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105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1119
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 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.
105th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 1119
_______________________________________________________________________
AN ACT
To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 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.
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 1998''.
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--Other Matters
Sec. 121. Limitation on obligation of funds for the Seawolf Submarine
program.
Sec. 122. Report on annual budget submission regarding the reserve
components.
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.
Sec. 203. Dual-use technology program.
Subtitle B--Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations
Sec. 211. Manufacturing technology program.
Sec. 212. Report on Strategic Environmental Research and Development
Program.
Sec. 213. Tactical unmanned aerial vehicles.
Sec. 214. Revisions to membership of and appointment authority for
National Ocean Research Leadership Council.
Sec. 215. Maintenance and repair of real property at Air Force
installations.
Sec. 216. Expansion of eligibility for Defense Experimental Program to
Stimulate Competitive Research.
Sec. 217. Bioassay testing of veterans exposed to ionizing radiation
during military service.
Sec. 218. Comanche program.
Sec. 219. Land attack standard missile.
Sec. 220. Report on operational field assessments program.
Subtitle C--Ballistic Missile Defense Programs
Sec. 231. Budgetary treatment of amounts requested for procurement for
Ballistic Missile Defense programs.
Sec. 232. Cooperative ballistic missile defense program.
Sec. 233. Deployment dates for core theater missile defense programs
Sec. 234. Annual report on threat posed to the United States by weapons
of mass destruction, ballistic missiles,
and cruise missiles.
Sec. 235. Director of Ballistic Missile Defense Organization.
Sec. 236. Tactical high energy laser program.
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. Refurbishment and installation of air search radar.
Sec. 306. Refurbishment of M1-A1 tanks.
Sec. 307. Procurement and electronic commerce technical assistance
program.
Subtitle B--Military Readiness Issues
Sec. 311. Expansion of scope of quarterly readiness reports.
Sec. 312. Limitation on reallocation of funds within operation and
maintenance appropriations.
Sec. 313. Operation of prepositioned fleet, National Training Center,
Fort Irwin, California.
Sec. 314. Prohibition of implementation of tiered readiness system.
Sec. 315. Reports on transfers from high-priority readiness
appropriations.
Sec. 316. Report on Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff Exercise Program
and Partnership for Peace program.
Sec. 317. Quarterly reports on execution of operation and maintenance
appropriations.
Subtitle C--Civilian Personnel
Sec. 321. Pay practices when overseas teachers transfer to general
schedule positions.
Sec. 322. Use of approved fire-safe accommodations by Government
employees on official business.
Sec. 323. Veterans' preference status for certain veterans who served
on active duty during the Persian Gulf War.
Subtitle D--Depot-Level Activities
Sec. 331. Extension of authority for aviation depots and naval
shipyards to engage in defense-related
production and services.
Sec. 332. Exclusion of certain large maintenance and repair projects
from percentage limitation on contracting
for depot-level maintenance.
Sec. 333. Restrictions on contracts for performance of depot-level
maintenance and repair at certain
facilities.
Sec. 334. Core logistics functions of Department of Defense.
Sec. 335. Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence.
Sec. 336. Personnel reductions, Army depots participating in Army
Workload and Performance System.
Subtitle E--Environmental Provisions
Sec. 341. Revision of membership terms for Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program scientific
advisory board.
Sec. 342. Amendments to authority to enter into agreements with other
agencies in support of environmental
technology certification.
Sec. 343. Authorization to pay negotiated settlement for environmental
cleanup at former Department of Defense
sites in Canada.
Sec. 344. Modifications of authority to store and dispose of nondefense
toxic and hazardous materials.
Sec. 345. Revision of report requirement for Navy program to monitor
ecological effects of organotin.
Sec. 346. Partnerships for investment in innovative environmental
technologies.
Sec. 347. Pilot program to test an alternative technology for
eliminating solid and liquid waste
emissions during ship operations.
Subtitle F--Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities
Sec. 361. Reorganization of laws regarding commissaries and exchanges
and other morale, welfare, and recreation
activities.
Sec. 362. Merchandise and pricing requirements for commissary stores.
Sec. 363. Limitation on noncompetitive procurement of brand-name
commercial items for resale in commissary
stores.
Sec. 364. Transfer of jurisdiction over exchange, commissary, and
morale, welfare, and recreation activities
to Under Secretary of Defense
(Comptroller).
Sec. 365. Public and private partnerships to benefit morale, welfare,
and recreation activities.
Sec. 366. Treatment of certain amounts received by Defense Commissary
Agency.
Sec. 367. Authorized use of appropriated funds for relocation of Navy
Exchange Service Command.
Subtitle G--Other Matters
Sec. 371. Assistance to local educational agencies that benefit
dependents of members of the Armed Forces
and Department of Defense civilian
employees.
Sec. 372. Continuation of Operation Mongoose.
Sec. 373. Inclusion of Air Force depot maintenance as operation and
maintenance budget activity group.
Sec. 374. Programs to commemorate 50th anniversary of Marshall Plan and
Korean conflict.
Sec. 375. Prohibition on use of Special Operations Command budget for
base operation support.
Sec. 376. Continuation and expansion of demonstration program to
identify overpayments made to vendors.
Sec. 377. Applicability of Federal printing requirements to Defense
Automated Printing Service.
Sec. 378. Base operations support for military installations on Guam.
TITLE IV--MILITARY PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATIONS
Subtitle A--Active Forces
Sec. 401. End strengths for active forces.
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 members in certain grades authorized to
serve on active duty in support of the
reserves.
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. Limitation on number of general and flag officers who may
serve in positions outside their own
service.
Sec. 502. Exclusion of certain retired officers from limitation on
period of recall to active duty.
Sec. 503. Clarification of officers eligible for consideration by
selection boards.
Sec. 504. Authority to defer mandatory retirement for age of officers
serving as chaplains.
Subtitle B--Reserve Component Matters
Sec. 511. Individual Ready Reserve activation authority.
Sec. 512. Termination of Mobilization Income Insurance Program.
Sec. 513. Correction of inequities in medical and dental care and death
and disability benefits for reserve members
who incur or aggravate an illness in the
line of duty.
Sec. 514. Time-in-grade requirements for reserve commissioned officers
retired during force drawdown period.
Sec. 515. Authority to permit non-unit assigned officers to be
considered by vacancy promotion board to
general officer grades.
Sec. 516. Grade requirement for officers eligible to serve on
involuntary separation boards.
Sec. 517. Limitation on use of Air Force Reserve AGR personnel for Air
Force base security functions.
Subtitle C--Military Technicians
Sec. 521. Authority to retain on the reserve active-status list until
age 60 military technicians in the grade of
brigadier general.
Sec. 522. Military technicians (dual status).
Sec. 523. Non-dual status military technicians.
Sec. 524. Report of feasibility and desirability of conversion of AGR
personnel to military technicians (dual-
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