SUMMARY AS OF:
10/6/2000--Introduced.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
- Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations
- Title I: Procurement
- Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
- Subtitle B: Army Programs
- Subtitle C: Navy Programs
- Subtitle D: Air Force Programs
- Subtitle E: Joint Programs
- Subtitle F: Chemical Demilitarization
- Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation
- Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
- Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations
- Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense
- Subtitle D: High Energy Laser Programs
- Subtitle E: Other Matters
- Title III: Operation and Maintenance
- Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations
- Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions
- Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities
- Subtitle D: Department of Defense Industrial Facilities
- Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources
- Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education
- Subtitle G: military Readiness Issues
- Subtitle H: Other Matters
- Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations
- Subtitle A: Active Forces
- Subtitle B: Reserve Forces
- Subtitle C: Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths
- Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations
- Title V: Military Personnel Policy
- Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy
- Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy
- Subtitle C: Education and Training
- Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations
- Subtitle E: Military Justice and Legal Assistance Matters
- Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Recruiting
- Subtitle G: Other Matters
- Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits
- Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances
- Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays
- Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances
- Subtitle D: Retirement and Survivor Benefit Matters
- Subtitle E: Other Matters
- Title VII: Health Care Provisions
- Subtitle A: Health Care Services
- Subtitle B: Senior health Care
- Subtitle C: TRICARE Program
- Subtitle D: Demonstration Projects
- Subtitle E: Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans Affairs
- Subtitle F: Other Matters
- Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related
Matters
- Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and
Limitations
- Subtitle B: Information Technology
- Subtitle C: Other Acquisition-Related Matters
- Subtitle D: Studies and Reports
- Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management
- Subtitle A: Duties and Functions of Department of Defense Officers
- Subtitle B: Department of Defense Organizations
- Subtitle C: Information Security
- Subtitle D: Reports
- Subtitle E: Other Matters
- Title X: General Provisions
- Subtitle A: Financial Matters
- Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards
- Subtitle C: Counter- Drug Activities
- Subtitle D: Counterterrorism and Domestic Preparedness
- Subtitle E: Strategic Forces
- Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements
- Subtitle G: Government Information Security Reform
- Subtitle H: Security Matters
- Subtitle I: Other Matters
- Title XI: Department of defense Civilian Personnel
- Subtitle A: Civilian Personnel Management Generally
- Subtitle B: demonstration and Pilot Programs
- Subtitle C: Educational Assistance
- Subtitle D: Other Benefits
- Subtitle E: Intelligence Civilian Personnel
- Subtitle F: Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay and Early Retirement
Authority
- Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations
- Subtitle A: Matters Related to Arms control
- Subtitle B: Matters Relating to the Balkans
- Subtitle C: North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States Forces in
Europe
- Subtitle D: Other Matters
- Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former soviet
Union
- Title XIV: Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States From
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack
- Title XV: Navy Activities On the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico
- Title XVI: GI Bill Educational Assistance and Veterans Claims Assistance
- Subtitle A: Veterans Education Benefits
- Subtitle B: Veterans Claims Assistance
- Title XVII: Assistance to Firefighters
- Title XVIII: Impact Aid
- Division B: Military Construction Authorizations
- Title XXI: Army
- Title XXII: Navy
- Title XXIII: Air Force
- Title XXIV: Defense Agencies
- Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program
- Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities
- Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations
- Title XXVIII: General Provisions
- Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing
Changes
- Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration
- Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment
- Subtitle D: Land Conveyances
- Part I: Army Conveyances
- Part II: Navy Conveyances
- Part III: Air Force Conveyances
- Part IV: Other Conveyances
- Subtitle E: Other Matters
- 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
- Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions
- Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations
- Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Management of National Nuclear Security
Administration
- Subtitle E: National Laboratories Partnership Improvement
- Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
- Subtitle G: Other Matters
- Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board
- Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile
- Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves
- Title XXXV: Maritime Administration
- Title XXXVI: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program
- Subtitle A: Establishment of Compensation Program and Compensation Fund
- Subtitle B: Program Administration
- Subtitle C: Treatment, Coordination, and Forfeiture of Compensation and
Benefits
- Subtitle D: Assistance in State Workers' Compensation Proceedings
Floyd D. Spence National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 -
Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I:
Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations -
Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and
Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles,
ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement.
(Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) defense-wide
procurement (earmarking a specified amount for the National Missile Defense
(NMD) program); (2) the Defense Inspector General; and (3) the Defense Health
Program.
Subtitle B: Army Programs - Authorizes the use of multiyear
procurement contracts for the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the UH/60-CH/60
utility helicopters.
(Sec. 112) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995
to increase from 6,000 to 8,500 the number of bunker defeat munitions authorized
to be acquired by the Army.
(Sec. 113) Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army to the defense
and appropriations committees on the process for developing the objective force
in the transformation of the Army. Requires the Secretary of Defense (Secretary)
to report to such committees on such process. Directs the Secretary of the Army
to develop a plan comparing the costs and operational effectiveness of medium
armored vehicles selected for infantry battalions and medium armored vehicles
currently used for such battalions. Requires the Director of Operational Test
and Evaluation of the Department of Defense (DOD) to approve the plan developed
by the Secretary of the Army. Prohibits more than 80 percent of the amount
appropriated for FY 2001 for new medium armored vehicles from being obligated
until 30 days after the Secretary of the Army's report is submitted. Places
funding limits with respect to future-year obligations for the acquisition of
medium armored combat vehicles until certain comparisons and a certification
have been completed.
Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to
procure the aircraft carrier designated CVNX-1, and authorizes such Secretary to
enter into contracts for advance procurement and construction of components for
such carrier (earmarking funds authorized under this title for such purpose).
(Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
to increase the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers that may be procured by
the Navy and to extend through FY 2005 the authority for such multiyear
procurement. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy,
with respect to any such destroyers procured after FY 2001, should achieve the
most economical rate of procurement by procuring three destroyers in each of FY
2002 and 2003 and one in FY 2004. Requires a report from such Secretary to the
defense committees updating information required in a 1993 report on DDG-51
(destroyer) class ships. Requires such update to be transmitted to the
Comptroller General (CG), and requires the CG to review such report and report
review results to the defense committees.
(Sec. 123) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for the Virginia class
submarine program, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts
for the procurement of up to five of such submarines during FY 2003 through
2006. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations
committees on the Navy's fleet of fast attack submarines.
(Sec. 124) Prohibits the Secretary, during FY 2001, from retiring from the
active Navy force any Los Angeles class nuclear powered attack submarine or any
Ohio class nuclear powered ballistic missile submarine until the Secretary
certifies to Congress that the continued safe and militarily effectiveness of
such submarine cannot be assured. Requires a report from the President to
Congress on the required force structure for nuclear powered submarines to
support the national military strategy through 2020.
(Sec. 125) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the construction
of all ADC(X) class ships in one shipyard when determined to be more cost
effective than construction in more than one shipyard.
(Sec. 126) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds, and authorizes the Secretary
of the Navy to contract, for the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul of the
U.S.S. DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER during such fiscal year.
(Sec. 127) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct an analysis of the
potential benefits and risks associated with alternative funding mechanisms for
the procurement of various classes of naval vessels and other naval capabilities
beginning in FY 2002. Requires a report to the defense and appropriations
committees.
(Sec. 128) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 2001, to operate one
squadron of six SH-2G helicopters supporting FFG-7 frigates.
(Sec. 129) Directs the Secretary to require that all V-22 Osprey aircraft be
equipped with state-of-the-art cockpit voice and flight data recorders that meet
National Transportation Safety Board standards.
Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Directs the Secretary to report
annually to the defense committees on the B2 bomber, including its ability to
carry out assigned missions and develop new technologies to meet expanded
threats.
(Sec. 132) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to submit to Congress a
plan to modernize and upgrade the combat capabilities of Air National Guard
F-16A units.
Subtitle E: Joint Programs - Directs the Secretary to provide to
Congress the results of a study of final assembly and checkout alternatives for
Joint Strike Fighter aircraft. Requires the inclusion of cost comparisons of
such alternatives.
Subtitle F: Chemical Demilitarization - Authorizes the Secretary, in
determining technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and
munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, to consider only incineration
or any technologies demonstrated under the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment
on or before May 1, 2000.
(Sec. 152) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the
impact of DOD chemical demilitarization activities on the communities in the
vicinity of chemical weapons storage sites at specified facilities, including
whether Federal economic assistance is needed for any such community.
(Sec. 153) Prohibits funds authorized or available under this Act from being
used to facilitate the disposal at the Anniston Army Depot, Alabama, of any
non-stockpile chemical warfare material that is not stored at such facility.
Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A:
Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for
the armed forces for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E).
Earmarks specified amounts for basic and applied research projects.
Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations -
Directs the Secretary to make the Director of the Ballistic Missile Defense
Organization (BMDO) responsible for program management of the Space-Based
Infrared System Low.
(Sec. 212) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations
committees on the Joint Strike Fighter aircraft program describing the criteria
for exit of such program from the demonstration and validation phase into the
engineering and manufacturing development phase. Prohibits entry into the latter
phase until the Secretary certifies that technical criteria have been met for
exit from the former phase. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified funds
into such program.
(Sec. 213) Directs the Secretary to carry out in FY 2002 a joint field
experiment which explores critical war fighting challenges at the operational
level that will confront the United States joint military forces after 2010.
Provides for joint military participation in such experiment. Requires a report
from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 214) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to conduct, and report to the
defense and appropriations committees on, an assessment of nuclear aircraft
carrier design and production modeling. Earmarks assessment funds from RDT&E
funds.
(Sec. 215) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to pursue a technology
insertion approach for the construction of the DD-21 destroyer on a specified
construction schedule. Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) calling for the
sequential construction of such destroyers until 32 are constructed; and (2)
that the Secretary of the Navy, in providing for the acquisition of such
destroyers, should take into consideration certain needs of the Navy and Marine
Corps for the surface fire support of such destroyers, along with certain
related considerations. Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to submit to the
defense committees a plan for pursuing a technology insertion approach for such
construction; and (2) Defense to report to such committees on the Navy's plan
for the acquisition and maintenance of such destroyers.
(Sec. 216) Prohibits funds for the Russian American Observation Satellites
program from being obligated or expended until 30 days after the Secretary
submits to Congress a plan for protecting U.S. advanced military technology
associated with such program.
(Sec. 217) Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated for the
procurement of an anthrax vaccine until the Secretary has submitted to the
defense and appropriations committees certain information concerning Food and
Drug Administration production approval of such a vaccine, as well as
contingencies associated with continuing to rely on the current manufacturer to
supply such vaccine. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress when the total
obligations for certain requirements under the vaccine program exceed $5
million, as well as a justification for the obligation of funds in excess of
such amount.
(Sec. 218) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations
committees on the acquisition of biological warfare defense vaccines for DOD.
(Sec. 219) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998
to allow a 1.5 percent increase for certain development and production
expenditures for the F-22 aircraft program if the Director of Operational Test
and Evaluation determines the increase is necessary to ensure adequate testing.
Reestablishes separate engineering and manufacturing development and production
cost caps under such program.
(Sec. 220) Provides future-years goals for unmanned, advanced capability
combat aircraft and ground combat vehicles. Directs the Secretary to report to
the defense and appropriations committees on programs to demonstrate such
capabilities undertaken jointly between the Director of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency and any of the Secretaries of the military departments.
Earmarks RDT&E funds for such programs.
(Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary to require and coordinate a concept
demonstration of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned aerial
vehicle. Requires the Secretary to initiate the demonstration no later than
March 1, 2001, and requires the demonstration to be conducted in a counter-drug
surveillance scenario. Requires a report to Congress. Earmarks funds from funds
authorized for defense drug interdiction and counter-drug activities.
(Sec. 222) Earmarks RDT&E funds for the kinetic energy anti-satellite
technology program.
Subtitle C: Ballistic Missile Defense - Earmarks specified RDT&E
funds for the National Missile Defense program.
(Sec. 232) Requires the President to report to Congress on the North Korean
ballistic missile threat to the United States and on steps to reduce our
vulnerability to such threat.
(Sec. 233) Requires the BMDO Director to develop a plan to adapt ballistic
missile defense systems and architectures to counter potential threats to the
United States, U.S. forces deployed outside the United States, and other U.S.
national security interests posed by medium- and intermediate-range ballistic
missiles. Requires the plan to include the use of space-based sensors. Directs
the Secretary to assess such plan and report to the defense committees on
assessment results.
(Sec. 235) Requires the concurrence of the BMDO Director prior to any changes
in the funding plan or technical requirements for the Airborne Laser program.
Requires a report from the Director to the defense and appropriations committees
on the role of the airborne laser in the family of missile defense systems
developed by such Director and the Director of the Joint Theater Air and Missile
Defense Organization.
Subtitle D: High Energy Laser Programs - Earmarks specified RDT&E
funds for high energy laser development. Expresses the sense of Congress that
DOD should establish funding for such programs and that the Secretary should
establish a funding goal that represents 4.5 percent of the total DOD science
and technology budget by FY 2004. Directs the Secretary to designate a senior
civilian official responsible to chair the High Energy Laser Technology Council
called for in a current High Energy Laser master plan and to carry out certain
responsibilities under such programs.
(Sec. 244) Directs the Secretary to: (1) locate the Joint Technology Office
called for in the master plan at an appropriate location; (2) consider,
evaluate, and undertake initiatives to enhance the industrial base to support
military applications of high energy laser technologies and systems; and (3)
consider modernizing the High Energy Laser Test Site Facility at White Sands
Missile Range, New Mexico, so as to enhance DOD's capabilities with respect to
high energy laser weapons.
(Sec. 246) Directs the Secretary and the Administrator for Nuclear Security
of the Department of Energy to enter into a memorandum of agreement to conduct
joint research and development on military applications of high energy lasers.
(Sec. 247) Requires the designated official, above, to submit to the defense
and appropriations committees a high energy laser technology plan.
(Sec. 248) Directs the Secretary to submit to such committees, during each of
2001 through 2003, a report on DOD high energy laser programs.
(Sec. 250) Directs the Secretary to: (1) evaluate the expansion of the high
energy laser management structure for the possible inclusion of science and
technology programs in related areas; and (2) report evaluation results to the
defense and appropriations committees.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - Requires a report from the: (1) Secretary
to the defense and appropriations committees on the mobile offshore base
concept; and (2) Secretary of the Navy to such committees on the potential use
of technologies associated with such concept.
(Sec. 252) Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to: (1) conduct a review of
the long-term challenges and short-term objectives of the Air Force science and
technology programs; (2) establish an integrated product team to identify
high-risk, high-payoff challenges that will provide a long-term focus and
motivation for such programs over the next 20 to 50 years; and (3) establish a
task force to identify short-term technological objectives of such programs.
Requires the CG to report to Congress on such Secretary's review results.
(Sec. 253) Includes within the authority of defense laboratory directors
participating in education partnerships with local educational institutions the
authority to transfer to such institution any laboratory surplus equipment
determined appropriate for use by the partnership.
(Sec. 254) Recognizes the contributions and applauds the commitment of
scientists, officers, researchers, students, and administrators who were
instrumental to oceanographic and scientific research efforts during the period
from before World War II through the end of the Cold War. Supports efforts to
appropriately honor such individuals. Recognizes the continued dedication and
commitment of the Office of Naval Research with regard to such research.
Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of
Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for operation and
maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies
of DOD.
(Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) working capital and
revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home.
(Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National
Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY
2001.
(Sec. 305) Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for analyses by the
joint warfighting capabilities assessment teams of the Joint Requirements
Oversight Council.
Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Establishes in DOD the
Environmental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites.
(Sec. 312) Authorizes military environmental restoration accounts to be used
for the relocation of activities from defense sites at which the Secretary is
responsible for environmental restoration functions. Terminates such authority
at the end of FY 2003. Allows no more than five percent of account funds to be
used for such purpose.
(Sec. 313) Repeals required annual reports of the Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the
Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council to summarize
Board activities in their annual reports.
(Sec. 314) Authorizes the Secretary of Defense or the Army to pay a fine or
penalty of no more than $2 million in settlement of a specified notice of
violation by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with
respect to environmental compliance requirements at Fort Wainwright, Alaska.
(Sec. 315) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to use O&M
funds to pay certain fines and penalties imposed by the EPA or a State in
connection with environmental violations at specified sites.
(Sec. 316) Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a specified account within
the Hazardous Substance Superfund to reimburse the EPA for certain environmental
costs in connection with the former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site in Suffolk,
Virginia.
(Sec. 317) States that nothing in the Environmental Policy Act of 1969 or
regulations implementing such Act shall require the Secretary or the Secretary
of a military department to prepare an environmental impact statement for
low-level flight training as a precondition to the military use of airspace for
such training.
(Sec. 318) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 2001, to continue to
carry out the ship disposal project within the United States (requiring a
project report from such Secretary to the defense and appropriations
committees).
(Sec. 319) Requires DOD's Chief Information Officer to ensure that management
and oversight of the Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information
Management Program is consistent with requirements of the Clinger-Cohen Act of
1996 and other directives and management controls applicable to investment in
information technology and related services. Requires a report from the
Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on the Program, including
recommendations for the future mission and objectives of the Program.
(Sec. 320) Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the defense and
appropriations committees on the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System.
(Sec. 321) Expresses the sense of Congress that every effort should be made
to restore a former defense manufacturing site in Santa Clarita, California, to
productive use through public-private partnerships.
Subtitle C: Commissaries and Nonappropriated Fund Instrumentalities -
Allows the operation of the Defense Commissary Agency and the defense commissary
system (including central product processing facilities) using funds
appropriated for such purpose. (Currently, only nonappropriated funds are
available for such expenses.) Authorizes the adjustment of prices of goods sold
under such system in order to cover transportation costs and the costs of
shrinkage, spoilage, and pilferage.
(Sec. 333) Authorizes the Secretary (currently the Secretary of a military
department after approval by the Secretary) to use commissary goods' surcharges
for the construction, repair, improvement, and maintenance of such stores and
processing facilities, as well as environmental evaluation and construction
costs.
(Sec. 334) Includes newspapers and other periodicals within authorized
commissary merchandise.
(Sec. 335) Repeals a provision requiring a nonappropriated fund
instrumentality, under certain conditions, to be considered the most economical
method of distribution of alcoholic beverages within the commissary system.
(Sec. 336) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the effects of
the use of slot machines on overseas military installations on military morale,
welfare, and recreation, and the personal financial stability of military
personnel.
Subtitle D: Department of Defense Industrial Facilities - Authorizes
the Secretary of the military department concerned (currently, only the
Secretary of Defense) to designate a Center of Industrial and Technical
Excellence and encourage the head of a Center to enter into public-private
partnerships to increase the utilization of such Center and attain specified
Center objectives. Requires the Secretary to report to Congress the need for
loan guarantee authority to establish such partnerships and achieve such
objectives. Authorizes private sector use of excess Center capacity. Authorizes
the acceptance of consideration for use of Center property. Allows, under
limited conditions, the use by private sector partners of Center excess
equipment or facilities. Repeals the general DOD authority to lease excess
depot-level equipment and facilities to outside tenants.
(Sec. 342) Directs the Secretary of the Army to submit annually to Congress
an estimate of necessary funding for operating and maintaining unutilized and
underutilized plant capacity at U.S. arsenals.
(Sec. 343) Directs the Secretary of the Army, during FY 2001 and 2002, to
carry out a demonstration program at each Army manufacturing arsenal aimed at,
among other things, utilizing the existing skilled workforce of such arsenals by
commercial firms, reemploying and retraining such workers, encouraging
commercial firms to use such arsenals for commercial purposes, and increasing
small business opportunities for such arsenals. Authorizes such Secretary to:
(1) enter into appropriate contracts with commercial firms; and (2) guarantee
the repayment of any loan made to a commercial firm to fund the establishment of
a commercial activity at such an arsenal. Allows such Secretary to enter into
agreements with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration, the
Farmers Home Administration, the Rural Development Administration, and other
appropriate agencies of the Department of Agriculture for the guaranteeing of
loans made for activities under this section. Provides loan limits. Requires
such Secretary to: (1) report to Congress each year a loan guarantee is issued
under this section; and (2) report to the defense and appropriations committees
on the demonstration program.
(Sec. 344) Expresses policy with respect to the U.S. armaments industrial
base. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to carry out a program to be known as
the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative which shall, among
other things: (1) encourage commercial firms to use Government-owned,
contractor-operated Army ammunition manufacturing facilities for commercial
purposes; (2) increase the opportunities for small businesses to use such
facilities; (3) maintain an appropriate workforce to meet industrial emergency
requirements for national security purposes; (4) demonstrate innovative business
practices for future defense conversion initiatives; and (5) reduce or eliminate
Government costs of owning such facilities. Directs the Secretary of the Army to
fully utilize facility use contracts, leases, and other appropriate
arrangements. Authorizes such Secretary to: (1) accept consideration for
facility use other than rental payments or revenue generated at such facility;
and (2) carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use
eligible facilities (providing loan limits). Requires the Secretary of Defense
to report to the defense and appropriations committees on procedures and
controls implemented to carry out this section. Repeals the Armament Retooling
and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992.
Subtitle E: Performance of Functions by Private-Sector Sources -
Requires the inclusion in reports to Congress required before the conversion of
a DOD commercial- or industrial-type function to conversion by a private
contractor of information concerning: (1) budgeting for the cost of conversion
analysis; (2) the number of DOD civilian employees whose employment was or will
be terminated or adversely affected by such conversion; (3) the Secretary's
certification that determinations made did not include any predetermined
personnel constraint or limitation; and (4) the estimated economic impact of
such conversion.
(Sec. 352) Requires the Secretary, at least 60 days before any DOD official
enters into a contract for the private sector performance of a workload already
being performed by more than 50 employees at a Center or ammunition plant, to
report to Congress describing the effect that the performance and administration
of the contract will have on the overhead costs of the Center or plant.
(Sec. 353) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress each DOD Strategic
Sourcing Plan of Action (a plan for the consolidation, restructuring, or
reengineering of DOD organizations, functions, or activities) for the following
year. Requires that, if a decision is made to consolidate, restructure, or
reengineer under such a Plan and that activity affects 50 or more DOD personnel,
the Secretary shall report such decision to the defense committees.
(Sec. 354) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for monitoring the
performance of each DOD function that is the subject of a workforce review.
Requires such monitoring to continue for at least five years after the
conversion, reorganization, or reengineering. Requires an annual report to the
defense committees on such monitoring. Directs the Secretary, in preparing the
future-years defense program, to take into account the costs to be incurred and
the savings to be derived from the performance of functions by workforces
selected in workforce reviews.
(Sec. 355) Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from converting to contractor
performance the emergency response functions of any chemical weapons storage
installation that are currently performed by U.S. employees until such Secretary
submits to the defense committees a certification that there will be no lapse of
the capability to perform such functions during the performance transition
period.
(Sec. 356) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to suspend all activities
associated with the reorganization or relocation of the performance of Navy
auditing functions until 180 days after a report to the defense and
appropriations committees setting forth the Navy's plans and justifications for
such reorganization or relocation.
Subtitle F: Defense Dependents Education - Authorizes the Secretary to
allow the dependent of an American Red Cross employee who resides in Puerto Rico
and performs full-time emergency services for military personnel to enroll in a
defense dependents' education program if the Red Cross agrees to reimburse the
Secretary for such expenses.
(Sec. 362) Earmarks DOD O&M funds for educational assistance to local
educational agencies (LEAs) that benefit dependents of military personnel and
DOD civilian employees.
(Sec. 363) Directs the Secretary to make payments for fiscal years after 2001
to each LEA eligible to receive impact aid payments for disabled children under
the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Provides exclusions.
Requires a report from each LEA desiring such a payment to the Secretary
concerning the number of disabled children and educational costs for such
children.
(Sec. 364) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 2001, to make a grant to
assist a LEA to repair and renovate school facilities that serve dependents of
military personnel and DOD civilian employees. Outlines LEA eligibility
requirements, including the presence of at least one impacted school facility (a
facility used by a significant number of such dependents), as well as
eligibility for assistance under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of
1965. Requires the Secretary: (1) to notify eligible LEAs of such assistance;
and (2) in determining grants, to take into consideration certain conditions and
needs at the impacted school facilities of the LEA. Provides grant funding.
Subtitle G: Military Readiness Issues -Requires information measuring
the use of parts, supplies, or equipment from one vehicle, vessel, or aircraft
for another to be included within reports concerning the military readiness
reporting system.
(Sec. 372) Removes certain required information from an annual report on
transfers from high-priority readiness appropriations. Includes combat
enhancement forces and combat communications as covered budget activities for
purposes of inclusion in such reports.
(Sec. 373) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on effects of
worldwide U.S. contingency operations on the readiness of military aircraft and
ground equipment.
(Sec. 374) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a list of requirements
to reduce the backlog in maintenance and repair needs of facilities and
infrastructure under the jurisdiction of DOD or a military department. Requires
such list to be updated annually.
(Sec. 375) Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a new methodology for
ensuring more accurate future years Army O&M requirements. Expresses the
sense of Congress calling for such methodology, and using such methodology in
the preparation of such budget requests for fiscal years after 2001.
(Sec. 376) Directs the CG to review, and report to the defense and
appropriations committees on, the Army's AH-64 aircraft program.
(Sec. 377) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to submit two reports to
Congress on the overall status of the spare and repair parts program for C-5
aircraft.
Subtitle H: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to annually prepare
and submit to the defense committees a report identifying public sales of
military items identified on the U.S. Munitions List and assigned a
demilitarization code of "B" or its equivalent.
(Sec. 382) Requires that, whenever the Secretary of the Army carries out a
disposal (by sale or otherwise) of armor-piercing ammunition or a component of
such ammunition, such Secretary shall include as a disposal condition that the
recipient agree in writing not to sell or transfer such ammunition or component
to any purchaser in the United States other than a law enforcement or other
governmental agency (with an exception for transfers for metal reclamation
only). Provides a special rule for non-piercing components of such ammunition.
(Sec. 383) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to require payments by a
civil air carrier for support provided by the United States at Johnston Atoll
that is either: (1) requested by such carrier; or (2) determined necessary to
accommodate such carrier's use of the Atoll. Requires amounts charged to equal
the total cost of such support. Prohibits landing fees to be charged if support
costs are charged.
(Sec. 384) Authorizes reserve personnel performing annual training duty to
travel in a space-required status on military aircraft.
(Sec. 385) Amends provisions which authorize the Secretary or the Secretary
concerned to contract with private air carriers for the interstate
transportation of passengers or property by transportation category aircraft to:
(1) remove a requirement that contracts for such transportation be for a period
in excess of 31 days; (2) authorize such transportation between a place in the
United States and a place outside the United States; and (3) allow such
transportation between two foreign places by a carrier that has aircraft in the
civil reserve air fleet if such transportation is reasonably available.
(Sec. 386) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to require additional elements in a plan for ensuring
visibility over all in-transit end items and secondary items. Requires the
Secretary to submit to Congress any plan revisions required by any law enacted
after October 17, 1998.
(Sec. 387) Amends the above Act to extend through FY 2010 a pilot program for
the acceptance and use of landing fees charged for the use of domestic military
airfields by civilian aircraft. Extends related report requirements.
(Sec. 388) Amends the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to
extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary to sell certain aircraft
for use in wildfire suppression, and to extend a related report requirement.
(Sec. 389) Direct the Secretary to require the military department
Secretaries to assess: (1) damage caused to military aviation facilities by
alkali silica reactivity; and (2) the availability of technologies capable of
preventing or mitigating such reactivity in hardened concrete structures and
pavements. Authorizes each Secretary to conduct appropriate demonstration
projects, and requires locations selected to represent diverse operating
environments of the armed forces. Requires the assessment and related projects
to be completed by the end of FY 2006. Provides an expenditure limit of $5
million.
(Sec. 390) Directs the Secretary of the Army to carry out a demonstration
project to provide or increase Internet access and services to units and members
of the National Guard and reserves located in rural communities that are
unserved or underserved by the Internet. Requires a report from such Secretary
to Congress.
(Sec. 391) Prohibits the Secretary from granting a Milestone III decision for
the proposed Defense Joint Accounting System until the Secretary submits to the
defense committees an explanatory report concerning the withdrawal of the Air
Force from such System. Requires the Secretary to make a certain certification
to such committees if he determines that the System warrants a Milestone III
decision.
(Sec. 392) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations
committees on the development, testing, fielding, and related aspects of the
Defense Travel System.
(Sec. 393) Requires the CG to: (1) review annual costs incurred by DOD to
comply with requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act; and (2)
report review results to the defense and appropriations committees.
Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active
Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as
of the end of FY 2001.
Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths
as of the end of FY 2001 for members of the Selected Reserve and reserve
personnel on active duty in support of the reserves.
(Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum number of military technicians (dual
status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guard as of the end
of FY 2001.
(Sec. 414) Sets forth the maximum number of military technicians (non-dual
status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end
of FY 2001. Postpones until October 1, 2002, (currently a year earlier) a
provision limiting such number to 1,950.
(Sec. 415) Increases the number of certain officers and senior enlisted
personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Directs
the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a report on management of the
grade structure for such officers and personnel, requiring recommendations for
management of such grade structure without the need for frequent statutory
adjustments to their numerical limits.
Subtitle C: Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths - Authorizes
the Secretary, during a declared period of war or national emergency, to suspend
certain military personnel end strength limitations, including senior enlisted
members on active duty, field grade reserve officers, and senior reserve
enlisted members.
(Sec. 422) Excludes from personnel end strength limitations reserve personnel
serving on active duty for more than 180 but less than 271 days to perform
special work in support of the combatant commands, except that: (1) general and
flag officers may not be excluded; and (2) the number of personnel excluded may
not exceed 0.2 percent of the authorized active-duty end strength limitation.
(Sec. 423) Exempts reserve medical and dental officers from reserve
commissioned officer end strength limitations.
(Sec. 424) Authorizes the Secretary to increase by up to two percent in a
fiscal year the number of reserve personnel serving on active duty or full-time
National Guard duty as field grade officers or senior enlisted members.
Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes
appropriations for FY 2001 for military personnel.
Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: - Officer
Personnel Policy - Allows Army and Air Force Reserve colonels and brigadier
generals to be recommended for position vacancy promotions under regulations
prescribed by the respective Secretary.
(Sec. 502) Amends Coast Guard provisions to direct the Secretary of the
department in which the Coast Guard is operating, before convening a selection
board to recommend Reserve officers for promotion, to establish a promotion zone
for officers serving in each grade to be considered by a selection board.
Requires such Secretary, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve
officers for a promotion to a grade above lieutenant (junior grade), to
determine the maximum number of officers in that grade that the board may
recommend. Authorizes such Secretary, when the needs of the Coast Guard require,
to allow the consideration of officers in a grade above lieutenant (junior
grade) for promotion to the next higher grade from below the promotion zone.
Outlines provisions for determination by such Secretary of the maximum number
that may be recommended for promotion in both of the above categories.
Authorizes such Secretary to use a running mate system during consideration of
Reserve officers in an active status for promotion to the next higher grade.
Allows such running mate system to be used when selecting officers for promotion
from below the promotion zone only when considered appropriate to meet the needs
of the Coast Guard.
(Sec. 503) Provides revised times for the release to the armed force
concerned of the names of active-duty and reserve active-status list officers
recommended for promotion, such times varying within promotion grades. Prohibits
any such list from including any name removed by the President from the report
of a selection board, or the name of any officer whose promotion the Senate
failed to confirm.
(Sec. 504) Requires each member of a promotion selection board to be an
officer on the active-duty list.
(Sec. 505) Authorizes the issuance of posthumous commissions in the case of
members dying before the official recommendation for appointment or promotion is
approved by the Secretary concerned.
(Sec. 507) Requires the Chiefs of the Army and Air Force Reserve, while
serving in such position, to hold the grade of lieutenant general (currently,
major general). Requires the Chief of Naval Reserve to hold the grade of vice
admiral (currently, rear admiral). Allows an officer to be appointed as
Commander, Marine Forces Reserve, in the grade of lieutenant general (usually,
major general) if appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent
of the Senate. Authorizes the waiver of the latter requirement, until October 1,
2003, when necessary for the good of the service. Allows officer to be
reappointed for one additional term of up to four years. Requires National Guard
Bureau Directors to hold the grade of lieutenant general and requires such
Directors to have significant joint duty experience. Authorizes the waiver of
the latter requirement, until October 1, 2003, when necessary for the good of
the service. Allows such Director to be reappointed for one additional four-year
period. Makes a conforming increase in the number of officers that may serve on
active duty in grades above major general or rear admiral. Directs the Secretary
to study and report to the defense committees on the advisability of changing
from major general to lieutenant general the grade authorized for the Vice Chief
of the National Guard Bureau. Requires an appointment or reappointment to a
reserve chief position to be made within 12 months after the enactment of this
Act.
(Sec. 508) Makes ineligible for separation pay a regular or reserve officer
who twice fails for promotion to the next higher grade and is offered, but
declines, the opportunity to continue on active duty until the earliest point of
eligibility for retirement.
Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Exempts from
inclusion on the reserve active-status list reserve officers under a call or
order to active duty for a period of three years or less.
(Sec. 522) Removes an application requirement for the continuation of
officers on the reserve active-status list.
(Sec. 523) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to retain Medical
Service Corps officers in an active status until 67 years of age.
(Sec. 524) Authorizes the continued provision of legal services to reserve
personnel following their release from a period of active duty of 30 days or
more issued under a mobilization authority, but only for up to twice the period
of time served on such duty.
(Sec. 525) States that the involuntary civil service retirement requirement
for Army and Air Force reserve military technicians (dual status) who lose such
status shall not apply until the individual is age 60 or older.
Subtitle C: Education and Training - Entitles to appointment to a
service academy the children of members of the reserves who: (1) are currently
so serving and are credited with at least eight years of service; or (2) would
be, or who died while they would have been, entitled to retired pay except for
not having attained 60 years of age.
(Sec. 532) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in selecting persons from
approved foreign countries to receive instruction at a service academy, to give
a priority to persons who have a national service obligation to their countries
upon academy graduation.
(Sec. 533) Revises provisions concerning the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders
Class program to: (1) make Marine Corps Reserve officers (currently only Marine
Corps Reserve enlisted personnel) eligible for such program; (2) remove certain
age limitations; (3) allow assistance to eligible individuals for the pursuit of
a law degree requiring no more than four (currently three) academic years; and
(4) exclude from creditable service as a Marine Corps officer only that service
performed concurrently as an enlisted member with the program.
(Sec. 534) Directs the Secretary to review and reallocate among the military
departments the number of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units planned
for FY 2001 through 2006. Authorizes the Secretary to propose an increase in the
maximum number of such units.
(Sec. 535) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to permit eligible defense
industry employees to receive instruction at the Naval Postgraduate School in
specified programs relating to defense product development. Defines as eligible
employees those engaged in providing to DOD significant and substantial
defense-related systems, products, or services. Requires such Secretary to
annually certify to the defense committees that providing such instruction will
further the military mission of such school, will enhance DOD's ability to
reduce product or project initial lead times required for operational
capability, and will be done on a space-available basis without requiring
faculty or course or laboratory increases. Requires tuition to be charged to and
paid by such students. Requires a program evaluation and report.
Subtitle D: Decorations, Awards, and Commendations - Limits the award
of the Bronze Star to members who are eligible to receive imminent danger pay at
the time of the events for which such medal is awarded.
(Sec. 542) Directs the Secretary concerned, upon request of a Member of
Congress, to review a proposal for the posthumous or honorary promotion or
appointment of a member or former member of the armed forces, or other qualified
person, that is not otherwise authorized by law. Requires such Secretary to make
a determination with respect to such promotion or appointment and to provide
review and determination results to the defense committees and the requesting
Member.
(Sec. 543) Waives certain time limitations with respect to recommendations
for the award of the: (1) Silver Star to Louis Rickler, for service during World
War I; and (2) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals for service
during World War II or Korea.
(Sec. 544) Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide to the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs certain information pertaining to the remains of unknown
persons that are interred in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific,
Honolulu, Hawaii, and which represent the remains of casualties from the U.S.S.
ARIZONA who died during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941.
Requires the latter Secretary to add such information on the grave markers of
such remains.
(Sec. 545) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the American people
should recognize the lack of culpability of then-Captain Charles B. McVay III in
connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS by a Japanese submarine
in the Philippine Sea during World War II, as well as his lack of culpability
for the tragic loss of the INDIANAPOLIS and the lives of the men who died as a
result of her sinking; (2) Captain McVay's military record should reflect such
exoneration; and (3) the Secretary of the Navy should award a Navy Unit
Commendation to the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS and its final crew.
(Sec. 546) Requests the President to advance the late: (1) Rear Admiral
(retired) Husband E. Kimmel to the grade of admiral on the Navy retired list;
and (2) Major General (retired) Walter C. Short to the grade of lieutenant
general on the Army retired list. Expresses the sense of Congress that both men
performed their respective duties as Commander in Chief, United States Pacific
Fleet, and Commanding General, Hawaiian Department, competently and
professionally during World War II and that losses incurred by the United States
in the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor were not a result of their dereliction of
duty.
(Sec. 547) Commends the bravery and honor of the citizens of Remy, France,
for the burial in their church cemetery and subsequent commemoration of World
War II American fighter pilot Lieutenant Houston Braly during and after August
1944. Recognizes the efforts of the surviving members of the 364th Fighter Group
to raise funds to restore the stained glass windows of such church which were
accidentally destroyed during an attack on a German munitions train.
(Sec. 548) Waives certain time limitations with respect to the award of the
Medal of Honor to William H. Pitsenbarger for acts of valor during the Vietnam
conflict.
Subtitle E: Military Justice and Legal Assistance Matters -Exempts a
military testamentary instrument from State testamentary laws. Accords such
instrument the same legal effect as State testamentary instruments presented for
probate. Outlines requirements for the legal execution of such instruments.
Makes such instrument self-proving upon such execution, signature, and
witnessing. Requires such instrument to include a statement that it meets
applicable testamentary requirements.
(Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary to establish a policy creating a uniform DOD
process that: (1) affords individuals designated as a suspect in criminal
investigative reports or indexed in a central index an opportunity to obtain a
review of such actions. Requires expungement of the name and other identifying
information of such individuals when entry was made contrary to DOD
requirements.
(Sec. 553) Amends the Uniform Code of Military Justice to provide that, in
the case of a sentence of confinement for life without eligibility for parole,
such sentence may not be commuted, remitted, or suspended unless the person has
served at least 20 years.
(Sec. 554) Authorizes civilian special agents of military criminal
investigative services to execute and serve warrants and make arrests in
connection with authorized investigations.
(Sec. 555) Requires verbatim trial records to be kept in each special
court-martial case in which the sentence includes confinement for more than six
months or forfeiture of pay for more than six months.
(Sec. 556) Requires the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the
50th anniversary of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Calls upon DOD, the
armed forces, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to commemorate
the occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities.
Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Directs the Secretary of
the Army, during the period beginning on October 1, 2000, and ending on December
31, 2005, to carry out pilot programs to test various recruiting approaches.
Requires one program to be a program: (1) of public outreach that associates the
Army with motor sports competition; (2) under which Army recruiters are assigned
at postsecondary vocational institutions and community colleges to recruit such
students and graduates; and (3) that expands the scope of the Army's current
recruiting initiatives. Authorizes such Secretary to expand or extend a pilot
program after notification of the defense committees. Requires a report on the
above programs.
(Sec. 562) Directs the Secretary to enhance the effectiveness of DOD
recruitment programs through advertising and market research targeted to
prospective recruits and persons who influence such recruits.
(Sec. 563) Amends Federal provisions requiring access to secondary schools
for military recruiting purposes to provide that if an LEA denies such access,
then the Secretary concerned shall designate a general or flag officer or senior
executive of that armed force to visit such school and seek such access.
Provides that if the LEA continues to deny such access, then the Secretary shall
transmit to the chief executive of such State a notification of such denial and
a request for assistance in obtaining such access. Directs the Secretary, upon
determining that LEA denial of recruiting access extends to at least two of the
armed forces, to notify specified congressional committees and the Senators and
appropriate Representative of the State in which the denial has occurred. Makes
such requirements effective as of July 1, 2002.
(Sec. 564) Directs the Secretary to conduct a three-year pilot program to
determine if cooperation with military recruiters by LEAs and institutions of
higher education could be enhanced by improving the understanding of school
counselors and educators about military recruiting and military career
opportunities. Requires such program to be conducted by means of DOD
participation in a qualifying interactive Internet site. Requires a program
report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Subtitle G: Other
Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993
to extend through December 31, 2001, the authority for certain military force
drawdown transition authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of FY
2001.
(Sec. 572) Allows a member who is simultaneously receiving voluntary
separation incentive payments and retired or retainer pay to elect to terminate
the former payments. Makes such election permanent and irrevocable.
(Sec. 573) Prohibits any change to the Navy policy of limiting submarine
service to males until 30 days after the Secretary notifies Congress of the
proposed change. Provides an identical prohibition with respect to the
reconfiguration of an existing submarine or new submarine design to accommodate
female crew members.
(Sec. 574) Revises generally management and per diem requirements for
military personnel subject to lengthy or numerous deployments.
(Sec. 575) Authorizes members performing funeral honors duty to receive
either the allowance for such duty or the rate of pay for members of the
reserves or National Guard performing inactive-duty training.
(Sec. 576) Directs the Secretary, beginning no later than June 1, 2001, to
conduct a three-year test program of the ability of reserve intelligence units
and personnel to meet current and emerging defense intelligence needs. Directs
the Secretary to establish an oversight panel to structure the program. Requires
program interim reports, and a final report, from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 577) Makes the Secretary (currently, acting through the Chief of the
National Guard Bureau) solely responsible for administering the National Guard
Challenge Program. Removes the $62.5 million annual Federal expenditure cap with
respect to such Program. Allows the Secretary to use for such Program other
nondefense funds made available or transferred by other Federal agencies.
Requires the Secretary to prescribe specified Program regulations.
(Sec. 578) Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the defense
committees on, the feasibility and cost, as well as advantages and
disadvantages, of using civilian contractor personnel as pilots and other crew
members to fly non-military Government aircraft to perform non-combat personnel
transportation missions worldwide.
(Sec. 579) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member for
travel and related expenses incurred as a result of the cancellation of
previously approved leave when the leave is canceled in connection with
participation in a contingency operation and such cancellation occurs within 48
hours of the time it was to have commenced.
Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A:
Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2001 pay increases tied to increases in
the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 3.7
percent, effective January 1, 2001, the rates of basic pay for military
personnel.
(Sec. 602) Increases, effective July 1, 2001, the basic pay amounts for
enlisted personnel in grades E-5 through E-7. Authorizes the Secretary, or the
Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to further increase
such amounts or increase amounts authorized for other enlisted personnel
(requiring such Secretary to justify such increases as part of the annual budget
justification submitted to Congress).
(Sec. 603) Provides a revised method for the annual calculation of the basic
allowance for subsistence (BAS) based upon the percentage increase in the
monthly cost of a liberal food plan for a U.S. male between the ages of 20 and
50, as determined by the Secretary of Agriculture.
(Sec. 604) Directs the Secretary concerned to increase to up to $500 monthly
the BAS for low-income (as defined under the Food Stamp Act of 1977) military
personnel and their dependents. Terminates such increase upon the occurrence of
any of the following: (1) payment of such allowance for 12 consecutive months;
(2) promotion to a higher grade; or (3) transfer to a permanent change of
station. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on the number of
personnel receiving such additional allowance. Terminates such allowance on
September 30, 2006.
(Sec. 605) Directs the Secretary to prescribe the monthly rate of the basic
allowance for housing (BAH) inside the United States based upon the cost of
adequate housing in the local area. Revises the calculation for the minimum
amount of BAH available in a fiscal year. Authorizes the payment of a BAH for
members with dependents who are unable to accompany such members to their new
duty station.
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to
increase from six to eight years the BAH transition period for management of the
BAH growth rate.
(Sec. 606) Earmarks $30 million from authorized military personnel funds to
increase the total available for BAH inside the United States.
(Sec. 607) Prohibits the Secretary, after June 30, 2001, in determining what
constitutes adequate housing for members, from differentiating between members
with dependents in pay grades E1 through E4. Directs the Secretary, after such
date, to establish a single monthly rate for all such members in the same
military housing area, based on average area costs.
(Sec. 608) Authorizes the payment of BAH for members without dependents in
pay grade E-4 (currently only E-5) who are on sea duty.
(Sec. 609) Authorizes the payment of a personal money allowance of $2,000
yearly for senior enlisted members serving in Sergeant Major, Master Chief Petty
Officer, or Chief Master Sergeant positions.
(Sec. 610) Increases the initial and annual allowance for officers for the
purchase of required uniforms and equipment.
(Sec. 611) Authorizes the Secretary (currently, the President) and the
Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating
as a service in the Navy to prescribe requirements and allowances for clothing
for enlisted personnel.
(Sec. 612) Increases the monthly subsistence allowance for members
participating in precommissioning programs.
Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through
2001 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2000 with
respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve
armed forces.
(Sec. 624) Allows a person who enlists for a period of at least two years to
be paid an enlistment bonus of up to $20,000. Requires pro rata bonus repayment
for unserved periods. Allows such bonus only for enlistments occurring by
December 31, 2001.
(Sec. 625) Includes as eligible activities for the payment of special pay
currently provided for reserve medical and dental officers active duty for
training, annual training, or special work.
(Sec. 626) Eliminates a required congressional notification before the
payment of retention special pay for optometrists and officers in nursing
specialties.
(Sec. 627) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard physician assistants.
(Sec. 628) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay special pay to an
officer who is: (1) a pharmacy officer in the Medical Service Corps of the Army
or Navy or the Biomedical Sciences Corps of the Air Force; and (2) on active
duty under a call or order for a period of at least one year. Authorizes similar
payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to such
officers in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. Prohibits
such payments for pay grades above O-6. Provides varying rates of such special
pay based on creditable years of service and whether or not the officer is
undergoing pharmacy internship training.
Authorizes the payment of an accession bonus to individuals graduating from
an accredited pharmacy school who, between the enactment of this Act and
September 30, 2004, execute a written agreement to accept a commission as an
officer and to remain on active duty for at least four years. Limits such bonus
to $30,000. Requires pro rata repayment for unserved periods.
(Sec. 630) Entitles a member on sea duty to career sea pay at a monthly rate
prescribed by the Secretary concerned, but not to exceed $750. (Currently, such
rates vary depending on the length of such duty, with a high-end limit of $520.)
Authorizes a pay premium of up to $350 for every month served after 36
consecutive months.
(Sec. 631) Increases the monthly rate of special duty assignment pay for
enlisted Guard and reserve personnel who are not on active duty at the time of
the special duty assignment.
(Sec. 632) Entitles Guard or reserve personnel not on active duty who perform
special duty to special duty assignment pay in the amount of one day of pay for
each drill period in which the member participates in each month.
(Sec. 633) Authorizes payment of a retention bonus for officers or enlisted
members serving on active duty who are qualified in a designated critical
military skill if such officer or member agrees to either remain on such duty or
extend such enlistment for at least one year. Requires the Secretary and the
Secretary of Transportation (with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating
under the Navy) to: (1) designate qualifying critical skills; and (2) notify
Congress of each designation at least 90 days in advance of any payment.
Prohibits: (1) any officer or member from receiving a total of more than
$200,000 in such bonus payments; and (2) such payments for members who have or
are about to complete 25 years of active duty. Requires pro rata bonus repayment
for unserved periods. Requires annual reports by each Secretary analyzing such
program. Terminates such authority on December 31, 2001.
(Sec. 634) Entitles Public Health Service Regular or Reserve Corps health
officers to the same special pay as health professions officers of the armed
forces.
Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the
advance payment of temporary lodging expenses incurred by a member and his or
her dependents while making a permanent change in duty stations. Allowance such
payments for up to ten days. Revises generally provisions concerning the per
diem for members on duty outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska.
(Sec. 642) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reimburse a member for
mandatory pet quarantine fees for household pets, with a limit of $275 per
change of station.
(Sec. 643) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to a member a share of
the savings resulting from less-than-average shipping and storage costs of the
member's baggage and household effects in connection with a change of duty
station.
(Sec. 644) Prohibits the Secretary concerned from differentiating between
members in pay grades E1 through E5 in the payment of dislocation allowances.
(Sec. 645) Authorizes the Secretary, after October 1, 2001, to reimburse a
member for parking expenses incurred for a private vehicle being used to commute
to a duty station to perform recruiting activities, duty with a military
entrance processing facility, or instructional or administrative duties at an
institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is
maintained.
(Sec. 646) Allows the payment of certain travel and transportation expenses
of military dependents of overseas personnel when such dependents are engaged in
obtaining a formal education (currently, only a secondary or undergraduate
college education) (thereby allowing graduate or vocational educational programs
to be included).
Subtitle D: Retirement and Survivor Benefit Matters - Provides an
exception to the high-36 month retired pay computation for: (1) enlisted
personnel who are reduced in grade; or (2) officer personnel who do not serve
satisfactorily in the highest grade held. States that such retired pay base
shall be determined as if the member first became a member before September 8,
1980.
(Sec. 652) Increases, for the year of enactment of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 and subsequent years, the number of
retirement points that may be credited for purposes of the retirement
computation for members of the reserves.
(Sec. 653) Outlines procedures for retirement from active reserve service
which is performed after retirement from the regular armed forces.
(Sec. 654) Repeals a provision suspending the payment of military retired pay
while an individual serves as a Federal judge.
(Sec. 655) Amends the reserve component Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) to
require spousal consent for a member to elect: (1) not to participate in the
SBP; or (2) to designate the effective date for the commencement of SBP payments
in the event that the member dies before becoming 60 years of age to be the 60th
anniversary of such member's birth.
(Sec. 656) Expresses the sense of Congress that there should be enacted
during the 106th Congress legislation that increases the minimum basic annuities
provided under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for surviving spouses of members
of the uniformed services who are age 62 or older.
(Sec. 657) Entitles, as of October 1, 2001, former military personnel retired
for disability to receive the special compensation pay for severely disabled
military retirees authorized under the National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 2000.
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Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to delay until 180 days after the enactment of this Act
the effective date for active-duty and reserve personnel participation in the
Thrift Savings Plan. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone such authority for up
to 180 additional days, requiring notification of specified congressional
committees.
(Sec. 662) Requires the Secretary, in determining eligibility for the armed
forces special supplemental food program, to exclude from income any BAH
authorized under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966.
(Sec. 663) Makes reserve personnel traveling to inactive-duty training at a
location more than 50 miles from their residence eligible for billeting in DOD
facilities on the same basis and to the same extent as members on active duty
traveling away from their permanent duty station.
(Sec. 664) Authorizes the Secretary to settle claims for payments for unused
accrued leave and for retired pay.
(Sec. 665) Provides certain benefits and protections for persons incurring
injury, illness, or disease while traveling to, performing, or returning from
funeral honors duty, including incapacitation pay and tort claims eligibility.
(Sec. 666) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997
to authorize the Secretary to extend for up to 18 additional months the deadline
for filing claims associated with the capture and internment of certain persons
by North Vietnam.
(Sec. 667) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to pay back pay to a claimant
who, by reason of being interned as a prisoner of war while a member of the Navy
or Marine Corps during World War II, was unable to accept a promotion for which
such claimant was selected. Requires such back pay to be paid to the spouse of
such member if the member is deceased. Requires such Secretary to ensure that
such benefits and eligibility requirements are widely publicized.
(Sec. 668) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should provide
funding sufficient to ensure that the reserve components meet requirements
specified in the National Military Strategy, including training requirements.
Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Subtitle A: Health Care
Services - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 to authorize the Secretary to provide domiciliary and custodial care to
Civilian Health and Medical Program (CHAMPUS) beneficiaries whose eligibility
for such care was discontinued due to their concurrent eligibility for hospital
insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act and
subsequently reestablished under other legal authority. Limits such costs to
$100 million per fiscal year. Directs the CG to study and report to Congress on
the coordination and effectiveness of the supplemental disability health care
programs of DOD in meeting the health care needs of disabled dependents of
military personnel on active duty.
(Sec. 702) Directs the Secretary, by March 31, 2001, to complete development
of a plan to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for all
members entitled to CHAMPUS health care as active-duty personnel. Requires,
until the plan is implemented, the continuation of current chiropractic services
and benefits under the Defense Health Program as provided during FY 2000 at
military medical treatment facilities. Requires a report from the Secretary to
the defense committees. Requires the CG to monitor the development of such plan,
and periodically submit progress reports to such committees.
(Sec. 703) Directs CHAMPUS administering Secretaries to furnish to an
eligible CHAMPUS minor dependent (at least 5 and less than 12 years old) a
school-required physical examination.
(Sec. 704) Extends until three years after an eligible member's death
(currently, one year) the continuation of CHAMPUS medical and dental benefits
for such member's survivors.
(Sec. 705) Extends through December 31, 2002, the authority to use contract
physicians at military entrance processing stations and other facilities outside
of military medical treatment facilities.
(Sec. 706) Amends CHAMPUS to authorize medical and dental care to former
members who are Medal of Honor recipients, and for their dependents.
Subtitle B: Senior Health Care - Amends the Strom Thurmond National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide an April 1, 2001,
delimiting date for implementation of the redesign of the DOD pharmacy system to
incorporate best business practices of the private sector in providing
pharmaceuticals to certain Medicare-eligible individuals. Revises certain report
dates. Repeals a provision requiring such redesign in two separate areas
selected by the Secretary.
(Sec. 712) Provides CHAMPUS eligibility conditions for persons enrolled in
the supplementary medical insurance program under Medicare part B and, in the
case of a person under 65 years of age, entitled to hospital insurance benefits
under part A of Medicare. Extends through 2001 the TRICARE (a DOD managed-care
program) Senior Prime demonstration program. Authorizes the administering
Secretaries to enter into a new or revised agreement to continue the program
after such period. Revises program expenditure limits, payment methodology, and
reporting requirements.
(Sec. 713) Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense
Medicare-Eligible Retiree Health Care Fund to finance, on an actuarially sound
basis, DOD liabilities under retiree health care programs for Medicare-eligible
beneficiaries. Establishes a Department of Defense Medicare-Eligible Retiree
Health Care Board of Actuaries to review Fund valuations and report at least
every four years to the President and Congress on Fund status. Provides
actuarial valuation responsibilities of the Board and the Secretary. Requires
certain payments into the Fund to cover future costs.
Subtitle C: TRICARE Program - Prohibits the Secretary, in the case of
a CHAMPUS beneficiary entitled to medical and dental care and enrolled in
TRICARE Standard, from requiring that, with respect to covered health care
services, such beneficiary obtain a nonavailability of military health care
statement or preauthorization from a military medical care facility in order to
receive such care in a civilian health care facility. Authorizes the Secretary
to require that such beneficiary notify his or her primary care manager of any
health care received from a civilian health care or specialized care facility.
Provides exceptions to such prohibition.
(Sec. 722) Authorizes coverage under the TRICARE Program for remote areas of
the continental United States for members of the Coast Guard when not operating
as a service in the Navy and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration and Public Health Service. Requires coverage for the medical care
of eligible military dependents to be comparable to medical care coverage and
timely access standards under the TRICARE Prime option.
(Sec. 723) Directs the Secretary, by October 1, 2001, to implement a system
to simplify and make accessible through the Internet critical administrative
processes within the military health care system and the TRICARE program.
Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan to provide
portability and reciprocity of benefits for all enrollees under the TRICARE
program throughout all TRICARE regions.
(Sec. 724) Authorizes TRICARE managed care support contracts in effect or in
final stages of acquisition as of September 30, 1999, to be extended for four
years in the best interests of the Government.(Sec. 725) Directs the Secretary
to report to the defense committees recommending practices to discourage or
prohibit health care providers under the TRICARE program from seeking direct
reimbursement from members or dependents for health care received.
(Sec. 726) Provides a process under the TRICARE program for the disenrollment
from dental coverage of retired members and their dependents. Provides limited
circumstances under which disenrollment shall be permitted during the 24-month
initial enrollment period.
(Sec. 727) Directs the Secretary to take all necessary action to implement
specified TRICARE claims processing revisions.
(Sec. 728) Directs the Secretary to ensure that no contract for managed care
support under TRICARE shall require a managed care support contractor to require
a primary or specialty care provider to obtain prior authorization before
referring a patient to a specialty care provider that is part of the
contractor's network of health care providers or institutions. Requires a report
from the CG to Congress on the financial and management implications of
eliminating the requirement to obtain nonavailability of health care statements.
Subtitle D: Demonstration Projects - Directs the Secretary to conduct
a demonstration program under which licensed and certified professional mental
health counselors who meet eligibility requirements for CHAMPUS or TRICARE
health care providers may provide services to covered beneficiaries without
referral by physicians or adherence to supervision requirements. Requires the
program to be conducted during the two-year period beginning October 1, 2001, in
one established TRICARE region. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense
committees a plan to carry out such program. Requires a report from the
Secretary to Congress on program results.
(Sec. 732) Requires the Secretary, during the two-year period beginning on
the enactment of this Act, to conduct a demonstration project for increasing
efficiency of operations with respect to teleradiology at a military medical
treatment facility and supporting remote clinics and increasing teleradiology
coordination between such facilities and clinics.
(Sec. 733) Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to
explore opportunities for improving the planning, programming, budgeting, and
management of the DOD health care system. Terminates the program on December 31,
2001. Requires a program report. Provides funding from O&M funds.
Subtitle E: Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans Affairs -
Directs the Secretary to: (1) give full force and effect to any DOD-Department
of Veterans Affairs health care facilities sharing agreement that was in effect
on September 30, 1999; and (2) ensure that the Secretary concerned reimburses
the Secretary of Veterans Affairs for services or resources provided under such
an agreement in facilities of the Department of Veterans Affairs.
(Sec. 742) Directs the Secretary to implement a centralized process for the
reporting, compiling, and analysis of errors in the provision of health care
under the defense health program that endanger patients beyond the normal risks
associated with care and treatment. Requires safety indicators, standards, and
protocols to be included in such process.
(Sec. 743) Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to
cooperate in developing systems for the use of bar codes for the identification
of pharmaceuticals in the health care programs of each department. Requires
identical bar codes for common pharmaceuticals of such departments.
Subtitle F: Other Matters - Directs each military department Secretary
to establish a system for tracking, recording, and reporting separations of
military personnel resulting from their refusal to participate in the anthrax
vaccine immunization program. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the
defense committees on information compiled. Outlines procedures for medical and
administrative exemptions from such immunizations. Requires the Secretary to:
(1) implement a system for monitoring adverse vaccine reactions of military
personnel; and (2) notify DOD civilian emergency essential employees required to
participate in the immunization program. Requires certain reports and reviews
from the CG and the Secretary to the defense committees.
(Sec. 752) Prohibits a copayment from being charged to a dependent of a
member eligible for care under TRICARE Prime.
(Sec. 753) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000
to require certain additional information in an annual report from the Secretary
to Congress on DOD medical informatics. Earmarks specified FY 2001 O&M funds
for pharmaceuticals-related medical informatics.
(Sec. 754) Directs the Secretary to establish a patient care error reporting
and management system, with specified purposes and requirements. Directs the
Secretary to expand the health care team coordination program to integrate that
program into all DOD health care operations.
(Sec. 755) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Health and Human
Services to jointly conduct a program to augment the Army Medical Department by
exercising available authority for detailing reserve commissioned officers of
the Public Health Service not in an active status to the Army Medical
Department. Requires a report to the defense committees.
(Sec. 756) Directs the Secretary to submit to Congress a comprehensive plan
to improve privacy protections for DOD-maintained medical records, to be
consistent with provisions of the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996.
(Sec. 757) Directs the Secretary, in order to ensure access to care for all
CHAMPUS beneficiaries, to designate specified rates for reimbursement for
services in certain localities where without such rates such services would
otherwise be severely impaired. Requires related reports from: (1) the Secretary
to the defense committees; and (2) the CG to Congress.
(Sec. 758) Provides that in any case in which a covered CHAMPUS beneficiary
is referred by a primary care physician to a specialty care provider more than
100 miles away, the Secretary shall reimburse such beneficiary for reasonable
travel expenses.
(Sec. 759) Directs the Secretary to reduce to $3,000 the catastrophic cap for
covered beneficiaries under TRICARE Standard and TRICARE Extra.
(Sec. 760) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996
to include certain additional individuals within a training program for DOD
health care management and administration. Prohibits a person from being
assigned as a commander, deputy commander, or managed care coordinator of a
military medical treatment facility, or as a TRICARE lead agent or senior member
of the staff of a lead agent, until the Secretary concerned certifies to the
Secretary that the person has completed such training. Requires a report from
the Secretary to Congress on progress made in meeting training requirements.
(Sec. 761) Directs the Secretary of the: (1) Army to study and report to the
defense committees on the feasibility of the Tripler Army Medical Center,
Hawaii, sharing its biomedical research facility with the Department of Veterans
Affairs and the School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii; and (2) Air
Force to study and report to the defense committees on the feasibility of the
Little Rock Medical Facility, Arkansas, sharing its biomedical research facility
with the Department of Veterans Affairs and the School of Medicine at the
University of Arkansas.
(Sec. 762) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study comparing coverage and
reimbursement for CHAMPUS beneficiaries for physical, speech, and occupational
therapies under the TRICARE Program and CHAMPUS to coverage and reimbursement
for such therapies by insurers under Medicare and the Federal Employees Health
Benefits Program. Requires a findings report to the defense committees.
Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related
Matters - Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities,
Procedures, and Limitations - Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining
Act of 1994 to: (1) extend through October 1, 2007, the authority for certain
defense acquisition programs to participate in a defense acquisition pilot
program authorized under prior law; (2) include 500-pound bombs within the Joint
Direct Attack Munition program; and (3) require a report from the Secretary to
the defense committees on DOD acquisition pilot programs.
(Sec. 802) Authorizes the head of a defense agency to enter into multiyear
contracts of up to five years for the acquisition of certain services
(operation, maintenance, training, base services) upon finding that: (1) there
will be a continuing requirement for such services; (2) the furnishing of such
services will require a substantial initial investment or the incurrence of
substantial contingent liabilities; and (3) the use of such contract will
promote the best interests of the United States. Outlines certain principles to
be followed when entering into such contracts. Prohibits such agency head from
entering into a contract that includes an unfunded contingent liability in
excess of $20 million without at least 30 days' prior notification of the
defense and appropriations committees. Prohibits such agency head from entering
into such a contract exceeding $500 million unless the authority for such
contract is specifically provided by law. Requires notification similar to above
before a contract with a cancellation ceiling in excess of $100 million may be
awarded. Requires cancellation or termination of a contract for which funds are
not made available into a subsequent year.
(Sec. 803) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994
to: (1) extend through FY 2004 the authority of the Defense Advanced Research
Projects Agency to carry out certain prototype projects; and (2) prohibit the
use of such authority unless certain conditions are met, including the
participation of at least one nontraditional defense contractor.
(Sec. 804) Amends the above Act to limit the right of the CG to review
records of prototype project participants to only those records that are of the
same type that the Government has the right to examine under audit access
clauses or previous agreements or transactions.
(Sec. 805) Extends until October 1, 2005, current limitations on DOD
procurement of ball and roller bearings.
(Sec. 806) Revises certain reporting requirements relating to DOD multiyear
contracting authority. Prohibits the head of an agency from entering into such a
contract exceeding $500 million until the Secretary submits certain information
to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 807) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991
to make small businesses owned and controlled by women eligible for assistance
under the mentor-protege program.
(Sec. 808) Amends provisions concerning qualifications for employment and
assignment in DOD contracting positions to: (1) make members of the armed forces
eligible; and (2) provide the occupational series and requirements for positions
to be filled by members of the armed forces (with an exception for those already
employed in such position on September 30, 2000).
(Sec. 809) Amends the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 to authorize the
Administrator for Federal Procurement Policy, as part of a current pilot program
to test the feasibility of using solutions-based contracting for the acquisition
of information technology, to carry out not more than ten projects: (1) each
having an estimated cost of at least $25 million and not more than $100 million;
and (2) for small business concerns, each having an estimated cost of at least
$1 million and not more than $5 million. Eliminates the requirement for Federal
funding of the program's definition phase.
(Sec. 810) Amends the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act to: (1)
require the appropriate executive agency (currently, the Secretary of Commerce)
to publish a procurement solicitation notice (notice); (2) allow such notices to
be published electronically; and (3) consider an electronic notice accessible if
it is in a form that allows convenient and universal user access through the
single Government-wide point of entry designated in the Federal Acquisition
Regulation (FAR). Makes identical revisions for procurement notices under the
Small Business Act. Changes from annually to biannually through 2004 a required
report concerning the use of electronic commerce in Federal procurement.
Subtitle B: Information Technology - Requires the DOD Chief
Information Officer (CIO) to maintain a consolidated inventory of DOD mission
critical and mission essential information systems, identify interfaces between
such systems and other information systems, and develop and maintain contingency
plans for responding to a disruption in the operation of such systems. Requires
DOD Directive 5000.1 to be revised to establish minimum planning requirements
for the acquisition of information technology systems. Requires such Directive
to prohibit Milestone I, II, or III approval of a major automated information
system within DOD until the CIO has made certain determinations with respect to
system development, reengineering, and registration. Requires the CIO to notify
the defense and appropriations committees whenever during FY 2001 through 2003 a
major automated information system is redesignated. Directs the Secretary to
report to such committees during such fiscal years on implementation of this
section.
(Sec. 812) Directs the Secretary to provide for the collection of data on
purchases of information technology for each purchase made by a military
department or defense agency in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold.
Requires the head of each DOD contracting activity to ensure the fairness of
unit prices paid for information technology products and services that are
frequently purchased, commercially-available off-the-shelf items. Limits
purchases in excess of the threshold from a Federal agency outside of DOD.
Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees
summarizing data collected.
(Sec. 813) Requires the FAR to be amended to address the use of personnel
experience and educational requirements in the procurement of information
technology services. Requires the CG to submit to Congress an evaluation of
executive agency compliance with such regulations and conformity of such
regulations with existing law.
(Sec. 814) Prohibits Navy funds from being obligated or expended to carry out
a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet contract until: (1) the DOD CG and the Director of
the Office of Management and Budget have reviewed and commented on certain
reports to Congress on such program; and (2) the Navy's Secretary and Chief of
Naval Operations have certified jointly to Congress that they have reviewed the
business case for such contract and determined that contract implementation is
in the best interests of the Navy. Requires the phased implementation of such
contract, and provides contract requirements. Directs the Secretary to mitigate
any adverse impact of such contract on Navy civilian employees.
(Sec. 815) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) DOD must focus on
upgrading information technology systems to allow seamless and interoperable
communications; and (2) each military department Secretary must commit to
achieve such goal and ensure that all communications systems within that
department receive appropriate funding for information technology.
Subtitle C: Other Acquisition-Related Matters - Requires FAR to be
revised to establish a preference for performance-based contracts and task
orders for the purchase of DOD services. Outlines conditions under which such a
contract or task order will be treated as a contract for the procurement of
commercial items. Requires an implementation report from the CG to the defense
and appropriations committees. Directs the Secretary of each military department
to establish at least one center of excellence in contracting for services for
assistance to the acquisition community. Requires the Secretary to ensure that
classes focusing on such contracting are offered by the Defense Acquisition
University and the Defense Systems Management College and available to
contracting personnel throughout DOD. Requires appropriate training for defense
contracting personnel.
(Sec. 822) Directs the Secretary to carry out, and report to the defense and
appropriations committees on, a financial analysis of the costs and benefits of
the use of dual rates for quantifying overhead costs at Army ammunition plants.
(Sec. 823) Amends the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 to
repeal a prohibition on the use of DOD funds to procure a nuclear-capable
shipyard crane from a foreign source.
(Sec. 824) Provides that a current authorized waiver of live-fire
survivability testing shall not apply with respect to survivability and
lethality tests for the MH 47E and MH 60K helicopter modification programs.
Authorizes the Secretary to waive the application of such tests after certifying
to Congress that such testing would be unreasonably expensive and impracticable.
(Sec. 825) Expresses the sense of Congress that any DOD entity, in expending
funds for the purchase of equipment or products, should comply with the Buy
American Act. Requires the Secretary to determine whether to disbar from
contracting with DOD a person who has been convicted of intentionally affixing a
"Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped to the United States
when such product was not so made.
(Sec. 826) Prohibits the Secretary, in awarding a contract for the purchase
of firearms or ammunition, from taking into account whether a manufacturer or
vendor is a party to an agreement under which such manufacturer or vendor agrees
to adopt limitations with respect to importing, manufacturing, or dealing in
firearms or ammunition in the commercial market.
Subtitle D: Studies and Reports - Requires the Secretary to conduct a
study of the impact of the foreign sourcing of certain defense system contracts
on long-term military readiness and related industrial infrastructure. Requires
a report on study results from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 832) Directs the CG to convene a panel of experts to study policies and
procedures governing the transfer of Government commercial activities from
Government personnel to a Federal contractor. Requires: (1) the opportunity for
study participation by other interested parties; and (2) study results to be
submitted to Congress.
(Sec. 833) Directs the CG to study and report to the defense and
appropriations committees on the use of the practice known as "contract
bundling" with respect to military construction contracts.
(Sec. 834) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense
committees on DOD contract bundling and its effects on small businesses,
economically and socially disadvantaged small businesses, small businesses owned
by women, and historically underutilized business zones.
Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management -
Subtitle A: Duties and Functions of Department of Defense Officers -
Provides specified duties of one of the Assistant Secretaries, as designated by
the Secretary, with respect to combating terrorism.
(Sec. 902) Changes from Deputy Chiefs of Staff to Deputy Commandants the
title of five positions within the headquarters of the Marine Corps. Removes
three Assistant Chiefs of Staff from such headquarters.
(Sec. 903) Revises military whistleblower provisions to include among those
authorized to receive information any officer of the armed forces or DOD
employee who is assigned or detailed to serve as an Inspector General at any
level.
(Sec. 904) Requires the Secretaries of the military departments and specified
DOD officials to ensure that the management and conduct of the science and
technology programs under their authority are carried out in a manner that will
foster the transition of science and technology to higher levels of RDT&E.
Requires the Chief of Naval Research to manage the Navy's basic, applied, and
advanced research funds in a manner that will foster such transition.
(Sec. 905) Requires the inclusion of additional information in an annual
report of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) Chairman on combatant command
requirements.
Subtitle B: Department of Defense Organizations - Authorizes the
Secretary to operate an education and training facility, to be known as the
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation, which shall educate and
train military, law enforcement, and civilian personnel of the Western
Hemisphere within the democratic principles set forth in the Charter of the
Organization of American States. Establishes a Board of Visitors for the
Institute. Requires the Secretary to report annually to Congress on Institute
activities. Repeals the authority for the United States Army School of the
Americas.
(Sec. 912) Prohibits a regional center for security studies from being
established in DOD until 90 days after the Secretary notifies Congress of the
intent to establish such center. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to
the defense committees on the operation of DOD regional centers.
(Sec. 913) Changes the name of the Armed Forces Staff College to the Joint
Forces Staff College.
(Sec. 914) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide base operating
support for Fisher houses associated with Navy health care facilities.
(Sec. 915) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to empower the
Secretary with supervisory control over the Retirement Home Board. Requires all
Board appointments to be subject to the Secretary's approval, and allows the
Secretary to terminate a member at any time. Makes the Board Chairman
responsible to the Secretary.
(Sec. 916) Directs the JCS Chairman to report semiannually to the defense
committees on activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council.
(Sec. 917) Directs the CG to: (1) review the efficiency of each operation of
the Defense Logistics Agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency; and (2)
report findings to the defense committees.
Subtitle C: Information Security - Directs the Secretary to: (1)
establish an Institute for Defense Computer Security and Information Protection,
with appropriate responsibilities; and (2) enter into a contract with a
non-profit entity or consortium to organize and operate the Institute. Provides
Institute funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires an implementation report
from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 922) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to encourage the recruitment
and retention of DOD personnel with computer and network security skills
necessary to meet DOD information assurance requirements, to carry out programs
to provide financial support for education in disciplines relevant to such
requirements at institutions of higher education. Authorizes the Secretary to
provide financial assistance (a scholarship) to persons pursuing an education in
such disciplines. Requires in exchange for such assistance that a person enter
into a service agreement to continue to either serve on active duty in a
military department or as a DOD employee for a period determined by the
Secretary to be appropriate to obtain adequate service in exchange for such
assistance. Allows such assistance to be used to support related internship
activities. Requires a pro rata refund of assistance amounts for unserved
periods. Outlines funding allocation requirements.
Authorizes the Secretary to provide grants of financial assistance to
institutions of higher education to support the establishment, improvement, or
administration of programs of education in information assurance disciplines.
Requires consideration to be given to institutions that are a Center of Academic
Excellence in Information Assurance Education. Makes the program inapplicable to
the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Provides program
funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires the Secretary to submit to the
defense and appropriations committees a plan for implementing such programs.
Subtitle D: Reports - Revises the date for submission of certain
reports on shortfalls within future-years defense programs in equipment
procurement and military construction for the reserve components.
(Sec. 932) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees
setting forth the number of DOD personnel performing legislative liaison
functions as of April 1, 2000.
(Sec. 933) Directs the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to
report jointly to the defense, appropriations, and intelligence committees
assessing alternatives for the establishment of a national collaborative
information analysis capability. Directs the Secretary to ensure the completion
and use of the Army's Land Information Warfare Activity.
(Sec. 934) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and
appropriations committees on: (1) the development and implementation of network
centric warfare concepts within DOD; and (2) the present and future use of the
joint experimentation program of DOD in the development of such concepts.
(Sec. 935) Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense
committees on the roles and missions, organizational structure, funding, and
operations of the Air Force Institute of Technology as projected through 2010.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - Empowers the Secretary to reduce required
personnel reductions in major DOD headquarters by a cumulative total of 7.5
percent if the Secretary certifies to Congress that execution of the current 15
percent reductions would adversely impact national security.
(Sec. 942) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer all amounts in the:
(1) Naval Historical Center Fund to the Department of the Navy General Gift
Fund; and (2) United States Naval Academy Museum Fund to the gift fund
maintained for the benefit and use of the U.S. Naval Academy. Requires closure
of the depleted Funds. Combines the latter funds under (1) and (2), above, into
the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund, and allows such Fund to
accept loans of personal property other than money in addition to gifts and
bequests. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe written guidelines to
determine whether the acceptance of any gift, bequest, or loan would reflect
unfavorably on the Navy or any of its officers and employees.
(Sec. 943) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to disburse to an entity
designated by a gift donor the current cash value of a gift accepted before the
enactment of this Act for the Naval Academy general gift fund.
Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters -
Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion
of the amounts made available to DOD in this Division for FY 2001 between any
such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires
congressional notification of each transfer.
(Sec. 1002) Incorporates into this Act the Classified Annex prepared in
connection with this bill and transmitted to the President. (Sec. 1003)
Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2000 by the amounts
by which such appropriations were increased or decreased in the 2000 Emergency
Supplemental Appropriations Act.
(Sec. 1004) Prohibits the total amount that may be contributed by the
Secretary in FY 2001 for the common-funded budgets of NATO from being greater
than the total that would otherwise be applicable under the FY 1998 baseline
limitation.
(Sec. 1005) Limits the amount of DOD O&M funds that may be obligated for
incremental costs for Bosnia and Kosovo peacekeeping operations.
Authorizes the President to waive such limitations after certifying to Congress
that the waiver is necessary to U.S. national security interests and will not
affect military readiness.
(Sec. 1006) Requires that, of the contract vouchers received by the Defense
Finance and Accounting System by means of the mechanization of contract
administration services systems, the number of such vouchers that remain unpaid
for more than 30 days at the end of each month may not exceed five percent of
the total number of vouchers received. Directs the Secretary, for any month that
such requirement is not met, to report to Congress on the magnitude of the
unpaid vouchers.
(Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan
to ensure that each contractual, grant, agreement, or transactional obligation
of DOD be recorded in the appropriate financial administration systems within
ten days after the obligation is incurred.
(Sec. 1008) Directs the Secretary to require that any claim for payment under
a DOD contract be submitted to DOD in electronic form. Authorizes the Secretary
to waive such requirement if it is determined to be unduly burdensome. Requires
the Secretary to submit an implementation plan to the defense committees.
(Sec. 1009) Provides for the crediting of amounts deducted from amounts due
a carrier and representing an administrative offset for an overpayment
previously made to such carrier under any DOD contract for transportation
services, or as liquidated damages due under such contract. Provides a
simplified offset procedure for the collection of claims not in excess of the
simplified acquisition threshold.
(Sec. 1010) Requires the head of an agency who does not pay a contractor
business a required interim payment to pay an interest penalty on the amount of
payment due.
Subtitle B: Naval Vessels and Shipyards - Requires a company entering
into a contract for the incorporation of defense features in commercial vessels
to agree to make any covered vessel available to the Secretary, fully crewed and
ready for sea, at any port and for whatever duration determined by the
Secretary. Authorizes the head of an agency to make advance payments to cover
the costs of maintaining such vessels in a ready status in the Reserve Fleet for
25 years. Prohibits any agency head from entering into such a contract until 90
days after notification of the defense and appropriations committees.
(Sec. 1012) Expresses the sense of Congress that the CVN-77 aircraft carrier
should be named the U.S.S. LEXINGTON to honor the men and women who served in
the armed forces during World War II, as well as citizens on the home front who
provided mobilization support.
(Sec. 1013) Authorizes the President to transfer, on either a grant basis or
combined lease-sale basis, specified naval vessels to Brazil, Chile, Greece, and
Turkey. Provides transfer conditions, including payment of the full purchase
price by the appropriate country. Authorizes appropriations for the Defense
Vessels Transfer Program Account to cover lease-sale transfer costs. Prohibits
the value of vessels transferred on a grant basis from being counted against the
aggregate value of excess defense articles authorized to be transferred to other
countries under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires transfer expenses
to be borne by vessel recipients. Directs the President, as a transfer
condition, to require any needed vessel repair or refurbishment to be performed
in a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Terminates such transfer
authority two years after the enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 1014) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 to modify a certain vessel retransfer authority to include an alternate
vessel.
Subtitle C: Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2006 the authority
of the Secretary to provide counter-drug support assistance to the Government of
Colombia.
(Sec. 1022) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations
committees detailing the expenditure of funds during FY 2000 in support of the
counter-drug activities of foreign governments.
(Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees
whether expanded support for counter-drug activities in Peru and Colombia should
be authorized.
(Sec. 1024) Directs the Secretary to review and report to the defense
committees on the riverine counter-drug support program in such countries.
(Sec. 1025) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on the status of the
Tethered Aerostat Radar System used to conduct counter-drug detection and
monitoring and border security and air sovereignty operations.
(Sec. 1026) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should be able
to use military personnel to assist law enforcement agencies in preventing the
entry into the United States of terrorists and drug traffickers, weapons of mass
destruction and their components, and prohibited narcotics and drugs.
Subtitle D: Counterterrorism and Domestic Preparedness - Directs the
Secretary to report to Congress on DOD preparedness of first responders with
regard to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction on military
installations.
(Sec. 1032) Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 2001, to establish up to five
additional teams designated as Weapons of Mass Destruction Civil Support Teams.
(Sec. 1033) Authorizes the Secretary to guarantee up to $10 million of the
payment of any loan made to a qualified commercial firm to improve protection of
critical infrastructure and to refinance improvements previously made for such
protection. Authorizes the Secretary to assess and collect a loan guarantee fee
of at least 75 percent of the amount incurred to guarantee the loan. Allows the
Secretary to use up to $500,000 annually from DOD O&M funds to provide such
loan guarantees (requiring reimbursement of such funds when practicable).
Requires reports from loan recipients to the Secretary, and from the Secretary
to Congress, regarding such program.
(Sec. 1034) Directs the President to report to Congress on the status of
domestic preparedness against the threat of biological terrorism. Directs the
Secretary to submit to Congress an intelligence estimate of the threat posed by
a terrorist using a biological weapon.
(Sec. 1035) Requires the CG to report to the defense committees on U.S.
strategies, policies, and programs for combating domestic terrorism.
Subtitle E: Strategic Forces - Directs the Secretary to conduct a
comprehensive review of the nuclear posture of the United States for the next
five to ten years. Requires a report. Expresses the sense of Congress that such
review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. arms control
objectives and negotiating positions.
(Sec. 1042) Directs the Secretary to develop a long-range plan for sustaining
and modernizing U.S. strategic nuclear forces to counter emerging threats and to
satisfy evolving requirements of deterrence. Requires such plan to be submitted
to Congress.
(Sec. 1043) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1998 to apply to any strategic nuclear delivery system the authority of the
Secretary to waive funding limitations for the retiring or dismantling of
specified systems below certain levels.
(Sec. 1044) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense
committees on the defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets.
(Sec. 1045) Expresses the sense of Congress that it is: (1) in the national
interest to maintain a robust and balanced triad of strategic nuclear delivery
vehicles; and (2) not in the national interest to reduce U.S. conventional
bomber capabilities.
Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements - Requires the CG to
review DOD working-capital funded activities to identify potential changes in
current management practices or policies that would result in more efficient and
economical operation of such activities.
(Sec. 1052) Requires the Secretary of the Navy to report to Congress on the
Navy's plan for providing submarine rescue support vessels through FY 2007.
(Sec. 1053) Directs the President to submit to Congress a comprehensive
report on the specific steps being taken by the Federal Government to develop
critical infrastructure assurance strategies as outlined under a specified
presidential directive.
(Sec. 1054) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress describing the
policies and procedures for DOD decision-making in cases of submitted claims
that are suspected or alleged to be false.
Subtitle G: Government Information Security Reform - Requires the
Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) to establish
government-wide policies for the management of programs that: (1) support the
cost-effective security of Federal information systems by promoting security as
an integral part of each agency's business operations; and (2) include
information technology architectures as defined under the Clinger-Cohen Act of
1996. Requires such policies to: (1) be founded on a continuous risk management
cycle; (2) implement controls that adequately assess the risk; (3) promote
continuing awareness of information security risks; (4) continually monitor and
evaluate information security policy; and (5) control effectiveness of
information security practices. Outlines information security responsibilities
of each agency, including the development and implementation of an agency-wide
information security plan for the operations and assets of such agency. Makes
each program subject to Director approval (with approval by the Secretary of
Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence with respect to mission
critical national security systems or intelligence information) and annual
review by agency program officials.
Requires each agency to annually undergo an independent evaluation of its
information security programs and practices. Requires related reports.
Terminates the authority under this Subtitle two years after it takes effect.
(Sec. 1062) Directs the: (1) Secretary of Commerce to develop, issue, review,
and update standards and guidance for the security of information in Federal
computer systems; (2) Secretary of Defense, Central Intelligence Director, and
any other designated agency head to develop and issue information security
policies for mission critical systems of such entities and ensure the
implementation of such policies; (3) Attorney General to review and update
guidance to agencies on legal remedies regarding information security incidents
and incident coordination with law enforcement agencies; (4) Administrator of
General Services to review and update guidance on addressing security
considerations relating to the acquisition of information technology; and (5)
Director of the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to review and update
regulations concerning computer security training for Federal employees.
Allows mission critical information security policies developed by DOD and
the Central Intelligence Agency to be adopted by the OMB Director, the Secretary
of Commerce, and the heads of other Federal agencies with respect to their
mission critical systems. Allows agencies to develop and implement more
stringent information security policies than those required under this Act.
Subtitle H: Security Matters - Prohibits any DOD officer, employee, or
contractor, or member of the military, from being granted a security clearance
if such person: (1) has been convicted of a crime which includes a prison
sentence exceeding one year; (2) is an unlawful user of or addicted to any
controlled substance; (3) is currently mentally incompetent; or (4) has been
discharged from the armed forces under dishonorable conditions. Authorizes the
Secretary or the Secretary concerned to waive such prohibition in meritorious
cases (requiring an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees
on the use of any waivers).
(Sec. 1072) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a process for expediting the
completion of background investigations necessary for granting security
clearances for DOD and DOD-contractor personnel engaged in sensitive duties
critical to national security. Requires the Secretary to annually review and
revise such process.
(Sec. 1073) Authorizes the national security official concerned (the
Secretary of Defense with respect to DOD, the Secretary of Transportation with
respect to the Coast Guard when not operating in the Navy, and the Secretary of
Energy with respect to Department of Energy national security programs) to
withhold from otherwise-required public disclosure certain sensitive information
of foreign governments and international organizations if such official
determines that the release of such information would have an adverse effect on
the ability of the U.S. Government to obtain the same or similar information in
the future. Provides limitations and exceptions.
(Sec. 1074) Exempts from Federal public disclosure requirements DOD geodetic
products which may reveal, jeopardize, or compromise military or intelligence
capabilities.
(Sec. 1075) Requires amounts expended for declassification activities to show
the total amount expended by DOD and the amount expended by each military
department and defense agency. Limits to $30 million the total amount that may
be expended by DOD during FY 2001 to carry out declassification activities and
special searches.
(Sec. 1076) Amends provisions concerning access by Federal agencies to
individual criminal history information for national security purposes to
authorize the Department of Transportation to request such information. Allows
the use of such information to determine eligibility for: (1) acceptance or
retention in the armed forces; or (2) appointment, retention, or assignment to a
position of public trust or a critical or sensitive position while employed with
the Federal Government or performing a Federal contract. Requires automated
information delivery systems to be used whenever available. Prohibits fees
charged from exceeding actual costs. Prohibits a criminal justice agency
providing such information from limiting such disclosure on the basis that the
repository is accessed from outside the State.
(Sec. 1077) Extends through 2002 DOD authority to engage in commercial
activities as security for intelligence collection activities.
(Sec. 1078) Directs the Secretary to: (1) review classification and security
policies; and (2) ensure that such policies do not prevent or discourage
employees at former nuclear weapons facilities who may have been exposed to
hazardous substances from discussing such exposure with health care providers
and other appropriate officials. Requires the Secretary to notify such former
employees of the possible exposure and their rights under this section. Requires
a report from the Secretary to the defense committees.
Subtitle I: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to use up to
$500,000 in any fiscal year from DOD O&M funds to fund administrative
expenses relating to the export loan guarantee program. Requires the
reimbursement of the O&M accounts when practicable. Prohibits the Secretary
from exercising such authority until submitting a report to Congress on the
operation of such program, including a determination as to which DOD agency,
office, or activity should administer the program.
(Sec. 1082) Directs the Secretary to establish a transit pass program for the
transportation to and from work of DOD personnel who reside in areas that do not
meet revised national ambient air quality standards provided under the Clean Air
Act.
(Sec. 1083) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the Collings
Foundation of Stow, Massachusetts, all U.S. rights and interest to one surplus
TA-4 aircraft that is flyable or can be readily restored to flyable condition.
Requires such aircraft to be altered within one year to remove any combat
capability. Requires reversion to the United States upon the breach of any
transfer conditions.
(Sec. 1084) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Cannonball
House Museum in Macon, Georgia, all U.S. rights and interest to a certain
12-pound Napoleon cannon. Requires reversion to the United States upon the
breach of any transfer conditions.
(Sec. 1085) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to charge a fee for providing
requested information from the United States Army Military History Institute,
the United States Naval Historical Center or Marine Corps Historical Center, or
the United States Air Force Military History Institute, respectively. Limits the
fee to the actual cost of providing the information.
(Sec. 1086) Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the American Red
Cross for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2003 for support of the Armed Forces
Emergency Services program. Requires Red Cross matching funds to support such
program.
(Sec. 1088) Revises the maximum size of parcel post packages transported
overseas for military post offices.
(Sec. 1089) Expresses the sense of Congress that military personnel who
receive special pay for duty subject to hostile fire or imminent danger should
receive the same tax treatment as members serving in combat zones.
(Sec. 1090) Defines the Civil Air Patrol as a federally chartered nonprofit
corporation and not an instrumentality of the Federal Government for any
purpose. Makes the Patrol a volunteer civilian auxiliary of the Air Force when
used by any Federal department or agency. Authorizes the Patrol, at the request
of State or local governmental entities, to provide disaster relief missions and
activities and other emergency and nonemergency missions and activities.
Authorizes the Patrol to use Air Force equipment, supplies, and resources to
perform such missions and activities.
Requires funds appropriated for the Patrol to be available only for their
exclusive use.
Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use Patrol chaplains in support
of Air Force active duty and reserve personnel.
Makes the Patrol Board of Governors its governing body. Requires Patrol
regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force to be approved by the
Secretary of Defense.
(Sec. 1091) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 to add specified duties for the Commission to Assess United States National
Security Space Management and Organization.
(Sec. 1092) Establishes the Commission on the Future of the United States
Aerospace Industry to undertake certain studies, evaluations, and assessments
with respect to the future of the U.S. aerospace industry as it relates to U.S.
economic and national security. Requires a Commission report to the President
and Congress. Terminates the Commission 30 days after such report.
(Sec. 1093) Amends the Controlled Substances Act to authorize medical
practitioners to dispense narcotic drugs in schedules III, IV, or V if, before
the initial dispensing of such drugs, the practitioner submits to the Secretary
of Health and Human Services a notification of the intent to begin dispensing
such drug for maintenance or detoxification treatment, as well as related
certifications. Provides conditions for drugs so used, including that such drugs
have been approved for maintenance or detoxification treatment under the Federal
Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act or the Public Health Service Act, and that the
drugs have not been the subject of an adverse determination with respect to the
use of such drugs for such purposes. Requires each such practitioner to be
assigned an identification number for inclusion with the registration issued for
the dispensing of drugs. Requires such Secretary to take certain action to
ensure that registered practitioners meet all dispensing requirements under the
above Act.
Requires such Secretary to issue a treatment improvement protocol containing
best practice guidelines for the treatment and maintenance of opiate-dependent
patients. Prohibits a State, during the three-year period beginning on the
enactment of this Act, from precluding a practitioner from dispensing or
prescribing drugs for such purpose unless the State enacts a law prohibiting
such action.
Authorizes appropriations to assist such Secretary in meeting additional
duties required by this section.
Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel - Subtitle A:
Civilian Personnel Management Generally - Outlines employment and
compensation provisions for employees of temporary organizations (a commission,
committee, or board with a duration of three years or less which is established
within the legislative or executive branch or by Executive Order to perform
specific projects or studies). Authorizes the head of such organization to
appoint persons to organization positions. Limits health insurance benefits
provided to such employees to the same benefit afforded other temporary civil
service employees.
(Sec. 1102) Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistive technology,
devices, and services to DOD employees with disabilities, organizations within
DOD that have requirements to make programs or facilities accessible by the
handicapped, and any other Federal department or agency requesting such
technology, devices, or services.
(Sec. 1103) Extends through FY 2005 the authority for DOD civilian employees
to participate in voluntary reductions in force.
(Sec. 1104) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to administer and
maintain its performance appraisal systems electronically.
(Sec. 1105) Directs the Secretary to study and report to the defense
committees on whether civilian personnel services should continue to be
centralized within individual military departments and defense agencies or
provided to all DOD elements within designated geographic areas.
Subtitle B: Demonstration and Pilot Programs - Directs the Secretary
to conduct a three-year pilot program, commencing on January 1, 2001, to improve
processes for the resolution of equal employment opportunity complaints by DOD
civilian employees. Requires: (1) program participation to be voluntary; and (2)
the program to be carried out in at least one military department and two
defense agencies. Requires a program report from the CG to Congress.
(Sec. 1112) Directs the Secretary to carry out a defense employees work
safety demonstration program, requiring the use of private sector work safety
models. Requires such program to be carried out: (1) at no fewer than two
installations of each military department; and (2) in at least two defense
agencies. Requires such program to commence within 180 days after enactment of
this Act and to terminate on September 30, 2002. Requires a program interim and
final report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Provides funding from
DOD O&M funds.
(Sec. 1113) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) extend until October 16, 2005, a program for the
experimental use of special personnel management authority to facilitate the
recruitment of experts in science and engineering for research and development
projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; (2)
include under such program the recruitment of individuals for designated
research and development projects from among the laboratories of each of the
military departments; (3) limit the number of such appointments; and (4) extend
a required annual report.
(Sec. 1114) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1995 to: (1) authorize the Secretary to establish and operate personnel
management demonstration projects in defense laboratories without the review or
approval of the OPM Director; (2) increase the authorized pay levels of
laboratory employees participating in such projects; and (3) direct the
Secretary (currently, the OPM Director) to exercise appointment and compensation
authority with respect to such employees.
Subtitle C: Educational Assistance - Amends Federal employee
provisions to state that, with respect to DOD employees, Federal provisions
authorizing employee training does not authorize the selection and assignment of
an employee for training, or the payment or reimbursement of the costs of
training, for: (1) the opportunity to obtain an academic degree to qualify for
appointment to a position for which such degree is a basic requirement; or (2)
the sole purpose of providing an employee an opportunity to obtain one or more
academic degrees, unless such opportunity is part of a planned, systematic, and
coordinated program of professional development endorsed by DOD.
(Sec. 1122) Includes within the Federal loan repayment program loans made
under the William D. Ford Direct Loan Program, loans made under the Health
Professions Education Program, and nursing loans under the Public Health Service
Act. Makes ineligible under the loan repayment program employees occupying a
position that is excepted from competitive service because of its confidential,
policy-determining, policy-making, or policy-advocating character. Repeals a
provision requiring employees whose loans are repaid to hold professional,
technical, or administrative positions. Requires each Federal agency head to
maintain, and annually submit to the OPM Director, information concerning loan
repayment benefits provided to employees of that agency. Requires the OPM
Director to submit such information to Congress.
(Sec. 1123) Extends through FY 2010 the authority for tuition reimbursement
and training for civilian employees in the defense acquisition workforce.
Subtitle D: Other Benefits - Authorizes the payment of special pay for
foreign language proficiency for employees assigned duties requiring such
proficiency during a contingency operation.
(Sec. 1132) Authorizes the Secretary to grant a cash award in excess of
$10,000 without regard to certain Federal certification and approval
requirements.
(Sec. 1133) Authorizes payment for accrued but unused leave for civil service
mariners of the Military Sealift Command on temporary promotion aboard ship.
(Sec. 1134) Requires a DOD employee who is designated as an emergency
essential employee to be insured under the Federal Employees Group Life
Insurance program if such employee elects to be so insured within 60 days after
such designation.
Subtitle E: Intelligence Civilian Personnel - Authorizes the Secretary
to establish defense intelligence positions throughout DOD. (Currently, such
positions are limited to the intelligence components of DOD and the military
departments.)
(Sec. 1142) Increases from 492 to 517 the maximum authorized number of
positions in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service.
Subtitle F: Voluntary Separation Incentive Pay and Early Retirement
Authority - Authorizes the Secretary to use voluntary separation incentives
and voluntary early retirement authority to achieve certain defense workforce
restructuring. Prohibits the continued payment of the voluntary separation
incentive upon the acceptance of employment with the Government or work under a
personal services contract with the Government.
(Sec. 1152) Entitles to an annuity under either the Civil Service Retirement
System or the Federal Employees Retirement System, during FY 2002 and 2003, a
DOD employee who is voluntarily separated after completing 25 years of service
or after becoming 50 years of age and completing 20 years of service. Makes
eligible for such annuity an employee who is separated involuntarily other than
for cause and has not declined another comparable position within DOD. Requires
employees separated voluntarily to have been employed for more than 30 days and
separated during a period in which DOD is undergoing a major organizational
adjustment.
(Sec. 1153) Limits the authority for voluntary separation incentives during
FY 2001 to 1000 employees, and limits such incentives and the voluntary early
retirement authority in each of FY 2002 and 2003 to 4,000 employees.
Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Subtitle A: Matters
Related to Arms Control - Limits to $15 million the total amount of FY 2001
DOD funds that may be used in support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to
inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities under the Weapons of Mass
Destruction Control Act of 1992. Extends through FY 2001 the authority to
provide such support.
(Sec. 1202) Earmarks DOD O&M funds for the support of region-wide
consultations among Arab, Israeli, and U.S. officials and experts on arms
control and security issues concerning the Middle East region.
(Sec. 1203) Authorizes the Secretary to convey or provide nuclear test
monitoring equipment to a foreign government, and to install such equipment,
subject to an agreement which allows the United States timely access to data
collected. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress.
(Sec. 1204) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
2000 to require additional matters within an annual report concerning transfers
of military sensitive technologies to certain countries and entities.
Subtitle B: Matters Relating to the Balkans - Amends the National
Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require annual reports
(currently, only a single report) assessing the effects of continued military
operations in the Balkans region on readiness to execute the national military
strategy. Terminates the report requirement when U.S. military operations in the
Balkans have ended.
(Sec. 1212) Directs the President to: (1) develop militarily significant
benchmarks for conditions that would achieve a sustainable peace in Kosovo and
allow for withdrawal of the U.S. military presence there; and (2) submit
semiannually to Congress reports on the establishment of such benchmarks and the
develop of a comprehensive political-military strategy for addressing the
political, economic, humanitarian, and military issues in the Balkans.
(Sec. 1213) Requires a semiannual report from the President to specified
congressional committees on the contributions of European nations and
organizations to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo.
Subtitle C: North Atlantic Treaty Organization and United States Forces in
Europe - Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on
U.S. costs of Operation Allied Force conducted against the Federal Republic of
Yugoslavia from March 24 through June 9, 1999. Requires the Secretary to report
to the defense committees concerning appropriate burden sharing whenever NATO
undertakes a military operation with U.S. participation.
(Sec. 1222) Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary from
entering into military airlift agreements with allied countries under any
authority other than that currently provided.
(Sec. 1223) Directs the CG to study and report to the defense committees an
assessment of the benefits and costs to the United States and U.S. national
security interests of the engagement of U.S. forces in Europe and U.S. military
strategies used to shape the international security environment of Europe.
Subtitle D: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to establish a
United States-Russian Federation joint center for the exchange of data from
systems providing early warning of ballistic missile launches. Requires a report
from the Secretary to the defense committees on plans for the joint center.
Allows the Secretary to renovate a U.S. facility for such use only if a
cost-sharing agreement is entered into requiring an equal share of such costs
between the two countries. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense
committees on any such agreement.
(Sec. 1232) Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees on
current and planned DOD activities with respect to the sharing and exchange with
other countries of ballistic missile launch early warning data.
(Sec. 1233) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to require the Secretary to: (1) make an initial determination
of those persons operating in the United States or its possessions or
territories that are Communist China military companies; and (2) submit a list
of such persons to the defense committees, the Attorney General, and specified
department heads.
(Sec. 1234) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1998 to reduce from 180 to 60 days the waiting period after the President
submits to specified congressional committees the new composite theoretical
performance levels for certain supercomputers before such supercomputers may be
exported or reexported without a license to a Computer Tier 3 country.
(Sec. 1235) Authorizes the Secretary to provide humanitarian and civic
assistance in connection with military operations for areas of a country that
are underserved by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals.
(Sec. 1236) Condemns the use of children as soldiers and welcomes an optional
protocol ending such use. Calls on the President: (1) to work closely with the
Senate toward building support for such protocol; (2) and Congress to enact a
law that establishes a fund for the rehabilitation and reintegration into
society of children soldiers; and(3) to undertake all possible efforts to
persuade other governments to ratify and endorse the optional protocol.
(Sec. 1237) Expresses the sense of Congress that when undersea accidents or
incidents occur, it is in the best interests of all nations to work together in
response, to rescue and recover the vessel's crew, minimize loss of life, and
prevent damage to the oceans. Urges the Presidents of the United States and the
Russian Federation to establish a plan for responding to such accidents or
incidents and rescuing the crew involved.
(Sec. 1238) Establishes the United States-China Security Review Commission to
monitor, investigate, and report to Congress on national security implications
of the bilateral trade and economic relationship between the United States and
the People's Republic of China. Requires an annual report from the Commission to
Congress. Authorizes appropriations.
Title XIII: Cooperative Threat Reduction With States of the Former Soviet
Union - Makes FY 2001 O&M funds available for Cooperative Threat
Reduction (CTR) programs with states of the former Soviet Union. Allocates such
funds among specified CTR programs. Prohibits such funds from being obligated or
expended for any purpose other than those specified until 30 days after the
Secretary reports to Congress the purpose and amount of such funds. Authorizes
the Secretary, in the national security interest, to obligate amounts in excess
of those specified, as long as Congress is notified and 15 days have elapsed
since such notification. Limits such excess amounts in specified cases.
(Sec. 1303) Prohibits CTR funds from being obligated or expended for the
elimination of conventional weapons or the delivery of vehicles intended to
deliver such weapons.
(Sec. 1304) Prohibits the use of FY 2001 CTR funds for: (1) construction of a
second wing of a Russian fissile material storage facility; or (2) design or
planning with respect to such facility, until 15 days after the Secretary
notifies Congress that the United States and Russia have signed a verifiable
agreement that assures that materials stored are of weapons origin. Provides a
funding limit with respect to the first wing of such facility.
(Sec. 1305) Prohibits FY 2001 CTR funds from being used to support the
warhead dismantlement process in Russia until 15 days after the Secretary
notifies Congress that the United States has reached an agreement with Russia
regarding U.S. assistance under such process.
(Sec. 1306) Directs the Secretary to seek to enter into an agreement with
Russia for U.S. access to nuclear weapons storage sites for which assistance is
provided under CTR programs.
(Sec. 1307) Prohibits any CTR funds from being used for the construction of a
fossil fuel energy plant.
(Sec. 1308) Requires the Secretary, in any year in which the President's
budget requests funds for CTR programs, to report to Congress on activities and
assistance during the preceding fiscal year with respect to such programs.
Prohibits more than ten percent of FY 2001 CTR funds from being obligated or
expended until the Secretary submits to Congress an updated version of the CTR
multiyear plan required under a prior defense authorization Act. Requires a
report from the Secretary to Congress on specified information with respect to
Russia's arsenal of tactical nuclear warheads.
(Sec. 1309) Expresses the sense of Congress that the international community
should assist Russia in eliminating its chemical weapons stockpile in accordance
with Russia's obligations under the Chemical Weapons Convention, basing the
level of such assistance on specified factors. Requires a report from the
Secretary to the defense committees.
(Sec. 1310) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent
of the funds authorized for FY 2001 for the elimination of weapons grade
plutonium until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a
report on an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation
regarding a new option for the shutdown or conversion of Russian reactors that
produce such plutonium.
(Sec. 1311) Directs the CG to report to Congress examining procedures and
mechanisms concerning DOD audits of the use of CTR program funds.
Title XIV: Commission to Assess the Threat to the United States From
Electromagnetic Pulse (EMP) Attack - Establishes the Commission to Assess
the Threat to the United States From Electromagnetic Pulse Attack to assess: (1)
the nature and magnitude of potential high-altitude electromagnetic pulse (EMP)
threats to the United States from all potentially hostile states or non-state
actors; (2) the vulnerability of U.S. military and civilian systems to such an
attack; (3) the capability to repair and recover from EMP attack damages to such
systems; and (4) the feasibility and cost of hardening select systems against
such attack. Requires the Commission to report findings and conclusions to
Congress, the Secretary, and the Director of the Federal Emergency Management
Agency. Provides Commission funding from FY 2001 defense-wide O&M funds.
Terminates the Commission 60 days after submission of its report.
Title XV: Navy Activities on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico -
Authorizes the President to provide economic assistance for the people and
communities of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, with a total limit of $40
million.
(Sec. 1502) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, by May 1, 2001, to convey to
Vieques the Naval Ammunition Support Detachment on the western end of the
Island, with certain exclusions. Requires such conveyance despite any need for
environmental mitigation activities on such land. Directs the Secretary of
Defense to hold harmless Puerto Rico, the Island, and any other person or entity
that acquires ownership or control of the area from liability arising out of the
release or threatened release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or
contaminant as a result of DOD activities on the land conveyed.
(Sec. 1503) Directs the President to conduct on the Island a referendum to
determine whether the people approve or disapprove of the continuation of the
conduct of Navy live-fire training on the Island. Makes the referendum
unnecessary if the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine
Corps jointly certify to the defense and appropriations committees that the
Vieques Naval Training Range is no longer needed for training purposes. Limits
live-fire training under the referendum to 90 days each year. States that if the
referendum is approved, then the President may provide additional economic
assistance of up to $50 million.
(Sec. 1505) Requires certain actions if either the referendum is not approved
or there is a certification that such training is no longer necessary,
including: (1) termination of all Navy and Marine Corps training operations on
the Island; (2) termination of all Navy and Marine Corps activities at Roosevelt
Roads, Puerto Rico, that are related to such training; (3) closing of all DOD
installations and facilities on the Island; and (4) review by the CG of the
continued use of Fort Buchanan by active Army forces (with a required report to
the defense and appropriations committees).
(Sec. 1506) Makes non-transferable certain DOD property on the Island.
(Sec. 1507) Prohibits, with exceptions, any acquisition, construction,
conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort
Buchanan, Puerto Rico, after the date of enactment of this Act.
(Sec. 1508) Directs the Secretary of the Navy, except for non-transferable
property, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior all DOD properties on the
western part of the Island that are identified as conservation zones. Requires
the latter Secretary to manage such conservation zones pursuant to a cooperative
agreement among such Secretary, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and the Puerto
Rico Conservation Trust.
Title XVI: GI Bill Educational Assistance and Veterans Claims
Assistance - Subtitle A: Veterans Education Benefits - Authorizes,
during the one-year period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act, an
individual who was previously enrolled in the veterans' educational assistance
program to enroll in the basic educational assistance program under the
Montgomery GI Bill, after paying a premium not exceeding $2,700.
(Sec. 1602) Revises provisions concerning the payment of tuition for off-duty
training or education to: (1) allow the Secretary concerned to pay all
(currently up to 75 percent) of such education expenses; and (2) remove payment
limitations with respect to certain enlisted personnel and individuals enrolled
in a high school completion program. Allows military personnel entitled to
assistance under the Montgomery GI Bill to use such entitlement for the payment
of tuition or expenses not paid by the Secretary concerned. Directs the
Secretary of Defense, at the election of individuals pursuing off-duty
education, to pay a basic educational assistance allowance to meet all or a
portion of such expenses not paid for by the Secretary concerned. Authorizes
such allowance for up to 36 months.
Subtitle B: Veterans Claims Assistance - Requires the Secretary of
Veterans Affairs to: (1) assist a claimant in developing facts pertinent to a
claim for benefits through the Department of Veterans Affairs; and (2) provide a
medical examination when pertinent to such a claim.
Title XVII: Assistance to Firefighters - Amends the Federal Fire
Prevention and Control Act of 1974 to authorize the Director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to: (1) make grants on a competitive basis to
fire departments for protecting the health and safety of the public and
firefighting personnel against fire and fire-related hazards; and (2) provide
assistance for fire prevention programs authorized in this section. Requires the
Director to establish within FEMA an office which shall establish criteria for
the selection of assistance recipients and provide grant-writing assistance to
applicants. Provides authorized grant purposes. Requires the Director to
annually use at least five percent of such funds to make grants to fund fire
prevention programs. Requires the Director, in selecting grant recipients, to
give a priority to organizations that focus on the prevention of fire injury to
children. Provides a 30 percent matching funds requirement. Requires a report
from each recipient to the Director on the manner in which assistance funds were
used. Requires the Director to ensure that such grants are made to a variety of
fire departments. Prohibits any recipient from receiving more than $750,000 in a
fiscal year. Prohibits more than 25 percent of appropriated funds from being
used to purchase vehicles. Requires the Secretary to ensure an appropriate
amount of grant funds for volunteer fire departments. Authorizes appropriations
for FY 2001 and 2002. Requires the Director to study and report to Congress on
the need for Federal assistance to States and local communities to fund
firefighting and emergency response activities (authorizing appropriations for
the study).
(Sec. 1702) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 and 2002 to the Secretary
of Agriculture for carrying out the volunteer forest fire assistance program
under the Cooperative Forestry Assistance Act of 1978. Requires a report from
such Secretary to Congress on the results of such assistance.
(Sec. 1703) Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to: (1) safety
organizations for conducting burn prevention programs or augmenting existing
burn prevention programs; (2) hospitals that serve as regional burn centers for
conducting acute burn care research; and (3) governmental and non-governmental
entities to provide after-burn treatment and counseling to burn victims.
Requires a report from the Director to specified congressional committees on the
results of grants provided. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 1704) Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to conduct a
study concerning the prevalence of hepatitis C among designated U.S. emergency
response employees (firefighters, paramedics, and emergency medical technicians)
and the likely means that such employees became so infected while performing
such duties. Requires study results to be reported to Congress. Directs such
Secretary to make grants to qualifying local governments for carrying out
demonstration projects regarding the training of such employees in minimizing
the risk of such infection, testing, and treating infected employees. Requires a
report from such Secretary to Congress on project results and recommendations.
Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 1705) Requires the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide for the conduct
of an engineering study to identify progress made by DOD in sharing the 138-144
megahertz radio band; and (2) submit an interim report on study progress to the
defense committees. Directs the Secretary of Commerce and the Chairman of the
Federal Communications Commission to report to Congress on alternative
frequencies available for use by public safety systems.
(Sec. 1706) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer excess DOD personal property
to a State firefighting agency for use in providing fire and emergency medical
services.
(Sec. 1707) Directs the Secretary to appoint a task force to identify defense
technologies and equipment that can be readily put to use by fire service and
emergency response agencies. Authorizes appropriations.
Title XVIII: Impact Aid -Impact Aid Reauthorization Act of 2000 -
Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA) to reauthorize
and revise title VIII Impact Aid programs.
(Sec. 1802) Adds as program purposes: (1) promotion of local educational
agency (LEA) control of the assisted educational services for federally
connected children; and (2) provision of special construction assistance to LEAs
as a result of their inability to tax Federal property. Eliminates the purpose
of providing financial assistance to LEAs that experience sudden or substantial
increases or decreases in enrollments because of military realignments.
(Sec. 1803) Revises the program of payments to LEAs relating to Federal
acquisition of real property (which makes that property non-taxable) with
respect to: (1) a limit on the reduction of such payments to LEAs which derive
other revenues on Federal property located in that school district; (2) fiscal
years in which insufficient funds are appropriated; (3) special payments; (4)
additional assistance for certain LEAs; (5) use of prior year data in
determining payment amounts; and (6) eligibility of LEAs to receive payments on
previously held Federal property, combined Federal property, and new Federal
property.
(Sec. 1804) Revises the computation formula for basic support payments for
eligible federally connected children, with a special rule. Provides a maximum
reduction limit on such payments for fiscal years 2001 and 2002. Requires a
ratable reduction allocated among all LEAs if sums made available in a fiscal
year are insufficient to pay the full amounts to which such LEAs are entitled
for federally connected children. Includes under such program's LEA payment
formula, as eligible children who resided on Federal property or in Indian
housing and had a parent on active military duty, those children who: (1) would
have resided in housing on Federal property except that such housing was
undergoing renovation or rebuilding for not more than three fiscal years
(currently law only refers to renovation); or (2) reside in housing initially
acquired or constructed under the military Build-to-Lease housing program, if
such property is within the fenced security perimeter of a military facility,
with appropriate reductions in such payments with respect to any such housing
which is not federally-owned and subject to State or local taxation.
(Sec. 1805) Allows a supplementary payment, in excess of the maximum amount
of basic support payments, to compensate a LEA for increased current
expenditures necessitated by unusual geographic factors.
(Sec. 1806) Establishes a separate (rather than the current additional)
program of basic support payments for FY 2001 and thereafter for LEAs heavily
impacted by the presence of federally connected children in their schools.
Prohibits a LEA from receiving a basic support payment under both the standard
and the heavily impacted programs.
Sets forth: (1) eligibility requirements for continuing and for new heavily
impacted LEAs; and (2) maximum payment amounts for regular and large heavily
impacted LEAs.
Sets forth a revised formula for computing each LEA's learning opportunity
threshold, a factor used in determining actual amounts of basic support payments
when sufficient funds are not available to pay the maximum amounts, in the case
of LEAs with total enrollments of less than one thousand students and per-pupil
expenditures less than their State average.
(Sec. 1807) Provides for basic support payments for certain LEAs affected by
removal of Federal property, if such property is transferred to a non-Federal
entity so that it is subject to State or local taxation and if such LEAs meet
specified additional requirements.
(Sec. 1808) Repeals provisions for additional payments to LEAs with high
concentrations of children with severe disabilities.
(Sec. 1809) Prohibits the Secretary of Education from accepting or approving
any LEA application for Impact Aid filed more than 60 days after the Secretary
sends written notice to the LEA.
(Sec. 1810) Repeals provisions for payments for sudden and substantial
increases in attendance of military dependents.
(Sec. 1811) Revises requirements for eligibility for and allocation of school
construction and renovation payments to certain categories of LEAs, including
those receiving basic support payments and impacted by military dependent
children or children living on Indian lands. Requires that 40 percent of
specified funds be used for such construction payments, with the remaining 60
percent to be used for school facility modernization grants for specified types
of LEAs. Sets forth award criteria for such grants, including certain emergency
grants. Requires the Secretary of Education to report to the appropriate
congressional committees on grants awarded.
(Sec. 1812) Authorizes a State to reduce State aid to a LEA that receives a
Federal Impact Aid payment upon a certain certification by the Secretary of
Education with respect to that State's aid program for free public education
among State LEAs.
(Sec. 1813) Revises provisions relating to Federal administration.
(Sec. 1814) Revises certain deadlines with respect to administrative hearings
and judicial review.
(Sec. 1815) Includes under the definition of Federal property, as a basis of
eligibility for Impact Aid payments, property used for affordable housing
assisted under the Native American Housing Assistance and Self-Determination Act
of 1996.
(Sec. 1817) Extends the authorization of appropriations for Impact Aid
programs, including: (1) payments for Federal acquisition of real property; (2)
basic support payments for LEAs and for heavily impacted LEAs; (3) payments for
children with disabilities; (4) construction; (5) facilities maintenance; and
(6) additional assistance for certain LEAs impacted by Federal property
acquisition. Repeals the authorization of appropriations for Impact Aid payments
for increases in military children.
Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military
Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Title XXI(sic):
Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and
carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified
installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire
family housing units, carry out architectural planning and design activities,
and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes
appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2000 for military
construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the
Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title.
(Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 2000 to: (1) decrease the amount authorized for a construction project at
Fort Stewart, Georgia; (2) cancel a construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas;
(3) increase the amount authorized for CONUS Various; and (4) increase the
amount authorized for unspecified minor construction projects.
(Sec. 2106) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1999 to increase the amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort
Hood, Texas, and Fort Riley, Kansas.
(Sec. 2107) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort
Stewart, Georgia.
(Sec. 2108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to accept funds from the
Federal Highway Administration or the State of Kentucky for a military
construction project involving a rail connector at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.
Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations
paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title.
(Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out a military
construction project at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico,
Virginia, using funds authorized under a prior-year military construction
authorization Act for a sanitary landfill at such facility.
Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force,
authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title XXI.
Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire
real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts
at specified installations and locations. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for
fiscal years after 2000 for military construction, land acquisition, and
military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction
projects authorized by this title.
(Sec. 2402) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation
projects.
(Sec. 2404) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Years 1990 and 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a project at
Portsmouth Naval Hospital, Virginia.
Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment
Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North
Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Security Investment Program and authorizes
appropriations for fiscal years after 2000 for such Program.
Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Facilities - Authorizes appropriations
for fiscal years after 2000 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition,
architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities.
(Sec. 2602) Authorizes the Secretary to contribute up to $1.45 million of
funds authorized under this title to make a contribution to the Cheyenne Airport
Authority toward the construction of a new airport tower at Cheyenne Airport,
Wyoming.
Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates
all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October
1, 2003, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military
construction for FY 2004, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain
prior-year military construction projects.
Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military
Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Expresses the
sense of Congress that in preparing the budget for a fiscal year, the Secretary
should seek to identify and give priority to military construction projects that
are suitable as joint construction projects. Directs the Secretary to include
within each fiscal year budget a certification by the Secretary concerned that
the feasibility of carrying out projects as joint construction projects was
evaluated.
(Sec. 2802) Excludes from a spending limit on the improvement of military
family housing the cost of installing and maintaining communications, security,
or antiterrorism equipment required by the occupant in the performance of duty.
(Sec. 2803) Removes certain limitations on housing space based on pay grade
and directs the Secretary concerned to ensure that room patterns and floor areas
are generally comparable to patterns and areas of similar housing units in the
private sector in that locality.
(Sec. 2804) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of military family
housing units at the United States Southern Command in Miami, Florida, to: (1)
remove an annual $60,000 limit on individual housing lease costs; (2) allow such
leases to extend for up to five years; and (3) require the Secretary of the Army
to adjust the maximum annual limit on such leases by the amount of annual basic
allowance for housing increases in the Miami area.
(Sec. 2805) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to furnish specified utilities
and related services in connection with any military housing acquired or
constructed pursuant to alternative authority for the construction or
improvement of military housing. Requires reimbursement for such utilities and
services.
(Sec. 2806) Extends such alternative authority through December 31, 2004.
(Sec. 2807) Includes a military readiness center within the definition of an
armory.
Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Increases
from $200,000 to $500,000 the minor real property transaction threshold before
certain congressional notification and reporting is required from the Secretary
concerned.
(Sec. 2812) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of non-excess property
of military departments to: (1) remove the requirement that such property is not
currently needed for public use; (2) prohibit such leases from providing for the
maintenance, protection, or restoration of such property; and (3) provide for
the acceptance of additional in-kind consideration with regard to such leases,
including environmental restoration. Prohibits the Secretary concerned from
entering into a new acquisition or construction lease in excess of $500,000
which utilizes in-kind consideration until 30 days after such Secretary notifies
the defense and appropriations committees. Authorizes lease proceeds to be used
for protection, alteration, improvement, or restoration of property or
facilities, leasing of other facilities, or facilities operation support.
(Currently, such uses are limited to maintenance, repair, and environmental
restoration.) Requires at least 50 percent of lease proceeds to be used at the
military installation where the leased property is located. Prohibits the
Secretary concerned from expending lease proceeds in excess of $500,000 at a
single installation until 30 days after notifying the defense and appropriations
committees of the proposed expenditure. Revises reporting dates with respect to
such leases, and requires such reports to be submitted to the appropriations
(currently, only defense) committees.
(Sec. 2813) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to use procedures other than
competitive procedures in conveying a utility system of a military department.
Requires such Secretary to ensure, in any contract for such conveyance, that the
conveyee manage and operate the system in compliance with applicable Federal and
State health, safety, fire, and environmental requirements.
(Sec. 2814) Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of
1949 to make permanent a program under which the Administrator of General
Services transfers surplus real and personal property to correctional facilities
for emergency management response purposes.
Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense
Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 and the Defense Authorization
Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to limit to the initial transfer
of property the right of the Secretary to transfer at or below its estimated
fair market value real and personal property located at a military installation
to be closed or realigned.
Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances -
Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to: (1) the administrative
jurisdiction of the Secretary of Veterans Affairs a portion of the Rock Island
Arsenal, Illinois, for use as a national cemetery; (2) Knox County, Illinois,
the Army Reserve Center in Galesburg, Illinois, for use as municipal office
space; (3) the Tri-City Regional Port District of Granite City, Illinois, the
Charles Melvin Price Support Center, for a port facility and other public
purposes; (4) the State of Kansas specified real property at Fort Riley, Kansas,
for establishing and maintaining a State-operated veterans cemetery; (5) the
State of Louisiana a portion of Fort Polk, Louisiana, for use as a State-run
cemetery for veterans; (6) the Winona State University Foundation in Winona,
Minnesota, the Winona Army Reserve Center, (7) Pemberton Township, New Jersey, a
portion of Fort Dix, New Jersey, for use as a parking lot; (8) the Board of
Supervisors of Union Township, Pennsylvania, Nike Site 43 in Elrama,
Pennsylvania, for municipal storage and other public purposes; (9) the Medal of
Honor Museum, Inc., Tennessee, a portion of the Army Reserve Local Training
Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, for a museum and other educational purposes;
(10) the city of Copperas Cove, Texas, a portion of Fort Hood, Texas, in
exchange for other property; (11) the Commonwealth of Virginia a portion of Fort
Pickett, Virginia, for use as a public safety training facility; (12) the city
of Seattle, Washington, specified real property at Fort Lawson, Washington, for
inclusion in Seattle's Discovery Park; and (13) the city of Vancouver,
Washington, the west barracks at Vancouver Barracks, for inclusion within the
Vancouver National Historic Reserve.
Part II: Navy Conveyances - Amends the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to modify a land conveyance with respect to
the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California.
(Sec. 2847) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1995 to modify conditions on the authority of Oxnard Harbor District, Port
Hueneme, California, to use certain property jointly with the Navy.
(Sec. 2848) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer to the
administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Interior the Teacup Parcel
of the Marine Corps Air Station, Miramar, California, for the conservation of
fish and wildlife.
(Sec. 2849) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to: (1) the San
Diego Unified Port District in San Diego, California, a portion of the Marine
Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, in exchange for other property; and (2) the
Tampa Port Authority the Naval Reserve Center in Tampa, Florida, for the
expansion of the Port of Tampa.
(Sec. 2850) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease to the Naval
Aviation Museum Foundation certain property at the National Museum of Naval
Aviation in Pensacola, Florida, for operation of a national flight academy and
related purposes.
(Sec. 2852) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1995 to direct the Secretary to replace the electric utility service
removed during the course of environmental remediation at the Defense Fuel
Supply Point, Casco Bay, Maine.
(Sec. 2853) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the State of
Maine, or a subdivision or agency thereof, the Naval Computer and
Telecommunications Station in Cutler, Maine. Authorizes the lease of such
property pending conveyance.
(Sec. 2854) Modifies a land conveyance at the former Naval Training Center in
Bainbridge, Maryland, to allow the Secretary of the Navy to choose whether to
receive consideration upon the further transfer of such property to the State of
Maryland.
(Sec. 2855) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of
Jacksonville, Florida, a railroad right-of-way at the Marine Corps Base in Camp
Lejeune, North Carolina.
(Sec. 2856) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the
Rickenbacker Port Authority of Columbus, Ohio, the civilian facilities of the
Naval Air Reserve at Rickenbacker International Airport, in exchange for other
property.
(Sec. 2857) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the city of
Bremerton, Washington, a former off-site housing facility for the Naval Station
in Bremerton, for public health, public safety, education, housing, or public
recreation.
Part III: Air Force Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air
Force to convey to: (1) appropriate buyers specified portions of the Los Angeles
Air Force Base, California, in order to consolidate the mission and support
functions at such Base; (2) Mendocino County, California, a portion of the Point
Arena Air Force Station in California, for municipal and other public purposes;
(3) the Lowry Redevelopment Authority, a portion of the former Lowry Air Force
Base, Colorado, for economic development and other public purposes; and (4)
Greene County, Ohio, the communications test annex at Wright Patterson Air Force
Base in Ohio, for recreational purposes.
(Sec. 2865) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal
Year 1998 to designate a new transferee with respect to a land conveyance at
Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota.
(Sec. 2866) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to the Port
of Everett, Washington, the Mukilteo Tank Farm, for a port facility and other
purposes.
Part IV: Other Conveyances - Allows the Secretary of Defense to
authorize the Army and Air Exchange Service to sell certain Exchange Service
property in Farmers Branch, Texas. Requires a sale report from the Secretary to
Congress.
(Sec. 2872) Authorizes the Administrator of General Services to convey to the
city of Charlottesville, Virginia, the Jefferson Street property in
Charlottesville, for economic development purposes.
Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the Military Construction
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to provide a Federal easement through
certain parkland within Camp Pendleton, California.
(Sec. 2882) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1995 to extend through December 31, 2001, a reporting requirement concerning a
demonstration project in Monterey, California, for the purchase of utility
services from local government agencies.
(Sec. 2883) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to accept gifts from
the Air Force Museum Foundation to pay the costs of design and construction of a
third building for the United States Air Force Museum at Wright-Patterson Air
Force Base, Ohio.
(Sec. 2884) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to enter into a joint
venture with the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation for the design and
construction of a multipurpose facility for historical displays and related
purposes consistent with the mission of the Marine Corps University in Quantico,
Virginia. Designates such facility as the Marine Corps Heritage Center.
Authorizes such Secretary to accept certain property offered by the Park
Authority of Prince William County, Virginia, as a potential facility site.
Authorizes such Secretary to lease portions of the facility to such Foundation.
(Sec. 2885) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to carry out appropriate
activities to maintain aircrew safety at Fallon Air Station, Nevada, following
the elimination of greenbelt irrigation at such Station. Authorizes
appropriations.
(Sec. 2886) Directs the Secretary to establish on Federal lands near the Fena
Caves in Guam a suitable memorial to honor Guam civilians killed during the
occupation of Guam during World War II and to commemorate the liberation of Guam
by U.S. armed forces in 1944.
(Sec. 2887) Designates the: (1) Army missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll
in the Marshall Islands as the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site
at Kwajalein Atoll; (2) building at 8725 John J. Kingman Road in Fort Belvoir,
Virginia, as the Andrew T. McNamara Building; and (3) Balboa Naval Hospital in
San Diego, California, as the Bob Wilson Naval Hospital.
(Sec. 2890) Expresses the sense of Congress that prompt expansion of the
National Training Center, Fort Irwin, California, is vital to U.S. national
security interests.
(Sec. 2891) Expresses the sense of Congress that land transfers at Melrose
Range, New Mexico, and the Yakima Training Center, Washington, will support
military training, safety, and land management concerns on such lands.
Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and
Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National
Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs
Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE)
for FY 2001 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects
necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security
programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear nonproliferation; (3)
defense environmental restoration and waste management (4) other defense
activities; (5) defense environmental management privatization activities; and
(6) defense nuclear waste disposal.
Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds
appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110
percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount
authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of,
Congress until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this
Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full
statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired.
(Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction
projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits.
(Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to
other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were
authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and
available for the same purposes. Requires notification to the defense committees
of any such transfers.
(Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a
construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete
a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding request for
designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the
Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any
proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does
not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs
exceeding such amount.
(Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, or
construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed
expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of
national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the
defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used.(Sec. 3127) Makes
amounts appropriated pursuant to this title for management and support
activities and for general plant projects available for use in connection with
all DOE national security programs.
(Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 2001, to empower each DOE field
office manager with the authority to transfer defense environmental management
funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another
program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the
environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field
office. Limits such transfer to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs
the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer.
Subtitle C: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations -
Prohibits the Secretary from using appropriated funds to establish a reserve for
the payment of contract termination costs relating to the river protection
project at Richland, Washington.
(Sec. 3132) Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Defense to jointly modify
the memorandum of understanding for the use of national laboratories for
ballistic missile defense programs to provide for jointly funded projects
carried out by the National Nuclear Security Administration and the Ballistic
Missile Defense Organization. Requires the implementation of mechanisms that
increase the cooperative relationship between such entities.
(Sec. 3133) Prohibits FY 2001 nuclear infrastructure upgrades or maintenance
funds from being obligated for any other purpose.
(Sec. 3134) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
1998 to require adjustments of certain supercomputer composite theoretical
performance levels to be included within required post-shipment verification
reports in connection with the sales of such computers to certain foreign
countries.
(Sec. 3135) Amends the Department of Energy Facilities Safeguards, Security,
and Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 1999 to include within the
counterintelligence polygraph requirements of such Act certain individuals
involved in or applying for high-risk positions, as specified under the Code of
Federal Regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the polygraph
requirements if: (1) the Secretary determines the waiver to be in the national
security interest; (2) the covered person has an active security clearance; and
(3) the covered person acknowledges in writing that such requirements must be
met after expiration of the waiver. Allows such a waiver if: (1) another Federal
agency certifies that the covered person has successfully completed a full scope
of such an examination during a five-year period prior to such certification; or
(2) the Secretary determines that the treatment of a medical or psychological
condition should preclude the administration of such polygraph. Conditions such
waiver upon a 15-day advance notification of the defense and intelligence
committees of the criteria used for the waiver, including an assessment of
counterintelligence risks and programmatic impacts. Limits any waiver to 120
days. Requires the Secretary to report semiannually to such committees on any
waivers exercised. Expresses the sense of Congress that such waiver authority
not be used for covered persons in the highest risk categories, such as persons
having access to the most sensitive weapons design information and other highly
sensitive programs, including special access programs. Terminates the waiver
authority on September 30, 2002. Includes as authorized examination questions
those concerning terrorism and deliberate damage to or malicious use of a U.S.
Government information or defense system.
(Sec. 3136) Authorizes the Secretary to offer to DOE employees who have
worked continuously at a DOE closure facility for at least two years and meet
specified performance requirements certain employee incentives, including the
right to accumulate additional leave and to be paid a retention allowance.
Requires such employees to enter into an agreement to remain so employed until a
specific date or for a specific period of time (to be determined by the
Secretary). Requires incentive forfeiture for agreement violation. Requires the
Secretary to report annually on such incentives. Allows for the continuation of
health care coverage for such employees during the incentive period. Allows the
Secretary to: (1) voluntarily separate a DOE employee employed at a DOE closure
facility; and (2) retain an employee in a similar position who would otherwise
be separated due to a reduction in force. Prohibits employees with critical
knowledge and skills from participating in such voluntary separation if the
Secretary determines that such participation would impair performance of the DOE
mission. Terminates incentive authority on March 31, 2007.
(Sec. 3137) Directs the Secretary to continue operations and to maintain a
high state of readiness at the F- and H-canyon facilities at the Savannah River
Site, South Carolina, and to provide technical staff necessary to operate and
maintain such facilities. Prohibits any DOE funds from being used to
decommission the F-facility until the Secretary and the Defense Nuclear
Facilities Safety Board jointly submit to the defense committees a certification
concerning the stability of materials there and that future needs can be met
utilizing only the H-facility. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense
committees a plan for the transfer of all long-term chemical separation
activities from the F- to the H-facility commencing in FY 2002.
(Sec. 3138) Prohibits, as of November 1, 2001, any DOE funds from being used
for travel expenses by the Secretary, any officer or employee of the Office of
the Secretary, or the Chief of Engineers until the Secretary or the Chief
certify to the defense and appropriations committees that DOE is in compliance
with certain requirements prohibiting the use of funds for treatment, storage,
or disposal activities at formerly used defense sites.
(Sec. 3139) Earmarks DOE funds for carrying out a conceptual design for a
subsurface geosciences laboratory at Idaho National Engineering and
Environmental Laboratory, Idaho Falls, Idaho. Prohibits the obligation of funds
for such purpose until 60 days after the Secretary reports to the defense and
appropriations committees concerning such laboratory.
(Sec. 3140) Prohibits more than 50 percent of the funds available for the
national ignition facility at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory,
California, from being obligated or expended until the Administrator for Nuclear
Security submits to the defense committees a new baseline plan for the
completion of such facility. Requires the CG to review the national ignition
facility program and submit review results to the defense committees.
(Sec. 3141) Designates the tank waste remediation system environmental
project at Richland, Washington, as the River Protection Project. Requires the
Assistant Secretary of Energy for Environmental Management to delegate in
writing responsibility for such Project to the head of the Office of River
Protection. Requires such Office to coordinate its activities with the manager
of DOE's Richland Operations Office. Requires a report from such Assistant
Secretary to the defense committees on the delegation of such responsibility.
(Sec. 3142) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the Tank
Waste Remediation System project at the Hanford Reservation in Richland,
Washington.
Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Management of National Nuclear Security
Administration - Mandates a three-year term of office for the person first
appointed to the position of Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the
Department of Energy. Limits the reasons for removal from such position to
inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. Includes such Under
Secretary as a member of the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council.
(Sec. 3153) Requires the Administrator for Nuclear Security (Administrator)
to submit to the defense committees a plan for assigning roles and
responsibilities to and among the headquarters and field organizational units of
the National Nuclear Security Administration (Administration).
(Sec. 3154) Requires certain additional information to be submitted with the
future-years nuclear security program submitted with the FY 2002 budget.
(Sec. 3155) Requires the Administrator to submit to the defense committees a
future-years nuclear security program for FY 2001 and the five succeeding fiscal
years. Outlines the required level of detail of such program. Requires such
program to be submitted by November 1, 2000. Limits the use of certain funds
pending submission of such program and a waiting period of 45 days thereafter.
(Sec. 3156) Directs the Administrator to authorize the head of each nuclear
weapons production facility to establish an engineering and manufacturing
research, development, and demonstration program for innovative or high-risk
design and manufacturing concepts and technologies with potentially high payoff
for the nuclear weapons complex. Provides funding. Requires a report from the
Administrator to the defense committees on each project under the program.
(Sec. 3157) Amends the National Nuclear Security Administration Act to
prohibit an individual from concurrently holding a position in such
Administration and a position within DOE not in the Administration.
(Sec. 3158) Amends the above Act to direct the Administrator to annually
prepare and submit to Congress a plan for the obligation of Administration
funds. Requires the CG to submit to the defense and appropriations committees an
assessment of the adequacy of the planning, programming, and budgeting processes
of the Administration.
(Sec. 3159) Authorizes the Administrator to establish, abolish, alter,
consolidate, or discontinue any Administration organizational unit or component.
Subtitle E: National Laboratories Partnership Improvement - Directs
the Administrator, during FY 2001 and 2002, to establish a Technology
Infrastructure Pilot Program to improve the ability of DOE national laboratories
and nuclear weapons production facilities to support Administration missions by:
(1) stimulating the development of technology expertise and capabilities in
private industry and institutions of higher education to support Administration
missions on a continuing basis; (2) improving the ability of those laboratories
to benefit from commercial research, technology, products, processes, and
services that can support such mission; and (3) encouraging the exchange of
scientific and technical expertise between such laboratories and facilities and
institutions of higher education, technology-related businesses, nonprofit
institutions, and State, tribal, or local governmental agencies that can support
the mission. Limits program funding to $5 million. Outlines program
requirements, including selection criteria for choosing program projects at each
laboratory or facility. Prohibits program funds from being allocated until 30
days after the Administrator submits to the defense and appropriations
committees a program implementation plan. Requires an additional report on
program implementation and management.
(Sec. 3162) Directs the Administrator to report to the defense and
appropriations committees on small business participation in Administration
activities.
(Sec. 3163) Requires the Secretary to direct the Energy Advisory Board to
conduct a study for improving mission effectiveness, partnerships, and
technology transfer at national security laboratories and nuclear weapons
production facilities. Directs the Secretary to submit such study to Congress,
along with recommendations.
(Sec. 3164) Requires the Administrator to report to Congress on the
efficiency and effectiveness with which the Administrator and its laboratories
and facilities carry out technology development activities in partnership with
non-Federal entities. Requires the CG to review such report and provide Congress
with a report assessment.
Subtitle F: Matters Relating to Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation -
Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the status
of efforts to secure weapons-usable nuclear materials in Russia that have been
identified as being at risk for theft or diversion. Prohibits funds appropriated
for the Nuclear Materials Protection, Control, and Accounting Program from being
obligated or expended after FY 2000 for any project at a site controlled by the
Russian Ministry of Atomic Energy until the Secretary reports to the defense
committees on the access policy for such project, including a certification that
the access policy has been implemented.
(Sec. 3172) Authorizes the Secretary to expand and enhance DOE activities
under the Nuclear Cities Initiative, providing FY 2001 funding. Prohibits such
funding from being used to provide Initiative assistance for more than three
nuclear cities in Russia and two nuclear production facilities in Russia until
30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a copy of a
written agreement between the United States and Russia providing that Russia
will close some of its facilities engaged in nuclear weapons assembly and
disassembly work. Prohibits more than $8.75 million of such funds from being
obligated or expended until the Secretary establishes and implements review
procedures for Initiative projects and submits such procedures to the defense
committees. Requires an additional report and certification, with a funding
limit until the report and certification are received by the defense committees.
Urges the President to enter into discussions with Russia toward the
development by Russia of a plan to restructure its nuclear complex to meet
changes in the national security requirements of Russia by 2010.
Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to encourage students in the
United States and Russia to pursue careers in nonproliferation. Provides program
funding. Requires the Administrator to notify the defense committees before any
such funds are expended.
(Sec. 3173) Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on
DOE's efforts to ensure adequate oversight and accountability of DOE's
nonproliferation programs in Russia and the potential effects of the use of
on-ground monitoring for DOE's significant nonproliferation programs there.
Requires the CG to submit an assessment of such report to such committees.
(Sec. 3174) Expresses the sense of Congress that there should be clear and
effective coordination of nonproliferation programs among specified DOE
programs.
(Sec. 3175) Allows amounts made available to DOE for FY 2001 for the
International Nuclear Safety Program in the former Soviet Union and Eastern
Europe to be available only for reactor safety upgrades and training related to
nuclear operator and reactor safety.
Subtitle G: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization
Act for Fiscal Year: (1) 1995 to extend through FY 2002 the authority of the
Secretary to appoint up to 200 positions in DOE for scientific, engineering, and
technical personnel whose duties will relate to safety at defense nuclear
facilities; and (2) 1996 to require biennial updates of a report concerning DOE
nuclear test readiness postures, and to require certain additional information
in such reports.
(Sec. 3193) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to require the Secretary, on a quarterly basis (currently, only
30 days after an inadvertent release), to notify specified committees and the
Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs whether there has been
an inadvertent release of records containing restricted or formerly restricted
data during the automatic declassification of records.
(Sec. 3194) Requires any certification submitted to the President by the
Secretaries of Energy or Defense concerning the safety or reliability of a
nuclear weapon type in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to be submitted in
classified form only.
(Sec. 3195) Authorizes the Secretary to present a certificate of commendation
to any current or former DOE employee, or current or former employee of a DOE
contractor, whose service in matters relating to stockpile stewardship assisted
DOE in furthering U.S. national security interests.
(Sec. 3196) Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to
authorize the Federal waiver of a license from an Administration laboratory to a
party to have such party practice an invention discovered in a DOE laboratory by
or on behalf of the Government when the designated official finds that the
retention of such license would substantially inhibit the commercialization of
an invention that would otherwise serve an important Federal mission. Terminates
such waiver authority five years after the enactment of this Act. Requires a
report from the Administrator to Congress on any waivers granted.
(Sec. 3197) Authorizes the Secretary to establish within DOE an Office of
Arctic Energy to promote research, development, and deployment in rural and
remote areas of: (1) electric power technology that is cost-effective and
especially suited to meet the needs of such regions; and (2) oil recovery
technology, gas-to-liquids technology, hydroelectric facilities, natural gas,
gas hydrates, and coal methane, and alternative energy.
Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes
appropriations for FY 2001 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board.
Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National
Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2001, to obligate up to $71 million
of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for
authorized Fund uses, including the disposal of hazardous materials that are
environmentally sensitive. Authorizes the NDS Manager to obligate amounts in
excess of such amount 45 days after notifying Congress that extraordinary or
emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations.
(Sec. 3302) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to increase the authorized receipts for NDS disposals occurring
by the end of FY 2002, 2003, and 2005.
(Sec. 3303) Directs the President, by the end of FY 2010, to dispose of
30,000 short tons of titanium contained in the NDS. Requires receipts realized
from such disposal to be deposited for use by the American Battle Monuments
Commission for design, construction, dedication, and maintenance of the World
War II memorial (authorized under prior law).
Title XXXIV: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Amends Federal provisions
concerning the naval petroleum reserves to: (1) remove a requirement that the
Secretary sell such petroleum at a price equal to at least 90 percent of
comparable petroleum prices in the same area; (2) remove Naval Petroleum Reserve
Number 1 from inclusion in any price requirements; and (3) repeal provisions
authorizing the Secretary to enter into cooperative plans for the exploration,
development, use, and operation of lands inside Naval Petroleum Reserve Number
1.
(Sec. 3403) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for
Fiscal Year 1999 to convey to the Ute Indian Tribe of the Uintah and Ouray
Indian reservation all Federal lands within the exterior boundaries of National
Oil Shale Reserve Number 2, with specified reservations of lands for management
by the Secretary of the Interior according to a land use management plan.
Requires the Secretary of Energy to prepare a plan for remediation of the Moab
uranium milling site near Moab, Utah, and to commence appropriate remediation.
Prohibits DOE national security funds from being used to carry out the remedial
action, except for program direction. Authorizes appropriations.
Amends the Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act of 1978 to designate
the Moab milling site as a processing site, and therefore subject to appropriate
remediation.
Title XXXV: Maritime Administration - Authorizes appropriations for FY
2001 for the Department of Transportation for the Maritime Administration.
(Sec. 3502) Amends the National Maritime Heritage Act of 1994 to extend
through FY 2006 the period for disposal of obsolete vessels in the National
Defense Reserve Fleet. Authorize the Secretary of Transportation to scrap
obsolete vessels through qualified scrapping facilities, using the most
expeditious scrapping methodology and location practicable. Requires such
Secretary to submit to specified committees a plan for completing such disposal,
limiting the vessels that may be scrapped prior to such report. Requires a
subsequent progress report from such Secretary.
(Sec. 3503) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to convey the former
U.S.S. GLACIER of the National Defense Reserve Fleet to the Glacier Society,
Inc., for use as a monument to the exploration of the Arctic and Antarctic.
Requires such Secretary to retain such vessel in the Fleet until the earlier of
the date of conveyance under this section or two years after the enactment of
this Act.
(Sec. 3504) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to make grants to
national maritime enhancement institutes for maritime and maritime intermodal
research.
(Sec. 3505) Directs such Secretary to study and report to Congress on
maritime research and technology development. Authorizes appropriations.
(Sec. 3506) Requires the Maritime Administration, in its annual report and
annual budget submission, to state separately the amount, nature, and use of any
funds administered or subject to oversight by such Administration.
Title XXXVI: Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
Program - Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation Program Act of
2000 - Subtitle A: Establishment of Compensation Program and Compensation
Fund - Establishes the Energy Employees Occupational Illness Compensation
Program to provide timely, uniform, and adequate compensation of covered DOE
employees (and, where applicable, survivors of such employees) suffering from
illnesses incurred in the performance of duty for DOE and certain of its
contractors and subcontractors.
(Sec. 3612) Establishes the Energy Employees Occupational Illness
Compensation Fund to carry out the Program.
(Sec. 3613) Requires the President to submit to Congress a proposal for
legislation to implement the Program, including an assessment of the number of
potential covered employees.
(Sec. 3614) Authorizes appropriations.
Subtitle B: Program Administration - Authorizes the President to
designate additional entities as beryllium vendors for purposes of coverage
under this Title if such entities engage in activities relating to the
production or processing of beryllium for sale to, or use by, DOE.
(Sec. 3623) Determines, in the absence of substantial evidence to the
contrary, a covered beryllium employee to have been exposed to beryllium in the
performance of duties for purposes of this Title if such employee was: (1)
employed at a DOE facility; or (2) present at a DOE facility, or a facility
owned and operated by a beryllium vendor, because of employment by the United
States, a beryllium vendor, or a contractor or subcontractor of DOE, during a
period when beryllium dust, particles, or vapor may have been present at such
facility.
Determines a DOE employee, contractor employee, or atomic weapons employee to
have sustained a cancer in the performance of duty if the cancer was at least as
likely as not related to employment at the employing facility. Requires the
President to establish: (1) guidelines for making such determination; (2)
methods for determining radiation dosage received by such employees; and (3) an
independent review process to establish such methods and verify a reasonable
sample of doses. Directs the Secretary to provide such employees with
information concerning the estimated radiation dosage of the employee during
such employment. Requires public availability of the methodology and data used
in establishing radiation doses.
(Sec. 3624) Directs the President to establish and appoint an Advisory Board
on Radiation and Worker Health to advise the President on: (1) the development
of guidelines to be used to determine exposures to covered hazards; (2) the
scientific validity and quality of dosage estimates and reconstruction efforts
being performed for purposes of the Program; and (3) other matters relating to
radiation and worker health at DOE facilities.
(Sec. 3625) Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out
the Secretary's responsibilities under the Program with the assistance of the
Director of the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.
(Sec. 3626) Directs the Advisory Board to advise the President whether there
is a class of DOE employees who likely were exposed to radiation at a facility
but for whom it is not feasible to estimate the dosage received. Allows such
class of employees to be considered members of the Special Exposure Cohort for
purposes of the Program if there is a reasonable likelihood that the radiation
dose received may have endangered the health of members of that class.
(Sec. 3627) Expresses the sense of Congress that further determination by the
President is appropriate before employees who were exposed to silica are
included in the Program. Requires DOE employee diagnosed with silicosis to be
included in the Program unless the President certifies to Congress that there is
insufficient basis to include such employees. Allows an employee to be so
included only if he or she worked at least 250 days during the mining of tunnels
at a DOE facility in Nevada or Alaska for tests or experiments related to an
atomic weapon.
(Sec. 3628) Requires a covered employee, or their survivor, to receive
compensation for disability or death from the employee's occupational illness in
the amount of $150,000. Requires covered employees to receive medical benefits
for such illness. Requires appropriate covered employees to receive beryllium
sensitivity monitoring, including an initial and regular medical examinations.
(Sec. 3629) Requires the United States to furnish appropriate services,
appliances, and supplies recommended for treatment of the illness. Authorizes an
individual to be furnished transportation incident to such treatment.
(Sec. 3630) Requires an individual (or their survivor) who has received
$100,000 as a covered uranium employee under the Radiation Exposure Compensation
Act to receive $50,000 compensation under this section (to make such award equal
to the award provided herein), and to receive appropriate medical benefits.
(Sec. 3631) Directs the President, upon request, to provide appropriate
assistance to a claimant and potential claimant under the Program. Directs the
Secretary to require a beryllium vendor or other DOE contractor or subcontractor
to provide appropriate assistance to a claimant or potential claimant.
Subtitle C: Treatment, Coordination, and Forfeiture of Compensation and
Benefits - Requires offset against payments authorized under this Title with
respect to any payments already received by covered employees due to such
illnesses. Provides a right of subrogation on behalf of the United States in
connection with such offset.
(Sec. 3643) Mandates that acceptance of payment under the Program for covered
employees constitutes full satisfaction of all such claims against the United
States, DOE or its contractors or subcontractors, a beryllium employer, or
atomic weapons employer.
(Sec. 3644) Specifies the liabilities of the Unites States for future claims
related to covered illnesses.
(Sec. 3645) Allows covered beryllium and atomic weapons employees to elect a
remedy under this Title for a covered illness, with specified time limitations.
Requires any currently-filed tort claim case to be dismissed by December 31,
2003, for claim eligibility under this Title.
(Sec. 3646) Mandates that compensation or benefits provided under this Title
be tax exempt and not affect the eligibility of an individual for Federal
assistance programs.
(Sec. 3647) Prohibits the assignment or transfer of claims under the Program.
(Sec. 3648) Limits attorney fees with respect to such claims to a two percent
fee for filing the initial claim.
(Sec. 3649) States that payment under this Title shall not be considered
compensation or reimbursement for a loss for purposes of any applicable
insurance payment or claim.
(Sec. 3650) Requires forfeiture of entitlement to any Program compensation or
benefit by individuals convicted of a Federal or State felony relating to fraud
in the application for or receipt of any benefit under this Program or any
Federal or State workers' compensation law.
(Sec. 3651) Prohibits (except under sec. 3630, above) individuals receiving
compensation or benefits under the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act from
receiving compensation or benefits under this Title.
Subtitle D: Assistance in State Workers' Compensation Proceedings -
Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements with a State to provide
assistance to a DOE contractor employee in filing a claim under the appropriate
State workers' compensation system. Outlines claim assistance procedures.
Requires a report from the CG to Congress on the implementation and
effectiveness of such assistance.