be indented four ems from the left 
     margin.
       (12) Section 1406(i)(2) is amended by striking ``on or 
     after the date of the enactment of the Strom Thurmond 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999'' and 
     inserting ``after October 16, 1998''.
       (13) Section 1448(b)(3)(E)(ii) is amended by striking ``on 
     or after the date of the enactment of the subparagraph'' and 
     inserting ``after October 16, 1998,''.
       (14) Section 1501(d) is amended by striking ``prescribed'' 
     in the first sentence and inserting ``described''.
       (15) Section 1509(a)(2) is amended by striking ``the date 
     of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998'' in subparagraphs (A) and (B) and 
     inserting ``November 18, 1997,''.
       (16) Section 1513(1) is amended by striking ``, under the 
     circumstances specified in the last sentence of section 
     1509(a) of this title'' and inserting ``who is required by 
     section 1509(a)(1) of this title to be considered a missing 
     person''.
       (17) Section 2208(l)(2)(A) is amended by inserting ``of'' 
     after ``during a period''.
       (18) Section 2212(f) is amended--
       (A) in paragraphs (2) and (3), by striking ``after the date 
     of the enactment of this section'' and inserting ``after 
     October 17, 1998,''; and
       (B) in paragraphs (2), (3) and (4), by striking ``as of the 
     date of the enactment of this section'' and inserting ``as of 
     October 17, 1998''.
       (19) Section 2302c(b) is amended by striking ``section 
     2303'' and inserting ``section 2303(a)''.
       (20) Section 2325(a)(1) is amended by inserting ``that 
     occurs after November 18, 1997,'' after ``of the contractor'' 
     in the matter that precedes subparagraph (A).
       (21) Section 2469a(c)(3) is amended by striking ``the date 
     of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998'' and inserting ``November 18, 1997''.
       (22) Section 2486(c) is amended by striking ``the date of 
     the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998,'' in the second sentence and inserting 
     ``November 18, 1997,''.
       (23) Section 2492(b) is amended by striking ``the date of 
     the enactment of this section'' and inserting ``October 17, 
     1998''.
       (24) Section 2539b(a) is amended by striking ``secretaries 
     of the military departments'' and inserting ``Secretaries of 
     the military departments''.
       (25) Section 2641a is amended--
       (A) by striking ``, United States Code,'' in subsection 
     (b)(2); and
       (B) by striking subsection (d).
       (26) Section 2692(b) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``apply to--'' in the matter preceding 
     paragraph (1) and inserting ``apply to the following:'';
       (B) by striking ``the'' at the beginning of each of 
     paragraphs (1) through (11) and inserting ``The'';
       (C) by striking the semicolon at the end of each of 
     paragraphs (1) through (9) and inserting a period; and
       (D) by striking ``; and'' at the end of paragraph (10) and 
     inserting a period.
       (27) Section 2696 is amended--
       (A) in subsection (a), by inserting ``enacted after 
     December 31, 1997,'' after ``any provision of law'';
       (B) in subsection (b)(1), by striking ``required by 
     paragraph (1)'' and inserting ``referred to in subsection 
     (a)''; and
       (C) in subsection (e)(4), by striking ``the date of 
     enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998'' and inserting ``November 18, 1997''.
       (28) Section 2703(c) is amended by striking ``United States 
     Code,''.
       (29) Section 2837(d)(2)(C) is amended by striking ``the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996'' and 
     inserting ``this section''.
       (30) Section 7315(d)(2) is amended by striking ``the date 
     of the enactment of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998'' and inserting ``November 18, 1997,''.
       (31) Section 7902(e)(5) is amended by striking ``, United 
     States Code,''.
       (32) The item relating to section 12003 in the table of 
     sections at the beginning of chapter 1201 is amended by 
     inserting ``in an'' after ``officers''.
       (33) Section 14301(g) is amended by striking ``1 year'' 
     both places it appears and inserting ``one year''.
       (34) Section 16131(b)(1) is amended by inserting ``in'' 
     after ``Except as provided''
       (b) Public Law 105-261.--Effective as of October 17, 1998, 
     and as if included therein as enacted, the Strom Thurmond 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 
     (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 1920 et seq.) is amended as 
     follows:
       (1) Section 402(b) (112 Stat. 1996) is amended by striking 
     the third comma in the first quoted matter and inserting a 
     period.
       (2) Section 511(b)(2) (112 Stat. 2007) is amended by 
     striking ``section 1411'' and inserting ``section 1402''.
       (3) Section 513(a) (112 Stat. 2007) is amended by striking 
     ``section 511'' and inserting ``section 512(a)''.
       (4) Section 525(b) (112 Stat. 2014) is amended by striking 
     ``subsection (i)'' and inserting ``subsection (j)''.
       (5) Section 568 (112 Stat. 2031) is amended by striking 
     ``1295(c)'' in the matter preceding paragraph (1) and 
     inserting ``1295b(c)''.
       (6) Section 722(c)(1)(D) (112 Stat. 2067) is amended by 
     striking ``subsection (c)'' and inserting ``subsection (d)''.
       (c) Public Law 105-85.--The National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85) is amended as 
     follows:
       (1) Section 557(b) (111 Stat. 1750) is amended by inserting 
     ``to'' after ``with respect''.
       (2) Section 563(b) (111 Stat. 1754) is amended by striking 
     ``title'' and inserting ``subtitle''.
       (3) Section 644(d)(2) (111 Stat. 1801) is amended by 
     striking ``paragraphs (3) and (4)'' and inserting 
     ``paragraphs (7) and (8)''.
       (4) Section 934(b) (111 Stat. 1866) is amended by striking 
     ``of'' after ``matters concerning''.
       (d) Other Laws.--
       (1) Effective as of April 1, 1996, section 647(b) of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
     (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 370) is amended by inserting 
     ``of such title'' after ``Section 1968(a)''.
       (2) Section 414 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (Public Law 102-190; 10 U.S.C. 
     12001 note) is amended--
       (A) by striking ``pilot'' in subsection (a), ``Pilot'' in 
     the heading of subsection (a), and ``pilot'' in the section 
     heading; and
       (B) in subsection (c)(1)--
       (i) by striking ``2,000'' in the first sentence and 
     inserting ``5,000''; and
       (ii) by striking the second sentence.
       (3) Sections 8334(c) and 8422(a)(3) of title 5, United 
     States Code, are each amended in the item for nuclear 
     materials couriers--
       (A) by striking ``to the day before the date of the 
     enactment of the Strom Thurmond National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999'' and inserting ``to 
     October 16, 1998''; and
       (B) by striking ``The date of the enactment of the Strom 
     Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     1999'' and inserting ``October 17, 1998''.
       (4) Section 113(b)(2) of title 32, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``the date of the enactment of this 
     subsection'' and inserting ``October 17, 1998''.
       (5) Section 1007(b) of title 37, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking the second sentence.
       (6) Section 845(b)(1) of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103-160; 10 U.S.C. 2371 
     note) is amended by striking ``(e)(2) and (e)(3) of such 
     section 2371'' and inserting ``(e)(1)(B) and (e)(2) of such 
     section 2371''.

     SEC. 1038. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR SPIRIT OF HOPE ENDOWMENT FUND OF 
                   UNITED SERVICE ORGANIZATIONS, INCORPORATED.

       (a) Grants Authorized.--Subject to subsection (c), the 
     Secretary of Defense may make grants to the United Service 
     Organizations, Incorporated, a federally chartered 
     corporation under chapter 2201 of title 36, United States 
     Code, to contribute funds for the USO's Spirit of Hope 
     Endowment Fund.
       (b) Grant Increments.--The amount of the first grant under 
     subsection (a) may not exceed $2,000,000. The amount of the 
     second grant under such subsection may not exceed $3,000,000, 
     and subsequent grants may not exceed $5,000,000.
       (c) Matching Requirement.--Each grant under subsection (a) 
     may not be made until after the United Service Organizations, 
     Incorporated, certifies to the Secretary of Defense that 
     sufficient funds have been raised from non-Federal sources 
     for deposit in the Spirit of Hope Endowment Fund to match, on 
     a dollar-for-dollar basis, the amount of that grant.
       (d) Funding.--Of the amount authorized to be appropriated 
     by section 301(5) for operation and maintenance for Defense-
     wide activities, $25,000,000 shall be available to the 
     Secretary of Defense for the purpose of making grants under 
     subsection (a).

     SEC. 1039. CHEMICAL DEFENSE TRAINING FACILITY.

       (a) Authority To Transfer Agents.--(1) The Secretary of 
     Defense may transfer to the Attorney General quantities of 
     non-stockpile lethal chemical agents required to support 
     training at the Chemical Defense Training Facility at the 
     Center for Domestic Preparedness in Fort McClellan, Alabama. 
     The quantity of non-stockpile lethal chemical agents that may 
     be transferred under this section may not exceed that 
     required to support training for emergency first-response 
     personnel in addressing the health, safety and law 
     enforcement concerns associated with potential terrorist 
     incidents that might involve the use of lethal chemical 
     weapons or agents, or other training designated by the 
     Attorney General.
       (2) The Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the 
     Attorney General, shall determine the amount of non-stockpile 
     lethal chemical agents that shall be transferred under this 
     section. Such amount shall be transferred from quantities of 
     non-stockpile lethal chemical agents

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     that are maintained by the Department of Defense for 
     research, development, test, and evaluation of chemical 
     defense material and for live-agent training of chemical 
     defense personnel and other individuals by the Department of 
     Defense.
       (3) The Secretary of Defense may not transfer non-stockpile 
     lethal chemical agents under this section until--
       (A) the Chemical Defense Training Facility referred to in 
     paragraph (1) is transferred from the Department of Defense 
     to the Department of Justice; and
       (B) the Secretary certifies that the Attorney General is 
     prepared to receive such agents.
       (4) Quantities of non-stockpile lethal chemical agents 
     transferred under this section shall meet all applicable 
     requirements for transportation, storage, treatment, and 
     disposal of such agents and for any resulting hazardous waste 
     products.
       (b) Annual Report.--The Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with Attorney General and the Administrator of 
     the Environmental Protection Agency, shall report annually to 
     Congress regarding the disposition of non-stockpile lethal 
     chemical agents transferred under this section.
       (c) Non-Stockpile Lethal Chemical Agents.--In this section, 
     the term ``non-stockpile lethal chemical agents'' includes 
     those chemicals in the possession of the Department of 
     Defense that are not part of the chemical weapons 
     stockpile and that are applied to research, medical, 
     pharmaceutical, or protective purposes in accordance with 
     Article VI of the Conventional Weapons Convention Treaty.

           TITLE XI--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE CIVILIAN PERSONNEL

     SEC. 1101. INCREASE OF PAY CAP FOR NONAPPROPRIATED FUND 
                   SENIOR EXECUTIVE EMPLOYEES.

       Section 5373 of title 5, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in the first sentence, by striking ``Except as 
     provided'' and inserting ``(a) Except as provided in 
     subsection (b) and''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) Subsection (a) shall not affect the authority of the 
     Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of a military 
     department to fix the pay of a civilian employee paid from 
     nonappropriated funds, except that the annual rate of basic 
     pay (including any portion of such pay attributable to 
     comparability with private-sector pay in a locality) of such 
     an employee may not be fixed at a rate greater than the rate 
     for level III of the Executive Schedule.''.

     SEC. 1102. RESTORATION OF LEAVE FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE EMPLOYEES WHO DEPLOY TO A COMBAT ZONE 
                   OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES.

       Section 6304(d) of title 5, United States Code, is amended 
     by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4)(A) For purposes of this subsection, the deployment of 
     an emergency essential employee of the Department of Defense 
     to a combat zone outside the United States shall be deemed an 
     exigency of the public business, and any leave that is lost 
     by an employee as a result of such deployment (regardless of 
     whether such leave was scheduled) shall be--
       ``(i) restored to the employee; and
       ``(ii) credited and available in accordance with paragraph 
     (2).
       ``(B) For purposes of this paragraph, the term `Department 
     of Defense emergency essential employee'--
       ``(i) means a civilian employee of the Department of 
     Defense, including a nonappropriated fund instrumentality 
     employee (as defined by section 1587(a)(1) of title 10) whose 
     assigned duties and responsibilities would be necessary 
     during a period that follows the evacuation of nonessential 
     personnel during a declared emergency or the outbreak of 
     combat operations or war; and
       ``(ii) includes an employee who is hired on a temporary or 
     permanent basis.''.

     SEC. 1103. EXPANSION OF GUARD-AND-RESERVE PURPOSES FOR WHICH 
                   LEAVE UNDER SECTION 6323 OF TITLE 5, UNITED 
                   STATES CODE, MAY BE USED.

       (a) In General.--Section 6323 of title 5, United States 
     Code, is amended in the first sentence by inserting ``, 
     inactive-duty training (as defined in section 101 of title 
     37),'' after ``active duty''.
       (b) Applicability.--The amendment made by subsection (a) 
     shall not apply with respect to any inactive-duty training 
     (as defined in such amendment) occurring before the date of 
     the enactment of this Act.

              TITLE XII--MATTERS RELATING TO OTHER NATIONS

     SEC. 1201. REPORT ON STRATEGIC STABILITY UNDER START III.

       (a) Report.--Not later than September 1, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Service of 
     the House of Representatives a report, to be prepared by the 
     Defense Science Board in consultation with the Director of 
     Central Intelligence, on the strategic stability of the 
     future nuclear balance between (1) the United States, and (2) 
     Russia and other potential nuclear adversaries.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.--The Secretary shall include in 
     the report the following:
       (1) The policy guidance defining the military-political 
     objectives of the United States against potential nuclear 
     adversaries under various nuclear conflict scenarios.
       (2) The target sets and damage goals of the United States 
     against potential nuclear adversaries under various nuclear 
     conflict scenarios and how those target sets and damage goals 
     relate to the achievement of the military-political 
     objectives identified under paragraph (1).
       (3) The strategic nuclear force posture of the United 
     States and of Russia that may emerge under a further 
     Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (referred to as ``START 
     III'') and how capable the United States forces envisioned 
     under that posture would be for the achievement of the damage 
     goals and the military objectives against potential nuclear 
     adversaries referred to in paragraphs (1) and (2).
       (4) The Secretary's assessment of (A) whether Russian 
     strategic forces under a START III treaty would, or would 
     not, likely be smaller, more vulnerable, and less capable of 
     launch-on-tactical-warning than at present, and (B) in light 
     of such assessment, whether incentives for Russia to carry 
     out a first strike against the United States during a future 
     crisis probably would, or would not, be greater than at 
     present under a START III treaty.
       (5) The Secretary's assessment of (A) whether China and so-
     called nuclear rogue states probably will, or will not, 
     remain incapable in the foreseeable future of carrying out a 
     launch-on-tactical-warning and be more vulnerable to United 
     States conventional or nuclear attack than at present, and 
     (B) in light of such assessment, whether incentives for China 
     and nuclear rogue states to carry out a first strike against 
     the United States during a future crisis probably would, or 
     would not, be greater than at present.
       (6) The Secretary's assessment of whether asymmetries 
     between the United States and Russia that are favorable to 
     Russia in active and passive defenses may be a significant 
     strategic advantage to Russia under a START III treaty.
       (7) The Secretary's assessment of whether asymmetries 
     between the United States and Russia that are highly 
     favorable to Russia in tactical nuclear weapons might erode 
     strategic stability.
       (8) The Secretary's assessment of whether a combination of 
     Russia and China against the United States in a nuclear 
     conflict could erode strategic stability under a START III 
     treaty.
       (9) The Secretary's assessment of whether doctrinal 
     asymmetries between the United States and Russia, such as the 
     expansion by Russia of the warfighting role of nuclear 
     weapons while the United States is de-emphasizing the utility 
     and purpose of nuclear weapons, could erode strategic 
     stability.
       (c) Classification.--The report shall be submitted in 
     classified form and, to the extent possible, in unclassified 
     form.

     SEC. 1202. ONE-YEAR EXTENSION OF COUNTERPROLIFERATION 
                   AUTHORITIES FOR SUPPORT OF UNITED NATIONS 
                   WEAPONS INSPECTION REGIME IN IRAQ.

       Effective October 1, 1999, section 1505(f) of the Weapons 
     of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992 (22 U.S.C. 5859a(f)) 
     is amended by striking ``1999'' and inserting ``2000''.

     SEC. 1203. MILITARY-TO-MILITARY CONTACTS WITH CHINESE 
                   PEOPLE'S LIBERATION ARMY.

       (a) Principles for Military-to-Military Contacts.--(1) It 
     is the policy of the United States that military-to-military 
     contacts between the United States Armed Forces and the 
     People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China 
     should be based on the principles of reciprocity and 
     transparency and that those contacts should be managed within 
     the executive branch by the Department of Defense.
       (2) For purposes of this section--
       (A) reciprocity is measured by the frequency and purpose of 
     visits, the size of delegations, and similar measures; and
       (B) transparency is measured by the degree of access to 
     facilities and installations, to military personnel and 
     units, and to exercises, and similar measures.
       (b) Limitations.--The Secretary of Defense shall require 
     that members of the People's Liberation Army (when 
     participating in any such military-to-military contact or 
     otherwise) be excluded from the following:
       (1) Inappropriate exposure (as determined by the Secretary) 
     to the operational capabilities of the Armed Forces, 
     including the following:
       (A) Force projection.
       (B) Nuclear operations.
       (C) Advanced logistics.
       (D) Chemical and biological defense and other capabilities 
     related to weapons of mass destruction.
       (E) Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance 
     operations.
       (F) Joint warfighting experiments and other activities 
     related to a transformation in warfare.
       (G) Military space operations.
       (H) Other advanced capabilities of the Armed Forces.
       (2) Arms sales or military-related technology transfers.
       (3) Release of classified or restricted information.
       (4) Access to a Department of Defense laboratory.
       (c) Certification by Secretary.--The Secretary of Defense 
     may authorize military-to-military contacts with the People's 
     Liberation Army during any calendar year only after the 
     Secretary submits to the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Armed Service of the House of 
     Representatives, not earlier than one month before the 
     beginning of that year, a certification in writing that such 
     contacts during that year--
       (1) will be conducted in a manner consistent with the 
     principles of reciprocity and transparency; and
       (2) are in the national security interest of the United 
     States.
       (d) Annual Report.--Not later than June 1 each year, the 
     Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committee on Armed 
     Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Service of 
     the House of Representatives a report providing the

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     Secretary's assessment of the current state of military-to-
     military contacts with the People's Liberation Army. The 
     report shall include the following:
       (1) A summary of all such military-to-military contacts 
     during the period since the last such report, including a 
     summary of topics discussed and questions asked by the 
     Chinese participants in those contacts.
       (2) A description of the military-to-military contacts 
     scheduled for the next 12-month period and a five-year plan 
     for those contacts.
       (3) The Secretary's assessment of the benefits the Chinese 
     expect to gain from those military-to-military contacts.
       (4) The Secretary's assessment of the benefits the 
     Department of Defense expects to gain from those military-to-
     military contacts.
       (5) The Secretary's assessment of how military-to-military 
     contacts with the People's Liberation Army fit into the 
     larger security relationship between United States and the 
     People's Republic of China.

     SEC. 1204. REPORT ON ALLIED CAPABILITIES TO CONTRIBUTE TO 
                   MAJOR THEATER WARS.

       (a) Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall prepare a 
     report, in both classified and unclassified form, on the 
     current military capabilities of allied nations to contribute 
     to the successful conduct of the major theater wars as 
     anticipated in the Quadrennial Defense Review of 1997.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.--The report shall set forth the 
     following:
       (1) The identity, size, structure, and capabilities of the 
     armed forces of the allies expected to participate in the 
     major theater wars anticipated in the Quadrennial Defense 
     Review.
       (2) The priority accorded in the national military 
     strategies and defense programs of the anticipated allies to 
     contributing forces to United States-led coalitions in such 
     major theater wars.
       (3) The missions currently being conducted by the armed 
     forces of the anticipated allies and the ability of the 
     allied armed forces to conduct simultaneously their current 
     missions and those anticipated in the event of major theater 
     war.
       (4) Any Department of Defense assumptions about the ability 
     of allied armed forces to deploy or redeploy from their 
     current missions in the event of a major theater war, 
     including any role United States Armed Forces would play in 
     assisting and sustaining such a deployment or redeployment.
       (5) Any Department of Defense assumptions about the combat 
     missions to be executed by such allied forces in the event of 
     major theater war.
       (6) The readiness of allied armed forces to execute any 
     such missions.
       (7) Any risks to the successful execution of the military 
     missions called for under the National Military Strategy of 
     the United States related to the capabilities of allied armed 
     forces.
       (c) Submission of Report.--The report shall be submitted to 
     Congress not later than June 1, 2000.

     SEC. 1205. LIMITATION ON FUNDS FOR BOSNIA PEACEKEEPING 
                   OPERATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 2000.

       (a) Limitation.--(1) Of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated by section 301(24) of this Act for the Overseas 
     Contingency Operations Transfer Fund, no more than 
     $1,824,400,000 may be obligated for incremental costs of the 
     Armed Forces for Bosnia peacekeeping operations.
       (2) The President may waive the limitation in paragraph (1) 
     after submitting to Congress the following:
       (A) The President's written certification that the waiver 
     is necessary in the national security interests of the United 
     States.
       (B) The President's written certification that exercising 
     the waiver will not adversely affect the readiness of United 
     States military forces.
       (C) A report setting forth the following:
       (i) The reasons that the waiver is necessary in the 
     national security interests of the United States.
       (ii) The specific reasons that additional funding is 
     required for the continued presence of United States military 
     forces participating in, or supporting, Bosnia peacekeeping 
     operations for fiscal year 2000.
       (iii) A discussion of the impact on the military readiness 
     of United States Armed Forces of the continuing deployment of 
     United States military forces participating in, or 
     supporting, Bosnia peacekeeping operations.
       (D) A supplemental appropriations request for the 
     Department of Defense for such amounts as are necessary for 
     the additional fiscal year 2000 costs associated with United 
     States military forces participating in, or supporting, 
     Bosnia peacekeeping operations.
       (b) Bosnia Peacekeeping Operations Defined.--For the 
     purposes of this section, the term ``Bosnia peacekeeping 
     operations'' has the meaning given such term in section 
     1204(e) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 
     2112).

  TITLE XIII--COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION WITH STATES OF THE FORMER 
                              SOVIET UNION

     SEC. 1301. SPECIFICATION OF COOPERATIVE THREAT REDUCTION 
                   PROGRAMS AND FUNDS.

       (a) Specification of CTR Programs.--For purposes of section 
     301 and other provisions of this Act, Cooperative Threat 
     Reduction programs are the programs specified in section 
     1501(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2731; 50 U.S.C. 2362 
     note).
       (b) Fiscal Year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction Funds 
     Defined.--As used in this title, the term ``fiscal year 2000 
     Cooperative Threat Reduction funds'' means the funds 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in section 301 for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs.
       (c) Availability of Funds.--Funds appropriated pursuant to 
     the authorization of appropriations in section 301, and any 
     other funds appropriated after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs shall be 
     available for obligation for three fiscal years.

     SEC. 1302. FUNDING ALLOCATIONS.

       (a) Funding for Specific Purposes.--Of the $444,100,000 
     authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense 
     for fiscal year 2000 in section 301(23) for Cooperative 
     Threat Reduction programs, not more than the following 
     amounts may be obligated for the purposes specified:
       (1) For strategic offensive arms elimination in Russia, 
     $177,300,000.
       (2) For strategic nuclear arms elimination in Ukraine, 
     $43,000,000.
       (3) For activities to support warhead dismantlement 
     processing in Russia, $9,300,000.
       (4) For security enhancements at chemical weapons storage 
     sites in Russia, $24,600,000.
       (5) For weapons transportation security in Russia, 
     $15,200,000.
       (6) For planning, design, and construction of a storage 
     facility for Russian fissile material, $60,900,000.
       (7) For weapons storage security in Russia, $90,000,000.
       (8) For development of a cooperative program with the 
     Government of Russia to eliminate the production of weapons 
     grade plutonium at Russian reactors, $20,000,000.
       (9) For biological weapons proliferation prevention 
     activities in Russia, $2,000,000.
       (10) For activities designated as Other Assessments/
     Administrative Support, $1,800,000.
       (b) Report on Obligation or Expenditure of Funds for Other 
     Purposes.--No fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     funds may be obligated or expended for a purpose other than a 
     purpose listed in paragraphs (1) through (10) of subsection 
     (a) until 30 days after the date that the Secretary of 
     Defense submits to Congress a report on the purpose for which 
     the funds will be obligated or expended and the amount of 
     funds to be obligated or expended. Nothing in the preceding 
     sentence shall be construed as authorizing the obligation or 
     expenditure of fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     funds for a purpose for which the obligation or expenditure 
     of such funds is specifically prohibited under this title.
       (c) Limited Authority To Vary Individual Amounts.--(1) 
     Subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), in any case in which the 
     Secretary of Defense determines that it is necessary to do so 
     in the national interest, the Secretary may obligate amounts 
     appropriated for fiscal year 2000 or any subsequent fiscal 
     year for a purpose listed in any of the paragraphs in 
     subsection (a) in excess of the amount specifically 
     authorized for such purpose. However, the total amount 
     obligated for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs for such 
     fiscal year may not, by reason of the use of the authority 
     provided in the preceding sentence, exceed the total amount 
     authorized for such programs for such fiscal year.
       (2) An obligation of funds for a purpose stated in any of 
     the paragraphs in subsection (a) in excess of the specific 
     amount authorized for such purpose may be made using the 
     authority provided in paragraph (1) only after--
       (A) the Secretary submits to Congress notification of the 
     intent to do so together with a complete discussion of the 
     justification for doing so; and
       (B) 15 days have elapsed following the date of the 
     notification.
       (3) The Secretary may not, under the authority provided in 
     paragraph (1), obligate amounts for the purposes stated in 
     any of paragraphs (3) through (10) of subsection (a) in 
     excess of 115 percent of the amount specifically authorized 
     for such purposes.

     SEC. 1303. PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR SPECIFIED 
                   PURPOSES.

       (a) In General.--No fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat 
     Reduction funds, and no funds appropriated for Cooperative 
     Threat Reduction programs after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, may be obligated or expended for any of the 
     following purposes:
       (1) Conducting with Russia any peacekeeping exercise or 
     other peacekeeping-related activity.
       (2) Provision of housing.
       (3) Provision of assistance to promote environmental 
     restoration.
       (4) Provision of assistance to promote job retraining.
       (b) Limitation With Respect to Defense Conversion 
     Assistance.--None of the funds appropriated pursuant to this 
     Act, and no funds appropriated to the Department of Defense 
     in any other Act enacted after the date of the enactment of 
     this Act, may be obligated or expended for the provision of 
     assistance to Russia or any other state of the former Soviet 
     Union to promote defense conversion.
       (c) Limitation With Respect to Conventional Weapons.--No 
     fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds, and no 
     funds appropriated for Cooperative Threat Reduction programs 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, may be obligated 
     or expended for elimination of conventional weapons or the 
     delivery vehicles of such weapons.

     SEC. 1304. LIMITATIONS ON USE OF FUNDS FOR FISSILE MATERIAL 
                   STORAGE FACILITY.

       (a) Limitations on Use of Fiscal Year 2000 Funds.--No 
     fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds may be 
     used--
       (1) for construction of a second wing for the storage 
     facility for Russian fissile material referred to in section 
     1302(6); or
       (2) for design or planning with respect to such facility 
     until 15 days after the date that the Secretary of Defense 
     submits to Congress notification that Russia and the United 
     States have signed a written transparency agreement that 
     provides that the United States may verify that

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     material stored at the facility is of weapons origin.
       (b) Limitation on Construction.--No funds appropriated for 
     Cooperative Threat Reduction programs may be used for 
     construction of the storage facility referred to in 
     subsection (a) until the Secretary of Defense submits to 
     Congress the following:
       (1) A certification that additional capacity is necessary 
     at such facility for storage of Russian weapons-origin 
     fissile material.
       (2) A detailed cost estimate for a second wing for the 
     facility.

     SEC. 1305. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR CHEMICAL WEAPONS 
                   DESTRUCTION.

       No fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds, and 
     no funds appropriated for Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     programs after the date of the enactment of this Act, may be 
     obligated or expended for planning, design, or construction 
     of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia.

     SEC. 1306. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS FOR BIOLOGICAL WEAPONS 
                   PROLIFERATION PREVENTION ACTIVITIES.

       No fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds may 
     be obligated or expended for biological weapons proliferation 
     prevention activities in Russia until the Secretary of 
     Defense submits to the congressional defense committees the 
     reports described in sections 1305 and 1308 of the Strom 
     Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     1999 (Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2164, 2166).

     SEC. 1307. LIMITATION ON USE OF FUNDS UNTIL SUBMISSION OF 
                   REPORT AND MULTIYEAR PLAN.

       No fiscal year 2000 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds may 
     be obligated or expended until the Secretary of Defense 
     submits to Congress--
       (1) a report describing--
       (A) with respect to each purpose listed in section 1302, 
     whether the Department of Defense is the appropriate 
     executive agency to carry out Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     programs for such purpose, and if so, why; and
       (B) for any purpose that the Secretary determines is not 
     appropriately carried out by the Department of Defense, a 
     plan for migrating responsibility for carrying out such 
     purpose to the appropriate agency; and
       (2) an updated version of the multiyear plan for fiscal 
     year 2000 required to be submitted under section 1205 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 
     (Public Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 2883).

     SEC. 1308. REQUIREMENT TO SUBMIT REPORT.

       Not later than December 31, 1999, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall submit to Congress a report including--
       (1) an explanation of the strategy of the Department of 
     Defense for encouraging states of the former Soviet Union 
     that receive funds through Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     programs to contribute financially to the threat reduction 
     effort;
       (2) a prioritization of the projects carried out by the 
     Department of Defense under Cooperative Threat Reduction 
     programs; and
       (3) an identification of any limitations that the United 
     States has imposed or will seek to impose, either 
     unilaterally or through negotiations with recipient states, 
     on the level of assistance provided by the United States for 
     each of such projects.

     SEC. 1309. REPORT ON EXPANDED THREAT REDUCTION INITIATIVE.

       Not later than December 31, 1999, the President shall 
     submit to Congress a report on the Expanded Threat Reduction 
     Initiative. Such report shall include a description of the 
     plans for ensuring effective coordination between executive 
     agencies in carrying out the Expanded Threat Reduction 
     Initiative to minimize duplication of efforts.

            DIVISION B--MILITARY CONSTRUCTION AUTHORIZATIONS

     SEC. 2001. SHORT TITLE.

       This division may be cited as the ``Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000''.

                            TITLE XXI--ARMY

     SEC. 2101. AUTHORIZED ARMY CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION 
                   PROJECTS.

       (a) Inside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2104(a)(1), the Secretary of the Army may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations inside the United States, and in 
     the amounts, set forth in the following table:
       

                     Army: Inside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            State               Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama......................  Redstone Arsenal.........      $9,800,000
Alaska.......................  Fort Richardson..........     $14,600,000
                               Fort Wainwright..........     $32,500,000
California...................  Fort Irwin...............     $32,400,000
                               Presidio of Monterey.....      $7,100,000
Colorado.....................  Fort Carson..............      $4,400,000
                               Peterson Air Force Base..     $25,000,000
District of Columbia.........  Fort McNair..............      $1,250,000
                               Walter Reed Medical            $6,800,000
                                Center.
Georgia......................  Fort Benning.............     $48,400,000
                               Fort Stewart.............     $71,700,000
Hawaii.......................  Schofield Barracks.......     $95,000,000
Kansas.......................  Fort Leavenworth.........     $34,100,000
                               Fort Riley...............      $3,900,000
Kentucky.....................  Blue Grass Army Depot....      $6,000,000
                               Fort Campbell............     $39,900,000
                               Fort Knox................      $1,300,000
Louisiana....................  Fort Polk................      $6,700,000
Maryland.....................  Fort Meade...............     $22,450,000
Massachusetts................  Westover Air Reserve Base      $4,000,000
Missouri.....................  Fort Leonard Wood........     $27,100,000
 
New York.....................  Fort Drum................     $23,000,000
North Carolina...............  Fort Bragg...............    $125,400,000
                               Sunny Point Military           $3,800,000
                                Ocean Terminal..........
Oklahoma.....................  Fort Sill................     $33,200,000
                               McAlester Army Ammunition     $16,600,000
Pennsylvania.................  Carlisle Barracks........      $5,000,000
                               Letterkenny Army Depot...      $3,650,000
South Carolina...............  Fort Jackson.............      $7,400,000
Texas........................  Fort Bliss...............     $52,350,000
                               Fort Hood................     $84,500,000
Virginia.....................  Fort Belvoir.............      $3,850,000
                               Fort Eustis..............     $43,800,000
                               Fort Myer................      $2,900,000
                               Fort Story...............      $8,000,000
Washington...................  Fort Lewis...............     $23,400,000
CONUS Various................  CONUS Various............     $36,400,000
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $967,550,000
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       (b) Outside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2104(a)(2), the Secretary of the Army may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     locations outside the United States, and in the amounts, set 
     forth in the following table:
       

                     Army: Outside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Country              Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Germany......................  Ansbach..................     $21,000,000
                               Bamberg..................     $23,200,000
                               Mannheim.................      $4,500,000
Korea........................  Camp Casey...............     $31,000,000

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                               Camp Howze...............      $3,050,000
                               Camp Stanley.............      $3,650,000
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................     $86,400,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------


     SEC. 2102. FAMILY HOUSING.

       (a) Construction and Acquisition.--Using amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in section 2104(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Army may 
     construct or acquire family housing units (including land 
     acquisition) at the installations, for the purposes, and in 
     the amounts set forth in the following table:
       

                                              Army: Family Housing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Purpose                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Korea.................................  Camp Humphreys...........  60 Units.....................     $24,000,000
 
Virginia..............................  Fort Lee.................  97 Units.....................     $16,500,000
                                                                                                 ---------------
                                                                     Total......................     $40,500,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


       (b) Planning and Design.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2104(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Army may carryout 
     architectural and engineering services and construction 
     design activities with respect to the construction or 
     improvement of family housing units in an amount not to 
     exceed $4,300,000.

     SEC. 2103. IMPROVEMENTS TO MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING UNITS.

       Subject to section 2825 of title 10, United States Code, 
     and using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization 
     of appropriations in sections 2104(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of 
     the Army may improve existing military family housing units 
     in an amount not to exceed $35,400,000.

     SEC. 2104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, ARMY.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 
     1999, for military construction, land acquisition, and 
     military family housing functions of the Department of the 
     Army in the total amount of $2,384,417,000 as follows:
       (1) For military construction projects inside the United 
     States authorized by section 2101(a), $879,550,000.
       (2) For the military construction projects outside the 
     United States authorized by section 2101(b), $86,400,000.
       (3) For unspecified minor construction projects authorized 
     by section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, $9,500,000.
       (4) For architectural and engineering services and 
     construction design under section 2807 of title 10, United 
     States Code, $87,205,000.
       (5) For military family housing functions:
       (A) For construction and acquisition, planning and design 
     and improvement of military family housing and facilities, 
     $80,200,000.
       (B) For support of military family housing (including the 
     functions described in section 2833 of title 10, United 
     States Code), $1,089,812,000.
       (6) For the construction of the United States Disciplinary 
     Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, authorized in section 
     2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998 (division B of Public Law 105-85; 111 Stat. 
     1967), $18,800,000.
       (7) For the construction of the force XXI soldier 
     development center, Fort Hood, Texas, authorized in section 
     2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998 (division B of Public Law 105-85; 111 Stat. 
     1966), $14,000,000.
       (8) For the construction of the railhead facility, Fort 
     Hood, Texas, authorized in section 2101(a) of the Military 
     Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division 
     B of Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2182), $14,800,000.
       (9) For the construction of the cadet development center, 
     United States Military Academy, West Point, New York, 
     authorized in section 2101(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2182), $28,500,000.
       (10) For the construction of the whole barracks complex 
     renewal, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, authorized in section 
     2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal year 1999 (division B of Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 
     2182), $32,000,000.
       (11) For the construction of the multi-purpose digital 
     training range, Fort Knox, Kentucky, authorized in section 
     2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 
     2182), $16,000,000.
       (12) For the construction of the power plant, Roi Namur 
     Island, Kwajalein Atoll, Kwajalein, authorized in section 
     2101(b) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 
     2183), $35,400,000.
       (b) Limitation on Total Cost of Construction Projects.--
     Notwithstanding the cost variations authorized by section 
     2853 of title 10, United States Code, and any other cost 
     variation authorized by law, the total cost of all projects 
     carried out under section 2101 of this Act may not exceed--
       (1) the total amount authorized to be appropriated under 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a);
       (2) $46,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under 
     section 2101(a) for the construction of the whole barracks 
     complex renewal at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii);
       (3) $22,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under 
     section 2101(a) for the construction of the whole barracks 
     complex renewal at Fort Bragg, North Carolina);
       (4) $10,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under 
     section 2101(a) for the construction of tank trail erosion 
     mitigation at the Yakima Training Center, Fort Lewis, 
     Washington); and
       (5) $10,100,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under 
     section 2101(a) for the construction of a tactical equipment 
     shop at Fort Sill, Oklahoma).
       (c) Adjustment.--The total amount authorized to be 
     appropriated pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (12) of 
     subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in such paragraphs reduced by $7,750,000, which 
     represents the combination of project savings in military 
     construction resulting from favorable bids, reduced overhead 
     charges, and cancellations due to force structure changes.

                            TITLE XXII--NAVY

     SEC. 2201. AUTHORIZED NAVY CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION 
                   PROJECTS.

       (a) Inside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2204(a)(1), the Secretary of the Navy may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations inside the United States, and in 
     the amounts, set forth in the following table:

                     Navy: Inside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            State               Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arizona......................  Marine Corps Air Station,     $24,220,000
                                Yuma.                         $7,560,000
                               Navy Detachment, Camp
                                Navajo.
California...................  Marine Corps Air-Ground       $34,760,000
                                Combat Center,
                                Twentynine Palms........
                               Marine Corps Base, Camp       $38,460,000
                                Pendleton.
                               Marine Corps Logistics         $4,670,000
                                Base, Barstow.
                               Marine Corps Recruit           $3,200,000
                                Depot, San Diego........
                               Naval Air Station,            $24,020,000
                                Lemoore.
                               Naval Air Station, North      $54,420,000
                                Island.
                               Naval Air Warfare Center,      $4,000,000
                                China Lake.
                               Naval Air Warfare Center,      $7,070,000
                                Corona.
                               Naval Air Warfare Center,      $6,190,000
                                Point Magu.
                               Naval Hospital, San Diego     $21,590,000
                               Naval Hospital,                $7,640,000
                                Twentynine Palms.
                               Naval Postgraduate School      $5,100,000
Florida......................  Naval Air Station,             $5,350,000
                                Whiting Field, Milton...
                               Naval Station, Mayport...      $9,560,000
Georgia......................  Marine Corps Logistics         $6,260,000
                                Base, Albany.
Hawaii.......................  Marine Corps Air Station,      $5,790,000
                                Kaneohe Bay.............

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                               Naval Shipyard, Pearl         $10,610,000
                                Harbor.
                               Naval Station, Pearl          $18,600,000
                                Harbor.
                               Naval Submarine Base,         $29,460,000
                                Pearl Harbor.
Idaho........................  Naval Surface Warfare         $10,040,000
                                Center, Bayview.........
Illinois.....................  Naval Training Center,        $57,290,000
                                Great Lakes.
Indiana......................  Naval Surface Warfare          $7,270,000
                                Center, Crone...........
Maine........................  Naval Air Station,            $16,890,000
                                Brunswick.
Maryland.....................  Naval Air Warfare Center,      $4,560,000
                                Patuxent River..........
                               Naval Surface Warfare         $10,070,000
                                Center, Indian Head.....
Mississippi..................  Naval Air Station,             $7,280,000
                                Meridian................
                               Naval Construction            $19,170,000
                                Battalion Center
                                Gulfport................
Nevada.......................  Naval Air Station, Fallon      $7,000,000
New Jersey...................  Naval Air Warfare Center      $15,710,000
                                Aircraft Division,
                                Lakehurst...............
North Carolina...............  Marine Corps Air Station,      $5,470,000
                                New River.                   $21,380,000
                               Marine Corps Base, Camp
                                Lejeune.
Pennsylvania.................  Navy Ships Parts Control       $2,990,000
                                Center, Mechanicsburg...
                               Norfolk Naval Shipyard        $13,320,000
                                Detachment, Philadelphia.
South Carolina...............  Naval Weapons Station,         $7,640,000
                                Charleston.                  $18,290,000
                               Marine Corps Air Station,
                                Beaufort.
Texas........................  Naval Station, Ingleside.     $11,780,000
Virginia.....................  Marine Corps Combat           $20,820,000
                                Development Command,
                                Quantico................
                               Naval Air Station, Oceana     $11,490,000
                               Naval Shipyard, Norfolk..     $17,630,000
                               Naval Station, Norfolk...     $69,550,000
                               Naval Weapons Station,        $25,040,000
                                Yorktown.
                               Tactical Training Group       $10,310,000
                                Atlantic, Dam Neck......
Washington...................  Naval Ordnance Center          $3,440,000
                                Pacific Division
                                Detachment, Port Hadlock
                               Naval Undersea Warfare         $6,700,000
                                Center, Keyport.........
                               Puget Sound Naval             $15,610,000
                                Shipyard, Bremerton.....
                               Strategic Weapons              $6,300,000
                                Facility Pacific,
                                Bremerton...............
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $751,570,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------


       (b) Outside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2204(a)(2), the Secretary of the Navy may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     locations outside the United States, and in the amounts, set 
     forth in the following table:
       

                     Navy: Outside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Country              Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Bahrain......................  Administrative Support        $83,090,000
                                Unit,.
Diego Garcia.................  Naval Support Facility,        $8,150,000
                                Diego Garcia.
Greece.......................  Naval Support Activity,        $6,380,000
                                Souda Bay.
Italy........................  Naval Support Activity,       $26,750,000
                                Naples.
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $124,370,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

     SEC. 2202. FAMILY HOUSING.

       (a) Construction and Acquisition.--Using amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in section 2204(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Navy may 
     construct or acquire family housing units (including land 
     acquisition) at the installations, for the purposes, and in 
     the amounts set forth in the following table:
       

                                              Navy: Family Housing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                  State                     Installation or location             Purpose               Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Hawaii..................................  Marine Corps Air Station,    100 Units..................   $26,615,000
                                           Kaneohe Bay...............
                                          Naval Base Pearl Harbor....  133 Units..................   $30,168,000
                                          Naval Base Pearl Harbor....  96 Units...................   $19,167,000
                                                                                                   -------------
                                                                         Total....................   $75,950,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       (b) Planning and Design.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriation in section 
     2204(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Navy may carry out 
     architectural and engineering services and construction 
     design activities with respect to the construction or 
     improvement of military family housing units in an amount not 
     to exceed $17,715,000.

     SEC. 2203. IMPROVEMENTS TO MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING UNITS.

       Subject to section 2825 of title 10, United States Code, 
     and using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization 
     of appropriations in section 2204(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of 
     the Navy may improve existing military family housing units 
     in an amount not to exceed $162,350,000.

     SEC. 2204. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, NAVY.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 
     1999, for military construction, land acquisition, and 
     military family housing functions of the Department of the 
     Navy in the total amount of $2,084,107,000 as follows:
       (1) For military construction projects inside the United 
     States authorized by section 2201(a), $737,910,000.
       (2) For military construction projects outside the United 
     States authorized by section 2201(b), $124,370,000.
       (3) For unspecified minor construction projects authorized 
     by section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, $7,342,000.
       (4) For architectural and engineering services and 
     construction design under section 2807 of title 10, United 
     States Code, $70,010,000.
       (5) For military family housing functions:
       (A) For construction and acquisition, planning and design 
     and improvement of military family housing and facilities, 
     $256,015,000.
       (B) For support of military housing (including functions 
     described in section 2833 of title 10, United States Code), 
     $895,070,000.
       (6) For the construction of berthing wharf, Naval Station 
     Norfolk, Virginia, authorized by section 2201(a) of the 
     Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 
     (division B of Public Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2189), 
     $12,690,000.
       (b) Limitation on Total Cost of Construction Projects.--
     Notwithstanding the cost variations authorized by section 
     2853 of title 10, United States Code, and any other cost 
     variation authorized by law, the total cost of all projects 
     carried out under section 2201 of this Act may not exceed--
       (1) the total amount authorized to be appropriated under 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); and
       (2) $13,660,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under 
     section 2201(a) for the construction of a berthing wharf at 
     Naval Air Station, North Island, California).
       (c) Adjustment.--The total amount authorized to be 
     appropriated pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (6) of 
     subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in such paragraphs reduced by $19,300,000, which 
     represents the combination of project savings in military 
     construction resulting from favorable bids, reduced overhead 
     charges, and cancellations due to force structure changes.

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     SEC. 2205. AUTHORIZATION TO ACCEPT ELECTRICAL SUBSTATION 
                   IMPROVEMENTS, GUAM.

       The Secretary of the Navy may accept from the Guam Power 
     Authority various improvements to electrical transformers at 
     the Agana and Harmon Substations in Guam, which are valued at 
     approximately $610,000 and are to be performed in accordance 
     with plans and specifications acceptable to the Secretary.

     SEC. 2206. CORRECTION IN AUTHORIZED USE OF FUNDS, MARINE 
                   CORPS COMBAT DEVELOPMENT COMMAND, QUANTICO, 
                   VIRGINIA.

       The Secretary of the Navy may carry out a military 
     construction project involving infrastructure development at 
     the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, 
     Virginia, in the amount of $8,900,000, using amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in section 2204(a)(1) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (division B of Public 
     Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2769) for a military construction 
     project involving a sanitary landfill at that installation, 
     as authorized by section 2201(a) of that Act (110 Stat. 
     2767).

                         TITLE XXIII--AIR FORCE

     SEC. 2301. AUTHORIZED AIR FORCE CONSTRUCTION AND LAND 
                   ACQUISITION PROJECTS.

       (a) Inside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2304(a)(1), the Secretary of the Air Force may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations inside the United States, and in 
     the amounts, set forth in the following table:
       

                   Air Force: Inside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            State               Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Alabama......................  Maxwell Air Force Base...     $10,600,000
Alaska.......................  Eielson Air Force Base...     $24,100,000
                               Elmendorf Air Force Base.     $32,800,000
Arizona......................  Davis-Monthan Air Force        $7,800,000
                                Base.
Arkansas.....................  Little Rock Air Force          $7,800,000
                                Base.
California...................  Beale Air Force Base.....      $8,900,000
                               Edwards Air Force Base...      $5,500,000
                               Travis Air Force Base....     $11,200,000
Colorado.....................  Peterson Air Force Base..     $40,000,000
                               Schriever Air Force Base.     $16,100,000
                               U.S. Air Force Academy...     $17,500,000
CONUS Classified.............  Classified Location......     $16,870,000
Florida......................  Eglin Air Force Base.....     $18,300,000
                               Eglin Auxiliary Field 9..     $18,800,000
                               MacDill Air Force Base...      $5,500,000
                               Patrick Air Force Base...     $17,800,000
                               Tyndall Air Force Base...     $10,800,000
Georgia......................  Fort Benning.............      $3,900,000
                               Moody Air Force Base.....      $5,950,000
                               Robins Air Force Base....      $3,350,000
Hawaii.......................  Hickam Air Force Base....      $3,300,000
Idaho........................  Mountain Home Air Force       $17,000,000
                                Base.
Kansas.......................  McConnell Air Force Base.      $9,600,000
Kentucky.....................  Fort Campbell............      $6,300,000
Mississippi..................  Columbus Air Force Base..      $5,100,000
                               Keesler Air Force Base...     $27,000,000
Missouri.....................  Whiteman Air Force Base..     $24,900,000
Nebraska.....................  Offutt Air Force Base....      $8,300,000
Nevada.......................  Nellis Air Force Base....     $18,600,000
New Jersey...................  McGuire Air Force Base...     $11,800,000
New Mexico...................  Kirtland Air Force Base..     $14,000,000
North Carolina...............  Fort Bragg...............      $4,600,000
                               Pope Air Force Base......      $7,700,000
North Dakota.................  Minot Air Force Base.....      $3,000,000
Ohio.........................  Wright-Patterson Air          $35,100,000
                                Force Base.
Oklahoma.....................  Tinker Air Force Base....     $23,800,000
                               Vance Air Force Base.....     $12,600,000
South Carolina...............  Charleston Air Force Base     $18,200,000
Tennessee....................  Arnold Air Force Base....      $7,800,000
Texas........................  Dyess Air Force Base.....      $5,400,000
                               Lackland Air Force Base..     $13,400,000
                               Laughlin Air Force Base..      $3,250,000
                               Randolph Air Force Base..      $3,600,000
Utah.........................  Hill Air Force Base......      $4,600,000
Virginia.....................  Langley Air Force Base...      $6,300,000
Washington...................  Fairchild Air Force Base.     $15,550,000
                               McChord Air Force Base...      $7,900,000
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $632,270,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

       (b) Outside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2304(a)(2), the Secretary of the Air Force may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations outside the United States, and in 
     the amounts, set forth in the following table:
       

                  Air Force: Outside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
           Country              Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Guam.........................  Andersen Air Force Base..      $8,900,000
Italy........................  Aviano Air Base..........      $3,700,000
Korea........................  Osan Air Base............     $19,600,000
Portugal.....................  Lajes Field, Azores......      $1,800,000
United Kingdom...............  Ascension Island.........      $2,150,000
                               Royal Air Force Feltwell.      $3,000,000
                               Royal Air Force               $18,200,000
                                Lakenheath.                  $17,600,000
                               Royal Air Force                $1,700,000
                                Mildenhall.
                               Royal Air Force
                                Molesworth.
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................     $76,650,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

     SEC. 2302. FAMILY HOUSING.

       (a) Construction and Acquisition.--Using amounts 
     appropriated pursuant to the authorization of appropriations 
     in section 2304(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Air Force may 
     construct or acquire family housing units (including land 
     acquisition) at the installations, for the purposes, and in 
     the amounts set forth in the following table:
       

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                                            Air Force: Family Housing
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Purpose                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Arizona...............................  Davis-Monthan Air Force    64 Units.....................     $10,000,000
                                         Base....................
California............................  Beale Air Force Base.....  60 Units.....................      $8,500,000
                                        Edwards Air Force Base...  188 Units....................     $32,790,000
                                        Vandenberg Air Force Base  91 Units.....................     $16,800,000
District of Columbia..................  Bolling Air Force Base...  72 Units.....................      $9,375,000
Florida...............................  Eglin Air Force Base.....  130 Units....................     $14,080,000
                                        MacDill Air Force Base...  54 Units.....................      $9,034,000
Kansas................................  McConnell Air Force Base.  Safety Improvements..........      $1,363,000
Mississippi...........................  Columbus Air Force Base..  100 Units....................     $12,290,000
Montana...............................  Malmstrom Air Force Base.  34 Units.....................      $7,570,000
Nebraska..............................  Offutt Air Force Base....  72 Units.....................     $12,352,000
New Mexico............................  Hollomon Air Force Base..  76 Units.....................      $9,800,000
North Carolina........................  Seymour Johnson Air Force  78 Units.....................     $12,187,000
                                         Base....................
North Dakota..........................  Grand Forks Air Force      42 Units.....................     $10,050,000
                                         Base....................
                                        Minot Air Force Base.....  72 Units.....................     $10,756,000
Texas.................................  Lackland Air Force Base..  48 Units.....................      $7,500,000
Portugal..............................  Lajes Field, Azores......  75 Units.....................     $12,964,000
                                                                                                 ---------------
                                                                     Total......................    $197,411,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

       (b) Planning and Design.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2304(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of the Air Force may carry out 
     architectural and engineering services and construction 
     design activities with respect to the construction or 
     improvement of military family housing units in an amount not 
     to exceed $17,093,000.

     SEC. 2303. IMPROVEMENTS TO MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING UNITS.

       Subject to section 2825 of title 10, Unites States Code, 
     and using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization 
     of appropriations in section 2304(a)(5)(A), the Secretary of 
     the Air Force may improve existing military family housing 
     units in an amount not to exceed $124,492,000.

     SEC. 2304. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, AIR FORCE.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 
     1999, for military construction, land acquisition, and 
     military family housing functions of the Department of the 
     Air Force in the total amount of $1,874,053,000 as follows:
       (1) For military construction projects inside the United 
     States authorized by section 2301(a), $602,270,000.
       (2) For military construction projects outside the United 
     States authorized by section 2301(b), $76,650,000.
       (3) For unspecified minor construction projects authorized 
     by section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, $8,741,000.
       (4) For architectural and engineering services and 
     construction design under section 2807 of title 10, United 
     States Code, $32,104,000.
       (5) For military housing functions:
       (A) For construction and acquisition, planning and design 
     and improvement of military family housing and facilities, 
     $338,996,000.
       (B) For support of military family housing (including 
     functions described in section 2833 of title 10, United 
     States Code), $821,892,000.
       (b) Limitation on Total Cost of Construction Projects.--
     Notwithstanding the cost variations authorized by section 
     2853 of title 10, United States Code, and any other cost 
     variation authorized by law, the total cost of all projects 
     carried out under section 2301 of this Act may not exceed the 
     total amount authorized to be appropriated under paragraphs 
     (1) and (2) of subsection (a).
       (c) Adjustment.--The total amount authorized to be 
     appropriated pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (5) of 
     subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in such paragraphs reduced by $6,600,000, which 
     represents the combination of project savings in military 
     construction resulting from favorable bids, reduced overhead 
     charges, and cancellations due to force structure changes.

                      TITLE XXIV--DEFENSE AGENCIES

     SEC. 2401. AUTHORIZED DEFENSE AGENCIES CONSTRUCTION AND LAND 
                   ACQUISITION PROJECTS.

       (a) Inside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2405(a)(1), the Secretary of Defense may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations inside the United States, and in 
     the amounts, set forth in the following table:
       

               Defense Agencies: Inside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Agency              Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Chemical Demilitarization....  Blue Grass Army Depot,       $206,800,000
                                Kentucky.
Defense Education Activity...  Laurel Bay, South              $2,874,000
                                Carolina................
                               Marine Corps Base, Camp       $10,570,000
                                LeJeune, North Carolina.
Defense Logistics Agency.....  Defense Distribution New       $5,000,000
                                Cumberland,Pennsylvania.
                               Elmendorf Air Force Base,     $23,500,000
                                Alaska..................
                               Eielson Air Force Base,       $26,000,000
                                Alaska.
                               Fairchild Air Force Base,     $12,400,000
                                Washington.
                               Various Locations........      $1,300,000
Defense Manpower Data Center.  Presidio, Monterey,           $28,000,000
                                California..............
National Security Agency.....  Fort Meade, Maryland.....      $2,946,000
Special Operations Command...  Fleet Combat Training          $4,700,000
                                Center, Dam Neck,
                                Virginia................
                               Fort Benning, Georgia....     $10,200,000
                               Fort Bragg, North             $20,100,000
                                Carolina.
                               Mississippi Army               $9,600,000
                                Ammunition Plant,
                                Mississippi.............
                               Naval Amphibious Base,         $6,000,000
                                Coronado, California....
TRICARE Management Agency....  Andrews Air Force Base,        $3,000,000
                                Maryland................
                               Cheatham Annex, Virginia.      $1,650,000
                               Davis-Monthan Air Force       $10,000,000
                                Base, Arizona...........
                               Fort Lewis, Washington...      $5,500,000
                               Fort Riley, Kansas.......      $6,000,000
                               Fort Sam Houston, Texas..      $5,800,000
                               Fort Wainwright, Alaska..    $133,000,000
                               Los Angeles Air Force         $13,600,000
                                Base, California........
                               Marine Corps Air Station,      $3,500,000
                                Cherry Point, North
                                Carolina................
                               Moody Air Force Base,          $1,250,000
                                Georgia.
                               Naval Air Station,             $3,780,000
                                Jacksonville, Florida...
                               Naval Air Station,             $4,050,000
                                Norfolk, Virginia.
                               Naval Air Station,             $4,150,000
                                Patuxent River, Maryland
                               Naval Air Station,             $4,300,000
                                Pensacola, Florida.
                               Naval Air Station,             $4,700,000
                                Whidbey Island,
                                Washington..............
                               Patrick Air Force Base,        $1,750,000
                                Florida.
                               Travis Air Force Base,         $7,500,000
                                California.
                               Wright-Patterson Air           $3,900,000
                                Force Base, Ohio........
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $587,420,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------


       (b) Outside the United States.--Using amounts appropriated 
     pursuant to the authorization of appropriations in section 
     2405(a)(2), the Secretary of Defense may acquire real 
     property and carry out military construction projects for the 
     installations and locations outside the

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     United States, and in the amounts, set forth in the following 
     table:


               Defense Agencies: Outside the United States
------------------------------------------------------------------------
            Agency              Installation or location      Amount
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Drug Interdiction and Counter- Manta, Ecuador...........     $25,000,000
 Drug Activities.............
                               Curacao, Netherlands          $11,100,000
                                Antilles................
Defense Education Activity...  Andersen Air Force Base,      $44,170,000
                                Guam....................
                               Naval Station Rota, Spain     $17,020,000
                               Royal Air Force,               $4,570,000
                                Feltwell, United Kingdom
                               Royal Air Force,               $3,770,000
                                Lakenheath, United
                                Kingdom.................
Defense Logistics Agency.....  Andersen Air Force Base,      $24,300,000
                                Guam.
                               Moron Air Base, Spain....     $15,200,000
National Security Agency.....  Royal Air Force, Menwith         $500,000
                                Hill Station, United
                                Kingdom.................
Tri-Care Management Agency...  Naval Security Group           $4,000,000
                                Activity, Sabana Seca,
                                Puerto Rico.............
                               Ramstein Air Force Base,       $7,100,000
                                Germany.
                               Royal Air Force,               $7,100,000
                                Lakenheath, United
                                Kingdom.................
                               Yongsan, Korea...........     $41,120,000
                                                         ---------------
                                 Total..................    $204,950,000
------------------------------------------------------------------------

     SEC. 2402. IMPROVEMENTS TO MILITARY FAMILY HOUSING UNITS.

       Subject to section 2825 of title 10, United States Code, 
     and using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization 
     of appropriation in section 2405(a)(8)(A), the Secretary of 
     Defense may improve existing military family housing units in 
     an amount not to exceed $50,000.

     SEC. 2403. MILITARY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM.

       Of the amount authorized to be appropriated by section 
     2405(a)(8)(C), $78,756,000 shall be available for credit to 
     the Department of Defense Family Housing Fund established by 
     section 2883(a)(1) of title 10, United States Code.

     SEC. 2404. ENERGY CONSERVATION PROJECTS.

       Using amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization of 
     appropriations in section 2405(a)(6), the Secretary of 
     Defense may carry out energy conservation projects under 
     section 2865 of title 10, United States Code, in the amount 
     of $6,558,000.

     SEC. 2405. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, DEFENSE AGENCIES.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 
     1999, for military construction, land acquisition, and 
     military family housing functions of the Department of 
     Defense (other than the military departments), in the total 
     amount of $1,618,965,000 as follows:
       (1) For military construction projects inside the United 
     States authorized by section 2401(a), $288,420,000.
       (2) For military construction projects outside the United 
     States authorized by section 2401(b), $204,950,000.
       (3) For unspecified minor construction projects under 
     section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, $18,618,000.
       (4) For contingency construction projects of the Secretary 
     of Defense under section 2804 of title 10, United States 
     Code, $938,000.
       (5) For architectural and engineering services and 
     construction design under section 2807 of title 10, United 
     States Code, $49,024,000.
       (6) For Energy Conservation projects authorized by section 
     2404 of this Act, $6,558,000.
       (7) For base closure and realignment activities as 
     authorized by the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 
     1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 
     2687 note), $705,911,000.
       (8) For military family housing functions:
       (A) For improvement of military family housing and 
     facilities, $50,000.
       (B) For support of military housing (including functions 
     described in section 2833 of title 10, United States Code), 
     $41,440,000 of which not more than $35,639,000 may be 
     obligated or expended for the leasing of military family 
     housing units worldwide.
       (C) For credit to the Department of Defense Family Housing 
     Improvement Fund as authorized by section 2403 of this Act, 
     $78,756,000.
       (9) For the construction of the Ammunition Demilitarization 
     Facility, Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, authorized in section 
     2101(a) of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1991 (division B of Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 
     1758), section 2101(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 and 1993 (division B 
     of Public Law 102-190; 105 Stat. 1508), section 2101(a) of 
     the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     1993 (division B of Public Law 102-484; 106 Stat. 2586); and 
     section 2401 of the Military Construction Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1995 (division B of Public Law 103-337, 108 
     Stat. 3040), $7,000,000.
       (10) For the construction of the Ammunition 
     Demilitarization Facility, Pine Bluff Arsenal, Arkansas, 
     authorized in section 2401 of Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (division B of Public 
     Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 3040), as amended by section 2407 of 
     the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
     (division B of Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 539), section 
     2408 of the Military Construction Authorization Act for 
     Fiscal Year 1998 (division B of Public Law 105-85; 111 Stat. 
     1982), and section 2406 of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2197), $61,800,000.
       (11) For the construction of the Ammunition 
     Demilitarization Facility, Umatilla Army Depot, Oregon, 
     authorized in section 2401 of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 (division B of Public 
     Law 103-337; 108 Stat. 3040), as amended by section 2407 of 
     the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 
     1996 (division B of Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 539), 
     section 2408 of the Military Construction Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1998 (division B of Public Law 105-85; 111 
     Stat. 1982); and section 2406 of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2197), $35,900,000.
       (12) For the construction of the Ammunition 
     Demilitarization Facility, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, 
     authorized in section 2401(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2193), $66,600,000.
       (13) For the construction of the Ammunition 
     Demilitarization Facility at Newport Army Depot, Indiana, 
     authorized in section 2401(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2193), $61,200,000.
       (14) For the construction of the Ammunition 
     Demilitarization Facility, Pueblo Army Depot, Colorado, 
     authorized in section 2401(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (division B of Public 
     Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2775), as amended by section 2406 of 
     this Act, $11,800,000.
       (b) Limitation of Total Cost of Construction Projects.--
     Notwithstanding the cost variation authorized by section 2853 
     of title 10, United States Code, and any other cost 
     variations authorized by law, the total cost of all projects 
     carried out under section 2401 of this Act may not exceed--
       (1) the total amount authorized to be appropriated under 
     paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a);
       (2) $115,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized 
     under section 2401(a) for the construction of a replacement 
     hospital at Fort Wainwright, Alaska); and
       (3) $184,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized 
     under section 2401(a) for the construction of a chemical 
     demilitarization facility at Blue Grass Army Depot, 
     Kentucky).
       (c) Adjustment.--The total amount authorized to be 
     appropriated pursuant to paragraphs (1) through (14) of 
     subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts authorized to be 
     appropriated in such paragraphs reduced by $20,000,000, which 
     represents the combination of project savings in military 
     construction resulting from favorable bids, reduced overhead 
     charges, and cancellations due to force structure changes.

     SEC. 2406. INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 1997 AUTHORIZATION FOR 
                   MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS AT PUEBLO 
                   CHEMICAL ACTIVITY, COLORADO.

       The table in section 2401(a) of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (division B of Public 
     Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2775), is amended--
       (1) in the item relating to Pueblo Chemical Activity, 
     Colorado, under the agency heading relating to Chemical 
     Demilitarization Program by striking ``$179,000,000'' in the 
     amount column and inserting ``$203,500,000''; and
       (2) by striking the amount identified as the total in the 
     amount column and inserting ``$549,954,000''.
       (b) Conforming Amendment.--Section 2406(b)(2) of that Act 
     (110 Stat. 2779) is amended by striking ``$179,000,000'' and 
     inserting ``$203,500,000''.

     SEC. 2407. CONDITION ON OBLIGATION OF MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 
                   FUNDS FOR DRUG INTERDICTION AND COUNTER-DRUG 
                   ACTIVITIES.

       In addition to the conditions specified in section 1022 on 
     the development of forward operating locations for United 
     States Southern Command counter-drug detection and monitoring 
     flights, amounts appropriated pursuant to the authorization 
     of appropriations in section 2405(a)(2) for the projects set 
     forth in the table in section 2401(b) under the heading 
     ``Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities'' may not be 
     obligated until after the end of the 30-day period beginning 
     on the date on which the Secretary of Defense submits to 
     Congress a report describing in detail the purposes for which 
     the amounts will be obligated and expended.

   TITLE XXV--NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY ORGANIZATION SECURITY INVESTMENT 
                                PROGRAM

     SEC. 2501. AUTHORIZED NATO CONSTRUCTION AND LAND ACQUISITION 
                   PROJECTS.

       The Secretary of Defense may make contributions for the 
     North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment 
     program as provided in

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     section 2806 of title 10, United States Code, in an amount 
     not to exceed the sum of the amount authorized to be 
     appropriated for this purpose in section 2502 and the amount 
     collected from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization as a 
     result of construction previously financed by the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2502. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, NATO.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal 
     years beginning after September 30, 1999, for contributions 
     by the Secretary of Defense under section 2806 of title 10, 
     United States Code, for the share of the United States of the 
     cost of projects for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
     Security Investment program authorized by section 2501, in 
     the amount of $191,000,000.

            TITLE XXVI--GUARD AND RESERVE FORCES FACILITIES

     SEC. 2601. AUTHORIZED GUARD AND RESERVE CONSTRUCTION AND LAND 
                   ACQUISITION PROJECTS.

       There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years 
     beginning after September 30, 1999, for the costs of 
     acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and 
     construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve Forces, 
     and for contributions therefor, under chapter 1803 of title 
     10, United States Code (including the cost of acquisition of 
     land for those facilities), the following amounts:
       (1) For the Department of the Army--
       (A) for the Army National Guard of the United States, 
     $123,878,000; and
       (B) for the Army Reserve, $92,515,000.
       (2) For the Department of the Navy, for the Naval and 
     Marine Corps Reserve, $21,574,000.
       (3) For the Department of the Air Force--
       (A) for the Air National Guard of the United States, 
     $151,170,000; and
       (B) for the Air Force Reserve, $48,564,000.

        TITLE XXVII--EXPIRATION AND EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS

     SEC. 2701. EXPIRATION OF AUTHORIZATIONS AND AMOUNTS REQUIRED 
                   TO BE SPECIFIED BY LAW.

       (a) Expiration of Authorizations After Three Years.--Except 
     as provided in subsection (b), all authorizations contained 
     in titles XXI through XXVI for military construction 
     projects, land acquisition, family housing projects and 
     facilities, and contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty 
     Organization Security Investment program (and authorizations 
     of appropriations therefor) shall expire on the later of--
       (1) October 1, 2002; or
       (2) the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for 
     military construction for fiscal year 2003.
       (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to 
     authorizations for military construction projects, land 
     acquisition, family housing projects and facilities, and 
     contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
     Security Investment program (and authorizations of 
     appropriations therefor), for which appropriated funds have 
     been obligated before the later of--
       (1) October 1, 2002; or
       (2) the date of the enactment of an Act authorizing funds 
     for fiscal year 2003 for military construction projects, land 
     acquisition, family housing projects and facilities, or 
     contributions to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization 
     Security Investment program.

     SEC. 2702. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATIONS OF CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 
                   1997 PROJECTS.

       (a) Extensions.--Notwithstanding section 2701 of the 
     Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 
     (division B of Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2782), 
     authorizations for the projects set forth in the tables in 
     subsection (b), as provided in section 2101, 2201, 2202, or 
     2601 of that Act and amended by section 2406 of this Act, 
     shall remain in effect until October 1, 2000, or the date of 
     enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military 
     construction for fiscal year 2001, whichever is later.
       (b) Tables.--The tables referred to in subsection (a) are 
     as follows:
       

                                  Army: Extension of 1997 Project Authorization
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Project                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Colorado..............................  Pueblo Army Depot........  Ammunition Demilitarization      $203,500,000
                                                                    Facility....................
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



                                  Navy: Extension of 1997 Project Authorization
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Project                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Virginia..............................  Marine Corps Combat        Infrastructure Development...      $8,900,000
                                         Development Command.....
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



                              Navy: Extension of 1997 Family Housing Authorizations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location          Family Housing             Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Florida...............................  Mayport Naval Station....  100 units....................     $10,000,000
Maine.................................  Brunswick Naval Air        92 units.....................     $10,925,000
                                         Station.................
North Carolina........................  Camp Lejuene.............  94 units.....................     $10,110,000
South Carolina........................  Beaufort Marine Corps Air  140 units....................     $14,000,000
                                         Station.................
Texas.................................  Corpus Christi Naval       104 units....................     $11,675,000
                                         Complex.................
                                        Kingsville Naval Air       48 units.....................      $7,550,000
                                         Station.................
Washington............................  Everett Naval Station....  100 units....................     $15,015,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



                          Army National Guard: Extension of 1997 Project Authorization
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Project                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mississippi...........................  Camp Shelby..............  Multi-Purpose Range (Phase         $5,000,000
                                                                    II).........................
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

     SEC. 2703. EXTENSION OF AUTHORIZATION OF CERTAIN FISCAL YEAR 
                   1996 PROJECTS.

       (a) Extensions.--Notwithstanding section 2701 of the 
     Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
     (division B of Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 541), 
     authorizations for the projects set forth in the tables in 
     subsection (b), as provided in section 2202 or 2601 of that 
     Act and extended by section 2702 of the Military Construction 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (division B of Public 
     Law 105-261; 112 Stat. 2199), shall remain in effect until 
     October 1, 2000, or the date of enactment of an Act 
     authorizing funds for military construction for fiscal year 
     2001, whichever is later.
       (b) Tables.--The tables referred to in subsection (a) are 
     as follows:
       

                              Navy: Extension of 1996 Family Housing Authorization
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location          Family Housing             Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
California............................  Camp Pendleton...........  138 units....................     $20,000,000
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



                          Army National Guard: Extension of 1996 Project Authorizations
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
                 State                   Installation or location             Project                 Amount
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Mississippi...........................  Camp Shelby..............  Multipurpose Range Complex         $5,000,000
                                                                    (Phase I)...................
Missouri..............................  National Guard Training    Multipurpose Range...........      $2,236,000
                                         Site, Jefferson City....
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     SEC. 2704. EFFECTIVE DATE.

       Titles XXI, XXII, XXIII, XXIV, XXV, and XXVI shall take 
     effect on the later of--
       (1) October 1, 1999; or
       (2) the date of the enactment of this Act.

                    TITLE XXVIII--GENERAL PROVISIONS

 Subtitle A--Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing 
                                Changes

     SEC. 2801. CONTRIBUTIONS FOR NORTH ATLANTIC TREATY 
                   ORGANIZATIONS SECURITY INVESTMENT.

       Section 2806(a) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by inserting before the period at the end the following: ``, 
     including support for the actual implementation of a military 
     operations plan approved by the North Atlantic Council''.

     SEC. 2802. DEVELOPMENT OF FORD ISLAND, HAWAII.

       (a) Conditional Authority To Develop.--(1) Subchapter I of 
     chapter 169 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new section:

     ``Sec. 2814. Special authority for development of Ford 
       Island, Hawaii

       ``(a) In General.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), the 
     Secretary of the Navy may exercise any authority or 
     combination of authorities in this section for the purpose of 
     developing or facilitating the development of Ford Island, 
     Hawaii, to the extent that the Secretary determines the 
     development is compatible with the mission of the Navy.
       ``(2) The Secretary of the Navy may not exercise any 
     authority under this section until--
       ``(A) the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees 
     of Congress a master plan for the development of Ford Island, 
     Hawaii; and
       ``(B) a period of 30 calendar days has elapsed following 
     the date on which the notification is received by those 
     committees.
       ``(b) Conveyance Authority.--(1) The Secretary of the Navy 
     may convey to any public or private person or entity all 
     right, title, and interest of the United States in and to any 
     real property (including any improvements thereon) or 
     personal property under the jurisdiction of the Secretary in 
     the State of Hawaii that the Secretary determines--
       ``(A) is excess to the needs of the Navy and all of the 
     other armed forces; and
       ``(B) will promote the purpose of this section.
       ``(2) A conveyance under this subsection may include such 
     terms and conditions as the Secretary considers appropriate 
     to protect the interests of the United States.
       ``(c) Lease Authority.--(1) The Secretary of the Navy may 
     lease to any public or private person or entity any real 
     property or personal property under the jurisdiction of the 
     Secretary in the State of Hawaii that the Secretary 
     determines--
       ``(A) is excess to the needs of the Navy and all of the 
     other armed forces; and
       ``(B) will promote the purpose of this section.
       ``(2) A lease under this subsection shall be subject to 
     section 2667(b)(1) of this title and may include such others 
     terms as the Secretary considers appropriate to protect the 
     interests of the United States.
       ``(3) A lease of real property under this subsection may 
     provide that, upon termination of the lease term, the lessee 
     shall have the right of first refusal to acquire the real 
     property covered by the lease if the property is then 
     conveyed under subsection (b).
       ``(4)(A) The Secretary may provide property support 
     services to or for real property leased under this 
     subsection.
       ``(B) To the extent provided in appropriations Acts, any 
     payment made to the Secretary for services provided under 
     this paragraph shall be credited to the appropriation, 
     account, or fund from which the cost of providing the 
     services was paid.
       ``(d) Acquisition of Leasehold Interest by Secretary.--(1) 
     The Secretary of the Navy may acquire a leasehold interest in 
     any facility constructed under subsection (f) as 
     consideration for a transaction authorized by this section 
     upon such terms as the Secretary considers appropriate to 
     promote the purpose of this section.
       ``(2) The term of a lease under paragraph (1) may not 
     exceed 10 years, unless the Secretary of Defense approves a 
     term in excess of 10 years for purposes of this section.
       ``(3) A lease under this subsection may provide that, upon 
     termination of the lease term, the United States shall have 
     the right of first refusal to acquire the facility covered by 
     the lease.
       ``(4) The Secretary of the Navy may enter into a lease 
     under this subsection only if the lease is specifically 
     authorized by a law enacted after the date of the enactment 
     of this section.
       ``(e) Requirement for Competition.--The Secretary of the 
     Navy shall use competitive procedures for purposes of 
     selecting the recipient of real or personal property under 
     subsection (b) and the lessee of real or personal property 
     under subsection (c).
       ``(f) Consideration.--(1) As consideration for the 
     conveyance of real or personal property under subsection (b), 
     or for the lease of real or personal property under 
     subsection (c), the Secretary of the Navy shall accept cash, 
     real property, personal property, or services, or any 
     combination thereof, in an aggregate amount equal to not less 
     than the fair market value of the real or personal property 
     conveyed or leased.
       ``(2) Subject to subsection (i), the services accepted by 
     the Secretary under paragraph (1) may include the following:
       ``(A) The construction or improvement of facilities at Ford 
     Island.
       ``(B) The restoration or rehabilitation of real property at 
     Ford Island.
       ``(C) The provision of property support services for 
     property or facilities at Ford Island.
       ``(g) Notice and Wait Requirements.--The Secretary of the 
     Navy may not carry out a transaction authorized by this 
     section until--
       ``(1) the Secretary submits to the appropriate committees 
     of Congress a notification of the transaction, including--
       ``(A) a detailed description of the transaction; and
       ``(B) a justification for the transaction specifying the 
     manner in which the transaction will meet the purposes of 
     this section; and
       ``(2) a period of 30 calendar days has elapsed following 
     the date on which the notification is received by those 
     committees.
       ``(h) Ford Island Improvement Account.--(1) There is 
     established on the books of the Treasury an account to be 
     known as the `Ford Island Improvement Account'.
       ``(2) There shall be deposited into the account the 
     following amounts:
       ``(A) Amounts authorized and appropriated to the account.
       ``(2) Except as provided in subsection (c)(4)(B), the 
     amount of any cash payment received by the Secretary for a 
     transaction under this section.
       ``(i) Use of Account.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), to the 
     extent provided in advance in appropriation Acts, funds in 
     the Ford Island Improvement Account may be used as follows:
       ``(A) To carry out or facilitate the carrying out of a 
     transaction authorized by this section.
       ``(B) To carry out improvements of property or facilities 
     at Ford Island.
       ``(C) To obtain property support services for property or 
     facilities at Ford Island.
       ``(2) To extent that the authorities provided under 
     subchapter IV of this chapter are available to the Secretary 
     of the Navy, the Secretary may not use the authorities in 
     this section to acquire, construct, or improve family housing 
     units, military unaccompanied housing units, or ancillary 
     supporting facilities related to military housing.
       ``(3)(A) The Secretary may transfer funds from the Ford 
     Island Improvement Account to the following funds:
       ``(i) The Department of Defense Family Housing Improvement 
     Fund established by section 2883(a)(1) of this title.
       ``(ii) The Department of Defense Military Unaccompanied 
     Housing Improvement Fund established by section 2883(a)(2) of 
     this title.
       ``(B) Amounts transferred under subparagraph (A) to a fund 
     referred to in that subparagraph shall be available in 
     accordance with the provisions of section 2883 of this title 
     for activities authorized under subchapter IV of this chapter 
     at Ford Island.
       ``(j) Inapplicability of Certain Property Management 
     Laws.--Except as otherwise provided in this section, 
     transactions under this section shall not be subject to the 
     following:
       ``(1) Sections 2667 and 2696 of this title.
       ``(2) Section 501 of the Stewart B. McKinney Homeless 
     Assistance Act (42 U.S.C. 11411).
       ``(3) Sections 202 and 203 of the Federal Property and 
     Administrative Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 483, 484).
       ``(k) Scoring.--Nothing in this section shall be construed 
     to waive the applicability to any lease entered into under 
     this section of the budget scorekeeping guidelines used to 
     measure compliance with the Balanced Budget Emergency Deficit 
     Control Act of 1985.
       ``(l) Property Support Service Defined.--In this section, 
     the term `property support service' means the following:
       ``(1) Any utility service or other service listed in 
     section 2686(a) of this title.
       ``(2) Any other service determined by the Secretary to be a 
     service that supports the operation and maintenance of real 
     property, personal property, or facilities.''.
       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of such 
     subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following new 
     item:

``2814. Special authority for development of Ford Island, Hawaii.''.
       (b) Conforming Amendments.--Section 2883(c) of title 10, 
     United States Code, is amended--
       (1) in paragraph (1), by adding at the end the following 
     new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Any amounts that the Secretary of the Navy transfers 
     to that Fund pursuant to section 2814(i)(3) of this title, 
     subject to the restrictions on the use of the transferred 
     amounts specified in that section.''; and
       (2) in paragraph (2), by adding at the end the following 
     new subparagraph:
       ``(E) Any amounts that the Secretary of the Navy transfers 
     to that Fund pursuant to section 2814(i)(3) of this title, 
     subject to the restrictions on the use of the transferred 
     amounts specified in that section.''.

     SEC. 2803. RESTRICTION ON AUTHORITY TO ACQUIRE OR CONSTRUCT 
                   ANCILLARY SUPPORTING FACILITIES FOR HOUSING 
                   UNITS.

       Section 2881 of title 10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(a) Authority To Acquire or Construct.--
     '' before ``Any project''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection:
       ``(b) Restriction.--The ancillary supporting facilities 
     authorized by subsection (a) may not be in direct competition 
     with any resale activities provided by the Defense Commissary 
     Agency or the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, the Navy 
     Exchange Service Command, Marine Corps exchanges, or any 
     other nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the United 
     States under the jurisdiction of the armed forces which is 
     conducted for the morale, welfare and recreation of members 
     of the armed forces.''.

     SEC. 2804. PLANNING AND DESIGN FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION 
                   PROJECTS FOR RESERVE COMPONENTS.

       Section 18233(f)(1) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by inserting ``design,'' after ``planning,''.

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     SEC. 2805. LIMITATIONS ON AUTHORITY TO CARRY OUT SMALL 
                   PROJECTS FOR ACQUISITION OF FACILITIES FOR 
                   RESERVE COMPONENTS.

       (a) Unspecified Minor Construction Projects to Correct 
     Life, Health, or Safety Threats.--Subsection (a)(2) of 
     section 18233a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by 
     adding at the end the following new subparagraph:
       ``(C) An unspecified minor construction project intended 
     solely to correct a deficiency that is life-threatening, 
     health-threatening, or safety-threatening, except that the 
     expenditure or contribution for the project may not exceed 
     $3,000,000.''.
       (b) Use of Operation and Maintenance Funds To Correct Life, 
     Health, or Safety Threats.--Subsection (b) of such section is 
     amended by inserting after ``or less'' the following: ``(or 
     $1,000,000 or less if the project is intended solely to 
     correct a deficiency that is life-threatening, health-
     threatening, or safety-threatening).''.

     SEC. 2806. EXPANSION OF ENTITIES ELIGIBLE TO PARTICIPATE IN 
                   ALTERNATIVE AUTHORITY FOR ACQUISITION AND 
                   IMPROVEMENT OF MILITARY HOUSING.

       (a) Definition of Eligible Entity.--Section 2871 of title 
     10, United States Code, is amended--
       (1) by redesignating paragraphs (5) through (7) as 
     paragraphs (6) through (8) respectively; and
       (2) by inserting after paragraph (4) the following new 
     paragraph:
       ``(5) The term `eligible entity' means any individual, 
     corporation, firm, partnership, company, State or local 
     government, or housing authority of a State or local 
     government.''.
       (b) General Authority.--Section 2872 of such title is 
     amended by striking ``private persons'' and inserting 
     ``eligible entities''.
       (c) Direct Loans and Loan Guarantees.--Section 2873 of such 
     title is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a)(1)--
       (A) by striking ``persons in the private sector'' and 
     inserting ``an eligible entity''; and
       (B) by striking ``such persons'' and inserting ``the 
     eligible entity''; and
       (2) in subsection (b)(1)--
       (A) by striking ``any person in the private sector'' and 
     inserting ``an eligible entity''; and
       (B) by striking ``the person'' and inserting ``the eligible 
     entity''.
       (d) Investments.--Section 2875 of such title is amended--
       (1) in subsection (a), by striking ``nongovernmental 
     entities'' and inserting ``an eligible entity'';
       (2) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by striking ``a nongovernmental entity'' both places it 
     appears and inserting ``an eligible entity''; and
       (B) by striking ``the entity'' each place it appears and 
     inserting ``the eligible entity'';
       (3) in subsection (d), by striking ``nongovernmental'' and 
     inserting ``eligible''; and
       (4) in subsection (e), by striking ``a nongovernmental 
     entity'' and inserting ``an eligible entity''.
       (e) Rental Guarantees.--Section 2876 of such title is 
     amended by striking ``private persons'' and inserting 
     ``eligible entities''.
       (f) Differential Lease Payments.--Section 2877 of such 
     title is amended by striking ``private''.
       (g) Conveyance or Lease of Existing Property and 
     Facilities.--Section 2878(a) of such title is amended by 
     striking ``private persons'' and inserting ``eligible 
     entities''.
       (h) Clerical Amendments.--(1) The heading of section 2875 
     of such title is amended to read as follows:

     ``Sec. 2875. Investments''.

       (2) The table of sections at the beginning of subchapter IV 
     of chapter 169 of such title is amended by striking the item 
     relating to such section and inserting the following new 
     item:

``2875. Investments.''.

        Subtitle B--Real Property and Facilities Administration

     SEC. 2811. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR LEASE OF LAND FOR 
                   SPECIAL OPERATIONS ACTIVITIES.

       Section 2680(d) of title 10, United States Code, is amended 
     by striking ``September 30, 2000'' and inserting ``September 
     30, 2005''.

     SEC. 2812. UTILITY PRIVATIZATION AUTHORITY.

       (a) Extended Contracts for Utility Services.--Subsection 
     (c) of section 2688 of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) A contract for the receipt of utility services as 
     consideration under paragraph (1), or any other contract for 
     utility services entered into by the Secretary concerned in 
     connection with the conveyance of a utility system under this 
     section, may be for a period not to exceed 50 years.''.
       (b) Definition of Utility System.--Subsection (g)(2)(B) of 
     such section is amended by striking ``Easements'' and 
     inserting ``Real property, easements,''.
       (c) Funds To Facilitate Privatization.--Such section is 
     further amended--
       (1) by redesignating subsections (g) and (h) as subsections 
     (i) and (j); and
       (2) by inserting after subsection (f) the following new 
     subsection:
       ``(g) Assistance for Construction, Repair, or Replacement 
     of Utility Systems.--In lieu of carrying out a military 
     construction project to construct, repair, or replace a 
     utility system, the Secretary concerned may use funds 
     authorized and appropriated for the project to facilitate the 
     conveyance of the utility system under this section by making 
     a contribution toward the cost of construction, repair, or 
     replacement of the utility system by the entity to which the 
     utility system is being conveyed. The Secretary concerned 
     shall consider any such contribution in the economic analysis 
     required under subsection (e).''.

     SEC. 2813. ACCEPTANCE OF FUNDS TO COVER ADMINISTRATIVE 
                   EXPENSES RELATING TO CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY 
                   TRANSACTIONS.

       Section 2695(b) of title 10, United States Code, is 
     amended--
       (1) by inserting ``involving real property under the 
     control of the Secretary of a military department'' after 
     ``transactions''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(4) The disposal of real property of the United States 
     for which the Secretary will be the disposal agent.''.

     SEC. 2814. STUDY AND REPORT ON IMPACTS TO MILITARY READINESS 
                   OF PROPOSED LAND MANAGEMENT CHANGES ON PUBLIC 
                   LANDS IN UTAH.

       (a) Utah National Defense Lands Defined.--In this section, 
     the term ``Utah national defense lands'' means public lands 
     under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Land Management in 
     the State of Utah that are adjacent to or near the Utah Test 
     and Training Range and Dugway Proving Ground or beneath the 
     Military Operating Areas, Restricted Areas, and airspace that 
     make up the Utah Test and Training Range.
       (b) Readiness Impact Study.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     conduct a study to evaluate the impact upon military 
     training, testing, and operational readiness of any proposed 
     changes in land management of the Utah national defense 
     lands. In conducting the study, the Secretary of Defense 
     shall consider the following:
       (1) The present military requirements for and missions 
     conducted at Utah Test and Training Range, as well as 
     projected requirements for the support of aircraft, unmanned 
     aerial vehicles, missiles, munitions and other military 
     requirements.
       (2) The future requirements for force structure and 
     doctrine changes, such as the Expeditionary Aerospace Force 
     concept, that could require the use of the Utah Test and 
     Training Range.
       (3) All other pertinent issues, such as overflight 
     requirements, access to electronic tracking and 
     communications sites, ground access to respond to emergency 
     or accident locations, munitions safety buffers, noise 
     requirements, ground safety and encroachment issues.
       (c) Cooperation and Coordination.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall conduct the study in cooperation with the Secretary of 
     the Air Force and the Secretary of the Army and coordinate 
     the study with the Secretary of the Interior.
       (d) Effect of Study.--Until the Secretary of Defense 
     submits to Congress a report containing the results of the 
     study, the Secretary of the Interior may not proceed with the 
     amendment of any individual resource management plan for Utah 
     national defense lands, or any statewide environmental impact 
     statement or statewide resource management plan amendment 
     package for such lands, if the statewide environmental impact 
     statement or statewide resource management plan amendment 
     addresses wilderness characteristics or wilderness management 
     issues affecting such lands.

            Subtitle C--Defense Base Closure and Realignment

     SEC. 2821. CONTINUATION OF AUTHORITY TO USE DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE BASE CLOSURE ACCOUNT 1990 FOR 
                   ACTIVITIES REQUIRED TO CLOSE OR REALIGN 
                   MILITARY INSTALLATIONS.

       (a) Duration of Account.--Subsection (a) of section 2906 of 
     the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A 
     of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note) is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(3) The Account shall be closed at the time and in the 
     manner provided for appropriation accounts under section 1555 
     of title 31, United States Code. Unobligated funds which 
     remain in the Account upon closure shall be held by the 
     Secretary of the Treasury until transferred by law after the 
     congressional defense committees receive the final report 
     transmitted under subsection (c)(2).''.
       (b) Effect of Continuation on Use of Account.--Subsection 
     (b)(1) of such section is amended by adding at the end the 
     following new sentence: ``After July 13, 2001, the Account 
     shall be the sole source of Federal funds for environmental 
     restoration, property management, and other caretaker costs 
     associated with any real property at military installations 
     closed or realigned under this part or such title II.''.
       (c) Conforming Amendments.--Such section is further 
     amended--
       (1) in subsection (c)--
       (A) by striking paragraph (2); and
       (B) by redesignating paragraph (3) as paragraph (2) and, in 
     such paragraph, by inserting after ``this part'' the 
     following: ``and no later than 60 days after the closure of 
     the Account under subsection (a)(3)''; and
       (2) in subsection (e), by striking ``the termination of the 
     authority of the Secretary to carry out a closure or 
     realignment under this part'' and inserting ``the closure of 
     the Account under subsection (a)(3)''.

                      Subtitle D--Land Conveyances

                        PART I--ARMY CONVEYANCES

     SEC. 2831. TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION, FORT SAM HOUSTON, TEXAS.

       (a) Transfer of Land for Inclusion in National Cemetery.--
     The Secretary of the Army may transfer, without 
     reimbursement, to the administrative jurisdiction of the 
     Secretary of Veterans Affairs a parcel of real property, 
     including any improvements thereon, consisting of 
     approximately 152 acres and comprising a portion of Fort Sam 
     Houston, Texas.
       (b) Use of Land.--The Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall 
     include the real property transferred under subsection (a) in 
     the Fort Sam Houston National Cemetery and use the conveyed 
     property as a national cemetery under chapter 24 of title 38, 
     United States Code.

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       (c) Legal Description.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be transferred under this 
     section shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the 
     Secretary of the Army. The cost of the survey shall be borne 
     by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary of the 
     Army may require such additional terms and conditions in 
     connection with the transfer under this section as the 
     Secretary of the Army considers appropriate to protect the 
     interests of the United States.

     SEC. 2832. LAND CONVEYANCE, ARMY RESERVE CENTER, KANKAKEE, 
                   ILLINOIS.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the City of Kankakee, 
     Illinois (in this section referred to as the ``City''), all 
     right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a 
     parcel of real property, including improvements thereon, that 
     is located at 1600 Willow Street in Kankakee, Illinois, and 
     contains the vacant Stefaninch Army Reserve Center for the 
     purpose of permitting the City to use the parcel for economic 
     development and other public purposes.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the City.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2833. LAND CONVEYANCE, FORT DES MOINES, IOWA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Fort Des Moines Black 
     Officers Memorial, Inc., a nonprofit corporation organized in 
     the State of Iowa (in this section referred to as the 
     ``Corporation''), all right, title, and interest of the 
     United States in and to a parcel of real property, including 
     improvements thereon, located at Fort Des Moines, Iowa, and 
     containing the post chapel (building #49) and Clayton Hall 
     (building #46) for the purpose of permitting the Corporation 
     to develop and use the parcel as a memorial and for 
     educational purposes.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the Corporation.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2834. LAND CONVEYANCE, ARMY MAINTENANCE SUPPORT ACTIVITY 
                   (MARINE) NUMBER 84, MARCUS HOOK, PENNSYLVANIA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Borough of Marcus Hook, 
     Pennsylvania (in this section referred to as the 
     ``Borough''), all right, title, and interest of the United 
     States in and to a parcel of real property, including 
     improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 5 acres 
     that is located at 7 West Delaware Avenue in Marcus Hook, 
     Pennsylvania, and contains the facility known as the Army 
     Maintenance Support Activity (Marine) Number 84, for the 
     purpose of permitting the Borough to develop the parcel for 
     recreational or economic development purposes.
       (b) Condition of Conveyance.--The conveyance under 
     subsection (a) shall be subject to the condition that the 
     Borough--
       (1) use the conveyed property, directly or through an 
     agreement with a public or private entity, for recreational 
     or economic purposes; or
       (2) convey the property to an appropriate public or private 
     entity for use for such purposes.
       (c) Reversion.--If the Secretary determines at any time 
     that the real property conveyed under subsection (a) is not 
     being used for recreational or economic development purposes, 
     as required by subsection (b), all right, title, and interest 
     in and to the property conveyed under subsection (a), 
     including any improvements thereon, shall revert to the 
     United States, and the United States shall have the right of 
     immediate entry thereon. Any determination of the Secretary 
     under this subsection shall be made on the record after an 
     opportunity for a hearing.
       (d) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the Borough.
       (e) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2835. LAND CONVEYANCES, ARMY DOCKS AND RELATED PROPERTY, 
                   ALASKA.

       (a) Juneau National Guard Dock.--The Secretary of the Army 
     may convey, without consideration, to the City of Juneau, 
     Alaska, all right, title, and interest of the United States 
     in and to a parcel of real property, including improvements 
     thereon, located at 1030 Thane Highway in Juneau, Alaska, and 
     consisting of approximately 0.04 acres and the appurtenant 
     facility known as the Juneau National Guard Dock.
       (b) Whittier Delong Dock.--The Secretary may convey, 
     without consideration, to the Alaska Railroad Corporation all 
     right, title, and interest of the United States in and to a 
     parcel of real property, including improvements thereon, 
     located in Whittier, Alaska, and consisting of approximately 
     6.13 acres and the appurtenant facility known as the DeLong 
     Dock.
       (c) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsections (a) and (b) shall be determined by surveys 
     satisfactory to the Secretary. The cost of the surveys shall 
     be borne by the recipient of the real property.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyances under subsection (a) and (b) as the 
     Secretary considers appropriate to protect the interests of 
     the United States.

     SEC. 2836. LAND CONVEYANCE, FORT HUACHUCA, ARIZONA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Veterans Services 
     Commission of the State of Arizona (in this section referred 
     to as the ``Commission''), all right, title, and interest of 
     the United States in and to a parcel of real property, 
     including improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 
     130 acres at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, for the purpose of 
     permitting the Commission to establish a State-run cemetery 
     for veterans.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the Commission.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2837. LAND CONVEYANCE, ARMY RESERVE CENTER, CANNON 
                   FALLS, MINNESOTA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Cannon Falls Area 
     Schools, Minnesota Independent School District Number 252 (in 
     this section referred to as the ``District''), all right, 
     title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel 
     of real property, including improvements thereon, that is 
     located at 710 State Street East in Cannon Falls, Minnesota, 
     and contains an Army Reserve Center for the purpose of 
     permitting the District to develop the parcel for educational 
     purposes.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the District.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2838. LAND CONVEYANCE, NIKE BATTERY 80 FAMILY HOUSING 
                   SITE, EAST HANOVER TOWNSHIP, NEW JERSEY.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Township Council of 
     East Hanover, New Jersey (in this section referred to as the 
     ``Township''), all right, title, and interest of the United 
     States in and to a parcel of real property, including 
     improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 13.88 acres 
     located near the unincorporated area of Hanover Neck in East 
     Hanover, New Jersey, and was a former family housing site for 
     Nike Battery 80, for the purpose of permitting the Township 
     to develop the parcel for affordable housing and for 
     recreational purposes.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the Township.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2839. LAND EXCHANGE, ROCK ISLAND ARSENAL, ILLINOIS.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Army may 
     convey to the City of Moline, Illinois (in this section 
     referred to as the ``City''), all right, title, and interest 
     of the United States in and to a parcel of real property, 
     including improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 
     .3 acres at the Rock Island Arsenal for the purpose of 
     permitting the City to construct a new entrance and exit ramp 
     for the bridge that crosses the southeast end of the island 
     containing the Arsenal.
       (b) Consideration.--As consideration for the conveyance 
     under subsection (a), the City shall convey to the Secretary 
     all right, title, and interest of the City in and to a parcel 
     of real property consisting of approximately .2 acres and 
     located in the vicinity of the parcel to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a).
       (c) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the parcels to be conveyed under this section 
     shall be determined by a survey satisfactory to the 
     Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by the City.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyances under this section as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2840. MODIFICATION OF LAND CONVEYANCE, JOLIET ARMY 
                   AMMUNITION PLANT, ILLINOIS.

       Section 2922(c) of the Military Construction Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (division

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     B of Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 605) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The conveyance''; and
       (2) by adding at the end the following new paragraph:
       ``(2) The landfill established on the real property 
     conveyed under subsection (a) may contain only waste 
     generated in the county in which the landfill is established 
     and waste generated in municipalities located at least in 
     part in that county. The landfill shall be closed and capped 
     after 23 years of operation.''.

     SEC. 2841. LAND CONVEYANCES, TWIN CITIES ARMY AMMUNITION 
                   PLANT, MINNESOTA.

       (a) Conveyance to City Authorized.--The Secretary of the 
     Army may convey to the City of Arden Hills, Minnesota (in 
     this section referred to as the ``City''), all right, title, 
     and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of real 
     property, including improvements thereon, consisting of 
     approximately 4 acres at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition 
     Plant, for the purpose of permitting the City to construct a 
     city hall complex on the parcel.
       (b) Conveyance to County Authorized.--The Secretary of the 
     Army may convey to Ramsey County, Minnesota (in this section 
     referred to as the ``County''), all right, title, and 
     interest of the United States in and to a parcel of real 
     property, including improvements thereon, consisting of 
     approximately 35 acres at the Twin Cities Army Ammunition 
     Plant, for the purpose of permitting the County to construct 
     a maintenance facility on the parcel.
       (c) Consideration.--As consideration for the conveyances 
     under this section, the City shall make the city hall complex 
     available for use by the Minnesota National Guard for public 
     meetings, and the County shall make the maintenance facility 
     available for use by the Minnesota National Guard, as 
     detailed in agreements entered into between the City, County, 
     and the Commanding General of the Minnesota National Guard. 
     Use of the city hall complex and maintenance facility by the 
     Minnesota National Guard shall be without cost to the 
     Minnesota National Guard.
       (d) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under this 
     section shall be determined by surveys satisfactory to the 
     Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by the 
     recipient of the real property.
       (e) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyances under this section as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

                       PART II--NAVY CONVEYANCES

     SEC. 2851. LAND CONVEYANCE, NAVAL WEAPONS INDUSTRIAL RESERVE 
                   PLANT NO. 387, DALLAS, TEXAS.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--(1) The Secretary of the Navy 
     may convey to the City of Dallas, Texas (in this section 
     referred to as the ``City''), all right, title, and interest 
     of the United States in and to parcels of real property 
     consisting of approximately 314 acres and comprising the 
     Naval Weapons Industrial Reserve Plant No. 387, Dallas, 
     Texas.
       (2)(A) As part of the conveyance authorized by paragraph 
     (1), the Secretary may convey to the City such improvements, 
     equipment, fixtures, and other personal property located on 
     the parcels referred to in that paragraph as the Secretary 
     determines to be not required by the Navy for other purposes.
       (B) The Secretary may permit the City to review and inspect 
     the improvements, equipment, fixtures, and other personal 
     property located on the parcels referred to in paragraph (1) 
     for purposes of the conveyance authorized by this paragraph.
       (b) Authority To Convey Without Consideration.--The 
     conveyance authorized by subsection (a) may be made without 
     consideration if the Secretary determines that the conveyance 
     on that basis would be in the best interests of the United 
     States.
       (c) Condition of Conveyance.--The conveyance authorized by 
     subsection (a) shall be subject to the condition that the 
     City--
       (1) use the parcels, directly or through an agreement with 
     a public or private entity, for economic purposes or such 
     other public purposes as the City determines appropriate; or
       (2) convey the parcels to an appropriate public entity for 
     use for such purposes.
       (d) Reversion.--If, during the 5-year period beginning on 
     the date the Secretary makes the conveyance authorized by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary determines that the conveyed 
     real property is not being used for a purpose specified in 
     subsection (c), all right, title, and interest in and to the 
     property, including any improvements thereon, shall revert to 
     the United States, and the United States shall have the right 
     of immediate entry onto the property.
       (e) Limitation on Certain Subsequent Conveyances.--(1) 
     Subject to paragraph (2), if at any time after the Secretary 
     makes the conveyance authorized by subsection (a) the City 
     conveys any portion of the parcels conveyed under that 
     subsection to a private entity, the City shall pay to the 
     United States an amount equal to the fair market value (as 
     determined by the Secretary) of the portion conveyed at the 
     time of its conveyance under this subsection.
       (2) Paragraph (1) applies to a conveyance described in that 
     paragraph only if the Secretary makes the conveyance 
     authorized by subsection (a) without consideration.
       (3) The Secretary shall cover over into the General Fund of 
     the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts any amounts paid the 
     Secretary under this subsection.
       (f) Interim Lease.--(1) Until such time as the real 
     property described in subsection (a) is conveyed by deed 
     under this section, the Secretary may continue to lease the 
     property, together with improvements thereon, to the current 
     tenant under the existing terms and conditions of the lease 
     for the property.
       (2) If good faith negotiations for the conveyance of the 
     property continue under this section beyond the end of the 
     third year of the term of the existing lease for the 
     property, the Secretary shall continue to lease the property 
     to the current tenant of the property under the terms and 
     conditions applicable to the first three years of the lease 
     of the property pursuant to the existing lease for the 
     property.
       (g) Maintenance of Property.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), 
     the Secretary shall be responsible for maintaining the real 
     property to be conveyed under this section in its condition 
     as of the date of the enactment of this Act until such time 
     as the property is conveyed by deed under this section.
       (2) The current tenant of the property shall be responsible 
     for any maintenance required under paragraph (1) to the 
     extent of the activities of that tenant at the property 
     during the period covered by that paragraph.
       (h) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the City.
       (i) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2852. LAND CONVEYANCE, NAVAL AND MARINE CORPS RESERVE 
                   CENTER, ORANGE, TEXAS.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Navy may 
     convey, without consideration, to the Orange County 
     Navigation and Port District of Orange County, Texas (in this 
     section referred to as the ``District''), all right, title, 
     and interest of the United States in and to a parcel of real 
     property, including improvements thereon, at the Naval and 
     Marine Corps Reserve Center in Orange, Texas, which consists 
     of approximately 2.4 acres and contains the facilities 
     designated as Buildings 135 and 163, for the purpose of 
     permitting the District to develop the parcel for economic 
     development, educational purposes, and the furtherance of 
     navigation-related commerce.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the District.
       (c) Reversionary Interest.--During the five-year period 
     beginning on the date the Secretary makes the conveyance 
     authorized under subsection (a), if the Secretary determines 
     that the conveyed real property is not being used in 
     accordance with the purpose of the conveyance specified in 
     such subsection, all right, title, and interest in and to the 
     property, including any improvements thereon, shall revert to 
     the United States, and the United States shall have the right 
     of immediate entry onto the property. Any determination of 
     the Secretary under this subsection shall be made on the 
     record after an opportunity for a hearing.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2853. LAND CONVEYANCE, MARINE CORPS AIR STATION, CHERRY 
                   POINT, NORTH CAROLINA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Navy may 
     convey, without consideration, to the State of North Carolina 
     (in this section referred to as the ``State''), all right, 
     title, and interest of the United States in and to a parcel 
     of unimproved real property consisting of approximately 20 
     acres at the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North 
     Carolina, for the purpose of permitting the State to develop 
     the parcel for educational purposes.
       (b) Condition of Conveyance.--The conveyance authorized by 
     subsection (a) shall be subject to the condition that the 
     State convey to the United States such easements and rights-
     of-way regarding the parcel as the Secretary considers 
     necessary to ensure use of the parcel by the State is 
     compatible with the use of the Marine Corps Air Station.
       (c) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the State.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

                    PART III--AIR FORCE CONVEYANCES

     SEC. 2861. CONVEYANCE OF FUEL SUPPLY LINE, PEASE AIR FORCE 
                   BASE, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--In conjunction with the 
     disposal of property at former Pease Air Force Base, New 
     Hampshire, under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act 
     of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 
     U.S.C. 2687 note), the Secretary of the Air Force may convey 
     to the redevelopment authority for Pease Air Force Base all 
     right, title, and interest of the United States in and to the 
     deactivated fuel supply line at Pease Air Force Base, 
     including the approximately 14.87 acres of real property 
     associated with such supply line.
       (b) Condition of Conveyance.--The conveyance authorized by 
     subsection (a) may only be

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     made if the redevelopment authority agrees to make the fuel 
     supply line available for use by the New Hampshire Air 
     National Guard under terms and conditions acceptable to the 
     Secretary.
       (c) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the redevelopment authority.
       (d) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2862. LAND CONVEYANCE, TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, FLORIDA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     may convey to Panama City, Florida (in this section referred 
     to as the ``City''), all right, title, and interest, of the 
     United States in and to a parcel of real property, including 
     improvements thereon, consisting of approximately 33.07 acres 
     in Bay County, Florida, and containing the military family 
     housing project for Tyndall Air Force Base known as Cove 
     Garden.
       (b) Consideration.--As consideration for the conveyance 
     under subsection (a), the City shall pay to the United States 
     an amount equal to the fair market value of the real property 
     to be conveyed, as determined by the Secretary.
       (c) Use of Proceeds.--In such amounts as are provided in 
     advance in appropriations Acts, the Secretary may use the 
     funds paid by the City under subsection (b) to construct or 
     improve military family housing units at Tyndall Air Force 
     Base and to improve ancillary supporting facilities related 
     to such housing.
       (d) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the City.
       (e) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

     SEC. 2863. LAND CONVEYANCE, PORT OF ANCHORAGE, ALASKA.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     and the Secretary of the Interior may convey, without 
     consideration, to the Port of Anchorage, an entity of the 
     City of Anchorage, Alaska (in this section referred to as the 
     ``Port''), all right, title, and interest of the United 
     States in and to two parcels of real property, including 
     improvements thereon, consisting of a total of approximately 
     14.22 acres located adjacent to the Port of Anchorage Marine 
     Industrial Park in Anchorage, Alaska, and leased by the Port 
     from the Department of the Air Force and the Bureau of Land 
     Management.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary of the Air Force and the Secretary of the 
     Interior. The cost of the survey shall be borne by the Port.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary of the 
     Air Force and the Secretary of the Interior may require such 
     additional terms and conditions in connection with the 
     conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretaries considers 
     appropriate to protect the interests of the United States.

     SEC. 2864. LAND CONVEYANCE, FORESTPORT TEST ANNEX, NEW YORK.

       (a) Conveyance Authorized.--The Secretary of the Air Force 
     may convey, without consideration, to the Town of Ohio, New 
     York (in this section referred to as the ``Town''), all 
     right, title, and interest, of the United States in and to a 
     parcel of real property, including improvements thereon, 
     consisting of approximately 164 acres in Herkimer County, New 
     York, and approximately 18 acres in Oneida County, New York, 
     and containing the Forestport Test Annex for the purpose of 
     permitting the Town to develop the parcel for economic 
     purposes and to further the provision of municipal services.
       (b) Description of Property.--The exact acreage and legal 
     description of the real property to be conveyed under 
     subsection (a) shall be determined by a survey satisfactory 
     to the Secretary. The cost of the survey shall be borne by 
     the Town.
       (c) Additional Terms and Conditions.--The Secretary may 
     require such additional terms and conditions in connection 
     with the conveyance under subsection (a) as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate to protect the interests of the United 
     States.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

     SEC. 2871. EXPANSION OF ARLINGTON NATIONAL CEMETERY.

       (a) Land Transfer, Navy Annex, Arlington, Virginia.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of Defense shall provide for 
     the transfer to the Secretary of the Army of administrative 
     jurisdiction over the following parcels of land situated in 
     Arlington, Virginia:
       (A) Certain lands which comprise approximately 26 acres 
     bounded by Columbia Pike to the south and east, Oak Street to 
     the west, and the boundary wall of Arlington National 
     Cemetery to the north including Southgate Road.
       (B) Certain lands which comprise approximately 8 acres 
     bounded by Shirley Memorial Boulevard (Interstate 395) to the 
     south, property of the Virginia Department of Transportation 
     to the west, Columbia Pike to the north, and Joyce Street to 
     the east.
       (C) Certain lands which comprise approximately 2.5 acres 
     bounded by Shirley Memorial Boulevard (Interstate 395) to the 
     south, Joyce Street to the west, Columbia Pike to the north, 
     and the cloverleaf interchange of Route 100 and Columbia Pike 
     to the east.
       (2) Use of land.--The Secretary of the Army shall 
     incorporate the parcels of land transferred under paragraph 
     (1) into Arlington National Cemetery.
       (3) Remediation of land for cemetery use.--Before the 
     transfer of administrative jurisdiction over the parcels of 
     land under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall 
     provide for the removal of any improvements on the parcels of 
     land and, in consultation with the Superintendent of 
     Arlington National Cemetery, the preparation of the land for 
     use for interment of remains of individuals in Arlington 
     National Cemetery.
       (4) Negotiation with local officials.--Before the transfer 
     of administrative jurisdiction over the parcels of land under 
     paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall enter into 
     negotiations with appropriate State and local officials to 
     acquire any real property, under the jurisdiction of such 
     officials, that separates such parcels of land from each 
     other.
       (5) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit 
     to Congress a report explaining in detail the measures 
     required to prepare the land for use as a part of Arlington 
     National Cemetery.
       (6) Deadline.--The Secretary of Defense shall complete the 
     transfer of administrative jurisdiction over the parcels of 
     land under this subsection not later than the earlier of--
       (A) January 1, 2010; or
       (B) the date when those parcels are no longer required (as 
     determined by the Secretary) for use as temporary office 
     space due to the renovation of the Pentagon.
       (b) Modification of Boundary of Arlington National 
     Cemetery.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary of the Army shall modify the 
     boundary of Arlington National Cemetery to include the 
     following parcels of land situated in Fort Myer, Arlington, 
     Virginia:
       (A) Certain lands which comprise approximately 5 acres 
     bounded by the Fort Myer Post Traditional Chapel to the 
     southwest, McNair Road to the northwest, the Vehicle 
     Maintenance Complex to the northeast, and the masonry wall of 
     Arlington National Cemetery to the southeast.
       (B) Certain lands which comprise approximately 3 acres 
     bounded by the Vehicle Maintenance Complex to the southwest, 
     Jackson Avenue to the northwest, the water pumping station to 
     the northeast, and the masonry wall of Arlington National 
     Cemetery to the southeast.
       (2) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of the Army shall submit 
     to Congress a report describing additional parcels of land 
     located in Fort Myer, Arlington, Virginia, that may be 
     suitable for use to expand Arlington National Cemetery.
       (3) Survey.--The Secretary of the Army may determine the 
     exact acreage and legal description of the parcels of land 
     described in paragraph (1) by a survey.

 DIVISION C--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY AUTHORIZATIONS AND 
                          OTHER AUTHORIZATIONS

      TITLE XXXI--DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS

         Subtitle A--National Security Programs Authorizations

     SEC. 3101. WEAPONS ACTIVITIES.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 for weapons 
     activities in carrying out programs necessary for national 
     security in the amount of $4,541,500,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:
       (1) Stockpile stewardship.--Funds are hereby authorized to 
     be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 
     2000 for stockpile stewardship in carrying out weapons 
     activities necessary for national security programs in the 
     amount of $2,258,700,000, to be allocated as follows:
       (A) For core stockpile stewardship, $1,763,500,000, to be 
     allocated as follows:
       (i) For operation and maintenance, $1,640,355,000.
       (ii) For plant projects (including maintenance, 
     restoration, planning, construction, acquisition, 
     modification of facilities, and the continuation of projects 
     authorized in prior years, and land acquisition related 
     thereto), $123,145,000, to be allocated as follows:

       Project 00-D-103, terascale simulation facility, Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 
     $8,000,000.
       Project 00-D-105, strategic computing complex, Los Alamos 
     National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, $26,000,000.
       Project 00-D-107, joint computational engineering 
     laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico, $1,800,000.
       Project 99-D-102, rehabilitation of maintenance facility, 
     Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 
     California, $3,900,000.
       Project 99-D-103, isotope sciences facilities, Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 
     $2,000,000.
       Project 99-D-104, protection of real property (roof 
     reconstruction, Phase II), Lawrence Livermore National 
     Laboratory, Livermore, California, $2,400,000.
       Project 99-D-105, central health physics calibration 
     facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico, $1,000,000.
       Project 99-D-106, model validation and system certification 
     test center, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico, $6,500,000.
       Project 99-D-108, renovate existing roadways, Nevada Test 
     Site, Nevada, $7,005,000.

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       Project 97-D-102, dual-axis radiographic hydrotest 
     facility, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico, $61,000,000.
       Project 96-D-102, stockpile stewardship facilities 
     revitalization, Phase VI, various locations, 2,640,000.
       Project 96-D-104, processing and environmental technology 
     laboratory, Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico, $10,900,000.

       (iii) The total amount authorized to be appropriated 
     pursuant to clause (ii) is the sum of the amounts authorized 
     to be appropriated in that clause, reduced by $10,000,000.
       (B) For inertial fusion, $475,700,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:
       (i) For operation and maintenance, $227,600,000.
       (ii) For the following plant project (including 
     maintenance, restoration, planning, construction, 
     acquisition, and modification of facilities, and land 
     acquisition related thereto), $248,100,000, to be allocated 
     as follows:

       Project 96-D-111, national ignition facility, Lawrence 
     Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, California, 
     $248,100,000.

       (C) For technology partnership and education, $19,500,000, 
     to be allocated for technology partnership only.
       (2) Stockpile management.--Funds are hereby authorized to 
     be appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 
     2000 for stockpile management in carrying out weapons 
     activities necessary for national security programs in the 
     amount of $2,046,300,000, to be allocated as follows:
       (A) For operation and maintenance, $1,897,621,000.
       (B) For plant projects (including maintenance, restoration, 
     planning, construction, acquisition, modification of 
     facilities, and the continuation of projects authorized in 
     prior years, and land acquisition related thereto), 
     $148,679,000, to be allocated as follows:
       Project 99-D-122, rapid reactivation, various locations, 
     $11,700,000.
       Project 99-D-127, stockpile management restructuring 
     initiative, Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri, 
     $17,000,000.
       Project 99-D-128, stockpile management restructuring 
     initiative, Pantex Plant consolidation, Amarillo, Texas, 
     $3,429,000.
       Project 99-D-132, stockpile management restructuring 
     initiative, nuclear material safeguards and security upgrades 
     project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico, $11,300,000.
       Project 98-D-123, stockpile management restructuring 
     initiative, tritium facility modernization and consolidation, 
     Savannah River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina, $21,800,000.
       Project 98-D-124, stockpile management restructuring 
     initiative, Y-12 Plant consolidation, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, 
     $3,150,000.
       Project 98-D-125, tritium extraction facility, Savannah 
     River Plant, Aiken, South Carolina, $33,000,000.
       Project 98-D-126, accelerator production of tritium, 
     various locations, $31,000,000.
       Project 97-D-123, structural upgrades, Kansas City Plant, 
     Kansas City, Missouri, $4,800,000.
       Project 95-D-102, chemistry and metallurgy research 
     upgrades project, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 
     New Mexico, $18,000,000.
       Project 88-D-123, security enhancements, Pantex Plant, 
     Amarillo, Texas, $3,500,000.
       (C) The total amount authorized to be appropriated pursuant 
     to subparagraph (B) is the sum of the amounts authorized to 
     be appropriated in that subparagraph, reduced by $10,000,000.
       (3) Program direction.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 
     for program direction in carrying out weapons activities 
     necessary for national security programs in the amount of 
     $236,500,000.

     SEC. 3102. DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AND WASTE 
                   MANAGEMENT.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 
     for environmental restoration and waste management in 
     carrying out programs necessary for national security in the 
     amount of $5,652,368,000, to be allocated as follows:
       (1) Closure projects.--For closure projects carried out in 
     accordance with section 3143 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 
     110 Stat. 2836; 42 U.S.C. 7274n) in the amount of 
     $1,092,492,000.
       (2) Site project and completion.--For site project and 
     completion in carrying out environmental restoration and 
     waste management activities necessary for national security 
     programs in the amount of $1,006,419,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:
       (A) For operation and maintenance, $918,129,000.
       (B) For plant projects (including maintenance, restoration, 
     planning, construction, acquisition, modification of 
     facilities, and the continuation of projects authorized in 
     prior years, and land acquisition related thereto), 
     $88,290,000, to be allocated as follows:
       Project 99-D-402, tank farm support services, F&H areas, 
     Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, $3,100,000.
       Project 99-D-404, health physics instrumentation 
     laboratory, Idaho National Engineering Laboratory, Idaho, 
     $7,200,000.
       Project 98-D-401, H-tank farm storm water systems upgrade, 
     Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, $2,977,000.
       Project 98-D-453, plutonium stabilization and handling 
     system for plutonium finishing plant, Richland, Washington, 
     $16,860,000.
       Project 98-D-700, road rehabilitation, Idaho National 
     Engineering Laboratory, Idaho, $2,590,000.
       Project 97-D-450, Actinide packaging and storage facility, 
     Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, $4,000,000.
       Project 97-D-470, regulatory monitoring and bioassay 
     laboratory, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, 
     $12,220,000.
       Project 96-D-406, spent nuclear fuels canister storage and 
     stabilization facility, Richland, Washington, $24,441,000.
       Project 96-D-464, electrical and utility systems upgrade, 
     Idaho Chemical Processing Plant, Idaho National Engineering 
     Laboratory, Idaho, $11,971,000.
       Project 96-D-471, chlorofluorocarbon heating, ventilation, 
     and air conditioning and chiller retrofit, Savannah River 
     Site, Aiken, South Carolina, $931,000.
       Project 86-D-103, decontamination and waste treatment 
     facility, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 
     California, $2,000,000.
       (3) Post-2006 completion.--For post-2006 project completion 
     in carrying out environmental restoration and waste 
     management activities necessary for national security 
     programs in the amount of $3,005,848,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:
       (A) For operation and maintenance, $2,951,297,000.
       (B) For plant projects (including maintenance, restoration, 
     planning, construction, acquisition, modification of 
     facilities, and the continuation of projects authorized in 
     prior years, and land acquisition related thereto), 
     $54,551,000, to be allocated as follows:
       Project 00-D-401, spent nuclear fuel treatment and storage 
     facility, Title I and II, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South 
     Carolina, $7,000,000.
       Project 99-D-403, privatization phase I infrastructure 
     support, Richland, Washington, $13,988,000.
       Project 97-D-402, tank farm restoration and safe 
     operations, Richland, Washington, $20,516,000.
       Project 94-D-407, initial tank retrieval systems, Richland, 
     Washington, $4,060,000.
       Project 93-D-187, high-level waste removal from filled 
     waste tanks, Savannah River Site, Aiken, South Carolina, 
     $8,987,000.
       (4) Science and technology.--For science and technology in 
     carrying out environmental restoration and waste management 
     activities necessary for national security programs in the 
     amount of $240,500,000.
       (5) Program direction.--For program direction in carrying 
     out environmental restoration and waste management activities 
     necessary for national security programs in the amount of 
     $327,109,000.
       (b) Explanation of Adjustment.--The amount authorized to be 
     appropriated in subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts 
     authorized to be appropriated in paragraphs (1) through (5) 
     of that subsection reduced by $20,000,000, to be derived from 
     environmental restoration and waste management, environment, 
     safety, and health programs.

     SEC. 3103. OTHER DEFENSE ACTIVITIES.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 for other defense 
     activities in carrying out programs necessary for national 
     security in the amount of $1,772,459,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:
       (1) Nonproliferation and national security.--For 
     nonproliferation and national security, $658,200,000, to be 
     allocated as follows:
       (A) For verification and control technology, $454,000,000, 
     to be allocated as follows:
       (i) For nonproliferation and verification research and 
     development, $221,000,000, to be allocated as follows:

       (I) For operation and maintenance, $215,000,000.
       (II) For plant projects (including maintenance, 
     restoration, planning, construction, acquisition, 
     modification of facilities, and the continuation of projects 
     authorized in prior years, and land acquisition related 
     thereto), $6,000,000, to be allocated as follows:

       Project 00-D-192, nonproliferation and international 
     security center, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, 
     New Mexico, $6,000,000.
       (ii) For arms control, $233,000,000.
       (B) For nuclear safeguards and security, $59,100,000.
       (C) For international nuclear safety, $15,300,000.
       (D) For security investigations, $10,000,000.
       (E) For emergency management, $21,000,000.
       (F) For highly enriched uranium transparency 
     implementation, $15,750,000.
       (G) For program direction, $83,050,000.
       (2) Intelligence.--For intelligence, $36,059,000.
       (3) Counterintelligence.--For counterintelligence, 
     $31,200,000.
       (4) Worker and community transition.--For worker and 
     community transition, $20,000,000.
       (5) Fissile materials control and disposition.--For fissile 
     materials control and disposition, $239,000,000, to be 
     allocated as follows:
       (A) For operation and maintenance, $168,766,000.
       (B) For program direction, $7,343,000.
       (C) For plant projects (including maintenance, restoration, 
     planning, construction, acquisition, modification of 
     facilities, and the continuation of projects authorized in 
     prior years, and land acquisition related thereto), 
     $62,891,000, to be allocated as follows:
       Project 00-D-142, immobilization and associated processing 
     facility, various locations, $21,765,000.
       Project 99-D-141, pit disassembly and conversion facility, 
     various locations, $28,751,000.
       Project 99-D-143, mixed oxide fuel fabrication facility, 
     various locations, $12,375,000.
       (6) Environment, safety, and health.--For environment, 
     safety, and health, defense, $104,000,000, to be allocated as 
     follows:

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       (A) For the Office of Environment, Safety, and Health 
     (Defense), $79,231,000.
       (B) For program direction, $24,769,000.
       (7) Office of hearings and appeals.--For the Office of 
     Hearings and Appeals, $3,000,000.
       (8) Naval reactors.--For naval reactors, $681,000,000, to 
     be allocated as follows:
       (A) For naval reactors development, $660,400,000, to be 
     allocated as follows:
       (i) For operation and maintenance, $636,400,000.
       (ii) For plant projects (including maintenance, 
     restoration, planning, construction, acquisition, 
     modification of facilities, and the continuation of projects 
     authorized in prior years, and land acquisition related 
     thereto), $24,000,000, to be allocated as follows:

       GPN-101 general plant projects, various locations, 
     $9,000,000.
       Project 98-D-200, site laboratory/facility upgrade, various 
     locations, $3,000,000.
       Project 90-N-102, expended core facility dry cell project, 
     Naval Reactors Facility, Idaho, $12,000,000.

       (B) For program direction, $20,600,000.

     SEC. 3104. DEFENSE NUCLEAR WASTE DISPOSAL.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated to the 
     Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 for payment to the 
     Nuclear Waste Fund established in section 302(c) of the 
     Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982 (42 U.S.C. 10222(c)) in the 
     amount of $73,000,000.

     SEC. 3105. DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT PRIVATIZATION.

       (a) In General.--Funds are hereby authorized to be 
     appropriated to the Department of Energy for fiscal year 2000 
     for privatization initiatives in carrying out environmental 
     restoration and waste management activities necessary for 
     national security programs in the amount of $228,000,000, to 
     be allocated as follows:
       Project 98-PVT-2, spent nuclear fuel dry storage, Idaho 
     Falls, Idaho, $5,000,000.
       Project 98-PVT-5, environmental management and waste 
     disposal, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, $20,000,000.
       Project 97-PVT-1, tank waste remediation system phase I, 
     Hanford, Washington, $106,000,000.
       Project 97-PVT-2, advanced mixed waste treatment facility, 
     Idaho Falls, Idaho, $110,000,000.
       Project 97-PVT-3, transuranic waste treatment, Oak Ridge, 
     Tennessee, $12,000,000.
       (b) Explanation of Adjustment.--The amount authorized to be 
     appropriated in subsection (a) is the sum of the amounts 
     authorized to be appropriated for the projects in that 
     subsection reduced by $25,000,000 for use of prior year 
     balances of funds for defense environmental management 
     privatization.

                Subtitle B--Recurring General Provisions

     SEC. 3121. REPROGRAMMING.

       (a) In General.--Until the Secretary of Energy submits to 
     the congressional defense committees the report referred to 
     in subsection (b) and a period of 60 days has elapsed after 
     the date on which such committees receive the report, the 
     Secretary may not use amounts appropriated pursuant to this 
     title for any program--
       (1) in amounts that exceed, in a fiscal year--
       (A) 110 percent of the amount authorized for that program 
     by this title; or
       (B) $1,000,000 more than the amount authorized for that 
     program by this title; or
       (2) which has not been presented to, or requested of, 
     Congress.
       (b) Report.--(1) The report referred to in subsection (a) 
     is a report containing a full and complete statement of the 
     action proposed to be taken and the facts and circumstances 
     relied upon in support of such proposed action.
       (2) In the computation of the 60-day period under 
     subsection (a), there shall be excluded any day on which 
     either House of Congress is not in session because of an 
     adjournment of more than 3 days to a day certain.
       (c) Limitations.--(1) In no event may the total amount of 
     funds obligated pursuant to this title exceed the total 
     amount authorized to be appropriated by this title.
       (2) Funds appropriated pursuant to this title may not be 
     used for an item for which Congress has specifically denied 
     funds.

     SEC. 3122. LIMITS ON GENERAL PLANT PROJECTS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy may carry out any 
     construction project under the general plant projects 
     authorized by this title if the total estimated cost of the 
     construction project does not exceed $5,000,000.
       (b) Report to Congress.--If, at any time during the 
     construction of any general plant project authorized by this 
     title, the estimated cost of the project is revised because 
     of unforeseen cost variations and the revised cost of the 
     project exceeds $5,000,000, the Secretary shall immediately 
     furnish a complete report to the congressional defense 
     committees explaining the reasons for the cost variation.

     SEC. 3123. LIMITS ON CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS.

       (a) In General.--(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), 
     construction on a construction project may not be started or 
     additional obligations incurred in connection with the 
     project above the total estimated cost, whenever the current 
     estimated cost of the construction project, which is 
     authorized by section 3101, 3102, or 3103, or which is in 
     support of national security programs of the Department of 
     Energy and was authorized by any previous Act, exceeds by 
     more than 25 percent the higher of--
       (A) the amount authorized for the project; or
       (B) the amount of the total estimated cost for the project 
     as shown in the most recent budget justification data 
     submitted to Congress.
       (2) An action described in paragraph (1) may be taken if--
       (A) the Secretary of Energy has submitted to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the actions and 
     the circumstances making such action necessary; and
       (B) a period of 30 days has elapsed after the date on which 
     the report is received by the committees.
       (3) In the computation of the 30-day period under paragraph 
     (2), there shall be excluded any day on which either House of 
     Congress is not in session because of an adjournment of more 
     than 3 days to a day certain.
       (b) Exception.--Subsection (a) shall not apply to any 
     construction project which has a current estimated cost of 
     less than $5,000,000.

     SEC. 3124. FUND TRANSFER AUTHORITY.

       (a) Transfer to Other Federal Agencies.--The Secretary of 
     Energy may transfer funds authorized to be appropriated to 
     the Department of Energy pursuant to this title to other 
     Federal agencies for the performance of work for which the 
     funds were authorized. Funds so transferred may be merged 
     with and be available for the same purposes and for the same 
     period as the authorizations of the Federal agency to which 
     the amounts are transferred.
       (b) Transfer Within Department of Energy.--(1) Subject to 
     paragraph (2), the Secretary of Energy may transfer funds 
     authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Energy 
     pursuant to this title between any such authorizations. 
     Amounts of authorizations so transferred may be merged with 
     and be available for the same purposes and for the same 
     period as the authorization to which the amounts are 
     transferred.
       (2) Not more than five percent of any such authorization 
     may be transferred between authorizations under paragraph 
     (1). No such authorization may be increased or decreased by 
     more than five percent by a transfer under such paragraph.
       (c) Limitation.--The authority provided by this section to 
     transfer authorizations--
       (1) may only be used to provide funds for items relating to 
     activities necessary for national security programs that have 
     a higher priority than the items from which the funds are 
     transferred; and
       (2) may not be used to provide funds for an item for which 
     Congress has specifically denied funds.
       (d) Notice to Congress.--The Secretary of Energy shall 
     promptly notify the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 
     and the Committee on National Security of the House of 
     Representatives of any transfer of funds to or from 
     authorizations under this title.

     SEC. 3125. AUTHORITY FOR CONCEPTUAL AND CONSTRUCTION DESIGN.

       (a) Requirement for Conceptual Design.--(1) Subject to 
     paragraph (2) and except as provided in paragraph (3), before 
     submitting to Congress a request for funds for a construction 
     project that is in support of a national security program of 
     the Department of Energy, the Secretary of Energy shall 
     complete a conceptual design for that project.
       (2) If the estimated cost of completing a conceptual design 
     for a construction project exceeds $3,000,000, the Secretary 
     shall submit to Congress a request for funds for the 
     conceptual design before submitting a request for funds for 
     the construction project.
       (3) The requirement in paragraph (1) does not apply to a 
     request for funds--
       (A) for a construction project the total estimated cost of 
     which is less than $5,000,000; or
       (B) for emergency planning, design, and construction 
     activities under section 3126.
       (b) Authority for Construction Design.--(1) Within the 
     amounts authorized by this title, the Secretary of Energy may 
     carry out construction design (including architectural and 
     engineering services) in connection with any proposed 
     construction project if the total estimated cost for such 
     design does not exceed $600,000.
       (2) If the total estimated cost for construction design in 
     connection with any construction project exceeds $600,000, 
     funds for such design must be specifically authorized by law.

     SEC. 3126. AUTHORITY FOR EMERGENCY PLANNING, DESIGN, AND 
                   CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Authority.--The Secretary of Energy may use any funds 
     available to the Department of Energy pursuant to an 
     authorization in this title, including those funds authorized 
     to be appropriated for advance planning and construction 
     design under sections 3101, 3102, and 3103, to perform 
     planning, design, and construction activities for any 
     Department of Energy national security program construction 
     project that, as determined by the Secretary, must proceed 
     expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, 
     to meet the needs of national defense, or to protect 
     property.
       (b) Limitation.--The Secretary may not exercise the 
     authority under subsection (a) in the case of any 
     construction project until the Secretary has submitted to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on the activities 
     that the Secretary intends to carry out under this section 
     and the circumstances making such activities necessary.
       (c) Specific Authority.--The requirement of section 
     3125(b)(2) does not apply to emergency planning, design, and 
     construction activities conducted under this section.

     SEC. 3127. FUNDS AVAILABLE FOR ALL NATIONAL SECURITY PROGRAMS 
                   OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

       Subject to the provisions of appropriations Acts and 
     section 3121, amounts appropriated pursuant to this title for 
     management and support activities and for general plant 
     projects are available for use, when necessary, in connection 
     with all national security programs of the Department of 
     Energy.

     SEC. 3128. AVAILABILITY OF FUNDS.

       (a) In General.--Except as provided in subsection (b), when 
     so specified in an appropriations Act, amounts appropriated 
     for operation and maintenance or for plant projects may 
     remain available until expended.

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       (b) Exception for Program Direction Funds.--Amounts 
     appropriated for program direction pursuant to an 
     authorization of appropriations in subtitle A shall remain 
     available to be expended only until the end of fiscal year 
     2001.

     SEC. 3129. TRANSFERS OF DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT 
                   FUNDS.

       (a) Transfer Authority for Defense Environmental Management 
     Funds.--The Secretary of Energy shall provide the manager of 
     each field office of the Department of Energy with the 
     authority to transfer defense environmental management funds 
     from a program or project under the jurisdiction of the 
     office to another such program or project.
       (b) Limitations.--(1) Only one transfer may be made to or 
     from any program or project under subsection (a) in a fiscal 
     year.
       (2) The amount transferred to or from a program or project 
     under subsection (a) may not exceed $5,000,000 in a fiscal 
     year.
       (3) A transfer may not be carried out by a manager of a 
     field office under subsection (a) unless the manager 
     determines that the transfer is necessary to address a risk 
     to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most 
     efficient use of defense environmental management funds at 
     the field office.
       (4) Funds transferred pursuant to subsection (a) may not be 
     used for an item for which Congress has specifically denied 
     funds or for a new program or project that has not been 
     authorized by Congress.
       (c) Exemption From Reprogramming Requirements.--The 
     requirements of section 3121 shall not apply to transfers of 
     funds pursuant to subsection (a).
       (d) Notification.--The Secretary, acting through the 
     Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management, 
     shall notify Congress of any transfer of funds pursuant to 
     subsection (a) not later than 30 days after such transfer 
     occurs.
       (e) Definitions.--In this section:
       (1) The term ``program or project'' means, with respect to 
     a field office of the Department of Energy, any of the 
     following:
       (A) A program referred to or a project listed in paragraph 
     (2) or (3) of section 3102.
       (B) A program or project not described in subparagraph (A) 
     that is for environmental restoration or waste management 
     activities necessary for national security programs of the 
     Department, that is being carried out by the office, and for 
     which defense environmental management funds have been 
     authorized and appropriated before the date of enactment of 
     this Act.
       (2) The term ``defense environmental management funds'' 
     means funds appropriated to the Department of Energy pursuant 
     to an authorization for carrying out environmental 
     restoration and waste management activities necessary for 
     national security programs.
       (f) Duration of Authority.--The managers of the field 
     offices of the Department may exercise the authority provided 
     under subsection (a) during the period beginning on October 
     1, 1999, and ending on September 30, 2000.

   Subtitle C--Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations

     SEC. 3131. LIMITATION ON USE AT DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
                   LABORATORIES OF FUNDS APPROPRIATED FOR THE 
                   INITIATIVES FOR PROLIFERATION PREVENTION 
                   PROGRAM.

       (a) Limitation.--Not more than 25 percent of the funds 
     appropriated for any fiscal year for the program of the 
     Department of Energy known as the Initiatives for 
     Proliferation Prevention Program may be spent at the 
     Department of Energy laboratories.
       (b) Effective Date.--The limitation in subsection (a) 
     applies with respect to funds appropriated for any fiscal 
     year after fiscal year 1999.

     SEC. 3132. PROHIBITION ON USE FOR PAYMENT OF RUSSIAN 
                   GOVERNMENT TAXES AND CUSTOMS DUTIES OF FUNDS 
                   APPROPRIATED FOR THE INITIATIVES FOR 
                   PROLIFERATION PREVENTION PROGRAM.

       Funds appropriated for the program of the Department of 
     Energy known as the Initiatives for Proliferation Prevention 
     Program may not be used to pay any tax or customs duty levied 
     by the government of the Russian Federation.

     SEC. 3133. MODIFICATION OF LABORATORY-DIRECTED RESEARCH AND 
                   DEVELOPMENT TO PROVIDE FUNDS FOR THEATER 
                   BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE.

       (a) Conduct of Programs.--The Secretary of Energy shall 
     ensure that the national laboratories carry out theater 
     ballistic missile defense development programs in accordance 
     with--
       (1) the memorandum of understanding between the Secretary 
     of Energy and the Secretary of Defense required by section 
     3131(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
     Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 111 Stat. 2034; 10 U.S.C. 2431 
     note); and
       (2) such regulations as the Secretary of Energy may 
     prescribe.
       (b) Funding.--Of the funds provided by the Department of 
     Energy to the national laboratories for national security 
     activities, the Secretary of Energy shall provide a specific 
     amount, equal to 3 percent of such funds, to be used by such 
     laboratories for theater ballistic missile defense 
     development programs.
       (c) National Laboratories.--For purposes of this section, 
     the term ``national laboratories'' has the meaning given such 
     term in section 3131(d) of the National Defense Authorization 
     Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 111 Stat. 2034; 
     10 U.S.C. 2431 note).
       (d) Kinetic Energy Warhead Programs.--(1) Notwithstanding 
     subsection (a), during fiscal year 2000 the Secretary of 
     Energy shall use the funds required to be made available 
     pursuant to subsection (b) for theater ballistic missile 
     defense development programs for the purpose of the 
     development and test of advanced kinetic energy ballistic 
     missile defense warheads based on advanced explosive 
     technology, the designs of which--
       (A) are compatible with the Army Theater High-Altitude 
     Area-Wide Defense (THAAD) system, the Navy Theater Wide 
     system, the Navy Area Defense system, and the Patriot 
     Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) system; and
       (B) will be available for ground lethality testing not 
     later than one year after the date of the enactment of this 
     Act.
       (2) Of the funds made available for purposes of paragraph 
     (1), one-half shall be made available for work at Los Alamos 
     National Laboratory and one-half shall be made available for 
     work at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.
       (3) If the Secretary does not use the full amount referred 
     to in paragraph (1) for the purposes stated in that 
     paragraph, the remainder of such amount shall be used in 
     accordance with subsection (a).
       (e) Reduction in Laboratory-Directed Research and 
     Development Programs.--Subsection (c) of section 3132 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (42 
     U.S.C. 7257a) is amended by striking ``6 percent'' and 
     inserting ``3 percent''.

     SEC. 3134. SUPPORT OF THEATER BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE 
                   ACTIVITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

       (a) Funds To Carry Out Certain Ballistic Missile Defense 
     Activities.--Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated to 
     the Department of Energy pursuant to section 3101, 
     $30,000,000 shall be available only for research, 
     development, and demonstration activities to support the 
     mission of the Ballistic Missile Defense Organization of the 
     Department of Defense, including the following activities:
       (1) Technology development, concept demonstration, and 
     integrated testing to improve reliability and reduce risk in 
     hit-to-kill interceptors for theater ballistic missile 
     defense.
       (2) Support for science and engineering teams to address 
     technical problems identified by the Director of the 
     Ballistic Missile Defense Organization as critical to 
     acquisition of a theater ballistic missile defense 
     capability.
       (b) Memorandum of Understanding.--The activities referred 
     to in subsection (a) shall be carried out under the 
     memorandum of understanding entered into by the Secretary of 
     Energy and the Secretary of Defense for the use of national 
     laboratories for ballistic missile defense programs, as 
     required by section 3131 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 
     111 Stat. 2034).
       (c) Method of Funding.--Funds for activities referred to in 
     subsection (a) may be provided--
       (1) by direct payment from funds available pursuant to 
     subsection (a); or
       (2) in the case of such an activity carried out by a 
     national laboratory but paid for by the Ballistic Missile 
     Defense Organization, through a method under which the 
     Secretary of Energy waives any requirement for the Department 
     of Defense to pay any indirect expenses (including overhead 
     and federal administrative charges) of the Department of 
     Energy or its contractors.

          Subtitle D--Commission on Nuclear Weapons Management

     SEC. 3151. ESTABLISHMENT OF COMMISSION.

       (a) Establishment.--There is hereby established a 
     commission to be known as the ``Commission on Nuclear Weapons 
     Management'' (hereinafter in this subtitle referred to as the 
     ``Commission'').
       (b) Composition.--The Commission shall be composed of nine 
     members, appointed as follows:
       (1) Two members shall be appointed by the chairman of the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives.
       (2) Two members shall be appointed by the ranking minority 
     party member of the Committee on Armed Services of the House 
     of Representatives.
       (3) Two members shall be appointed by the chairman of the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
       (4) Two members shall be appointed by the ranking minority 
     party member of the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate.
       (5) One member, who shall serve as chairman of the 
     Commission, shall be appointed by the chairman of the 
     Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives 
     and the chairman of the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate, acting jointly, in consultation with the ranking 
     minority party member of the Committee on Armed Services of 
     the House of Representatives and the ranking minority party 
     member of the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
       (c) Qualifications.--Members of the Commission shall be 
     appointed from among private United States citizens with 
     knowledge and expertise in nuclear weapons policy, 
     organization, and management matters.
       (d) Period of Appointment; Vacancies.--Members shall be 
     appointed for the life of the Commission. Any vacancy in the 
     Commission shall be filled in the same manner as the original 
     appointment.
       (e) Initial Organization Requirements.--(1) All 
     appointments to the Commission shall be made not later than 
     30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act.
       (2) The Commission shall convene its first meeting not 
     later than 30 days after the date on which all members of the 
     Commission have been appointed.
       (f) Security Clearances.--The Secretary of Defense shall 
     expedite the processing of appropriate security clearances 
     for members of the Commission.

     SEC. 3152. DUTIES OF COMMISSION.

       (a) In General.--The Commission shall examine the 
     organizational and management structures within the 
     Department of Energy and the

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     Department of Defense that are responsible for the following, 
     as they pertain to nuclear weapons:
       (1) Development of nuclear weapons policy and standards.
       (2) Generation of requirements.
       (3) Inspection and certification of the nuclear stockpile.
       (4) Research, development, and design.
       (5) Manufacture, assembly, disassembly, refurbishment, 
     surveillance, and storage.
       (6) Operation and maintenance.
       (7) Construction.
       (8) Sustainment and development of high-quality personnel.
       (b) Structures.--The organizational and management 
     structures to be examined under subsection (a) shall include 
     the following:
       (1) The management headquarters of the Department of 
     Energy, the Department of Defense, the military departments, 
     and defense agencies.
       (2) Headquarters support activities of the Department of 
     Energy, the Department of Defense, the military departments, 
     and defense agencies.
       (3) The acquisition organizations in the Department of 
     Energy and the Department of Defense.
       (4) The nuclear weapons complex, including the nuclear 
     weapons laboratories, the nuclear weapons production 
     facilities, and defense environmental remediation sites.
       (5) The Nuclear Weapons Council and its standing committee.
       (6) The United States Strategic Command.
       (7) The Defense Threat Reduction Agency.
       (8) Policy-oriented elements of the Government that affect 
     the management of nuclear weapons, including the following:
       (A) The National Security Council.
       (B) The Arms Control and Disarmament Agency.
       (C) The Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for 
     Policy.
       (D) The office of the Deputy Chief of Staff of the Air 
     Force for Air and Space Operations.
       (E) The office of the Deputy Chief of Naval Operations for 
     Plans, Policy, and Operations.
       (F) The headquarters of each combatant command (in addition 
     to the United States Strategic Command) that has nuclear 
     weapons responsibilities.
       (G) Such other organizations as the Commission determines 
     appropriate to include.
       (c) Evaluations.--In carrying out its duties, the 
     Commission shall--
       (1) evaluate the rationale for current management and 
     organization structures, and the relationship among the 
     entities within those structures;
       (2) evaluate the efficiency and effectiveness of those 
     structures; and
       (3) propose and evaluate alternative organizational and 
     management structures, including alternatives that would 
     transfer authorities of the Department of Energy for the 
     defense program and defense environmental management to the 
     Department of Defense.
       (d) Cooperation From Government Officials.--In carrying out 
     its duties, the Commission should receive the full and timely 
     cooperation of the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of 
     Energy, and any other United States Government official 
     responsible for providing the Commission with analyses, 
     briefings, and other information necessary for the 
     fulfillment of its responsibilities.

     SEC. 3153. REPORTS.

       The Commission shall submit to Congress an interim report 
     containing its preliminary findings and conclusions not later 
     than October 15, 2000, and a final report containing its 
     findings and conclusions not later than January 1, 2001.

     SEC. 3154. POWERS.

       (a) Hearings.--The Commission or, at its direction, any 
     panel or member of the Commission, may, for the purpose of 
     carrying out the provisions of this title, hold hearings, sit 
     and act at times and places, take testimony, receive 
     evidence, and administer oaths to the extent that the 
     Commission or any panel or member considers advisable.
       (b) Information.--The Commission may secure directly from 
     the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and any 
     other Federal department or agency information that the 
     Commission considers necessary to enable the Commission to 
     carry out its responsibilities under this title.

     SEC. 3155. COMMISSION PROCEDURES.

       (a) Meetings.--The Commission shall meet at the call of the 
     Chairman.
       (b) Quorum.--(1) Five members of the Commission shall 
     constitute a quorum other than for the purpose of holding 
     hearings.
       (2) The Commission shall act by resolution agreed to by a 
     majority of the members of the Commission.
       (c) Commission.--The Commission may establish panels 
     composed of less than full membership of the Commission for 
     the purpose of carrying out the Commission's duties. The 
     actions of each such panel shall be subject to the review and 
     control of the Commission. Any findings and determinations 
     made by such a panel shall not be considered the findings and 
     determinations of the Commission unless approved by the 
     Commission.
       (d) Authority of Individuals To Act for Commission.--Any 
     member or agent of the Commission may, if authorized by the 
     Commission, take any action which the Commission is 
     authorized to take under this title.

     SEC. 3156. PERSONNEL MATTERS.

       (a) Pay of Members.--Members of the Commission shall serve 
     without pay by reason of their work on the Commission.
       (b) Travel Expenses.--The members of the Commission shall 
     be allowed travel expenses, including per diem in lieu of 
     subsistence, at rates authorized for employees of agencies 
     under subchapter I of chapter 57 of title 5, United States 
     Code, while away from their homes or regular places of 
     business in the performance of services for the Commission.
       (c) Staff.--(1) The chairman of the Commission may, without 
     regard to the provisions of title 5, United States Code, 
     governing appointments in the competitive service, appoint a 
     staff director and such additional personnel as may be 
     necessary to enable the Commission to perform its duties. The 
     appointment of a staff director shall be subject to the 
     approval of the Commission.
       (2) The chairman of the Commission may fix the pay of the 
     staff director and other personnel without regard to the 
     provisions of chapter 51 and subchapter III of chapter 53 of 
     title 5, United States Code, relating to classification of 
     positions and General Schedule pay rates, except that the 
     rate of pay fixed under this paragraph for the staff director 
     may not exceed the rate payable for level V of the Executive 
     Schedule under section 5316 of such title and the rate of pay 
     for other personnel may not exceed the maximum rate payable 
     for grade GS-15 of the General Schedule.
       (d) Detail of Government Employees.--Upon request of the 
     chairman of the Commission, the head of any Federal 
     department or agency may detail, on a nonreimbursable basis, 
     any personnel of that department or agency to the Commission 
     to assist it in carrying out its duties.
       (e) Procurement of Temporary and Intermittent Services.--
     The chairman of the Commission may procure temporary and 
     intermittent services under section 3109(b) of title 5, 
     United States Code, at rates for individuals which do not 
     exceed the daily equivalent of the annual rate of basic pay 
     payable for level V of the Executive Schedule under section 
     5316 of such title.

     SEC. 3157. MISCELLANEOUS ADMINISTRATIVE PROVISIONS.

       (a) Postal and Printing Services.--The Commission may use 
     the United States mails and obtain printing and binding 
     services in the same manner and under the same conditions as 
     other departments and agencies of the Federal Government.
       (b) Miscellaneous Administrative and Support Services.--The 
     Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of Energy shall 
     furnish the Commission, on a reimbursable basis, any 
     administrative and support services requested by the 
     Commission.

     SEC. 3158. FUNDING.

       (a) Source of Funds.--Funds for activities of the 
     Commission shall be provided from--
       (1) amounts appropriated for the Department of Defense for 
     operation and maintenance for Defense-wide activities for 
     fiscal year 2000; and
       (2) amounts appropriated for the Department of Energy for 
     program direction for weapons activities and for defense 
     environmental restoration and waste management for fiscal 
     year 2000.
       (b) Disbursement.--Upon receipt of a written certification 
     from the Chairman of the Commission specifying the funds 
     required for the activities of the Commission, the Secretary 
     of Defense and the Secretary of Energy shall promptly 
     disburse to the Commission, from such amounts, the funds 
     required by the Commission as stated in such certification.

     SEC. 3159. TERMINATION OF THE COMMISSION.

       The Commission shall terminate 60 days after the date of 
     the submission of its final report under section 3153.

                       Subtitle E--Other Matters

     SEC. 3161. PROCEDURES FOR MEETING TRITIUM PRODUCTION 
                   REQUIREMENTS.

       (a) Accelerator Production Plan.--Not later than January 
     15, 2000, the Secretary of Energy shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a plan (in this section 
     referred to as an ``accelerator production plan'') to meet 
     the requirements in the Nuclear Weapons Stockpile Memorandum 
     relating to tritium production by expediting the completion 
     of the design and the initiation of the construction of a 
     particle accelerator for the production of tritium.
       (b) Technology for Tritium Production.--If the Nuclear 
     Regulatory Commission does not grant to the Tennessee Valley 
     Authority the amended licenses described in subsection (c) by 
     December 31, 2002, the Secretary of Energy shall on January 
     1, 2003--
       (1) designate particle accelerator technology as the 
     primary technology for the production of tritium;
       (2) designate commercial light water reactor technology as 
     the backup technology for the production of tritium; and
       (3) implement the accelerator production plan.
       (c) Amended Licenses.--The amended licenses referred to in 
     subsection (b) are the amended licenses for the operation of 
     each of the following commercial light water reactors:
       (1) Watts Bar reactor, Spring City, Tennessee.
       (2) Sequoya reactor, Daisy, Tennessee.

     SEC. 3162. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY OF DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY TO 
                   PAY VOLUNTARY SEPARATION INCENTIVE PAYMENTS.

       (a) Extension.--Notwithstanding subsection (c)(2)(D) of 
     section 663 of the Treasury, Postal Service, and General 
     Government Appropriations Act, 1997 (Public Law 104-208; 110 
     Stat. 3009-383; 5 U.S.C. 5597 note), the Department of Energy 
     may pay voluntary separation incentive payments to qualifying 
     employees who voluntarily separate (whether by retirement or 
     resignation) before January 1, 2002.
       (b) Exercise of Authority.--The Department shall pay 
     voluntary separation incentive payments under subsection (a) 
     in accordance with the provisions of such section 663.
       (c) Report.--(1) Not later than March 15, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Energy shall submit to the recipients specified 
     in paragraph (3) a report describing how the Department has 
     used the authority to pay voluntary separation incentive 
     payments under subsection (a).

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       (2) The report under paragraph (1) shall include the 
     occupations and grade levels of each employee paid a 
     voluntary separation incentive payment under subsection (a) 
     and shall describe how the use of the authority to pay 
     voluntary separation incentive payments under such subsection 
     relates to the restructuring plans of the Department.
       (3) The recipients specified in this paragraph are the 
     following:
       (A) The Office of Personnel Management.
       (B) The Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (C) The Committee on Armed Services of the Senate.
       (D) The Committee on Government Reform of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (E) The Committee on Governmental Affairs of the Senate.

     SEC. 3163. FELLOWSHIP PROGRAM FOR DEVELOPMENT OF SKILLS 
                   CRITICAL TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY NUCLEAR 
                   WEAPONS COMPLEX.

       (a) In General.--Subsection (a) of section 3140 of the 
     National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 
     (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 621; 42 U.S.C. 2121 note) is 
     amended--
       (1) by striking ``the Secretary'' in the second sentence 
     and all that follows through ``provide educational 
     assistance'' and inserting ``the Secretary shall provide 
     educational assistance'';
       (2) by striking the semicolon after ``complex'' in the 
     second sentence and inserting a period; and
       (3) by striking paragraphs (2) and (3).
       (b) Eligible Individuals.--Subsection (b) of such section 
     is amended by inserting ``are United States citizens who'' in 
     the matter preceding paragraph (1) after ``program''.
       (c) Covered Facilities.--Subsection (c) of such section is 
     amended by adding at the end the following new paragraphs:
       ``(5) The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, 
     Livermore, California.
       ``(6) The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico.
       ``(7) The Sandia National Laboratory, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico.''.
       (d) Agreement Required.--Subsection (f) of such section is 
     amended to read as follows:
       ``(f) Agreement.--(1) The Secretary may allow an individual 
     to participate in the program only if the individual signs an 
     agreement described in paragraph (2).
       ``(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) shall be in 
     writing, shall be signed by the participant, and shall 
     include the participant's agreement to serve, after 
     completion of the course of study for which the assistance 
     was provided, as a full-time employee in a position in the 
     Department of Energy for a period of time to be established 
     by the Secretary of Energy of not less than one year, if such 
     a position is offered to the participant.''.
       (e) Plan.--(1) Not later than January 1, 2000, the 
     Secretary of Energy shall submit to the congressional defense 
     committees a plan for the administration of the fellowship 
     program under section 3140 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 
     42 U.S.C. 2121 note), as amended by this section.
       (2) The plan shall include the criteria for the selection 
     of individuals for participation in such fellowship program 
     and a description of the provisions to be included in the 
     agreement required by subsection (f) of such section (as 
     amended by this section), including the period of time 
     established by the Secretary for the participants to serve as 
     employees.
       (f) Funding.--Of the funds authorized to be appropriated to 
     the Department of Energy pursuant to section 3101, $5,000,000 
     shall be available only to conduct the fellowship program 
     under section 3140 of the National Defense Authorization Act 
     for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 42 U.S.C. 2121 
     note), as amended by this section.

     SEC. 3164. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY RECORDS DECLASSIFICATION.

       (a) Identification in Budget.--The Secretary of Energy 
     shall include in the budget justification materials submitted 
     to Congress in support of the Department of Energy budget for 
     national security programs for any fiscal year (as submitted 
     with the budget of the President under section 1105(a) of 
     title 31) specific identification, as a budgetary line item, 
     of the amounts necessary for programmed activities during 
     that fiscal year to declassify records to carry out Executive 
     Order 12958 (50 U.S.C. 435 note), or any successor Executive 
     order, or to comply with any statutory requirement to 
     declassify Government records.
       (b) Limitation.--The total amount expended by the 
     Department of Energy during fiscal year 2000 to carry out 
     activities to declassify records pursuant to Executive Order 
     12958 (50 U.S.C. 435 note), or any successor Executive order, 
     or to comply with any statutory requirement to declassify 
     Government records may not exceed $8,500,000.

     SEC. 3165. MANAGEMENT OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS PRODUCTION 
                   FACILITIES AND NATIONAL LABORATORIES.

       (a) Authority and Responsibility of Assistant Secretary for 
     Defense Programs.--The Secretary of Energy, in assigning 
     functions under section 203 of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7133), shall assign direct 
     authority over, and responsibility for, the nuclear weapons 
     production facilities and the national laboratories in all 
     matters relating to national security to the Assistant 
     Secretary assigned the functions under section 203(a)(5) of 
     that Act.
       (b) Covered Functions.--The functions assigned to the 
     Assistant Secretary under subsection (a) shall include, but 
     not be limited to, authority over, and responsibility for, 
     the national security functions of those facilities and 
     laboratories with respect to the following:
       (1) Strategic management.
       (2) Policy development and guidance.
       (3) Budget formulation and guidance.
       (4) Resource requirements determination and allocation.
       (5) Program direction.
       (6) Administration of contracts to manage and operate 
     nuclear weapons production facilities and national 
     laboratories.
       (7) Environment, safety, and health operations.
       (8) Integrated safety management.
       (9) Safeguard and security operations.
       (10) Oversight.
       (11) Relationships within the Department of Energy and with 
     other Federal agencies, the Congress, State, tribal, and 
     local governments, and the public.
       (c) Reporting of Nuclear Weapons Production Facilities and 
     National Laboratories.--In all matters relating to national 
     security, the nuclear weapons production facilities and the 
     national laboratories shall report to, and be accountable to, 
     the Assistant Secretary.
       (d) Delegation by Assistant Secretary.--The Assistant 
     Secretary may delegate functions assigned under subsection 
     (a) only within the headquarters office of the Assistant 
     Secretary, except that the Assistant Secretary may delegate 
     to a head of a specified operations office functions 
     including, but not limited to, supporting the following 
     activities at a nuclear weapons production facility or a 
     national laboratory:
       (1) Operational activities.
       (2) Program execution.
       (3) Personnel.
       (4) Contracting and procurement.
       (5) Facility operations oversight.
       (6) Integration of production and research and development 
     activities.
       (7) Interaction with other Federal agencies, State, tribal, 
     and local governments, and the public.
       (e) Reporting of Operations Offices.--For each delegation 
     made under subsection (d) to a head of a specified operations 
     office, that head of that specified operations office shall 
     shall directly report to, and be accountable to, the 
     Assistant Secretary.
       (f) Definitions.--As used in this section:
       (1) The term ``nuclear weapons production facility'' means 
     any of the following facilities:
       (A) The Kansas City Plant, Kansas City, Missouri.
       (B) The Pantex Plant, Amarillo, Texas.
       (C) The Y-12 Plant, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
       (D) The tritium operations at the Savannah River Site, 
     Aiken, South Carolina.
       (E) The Nevada Test Site, Nevada.
       (2) The term ``national laboratory'' means any of the 
     following laboratories:
       (A) The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico.
       (B) The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 
     California.
       (C) The Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico, and Livermore, California.
       (3) The term ``specified operations office'' means any of 
     the following operations offices of the Department of Energy:
       (A) Albuquerque Operations Office, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
       (B) Oak Ridge Operations Office, Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
       (C) Oakland Operations Office, Oakland, California.
       (D) Nevada Operations Office, Nevada Test Site, Las Vegas, 
     Nevada.
       (E) Savannah River Operations Office, Savannah River Site, 
     Aiken, South Carolina.

     SEC. 3166. NOTICE TO CONGRESSIONAL COMMITTEES OF COMPROMISE 
                   OF CLASSIFIED INFORMATION WITHIN NUCLEAR ENERGY 
                   DEFENSE PROGRAMS.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Energy shall notify the 
     committees specified in subsection (c) of any information, 
     regardless of its origin, that the Secretary receives that 
     indicates that classified information relating to military 
     applications of nuclear energy is being, or may have been, 
     disclosed in an unauthorized manner to a foreign power or an 
     agent of a foreign power.
       (b) Manner of Notification.--A notification under 
     subsection (a) shall be provided, in writing, not later than 
     30 days after the date of the initial receipt of such 
     information by the Department of Energy.
       (c) Specified Committees.--The committees referred to in 
     subsection (a) are the Committee on Armed Services of the 
     Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (d) Foreign Power.--For purposes of this section, the terms 
     ``foreign power'' and ``agent of a foreign power'' have the 
     meanings given those terms in section 101 of the Foreign 
     Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1801).

          TITLE XXXII--DEFENSE NUCLEAR FACILITIES SAFETY BOARD

     SEC. 3201. AUTHORIZATION.

       There are authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 
     2000, $17,500,000 for the operation of the Defense Nuclear 
     Facilities Safety Board under chapter 21 of the Atomic Energy 
     Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2286 et seq.).

                TITLE XXXIII--NATIONAL DEFENSE STOCKPILE

     SEC. 3301. DEFINITIONS.

       In this title:
       (1) The term ``National Defense Stockpile'' means the 
     stockpile provided for in section 4 of the Strategic and 
     Critical Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98c).
       (2) The term ``National Defense Stockpile Transaction 
     Fund'' means the fund in the Treasury of the United States 
     established under section 9(a) of the Strategic and Critical 
     Materials Stock Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h(a)).

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     SEC. 3302. AUTHORIZED USES OF STOCKPILE FUNDS.

       (a) Obligation of Stockpile Funds.--During fiscal year 
     2000, the National Defense Stockpile Manager may obligate up 
     to $78,700,000 of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile 
     Transaction Fund for the authorized uses of such funds under 
     section 9(b)(2) of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock 
     Piling Act (50 U.S.C. 98h(b)(2)), including the disposal of 
     hazardous materials that are environmentally sensitive.
       (b) Additional Obligations.--The National Defense Stockpile 
     Manager may obligate amounts in excess of the amount 
     specified in subsection (a) if the National Defense Stockpile 
     Manager notifies Congress that extraordinary or emergency 
     conditions necessitate the additional obligations. The 
     National Defense Stockpile Manager may make the additional 
     obligations described in the notification after the end of 
     the 45-day period beginning on the date on which Congress 
     receives the notification.
       (c) Limitations.--The authorities provided by this section 
     shall be subject to such limitations as may be provided in 
     appropriations Acts.

     SEC. 3303. ELIMINATION OF CONGRESSIONALLY IMPOSED DISPOSAL 
                   RESTRICTIONS ON SPECIFIC STOCKPILE MATERIALS.

       Sections 3303 and 3304 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 
     110 Stat. 629) are repealed.

                  TITLE XXXIV--MARITIME ADMINISTRATION

     SEC. 3401. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Maritime Administration 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000''.

     SEC. 3402. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 
                   2000.

       Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated, to be 
     available without fiscal year limitation if so provided in 
     appropriations Acts, for the use of the Department of 
     Transportation for the Maritime Administration as follows:
       (1) For expenses necessary for operations and training 
     activities, $79,764,000 for fiscal year 2000.
       (2) For expenses under the loan guarantee program 
     authorized by title XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 
     App. U.S.C. 1271 et seq.), $34,893,000 for fiscal year 2000, 
     of which--
       (A) $31,000,000 is for the cost (as defined in section 
     502(5) of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990 (2 U.S.C. 
     661a(5))) of loan guarantees under the program; and
       (B) $3,893,000 is for administrative expenses related to 
     loan guarantee commitments under the program.

     SEC. 3403. AMENDMENTS TO TITLE XI OF THE MERCHANT MARINE ACT, 
                   1936.

       (a) Authority To Hold Obligation Proceeds in Escrow.--
     Section 1108(a) of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. 
     U.S.C. 1279a(a)) is amended by striking so much as precedes 
     ``guarantee of an obligation'' and inserting the following:
       ``(a) Authority To Hold Obligation Proceeds in Escrow.--(1) 
     If the proceeds of an obligation guaranteed under this title 
     are to be used to finance the construction, reconstruction, 
     or reconditioning of a vessel that will serve as security for 
     the guarantee, the Secretary may accept and hold, in escrow 
     under an escrow agreement with the obligor--
       ``(A) the proceeds of that obligation, including such 
     interest as may be earned thereon; and
       ``(B) if required by the Secretary, an amount equal to 6 
     month's interest on the obligation.
       ``(2) The Secretary may release funds held in escrow under 
     paragraph (1) only if the Secretary determines that--
       ``(A) the obligor has paid its portion of the actual cost 
     of construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning; and
       ``(B) the funds released are needed--
       ``(i) to pay, or make reimbursements in connection with 
     payments previously made for work performed in that 
     construction, reconstruction, or reconditioning; or
       ``(ii) to pay for other costs approved by the Secretary, 
     with respect to the vessel or vessels.
       ``(3) If the security for the''.
       (b) Authority To Hold Obligor's Cash as Collateral.--Title 
     XI of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 is amended by inserting 
     after section 1108 the following:

     ``SEC. 1109. DEPOSIT FUND.

       ``(a) Establishment of Deposit Fund.--There is established 
     in the Treasury a deposit fund for purposes of this section. 
     The Secretary may, in accordance with an agreement under 
     subsection (b), deposit into and hold in the deposit fund 
     cash belonging to an obligor to serve as collateral for a 
     guarantee under this title made with respect to the obligor.
       ``(b) Agreement.--
       ``(1) In general.--The Secretary and an obligor shall enter 
     into a reserve fund or other collateral account agreement to 
     govern the deposit, withdrawal, retention, use, and 
     reinvestment of cash of the obligor held in the deposit fund 
     established by subsection (a).
       ``(2) Terms.--The agreement shall contain such terms and 
     conditions as are required under this section and such 
     additional terms as are considered by the Secretary to be 
     necessary to protect fully the interests of the United 
     States.
       ``(3) Security interest of united states.--The agreement 
     shall include terms that grant to the United States a 
     security interest in all amounts deposited into the deposit 
     fund.
       ``(c) Investment.--The Secretary may invest and reinvest 
     any part of the amounts in the deposit fund established by 
     subsection (a) in obligations of the United States with such 
     maturities as ensure that amounts in the deposit fund will be 
     available as required for purposes of agreements under 
     subsection (b). Cash balances of the deposit fund in excess 
     of current requirements shall be maintained in a form of 
     uninvested funds and the Secretary of the Treasury shall pay 
     interest on these funds.
       ``(d) Withdrawals.--
       ``(1) In general.--The cash deposited into the deposit fund 
     established by subsection (a) may not be withdrawn without 
     the consent of the Secretary.
       ``(2) Use of income.--Subject to paragraph (3), the 
     Secretary may pay any income earned on cash of an obligor 
     deposited into the deposit fund in accordance with the terms 
     of the agreement with the obligor under subsection (b).
       ``(3) Retention against default.--The Secretary may retain 
     and offset any or all of the cash of an obligor in the 
     deposit fund, and any income realized thereon, as part of the 
     Secretary's recovery against the obligor in case of a default 
     by the obligor on an obligation.''.

     SEC. 3404. EXTENSION OF WAR RISK INSURANCE AUTHORITY.

       Section 1214 of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 (46 App. 
     U.S.C. 1294) is amended by striking ``June 30, 2000'' and 
     inserting ``June 30, 2005''.

     SEC. 3405. OWNERSHIP OF THE JEREMIAH O'BRIEN.

       Section 3302(l)(1)(C) of title 46, United States Code, is 
     amended by striking ``owned by the United States Maritime 
     Administration'' and inserting ``owned by the National 
     Liberty Ship Memorial, Inc.''.

                  TITLE XXXV--PANAMA CANAL COMMISSION

     SEC. 3501. SHORT TITLE.

       This title may be cited as the ``Panama Canal Commission 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000''.

     SEC. 3502. AUTHORIZATION OF EXPENDITURES.

       (a) In General.--Subject to subsection (b), the Panama 
     Canal Commission is authorized to use amounts in the Panama 
     Canal Revolving Fund to make such expenditures within the 
     limits of funds and borrowing authority available to it in 
     accordance with law, and to make such contracts and 
     commitments, as may be necessary under the Panama Canal Act 
     of 1979 (22 U.S.C. 3601 et seq.) for the operation, 
     maintenance, improvement, and administration of the Panama 
     Canal for fiscal year 2000 until the termination of the 
     Panama Canal Treaty of 1977.
       (b) Limitations.--Until noon on December 31, 1999, the 
     Panama Canal Commission may expend from funds in the Panama 
     Canal Revolving Fund not more than $100,000 for official 
     reception and representation expenses, of which--
       (1) not more than $28,000 may be used for official 
     reception and representation expenses of the Supervisory 
     Board of the Commission;
       (2) not more than $14,000 may be used for official 
     reception and representation expenses of the Secretary of the 
     Commission; and
       (3) not more than $58,000 may be used for official 
     reception and representation expenses of the Administrator of 
     the Commission.

     SEC. 3503. PURCHASE OF VEHICLES.

       Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the funds 
     available to the Panama Canal Commission shall be available 
     for the purchase and transportation to the Republic of Panama 
     of passenger motor vehicles built in the United States, the 
     purchase price of which shall not exceed $26,000 per vehicle.

     SEC. 3504. OFFICE OF TRANSITION ADMINISTRATION.

       (a) Expenditures From Panama Canal Commission Dissolution 
     Fund.--Section 1305(c)(5) of the Panama Canal Act of 1979 (22 
     U.S.C. 3714a(c)(5)) is amended by inserting ``(A)'' after 
     ``(5)'' and by adding at the end the following:
       ``(B) The office established by subsection (b) is 
     authorized to expend or obligate funds from the Fund for the 
     purposes enumerated in clauses (i) and (ii) of paragraph 
     (2)(A) until October 1, 2004.''.
       (b) Operation of the Office of Transition Administration.--
       (1) In general.--The Panama Canal Act of 1979 (22 U.S.C. 
     3601 et seq.) shall continue to govern the Office of 
     Transition Administration until October 1, 2004.
       (2) Procurement.--For purposes of exercising authority 
     under the procurement laws of the United States, the director 
     of such office shall have the status of the head of an 
     agency.
       (3) Offices.--The Office of Transition Administration shall 
     have offices in the Republic of Panama and in the District of 
     Columbia. Section 1110(b)(1) of the Panama Canal Act of 1973 
     (22 U.S.C. 3620(b)(1)) does not apply to such office in the 
     Republic of Panama.
       (4) Effective date.--This subsection shall be effective on 
     and after the termination of the Panama Canal Treaty of 1977.
       (c) Office of Transition Administration Defined.--In this 
     section the term ``Office of Transition Administration'' 
     means the office established under section 1305 of the Panama 
     Canal Act of 1979 (22 U.S.C. 3714a) to close out the affairs 
     of the Panama Canal Commission.
       Amend the title so as to read: ``A bill to authorize 
     appropriations for fiscal year 2000 for military activities 
     of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and 
     for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to 
     prescribe personnel strengths for such fiscal year for the 
     Armed Forces, and for other purposes.''.

  The CHAIRMAN. No amendment to the committee amendment in the nature 
of a substitute is in order except amendments printed in House Report 
106-175, amendments en bloc described in section 3 of House Resolution 
200, the amendment by the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) printed 
on June 8, 1999, in the appropriate portion of the Congressional 
Record, and pro forma amendments offered by the chairman and ranking 
minority member.

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  Except as specified in section 5 of the resolution, each amendment 
printed in the report shall be considered only in the order printed, 
may be offered only by a Member designated in the report, shall be 
considered read, and shall not be subject to a demand for a division of 
the question.
  Unless otherwise specified in the report, each amendment printed in 
the report shall be debatable for 10 minutes, equally divided and 
controlled by a proponent and an opponent of the amendment, and shall 
not be subject to amendment, except that the chairman and ranking 
minority member each may offer one pro forma amendment for the purpose 
of further debate on any pending amendment.
  Consideration of the last five amendments in Part A of the report 
shall begin with an additional period of general debate, which shall be 
confined to the subject of United States policy relating to the 
conflict in Kosovo, and shall not exceed one hour, equally divided and 
controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member.
  It shall be in order at any time for the Chairman of the Committee on 
Armed Services or his designee to offer amendments en bloc consisting 
of amendments printed in Part B of the report not earlier disposed of 
or germane modifications of any such amendment.
  The amendments en bloc shall be considered read, except that 
modifications shall be reported, shall be debatable for 20 minutes, 
equally divided and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority 
member or their designees, shall not be subject to amendment and shall 
not be subject to a demand for a division of the question.

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  The original proponent of an amendment included in the amendments en 
bloc may insert a statement in the Congressional Record immediately 
before disposition of the amendments en bloc.
  The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone a request for 
a recorded vote on any amendment and may reduce to a minimum of 5 
minutes the time for voting on any postponed question that immediately 
follows another vote, provided that the time for voting on the first 
question shall be a minimum of 15 minutes.
  The Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may recognize for 
consideration of amendments printed in the report out of the order in 
which they are printed, but not sooner than 1 hour after the chairman 
of the Committee on Armed Services or a designee announces from the 
floor a request to that effect.
  Before consideration of any other amendment, it shall be in order to 
consider the amendment printed in the Congressional Record of June 8, 
1999 by the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) described in section 
2(b) of the resolution, if offered by Mr. Cox, or his designee. That 
amendment shall be considered read, shall be debatable for 1 hour, 
equally divided and controlled by the proponent and an opponent, shall 
not be subject to amendment, and shall not be subject to a demand for 
division of the question.


                  Amendment No. 14 Offered by Mr. Cox

  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I offer an amendment.
  The CHAIRMAN. The Clerk will designate the amendment.
  The text of the amendment is as follows:

       Amendment No. 14 printed in the Congressional Record 
     offered by Mr. Cox:
          TITLE XIV--PROLIFERATION AND EXPORT CONTROL MATTERS

     SEC. 1401. REPORT ON COMPLIANCE BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF 
                   CHINA AND OTHER COUNTRIES WITH THE MISSILE 
                   TECHNOLOGY CONTROL REGIME.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than October 31, 1999, the 
     President shall transmit to Congress a report on the 
     compliance, or lack of compliance (both as to acquiring and 
     transferring missile technology), by the People's Republic of 
     China, with the Missile Technology Control Regime, and on any 
     actual or suspected transfer by Russia or any other country 
     of missile technology to the People's Republic of China in 
     violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime. The 
     report shall include a list specifying each actual or 
     suspected violation of the Missile Technology Control Regime 
     by the People's Republic of China, Russia, or other country 
     and, for each such violation, a description of the remedial 
     action (if any) taken by the United States or any other 
     country.
       (b) Matters To Be Included.--The report under subsection 
     (a) shall also include information concerning--
       (1) actual or suspected use by the People's Republic of 
     China of United States missile technology;
       (2) actual or suspected missile proliferation activities by 
     the People's Republic of China;
       (3) actual or suspected transfer of missile technology by 
     Russia or other countries to the People's Republic of China: 
     and
       (4) United States actions to enforce the Missile Technology 
     Control Regime with respect to the People's Republic of 
     China, including actions to prevent the transfer of missile 
     technology from Russia and other countries to the People's 
     Republic of China.

     SEC. 1402. ANNUAL REPORT ON TECHNOLOGY TRANSFERS TO THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Annual Report.--The President shall transmit to 
     Congress an annual report on transfers to the People's 
     Republic of China by the United States and other countries of 
     technology with potential military applications, during the 
     1-year period preceding the transmittal of the report.
       (b) Initial Report.--The initial report under this section 
     shall be transmitted not later than October 31, 1999.

     SEC. 1403. REPORT ON IMPLEMENTATION OF TRANSFER OF SATELLITE 
                   EXPORT CONTROL AUTHORITY.

       Not later than August 31, 1999, the President shall 
     transmit to Congress a report on the implementation of 
     subsection (a) of section 1513 of the Strom Thurmond National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 
     105-261; 112 Stat. 2174; 22 U.S.C. 2778 note), transferring 
     satellites and related items from the Commerce Control List 
     of dual-use items to the United States Munitions List. The 
     report shall update the information provided in the report 
     under subsection (d) of that section.

     SEC. 1404. SECURITY IN CONNECTION WITH SATELLITE EXPORT 
                   LICENSING.

       (a) Security at Foreign Launches.--As a condition of the 
     export license for any satellite to be launched outside the 
     jurisdiction of the United States, the Secretary of State 
     shall require the following:
       (1) That the technology transfer control plan required by 
     section 1514(a)(1) of the Strom Thurmond National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 (Public Law 105-261; 
     112 Stat. 2175; 22 U.S.C. 2778 note) be prepared by the 
     Department of Defense, and agreed to by the licensee, and 
     that the plan set forth the security arrangements for the 
     launch of the satellite, both before and during launch 
     operations, and include enhanced security measures if the 
     launch site is within the jurisdiction of the People's 
     Republic of China or any other country that is subject to 
     section 1514 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999.
       (2) That each person providing security for the launch of 
     that satellite--
       (A) be employed by, or under a contract with, the 
     Department of Defense;
       (B) have received appropriate training in the regulations 
     prescribed by the Secretary of State known as the 
     International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (hereafter in 
     this section referred to as ``ITAR'');
       (C) have significant experience and expertise with 
     satellite launches; and
       (D) have been investigated in a manner at least as 
     comprehensive as the investigation required for the issuance 
     of a security clearance at the level designated as 
     ``Secret''.
       (3) That the number of such persons providing security for 
     the launch of the satellite shall be sufficient to maintain 
     24-hour security of the satellite and related launch vehicle 
     and other sensitive technology.
       (4) That the licensee agree to reimburse the Department of 
     Defense for all costs associated with the provision of 
     security for the launch of the satellite.
       (b) Defense Department Monitors.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall--
       (1) ensure that persons assigned as space launch campaign 
     monitors are provided sufficient training and have adequate 
     experience in the ITAR and have significant experience and 
     expertise with satellite technology, launch vehicle 
     technology, and launch operations technology;
       (2) ensure that adequate numbers of such monitors are 
     assigned to space launch campaigns so that 24-hour, 7-day per 
     week coverage is provided;
       (3) take steps to ensure, to the maximum extent possible, 
     the continuity of service by monitors for the entire space 
     launch campaign period (from satellite marketing to launch 
     and, if necessary, completion of a launch failure analysis); 
     and
       (4) adopt measures designed to make service as a space 
     launch campaign monitor an attractive career opportunity.

     SEC. 1405. REPORTING OF TECHNOLOGY PASSED TO PEOPLE'S 
                   REPUBLIC OF CHINA AND OF FOREIGN LAUNCH 
                   SECURITY VIOLATIONS.

       (a) Monitoring of Information.--The Secretary of Defense 
     shall require that space launch monitors of the Department of 
     Defense assigned to monitor launches in the People's Republic 
     of China maintain records of all information authorized to be 
     transmitted to the People's Republic of China, including 
     copies of any documents authorized for such transmission, and 
     reports on launch-related activities.
       (b) Transmission to Other Agencies.--The Secretary of 
     Defense shall ensure that records under subsection (a) are 
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     on a current basis to appropriate elements of the Department 
     of Defense and to the Department of State, the Department of 
     Commerce, and the Central Intelligence Agency.
       (c) Retention of Records.--Records described in subsection 
     (a) shall be retained for at least the period of the statute 
     of limitations for violations of the Arms Export Control Act.
       (d) Guidelines.--The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe 
     guidelines providing space launch monitors of the Department 
     of Defense with the responsibility and the ability to report 
     serious security violations, problems, or other issues at an 
     overseas launch site directly to the headquarters office of 
     the responsible Department of Defense component.

     SEC. 1406. REPORT ON NATIONAL SECURITY IMPLICATIONS OF 
                   EXPORTING HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS TO THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Review.--The Secretary of Energy, the Secretary of 
     Defense, and the Secretary of State, in consultation with 
     other appropriate departments and agencies, shall conduct a 
     comprehensive review of the national security implications of 
     exporting high-performance computers to the People's Republic 
     of China. As part of the review, the Secretary shall conduct 
     empirical testing of the extent to which national security-
     related operations can be performed using clustered, 
     massively-parallel processing or other combinations of 
     computers.
       (b) Report.--The Secretary of Energy shall submit to 
     Congress a report on the results of the review under 
     subsection (a). The report shall be submitted not later than 
     six months after the date of the enactment of this Act and 
     shall be updated not later than the end of each subsequent 1-
     year period.

     SEC. 1407. END-USE VERIFICATION FOR USE BY PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC 
                   OF CHINA OF HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTERS.

       (a) Revised HPC Verification System.--The President shall 
     seek to enter into an agreement with the People's Republic of 
     China to revise the existing verification system with the 
     People's Republic of China with respect to end-use 
     verification for high-performance computers exported or to be 
     exported to the People's Republic of China so as to provide 
     for an open and transparent system providing for effective 
     end-use verification for such computers and, at a minimum, 
     providing for on-site inspection of the end-use and end-user 
     of such computers, without notice, by United States nationals 
     designated by the United States Government. The President 
     shall transmit a copy of the agreement to Congress.
       (b) Definition.--As used in this section and section 1406, 
     the term ``high performance computer'' means a computer 
     which, by virtue of its composite theoretical performance 
     level, would be subject to section 1211 of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (50 U.S.C. 
     App. 2404 note).
       (c) Adjustment of Composite Theoretical Performance Levels 
     for Post-shipment Verification.--Section 1213 of the National 
     Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 is amended by 
     adding at the end the following:
       ``(e) Adjustment of Performance Levels.--Whenever a new 
     composite theoretical performance level is established under 
     section 1211(d), that level shall apply for purposes of 
     subsection (a) of this section in lieu of the level set forth 
     in that subsection.''.

     SEC. 1408. PROCEDURES FOR REVIEW OF EXPORT OF CONTROLLED 
                   TECHNOLOGIES AND ITEMS.

       (a) Recommendations for Prioritization of National Security 
     Concerns.--The President shall submit to Congress the 
     President's recommendations for the establishment of a 
     mechanism to identify, on a continuing basis, those 
     controlled technologies and items the export of which is of 
     greatest national security concern relative to other 
     controlled technologies and items.
       (b) Recommendations for Executive Department Approvals for 
     Exports of Greatest National Security Concern.--With respect 
     to controlled technologies and items identified under 
     subsection (a), the President shall submit to Congress the 
     President's recommendations for the establishment of a 
     mechanism to identify procedures for export of such 
     technologies and items so as to provide--
       (1) that the period for review by an executive department 
     or agency of a license application for any such export shall 
     be extended to a period longer than that otherwise required 
     when such longer period is considered necessary by the head 
     of that department or agency for national security purposes; 
     and
       (2) that a license for such an export may be approved only 
     with the agreement of each executive department or agency 
     that reviewed the application for the license, subject to 
     appeal procedures to be established by the President.
       (c) Recommendations for Streamlined Licensing Procedures 
     for Other Exports.--With respect to controlled technologies 
     and items other than those identified under subsection (a), 
     the President shall submit to Congress the President's 
     recommendations for modifications to licensing procedures for 
     export of such technologies and items so as to streamline the 
     licensing process and provide greater transparency, 
     predictability, and certainty.

     SEC. 1409. NOTICE OF FOREIGN ACQUISITION OF UNITED STATES 
                   FIRMS IN NATIONAL SECURITY INDUSTRIES.

       Section 721(b) of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 
     U.S.C. 2170(b)) is amended--
       (1) by inserting ``(1)'' before ``The President'';
       (2) by redesignating paragraphs (1) and (2) as 
     subparagraphs (A) and (B), respectively; and
       (3) by adding at the end the following:
       ``(2) Whenever a person engaged in interstate commerce in 
     the United States is the subject of a merger, acquisition, or 
     takeover described in paragraph (1), that person shall 
     promptly notify the President, or the President's designee, 
     of such planned merger, acquisition, or takeover. Whenever 
     any executive department or agency becomes aware of any such 
     planned merger, acquisition, or takeover, the head of that 
     department or agency shall promptly notify the President, or 
     the President's designee, of such planned merger, 
     acquisition, or takeover.''.

     SEC. 1410. FIVE-AGENCY INSPECTORS GENERAL EXAMINATION OF 
                   COUNTERMEASURES AGAINST ACQUISITION BY THE 
                   PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA OF MILITARILY 
                   SENSITIVE TECHNOLOGY.

       Not later than January 1, 2000, the Inspectors General of 
     the Departments of State, Defense, the Treasury, and Commerce 
     and the Inspector General of the Central Intelligence Agency 
     shall submit to Congress a report on the adequacy of current 
     export controls and counterintelligence measures to protect 
     against the acquisition by the People's Republic of China of 
     militarily sensitive United States technology. Such report 
     shall include a description of measures taken to address any 
     deficiencies found in such export controls and 
     counterintelligence measures.

     SEC. 1411. OFFICE OF TECHNOLOGY SECURITY IN DEPARTMENT OF 
                   DEFENSE.

       (a) Enhanced Multilateral Export Controls.--
       (1) New international controls.--The President shall work 
     (in the context of the scheduled 1999 review of the Wassenaar 
     Arrangement and otherwise) to establish new binding 
     international controls on technology transfers that threaten 
     international peace and United States national security.
       (2) Improved sharing of information.--The President shall 
     take appropriate actions (in the context of the scheduled 
     1999 review of the Wassenaar Arrangement and otherwise) to 
     improve the sharing of information by nations that are major 
     exporters of technology so that the United States can track 
     movements of technology and enforce technology controls and 
     re-export requirements.
       (b) Office of Technology Security.--(1) There is hereby 
     established in the Department of Defense an Office of 
     Technology Security. The Office shall support United States 
     Government efforts to--
       (1) establish new binding international controls on 
     technology transfers that threaten international peace and 
     United States national security; and
       (2) improve the sharing of information by nations that are 
     major exporters of technology so that the United States can 
     track movements of technology and enforce technology controls 
     and re-export requirements.
       At the end of subtitle A of title XXXI (page 419, after 
     line 3), insert the following new section:

     SEC. 3106. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY COUNTERINTELLIGENCE CYBER 
                   SECURITY PROGRAM.

       (a) Increased Funds for Counterintelligence Cyber 
     Security.--The amounts provided in section 3103 in the matter 
     preceding paragraph (1) and in paragraph (3) are each hereby 
     increased by $8,600,000, to be available for 
     Counterintelligence Cyber Security programs.
       (b) Offsetting Reductions Derived From Contractor Travel.--
     (1) The amount provided in section 3101 in the matter 
     preceding paragraph (1) (for weapons activities in carrying 
     out programs necessary for national security) is hereby 
     reduced by $4,700,000.
       (2) The amount provided in section 3102 in the matter 
     preceding paragraph (1) of subsection (a) (for environmental 
     restoration and waste management in carrying out programs 
     necessary for national security) is hereby reduced by 
     $1,900,000.
       (3) The amount provided in section 3103 in the matter 
     preceding paragraph (1) is hereby reduced by $2,000,000.
       At the end of title XXXI (page 453, after line 15), insert 
     the following new subtitle:
        Subtitle F--Protection of National Security Information

     SEC. 3181. SHORT TITLE.

       This subtitle may be cited as the ``National Security 
     Information Protection Improvement Act''.

     SEC. 3182. SEMI-ANNUAL REPORT BY THE PRESIDENT ON ESPIONAGE 
                   BY THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF CHINA.

       (a) Reports Required.--The President shall transmit to 
     Congress a report, not less often than every six months, on 
     the steps being taken by the Department of Energy, the 
     Department of Defense, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, 
     the Central Intelligence Agency, and all other relevant 
     executive departments and agencies to respond to espionage 
     and other intelligence activities by the People's Republic of 
     China, particularly with respect to the theft of 
     sophisticated United States nuclear weapons design 
     information and the targeting by the People's Republic of 
     China of United States nuclear weapons codes and other 
     national security information of strategic concern.
       (b) Initial Report.--The first report under this section 
     shall be transmitted not later than January 1, 2000.

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     SEC. 3183. REPORT ON WHETHER DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY SHOULD 
                   CONTINUE TO MAINTAIN NUCLEAR WEAPONS 
                   RESPONSIBILITY.

       Not later than January 1, 2000, the President shall 
     transmit to Congress a report regarding the feasibility of 
     alternatives to the current arrangements for controlling 
     United States nuclear weapons development, testing, and 
     maintenance within the Department of Energy, including the 
     reestablishment of the Atomic Energy Commission as an 
     independent nuclear agency. The report shall describe the 
     benefits and shortcomings of each such alternative, as well 
     as the current system, from the standpoint of protecting such 
     weapons and related research and technology from theft and 
     exploitation. The President shall include with such report 
     the President's recommendation for the appropriate 
     arrangements for controlling United States nuclear weapons 
     development, testing, and maintenance outside the Department 
     of Energy if it should be determined that the Department of 
     Energy should no longer have that responsibility.

     SEC. 3184. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY OFFICE OF FOREIGN 
                   INTELLIGENCE AND OFFICE OF COUNTERINTELLIGENCE.

       (a) In General.--The Department of Energy Organization Act 
     is amended by inserting after section 212 (42 U.S.C. 7143) 
     the following new sections:


                    ``office of foreign intelligence

       ``Sec. 213. (a) There shall be within the Department an 
     Office of Foreign Intelligence, to be headed by a Director, 
     who shall report directly to the Secretary.
       ``(b) The Director shall be responsible for the programs 
     and activities of the Department relating to the analysis of 
     intelligence with respect to nuclear weapons and materials, 
     other nuclear matters, and energy security.
       ``(c) The Secretary may delegate to the Deputy Secretary of 
     Energy the day-to-day supervision of the Director.


                    ``office of counterintelligence

       ``Sec. 214. (a) There shall be within the Department an 
     Office of Counterintelligence, to be headed by a Director, 
     who shall report directly to the Secretary.
       ``(b) The Director shall carry out all counterintelligence 
     activities in the Department relating to the defense 
     activities of the Department.
       ``(c) The Secretary may delegate to the Deputy Secretary of 
     Energy the day-to-day supervision of the Director.
       ``(d)(1) The Director shall keep the intelligence 
     committees fully and currently informed of all significant 
     security breaches at any of the national laboratories.
       ``(2) For purposes of this subsection, the term 
     `intelligence committees' means the Permanent Select 
     Committee of the House of Representatives and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.''.
       (b) Clerical Amendment.--The table of contents in the first 
     section of that Act is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 212 the following new items:

``Sec. 213. Office of Foreign Intelligence.
``Sec. 214. Office of Counterintelligence.''.

     SEC. 3185. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE PROGRAM AT DEPARTMENT OF 
                   ENERGY NATIONAL LABORATORIES.

       (a) Program Required.--The Secretary of Energy shall 
     establish and maintain at each national laboratory a 
     counterintelligence program for the defense-related 
     activities of the Department of Energy at such laboratory.
       (b) Head of Program.--The Secretary shall ensure that, for 
     each national laboratory, the head of the counterintelligence 
     program of that laboratory--
       (1) has extensive experience in counterintelligence 
     activities within the Federal Government; and
       (2) with respect to the counterintelligence program, is 
     responsible directly to, and is hired with the concurrence 
     of, the Director of Counterintelligence of the Department of 
     Energy and the director of the national laboratory.

     SEC. 3186. COUNTERINTELLIGENCE ACTIVITIES AT OTHER DEPARTMENT 
                   OF ENERGY FACILITIES.

       (a) Assignment of Counterintelligence Personnel.--(1) The 
     Secretary of Energy shall assign to each Department of Energy 
     facility, other than a national laboratory, at which 
     Restricted Data is located an individual who shall assess 
     security and counterintelligence matters at that facility.
       (2) An individual assigned to a facility under this 
     subsection shall be stationed at the facility.
       (b) Supervision.--Each individual assigned under subsection 
     (a) shall report directly to the Director of the Office of 
     Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy.

     SEC. 3187. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY POLYGRAPH EXAMINATIONS.

       (a) Counterintelligence Polygraph Program Required.--The 
     Secretary of Energy, acting through the Director of 
     Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy, shall carry 
     out a counterintelligence polygraph program for the defense 
     activities of the Department of Energy. The program shall 
     consist of the administration on a regular basis of a 
     polygraph examination to each covered person who has access 
     to a program that the Director of Counterintelligence and the 
     Assistant Secretary assigned the functions under section 
     203(a)(5) of the Department of Energy Organization Act 
     determine requires special access restrictions.
       (b) Covered Persons.--For purposes of subsection (a), a 
     covered person is any of the following:
       (1) An officer or employee of the Department.
       (2) An expert or consultant under contract to the 
     Department.
       (3) An officer or employee of any contractor of the 
     Department.
       (c) Additional Polygraph Examinations.--In addition to the 
     polygraph examinations administered under subsection (a), the 
     Secretary, in carrying out the defense activities of the 
     Department--
       (1) may administer a polygraph examination to any employee 
     of the Department or of any contractor of the Department, for 
     counterintelligence purposes; and
       (2) shall administer a polygraph examination to any such 
     employee in connection with an investigation of such 
     employee, if such employee requests the administration of a 
     polygraph examination for exculpatory purposes.
       (d) Regulations.--(1) The Secretary shall prescribe any 
     regulations necessary to carry out this section. Such 
     regulations shall include procedures, to be developed in 
     consultation with the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation, for identifying and addressing ``false 
     positive'' results of polygraph examinations.
       (2) Notwithstanding section 501 of the Department of Energy 
     Organization Act (42 U.S.C. 7191) or any other provision of 
     law, the Secretary may, in prescribing regulations under 
     paragraph (1), waive any requirement for notice or comment if 
     the Secretary determines that it is in the national security 
     interest to expedite the implementation of such regulations.
       (e) No Change in Other Polygraph Authority.--This section 
     shall not be construed to affect the authority under any 
     other provision of law of the Secretary to administer a 
     polygraph examination.

     SEC. 3188. CIVIL MONETARY PENALTIES FOR VIOLATIONS OF 
                   DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY REGULATIONS RELATING TO 
                   THE SAFEGUARDING AND SECURITY OF RESTRICTED 
                   DATA.

       (a) In General.--Chapter 18 of title I of the Atomic Energy 
     Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2271 et seq.) is amended by inserting 
     after section 234A the following new section:
       ``Sec. 234B. Civil Monetary Penalties for Violations of 
     Department of Energy Regulations Regarding Security of 
     Classified or Sensitive Information or Data.--
       ``a. Any individual or entity that has entered into a 
     contract or agreement with the Department of Energy, or a 
     subcontract or subagreement thereto, and that commits a gross 
     violation or a pattern of gross violations of any applicable 
     rule, regulation, or order prescribed or otherwise issued by 
     the Secretary pursuant to this subtitle relating to the 
     safeguarding or security of Restricted Data or other 
     classified or sensitive information shall be subject to a 
     civil penalty of not to exceed $500,000 for each such 
     violation.
       ``b. The Secretary shall include, in each contract entered 
     into after the date of the enactment of this section with a 
     contractor of the Department, provisions which provide an 
     appropriate reduction in the fees or amounts paid to the 
     contractor under the contract in the event of a violation by 
     the contractor or contractor employee of any rule, 
     regulation, or order relating to the safeguarding or security 
     of Restricted Data or other classified or sensitive 
     information. The provisions shall specify various degrees of 
     violations and the amount of the reduction attributable to 
     each degree of violation.
       ``c. The powers and limitations applicable to the 
     assessment of civil penalties under section 234A shall apply 
     to the assessment of civil penalties under this section.''.
       (b) Clarifying Amendment.--The section heading of section 
     234A of that Act (42 U.S.C. 2282a) is amended by inserting 
     ``Safety'' before ``Regulations''.
       (c) Clerical Amendment.--The table of sections in the first 
     section of that Act is amended by inserting after the item 
     relating to section 234 the following new items:

``234A. Civil Monetary Penalties for Violations of Department of Energy 
              Safety Regulations.
``234B. Civil Monetary Penalties for Violations of Department of Energy 
              Regulations Regarding Security of Classified or Sensitive 
              Information or Data.''.

     SEC. 3189. INCREASED PENALTIES FOR MISUSE OF RESTRICTED DATA.

       (a) Communication of Restricted Data.--Section 224 of the 
     Atomic Energy Act of 1954 (42 U.S.C. 2274) is amended--
       (1) in clause a., by striking ``$20,000'' and inserting 
     ``$400,000''; and
       (2) in clause b., by striking ``$10,000'' and inserting 
     ``$200,000''.
       (b) Receipt of Restricted Data.--Section 225 of such Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 2275) is amended by striking ``$20,000'' and 
     inserting ``$400,000''.
       (c) Disclosure of Restricted Data.--Section 227 of such Act 
     (42 U.S.C. 2277) is amended by striking ``$2,500'' and 
     inserting ``$50,000''.

     SEC. 3190. RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS TO NATIONAL LABORATORIES BY 
                   FOREIGN VISITORS FROM SENSITIVE COUNTRIES.

       (a) Background Review Required.--The Secretary of Energy 
     may not admit to any facility of a national laboratory any 
     individual who is a citizen or agent of a nation that is 
     named on the current sensitive countries list unless the 
     Secretary first completes a background review with respect to 
     that individual.
       (b) Moratorium Pending Certification.--(1) During the 
     period described in paragraph

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     (2), the Secretary may not admit to any facility of a 
     national laboratory any individual who is a citizen or agent 
     of a nation that is named on the current sensitive countries 
     list.
       (2) The period referred to in paragraph (1) is the period 
     beginning 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act 
     and ending on the later of the following:
       (A) The date that is 90 days after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act.
       (B) The date that is 45 days after the date on which the 
     Secretary submits to Congress a certification described in 
     paragraph (3).
       (3) A certification referred to in paragraph (2) is a 
     certification by the Director of Counterintelligence of the 
     Department of Energy, with the concurrence of the Director of 
     the Federal Bureau of Investigation, that all security 
     measures are in place that are necessary and appropriate to 
     prevent espionage or intelligence gathering by or for a 
     sensitive country, including access by individuals referred 
     to in paragraph (1) to classified information of the national 
     laboratory.
       (c) Waiver of Moratorium.--(1) The Secretary of Energy may 
     waive the prohibition in subsection (b) on a case-by-case 
     basis with respect to any specific individual or any specific 
     delegation of individuals whose admission to a national 
     laboratory is determined by the Secretary to be in the 
     interest of the national security of the United States.
       (2) Not later than the seventh day of the month following a 
     month in which a waiver is made, the Secretary shall submit a 
     report in writing providing notice of each waiver made in 
     that month to the following:
       (A) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
       (B) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (3) Each such report shall be in classified form and shall 
     contain the identity of each individual or delegation for 
     whom such a waiver was made and, with respect to each such 
     individual or delegation, the following information:
       (A) A detailed justification for the waiver.
       (B) For each individual with respect to whom a background 
     review was conducted, whether the background review 
     determined that negative information exists with respect to 
     that individual.
       (C) The Secretary's certification that the admission of 
     that individual or delegation to a national laboratory is in 
     the interest of the national security of the United States.
       (4) The authority of the Secretary under paragraph (1) may 
     be delegated only to the Director of Counterintelligence of 
     the Department of Energy.
       (d) Exception to Moratorium for Certain Individuals.--The 
     moratorium under subsection (b) shall not apply to any person 
     who--
       (1) is, on the date of the enactment of this Act, an 
     employee or assignee of the Department of Energy, or of a 
     contractor of the Department; and
       (2) has undergone a background review in accordance with 
     subsection (a).
       (e) Exception to Moratorium for Certain Programs.--In the 
     case of a program undertaken pursuant to an international 
     agreement between the United States and a foreign nation, the 
     moratorium under subsection (b) shall not apply to the 
     admittance to a facility that is important to that program of 
     a citizen of that foreign nation whose admittance is 
     important to that program.
       (f) Sense of Congress Regarding Background Reviews.--It is 
     the sense of Congress that the Secretary of Energy, the 
     Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the 
     Director of Central Intelligence should ensure that 
     background reviews carried out under this section are 
     completed in not more than 15 days.
       (g) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
       (1) The term ``background review'', commonly known as an 
     indices check, means a review of information provided by the 
     Director of Central Intelligence and the Director of the 
     Federal Bureau of Investigation regarding personal 
     background, including information relating to any history of 
     criminal activity or to any evidence of espionage.
       (2) The term ``sensitive countries list'' means the list 
     prescribed by the Secretary of Energy known as the Department 
     of Energy List of Sensitive Countries.

     SEC. 3191. REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO ACCESS BY FOREIGN 
                   VISITORS AND EMPLOYEES TO DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY 
                   FACILITIES ENGAGED IN DEFENSE ACTIVITIES.

       (a) Security Clearance Review Required.--The Secretary of 
     Energy may not allow unescorted access to any classified 
     area, or access to classified information, of any facility of 
     the Department of Energy engaged in the defense activities of 
     the Department to any individual who is a citizen of a 
     foreign nation unless--
       (1) the Secretary, acting through the Director of 
     Counterintelligence, first completes a security clearance 
     investigation with respect to that individual in a manner at 
     least as comprehensive as the investigation required for the 
     issuance of a security clearance at the level required for 
     such access under the rules and regulations of the 
     Department; or
       (2) a foreign government first completes a security 
     clearance investigation with respect to that individual in a 
     manner that the Secretary of State, pursuant to an 
     international agreement between the United States and that 
     foreign government, determines is equivalent to the 
     investigation required for the issuance of a security 
     clearance at the level required for such access under the 
     rules and regulations of the Department.
       (b) Effect on Current Employees.--The Secretary shall 
     ensure that any individual who, on the date of the enactment 
     of this Act, is a citizen of a foreign nation and an employee 
     of the Department or of a contractor of the Department is not 
     discharged from such employment as a result of this section 
     before the completion of the security clearance investigation 
     of such individual under subsection (a) unless the Director 
     of Counterintelligence determines that such discharge is 
     necessary for the national security of the United States.

     SEC. 3192. ANNUAL REPORT ON SECURITY AND COUNTERINTELLIGENCE 
                   STANDARDS AT NATIONAL LABORATORIES AND OTHER 
                   DEFENSE FACILITIES OF THE DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY.

       (a) Report on Security and Counterintelligence Standards at 
     National Laboratories and Other DOE Defense Facilities.--Not 
     later than March 1 of each year, the Secretary of Energy, 
     acting through the Director of Counterintelligence of the 
     Department of Energy, shall submit a report on the security 
     and counterintelligence standards at the national 
     laboratories, and other facilities of the Department of 
     Energy engaged in the defense activities of the Department, 
     to the following:
       (1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
       (2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.
       (b) Contents of Report.--The report shall be in classified 
     form and shall contain, for each such national laboratory or 
     facility, the following information:
       (1) A description of all security measures that are in 
     place to prevent access by unauthorized individuals to 
     classified information of the national laboratory or 
     facility.
       (2) A certification by the Director of Counterintelligence 
     of the Department of Energy as to whether--
       (A) all security measures are in place to prevent access by 
     unauthorized individuals to classified information of the 
     national laboratory or facility; and
       (B) such security measures comply with Presidential 
     Decision Directives and other applicable Federal requirements 
     relating to the safeguarding and security of classified 
     information.
       (3) For each admission of an individual under section 3190 
     not described in a previous report under this section, the 
     identity of that individual, and whether the background 
     review required by that section determined that information 
     relevant to security exists with respect to that individual.

     SEC. 3193. REPORT ON SECURITY VULNERABILITIES OF NATIONAL 
                   LABORATORY COMPUTERS.

       (a) Report Required.--Not later than March 1 of each year, 
     the National Counterintelligence Policy Board shall prepare a 
     report, in consultation with the Director of 
     Counterintelligence of the Department of Energy, on the 
     security vulnerabilities of the computers of the national 
     laboratories.
       (b) Preparation of Report.--In preparing the report, the 
     National Counterintelligence Policy Board shall establish a 
     so-called ``red team'' of individuals to perform an 
     operational evaluation of the security vulnerabilities of the 
     computers of the national laboratories, including by direct 
     experimentation. Such individuals shall be selected by the 
     National Counterintelligence Policy Board from among 
     employees of the Department of Defense, the National Security 
     Agency, the Central Intelligence Agency, the Federal Bureau 
     of Investigation, and of other agencies, and may be detailed 
     to the National Counterintelligence Policy Board from such 
     agencies without reimbursement and without interruption or 
     loss of civil service status or privilege.
       (c) Submission of Report to Secretary of Energy and to FBI 
     Director.--Not later than March 1 of each year, the report 
     shall be submitted in classified and unclassified form to the 
     Secretary of Energy and the Director of the Federal Bureau of 
     Investigation.
       (d) Forwarding to Congressional Committees.--Not later than 
     30 days after the report is submitted, the Secretary and the 
     Director shall each separately forward that report, with the 
     recommendations in classified and unclassified form of the 
     Secretary or the Director, as applicable, in response to the 
     findings of that report, to the following:
       (1) The Committee on Armed Services and the Select 
     Committee on Intelligence of the Senate.
       (2) The Committee on Armed Services and the Permanent 
     Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of 
     Representatives.

     SEC. 3194. GOVERNMENT ACCESS TO CLASSIFIED INFORMATION ON 
                   DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY DEFENSE-RELATED COMPUTERS.

       (a) Procedures Required.--The Secretary of Energy shall 
     establish procedures to govern access to classified 
     information on DOE defense-related computers. Those 
     procedures shall, at a minimum, provide that each employee of 
     the Department of Energy who requires access to classified 
     information shall be required as a condition of such access 
     to provide to the Secretary written consent which permits 
     access by an authorized investigative agency to any DOE 
     defense-related

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     computer used in the performance of the defense-related 
     duties of such employee during the period of that employee's 
     access to classified information and for a period of three 
     years thereafter.
       (b) Expectation of Privacy in DOE Defense-Related 
     Computers.--Notwithstanding any other provision of law 
     (including any provision of law enacted by the Electronic 
     Communications Privacy Act of 1986), no user of a DOE 
     defense-related computer shall have any expectation of 
     privacy in the use of that computer.
       (c) Definitions.--For purposes of this section:
       (1) The term `DOE defense-related computer'' means a 
     computer of the Department of Energy or a Department of 
     Energy contractor that is used, in whole or in part, for a 
     Department of Energy defense-related activity.
       (2) The term ``computer'' means an electronic, magnetic, 
     optical, electrochemical, or other high-speed data processing 
     device performing logical, arithmetic, or storage functions, 
     and includes any data storage facility or communications 
     facility directly related to, or operating in conjunction 
     with, such device.
       (3) The term ``authorized investigative agency'' means an 
     agency authorized by law or regulation to conduct a 
     counterintelligence investigation or investigations of 
     persons who are proposed for access to classified information 
     to ascertain whether such persons satisfy the criteria for 
     obtaining and retaining access to such information.
       (4) The term ``classified information'' means any 
     information that has been determined pursuant to Executive 
     Order No. 12356 of April 2, 1982, or successor orders, or the 
     Atomic Energy Act of 1954, to require protection against 
     unauthorized disclosure and that is so designated.
       (5) The term ``employee'' includes any person who receives 
     a salary or compensation of any kind from the Department of 
     Energy, is a contractor of the Department of Energy or an 
     employee thereof, is an unpaid consultant of the Department 
     of Energy, or otherwise acts for or on behalf of the 
     Department of Energy.
       (d) Establishment of Procedures.--Not later than 90 days 
     after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 
     Energy shall prescribe such regulations as may be necessary 
     to implement this section.

     SEC. 3195. DEFINITION OF NATIONAL LABORATORY.

       For purposes of this subtitle, the term ``national 
     laboratory'' means any of the following:
       (1) The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, 
     California.
       (2) The Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New 
     Mexico.
       (3) The Sandia National Laboratories, Albuquerque, New 
     Mexico.
       (4) The Oak Ridge National Laboratories, Oak Ridge, 
     Tennessee.

  The CHAIRMAN. Pursuant to House Resolution 200, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Gejdenson) 
each will control 30 minutes.
  The Chair recognizes the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox).
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I am delighted that the amendment that the gentleman from Washington 
(Mr. Dicks) and I are offering today has, like the report of our select 
committee itself, been brought to the floor in a bipartisan fashion, 
endorsed in this case by every Republican and Democratic member of our 
select committee. In addition, the amendment is supported by the 
representatives of the congressional districts in which our national 
weapons laboratories are located: the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Mrs. 
Wilson), the gentleman from Texas (Mr. Thornberry), the gentleman from 
Tennessee (Mr. Wamp) and the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. 
Tauscher). The amendment is also supported by the gentleman from New 
York (Mr. Gilman) and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) of 
the Committees on International Relations and Armed Services as well as 
by the gentleman from California (Mr. Dreier) of the Committee on 
Rules. All of these people have contributed in important ways to 
fashioning the amendment that is before us.
  Last year, this House created the Select Committee on U.S. Security 
and Military/Commercial Concerns With the People's Republic of China to 
investigate efforts by the PRC to acquire American high technology for 
military purposes. It was my privilege to chair that committee and to 
serve with leaders on national security and foreign policy from both 
sides of the aisle, in particular our ranking Democratic member the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), at the time the ranking 
Democratic member also of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence. The vice chairman of our select committee was the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), who was then and is now the chairman 
of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The gentleman from 
Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), who serves as the chairman of the Subcommittee 
on Asia and the Pacific of the Committee on International Relations, 
was also a leader on the select committee, as were the gentleman from 
Utah (Mr. Hansen) and the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt), 
senior members of the Committee on Armed Services, and the gentleman 
from Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon), who on the Committee on Armed Services 
is the chairman of the Subcommittee on Military Research and 
Development. The gentlewoman from California (Ms. Roybal-Allard) and 
the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott) were strong contributors to our 
committee and to the fashioning of this amendment.
  I want to pay tribute to these of my colleagues who are hardworking 
and patriotic members who spent months on a very difficult and grueling 
investigation essentially behind closed doors without any notice by the 
rest of our colleagues. During that period of time we heard 150 hours 
of testimony from 75 different witnesses and reviewed over half a 
million pages of evidentiary material. The amendment that we are 
bringing to the floor today is a start on the implementation of the 38 
recommendations of this select committee. Most of the legislative 
recommendations that our select committee has made fall within the 
jurisdiction of standing committees of the House of Representatives and 
of the other body, and for that reason are not being offered today, 
notwithstanding that we had half a year of hearings on our 
recommendations before reaching them. We are deferring at the request 
of those committees to their jurisdiction, but we hope and expect 
inasmuch as our recommendations were laid at their feet on the 3rd of 
January of this year that very shortly we will be back on the floor 
with the lion's share of the recommendations that our select committee 
has made.
  What we have prepared for consideration today as a start on that 
process is an amendment that will require the Department of Defense to 
prepare the Technology Transfer Control Plans for satellite launches in 
the People's Republic of China, a very significant substantive matter 
into which the select committee inquired. The amendment will also 
require that the Department of Defense have highly trained employees to 
provide round-the-clock monitoring and security for these foreign 
launches that we have thought was always being provided ever since this 
program was adopted a decade ago. The amendment will require improved 
controls over information transmitted to the PRC during the course of 
launches. It will require the President to report on how he is 
implementing a key reform already adopted by the Congress last year, 
the transfer of satellite export control authority from the Commerce 
Department to the State Department.
  Our select committee also recommended an improved intelligence 
community focus on the People's Republic of China's intelligence 
efforts directed against the United States, including reports to the 
Congress on PRC espionage and on technology transfers to the PRC. And 
we have recommended and called for in this amendment a five-agency 
inspectors general counterintelligence review of countermeasures 
against PRC technology acquisition. This amendment directly implements 
a recommendation in that respect of the select committee. Our report 
also calls for stronger multilateral governance of exports of certain 
militarily useful goods and technologies. We found that the United 
States should insist on PRC compliance with the MTCR, the Missile 
Technology Control Regime, and this amendment calls for follow-up on 
that.
  We found that the United States should work to revive the strong 
multilateral proliferation controls that were dismantled in 1994. Our 
amendment responds by requiring the President to submit a full report 
on PRC compliance with the Missile Technology Control Regime, including 
a list of violations, and any remedial actions that he has taken. We 
require the President to work for new binding international controls on 
harmful technology transfers, so that when the United States controls 
an export, as in many cases we

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already do, we do not go it alone and we find that only our producers 
and our workers are injured with no national security benefit because 
someone else is rushing in to make the sale. We had a system just like 
this in 1994. It was allowed to dissipate and we need to show 
international leadership and put that system back together.
  In furtherance of that goal, this amendment creates a new Office of 
Technology Security in the Department of Defense, dedicated exclusively 
to support of these efforts. Our report unanimously concluded that no 
adequate verification exists that high-powered computers, what used to 
be called supercomputers, now high-performance computers, that are 
exported to the PRC are being used for civilian rather than military 
purposes. We have called for the establishment of an open transparent 
system, an effective verification regime in the PRC by September of 
this year as a condition for export licensing and the continued sale of 
the current speeds of computers and even faster ones in the future.

  We have also called for a comprehensive annual assessment of the 
national security implications of such exports. We direct the President 
in this amendment to revise the existing verification agreement with 
the PRC to include real on-site inspections. We have agreed in a 
bilateral with the PRC already in principle that this should occur but 
that bilateral is shot full of holes and we need to make it work. We 
need to have end use verification without notice, on demand, negotiated 
simply as a term of trade, not in any way calling into question the 
national sovereignty of the PRC. And we further require in this 
amendment a comprehensive annual report on the national security 
implications of these exports.
  These are important improvements, but I want to emphasize this 
represents, even after we pass this amendment, unfinished business by 
this Congress. We have much work to do. Some additional hearings 
undoubtedly will be required but most importantly markups and the 
movement of legislation through our standing committees of jurisdiction 
to the floor so that we can do the heavy lifting that is called for in 
the full 38 of our recommendations, some 26 of which are touched upon 
although not implemented in full in the amendment that is before us 
today. In that regard, I am very happy that the gentleman from New York 
(Mr. Gilman) of the Committee on International Relations has assured me 
that his committee will move legislation addressing these 
recommendations in the immediate future.
  Our report found wholesale inexcusable security weaknesses at our 
Nation's national weapons laboratories, among the most sensitive 
national defense sites in our country. Our report recommended a battery 
of urgent reforms, and this amendment comprehensively implements them. 
We establish offices of foreign intelligence and counterintelligence 
within the Energy Department, reporting directly to the Secretary of 
Energy, as well as counterintelligence programs at each national 
laboratory. We require a DOE counterintelligence polygraph program, 
something that should have been in place frankly for a long time. We 
establish a moratorium on foreign visitor programs with a national 
security waiver that the Energy Secretary can issue until such time as 
there is certified and in place a program with adequate security 
measures. We bar access by foreigners to classified areas and 
information at Department of Energy facilities until they have been 
cleared, until the foreign visitors have been cleared for security. And 
we clarify and confirm that the Federal Government has every right, has 
now and in fact always has had every right to search defense-related 
computers throughout the DOE complex.
  In conclusion, this is a balanced response to an urgent problem. It 
is a first of several important steps that we need to take. I want in 
closing to thank again the staff of the committees of jurisdiction that 
have worked with us in bringing this amendment to the floor and the 
staff of our select committee, including in particular our select 
committee staff director Dean McGrath, special counsel Mike Sheehy, the 
policy committee's executive director Ben Cohen and Jonathan Burks, 
Walker Roberts of the Committee on International Relations staff, 
Robert Rangel of the Committee on Armed Services staff, Andrew Hunter 
with the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) and Hugh Brady with the 
gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt). Their hard work has served 
the national interest.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Chairman, I ask unanimous consent that in 
concluding my remarks, my time be handled by the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Lee).
  The CHAIRMAN. Is there objection to the request of the gentleman from 
Connecticut?
  There was no objection.
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may 
consume. We had a select committee, and the select committee issued a 
report. In that report they stated that the appropriate congressional 
committees report legislation. But apparently we have now tried a new 
tack. To prevent opposition for this legislation, a lot of the most 
important provisions apparently have been removed. We now have nine or 
ten reports from the administration. I know we all look forward to 
getting more reports from the administration and that will be helpful 
to all of us. But I am fearful that the entire process is leading to a 
frenzy that will shut down American industry. And if there is anything 
that would harm American national security, it is our leadership in 
these very high tech fields. When we look at where computers come from 
these days, we find that we do not control all the computers. 
Approximately 14 of the top 25 manufacturers of workstations are not 
U.S. companies but foreign competitors. And even in the most powerful 
supercomputers, Hitachi, NEC and Fujitsu manufacture 20 percent of 
them. Now, when we look at what supercomputers are, we find that you 
can buy the next generation of Intel, which will have a 500 megahertz 
system, is what we are used to calling it, but if you put it in MTOPS, 
the same numbers the government uses, you will find that this computer 
which has a board that you can put eight chips in will operate at 
16,000 MTOPS.
  Now, when I first got to Congress, the Defense Department and the 
State Department prevented the sale of American machine tools, because 
our machine tools were so good they did not want the Russians to get 
them. We did that for so long that we no longer were the leader in 
machine tools. And finally when we caught the Russians getting a 
machine tool of the quality they wanted, what they bought was a 
Toshiba. If we are not very careful here, we will do little to increase 
our security as far as theft of American development, scientific and 
defense-related, but we will cripple the industries that give us the 
lead.

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  If we start trying to block the kind of sales that are commercially 
available, countries will not just sit back and say, well, I cannot get 
it in the United States, so I am not going to go to Japan, I am not 
going to go to Taiwan, I am not going to go to Israel and Moscow and 
all the other places these products are available.
  So, while we have this great instinct at the moment to respond to 
what clearly has been a problem, if we do not do it in a comprehensive 
manner, I think we will do more damage to American national security 
than we will to those trying to pilfer our secrets.
  It is clear that what we need to do is rather than simply broaden our 
controls we need to narrow our controls and focus them on choke point 
technologies, fissionable material, the things that make weapons and 
the technologies we can control. If we try to control a product that is 
available in Radio Shack in Beijing, we are kidding ourselves.
  Now in the discussions of having the follow on to COCOM to be a more 
effective force, we have now been through two administrations, and 
COCOM, even when the Soviet Union was at its height, we always had 
problem with our allies selling the technologies we wanted to control. 
With the end of COCOM, we have barely been able to get them to sit down 
in the room to discuss these technologies, but they are certainly not 
restricting the sale.
  So what I see happening here is in an attempt to create the image of 
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we are taking steps that may not be harmful today but certainly are 
not, one, the comprehensive solution that we need in the comprehensive 
review and certainly violate the committee's own statement again where 
the committee stated that the appropriate congressional committees 
should report the legislation.
  That is not a turf fight; that is about people who look at the entire 
issue, balance America's interest, both in security and economic, take 
a look at what is doable rather than simply ad hoc adding section after 
section.
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, will the gentleman yield?
  Mr. GEJDENSON. I yield to the gentleman from Nebraska.
  (Mr. BEREUTER asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. BEREUTER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the distinguished gentleman from 
Connecticut for yielding as this Member needs to start a classified 
briefing with Dr. Perry on his North Korea visit.
  I wanted to say that I understand the gentleman's concern, for 
example, about the potential loss of jurisdiction for the House 
International Relations Committee. I had those jurisdiction concerns 
myself, and still do to some extent, although part of yesterday was 
spent in discussing and negotiating, in effect, on this amendment's 
language with the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and indirectly 
with the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks). Also, I am a member of 
the select committee that has done the work leading to this amendment 
by the gentleman from California, and I thank the gentleman from 
California for his kind remarks.
  Sections 1401 through 1411 are, for the most part, with International 
Relations jurisdiction. We have seen changes in this amendment, but 
also I think it is incumbent on us to recognize that we need to look at 
the language of this amendment very closely, clearly before conference 
is conducted, to see if, in fact, the amendment might have unintended 
consequences that are not visible now. But I also think, as Chairman 
Cox suggested that our International Relations Committee needs to 
conduct oversight, as several other committees do as we proceed to the 
implementation of the recommendations in the Cox Committee's 
recommendations. I do understand the desire of the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cox) to have action on his amendment now, and I think 
he has made great accommodations to our jurisdictional consensus.
  As my colleagues know, the recommendations, the 38, were unanimously 
approved by the Cox select committee. Now comes the difficult task of 
writing appropriate legislation. So I do understand the concerns of the 
distinguished gentleman from Connecticut heard here today relating to 
jurisdiction. I think we on the International Relations Committee ought 
to commit ourselves to trying to move quickly on oversight but also to 
refine the language of this amendment as necessary in the next several 
weeks.
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Reclaiming my time, I just add that, as my colleagues 
know, giving Members of Congress not even 24 hours to see the language 
on amendment of this nature is also problematic. I understand the 
negotiations were going on until the very end, but this is too serious 
to do on an ad hoc basis with a section here and a section there.
  Mr. Chairman, I think if we look at that, at one point televisions 
were American. Next thing we know, they did not make them in America 
virtually. At one point machine tools, we have the leadership in 
manufacturing machine tools; it went to Japan. High tech is easier to 
move, cheaper to move and is available in lots of other countries. We 
are not careful, we are going to kill the American expertise and 
superiority in this area.
  Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 5 minutes to the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks).
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the Cox-Dicks 
amendment. The amendment is bipartisan and represents a good common 
ground that members of both parties can support. Most importantly, it 
will help to solve the important security problems we have at the 
Department of Energy, and before I go any further I want to echo and 
associate myself with the remarks of the gentleman from California who 
served this House in a very successful and distinguished way as 
chairman of the committee, the select committee, and it was about a 
year ago that we started down this road, and he has done an excellent 
job representing the House, and I am proud to associate myself with 
this amendment to start implementing the recommendations of our select 
committee. And I, too, want to compliment the staff, particularly the 
investigative staff who did a principle amount of the work on this very 
important issue.
  I am proud that the House has managed to address this problem in a 
bipartisan fashion. We have had several bumps and long terms along the 
road, but we have arrived in the right place I believe. I commend the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) for working hard to ensure the 
bipartisan agreement was possible. The amendment we have crafted, while 
not perfect, is a good one. I urge members to vote for this amendment 
to help solve the glaring security problems at the Department of 
Energy. Our new Secretary, Bill Richardson, is doing a great job there 
to solve these problems with the help of Ed Curran who is in charge of 
counter intelligence. We can help him, and we should.
  This amendment codifies major portions of Presidential Decision 
Directive 61, PDD 61, to establish strong, independent Office of 
Counter intelligence at DOE with direct access to the Secretary, and I 
might point out in fairness the President had made his decision on this 
directive in February of 1998, four months before our select committee 
was established, and it took awhile to get the recommendations of Mr. 
Curran in place, but Secretary Richardson is doing that with great 
force and vigor.
  This also, this amendment also requires regular polygraphing of 
employees handling sensitive nuclear information, greatly increases 
civil and criminal penalties for mishandling or release of classified 
information, imposes a strong moratorium on foreign visitors to 
national labs until strong security measures are in place, re-enforces 
prohibitions on giving classified information to foreign nationals, 
requires a comprehensive annual report on security and counter 
intelligence at all DOE defense facilities, requires a report and red 
team analysis of DOE computer vulnerabilities including funding for a 
new cyber security program and requires DOE employees to consent to 
searches of their work computers used in DOE defense activity as a 
condition of receiving security clearance.
  Mr. Chairman, these measures are tough but appropriate, and they give 
Energy Secretary Richardson the authority he needs to solve the 
problem. That should be our goal today. Let us stay away from the blame 
game.
  As I mentioned, this amendment is not perfect. It will require some 
further work in conference on a few issues. In particular it was my 
intention that this amendment would not affect the nuclear Navy, and we 
have committed to work on this issue in the context of conference 
committee, and in fact it is my belief that this amendment does not 
reach the nuclear Navy labs.
  We have also agreed to address in conference the concerns that we may 
undermine existing bilateral agreements with China and Russia and 
interfere in launch campaigns with our European allies by requiring the 
Department of Defense to hire security personnel at launch campaigns. 
By the way, this was one of my recommendations, and I hope that we can 
keep it in place. We need to continue to work on it.
  Again I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) for 
working with me on this amendment, and I urge every member to support 
it.
  I think in addressing what my good friend, the gentleman from 
Connecticut (Mr. Gejdenson) has said earlier, it was our intent and our 
hope that each of the committees of Congress that has jurisdiction 
would take action, and of course the defense authorization bill gave us 
a vehicle working with members of the defense committee, the gentleman 
from Missouri (Mr. Skelton), the gentleman from

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South Carolina (Mr. Spratt), the gentleman from Pennsylvania (Mr. 
Weldon) and others who are members of the committee in a bipartisan 
fashion to draft this amendment. So we are trying our very best to live 
up not only to our select committee's recommendation, but also to 
respect the jurisdiction of the House and the committees in the House, 
many of whom were involved in the drafting of this amendment.
  So, again it has been a great pleasure to work with the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Cox) and his staff on drafting this amendment and 
working on the select committee report. I think it was good that in a 
time of upheaval here in the House, during impeachment that we could 
come to a bipartisan agreement on an important national security issue.
  Mr. COX of California. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the 
gentleman from Florida (Mr. Goss), Chairman of the Permanent Select 
Committee on Intelligence and the Vice Chairman of the Select 
Committee.
  (Mr. GOSS asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GOSS. Mr. Chairman, I want to take the opportunity in this debate 
to restate to the whole House and to the whole world the important work 
that was done by the subcommittee of the gentleman from California (Mr. 
Cox). I think it is very fair to say that it was bipartisan, it was 
unanimous, and it was extraordinarily significant, and that just did 
not happen by circumstance.
  I rise in strong support of the bipartisan amendment that we have got 
before us today. Obviously the amendment provides reasonable steps to 
start the process, to carry out some, not all, of the recommendations 
of the Cox committee.
  I want to commend very much publicly the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Cox) and ranking member (Mr. Dicks), other members of the 
committee, for their excellent work, for their very strong leadership 
in what I think is obviously a vital national security matter, and 
anybody who reads the report would have to come to that same 
conclusion. It was a pleasure to be associated with that effort.
  However I speak as Chairman of the Permanent Select Committee on 
Intelligence and Vice Chairman of the Cox Committee on China both today 
because I have tried to serve as a bridge between the two 
organizations. Obviously the intelligence peace is just one part of 
what the Cox committee did, but it is a very important part, and now 
that the Cox report has been released, those committee chairmen with 
jurisdiction over various aspects of our findings on the Cox committee 
can get down to the business and will get down to the business of 
taking legislative and other steps to implement the recommendations in 
the bipartisan undertaking that that committee was. Hence the amendment 
today.
  With this in mind, Mr. Chairman, I have asked that the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence move forward in 6 specific areas. 
First we will examine all manner of Chinese directed espionage against 
the United States. That is no small matter. Second, we will examine 
Chinese directed covert action type activities conducted against the 
United States such as the use of agents of influence and efforts to 
subvert or otherwise manipulate the United States political process, 
something that is near and dear to our hearts and must not be tampered 
with. Third, we will examine counterintelligence programs, past, 
present and proposed, for the Department of Energy, Department of 
Defense, for the national labs, with the emphasis on the adequacy of 
the proposed enhancements and the structural changes meant to manage 
them. Fourth, we will investigate the issue of whether the Permanent 
Select Committee on Intelligence was kept properly advised of 
developments by the FBI and the Department of Energy. This is important 
because there is conflicting testimony, and oversight is a tradition in 
this House, but it is also a responsibility in this House. It is built 
on trust and candor, and we must have that between the branch of 
government. So that is an area that must be cleared up.
  Fifth, we will examine issues relating to the role the intelligence 
community plays in supporting policymakers in determining U.S. export 
and technology transfer policies. Certainly there is an argument that 
can be made that we were a little over zealous in selling things that 
perhaps we should have been more cautious about. That in no way takes 
away from the thought that my friend and colleague from Connecticut has 
expressed that we must have access to the international marketplace. 
Quality of life in this country, jobs in this country, depend on our 
ability to export, but we need to be smart about what we export and 
make sure it is always to our advantage. And finally, we will examine 
the policy of treating advanced counter intelligence investigations 
principally as law enforcement rather than national security matters.

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  We have to determine whether it is more important that a spy end up 
behind bars, even if it takes years of investigation, than for the 
hemorrhaging of the national security data that can be stopped.
  In addition, our FY 2000 intelligence authorization included 
provisions that respond directly to problems raised in the Cox report 
and some of the matters in this amendment. These include new funds for 
such things as red teaming CIA's China analysis, improving CIA 
information security, background investigations, understanding and 
defeating foreign denial and deception techniques which are out there, 
and running more and better offensive operations against hostile 
foreign intelligence services, which we in fact know are conducting 
espionage against the United States of America, its personnel and its 
secrets.
  We provided funds to improve the Department of Energy's 
counterintelligence capabilities, analysis of foreign nuclear programs, 
cyber security and other such matters. We are increasing funds for FBI 
agent training in counterintelligence and DOD acquisition and 
information systems protection. We are funding more linguistic 
capabilities across the intelligence community and many more details we 
are beefing up. It is important we do this because we have let down. 
This amendment helps us. We are in support of it.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield one minute to the gentleman from 
Missouri (Mr. Skelton), the ranking member of the Committee on Armed 
Services.
  Mr. SKELTON. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding time 
to me.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment. It is worthy of 
our support. It is a comprehensive approach put together by experts 
after extensive study. Let me commend the committee that took testimony 
and studied this issue at length. In particular, the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) did 
first class work thereon.
  There is no doubt that this amendment is prepared by a bipartisan 
group, and it is certainly timely, because we recently discovered these 
problems. While it might not be perfect, it is a great start for us to 
move into the conference with the Senate.
  I commend the sponsors and those who worked so hard on this 
amendment. I urge my colleagues to support it. Again, I commend the 
gentleman from California (Mr. Cox), the gentleman from Washington (Mr. 
Dicks), and those members of the committee who put so much effort into 
it.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Virginia (Mr. Scott).
  Mr. SCOTT. Mr. Chairman I rise in support of the amendment. As a 
member of the select committee, I want to congratulate the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) 
for the bipartisan manner in which they handled this very important 
national security matter.
  I would also like to publicly thank my two colleagues for offering 
our committee's recommendations to the defense authorization bill 
before us today. I urge Members of this body to support and accept the 
bipartisan and unanimous findings and recommendations of the committee 
by voting for this amendment.
  This language, the language in the amendment, gives Congress the 
common ground needed to enhance the Nation's intelligence 
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many of the episodes which occurred over the past few years.
  Mr. Chairman, we could take the next few hours taking partisan 
potshots that criticize this agency or that administration or in fact 
any Congress over the last 20 years for not taking any of the perceived 
and real espionage threats seriously. However, I believe that this 
House can contribute much more to our country today and begin to move 
forward by focusing on fixing the problem, rather than casting blame. 
This amendment addresses a number of concerns and offers several steps 
to strengthen this country's national security. This is a strong 
bipartisan constructive effort to solve the national security problems 
that our committee examined over the past year, and I urge my 
colleagues to adopt the amendment.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentlewoman from New 
Mexico (Mrs. Wilson).
  (Mrs. WILSON asked and was given permission to revise and extend her 
remarks.)
  Mrs. WILSON. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment before 
us today, and I wanted to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) 
and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), as well as the gentleman 
from Texas (Mr. Thornberry), the gentlewoman from California (Mrs. 
Tauscher), the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spratt) and their 
staffs for this hard work on this amendment over the last month. This 
is a serious effort by serious people who spent considerable time and 
thought on this problem, and I thank them for their efforts to make our 
laboratories safe from our Nation's adversaries.
  Let me say a word or two about these laboratories. Millions and 
millions of people here and abroad now enjoy personal and political 
freedom because these labs, employing some of the greatest minds in the 
world, have allowed us to defend ourselves against the enemies of 
freedom. The list of Nobel Prize winners from America's national labs 
is staggering. The number of scientific breakthroughs is breathtaking. 
The number of seminal discoveries is unparalleled in any other group of 
institutions in the world. These labs are treasures for science and for 
freedom. It should not surprise us then that these laboratories have 
been the target of systematic, relentless assault by the People's 
Republic of China.
  Over the last few months, through the investigation of the gentleman 
from California (Mr. Cox) and his committee, we have seen the breakdown 
of institutions of government. We have seen one hand of government not 
know what the other hand of government was doing. There were errors and 
omissions and miscommunications and failures of policy and procedure.
  In all of this, one fact remains: With only one exception that we 
know about, the employees of the laboratories remained loyal Americans, 
putting the Nation's interests above their own. That is why this 
amendment is so important. It recognizes that the problem is not the 
people; it is the system, and this amendment addresses the problems in 
the system, across a broad spectrum of activities.
  It directs a review of the organizational structure of our nuclear 
weapons complex; it establishes an office of counterintelligence and 
foreign intelligence within the Department of Energy; it requires each 
lab to have a counterintelligence program; and it establishes a 
counterintelligence polygraph program; it enhances civil and monetary 
penalties; and deals with the issue of foreign visitors in a way that 
protects our national secrets, while allowing our scientists to be 
engaged in a broader scientific community. It also addresses the 
emerging problem of computer security, ensuring there is an annual 
evaluation, an operational evaluation, of national laboratory computer 
systems.
  I want to commend the select committee on its analysis and its 
identification of the serious problem of our failure as a Nation to 
protect our national secrets. This amendment goes a long way toward 
beginning the restoration of that security.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield two minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Mrs. Tauscher).
  Mrs. TAUSCHER. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for yielding me 
time.
  Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Cox-Dicks amendment. 
Working with the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman 
from Washington (Mr. Dicks) and my other colleagues has exemplified the 
bipartisan spirit and cooperation that the nation deserves in 
formulating a sensible response to the security deficiencies at our 
national laboratories.
  The report that the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the 
gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) released last month was startling 
in that it exposed 20 years of systemic failure in our 
counterintelligence operation that spanned several administrations. Our 
intelligence agencies failed to embrace new technologies and our 
counterintelligence units failed to protect our secrets above all else. 
Our gravest error has been the lack of an individual clearly 
responsible for protecting our Nation's secrets.
  This amendment, Mr. Chairman, will take us a long way in solving the 
structural deficiencies in our counterintelligence operation and 
improving security at the laboratories. It establishes a structural 
chain of command with ultimate authority for protecting our secrets 
with the Secretary of Energy and it gives the Secretary the tools to do 
it, such as polygraph examination of scientists with access to the most 
sensitive information and increased financial penalties for employees 
who mishandle classified material.
  We are fortunate that Energy Secretary Richardson has stepped forward 
to assume that responsibility. This legislation provides him with the 
authority and tools he needs to manage the job.
  Mr. Chairman, I urge my colleagues to support this important 
amendment.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from 
Pennsylvania (Mr. Weldon).
  (Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania asked and was given permission to revise 
and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. WELDON of Pennsylvania. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this 
legislation, but I do want to make two points. The first point I want 
to make is I want to congratulate both the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Spence) and the gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) 
because this is not a new issue for the Committee on Armed Services. In 
fact, during the last several years, it has been a tireless effort on 
behalf of both the gentleman from South Carolina (Mr. Spence) and the 
gentleman from Missouri (Mr. Skelton) to address the very concerns that 
were dealt with in great detail by the Cox committee.
  I can remember having debates on this floor about the elimination, 
largely pushed by our government, of COCOM and that process that 
greatly troubled Members on both sides of the aisle. I can remember 
amendments on past defense bills where we focused on the need to deal 
with the proliferation of the exportation of computers and high 
technology. So I want to give appropriate credit to the authorizing 
committee for the leadership role it has played in the past on these 
issues.
  Secondarily, I want to make the statement that this amendment is not 
the end. It is the beginning. This does not solve all of our problems. 
Our problems are not just with the labs. In fact, many of the problems 
at our labs are created by ourselves when in the 1993-94 time frame we 
did away with the color coded classification status and we put a 
moratorium on the FBI background checks. Those were things we did 
ourselves. We should not have done it back then, and now we are trying 
to right that wrong. But this does not solve all of our problems, and 
we must commit ourselves to work on all of the recommendations 
contained in the Cox committee report, which I had the pleasure of 
serving on.
  Mr. Chairman, the bottom line here is that this is not just a problem 
of our laboratories, it is a problem of our export policies, and this 
is not to say that we want to stop our country from exporting abroad. 
It is a case of providing a common sense approach, working with 
American industry, to make sure we are competitive, but that we do not 
open the door for all kinds of technologies to be sold to Tier III 
nations or those nations that our State Department lists as terrorist 
nations.
  As I said when we released the Cox committee report, the basic 
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my mind was the failure of our government to protect the American 
people. I am sure we can blame China or we can blame companies, but, in 
the end, our government has failed us. This takes one step forward to 
try to begin to address those concerns.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Spratt).
  (Mr. SPRATT asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. SPRATT. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of the amendment and I 
salute the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks) for taking the lead in working this amendment 
out.
  This amendment started as a bipartisan effort to address the 
counterintelligence problem at DOE. It included the gentleman from 
Texas (Mr. Thornberry), the gentlewoman from New Mexico (Mrs. Wilson), 
the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), and myself.
  When our amendment was not made in order under the first rule, a 
number of other amendments which really duplicate component parts of 
this were made in order. They are still made in order under this rule, 
which creates a problem. We were principally working as an alternative 
to a moratorium proposed by the gentleman from Kansas (Mr. Ryun) in an 
amendment which will later be brought up which would effectively, in my 
opinion, ban the foreign visitors program at the national laboratories. 
We tried to come up with constructive alternative to that, something 
that would put in this counterintelligence where needed, strengthen 
security, but not abolish the program.
  After the rule was not made in order, the gentleman from California 
(Mr. Cox) joined our effort to come up with a bipartisan compromise, 
and he added provisions to the amendment that relate to export 
controls. We have spent a couple of days trying to iron those out. 
While there are still wrinkles, we have a bill that we think is an 
acceptable piece of work and one we can support.
  I still find problems with it and want to serve notice that we have 
got work to do in conference. For example, just to take as one example, 
section 1407. We direct the President to negotiate an agreement with 
China that will include end use verification of any high performance 
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  I agree with that goal, but I am also realistic. I doubt any 
sovereign nation which has not been defeated in war would agree to end 
use verification without notice. I question the wisdom of legislating 
unattainable objectives.
  Nonetheless, this is better than the original draft. It is a good 
compromise. We still have some work to do in conference. I am 
particularly pleased with section 3109. This addresses the 
controversial issue of foreign visitors to our labs.
  We have crafted a bipartisan provision in the Cox/Dicks amendment 
that will make the necessary security improvements to our labs without 
crippling international programs that are critical to national 
security, Nunn-Lugar, our lab-to-lab programs with the FSU, the former 
Soviet Union, to make sure bomb grade plutonium and uranium will not 
fall into the hands of countries which we do not want to have it, or 
terrorist organizations; training the IAEA inspectors, things like that 
that are constructive, useful, and can only take place at the labs 
because that is where the expertise lies.
  Our provision allows the program to stand but puts new restrictions 
on it. The Ryun amendment in my opinion would require a 2-year 
moratorium that effectively bans the program. We think we have a good 
bipartisan solution here. We recommend the entire amendment.
  We would also say to Members as other amendments come up that this 
amendment really takes care of the Ryun amendment. It is a better 
solution. This amendment makes unnecessary, I would suggest, the 
amendment offered by the gentleman from California (Mr. Hunter) on 
polygraph because we codify the polygraphs requirements the 
administration is now putting in place.
  This also makes unnecessary a number of other amendments because we 
have subsumed them and included them in this particular amendment. It 
is a good amendment. I recommend its adoption.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. Thornberry).
  Mr. THORNBERRY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment. I 
have been part of a group that has worked for several weeks on an 
appropriate, constructive proposal to deal with some of the security 
problems we have found.
  I was concerned, frankly, that some of the ideas floating around here 
were simply a reaction, without thinking and working through the 
implications. I was also concerned that some of them focus on just 
little pieces of the problem without looking at the broader problem.
  I think this amendment is balanced. It does deal with the wide range 
of security problems. It is commonsense, but yet it significantly 
improves the security at our nuclear weapons labs and other places, but 
it also allows important work to continue, work that is in our national 
interest. It does not cut off our nose to spite our face.
  I think the other key point to be made is this is not the complete 
response. I agree completely with what the gentleman from California 
(Chairman Cox) has said, that we have more work to do. The Cox 
committee said, for example, we need to look at whether the Department 
of Energy is even equipped to handle the Department of Energy's nuclear 
weapons complex. GAO has said the same thing. We have got more work to 
do to get to the bottom of the problems which arose here.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 4 minutes to the gentlewoman from 
Hawaii (Mrs. Mink).
  Mrs. MINK of Hawaii. Mr. Chairman, I thank the gentlewoman for 
yielding time to me.
  Mr. Chairman, the task the Select Committee on the People's Republic 
of China was given was to investigate breaches in national security, 
and it was a difficult one. Espionage charges against certain spies or 
foreign agents was expected to emanate from this investigation. A lot 
of the information that was alluded to was put in parenthesis to 
indicate that further investigations were ongoing and that the 
administration did not wish to have all of this information disclosed 
at this time.
  There were a few charges, most of them previously noted, some 
including convictions and many others are still under investigation.
  It described, I think, more importantly the general technique used by 
the People's Republic of China. There was detailed discussion regarding 
theft of certain classified information in the report. It described the 
actions of certain U.S. satellite manufacturers which served to 
transfer technology relevant to nuclear missile development. It 
highlighted the failures of the U.S. security system to protect these 
important nuclear secrets.
  I think that all of these are important disclosures on how these 
breaches of national security occurred. I think the committee needs to 
be applauded for pointing this out and bringing it to the attention of 
the Congress of the United States.
  I rise today, however, to caution my colleagues on the implementation 
of these concerns we have heard articulated today, that we do not 
indirectly or maybe purposefully encourage race-baiting our loyal 
American citizens who are following the law, making important 
contributions in our nuclear labs and in other sensitive areas in 
private industry, making important, notable achievements to our 
scientific knowledge and our database, to our country; and that these 
individuals, if they are Chinese or Asians generally, are not singled 
out for special considerations, for special testing, for security 
investigations, perhaps even having their security clearances pulled 
while ongoing further investigations happen.
  I think it is important for people not to say, we have three volumes 
of reports and it is significant, and rely on the newspaper's account. 
I call to the attention of this body three pages at least, page 91, 
pages 40, 41, and page 2, and commend this Congress to read it.
  Volume I, Page 91 is particularly disconcerting to most of us who are 
concerned about the potential of scapegoating loyal Americans. Page 91

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says, ``The PRC employs various approaches to coop U.S. scientists to 
obtain classified information. These approaches include appealing to 
common ethnic heritage, arranging visits to ancestral homes and 
relatives, paying for trips and travel to the PRC, flattering the 
guest's knowledge and intelligence, holding elaborate banquets to honor 
these guests, and doggedly peppering U.S. scientists with technical 
questions.''
  On page 40, Mr. Chairman, it says ``U.S. scientists who are overseas 
in the PRC are prime targets for approaches by professional and 
nonprofessional PRC organizations who would like to coopt them. Select 
committees have received information about Chinese American scientists 
from the U.S. nuclear design labs being identified in this manner.''
  Page 41 says, ``The number of PRC nationals attending educational 
institutions in the U.S. presents another opportunity for the PRC to 
collect sensitive technology. It is estimated that at any given time, 
there are over 100,000 PRC nationals who are attending U.S. 
universities who have remained in the U.S. after graduating.''
  It goes on further to say, ``The Select Committee judges that the PRC 
is increasingly looking to PRC scholars who remain in the U.S. as 
assets who have developed a network of personal contacts that can be 
helpful to the PRC.''
  I submit that all of this suggestive language enlarges the reach of 
the investigation and interjects doubt and suspicion regarding all of 
the Chinese American citizens who are here who are in fact loyal 
American citizens.
  I caution this Congress to pay attention to the potential harm this 
kind of allegation can bring to this large, loyal segment of our 
American community.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3 minutes to the gentleman from Texas 
(Mr. DeLay), the House majority whip.
  Mr. DeLAY. Mr. Chairman, I rise in support of this amendment brought 
to us by the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks), and I congratulate the two of them for an 
outstanding job and a great service to the American people. Also I 
commend their committee. The American people owe them a great deal of 
praise for the work they have done.
  American national security has been squandered for too long. It is 
time for this Congress to correct that problem. The revelations in the 
Cox report could not be more startling. The People's Republic of China 
orchestrated a multifaceted cabal of spies to methodically steal all of 
America's nuclear secrets. This theft by the Communist Chinese was so 
complete that the bipartisan Committee on National Security has 
concluded that the PRC's nuclear weapons design is now on a par with 
our own.''
  I know the press is trying to sweep this story under the rug. The 
fiasco exposed in the Cox report is being painted as simply another 
innocent and unavoidable blunder where no one is to blame. In other 
words, it is no big deal. But considering the military ambitiousness of 
Red China, there can be no doubt that this is only the tip of the 
iceberg. They are going full steam ahead with their nuclear weapons 
program, and using our technology to build it.
  Because of gross negligence at the White House, future PRC warheads 
aimed at the United States will largely be the product of American 
expertise. Predictably, the Clinton administration is trying to ride 
out this storm, like it always does. The difference is this tempest 
puts our whole Nation at risk. There can be no compromises when the 
security of America is at stake. We have to shore up security and 
counterintelligence failures, and begin a serious battle against 
espionage.
  This amendment does that by establishing new procedures to combat the 
vulnerability of classified technology. It also requires the President 
to submit detailed reports to Congress on security matters concerning 
our arsenals in Red China.
  This amendment is only the beginning. Much more must be done, because 
there are consequences to the President's careless disregard to protect 
classified information, and it is time we tackle that problem. 
Americans can be reassured, and China should know that this issue will 
not fade away. This is just the first step.
  China must not mistake the weakness of our President for the weakness 
of the American people. Congress must be strong where the 
administration has been weak. We need to flex our muscles and let the 
world know that America takes its national security seriously.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from Guam 
(Mr. Underwood).
  (Mr. UNDERWOOD asked and was given permission to revise and extend 
his remarks.)
  Mr. UNDERWOOD. Mr. Chairman, first I want to commend both the 
chairman, the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and the ranking 
member, the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks) on this report, and 
for working diligently on the issues of security presented by the 
recent situation that we face at the Department of Energy. I want to 
particularly thank them for the deliberate nature in which they 
addressed these issues, and also for not politicizing it, unlike some 
people who have come to the floor.
  In times of concern over national security, we must remind ourselves 
that sparing no effort to ensure our national security should not be at 
the expense of our basic beliefs about the civil rights of our people 
as a whole, as members of ethnic groups, and as individuals. In times 
of heightened concern about the national security, it is sometimes all 
too easy to conclude that there may be groups of people among us who 
are contributing to our national insecurity.
  The most tragic example in American history was the treatment of 
Japanese Americans during World War II, but in recent memory we have 
stigmatized Arab Americans, especially in the immediate reaction to the 
Oklahoma bombing.
  Of course, we have many allegations of racial and ethnic profiling in 
many communities around the country. It is vitally important to our 
national security to continue to ensure the security of our military 
secrets, but also our civil rights. We should spare no effort to ensure 
that no one is profiled or stigmatized or asked additional questions or 
given special treatment or subjected to lie detector tests because of 
their ethnic background.
  We must stand firmly for the national security of our military 
knowledge and our military technology, but equally firm for civil 
rights and fair treatment, which marks our society as unique in the 
world.
  I wish to express my concern that Asian-Pacific Americans are not 
placed under a cloud of suspicion, and that all of the procedures being 
suggested today, as I know they have by both the gentleman from 
California (Chairman Cox) and the ranking member, the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks),that every one be examined for any potential 
problems. Let us make sure that all our security concerns really deal 
only with security concerns.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 3\1/2\ minutes to the gentleman from 
New York (Mr. Gilman), the chairman of the Committee on International 
Relations.
  (Mr. GILMAN asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. GILMAN. Mr. Chairman, I thank the chairman for yielding time to 
me.
  Mr. Chairman, I am pleased to rise in strong support of the Cox/Dicks 
amendment, which implements key recommendations of the Select Committee 
on the U.S. National Security amd Military/Commercial Concerns for the 
People's Republic of China.
  I want to thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) for working 
with our Committee on International Relations to modify many of those 
provisions in his amendment that fall within our committee's 
jurisdiction. I am both gratified and saddened by the success of the 
Select Committee.
  The gentleman from California (Mr. Cox), the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks), and their colleagues on the Select Committee, 
including the gentleman from Nebraska (Mr. Bereuter), one of the 
subcommittee members, have provided an outstanding service by exposing 
not only Chinese espionage against the crown jewels of our defense 
establishment, but in bringing to light the failure of the Clinton 
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and in putting trade and commerce ahead of our national security.
  The advances in nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles that China 
will reap from their acquisition of American science and technology 
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  The impact of the loss of these military-related secrets to the 
national interests of our Nation and to peace and stability of Asia, 
though, is incalculable.
  In addition, we must be greatly concerned about the prospects of 
Chinese proliferation of stolen American nuclear and missile secrets to 
rogue regimes and others in the Middle East and in South Asia.
  Beijing's aggressive actions have in fact proven what many have long 
suspected: that the Chinese view our Nation, not as a strategic 
partner, but as a chief strategic obstacle to its own geopolitical 
ambitions.
  The continued assertion by this administration that the United States 
and China are strategic partners is naive and misguided and certainly 
cannot be found in Chinese actions and policies to date.
  Regrettably, the Clinton administration's response to this threat to 
our national interest is at best anemic. The Congress has a great deal 
to do to rectify the problems that have properly been identified by the 
Cox committee.
  This legislative package is the sound first step in addressing those 
problems. Our Committee on International Relations stands committed to 
working with the Committee on Armed Services in fully investigating 
these issues and in implementing the Cox committee's recommendations.
  The Committee on International Relations has already held two 
hearings to hear testimony from the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) 
and the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), and we have already 
acted on one of the select committee's recommendations. That provision 
is included in the measure that we will be taking up next week, H.R. 
973, the Security Assistance Act of 1999. That bill includes a 
provision to impose higher civil and criminal penalties against 
companies which violate our export laws.
  I urge my colleagues to support the amendment and to support the Cox-
Dicks report.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1\1/2\ minutes to the gentlewoman from 
California (Ms. Pelosi).
  Ms. PELOSI. Mr. Chairman, I want to take the occasion of the debate 
on the report, on the Cox-Dicks report, to comment on comments made by 
our colleagues, the gentlewoman from Hawaii (Mrs. Mink) and the 
gentleman from Guam (Mr. Underwood) regarding the issue of sensitivity 
on the issue of our Asian-American community.
  But sensitivity is not really enough of a word. We certainly have to 
be sensitive as we go forward that the FBI in its investigations does 
not look into the background of anyone because of their ethnic 
background or their surname. Certainly they must be sensitive, but we 
have to make certain that one of the casualties of this investigation 
is not the good reputations of the people who have been so important to 
our national security--people from our Asian-American community, with 
their brilliance, with their patriotism, with their dedication.
  I hope that as we go forward with all of these amendments and all of 
the investigations that will continue, that we do not shed a light of 
suspicion on individuals or companies or concerns in America. I happen 
to be blessed in my district with a large Asian-American population, 
mostly Chinese American. Many of those families have been there longer 
than my own. They have been there for many generations. Some have been 
there for only many days. But all of them love America.
  They came here for a reason. We are the freest country in the world, 
and we cannot let this espionage investigation jeopardize that. Our 
country's attitude toward people and their rights cannot be a casualty 
of this investigation. I am particularly concerned, as one who has 
never pulled a punch in criticizing China and its activities in terms 
of human rights, proliferation and trade. I want to say here 
unequivocally that the jeopardizing of our rights in this country would 
be a more destructive consequence than any espionage we can find in 
this investigation.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I reserve the balance of my time.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New 
Jersey (Mr. Menendez).
  (Mr. MENENDEZ asked and was given permission to revise and extend his 
remarks.)
  Mr. MENENDEZ. Mr. Chairman, I intend to support this amendment. But I 
really have real concerns when there are those who would use national 
security to achieve partisan political advantage. However, in their 
zealous effort to make this a partisan political issue, even though it 
goes back 2 decades and even though it includes efforts during 
Republican administrations to have some turn us back to the Stone Age.
  There was an original amendment which would have restricted the 
export of your basic laptop computer to China. That simply is not 
reality.
  We need to proceed as we move on beyond this amendment cautiously 
with this debate. This near faux pax would have been disastrous for 
American industry while having no impact on China. We need to carefully 
consider how to best address our national security while simultaneously 
taking into consideration the reality of today's global marketplace, 
and we need to understand that America does not have a monopoly on 
advanced technology.
  Now, the Subcommittee on International Economic Policy and Trade, of 
which I am the ranking Democrat, has jurisdiction over the Nation's 
export control policies. I am disconcerted that we have not had an 
opportunity to consider the proposals contained in the amendment before 
us in the subcommittee or in the full committee.
  So we look forward to working on those issues in the days ahead. But 
the issues raised in the Cox-Dicks report are not partisan issues. 
Democrats and Republicans are equally concerned about our national 
security.
  So let us proceed with caution and address the issues raised by the 
report in a responsible manner, with the full input of the relevant 
committees, industries, and government agencies. Let us not unfairly 
stigmatize Americans of Asian descent who have contributed to the 
greatness of this country.
  I believe that everyone in this Chamber wants to ensure the national 
security of the United States. But we also have to do it in a way that 
keeps the tip of the iceberg in terms of America's technology away from 
those others who may not have it in the global marketplace, but make 
sure we are competitive in all other respects. No one has a cornerstone 
on national security interest in this Chamber.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 45 seconds to the distinguished 
gentleman from Connecticut (Mr. Gejdenson), the ranking member of the 
Committee on International Relations.
  Mr. GEJDENSON. Mr. Chairman, I have heard some of the debate here. 
Some try to make it seem that this is a Clinton-era problem. It is hard 
to make that argument with problems that date back to 1982. Some of the 
Members who spoke on the floor said, oh, this is just because we lost 
COCOM. COCOM left us. We never lost it. They left us once the Soviet 
Union fell apart.
  We cannot get our allies to agree to fully significant controls. The 
Bush administration could not save it, and the Clinton administration 
could not save it. We have to deal with that reality, or we will take 
actions here that will only injure American dominance in these high-
tech areas.
  Ms. LEE. Mr. Chairman, I yield 45 seconds to the gentleman from 
Washington (Mr. Dicks).
  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, I want to, just as we end this debate, again 
thank the gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) and his staff for the 
cooperation we have had in drafting this amendment. I think this 
amendment will go a long ways to dealing with the security problems at 
our national labs.
  I can tell my colleagues, Secretary Bill Richardson, Ed Curran, one 
of our finest FBI leaders in this country, are committed to finally 
getting this problem cured and resolved. This is the heart and soul of 
this amendment. It is the heart and soul of our report.
  I want to thank all of my colleagues, the gentleman from South 
Carolina (Mr. Spratt), the gentleman from Virginia (Mr. Scott), and the 
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Allard) for their leadership on the committee.
  We had a good team, and the Republicans had a good team. Let us have 
an overwhelming vote for this Cox-Dicks amendment.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cunningham).
  Mr. CUNNINGHAM. Mr. Chairman, I rise in strong support of the Cox-
Dicks amendment. It is one thing to spin that administration to 
administration had problems; it is another thing for the President of 
the United States to know about it, be briefed in 1996, and do nothing. 
That is what in my opinion is criminal.
  Let me give my colleagues a couple of ideas. I encourage all of my 
colleagues to go and get the classified brief. We had an asset, I 
cannot tell my colleagues what it is on the floor. We were building a 
countermeasure for that asset. It would not have worked. We got the 
asset. It not only saved the billion dollars, now we can build it.
  Secondly, we have an asset against our fighter pilots. Ninety percent 
of the time, both in the intercept and in the engagement, our pilots 
die. We have that asset. It also helps us design what we need into the 
joint strike fighter, what we do into the F-22.
  Doing the opposite things gives the Chinese, not only saving billions 
of dollars for a W-88 warhead and our technology, but it allows them to 
be more dangerous in the weapons that they could put at the United 
States. So this Cox-Dicks amendment is very very important. It is a 
good first step.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield 1 minute to the gentleman from San 
Diego, California (Mr. Hunter).
  Mr. HUNTER. Mr. Chairman, I want to thank the two authors of the 
report along with all the committee members who participated in it.
  This amendment is very strong in a couple of ways. It gives at least 
a temporary review to the Department of Defense for militarily critical 
technology that could be sent to potential adversaries. That is a very 
important thing.
  It also tries to reinstate a structure, a multilateral structure 
where we can persuade our friends, other nations, our allies to join 
with us in restricting militarily critical technology from going to 
potential enemies.
  Now, let me just say there is unfinished business in this report and 
in this amendment. After this thing passes, we will still have 
supercomputers going to China where we have no end use verification. We 
will still be sending American satellites to China for launch by their 
Long March rockets which also is a mainstay of their nuclear and 
strategic assets.
  We will still, after a fairly short moratorium, be allowing visits to 
the 65 scientists who came from Algeria, Cuba, Libya, Iran, and Iraq 
into our national weapons labs.
  There is unfinished business. I look forward to voting for this 
amendment and moving ahead to complete the job.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, may I inquire how much time remains on each 
side?
  The CHAIRMAN. The gentleman from California (Mr. Cox) has 1 minute 
remaining and the right to close.
  Mr. COX. Mr. Chairman, I yield myself such time as I may consume.
  I would like, as essentially all of the other speakers have done thus 
far, once again to thank the gentleman from Washington (Mr. Dicks), the 
ranking member on the select committee, and thank all of the chairmen 
and ranking members of the committees of jurisdiction who have worked 
with us on this amendment.
  This amendment does not cover many of the important topics of our 
recommendations. Some of the debate here has focused on export controls 
on computers. There is nothing about export controls on computers in 
this amendment.
  It is also important to recognize that hard work remains ahead for 
our standing committees. I think that the ranking member and I will be 
testifying before several of them to move this legislation along.
  Lastly, some mention has been made on the floor about racial and 
ethnic profiling by the Communist Party of China. The CCP ethnic and 
racial profiling that is detailed in our report is a significant 
distinction between the Communist Party and America.
  In this country, the liberty and dignity of the individual are 
paramount. We do not think of people as members of groups or 
essentially tools of the State. That is why what we are investing in 
our armed services, in our intelligence community, and our national 
laboratories is so important. It is for the pursuit of freedom, not 
just for Americans, but for people around the world. That is ultimately 
the purpose to which this amendment is directed. I urge my colleagues 
to support it.
  Ms. ROYBAL-ALLARD. Mr. Chairman, as a member of the Select Committee 
on China, I rise in support of the Dicks/Cox amendment to the 
Department of Defense Authorization bill.
  Chairman Cox and Ranking Member Norm Dicks have crafted a 
responsible, bi-partisan amendment that addresses many of the problems 
the Select Committee found during its six month investigation.
  This amendment implements most of the President's recommendations for 
tightening security at our national labs, including establishing an 
independent Office of Counterintelligence at the Department of Energy 
with direct line to the Secretary of Energy. It requires polygraphing 
of all Department of Energy lab employees who have access to sensitive 
nuclear information, and increases the civil and criminal penalties for 
mishandling of classified information. The amendment also tightens the 
security of the computer system at the national labs.
  In addition, the amendment places a temporary moratorium on foreign 
visitors from sensitive countries to our national labs until these 
strong security and counter-intelligence measures are in place. It also 
requires, the Department of Energy to submit a comprehensive annual 
report to Congress on security and counterintelligence at all DOE 
defense facilities to ensure that these measures are indeed protecting 
our national security.
  In the area of technology exports, the amendment implements many of 
the Select Committee's recommendations, including requiring a 
comprehensive report on the adequacy of current export controls in 
preventing the loss of militarily significant technology to China. It 
also requires a report on the effect of High Performance Computers sold 
to China, and requires that the President negotiate with China to 
ensure that the computers we export to them are used for their stated 
purpose.
  Another area that the committee investigated was the adequacy of U.S. 
policies regarding security at Chinese satellite launch sides. 
Unfortunately, what we found was that there are numerous problems with 
the security personnel hired by U.S. satellite companies. These 
include, guards sleeping on the job, an insufficient number of security 
personnel at launch site, and guards reporting to work under the 
influence of alcohol. The committee also found numerous deficiencies in 
the Defense Department's monitoring an oversight of satellite launches 
in China.
  Therefore, I am pleased that the Dicks/Cox amendment includes 
provisions to address these problems, such as mandating new minimum 
standards for security guards on satellite launch campaigns, requiring 
the Department of Defense to develop technology transfer control plans 
and requiring that the Department of Defense contract the guard force 
for security at the launch sites. Finally, the amendment ensures that 
the Defense Department monitors assigned to foreign launches have the 
adequate training and support to properly execute their jobs.
   In closing, I'd like to echo the statements of my colleagues on the 
Select Committee. Many of the findings contained in the Cox Committee 
report are indeed grave. This responsible amendment is an important 
first step towards addressing these findings and ensuring that our 
national security is protected. For that reason, I hope my colleagues 
in Congress will vote in favor of this important, bipartisan amendment.

                              {time}  1500

  The CHAIRMAN. All time has expired.
  The question is on the amendment offered by the gentleman from 
California (Mr. Cox).
  The question was taken; and the Chairman announced that the ayes 
appeared to have it.


                             Recorded Vote

  Mr. DICKS. Mr. Chairman, I demand a recorded vote.

[[Page H3964]]

  A recorded vote was ordered.
  The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--ayes 428, 
noes 0, not voting 6, as follows:

                             [Roll No. 180]

                               AYES--428

     Abercrombie
     Ackerman
     Aderholt
     Allen
     Andrews
     Archer
     Armey
     Bachus
     Baird
     Baker
     Baldacci
     Baldwin
     Ballenger
     Barcia
     Barr
     Barrett (NE)
     Barrett (WI)
     Bartlett
     Barton
     Bass
     Bateman
     Becerra
     Bentsen
     Bereuter
     Berkley
     Berman
     Berry
     Biggert
     Bilbray
     Bilirakis
     Bishop
     Blagojevich
     Bliley
     Blumenauer
     Blunt
     Boehlert
     Boehner
     Bonilla
     Bonior
     Bono
     Borski
     Boswell
     Boucher
     Boyd
     Brady (PA)
     Brady (TX)
     Brown (FL)
     Brown (OH)
     Bryant
     Burr
     Burton
     Buyer
     Callahan
     Calvert
     Camp
     Campbell
     Canady
     Cannon
     Capps
     Capuano
     Cardin
     Carson
     Castle
     Chabot
     Chambliss
     Chenoweth
     Clay
     Clayton
     Clement
     Clyburn
     Coble
     Coburn
     Collins
     Combest
     Condit
     Conyers
     Cook
     Cooksey
     Costello
     Cox
     Coyne
     Cramer
     Crane
     Crowley
     Cubin
     Cummings
     Cunningham
     Danner
     Davis (FL)
     Davis (IL)
     Davis (VA)
     Deal
     DeFazio
     DeGette
     Delahunt
     DeLauro
     DeLay
     DeMint
     Deutsch
     Diaz-Balart
     Dickey
     Dicks
     Dingell
     Dixon
     Doggett
     Dooley
     Doolittle
     Doyle
     Dreier
     Duncan
     Dunn
     Edwards
     Ehlers
     Ehrlich
     Emerson
     Engel
     English
     Eshoo
     Etheridge
     Evans
     Everett
     Ewing
     Farr
     Fattah
     Filner
     Fletcher
     Foley
     Forbes
     Ford
     Fossella
     Fowler
     Frank (MA)
     Franks (NJ)
     Frelinghuysen
     Frost
     Gallegly
     Ganske
     Gejdenson
     Gekas
     Gephardt
     Gibbons
     Gilchrest
     Gillmor
     Gilman
     Gonzalez
     Goode
     Goodlatte
     Goodling
     Gordon
     Goss
     Graham
     Granger
     Green (TX)
     Green (WI)
     Greenwood
     Gutierrez
     Gutknecht
     Hall (OH)
     Hall (TX)
     Hansen
     Hastings (FL)
     Hastings (WA)
     Hayes
     Hayworth
     Hefley
     Herger
     Hill (IN)
     Hill (MT)
     Hilleary
     Hilliard
     Hinojosa
     Hobson
     Hoeffel
     Hoekstra
     Holden
     Holt
     Hooley
     Horn
     Hostettler
     Houghton
     Hoyer
     Hulshof
     Hunter
     Hutchinson
     Hyde
     Inslee
     Isakson
     Istook
     Jackson (IL)
     Jackson-Lee (TX)
     Jefferson
     Jenkins
     John
     Johnson (CT)
     Johnson, E. B.
     Johnson, Sam
     Jones (NC)
     Jones (OH)
     Kanjorski
     Kaptur
     Kasich
     Kelly
     Kennedy
     Kildee
     Kilpatrick
     Kind (WI)
     King (NY)
     Kingston
     Kleczka
     Klink
     Knollenberg
     Kolbe
     Kucinich
     Kuykendall
     LaFalce
     LaHood
     Lampson
     Lantos
     Largent
     Larson
     Latham
     LaTourette
     Lazio
     Leach
     Lee
     Levin
     Lewis (CA)
     Lewis (GA)
     Lewis (KY)
     Linder
     Lipinski
     LoBiondo
     Lofgren
     Lowey
     Lucas (KY)
     Maloney (CT)
     Maloney (NY)
     Manzullo
     Markey
     Martinez
     Mascara
     Matsui
     McCarthy (MO)
     McCarthy (NY)
     McCollum
     McCrery
     McDermott
     McGovern
     McInnis
     McIntosh
     McIntyre
     McKeon
     McKinney
     McNulty
     Meehan
     Meek (FL)
     Meeks (NY)
     Menendez
     Metcalf
     Mica
     Millender-McDonald
     Miller (FL)
     Miller, Gary
     Miller, George
     Minge
     Mink
     Moakley
     Mollohan
     Moore
     Moran (KS)
     Moran (VA)
     Morella
     Murtha
     Myrick
     Nadler
     Napolitano
     Neal
     Nethercutt
     Ney
     Northup
     Norwood
     Nussle
     Oberstar
     Obey
     Olver
     Ortiz
     Ose
     Owens
     Oxley
     Packard
     Pallone
     Pascrell
     Pastor
     Paul
     Payne
     Pease
     Pelosi
     Peterson (MN)
     Peterson (PA)
     Petri
     Phelps
     Pickering
     Pickett
     Pitts
     Pombo
     Pomeroy
     Porter
     Portman
     Price (NC)
     Pryce (OH)
     Quinn
     Radanovich
     Rahall
     Ramstad
     Rangel
     Regula
     Reyes
     Reynolds
     Riley
     Rivers
     Rodriguez
     Roemer
     Rogan
     Rogers
     Rohrabacher
     Ros-Lehtinen
     Rothman
     Roukema
     Roybal-Allard
     Royce
     Rush
     Ryan (WI)
     Ryun (KS)
     Sabo
     Salmon
     Sanchez
     Sanders
     Sandlin
     Sanford
     Sawyer
     Saxton
     Scarborough
     Schaffer
     Schakowsky
     Scott
     Sensenbrenner
     Serrano
     Sessions
     Shadegg
     Shaw
     Shays
     Sherman
     Sherwood
     Shimkus
     Shows
     Shuster
     Simpson
     Sisisky
     Skeen
     Skelton
     Slaughter
     Smith (MI)
     Smith (NJ)
     Smith (TX)
     Smith (WA)
     Snyder
     Souder
     Spence
     Spratt
     Stabenow
     Stark
     Stearns
     Stenholm
     Strickland
     Stump
     Stupak
     Sununu
     Sweeney
     Talent
     Tancredo
     Tanner
     Tauscher
     Tauzin
     Taylor (MS)
     Taylor (NC)
     Terry
     Thomas
     Thompson (CA)
     Thompson (MS)
     Thornberry
     Thune
     Thurman
     Tiahrt
     Tierney
     Toomey
     Towns
     Traficant
     Turner
     Udall (CO)
     Udall (NM)
     Upton
     Velazquez
     Vento
     Visclosky
     Vitter
     Walden
     Walsh
     Wamp
     Watkins
     Watt (NC)
     Watts (OK)
     Waxman
     Weiner
     Weldon (FL)
     Weldon (PA)
     Weller
     Wexler
     Weygand
     Whitfield
     Wicker
     Wilson
     Wise
     Wolf
     Woolsey
     Wu
     Wynn
     Young (AK)
     Young (FL)

                             NOT VOTING--6

     Brown (CA)
     Hinchey
     Lucas (OK)
     Luther
     McHugh
     Waters

                              {time}  1521

  Mr. METCALF changed his vote from ``no'' to ``aye.''
  So the amendment was agreed to.
  The result of the vote was announced as above recorded.
  Mr. SPENCE. Mr. Chairman, I move that the Committee do now rise.
  The motion was agreed to.
  Accordingly, the Committee rose; and the Speaker pro tempore (Mr. 
LaHood) having assumed the chair, Mr. Nethercutt, Chairman of the 
Committee of the Whole House on the State of the Union, reported that 
that Committee, having had under consideration the bill (H.R. 1401) to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal years 2000 and 2001 for military 
activities of the Department of Defense, to prescribe military 
personnel strengths for fiscal years 2000 and 2001, and for other 
purposes, had come to no resolution thereon.

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