Asylum

Aufschlüsselung der Krankenbehandlungskosten für Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12041910)

Germany · German Bundestag · 6 December 1991

Jährliche Krankenbehandlungskosten für Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12041926)

Germany · German Bundestag · 6 December 1991

International Cooperation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 27 November 1991

International Cooperation Act of 1991 - Title I: Economic Assistance - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise policy provisions concerning economic assistance. Sets forth the objectives of U.S. economic cooperation policy and development and economic assistance programs as the: (1) alleviation of poverty through the development of human resources; (2) promotion of broad-based economic growth; (3) improved environmental, natural resource, and agricultural management to achieve environmentally and economically sustainable patterns of development; and (4) promotion of democracy, respect for human rights, and political, social, and economic pluralism. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for development assistance. Declares that the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering this title (administering agency) should target a specified amount of such funding for agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for population planning, health, education, and human resources assistance. Declares that the Administrator should target specified amounts of human resource development funding for child survival activities and for the prevention and control of acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Repeals provisions concerning contributions to the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Permits funds authorized to be appropriated for human resources development to be used for assistance to meet the needs of individuals with disabilities and displaced children who have been abandoned or orphaned as a result of poverty or disasters. Authorizes the use of agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance for strengthening and expanding marine fisheries and aquaculture programs. Provides that funds made available for family planning projects shall be available only for projects which offer a broad range of family planning methods and services. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for the prevention and control of AIDS. Revises provisions concerning private sector, environment, energy, and other development assistance. States that Appropriate Technology International qualifies for U.S. development assistance. Declares that a specified amount of economic support assistance should be made available for such organization. Authorizes assistance to be provided to developing countries to support private sector activities meeting specified criteria. Permits the President to issue guarantees assuring against losses incurred in connection with loans made for such activities. Sets forth terms and conditions for such guarantees. Authorizes the President to make direct loans for such activities, subject to certain conditions. Establishes ceilings for direct loans and for contingent liability for guarantees. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Declares that beneficiary countries should bear a share of the costs of development assistance programs under this Act. Requires the Administrator to ensure that: (1) development assistance activities incorporate the active participation of local women; (2) sex-disaggregated data is included in country development strategy statements for major sectors in which assistance is to be provided and in project papers and program assistance approval documents; (3) programs are designed so that the percentage of women who benefit from such assistance exceeds the approximate transitional level of participation of women in the sector for which assistance is being provided; and (4) program assistance evaluations include an assessment of the extent to which women are participating in the activity and the impact of the activity on the self-reliance of women and improvement of their incomes. Requires a specified amount to be made available each fiscal year as matching funds to support activities of the missions of the agency which demonstrate potential for integrating women into programs. Increases the percentage of funds to be made available or channeled for each fiscal year (currently, FY 1986 through 1989) to private and voluntary organizations for specified development activities. Authorizes the Administrator to support and encourage development education programs. Requires the Administrator to establish a program performance evaluation capacity to: (1) develop a program performance information system to afford the administering agency's managers a means for monitoring achievement of impact and interim performance of the agency's major programs; (2) prepare and disseminate reports on the agency's progress in meeting development objectives for major assistance categories and recipient countries; (3) strengthen the implementation of foreign assistance projects; and (4) coordinate with the Inspector General of such agency to ensure complementarity of efforts. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on: (1) progress toward achieving the four basic objectives set forth under this title; and (2) a country-by-country analysis of the impact on economic development in each country during the preceding three to five years of U.S. economic assistance programs, with a discussion of U.S. interests that were served by such assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for American schools, hospitals, and libraries abroad. Raises the ceiling on the principal amount of housing guaranties authorized to be issued under the worldwide shelter program. Continues the authority of the housing guaranty program through FY 1993. Repeals provisions concerning the issuance of guaranties for projects using solar energy technology and agricultural and protective credit and self-help community development programs. Requires fees to be charged for housing guaranties. Raises the ceiling on the total face value of guaranties authorized to be issued with respect to any country and on the average face value of guaranties in any fiscal year. Provides that the principal amount of guaranties issued shall be comparable to the amount issued for FY 1984, subject to dollar value limitations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to pay the cost of guaranties with a specified face value and for administrative expenses of the housing guaranty program. Authorizes the issuance of guaranties in connection with loans made for housing and infrastructure in Israel for Soviet refugees. Exempts such guaranties from specified limitations on principal amount, amount of guaranties per country, or average face value. Removes restrictions on Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) loans for mining operations. Repeals provisions that limit OPIC equity investments to countries in Subsaharan Africa and the Caribbean basin. Increases the amount of OPIC's one-time transfer to the fund established to carry out its activities. Raises the ceiling on the maximum contingent liability for outstanding OPIC guarantees. Authorizes OPIC to draw specified amounts from a noncredit account revolving fund to pay estimated subsidy costs of program levels for the loan guarantee and direct loan programs. Revises provisions concerning OPIC's insurance reserves. Authorizes OPIC to transfer a specified amount from the noncredit account revolving fund for administrative expenses of the direct loan and loan guarantee programs. Makes provisions concerning income and revenues applicable to income and revenues from OPIC's noncredit activities (currently, revenue and income from any source). Changes from mandatory to discretionary OPIC's authority to charge fees for its services. Requires investors in projects receiving OPIC financing to certify to OPIC that any contract for the export of goods as part of a project requires that U.S. insurance companies have a fair and open opportunity to provide insurance against risk of loss of the export. Exempts from such requirement investors who do not have a controlling interest in a project. Directs the U.S. Trade Representative to report to the Congress on OPIC actions with respect to such certifications. Authorizes the President, acting through the Administrator, to provide assistance for microenterprises in developing countries. Directs the administering agency to establish specified criteria for determining the financial intermediaries that will receive such assistance. Requires a significant portion of such assistance to be used to support direct credit assistance by, and the institutional development of, financial intermediaries with a primary emphasis on assisting people living in absolute poverty, especially women. Outlines funding sources for such assistance. Permits the President, in order to generate local currencies for providing such assistance, to use development and economic support fund assistance to provide assistance to developing countries on a loan basis repayable in local currencies. Sets forth minimum levels of assistance to be provided under this Act. Requires the Administrator to develop a monitoring system to evaluate the agency's microenterprise development activities. Authorizes the President to use development and economic support assistance or assistance from the Development Fund for Africa to support human rights and activities to improve the performance of democratic institutions. Requires a substantial portion of such assistance to be provided to nongovernmental organizations. Prohibits such assistance from being used to influence the outcome of an election in any country. Permits Development Fund for Africa assistance to be used only for countries in Subsaharan Africa. Requires the President to report to specified congressional committees on activities designed to promote democracy that are funded by the Department of State, the Agency for International Development (AID), or the U.S. Information Agency (USIA), along with recommendations for ways to improve coordination of responsibilities among such agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for contributions to international organizations. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for: (1) the United Nations Development Program; (2) the United Nations Children's Fund; (3) the United Nations Environment Program; (4) the Organization of American States (OAS), with an amount set aside for establishing an electronic network for the exchange of science and technology information among universities in OAS member countries; (5) the Special Program for Africa of the International Fund for Agricultural Development; (6) the United Nations Development Fund for Women; (7) the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission; and (8) the United Nations University Endowment Fund. Permits the President to continue U.S. participation in, and make contributions to, the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Applies evaluation and auditing procedures for the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the Asian Development Bank to the International Development Association, the International Finance Corporation, the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Inter-American Investment Corporation, the African Development Bank, the African Development Fund, the Asian Development Fund, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. Provides that if Israel is denied its right to participate in any United Nations agency, the United States shall suspend its participation in, and contributions to, such agency until the denial of rights is reversed. Permits the President to use development or economic support assistance or assistance from the Development Fund for Africa for grants to, or contracts with, nongovernmental organizations to enable such organizations to: (1) purchase debt obligations owned by developing countries to commercial lending institutions or other private parties; and (2) cancel such obligations subject to the President's approval, to the extent that such countries make available assets or policy commitments to promote the objectives of this title. Authorizes grantees or contractees to retain interest earned on the proceeds of debt-for-development or debt-for-environment purchases or exchanges pending the disbursement of such proceeds and interest for the purposes for which assistance was provided. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for international disaster assistance. Raises the ceiling on the amount that may be obligated against appropriations for use in providing such assistance. Limits the amount that may be obligated against appropriations for development assistance and assistance from the Development Fund for Africa. Authorizes appropriations for economic support fund (ESF) assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt; (3) Turkey; (4) the International Fund for Ireland; (5) Cyprus (for a scholarship program, bicommunal projects, and measures aimed at the reunification of the island and designed to promote peace between the two communities on Cyprus); (6) Nepal; (7) the South Pacific Regional Program (with earmarked funds for scholarships for study at postsecondary institutions of education in the United States); (8) regional cooperative programs in the Middle East; and (9) other recipients or purposes. Redesignates the Trade and Development Program as the Trade and Development Agency. Revises the authorities of the Director of the Agency. Requires the Agency to disseminate information about its activities to the private sector. Sets forth the duties of the Inspector General of the administering agency with respect to the Agency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operating expenses of the administering agency and its Office of the Inspector General. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on: (1) progress toward achieving the four basic objectives set forth under this title; and (2) a country-by-country analysis of the impact on economic development in each country during the preceding three to five years of U.S. economic assistance programs, with a discussion of U.S. interests that were served by such assistance. Requires the President to maintain within the administering agency a Center for University Cooperation in Development and a Center for Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Provides that the respective purposes of such centers shall be to strengthen the partnership for development between the U.S. Government and: (1) U.S. and developing country institutions of higher education engaged in education, research, and public service programs relevant to developing countries; and (2) U.S. private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and credit unions engaged in activities relevant to such countries. Directs the Administrator to establish an Advisory Committee on University Cooperation in Development and an Advisory Committee on Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Repeals provisions concerning the Board for International Food and Agricultural Development. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should continue to make efforts to improve the management of U.S. economic assistance programs. Requires the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility and impact on U.S. foreign policy and foreign assistance objectives of: (1) reducing the number of countries receiving economic assistance; and (2) improving coordination within the U.S. Government and with other donors and improving management of U.S. economic assistance programs. Title II: Military Assistance and Sales and Related Programs - Chapter 1: Military Assistance and Related Programs - Revises policies and objectives of U.S. military assistance programs. Revises the President's authorities to furnish foreign military financing assistance, to remove the authority to detail members of the armed forces to foreign countries, or to transfer funds to countries to meet obligations for payments for arms sales. Exempts from appropriations charges, any defense article or service that is made available under special drawdown authority. Permits financing assistance to be provided on a grant, credit, or guaranty basis. Directs the President, in determining how financing will be provided, to take into account: (1) U.S. national security and foreign policy interests in furnishing such assistance to a country; and (2) the national security and self-defense needs and economic conditions of the country. Requires repayment on credits within a 12-year period unless a longer period is authorized by law. Sets a minimum five percent interest rate on credits. Authorizes financing for the procurement by leasing of defense articles from U.S. commercial suppliers to be provided to Israel and Egypt if there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for such articles being provided by lease rather than by government-to-government sale. Permits the financing of the procurement of defense articles and services not sold by the U.S. Government only if the country or international organization proposing to make such procurement has signed an agreement with the United States specifying the conditions under which the procurement may be financed. Requires sales under the Arms Export Control Act which are wholly paid from funds made available on a grant basis under this Act or were transferred or made available under former authorities prior to this Act's enactment to be priced to exclude the costs of salaries of members of the U.S. armed forces (other than members of the Coast Guard). Prohibits assistance from being furnished under this chapter in any case involving coproduction or licensed production outside the United States of any defense article of U.S. origin unless the President furnishes full information on the proposed transaction to the appropriate congressional committees. Prohibits the obligation of certain assistance for the procurement of: (1) any vessel of war built pursuant to a prime contract awarded to a foreign shipyard; or (2) any weapons system or other major system for a vessel of war built pursuant to such a contract awarded to a foreign rather than a U.S. shipyard because of unfair foreign competition. Exempts from such prohibition vessels of war built in the foreign country which is the recipient of such assistance or built pursuant to a prime contract signed before the effective date of this Act or procurement for the maintenance, repair, or replacement of such systems. Authorizes appropriations for foreign military financing for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt; (3) Turkey; (4) Greece; and (5) other recipients or purposes. Revises provisions concerning eligibility for the receipt of defense articles and services. Raises the ceiling on the amount of defense articles and services and military training to be drawn down under certain emergencies. Limits the amount of such articles, services, and training to be drawn down for purposes of international narcotics control and international disaster assistance. Directs the President to establish monitoring and auditing controls to make financed arms sales subject to requirements no less stringent in accountability than requirements of Federal Acquisition Regulations applicable to sales under the Arms Export Control Act relating to improper business practices and personal conflict of interest. Places a ceiling on the value of additions to stockpiles for FY 1992 and 1993. Revises provisions concerning the location of stockpiles. Extends the President's authority to transfer excess defense articles to countries on NATO's southern flank through FY 1996. Requires excess defense articles to be made available to maintain the military balance in the Eastern Mediterranean. Directs the President to ensure, over a three-year period beginning in FY 1993, that the ratio of the value of such articles made available for Turkey to those made available for Greece closely approximates the ratio of the amount of foreign military financing provided for Turkey to the amount provided for Greece. Authorizes the President to transfer excess defense articles to major drug transit countries for counternarcotics purposes. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to raise the ceiling on the aggregate acquisition cost to the United States of excess defense articles ordered by the President. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to remove a reporting requirement with respect to nonlethal defense articles furnished to foreign countries. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1990 concerning transfers of excess defense articles. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) international military education and training; (2) peacekeeping operations; and (3) antiterrorism assistance. Declares that the President, in providing assistance under this Act, should take into account the cooperation provided by countries in matters connected with international terrorism. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to revise requirements of a report by the President on military exports. Chapter 2: Foreign Military Sales Program - Amends the Arms Export Control Act to repeal provisions concerning purposes of military sales or leases. Requires the President to take the following steps to address financial management problems with respect to payments on account of foreign military sales: (1) certify that payments with respect to such sales are properly recorded by case and country; (2) improve the coordination and uniformity of the military services systems used to account for, control, and report upon the operation of the foreign military sales program; and (3) reconcile the discrepancies between reported disbursements and performance for all uncompleted foreign military sales agreements executed prior to March 1989. Directs the President to notify the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the termination of any discrepancy reconciliation. Designates Australia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, New Zealand, and South Korea as major non-NATO allies. Provides that New Zealand shall be eligible for special treatment authorized for such allies only to the extent that the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees that such treatment is in the national security interest. Authorizes the President to make additional designations with advance notification to the appropriate congressional committees. Raises the threshold on the dollar amount of defense equipment or services on which the President is required to submit specified certifications. Revises provisions concerning presidential certifications and congressional procedures for certain arms transfers. Adds to the list of information required in the President's quarterly report on military exports information on all concluded defense coproduction agreements. Imposes sanctions on foreign parties to coproduction agreements that violate restrictions concerning unauthorized third party transfers or unauthorized dispositions of defense articles or services or technical data if the President notifies the Congress or the Congress so determines by joint resolution. Lists such sanctions as: (1) the suspension of authority to produce defense articles abroad pursuant to such agreements; and (2) a prohibition on the issuance and approval of licenses with respect to the foreign party. Disqualifies for financing under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for 12 months any contracts of a person convicted or debarred for a violation of international traffic in arms regulations under the Arms Export Control Act. Increases the amount of defense trade registration fees required to be credited to a Department of State account. Repeals provisions of the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 concerning munitions control registration fees. Amends the Export Control Act to require the President to review biennially and revise, as necessary, international traffic in arms regulations. Prohibits funds authorized by any Act from being made available to facilitate the sale of M-833 antitank shells or comparable shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to any country other than a NATO member or major non-NATO ally. Chapter 3: Technical and Conforming Amendments; Repeal of Obsolete and Inconsistent Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to apply termination of assistance provisions (with respect to violations of agreements providing defense articles or services) to defense articles or services provided under the Arms Export Control Act. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Arms Export Control Act. Revises a provision regarding the Guaranty Reserve Fund and redesignates the Fund as the Foreign Military Loan Liquidating Account. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) information to the Congress on credit sales and guaranties; (2) the availability of funds for procurement of defense articles and services outside the United States; (3) discrimination; (4) restraint in arms sales to Subsaharan Africa; (5) foreign military sales credit standards; and (6) foreign military sales to less developed countries. Chapter 4: Transfers of Spoils of War - Spoils of War Act of 1991 - Permits spoils of war in the possession or control of the United States to be transferred to any other party only to the extent and in the same manner that property of the same type, if otherwise owned by the United States, may be so transferred. Title III: International Narcotics Control - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for international narcotics control. Revises provisions concerning international narcotics control. Exempts maritime law enforcement operations in archipelagic waters from a prohibition on U.S. participation in foreign police actions. Makes a prohibition on the use of narcotics control funds for the procurement of weapons or ammunition inapplicable (subject to congressional notification requirements) to: (1) weapons or ammunition for the defensive arming of aircraft used for narcotics control purposes; or (2) firearms and related ammunition provided to Department of State employees for narcotics control activities. Requires the President (currently, the Secretary of State) to maintain records on aircraft use under this title. Authorizes foreign military financing assistance under the Arms Export Control Act to be made available to finance the leasing of aircraft. Authorizes (currently, requires) the reallocation of funds withheld from countries which fail to take steps to halt illicit drug production or trafficking. Revises congressional reporting and certification requirements with respect to international narcotics control. Requires the President to notify the appropriate congressional committees annually of countries determined to be major drug transit or illicit drug producing countries. Repeals obsolete provisions of specified Acts. Makes prohibitions on the provision of assistance to foreign law enforcement agencies inapplicable, during FY 1992 and 1993, to: (1) transfers of defense articles and services for counternarcotics purposes; and (2) foreign military financing and international military education and training for narcotics-related purposes. Makes provisions of law that restrict assistance to countries inapplicable with respect to narcotics-related assistance, provided that the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees. Title IV: Special Authorities, Restrictions, Reporting Requirements, Administrative and General Provisions, Definitions, and Conforming Amendments and Repeals - Chapter 1: Contingency and Other Special Authorities - Authorizes appropriations to the President for FY 1992 and 1993 for unanticipated contingencies in programs within the International Affairs Budget Function. Authorizes the President to provide assistance (other than foreign military financing or international military education and training) to a country that is: (1) emerging as a democracy; or (2) emerging from civil strife and has a democratically elected government or is making progress toward a democratic form of government. Raises the ceiling on funds available for unanticipated contingencies. Requires congressional notification prior to the transfer of funds between accounts. Prohibits the transfer of funds authorized for the costs of loan or guarantee programs in accordance with requirements of the Federal Credit Reform Act of 1990. Revises provisions concerning the special waiver authority of the President with respect to prohibitions on assistance. Raises the ceiling on the amount of assistance that may be allocated for national security interests for any one country unless such country is a victim of active (currently, Communist) aggression. Repeals provisions concerning U.S. obligations in West Germany and a certification by the President of inadvisability to specify the nature of the use of funds. Chapter 2: Restrictions on Assistance and Exemptions from Restrictions - Applies a prohibition on assistance for police training to the furnishing of excess defense articles for law enforcement purposes. Exempts from such prohibition: (1) international narcotics control assistance; (2) assistance in protecting and maintaining wildlife habitats and in developing wildlife management and plant conservation programs; (3) antiterrorism assistance; (4) specified assistance for law enforcement in Latin America and the Caribbean; and (5) other exempted assistance. Revises prohibitions concerning restrictions on assistance. Adds to the list of restrictions prohibitions on assistance for: (1) a country whose government engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations; (2) a country whose elected head of government is deposed by military coup; (3) a country which is more than one year in arrears to the U.S. Government on any U.S. Government loan or credit under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or specified provisions of the Arms Export Control Act; (4) projects designed to increase exports of agricultural, textile, or apparel commodities from developing countries if such exports would be in competition with U.S. exports or be expected to cause injury to U.S. exporters of the same or a similar commodity; and (5) a country that provides lethal military equipment to a government that has repeatedly supported acts of international terrorism. Authorizes the Foreign Claims Settlement Commission, at the request of the President, to evaluate the value of any property that is the subject of expropriation by a foreign country. Exempts from restrictions on foreign assistance (except for countries that support terrorism or violate human rights) assistance for: (1) the needs of individuals with disabilities or displaced children; (2) child survival activities; (3) the prevention and control of AIDS; (4) immunization and oral rehydration; (5) environmentally sound, sustainable resource management; and (6) efficient energy systems. Chapter 3: Reports - Revises provisions regarding: (1) U.S. assistance policies and human rights; and (2) congressional notification for program changes. Outlines required elements of annual congressional presentation documents on economic assistance. Chapter 4: Administrative and General Provisions - Revises provisions concerning the use of private enterprise for the procurement of commodities and defense articles. Authorizes the use of Federal facilities for technical assistance purposes when such facilities are not competitive with private enterprise. Revises provisions concerning procurement standards and procedures. Sets forth provisions concerning the generation and use of local currencies. Authorizes the President to adopt as a U.S. contract or obligation any contract with a U.S. or third-country contractor that had been funded with assistance prior to the termination of such assistance. Permits nongovernmental organizations to invest local currencies accrued as a result of economic assistance provided by this Act and other specified Acts and to use interest earned on investments for assistance purposes. Exempts funds for Israel and Egypt from any restriction on the availability of funds. Prohibits appointments to specific positions within the administering agency without the advice and consent of the Senate. Permits assistance funds to be used to reimburse Federal or State agencies, private and voluntary organizations, or institutions of higher education that detail employees for assistance programs that require special technical skills. Excludes such employees from applicable personnel ceilings during the detail period. Removes funding limitations on assistance for the construction of living quarters, offices, schools, and hospitals abroad and for assistance to schools educating dependents and personnel abroad. Requires the Administrator to ensure that for assistance projects there is displayed an acknowledgment that such projects were funded by the people of the United States. Revises provisions concerning discrimination against U.S. personnel. Chapter 5: Definitions - Sets forth specified definitions. Chapter 6: Conforming Amendments and Repeals - Makes technical and conforming amendments to specified Acts. Repeals specified Acts. Title V: Europe - Chapter 1: Support for East European Democracy Act - Amends the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to make eligible for SEED benefits any Eastern European country taking steps toward: (1) political pluralism and economic reform; (2) respect for human rights; and (3) a willingness to build a friendly relationship with the United States. (Currently, most SEED programs target Hungary and Poland.) Includes Albania, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia in the list of eligible countries. Extends specified structural adjustment, debt reduction, and stabilization assistance to such countries. Requires the President to support adoption of agricultural policies in eligible countries that are based on free-market policies and to discourage policies that distort market signals through protective import barriers or government export subsidies. Authorizes AID to provide assistance to support private sector development in Eastern Europe and U.S. participation in capital projects. Permits the President, acting through the AID Administrator, to use funds for labor market transition assistance to eligible Eastern European countries. Extends technical assistance and training for labor market transition assistance to eligible Eastern European countries. Removes a provision authorizing appropriations for Peace Corps programs in Poland and Hungary. Extends assistance for the development of Peace Corps and credit unions to eligible Eastern European countries. Applies provisions governing the use of Polish currency generated by agricultural assistance to local Eastern European currencies generated by such assistance. Repeals provisions concerning: (1) OPIC support for Poland and Hungary; (2) Trade and Development Program activities in Poland and Hungary; (3) tax treatment of loans with below market interest rates for Poland and Israel; and (4) the trade credit insurance program for Poland. Extends Export-Import Bank programs to Czechoslovakia. Urges the President to seek bilateral investment treaties with eligible Eastern European countries to establish a legal framework for U.S. investment in such countries. Extends educational and cultural exchange programs and the scholarship partnership program to eligible Eastern European countries. Removes funding provisions concerning the scholarship partnership program. Authorizes the AID Administrator to use funds available for the scholarship partnership program for scholarships to enable Eastern European students to study at American institutions of higher education in Europe. Makes a specified amount of nonconvertible Polish currencies held by the United States available for the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland. Declares that the President should allocate a specified amount annually for NATO's plan for expanded East European participation. Extends assistance for the support of democratic institutions and environmental protection and energy efficiency activities to eligible Eastern European countries. Authorizes the President, acting through the AID Administrator and the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, to provide assistance for environmental and energy activities in eligible Eastern European countries, with emphasis on assistance for policies encouraging and providing incentives for end-use energy efficiency and conservation and reliance on renewable energy resources. Requires the President to work with officials of the Government of Czechoslovakia to establish a regional program to facilitate cooperative activities to address the public health aspects of environmental degradation. Earmarks funds for such program. Revises provisions concerning medical assistance to Poland. Authorizes the President, acting through the AID Administrator, to: (1) provide medical training, health care planning assistance, and other assistance to improve health care to eligible Eastern European countries; and (2) provide assistance to support the infrastructure for a housing sector in such countries. Directs the SEED Program coordinator to establish an Eastern European Business Information Center System to serve as a central clearinghouse and data resource service for U.S. and Eastern European businesses providing information relating to: (1) business conditions in Eastern Europe; (2) legal and regulatory information needed by U.S. companies seeking to do business in Eastern Europe; (3) investment and trade opportunities for U.S. companies; and (4) voluntary assistance efforts to Eastern European countries. Requires the SEED Program coordinator to make information accessible to local enterprises seeking trade with or investment from the United States through the establishment of Eastern European trade information centers. Declares that the President should establish American Business Centers to support American business initiative in Eastern Europe. Repeals a provision concerning economic and commercial officers at U.S. embassies and missions in Hungary and Poland. Authorizes and allocates appropriations for SEED programs for FY 1992 and 1993. Sets forth provisions concerning the reallocation or reduction of such funds. Treats the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest, Hungary, as an international organization for purposes of detailing U.S. Government personnel. Chapter 2: Other Provisions Relating to the Region - Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to carry out the Soviet-East European Research and Training Act of 1983. Revises reporting requirements under such Act. Condemns the resurgence of organized anti-Semitism and ethnic animosity in Romania. Urges the Government of Romania to speak out against anti-Semitism and work to promote harmony among ethnic and religious groups. Calls on: (1) the Romanian people to resist extremist organizations and strengthen the forces of tolerance and pluralism; (2) the Romanian Government to take steps toward greater respect for internationally recognized human rights; and (3) the President of the United States to ensure that progress by such Government in combating anti-Semitism and in protecting the rights and safety of its ethnic minorities shall be a significant factor in determining levels of assistance to Romania. Sets forth congressional findings with respect to the situation in Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan. Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to establish the Andrei Sakharov Educational Exchange Program to facilitate cooperation in the fields of environmental protection and health sciences through exchanges of graduate students. Includes such exchange program in the list of actions to be taken under the SEED Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the crisis in Yugoslavia. Amends the Anglo-Irish Agreement Support Act of 1986 to remove a certification requirement and to revise reporting requirements. Title VI: Middle East - Makes ESF assistance to Israel available on a cash transfer basis. Requires the President to ensure that the level of such transfer does not cause an adverse impact on the total level of nonmilitary exports from the United States to Israel. Makes foreign military financing for Israel available on a grant basis. Makes certain amounts of such financing available for advanced weapon systems research and development and the procurement of defense articles and services. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 to reduce the amount of defense articles and services and military education and training that were authorized to be drawn down for Israel under such Act. Permits ESF assistance for Egypt to include sector grants only if Egypt implements agreed upon reforms in the relevant sector. Permits specified law enforcement assistance to be provided to Egypt only through U.S. institutions of higher education or through the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program of the Department of Justice. Requires foreign military financing for Egypt to be provided on a grant basis. Earmarks assistance allocated by AID for democratic initiatives and human rights for the growth of indigenous nongovernmental organizations that contribute to increased pluralism, democracy, and respect for human rights and the rule of law in the Middle East and North Africa. Earmarks ESF assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 for the West Bank and Gaza Program. Declares that specified amounts of development assistance should be used to finance cooperative development and cooperative development research projects among the United States, Israel, and eligible East European countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should support educational, cultural, and humanitarian activities that bring Israelis together with Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Lebanon. Declares that specified amounts of ESF and development assistance should be made available for Lebanon. Prohibits assistance to Syria until the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the Government of Syria: (1) has demonstrated willingness to enter into negotiations with Israel; (2) does not deny its citizens the right to emigrate and does not impose taxes with respect to emigration; (3) is assisting the U.S. Government in obtaining the release of American hostages in Lebanon; (4) no longer supports international terrorist groups; (5) is withdrawing its armed forces from Lebanon; (6) is no longer acquiring chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and will not use weapons currently in its arsenal to threaten its neighbors; (7) is cooperating with U.S. antinarcotics efforts and taking steps to remove members of the government who are involved in the drug trade; and (8) has made progress in improving human rights. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should encourage all Arab states to: (1) support efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East and to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict; and (2) take specific steps with respect to Israel and terrorism. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) the impact on Israel of U.S. commercial and government-to-government transfers of defense articles and services to the Middle East; and (2) policies being pursued and steps being taken to preserve Israel's qualitative edge. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 to revise U.S. policy with respect to the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). Restricts negotiations with the PLO until the PLO amends or supersedes its charter to reflect recognition of Israel and ceases the use of terrorism. Requires the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on specified issues involving the PLO. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should lead an effort to repeal United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 (equates Zionism with racism). Requires the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on whether the Government of Kuwait has taken steps to: (1) end arbitrary arrest, torture, and other extrajudicial actions and bring to justice those responsible for such actions; (2) ensure that those detained have access to legal counsel, the right to an open and speedy trial, and other internationally recognized standards of due process; (3) allow the presence and activities of international human rights and humanitarian organizations; (4) comply with international law relating to deportations; and (5) ensure that the October 1992 elections are free and fair and permit universal suffrage. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. businesses engaged in rebuilding Kuwait should use U.S. subcontractors and U.S. goods and services; (2) the Department of Commerce should monitor and encourage this policy; and (3) the President should seek appropriate United Nations Security Council action to establish an international tribunal to try all individuals who were involved in the planning or execution of war crimes and crimes against humanity during and after Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. Directs the President to report to the relevant congressional committees on any spoils of war that were obtained subsequent to August 2, 1990, and that were transferred to any party before the date of enactment of this Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the 1981 Israeli preemptive strike against the Iraqi nuclear reactor at Osirak was a legitimate and justifiable exercise of self-defense which also reduced the threat of Iraqi nuclear aggression against countries bordering Iraq; and (2) the United States should seek the repeal of United Nations Security Council Resolution 487 which condemned the strike. Title VII: Latin America and the Caribbean - Chapter 1: Central America and the Caribbean - Subchapter A: Central America - Declares that it shall be U.S. policy to: (1) support Central American countries in efforts to build democracy, restore peace, establish respect for human rights, expand economic opportunities, and improve living conditions; (2) support dialogue as the proper means of resolving armed conflicts in Central America; (3) assist in the implementation of, and secure international cooperation and support for, recommendations of the International Commission on Central American Recovery and Development; (4) support the United Nations Development Program for its Special Plan of Economic Cooperation for Central America; (5) organize a partnership among donor countries and Central American countries to mobilize resources and promote a forum for dialogue on issues of development, democracy, social justice, and human rights. Prohibits military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to Guatemala during FY 1992 and 1993, except in connection with a peace agreement. Establishes the Lasting Peace Fund for Guatemala. Authorizes the President to transfer amounts available for military assistance to the Fund. Makes funds available only upon notification to the appropriate congressional committees that the Guatemalan Government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit have signed a peace agreement. Permits funds to be available for: (1) costs of retraining, relocation, and reemployment in civilian pursuits of former combatants and noncombatants affected by the conflict; and (2) costs of monitoring activities associated with the peace agreement. Prohibits the authorities of the Arms Export Control Act from being used to sell to the Guatemalan Government, or issue licenses for the export to Guatemala of: (1) weapons or ammunition; or (2) aircraft, unless the aircraft are unarmed and the Guatemalan Government has agreed that they will not be armed. Permits FY 1992 and 1993 development and ESF assistance and assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 for Guatemala to be used only by civilian government agencies and nongovernmental organizations. Requires such assistance to be targeted for: (1) programs that address poverty, basic human needs, and environmental concerns; (2) the improvement of democratic institutions and the promotion of political pluralism; (3) the National Reconciliation Commission; (4) fiscal reform and administration; or (5) programs that promote trade and investment. Prohibits such assistance from being used for partisan political purposes or as an instrument of counterinsurgency. Waives assistance target requirements if the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees that Guatemala has made progress in eliminating human rights violations and in bringing to trial those responsible for major human rights cases. Declares that the President should: (1) take into account the extent to which the Nicaraguan Government has brought the armed forces under civilian control and undertaken investigations into, and prosecution of those responsible for, human rights violations prior to providing assistance for FY 1992 and 1993; and (2) consider the extent to which foreign military financing for Nicaragua will further the goals of strengthening civilian control over the military, ending human rights abuses, and stemming the export of lethal military equipment prior to providing such financing for such fiscal years. Prohibits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for FY 1992 and 1993 from being available for: (1) the Sandinista Popular Army unless requested and authorized by the President of Nicaragua; and (2) any member of the Nicaraguan resistance who has not disarmed or is not abiding by the terms of the cease-fire and the addenda to the Toncontin Agreement. Waives provisions of law that prohibit assistance to countries in arrears on assistance payments to the United States with respect to assistance for Nicaragua. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Nicaraguan Government should expedite the processing of claims by private citizens based on expropriation of property by the Sandinista Government. Authorizes a specified amount of ESF assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 to be made available to carry out the Concerted Plan of Action in Favor of Central American Refugees. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to strengthening democratic legislatures in Central America. Declares that a specified amount of development and economic support assistance should be used for the Central American Journalism Program and Regional Administration of Justice Program's Center for the Administration of Justice to support democracy building activities in the region. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) begin negotiations with the Government of Panama to consider whether the two Governments should allow the permanent stationing of U.S. military forces in Panama beyond December 31, 1991; and (2) consult with the Congress throughout those negotiations. Subchapter B: The Caribbean - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth the Caribbean Regional Development Act of 1991. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to development and economic assistance for the Caribbean. Provides that priority in providing development assistance should be given to supporting indigenous democratic Caribbean institutions that represent and benefit the poor. Requires priority in the allocation of assistance to the Caribbean to be given to: (1) increased food production; (2) rural development; (3) community-based agro-industries; (4) small- and medium-sized farm and manufacturing enterprises; (5) the expansion of tourism; (6) regional integration; (7) the upgrading of technical and managerial skills; (8) support for renewable natural resources; (9) private sector development; (10) democratic development and the administration of justice; and (11) human services and human resources development. Directs the President, in providing assistance to a Caribbean country, to take into account whether the government of such country has failed to protect worker rights and is taking steps to implement laws that demonstrate advancement in providing such rights. Prohibits the administering agency from providing assistance for the use of any substance in a Caribbean country if such use is prohibited under the country's or U.S. public health laws. Declares that the agency should: (1) ensure the active participation of women in the development process; and (2) take into account the perspectives of the poor in the development process. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) all assistance to the Haitian Government should remain suspended until democratic government is restored; (2) the United States, when democratic government is restored, should provide assistance to such government only if it abides by the Haitian Constitution and respects freedom of expression and human rights; (3) the President should consider, during any period when assistance is suspended to Haiti, whether assistance through private and voluntary organizations should be continued for humanitarian purposes; (4) the United States should provide a specified amount of economic assistance to Haiti during FY 1992 and 1993; and (5) if any assistance is suspended, the balance for any fiscal year should remain available as long as there are reasonable prospects of a return to democracy and constitutional government in Haiti. Prohibits foreign military financing assistance for Haiti (except nonlethal assistance) during FY 1992 and 1993. Encourages the Government of the Dominican Republic to improve respect for the human rights of Haitian laborers engaged in the sugar cane harvesting industry in the Dominican Republic. Withholds a specified amount of economic support assistance from the Dominican Republic until the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees of the steps taken by the Government of the Dominican Republic to improve such human rights. Declares that the President should consider increasing the Dominican Republic's allocation of the U.S. sugar quota and providing additional economic and development assistance if the Government of the Dominican Republic makes progress in specified matters concerning such laborers. Permits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to be provided to the Government of Guyana only if the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that such government is in power as a result of free and fair elections. Exempts from such restriction international narcotics control assistance or assistance for the holding of free and fair elections. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President, following the submission of the report regarding Guyana, should provide assistance for Guyana under such Acts. Declares that a specified amount of assistance should be used to meet basic human needs. Condemns the armed forces of Suriname for the December 1990 coup and for disregard for civilian authority. Urges the armed forces to permit a peaceful transfer of power to the elected civilian government. Calls upon the President to withhold assistance from Suriname until a peaceful transfer of power has taken place, and to use assistance to bolster civilian rule. Applauds the actions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission of March 6, 1991 (concerning human rights in Cuba), and calls on the Government of Cuba to cooperate fully with the Commission. Prohibits the issuance of licenses for certain transactions involving U.S.-controlled firms in third countries and Cuba unless a license would be authorized for such transactions if undertaken by a firm organized under any State law. Applies such prohibition to a foreign subsidiary or affiliate of a domestic concern which is controlled in fact by such concern. Subchapter C: Provisions Relating to Both Central America and the Caribbean - Requires advance congressional notification for the transfer or issuance of licenses for the export of helicopters or military aircraft to any country in Central America or the Caribbean. Directs the Secretary of State to notify the appropriate congressional committees whenever any helicopters or other military aircraft are provided to such countries by any foreign country. Chapter 2: South America - Subchapter A: Andean Initiative - Authorizes appropriations for development and economic support assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 for Andean countries. Requires priority in the use of funds for Bolivia and Peru to be given to support programs that focus on providing coca farmers with alternative sources of income. Declares that specified amounts of such assistance should be used for law enforcement assistance, protection against narco-terrorist attacks, and assistance for human rights offices in Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for foreign military financing assistance for Andean countries. Requires such assistance to be designed to: (1) enhance the ability of the recipient government to control illicit narcotics production and trafficking; (2) strengthen respect for human rights and the rule of law to control narcotics production and trafficking; and (3) assist the armed forces of the Andean countries in their support roles for such countries' law enforcement agencies. Permits the provision of such assistance only if: (1) such country has a democratic government; and (2) the government of such country does not engage in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Permits such assistance to be used for certain law enforcement training and equipment for purposes of narcotics control efforts. Limits the amount of military and law enforcement assistance for Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Prohibits a Peruvian police organization that engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations from being considered as a law enforcement unit. Permits assistance or the transfer of excess defense articles under this Act to an Andean country only if the President determines that: (1) such country is implementing programs to reduce the flow of cocaine to the United States; and (2) the armed forces and law enforcement agencies of such country are not engaged in a consistent pattern of human rights violations and the government of such country has made progress in protecting human rights. Exempts from the human rights condition assistance for programs providing coca farmers with alternative sources of income. Waives provisions of law that prohibit assistance to countries in arrears on loan payments to the United States with respect to narcotics-related assistance to Andean countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to actions taken by the Government of Colombia to combat drug trafficking. Subchapter B: Other Provisions Relating to South America - Congratulates the Governments of Argentina and Brazil for taking certain steps with respect to nuclear nonproliferation. Chapter 3: Other Provisions Pertaining to the Region - Authorizes a specified amount of economic assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 to be made available for efforts to deal with the cholera epidemic in Latin America. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit the delivery of military assistance and sales to the armed forces of a Latin American or Caribbean country with a civilian government only with the prior approval of the country's head of government. Makes law enforcement assistance available for countries with democratically-elected governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prohibits the use of such funds for: (1) lethal equipment; and (2) the participation of Department of Defense personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces in law enforcement training. Permits law enforcement training in the Caribbean to be provided only under the auspices of the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program. Earmarks funds for such assistance. Requires the Secretary to report annually to the Congress on the status and treatment of indigenous peoples in Latin America and the Caribbean. Authorizes the President to direct the AID Administrator to release the Institute Centroamericano de Administration de Empresas from an obligation to make payments on a specified Alliance for Progress loan. Title VIII: Enterprise for the Americas Initiative - Enterprise for the Americas Act of 1991 - Chapter 1: Foreign Assistance Act Debt Reduction - Supports improvement in the lives of the people of Latin America and the Caribbean through market-oriented reforms and economic growth with actions to promote debt reduction, investment reforms, community based conservation and sustainable use of the environment, and child survival and child development. Makes eligible for Enterprise for the Americas Facility benefits (established pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954) Latin American or Caribbean countries that: (1) have democratically-elected governments; (2) have not provided support for international terrorism; (3) cooperate on international narcotics control matters; (4) do not engage in a consistent pattern of human rights violations; (5) have in effect, received approval for, or are making progress toward, specified International Monetary Fund (IMF) arrangements and structural or sectoral adjustment loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the International Development Association; (6) have put in place major investment reforms in conjunction with an Inter-American Development Bank loan or are implementing or making progress toward an open investment regime; and (7) have agreed with commercial bank lenders on a financing program for debt or debt service reduction. Authorizes the President to reduce the amount owed to the United States (as a result of concessional loans made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or predecessor foreign economic assistance legislation) by any country eligible for Facility benefits. Sets forth requirements with respect to the exchange of obligations, repayment of principal, and interest on new obligations issued by beneficiary countries. Requires beneficiary countries that enter into Americas Framework Agreements to establish Enterprise for the Americas Funds. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into Americas Framework Agreements concerning the operation and use of Americas Funds with countries eligible for Facility benefits. Directs administering bodies in each beneficiary country to administer the Americas Funds and to make grants. Requires grants from the Funds to be used for activities that link the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources with local community development and for child survival and development activities. Subjects grants of more than $100,000 to veto by the U.S. Government or the government of the beneficiary country. Redesignates the Environment for the Americas Board (established pursuant to the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954) as the Enterprise for the Americas Board. Requires the Board to: (1) advise the Secretary on the negotiations of Americas Framework Agreements; (2) ensure that a suitable administering body is identified for each Americas Fund; and (3) review the programs, operations, and fiscal audits of administering bodies. Amends the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to increase the number of representatives of the Board. Chapter 2: Export-Import Bank Debt Reduction - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to set forth provisions concerning the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative parallel to those set forth in chapter 1 of title VIII of this Act. Makes eligible for Facility benefits Latin American or Caribbean countries that: (1) have in effect, received approval for, or are making progress toward, specified IMF arrangements and structural or sectoral adjustment loans from the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development or the International Development Association; (2) have put in place major investment reforms in conjunction with an Inter-American Development Bank loan or are implementing or making progress toward an open investment regime; and (3) have agreed with commercial bank lenders on a financing program for debt or debt service reduction. Permits the President, for purposes of facilitating debt-for-equity, debt-for-development, or debt-for-nature swaps, to sell to any eligible purchaser any Export-Import Bank loan made to an eligible country before January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 3: Participation of the Inter-American Development Bank - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to work closely with the management of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to ensure the full implementation of the IDB's proposed investment sector reform program and the coordination of U.S. bilateral assistance programs with IDB efforts to enhance liberalization efforts in countries served by the IDB. Amends the Inter-American Development Bank Act to authorize appropriations for a contribution to the Enterprise for the Americas Investment Fund, provided that certain conditions are met. Requires U.S. assistance to the Fund to be disbursed only for the following purposes: (1) technical assistance for purposes of identifying and resolving domestic constraints to investment; (2) assistance to private enterprises; (3) assistance in building human capital, alleviating poverty, and reducing barriers to economic and social progress; and (4) assistance to support host country capacity for insuring the environmental soundness of investment activities. Limits the amount to be used for any of the preceding purposes. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. representative to the Fund to vote against any action which may have an adverse environmental impact unless an environmental assessment is available at least 120 days before the vote. Makes Latin American or Caribbean countries eligible for Enterprise for the Americas Facility benefits eligible for Fund assistance. Chapter 4: International University for the Americas - Requires the Secretary of State to determine the most appropriate location for the International University for the Americas, an institution to be established for promoting economic integration and the strengthening of democratic institutions in the Western Hemisphere and for commemorating the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbus. Authorizes a specified amount of development and economic support assistance for Latin America and the Caribbean to be made available for the University. Chapter 5: Reports - Directs the President to report annually to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate on the implementation of this title. Title IX: Asia and the Pacific - Chapter 1: East Asia and the Pacific - Requires the President, in determining whether to furnish assistance or make sales of defense articles or services to Burma (Myanmar) during FY 1992 and 1993, to make a specified certification with respect to international narcotics control in Burma and to take into account whether the Burmese Government has: (1) ceded legal authority to a civilian government as mandated by the 1990 elections; (2) released persons arrested for the peaceful expression of their political views; and (3) ceased harassment of persons and political parties attempting to exercise freedoms of expression, association, and assembly. Sets forth notification requirements with respect to certain assistance for Burma. Declares that the Congress would welcome decisions by the President to: (1) decline to negotiate a new textile agreement with Burma; (2) impose economic sanctions on Burma under the Customs and Trade Act of 1990; and (3) call upon industrialized countries to impose similar sanctions upon Burma. Authorizes certain development and economic support assistance to be available for: (1) training and education assistance for Burmese outside of Burma who are displaced as a result of civil conflict; and (2) activities which support democratic pluralism in Burma. Reaffirms that genocide is a crime under international law which the United States undertakes to prevent and calls upon the United Nations to take appropriate action for the prevention and suppression of genocide in Cambodia. Makes a specified amount of development and economic support assistance available for Cambodian civilians. Releases additional funds in the event of a settlement of the Cambodian conflict acceptable to the United States. Makes an additional amount of development and economic support assistance available for humanitarian assistance to children and war victims in Cambodia. Authorizes the President to use development and economic support assistance funds to provide for the nonmilitary training of Cambodians in skills that would be used to support an internationally acceptable political settlement in Cambodia. Requires the President to terminate assistance to any Cambodian organization that is cooperating with the Khmer Rouge in military operations. Directs the President to conduct an onsite assessment within Cambodia to determine requirements for the development of infrastructure and the eradication of explosive mines. Requires the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate on all instances of military cooperation since January 1, 1991, between the Khmer Rouge and any faction of the noncommunist resistance and all instances of human rights abuses by the Khmer Rouge. Prohibits the sale, and the issuance of licenses for export, to China of any item on the U.S. Munitions List for military end-users if the President determines that: (1) any U.S. defense article or technology was used in certain missiles or aircraft transferred to Algeria, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Pakistan, or Syria by China in contravention of the Arms Export Control Act; and (2) any chemical weapon or nuclear equipment or materials were transferred to such countries by China. Makes such prohibition inapplicable to the sale or export of systems or components designed for inclusion in civil products and controlled as defense articles only for purposes of export to a controlled country, unless the President determines that the intended recipient is the Chinese military or security forces. Prohibits the provision of FY 1992 and 1993 foreign military financing assistance and assistance for international military education and training to Fiji unless the President certifies to the Congress that Fiji has held elections in which there has been broad participation by all communities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should provide specified amounts to support humanitarian projects in Laos for efforts to resolve questions concerning Vietnam prisoners of war or those missing in action. Sets forth provisions concerning Malaysia's policy of denying first asylum to Indochinese asylum-seekers. Expresses the sense of the Congress that additional assistance should be provided for Mongolia in recognition of Mongolia's movement toward democracy and a free market economy. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should participate with multilateral financial institutions and other bilateral donors in an economic reform and development program in the Philippines; and (2) a multiyear commitment of resources by the United States, donors, and such institutions and a reform effort and leadership role by the Government of the Philippines will be necessary to ensure economic growth in the Philippines and enhanced participation of the Filipino people in the democratic process. Authorizes the President to provide assistance to promote the goals of this Act. Links such assistance to progress by the Government of the Philippines in implementing its economic, structural, judicial, and administrative reform program. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the amount of appropriations for FY 1992. Expresses the sense of the Congress that prior to requesting additional amounts to carry out this Act, the President should take into account: (1) the progress being made by the Philippines toward achieving reform objectives; (2) the extent of participation by the bilateral donors and multilateral financial institutions; and (3) the efforts to coordinate the assistance program. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the coordination of objectives and programs by donors, institutions, and the Government of the Philippines is critical to the success of the multilateral assistance program; (2) all donors should simplify procurement and disbursement procedures to ensure that conditions on the provision or use of assistance are complementary; and (3) the Philippines should establish internal procedures that will ensure the most effective use of such assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the South Pacific Regional Program. Earmarks an amount of such assistance for scholarships for study at U.S. postsecondary institutions of education. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the future of Taiwan should be settled peacefully, free from coercion, and in a manner acceptable to the Taiwanese people; and (2) good relations between the United States and China depend on the willingness of the Chinese authorities to refrain from the use or the threat of force in resolving Taiwan's future. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should encourage the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) to consider for OECD membership the Governments of South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Chapter 2: South Asia - Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 to earmark development and economic support assistance for humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and for the implementation of bilateral and multilateral reconstruction efforts for Afghanistan and the establishment of a broad-based freely-elected Afghan Government. Congratulates Bangladesh on the transition to a democratically-elected government and welcomes the economic adjustment measures being implemented in coordination with the IMF. Expresses appreciation for Bangladesh's support for international law and collective security. Urges the President to provide debt relief under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to Bangladesh. Calls upon the Government of India to promote adherence to human rights. Condemns abuses by militants in Kashmir and Punjab and urges all militant groups to cease the use of force to achieve political objectives. Urges the Secretary to raise Indian human rights issues with the Government of India. Calls upon Pakistani authorities not to provide arms or training to militants in Punjab or Kashmir. Welcomes the establishment of a democratically-elected government in Nepal and supports the economic development effort of such government. Authorizes economic support assistance for Nepal for FY 1992 and 1993. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to extend a certain waiver of a prohibition on assistance to Pakistan through April 1, 1993. Prohibits the President from waiving such prohibition unless he makes a specified certification regarding nuclear nonproliferation in Pakistan. Sets forth provisions concerning human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. Requires the President, in determining whether to provide assistance or make sales of defense articles or services to Sri Lanka during FY 1992 and 1993, to take into account whether the Government of Sri Lanka has: (1) established a public register of detainees and ensured that detainees have access to lawyers and family members; (2) taken steps to deter disappearances and killings of civilians by persons under control of government forces; (3) taken measures to minimize civilian casualties in combat operations in the north and the east; and (4) made serious efforts to investigate and prosecute those involved in the murder of journalist Richard DeZoysa. Encourages the Government of Sri Lanka to provide human rights education and training. Chapter 3: Economic Cooperation Projects in China and Tibet - Expresses the sense of the Congress that U.S. economic cooperation projects in China and Tibet should adhere to specified principles, including to: (1) ensure that employment decisions are nondiscriminatory; (2) ensure that methods of production do not pose a danger to project employees and the surrounding environment; (3) ensure that no convict or forced labor is used in the projects; (4) protect freedoms of assembly, association, and expression of project employees; (5) promote the training of employees; (6) discourage compulsory political indoctrination on project premises; and (7) urge the Chinese Government to release a list of the names of individuals detained solely for nonviolent expression of their political views. Directs the Secretary of State to forward a copy of such principles to member nations of the OECD and encourage them to promote such principles. Requires U.S. parent companies of such projects to register with the Secretary and indicate whether such projects will implement the principles. Sets forth specified reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on: (1) enforcement procedures with respect to prohibitions on the importation of convict-made goods; and (2) investigations with respect to goods produced by convict or forced labor in China and Tibet. Title X: Africa - Chapter 1: Development Fund for Africa - Authorizes appropriations for the Development Fund for Africa for FY 1992 and 1993. Chapter 2: Other Assistance for Africa - Amends the African Development Foundation Act to authorize appropriations for the African Development Foundation for FY 1992 and 1993. Requires funds from the Development Fund for Africa to be used to assist sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC). Authorizes the use of such funds without regard to prohibitions on assistance to countries in arrears on assistance payments. Encourages the President to provide increased assistance to promote the development of democratic institutions in Subsaharan Africa. Declares that a specified amount of economic support assistance should be earmarked for Subsaharan Africa. Directs the AID Administrator to provide for the establishment of an African Center for Conflict Resolution to analyze, research, and resolve conflicts in Africa. Requires funds from the Development Fund for Africa to be made available for the Center. Chapter 3: Provisions Relating to Specific Countries - Requires the President, beginning with FY 1992, to provide: (1) nonpartisan election and democracy-building assistance to Angola for support in developing democratic institutions; (2) assistance for the voluntary relocation and resettlement of refugees and displaced persons and for the demobilization and retraining of former military members of the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) and the armed forces of the Government of Angola; (3) humanitarian assistance; and (4) assistance to implement the peace accords. Prohibits such assistance if the Angolan Government or UNITA violates the peace accords. Requires the President, in determining whether to provide assistance to Burundi during FY 1992 and 1993, to take into account that the Government of Burundi has: (1) made progress in reforming its military by engaging in a massive Hutu recruitment program; (2) taken steps to reverse discrimination against the Hutu; and (3) embarked on a major repatriation effort to accommodate the return of Hutu. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Kenya. Suspends economic and military assistance to Kenya. Waives such suspension if the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that the Government of Kenya is taking steps to: (1) release political detainees and end the prosecution of individuals for the expression of their political beliefs; (2) cease physical abuse or mistreatment of prisoners; (3) restore judicial independence; and (4) restore freedom of expression to the Kenyan people. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should continue to support the peacekeeping efforts in Liberia carried out by the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS). Permits funds authorized by this Act for foreign military financing and unexpended foreign military financing and economic support assistance to be made available to support the efforts of ECOWAS to expand its military involvement in peacekeeping efforts in Liberia. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance for civil strife relief, rehabilitation, and general recovery in Liberia. Permits assistance to Liberia during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government of Liberia has achieved progress toward reconciliation and free and fair elections monitored by international observers. Provides that such restriction shall not apply to humanitarian assistance or assistance to enhance progress toward reconciliation and free and fair elections. Waives a prohibition on assistance to countries in arrears on assistance payments with respect to assistance for Liberia. Commends the Malawi Government's response to the influx of refugees from Mozambique. Condemns the abuse of human rights of Malawian citizens. Urges President Banda to release prisoners of conscience, end incommunicado detention and torture of prisoners, and permit freedom of speech and association in Malawi. Prohibits foreign military financing for the Malawi Young Pioneers and permits such assistance only for the Malawian military's effort to secure the Nacala Railroad, programs to support conservation and biological diversity, and for activities to assist in the Mozambique peace process. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Mozambique. Conditions the provision of economic support assistance and foreign military financing for FY 1992 and 1993 for Mozambique on steps by the Government of Mozambique to increase respect for human rights and promote a political settlement to the conflict in such country. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should support the elimination of apartheid and the establishment of democratic majority rule in South Africa through a policy to bring about a nonracial democracy; (2) U.S. firms and the Government should provide specified assistance to disadvantaged South Africans; and (3) the President should seek the cooperation of U.S. allies in Western Europe and Japan to join in multilateral initiatives to aid disadvantaged South Africans. Makes economic support and development assistance and assistance from the Development Fund for Africa available for assistance to disadvantaged South Africans. Requires priority in providing such assistance to be given to South African nongovernmental organizations whose staff are selected on a nonracial basis and which have the support of the disadvantaged communities being served. Authorizes excess assistance for disadvantaged South Africans to be used only for assistance for programs in the health, education, and housing sectors. Prohibits the transfer of such funds to any entity controlled by the South African Government, unless specified conditions are met. Declares that the President, before obligating funds for disadvantaged South Africans, should: (1) consult with South African organizations representative of the majority population of South Africa; and (2) seek a commitment from the South African Government that it will provide additional resources to meet the needs of disadvantaged South Africans. Prohibits assistance to the Communist Party of South Africa or affiliated organizations. Requires the President to ensure that recipients of assistance in South Africa are not engaged in human rights violations and have in place democratic processes for internal decisionmaking and the selection of leaders. Prohibits the provision of foreign military financing, military education and training, and economic support and development assistance to Zaire during FY 1992 and 1993 unless the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that: (1) free and fair national elections have been held in Zaire; and (2) the elected government demonstrates a commitment to protect freedom of expression and bring about a reformed and independent judiciary and reform of, and applications of, the rule of law to Zaire security forces. Chapter 4: Horn of Africa Recovery and Food Security - Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to Ethiopia, Somalia, and Sudan. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to equitable distribution of relief and rehabilitation assistance and international relief efforts in the Horn of Africa (Ethiopia, Somalia, Sudan, and Djibouti). Authorizes the President to: (1) provide international disaster assistance for civil strife and famine relief and rehabilitation in the Horn of Africa; and (2) transfer funds from unobligated security assistance (without regard to a specified 20 percent increase limitation) to carry out this chapter. Makes available a percentage of assistance for management support activities. Urges the President to provide supplemental emergency food assistance for civilian victims of civil strife in the Horn of Africa. Encourages the President to consult with other nations, armed and unarmed parties in the Horn of Africa, and the United Nations Secretary General to bring about negotiated settlements of the armed conflicts in the Horn of Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) direct the U.S. representative to the United Nations to take specified steps with respect to peace and the establishment of an arms embargo in the region; (2) play an active role in other fora in pressing for settlements to conflicts; and (3) participate in regional and international peace consultations. Declares that development assistance in the Horn of Africa should be targeted to aid the poor. States that U.S. Government aid institutions should seek to: (1) build upon the capabilities and experiences of organizations active in local grassroots relief, rehabilitation, and development efforts; (2) consult with such organizations and incorporate their views into the policymaking process; and (3) support the expansion of their activities without compromising their private nature. Declares that development assistance should be: (1) targeted to the voluntary relocation and repatriation of displaced persons and refugees; and (2) carried out in coordination with strategies for debt relief of countries in the region and with efforts to establish an international fund for reconstruction of developing nations which settle civil wars. Requires development assistance and assistance from the Development Fund for Africa to be channeled through private and voluntary or specified international organizations unless the President makes the required certification under this chapter. Prohibits economic support assistance and foreign military financing and international military education and training assistance to Ethiopia, Somalia, or Sudan unless the President certifies that the government of the country has: (1) begun to implement peace or national reconciliation agreements; (2) demonstrated a commitment to human rights; (3) manifested a commitment to democracy and has held or established a timetable for free and fair elections; and (4) agreed to distribute development assistance without discrimination. Chapter 5: Other Provisions - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) special efforts should be undertaken to reduce trade barriers and to promote economic interchange between the United States and developing countries in Subsaharan Africa; and (2) the countries of Subsaharan Africa are to be applauded for their stance during the Persian Gulf conflict and commended for their support of the United States. Permits international military education and training to be provided to a Subsaharan African country only if the President considers whether: (1) that country has a government that was democratically-elected as the result of free and fair elections or is committed to respecting human rights and freedom of expression and has achieved progress in a process of democratization; (2) the armed forces of such country are involved in human rights violations or the government of the country fails to respect human rights; and (3) the armed forces of such country or other elements of the government of that country are engaged in destabilization efforts aimed at any other country. Requires the President, when obligating funds for countries that do not meet such conditions, to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the reasons for providing such assistance. Provides that any sanction imposed by any State or governmental subdivision that is directed at South Africa or persons engaging in commercial or financial transactions in or with South Africa and that also applies to Namibia shall be null and void with respect to Namibia unless such sanction is consistent with Federal law. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a study should be undertaken by the Office of Technology Assessment, in a cross-section of Subsaharan African countries, of the formulation and the economic, social, and environmental impact of adjustment programs supported or leveraged by AID through the Development Fund for Africa. Title XI: Aid, Trade, and Competitiveness - Aid, Trade, and Competitiveness Act of 1991 - Requires the AID Administrator to establish a capital projects office to: (1) develop a program that would focus solely on developmentally sound capital projects; and (2) consider opportunities for U.S. high-technology firms in putting together capital projects for developing countries and SEED eligible East European countries. Sets forth the activities of the capital projects office. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on the extent to which: (1) U.S. Government resources have been expended to support capital projects in such countries and the extent of interagency coordination; and (2) U.S. Government capital projects and tied-aid programs have affected U.S. exports. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, if a new agreement within OECD that meets the objective of reducing the level of concessional financing by member countries other than the United States has not been reached by February 1, 1992, to report to the Congress, together with the President of the Export-Import Bank, on: (1) the status of the negotiations; (2) the causes for the failure to reach an agreement by that date; and (3) the reasons the U.S. Government believes that continued negotiations will result in achieving such objective. Urges the President to use specified types and amounts of assistance for grants for capital projects. Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the feasibility of allowing AID to offer credit guarantees for the financing of capital projects. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1993 for the Trade and Development Agency. Title XII: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to: (1) extend the authorization of appropriations for the Peace Corps through FY 1993; and (2) establish the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account to pay expenses for Peace Corps operations which exceed appropriations for such expenses as a result of currency exchange rate fluctuations. Authorizes appropriations for such Account. Requires the Director of the Peace Corps to contract with an eligible organization to conduct three evaluations of the health care needs of Peace Corps volunteers and the adequacy of the Peace Corps health care system. Provides for the submission of such evaluations to the Director and specified congressional committees. Requires the Director and the Secretary of Labor to report to such committees on: (1) the information provided by the Peace Corps to its volunteers and applicants on the benefits and services to which volunteers and trainees may be entitled in the event they sustain injuries or become disabled during their Peace Corps service or training; (2) the efforts by the Peace Corps and the Department of Labor to coordinate the provision of such information to Peace Corps volunteers and applicants and the processing of claims by volunteers and trainees under the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA); (3) the number of Peace Corps volunteers and trainees who have filed claims under FECA and the percentage of claims that have been approved; and (4) the timeliness of approvals or denials of such claims. Earmarks funds for FY 1992 and 1993 for establishing Small Business Development Programs in the Soviet Union or any successor entity. Title XIII: International Development and Finance - Chapter 1: International Monetary Fund - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund to consent to: (1) an increase in the U.S. quota in the Fund; and (2) the amendments to the Articles of Agreement of the Fund approved in resolution 45-3 of the Fund's Board of Governors. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to approve the Fund's pledge to sell a specified amount of the Fund's gold to restore the resources of the Reserve Account of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Trust to meet obligations to lenders who have made loans to the Trust for financing programs of members previously in arrears to the Fund. Permits the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to support Soviet membership in the Fund only after the President certifies to the Congress that the Soviet Union has taken specified actions to indicate: (1) the implementation of free market policies; (2) the reduction in size and scope of government expenditures; and (3) the embrace of democratic processes. Authorizes the Secretary to instruct the Executive Director of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development to support expansion of access by the Soviet Union to the Bank's resources only after the President makes such certification. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) encouragement should be given to the efforts being made to address the political and economic problems of nations making the transition to more open political and economic systems; and (2) consideration should be given to developing relationships between such nations, the Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and other international financial institutions as part of assisting such nations in making such transitions. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to encourage the Fund to adopt procedures for the publication of economic reviews of the major industrialized nations and other commentary, as appropriate. Expresses the sense of the Congress that procedures should be instituted to review the activities of the Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development for purposes of coordinating the international economic activities of international financial institutions at the Board, management, and staff levels. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to: (1) advocate specified actions concerning poverty alleviation and policy framework papers; and (2) urge renewal of debt and debt service reduction programs. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the debt of the Soviet Union held by commercial banks outside the Soviet Union and the prospects for repayment of such debt. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to encourage environmental considerations in Fund programs. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to urge such entities to develop and report to member nations on criteria for determining whether a nation seeking a loan is engaged in arms and weapons expenditures that are: (1) appropriate to its national circumstances; or (2) an impediment to sound management of its economy and achievement of sustained long-term growth. Chapter 2: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and Affiliates - Subchapter A: International Finance Corporation - Amends the International Finance Corporation Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Finance Corporation to subscribe to additional shares of the Corporation's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations. Subchapter B: International Bank for Reconstruction and Development - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development to advocate specified measures to alleviate poverty. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and the International Development Association should: (1) give greater programmatic and budgetary priority to the survival and development of children; and (2) make a commitment to devoting at least five percent of the annual lending of such entities to primary health and basic education, respectively. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Bank to urge: (1) renewal of debt and debt service reduction programs; (2) the establishment of a program to provide technical assistance to the Baltic States and the Soviet Union in support of democratic reforms, human rights, the rule of law, and market-oriented reforms; and (3) the coordination of such program with the programs of other donors. Subchapter C: Financial Assistance for Global Environmental Protection - Global Environmental Protection Assistance Act of 1991 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to contribute a specified amount to the Global Environmental Facility of the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development if the Secretary has certified to specified congressional committees that the Facility has made progress toward implementing certain measures set forth in this Act. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the House Committee on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the progress made by the multilateral development banks in achieving objectives concerning debt-for-nature exchanges and lending for the environment. Chapter 3: Asian Development Bank - Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank to subscribe to additional shares of the Bank's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 4: African Development Fund - Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorizes the U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund to contribute a specified amount to the sixth replenishment of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 5: Export-Import Bank - Amends the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 to authorize the President to waive limitations on Export-Import Bank financing for exports to the Soviet Union if such waiver is in the national interest. Directs the Bank to: (1) develop a program for providing guarantees and insurance with respect to the export of high technology items to eligible SEED program countries; and (2) inform high technology companies about Bank programs for U.S. companies interested in exporting high technology goods to such countries. Requires the Bank, in the case of any long-term loan or guarantee of at least $10,000,000, to ensure that U.S. insurance companies are accorded a competitive opportunity to provide insurance against risk of loss in connection with such transactions. Sets forth procedures to be taken in cases where such opportunity is denied. Directs the Bank to report to the Congress on the demand for loans, guarantees, and insurance for trade between the United States and the Baltic States and the Soviet Union and to make recommendations for the promotion of trade between the United States and such countries. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should determine that Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are not Marxist-Leninist countries for purposes of prohibitions on Export-Import Bank assistance for Marxist-Leninist countries. Chapter 6: Multilateral Development Banks - Subchapter A: Energy Efficiency - International Energy Efficiency Financing Act of 1991 - Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to: (1) demonstrate programs for measuring the application of systems energy efficiency planning and techniques; and (2) advocate procedures that require assessments of the impacts of proposed actions that would have a significant impact on energy efficiency before votes in favor of such actions. Directs the Secretary to seek the adoption of policies which result in access to the public of energy efficiency assessments by the borrowing countries and the lending institutions. Subchapter B: Alleviation of Poverty, Reduction of Barriers to Economic and Social Progress, and Other Provisions - Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the regional multilateral development banks to advocate the establishment of an organizational unit to aid bank management policies for the reduction of poverty and of barriers to economic and social progress and equity. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the international financial institutions to: (1) encourage borrowing countries to involve women in development activities; (2) urge such institutions to reflect the diversity of the population in hiring practices and to strengthen and expand recruitment, hiring, and promotion of minorities and women; and (3) urge such institutions to adopt compensation policies to ensure that comparable pay is provided for people in comparable jobs. Requires the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the multilateral development banks to oppose any loan, except for basic human needs, to Ethiopia, Somalia, or Sudan until the President certifies to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Committees on Banking, Finance and Urban Affairs and Foreign Affairs, respectively, that the government of the country has: (1) begun to implement peace or national reconciliation agreements; (2) demonstrated a commitment to human rights; (3) manifested a commitment to democracy and has held or established a timetable for free and fair elections; and (4) agreed to distribute development assistance without discrimination. Directs the Secretary to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of the international financial institutions to encourage borrowing countries to engage in fair labor practices and to report to the Secretary on actions to promote such practices. Subchapter C: Financial Integrity - Requires the Secretary to instruct such directors to ensure the establishment of an office of Inspector General in such institutions. Chapter 7: Consolidation of Reports - Requires annual reports submitted by the Chairman of the National Advisory Council on International Monetary and Financial Policies to include summaries of reports required under the Bretton Woods Agreements Act. Title XIV: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that a major effort should be made to strengthen the right to food in international law to assure the access of all persons to adequate food supplies. Declares that the Secretary of State, through the U.S. representative to the United Nations, should propose to the United Nations General Assembly that a Declaration and a Convention concerning the right to food be adopted and submitted to countries for ratification. United States Environmental Security and Foreign Policy Act of 1991 - Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to global environmental security. Gives the Secretary of State primary responsibility for overseeing environmental agreements and activities between the United States and foreign countries and international organizations and commissions. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on: (1) multilateral environmental initiatives and negotiations concluded or in process; (2) bilateral agreements on the environment; (3) U.S. participation in, and support of, environment programs in international organizations and multilateral development banks; (4) international cooperation activities with respect to research and monitoring of environmental and natural resource conditions; and (5) environmental policies and activities of the United States in providing foreign assistance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a major effort should be made to reform and restructure the United Nations mechanism for responding to international disasters and other humanitarian emergencies. Requires the Secretary, through the U.S. representative to the United Nations, to develop a proposal for strengthening the United Nations response to such emergencies. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to nuclear non-proliferation regimes. Requires the President to report annually to the Congress on the progress made and obstacles encountered in establishing regional nuclear non-proliferation regimes.

To express the sense of the Congress that the President should urge the United Nations Security Council to impose sanctions against Serbia and that the President should take a more active role in resolving the Serbo-Croatian conflict.

United States · United States Congress · 26 November 1991

Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) condemn the violence in Yugoslavia; (2) bring to bear the full diplomatic force of the United States to work toward peace in Yugoslavia; (3) urge the United Nations (UN) Security Council to impose economic sanctions against Serbia pending a permanent resolution of the conflict; (4) work with the former Soviet Union to encourage its participation in efforts to impose sanctions against Serbia and resolve the conflict; (5) support the stationing of a UN peacekeeping force between Serbian and Croatian forces once a permanent ceasefire takes effect; (6) withhold recognition of border changes in the region brought about by force; (7) extend humanitarian assistance to civilians in Croatia and to refugees of the conflict; and (8) call for protection for minority enclaves within Croatia and Serbia.

Haitian Refugee Protection Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 22 November 1991

Haitian Refugee Protection Act of 1991 - Directs the President to: (1) assure the protection of Haitian nationals under U.S. control; and (2) reallocate at least 2000 federally funded FY 1992 refugee admissions to Haiti. Provides for temporary protected status for certain Haitian nationals. Makes Haitian nationals who entered the United States as of the date of enactment of this Act eligible for assistance under the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980.

Haitian Refugee Protection Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 21 November 1991

Haitian Refugee Protection Act of 1991 - Directs the President to: (1) assure the protection of Haitian nationals under U.S. control; and (2) reallocate at least 2000 federally funded FY 1992 refugee admissions to Haiti. Provides for temporary protected status for certain Haitian nationals.

Zahl der Asylbewerber aus sogenannten Nichtverfolgerstaaten im ersten Halbjahr 1991; Einzelfallprüfung gemäß Art. 16 GG bei Argumenten über eine Bedrohung bei Rückkehr ins Heimatland (G-SIG: 12041740)

Germany · German Bundestag · 8 November 1991

Bereitstellung von Kasernen in Schwäbisch Gmünd als Sammellager für Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12041742)

Germany · German Bundestag · 8 November 1991

Ursachen für den Anstieg der Zahl der Asylbewerber aus der Türkei (G-SIG: 12041735)

Germany · German Bundestag · 8 November 1991

Refugee Resettlement Reauthoriation Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 7 November 1991

Refugee Resettlement Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to authorize the Secretary of State to make refugee determinations in instances where the Attorney General can not expeditiously do so. Changes the deadline for annual refugee admission determinations. Replaces the current Office of Refugee Resettlement with an Administration on Refugee and Migration Affairs. Requires the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to consult with appropriate State, local, and private entities concerned with refugee resettlement. Revises State refugee resettlement administrative and case management provisions. Provides for earlier Federal reimbursement of State cash and medical assistance expenses. Provides flexibility for State use of social services funds. Obligates specified refugee resettlement assistance for schools, hospitals, and employment services in heavily impacted localities. Authorizes a refugee loan program through FY 1994 for social services leading to employment. Authorizes appropriations through FY 1998. Amends the Refugee Education Assistance Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations through FY 1998.

projet de loi relatif à la titularisation d'agents de l'Office français de protection des réfugiés et apatrides

France · Senate · 6 November 1991

Anerkannte türkische Asylbewerber in den anderen EG-Staaten; Bekämpfung der Ursachen, insbesondere hinsichtlich der Mißachtung der Menschenrechte (G-SIG: 12041449)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Hintergründe für den Verbleib abgelehnter Asylbewerber in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (G-SIG: 12041609)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Beteiligung der betroffenen Gemeinden bei der Umwandlung freiwerdender Kasernen in Sammellager für Asylbewerber, insbesondere in Neustadt/Weinstraße (G-SIG: 12041621)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Zuständigkeitsverlagerung im Asylverfahren (G-SIG: 12041680)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Beschleunigung der Asylverfahren (G-SIG: 12051590)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Unterstützung der Ausländerbehörden bei der Abschiebung abgelehnter Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12041676)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

Verhandlungen über die Bereitstellung von Gemeinschaftsunterkünften für Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12041684)

Germany · German Bundestag · 31 October 1991

National Community Economic Partnership Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 24 October 1991

National Community Economic Partnership Act of 1991 - Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1981 to establish a National Commission on Community Economic Development (the Commission), as an independent agency, to: (1) administer the community development programs established under this Act; and (2) serve as a focal point for Federal promotion of community-based economic development. Directs the Commission to develop and promulgate, in consultation with the heads of other Federal agencies, regulations to permit appropriate operation of joint programs coordinating activities supported with assistance under this Act with activities supported with assistance under programs administered by such agency heads. Authorizes the Commission to enter into contracts and other appropriate arrangements with nonprofit organizations for operation and management of any projects undertaken under such a joint program. Requires the Commission to coordinate such joint programs with other related Federal, State, local, and private activities. Establishes a program of community economic partnership investment funds. Authorizes the Commission to provide nonrefundable lines of credit to community development corporations (CDCs) to establish, maintain, or expand revolving loan funds to finance projects to: (1) provide business and employment opportunities for low-income and unemployed individuals; and (2) improve the quality of life in urban and rural areas. Sets forth requirements relating to such revolving loan funds, including: (1) competitive assessment of applications from eligible entities for capitalization of such funds; (2) applications including strategic investment plans and demonstrations of experience and achievement; (3) matching local funds (with exceptions); (4) application approval criteria, including priority for target areas with low incomes and high unemployment; and (5) availability of lines of credit; (6) authorized uses of lines of credit and of revolving loan funds; (7) limitations on use of funds; (8) local contributions; and (9) use of proceeds from investments. Requires the Commission to give priority in providing lines of credit under this Act to CDCs that propose to undertake economic development activities in distressed communities that target women, Native Americans, at-risk youth, farmworkers, very low-income communities, single mother or refugees and programs providing loans in limited amounts to very small business enterprises. Allows not more than five percent of program appropriations to be reserved for such priority activities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for such community economic partnership investment funds program. Establishes a program for emerging community development corporations (CDCs). Directs the Commission to award: (1) grants to community development corporations to attain or enhance the business management and development skills of the individuals that manage such CDCs, in order to enable such CDCs, to seek the public and private resources necessary to develop community economic projects; and (2) operating grants to community development corporations to enable them to support an administrative capacity for planning, developing, and management of low-income community development projects. Sets forth authorized uses and maximum amounts of, and application requirements for, such grants. Authorizes the Commission to award grants to emerging CDCs to enable them to establish, maintain, or expand revolving loan funds, to make or gurantee loans, or to make capital investments in new or expanding local businesses. Sets forth eligibility requirements, authorized uses of such revolving loan funds and of proceeds from investments, and maximum grant amount. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for such program for emerging CDCs. Establishes a community economic development research and demonstration program. Directs the Commission to award grants to enable eligible organizations to undertake programs involving research, testing, studies, or demonstrations related to community economic development. Makes eligible for such grants, if they submit appropriate applications, the following entities: CDCs, universities, fiscal intermediaries, or nonprofit organizations involved in community-based economic development. Sets forth authorized uses and maximum amount of such grants. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 through 1995 for such grants program. Prohibits funds authorized under this Act from being used to finance the construction of housing.

To suspend trade benefits and multilateral economic assistance to Hong Kong.

United States · United States Congress · 22 October 1991

Requires 60 days after enactment of this Act: (1) that the President terminate, withdraw, or suspend any portion of any trade agreement or treaty to the extent the agreement or treaty requires the provision of nondiscriminatory (most-favored-nation) trade treatment to Hong Kong; (2) that the denial of most-favored-nation treatment to Hong Kong and that its products be subjected to specified duty rates; and (3) that the generalized system of preferences be inapplicable to the products of Hong Kong. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury, 60 days after enactment, to instruct the United States executive directors of the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the International Development Association to oppose any loan or other utilization of the funds of their respective institutions to or for Hong Kong. Allows the President to waive such restrictions if it is determined that: (1) Hong Kong has agreed to be a country of first asylum for asylum seekers fleeding Vietnam by boat or land; and (2) Hong Kong has terminated the practice of forced repatriation of asylum seekers.

Ermittlungsverfahren und Haftbefehle wegen Straftaten gegen Asylbewerber oder Ausländer seit dem 15. September 1991 (G-SIG: 12041480)

Germany · German Bundestag · 11 October 1991

Ermittlungsverfahren wegen des Verdachts von Straftaten gegen Asylbewerber oder Ausländer (G-SIG: 12041479)

Germany · German Bundestag · 11 October 1991

Implementation Reports to the Budgetary Authority: Iraqi refugee operation

European Union · European Commission · 9 October 1991

Stellung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland beim Vergleich der Sozialleistungen für Asylbewerber innerhalb der EG (G-SIG: 12041280)

Germany · German Bundestag · 20 September 1991

Dauer der Asylverfahren in den einzelnen Bundesländern (G-SIG: 12051253)

Germany · German Bundestag · 20 September 1991

Nontraditional Students Assistance Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1991

Nontraditional Students Assistance Act of 1991 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 with respect to student assistance to expand the definition of independent student to include any individual: (1) who was admitted to the United States as a refugee; (2) who was granted asylum in the United States; or (3) whose deportation has been withheld (under specified provisions of the Immigration and Nationality Act). Makes eligible for independent status also any student with a history of self-sufficiency or a history of having been a victim of child abuse or spouse abuse (as well as other unusual circumstances), as determined and documented by a financial aid administrator. Applies such revised independent student definition to the Pell Grant program as well as to other student assistance generally. Makes less-than-half-time students eligible, under specified conditions, under the guaranteed student loan (Stafford) program and under the Pell Grant program. Applies provisions for repayment grace periods and deferrals to less-than-half-time students under the guaranteed student loan (Stafford) and the direct student loan (Perkins) programs.

Designating October 30, 1991, as "Refugee Day".

United States · United States Congress · 12 September 1991

Designates October 30, 1991, as Refugee Day.

Eindämmung des Eindringens afrikanischer Asylbewerber in die EG; Verantwortung der ehemaligen Kolonialmächte (G-SIG: 12041244)

Germany · German Bundestag · 6 September 1991

Verhinderung einer Mehrfachzahlung von Sozialhilfe an einzelne Asylbewerber (G-SIG: 12051195)

Germany · German Bundestag · 30 August 1991

Erfüllung des Aufnahmesolls für Asylbewerber durch die neuen Bundesländer (G-SIG: 12041203)

Germany · German Bundestag · 23 August 1991

Verkürzung der Dauer von Asylverfahren (G-SIG: 12041194)

Germany · German Bundestag · 23 August 1991

A joint resolution designating October 30, 1991 as "Refugee Day".

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991

Designates October 30 of each year as Refugee Day.

Gulf War Compensation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 2 August 1991

Gulf War Compensation Act of 1991 - Authorizes the President to direct that any property of the Government of Iraq blocked pursuant to a specified executive order shall vest in the United States and be sold or otherwise liquidated. Provides for the deposit of funds acquired from such sales or liquidations in the general fund of the Treasury. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this Act in amounts up to: (1) amounts deposited in the fund and income from investments of such amounts; and (2) amounts of payments of interest and principal on loans made to small businesses under this Act. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) disaster relief and rehabilitation assistance for Iraqi refugees and other persons in the Persian Gulf region displaced as a result of the Persian Gulf conflict; (2) the U.S. contribution to the United Nations Children's Fund for emergency humanitarian assistance for such individuals; and (3) assistance to countries for the reconstruction of property damaged by the Iraqi armed forces during the Persian Gulf conflict. Makes amounts under this Act available to the Administrator of the Small Business Administration for making loans to small business concerns that are: (1) owned and controlled by reservists and that have suffered economic injury as a result of the service of such reservists on active duty on or after August 1, 1990; or (2) located in the vicinity of a military installation and that have suffered economic injury as a result of an emergency deployment, occurring on or after such date, of at least 10,000 individuals comprising at least 60 percent of the personnel normally assigned to the installation. Limits the aggregate outstanding amount of loans and the amount of loans to any one borrower. Subjects such loans to the same conditions applicable to disaster loans made under the Small Business Act. Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs (VA), during FY 1992, to increase funding for: (1) the acquisition of equipment for Department of Veterans Affairs medical centers and for the National Cemetery System; (2) outpatient treatment; (3) the homeless chronically mentally ill veterans program; (4) the treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder and the training of individuals who treat veterans with such disorder; and (5) the study of the health effects of exposure to Kuwait oil fires set during the Persian Gulf conflict. Requires the Secretary of Labor, during FY 1992, to increase funding for: (1) veterans' employment programs under the Job Training Partnership Act; (2) the Transition Assistance Program and the Disabled Transition Assistance Program; (3) the National Veterans Training Institute; (4) employment of local veterans employment representatives; and (5) the Disabled Veterans Outreach Program. Increases the educational assistance allowance for survivors and dependents under Federal veterans' benefits provisions. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to: (1) conduct a research and epidemiological study of the adverse health effects resulting from exposure to the Kuwaiti oil fires set during the Persian Gulf conflict; (2) periodically consult with the Secretary of the VA to determine what changes in veterans' benefits would be necessary to respond to consequences of such exposure; and (3) periodically consult with the Kuwaiti Government and report to the Secretary of State to recommend services to respond to consequences of exposure of those residing in Kuwait. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Congressional Budget Act of 1974 to raise certain discretionary spending limits during FY 1992 through 1995.

Omnibus National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991

Omnibus National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theater missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persian Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities witihin DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy 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 military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applies Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) Office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarshps and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commision funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made only in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.

Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991

Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theater missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D objectives for each element. Limits the FY 1992 R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persin Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities within DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies).

National Defense Multiyear Authorization Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991

National Defense Multiyear Authorization Act of 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theatre missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grde below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persin Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current detrmination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat position; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 pecent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to incude those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailbility of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fisal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provisioin of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropraite participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide as assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Fedeal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Require the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatent commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and substainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities witihin DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specfied in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy 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 military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and constructioin design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applied Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of products services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorized the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico, State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recruiting General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarships and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapon Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commision funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made ony in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1991

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theatre missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertent introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persian Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to participating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities within DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy 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 military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force 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 military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installatioins and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applies Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of products or services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) Office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceeds $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarships and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commission funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made only in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.

Aktivitäten einer türkischen "Asyl- und Schwarzarbeiter-Mafia" in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (G-SIG: 12041016)

Germany · German Bundestag · 5 July 1991

proposition de loi réformant la procédure du droit d'asile

France · Senate · 3 July 1991

41 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider sending an Irish fact finding mission to Cambodia in view of the recent collapse of the latest round of peace talks in Jakarta and the huge and increasing amount of innocent civilians and refugees who are in need of assistance.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 July 1991

41 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider sending an Irish fact finding mission to Cambodia in view of the recent collapse of the latest round of peace talks in Jakarta and the huge and increasing amount of innocent civilians and refugees who are in need of assistance.

41 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider sending an Irish fact finding mission to Cambodia in view of the recent collapse of the latest round of peace talks in Jakarta and the huge and increasing amount of innocent civilians and refugees who are in need of assistance.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 July 1991

41 Mr. J. O'Keeffe asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs whether he will consider sending an Irish fact finding mission to Cambodia in view of the recent collapse of the latest round of peace talks in Jakarta and the huge and increasing amount of innocent civilians and refugees who are in need of assistance.

28 Mr. Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will give details of (a) the efforts which have been made by the Irish Government in support of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees' attempts to reach agreement with the South African Government for a general amnesty for all exiles and for financial assistance to facilitate the return of such refugees to South Africa and (b) the initiatives which the Government have taken at EC, UN and other international fora to secure the speedy release of political prisoners in South Africa and to seek the repeal of legislation designed to circumscribe political activity such as the Internal Security Act; whether he supports the establishment of a constituent assembly in South Africa in the light of the Namibian experience as part of the transitional process in South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 2 July 1991

28 Mr. Byrne asked the Minister for Foreign Affairs if he will give details of (a) the efforts which have been made by the Irish Government in support of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees' attempts to reach agreement with the South African Government for a general amnesty for all exiles and for financial assistance to facilitate the return of such refugees to South Africa and (b) the initiatives which the Government have taken at EC, UN and other international fora to secure the speedy release of political prisoners in South Africa and to seek the repeal of legislation designed to circumscribe political activity such as the Internal Security Act; whether he supports the establishment of a constituent assembly in South Africa in the light of the Namibian experience as part of the transitional process in South Africa; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993

United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1991

Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title I: Department of State - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the Department of State for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) the diplomatic security program; (3) international organizations and conferences; (4) international commissions; (5) migration and refugee assistance; (6) assistance for refugees resettling in Israel; (7) assistance to displaced ethnic Armenians resettling in Armenia; (8) assistance to unaccompanied minor children and other cases of special humanitarian concern that have been referred to special committees pursuant to the Comprehensive Plan of Action for Indochinese Refugees in first asylum countries in Southeast Asia and Hong Kong; (9) humanitarian assistance to displaced Burmese; (10) bilateral science and technology agreements; (11) Soviet-East European research and training; (12) Near and Middle East research and training; and (13) the Asia Foundation. Part B: Department of State Authorities and Activities - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to authorize the Secretary of State to use funds to pay obligations arising under international agreements, conventions, and binational contracts. Requires Federal agencies that obtain administrative services from the Department of State to make full and prompt payment for such services through an advance of funds or reimbursement. Directs the Secretary to terminate services to agencies that have not made payment within a specified deadline. Waives such suspension or termination as necessary to protect life and Government property. Authorizes the transfer into the Buying Power Maintenance account of unobligated balances from accounts for the administration of foreign affairs. Prohibits the balance of such account from exceeding $100 million. Permits funds appropriated for the Department of State in any account funded in the Department of State Appropriations Act to be transferred to any other appropriations account in an emergency situation (provided the annual budget deficit is not increased and the transfer does not violate the Budget Enforcement Act of 1990). Prohibits an account from being increased by more than 15 percent (five percent for the salaries and expenses account and the acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad account). Exempts transfers to the emergencies in the consular and diplomatic service appropriation for evacuation purposes from such limitation. Prohibits an account from being increased by more than ten percent. Treats such transfers as a reprogramming of funds. Prohibits, unless the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are notified, the reprogramming of Department of State funds in excess of $500,000 (currently, $250,000). Extends the authorization of appropriations for grants to child care facilities at certain posts abroad. Redesignates the Office of Munitions Control of the Department of State as the Office of Defense Trade Controls and increases the amount of registration fees collected by the Office that is required to be credited to a Department of State account. Permits funds received by the Department of State in connection with Blair House (currently, funds received during FY 1990 and 1991) to be credited to the appropriate Department of State account. Prohibits the denial of, or limitations on, a passport because of any belief or activity which, if held or conducted in the United States, would be protected by the first amendment to the Constitution. Authorizes the Secretary to pay the expenses of any international meeting or conference in the United States that is hosted by the U.S. Government. Amends the Foreign Service Buildings Act of 1926 to raise the limit on the amount of a lease authorized to be entered into by the Secretary for Foreign Service buildings abroad. Permits the Secretary to make advance payments for long-term leases and lease-purchase agreements. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 to increase the amount authorized to be made available for the construction of Foreign Service Institute training facilities. Amends the Immigration and Nationality Act to classify as a nonimmigrant an alien coming to the United States at the request of a Government agency for employment, subject to certain conditions and numerical limitations. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees each time a visa is denied to an alien for security reasons. Prohibits the Secretary from including in the Automated Visa Lookout System or in any system that maintains information about the excludability of aliens the name of any alien who is not excludable under the Immigration and Nationality Act. Requires the Secretary to correct such systems by deleting the names of aliens who are not excludable under such Act. Authorizes the Secretary to add to or retain in such system the names of aliens who are not excludable only if they are included for law enforcement purposes or lawful purposes of the Department of State. Permits the Secretary, subject to certain conditions, to enter into a multiyear (not to exceed five years) contract for the acquisition of property and construction of diplomatic facilities in Moscow. Sets forth contract provisions. Requires Department of State employees to whom a question is addressed by a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee or the Senate Foreign Relations Committee to respond to such question within 15 days unless the Secretary explains why a timely response cannot be made. Directs the Assistant Secretary of State for Economic and Business Affairs to report to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House on criteria for international loans by which the United States can determine the likelihood of repayment by another nation or organization seeking to receive U.S. loans or guarantees. Requires the Secretary to report to such individuals at least 30 days prior to the issuance of any bilateral credit or loans or prior to a vote in any multilateral institution in which the United States is a contributor on: (1) the nation's or organization's creditworthiness in accordance with such criteria; and (2) the expectation of repayment of loans to the United States or the multilateral institution. Declares that the Department of State should take advantage of evolving conditions in Eastern Europe by moving expeditiously to satisfy long-term property requirements which must be met in support of needs for effective overseas representation. Endorses recent efforts by the Department of State to develop a long-term assets management program to further efforts to acquire properties and support further initiatives in such area. Commends the Administration's decision to establish a consular office in Leipzig to strengthen the U.S. presence in eastern Germany. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Department of State should expedite its efforts to implement this decision. Part C: Diplomatic Reciprocity and Security - Amends the Omnibus Diplomatic Security and Antiterrorism Act of 1986 to raise the threshold (from $5,000,000 to $10,000,000) on diplomatic construction or design projects on which only U.S. persons may bid. Directs the Secretary to: (1) submit to specified congressional committees a plan which sets forth current and future space requirements for the U.S. mission in Moscow; and (2) make available to such committees copies of all agreements necessary to implement such plan. Increases the amount authorized to be appropriated for the reimbursement of State and local governments in connection with Secret Service functions with respect to foreign diplomatic missions located in metropolitan areas. Revises authorities of special agents of the Foreign Service and the Department of State to authorize such agents to make arrests without warrant for any offense against the United States committed in their presence or for any felony if they have reasonable grounds to believe that the person to be arrested has committed or is committing such felony. Requires the Secretary to: (1) report to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House on security needs for diplomatic construction; and (2) review the Inman Report and address whether changing budgetary and foreign policy priorities continue to justify the Report's recommendations. Part D: Personnel - Directs the Secretary to appoint seven individuals to: (1) examine and report to specified congressional committees on personnel issues affecting Foreign Service and civil service employees at the Department of State; and (2) report to such committees on compliance by the Department of State with recommendations of a commission established to study the Foreign Service personnel system. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to grant access to commissaries to American citizens hired to serve as teaching staff for dependents of employees abroad. Amends the Foreign Service Act of 1980 to extend the period of temporary storage of personal effects of Foreign Service employees for an additional 90 days in extraordinary circumstances. Authorizes the Secretary to pay for the transport of the remains of a Foreign Service member to the designated home in the United States if the death of such member occurs in the United States. (Current law authorizes payment only for the transport of the remains of a member or family member who dies while abroad or in travel status.) Provides for payment for up to 60 days to Federal employees whose families or dependents are required to evacuate a post (even if the employee remains at such post). Revises Federal provisions regarding quarters, education, and cost-of-living allowances for Federal employees stationed in foreign countries. Establishes in the Treasury a fund for separation pay for foreign national employees for agencies other than the Department of Defense. Part E: International Organizations and Commissions - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations should ensure that in-kind contributions to the United Nations peacekeeping forces are included at their full value when calculating contributions to such forces. Authorizes the President to withhold 20 percent of the funds allocated for the U.S. contribution to the United Nations if the United Nations has failed to implement decision-making procedures on budgetary matters which assure that attention is paid to the views of the United States and other major financial contributors. Requires the President to notify the Congress when a decision is made to withhold a contribution to the United Nations or to pay any previously withheld contribution. Permits payments of assessed contributions for prior years to the United Nations if such payment would further U.S. interests in such organization. Repeals provisions of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 concerning United Nations budget procedures. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 that requires the Secretary to report on the status of secondment within the United Nations by the Soviet Union and Soviet-bloc member nations. Withholds the payment of all U.S. arrearages to Special Purpose International Organizations until the Secretary reports to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House on: (1) the purpose and activities of such organizations; (2) the political and economic benefits to the United States of membership in such organizations; and (3) the effect on American consumers and importers of the activities and policies of organizations dealing with economic commodities. Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to add to the list of the Secretary's authorities the authority to make payments, in advance, of the U.S. share of expenses for international fisheries commissions. Amends the Japan-United States Friendship Act to revise provisions concerning administrative expenses of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the activities (after April 30, 1990) of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. Earmarks amounts from funding authorized for international fisheries commissions for the Great Lakes Fishery Commission. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to Inter-American organizations. Requires the Secretary to direct the Assistant Secretary for International Organization Affairs to review policies for the provision of housing benefits to U.S. Government personnel assigned to the U.S. mission to the United Nations. Part F: Foreign Relations of the United States Historical Series - Amends the State Department Basic Authorities Act of 1956 to set forth provisions concerning the "Foreign Relations of the United States" historical series, a documentary record of major U.S. foreign policy decisions and diplomatic activity. Requires the series to be published within 30 years after the events recorded. Makes the Historian of the Department of State responsible for the preparation of the series. Establishes an Advisory Committee on Historical Diplomatic Documentation to review and make recommendations concerning the selection of records to be included in the series. Directs all Federal agencies engaged in foreign policy to develop procedures for their historical offices to coordinate with the Department of State in selecting and permitting access to records for purposes of inclusion in the series. Requires selected records to be submitted to the originating agency for declassification review. Directs the originating agency, if a record is not declassifiable, to make deletions in the text to make the record declassifiable. Requires the Historian, if the meaning of a record is so altered by such deletions that the series would be misleading, to request the originating agency to prepare an unclassified summary of the record. Sets forth procedures to be followed if the originating agency refuses to prepare a declassified record or an unclassified summary. Requires declassification of Department of State records within 30 years after such records were prepared. Makes such records available to the public at the National Archives. Exempts specified records (for security or privacy reasons) from such requirement. Part G: Near and Middle East Research and Training Act - Near and Middle East Research and Training Act - Establishes the Near and Middle Eastern Advisory Committee within the Department of State to recommend grant policies for carrying out the objectives of this part. Declares that payments shall be made for: (1) a national research program at the postdoctoral level; (2) a program of graduate, postdoctoral, and teaching fellowships for advanced training in Near and Middle Eastern studies; (3) the dissemination of research and findings on such studies and related fields; (4) fellowship and research support for American specialists in such studies; (5) seminars and workshops to facilitate research collaboration between Government and private specialists in such studies; (6) advanced training and research on a reciprocal basis in Near and Middle Eastern countries; and (7) language training. Sets forth application procedures for institutions seeking funding. Part H: Miscellaneous Provisions - Repeals a provision of the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1986 and 1987 concerning a travel advisory warning for Jalisco, Mexico. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress every 180 days on: (1) the progress made in rescinding United Nations General Assembly Resolution 3379 which maintains that Zionism is a form of racism; (2) the progress made by every member of the General Assembly in recognizing Israel; (3) the extent to which Arab nations which have refused to recognize Israel or have maintained a state of belligerency against Israel have taken steps to end the economic boycott and state of belligerency and to negotiate with Israel; and (4) the means utilized by the United States to encourage the Arab states allied with the United States in the Persian Gulf War to achieve such objectives. Redesignates the Iraq Sanctions Act of 1990 as the Iraq International Law Compliance Act. Requires the Secretary to: (1) coordinate the U.S. Government response to international water resource disputes and needs; (2) represent the U.S. Government in fora in discussions concerning access to fresh water; and (3) formulate U.S. policy to assist in the resolution of international problems posed by the lack of fresh water supplies. Repeals a provision of the Soviet-East European Research and Training Act that terminates Soviet-East European training by a specified date. Title II: United States Informational, Educational, and Cultural Programs - Part A: United States Information Agency - Authorizes appropriations for the U.S. Information Agency (USIA) for FY 1992 and 1993. Earmarks an amount for the establishment and operation of a USIA office in Vientiane, Laos. Amends the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 to prohibit funds in excess of $500,000 (currently, $250,000) from being made available to USIA through a reprogramming unless the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee are notified. Adds to the authorities of the USIA Director the authority to purchase, rent, construct, improve, and operate facilities for television transmission and reception. Permits the Director or other authorized Government agencies to: (1) incur expenses authorized by the Foreign Service Act of 1980; and (2) furnish living quarters and provide specified allowances for government employees in foreign countries. Authorizes the Director or such agencies to pay to or for participants in programs under the United States Information and Educational Exchange Act of 1948 the costs of: (1) emergency medical expenses; (2) the preparation and transportation of remains of participants' dependents who die while away from home during such participation; and (3) health and accident insurance premiums. Requires the Director to: (1) establish a cultural center in the capital of the province of Kosovo in Yugoslavia; and (2) establish Croatian and Serbian programs within the Yugoslavian section of Voice of America (VOA). Authorizes appropriations for the National Endowment for Democracy (NED). Sets forth specified reporting requirements with respect to NED grant management. Amends the National Endowment for Democracy Act to require (currently, authorizes) USIA to audit NED financial transactions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the NED should make efforts to solicit private contributions. Part B: Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) the Fulbright Academic Exchange programs; (3) the Hubert H. Humphrey Fellowship Program; (4) the International Visitors Program; (5) the Arts America Program; (6) East Europe training projects; (7) citizen exchange programs; (8) the Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program; (9) the Vietnam Scholarship Program; and (10) academic exchange programs involving Latin America, Asia, and Africa. Authorizes appropriations to the Bureau for FY 1992 for the World University Games in Buffalo, New York. Amends the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend the authorization of appropriations for scholarships for Tibetan and Burmese students and professionals. Encourages USIA to work with its German counterparts in the Congress-Bundestag Exchange Program to emphasize the participation of former citizens of the German Democratic Republic and to insure that Germans from eastern Germany are given the opportunity to participate in German-American bilateral exchange programs. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to be made available to the Bureau for: (1) programs in Washington, D.C., to expose students from newly democratic countries to the workings of the U.S. Government; and (2) scholarships for scholars, businesspeople, and professionals from such countries for study of democratic and free market institutions and other aspects of U.S. society. Part C: Bureau of Broadcasting - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to the USIA Bureau of Broadcasting for: (1) salaries and expenses; (2) television and film service; (3) acquisition and construction of radio facilities; and (4) broadcasting to Cuba. Requires the President to submit to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House the report of the Policy Coordinating Committee on International Broadcasting. Directs the Task Force on United States Government International Broadcasting to submit to such individuals its report to the President on U.S. Government broadcasting. Establishes a Commission on Broadcasting to the People's Republic of China to examine the feasibility, effect, and implications for U.S. foreign policy of instituting a radio broadcasting service to China to promote the dissemination of information and ideas. Requires VOA to broadcast at least one hour daily in the Kurdish language on its Persian language service and its Arabic language service to Iraq. Authorizes the USIA Director to hire Kurdish language speakers subject to certain conditions. Requires the USIA Director to submit a plan and budget for the establishment of a VOA Kurdish language service to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House. Directs the chairman of the Board for International Broadcasting to submit a plan and budget to such individuals for the establishment of a surrogate home service under the auspices of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) for the Kurdish people. Requires the Director to make available to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in New York master copies of USIA photographic works of Richard Saunders. Provides that the Center shall reimburse USIA for expenses in making such copies available. Part D: The Educational Exchanges Enhancement Act of 1991 - Educational Exchanges Enhancement Act of 1991 - Provides for an increase in the number of USIA scholarships for foreign and U.S. students and scholars. Makes such scholarships available only to: (1) foreign students and scholars from Eastern European democracies, the Soviet Union, and countries with fewer than 1,000 citizens studying in the United States; (2) students from economic, social, or ethnic backgrounds not represented in the U.S. foreign student population; and (3) U.S. students and scholars for study, research, and teaching in Eastern European democracies, the Soviet Union, and non-European countries. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Board for International Broadcasting - Amends the Board for International Broadcasting Act to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to carry out such Act and the Inspector General Act of 1978. Provides that certain amounts of appropriations placed in reserve due to upward fluctuations in foreign currency exchange rates shall be used to make payments to RFE/RL's U.S. and German pension plans to avoid future pension liabilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to maintaining RFE broadcasts to Eastern Europe. Title IV: The Spoils of War Act of 1991 - Spoils of War Act of 1991 - Permits spoils of war in the possession or control of the United States to be transferred to any other party only to the extent and in the same manner that property of the same type, if otherwise owned by the United States, may be so transferred. Prohibits such spoils of war from being transferred to any nation whose government has repeatedly provided support for acts of international terrorism. Requires the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on spoils of war obtained during Operation Desert Shield or Operation Desert Storm that were transferred to any party. Title V: Anti-Boycott Passport Act of 1991 - Anti-Boycott Passport Act of 1991 - Directs the Secretary to: (1) instruct the U.S. Middle Eastern diplomatic corps to seek an end to the policy of the majority of Arab League nations of rejecting passports of, and denying entrance visas to, persons whose passports or other documents reflect that they have visited Israel; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on the status of efforts to secure an end to such policy. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing any passport that is designated for travel only to Israel. Requires the Secretary to cancel existing passports designated for travel only to Israel. Prohibits the Secretary from issuing more than one official or diplomatic passport to any U.S. Government official for purposes of enabling such official to acquiesce in or comply with the Arab League's passport policy concerning persons who have visited Israel. Title VI: Southeast Asia - Part A: Laotian-American Relations - Laotian-American Relations Act - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) upgrade the current American diplomatic representation in Vientiane, Laos, to the level of ambassador; (2) ensure that an American military attache is permanently assigned to the U.S. mission in Vientiane to assist in the recovery of American prisoners of war and missing in action; and (3) ensure that Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) personnel are permanently assigned to such mission to accelerate cooperative efforts in narcotics eradication and interdiction. Requires the USIA Director to establish an office in Vientiane, Laos, to assist in the propagation of American economic and political values. Part B: Free Market Democracy Promotion for Vietnamese Act - Free Market Democracy Promotion for Vietnamese Act - Requires the Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to make available 15 scholarships during FY 1992 to enable Vietnamese residents in Vietnam to study at a U.S. college or university. Gives preference to candidates intending to pursue studies in economics and commercial law. Part C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Expresses the sense of the Congress that the goals of U.S. policy in Vietnam and Cambodia would be advanced by increased access to their territories and by reaching an agreement that would result in the lifting of the trade embargo against Vietnam and Cambodia. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to accounting for American prisoners of war or missing in action in Southeast Asia. Title VII: Persian Gulf War Criminals Prosecution Act of 1991 - Part A: General Provisions - Persian Gulf War Criminals Prosecution Act of 1991 - Sets forth findings regarding Iraq's violation of the Geneva Conventions. Part B: Actions By United States Agencies and Courts - Requires the President to direct Government agencies to collect and maintain evidence of crimes committed by Persian Gulf war criminals. Directs the President to consult with the Attorney General, the Secretary of State, and the Secretary of Defense to determine the appropriate jurisdiction for the prosecution of such criminals. Part C: International Criminal Tribunal - Urges the President, acting through the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, to propose to the Security Council the establishment of an international criminal tribunal for the prosecution of Persian Gulf war criminals. Urges the President to work with the coalition of nations participating in Operation Desert Storm to establish such tribunal if the Secretary Council fails to take action to do so. Establishes the Office for the Prosecution of Persian Gulf War Criminals within the Department of State. Part D: Congressional Oversight - Requires the President to report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on: (1) the proposal developed by the Office for the establishment of an international criminal tribunal; (2) evidence of crimes under international law that justifies the prosecution of Persian Gulf war criminals; and (3) Iraqi authorities who should be prosecuted for committing such crimes. Title VIII: Arms Suppliers Regime - Arms Suppliers Regime Act of 1991 - Declares that the Secretary should undertake to convene a conference of appropriate nations to establish an arms suppliers regime. States that the purpose of such regime should be to: (1) halt the flow of unconventional arms and technologies necessary to produce such arms to nations in the Middle East; (2) limit and control the proliferation of advanced conventional arms to such nations; and (3) provide incentives for regional arms control agreements in the Middle East. Lists actions to be taken to carry out such purposes. Authorizes the President to negotiate and commit the United States to participating in a multilateral moratorium prohibiting the transfer of advanced conventional arms to the Middle East. Requires the President to report annually to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs committee on: (1) all transfers of arms to the Middle East over the previous five years; (2) the current military balance in the region; (3) the current and projected military threat to allied and friendly nations in the Middle East and the military equipment needed to deter and defend against such threat; (4) the operation of agreements comprising the arms suppliers regime; (5) the supplier nations that have refused to participate in such regime; and (6) specific actions of supplier nations that have engaged in conduct that violates or undermines the regime. Prohibits the sale of defense articles or services, or the issuance of export licenses for such articles or services, to any nation in the Middle East unless the President: (1) certifies that the Secretary has undertaken to convene the conference for the establishment of an arms suppliers regime; and (2) submits a specified report on such regime. Title IX: Miscellaneous Foreign Affairs Provisions - Requires the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on specified issues involving the Palestine Liberation Organization. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) all U.S. law enforcement personnel serving in Mexico should be accorded the same status as U.S. diplomatic and consular personnel serving at U.S. posts in Mexico; and (2) all Mexican narcotics law enforcement personnel serving in the United States should be accorded the same status as DEA personnel serving in Mexico. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the establishment of a U.S.-Baltic Development Program and the stationing of overseas cultural/informational and commercial representatives in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the status of discussions with Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia regarding an enhanced U.S. presence in the Baltic Republics. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 to provide that the period of entitlement to benefits for U.S. hostages in Lebanon shall be the period of an individual's hostage status and the 60 months following the termination of such status. Requires the President to study and report to the Congress on the feasibility of constructing a library building for the Polish Parliament (Sejm) and the availability of funds for a U.S. contribution to such project. Expresses the sense of the Congress that Tibet is an occupied country under the principles of international law whose true representatives are the Dalai Lama and the Tibetan Government in exile. Prohibits the President from lifting U.S. economic sanctions against Saddam Hussein's regime in Iraq, and directs the President to make every effort to ensure that the multinational coalition maintains the full range of economic sanctions, until such regime has released all prisoners of war and has accounted as fully as possible for all those missing in action, including Kuwaitis captured during the Iraqi occupation. Directs the Secretary to: (1) maintain a list of Kuwaiti residents believed to have been captured or detained by the Iraqi Government; and (2) report to the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the Speaker of the House on actions to effect the release of remaining prisoners. Expresses the sense of the Senate regarding the Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee and a framework convention on global climate change. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should encourage the Government of the United Kingdom to provide the people of Hong Kong all civil liberties to bequeath a self-governing democracy to China in 1997. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should support Taiwan's role in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation. Sets forth U.S. policy with respect to arms sales to the Middle East. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to extend guarantees in connection with the sale of defense articles and services to NATO countries, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, and Israel. Limits the total amount of such guarantees in any fiscal year. Authorizes appropriations.

International Security and Economic Cooperation Act of 1991

United States · United States Congress · 2 July 1991

International Security and Economic Cooperation Act of 1991 - Title I: Statement of Policy; Development Assistance Programs - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise policy provisions. Declares that assistance provided under such Act, the Arms Export Control Act, and any Act authorizing or appropriating funds for use under such Acts should serve the following goals: (1) to promote and consolidate democratic values and institutions; (2) to promote U.S. national security interests and peace; (3) to promote economic growth through competitive markets with equitable distribution of benefits; (4) to promote human resource development and meet urgent humanitarian needs; and (5) to protect against transnational threats. States that development assistance programs should have the following four objectives: (1) to address the problem of poverty; (2) to promote broad-based free market economies and sustainable economic growth; (3) to promote improved environmental, natural resource, and agricultural management in developing countries; and (4) to promote democracy and political, social, and economic pluralism. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) concentrate development assistance in countries which will make the most effective use of such assistance; (2) focus development assistance on activities which the United States can provide most effectively and which meet the particular economic assistance requirements of a country; and (3) not provide assistance if the relevant sector or economic policies of a country are unfavorable to the sustainability or impact of the assisted project. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for agriculture, rural development, and nutrition assistance. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to prevent and control acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Declares that 45 percent of such assistance should be provided to the World Health Organization for use in financing its Global Program on AIDS. Calls upon the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance (administering agency) to set as a goal the reduction of under five mortality rates by at least one-third by the year 2000. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) voluntary family planning; (2) health programs; (3) education, public administration, and human resource development; and (4) private sector, environment, energy, and special development activities. Prohibits funds authorized under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 that are intended for projects requiring environmental impact statements, assessments, or analyses from being obligated or expended prior to the consideration of public comment on any options connected with such projects. Prohibits funds authorized to be appropriated for such Act from being used for projects that would result in any significant loss of primary tropical forests. Directs the administrator of the administering agency to increase the involvement of private and voluntary organizations and cooperatives in assistance programs. Encourages the administrator to support development education programs. Increases the percentage of funds to be made available or channeled for each fiscal year (currently, FY 1986 through 1989) to private and voluntary organizations for specified development activities. Permits funds for child and mother health needs, the Child Survival Fund, and AIDS to be made available notwithstanding restrictions on assistance to foreign countries. Requires the administrator to ensure that: (1) development assistance activities incorporate the active participation of local women; (2) sex-disaggregated data is included in country development strategy statements for major sectors in which assistance is to be provided and in project papers and program assistance approval documents; (3) programs are designed so that the percentage of women who benefit from such assistance exceeds the approximate transitional level of participation of women in the sector for which assistance is being provided; and (4) program assistance evaluations include an assessment of the extent to which women are participating in the activity and the impact of the activity on the self-reliance of women and improving their incomes. Requires a specified amount to be made available each fiscal year as matching funds to support activities of the missions of the agency which demonstrate potential for integrating women into programs. Title II: Other Assistance Programs and Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for American schools, libraries, and hospitals abroad. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) U.S. citizens give every consideration to founding or sponsoring American schools in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union to serve as study centers for U.S. ideas and practices; and (2) the American University of Blagoevgrad in Bulgaria is to be commended for its efforts in founding an American school to serve such purposes. Redesignates the private sector revolving fund as the private sector credit program. Eliminates provisions concerning funding, remittance of excess assets, fees, and the transfer of unobligated funds. Permits fees to be charged for guarantees and loans issued under the program. Limits the amount of contingent liability for guarantees in FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for administrative expenses of the program. Raises the ceiling on the principal amount of housing guaranties authorized to be issued under the worldwide shelter program. Continues the authority of the housing guaranty program through FY 1993. Repeals provisions concerning agricultural and productive credit and self-help community development programs. Provides that guaranties issued in connection with loans made for housing and infrastructure in Israel for Soviet refugees shall not be subject to specified face value limitations. Requires fees to be charged for housing guaranties. Raises the ceiling on the total face value of guaranties authorized to be issued with respect to any country in a fiscal year. Provides that the principal amount of guaranties issued shall be comparable to the amount issued for FY 1984, subject to dollar value limitations. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to pay the cost of guranties with a specified face value and for administrative expenses of the housing guaranty program. Permits the President to continue U.S. participation in, and make contributions to, the International Fund for Agricultural Development. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for specified United Nations programs and activities. Authorizes appropriations for the U.S. contribution to the United Nations University Endowment Fund. Limits such contribution to 25 percent of the total amount contributed to the Fund by other members. Provides that if Israel is denied its right to participate in any United Nations agency, the United States shall suspend its participation in, and contributions to, any such agency until the denial of rights is reversed. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for international disaster assistance and international narcotics control activities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that under specified conventions on narcotic drugs and psychotropic substances, the parties are required to criminalize drug related activities, provide severe penalties, and cooperate in the extradition of accused offenders. Revises the authorities of the Director of the Trade and Development Agency (replaces the Trade and Development Program). Requires the Agency to disseminate information about its activities to the private sector. Sets forth the duties of the Inspector General of the administering agency with respect to the Agency. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits appointments to positions within the administering agency without the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operating expenses of the administering agency and its Office of the Inspector General. Requires the President to maintain within the administering agency a Center for University Cooperation in Development and a Center for Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Provides that the respective purposes of such Centers shall be to strengthen development partnerships between the U.S. Government and: (1) U.S. institutions of higher education engaged in education, research, and public service programs relevant to development needs of developing countries; and (2) U.S. private voluntary organizations, cooperatives, and credit unions engaged in activities relevant to such needs. Directs the administrator to establish an Advisory Committee on Voluntary Cooperation in Development. Revises provisions concerning congressional notification for program changes. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations to invest local currencies accrued as a result of economic assistance provided under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and other specified Acts and to use interest earned on investments for assistance purposes. Title III: Economic Support Fund - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for economic support fund (ESF) assistance for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt; (3) regional cooperative programs in the Middle East; (4) Cyprus (to be for scholarships, bicommunal projects, and confidence building measures to reduce tensions and promote peace between the two communities on Cyprus); (5) the International Fund for Ireland; (6) Turkey; and (7) other recipients or purposes. Permits the President to provide administration of justice assistance to the Philippines. Continues funding for specified administration of justice and law enforcement assistance through FY 1993. Authorizes the President to use ESF assistance for capital and infrastructure assistance. Applies environmental impact and assessment requirements to such assistance. Restricts the use of ESF assistance for nuclear facilities. Permits ESF assistance to be provided as a cash transfer only if the recipient country spends an amount equal to such cash transfer to purchase U.S. goods and services. Makes exemptions to such requirement under certain circumstances. Prohibits U.S. flag carriers from being reimbursed for more than 30 percent above the average competitive international rate for international ship transportation with respect to such purchases. Title IV: Military Assistance and Sales and Related Programs - Authorizes the President to furnish military assistance on a grant basis (currently, loan or grant). Permits such assistance to be provided for the financing of defense articles or services. Authorizes financing for the procurement by leasing of defense articles from U.S. commercial suppliers to be provided to Israel and Egypt if there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for such articles being provided by lease rather than by government-to-government sale. Permits the financing of the procurement of defense articles and services not sold by the U.S. Government only if the country or international organization proposing to make such procurement has signed an agreement with the United States specifying the conditions under which the procurement may be financed. Authorizes funds to be made available to a foreign country to make payments of principal and interest owed to the United States in connection with sales of defense articles or services. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for military assistance and sales for: (1) Israel (makes certain amounts available, at the request of the Government of Israel, for research and development in the United States and the procurement of defense articles and services in Israel); (2) Egypt; (3) Turkey; (4) Greece; and (5) other recipients or purposes. Declares that the President should consider the practice of a country with respect to the law of war when furnishing military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Arms Export Control Act. Raises the ceiling on the amount of defense articles and services and military education and training to be drawn down under certain emergencies. Places a ceiling on the value of additions to stockpiles for FY 1992 and FY 1993. Extends the President's authority to transfer excess defense articles to countries on NATO's southern flank through FY 1993. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) international military education and training; (2) peacekeeping operations; and (3) antiterrorism assistance. Makes technical and conforming amendments to the Arms Export Control Act. Provides that charges for defense articles (other than major defense equipment) that are sold, licensed, or approved for export under such Act after FY 1991 may not include nonrecurring costs of research on or development or production of such articles. Revises a provision regarding the Guaranty Reserve Fund and redesignates the Fund as the Foreign Military Loan Liquidating Account. Raises the ceiling on the aggregate acquisition cost to the United States of excess defense articles ordered by the President. Revises requirements of a report by the President on military exports. Repeals provisions concerning information to the Congress on credit sales and guaranties and the availability of funds for procurement of defense articles and services outside the United States. Deems Australia, New Zealand, Egypt, Israel, Japan, and the Philippines to be major non-NATO allies. Prohibits funds made available by any Act from being used to facilitate the sale of M-833 antitank shells or any comparable antitank shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to any country other than a NATO member country or a major non-NATO ally. Sets forth U.S. policy on Middle East arms sales. Title V: Special Authorities, Restrictions and Reports - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to raise the ceiling on funds available for unanticipated contingencies. Authorizes a specified amount to be made available in any fiscal year (currently, FY 1986 and 1987) for emergency military assistance. Authorizes the President to adopt as a U.S. contract or obligation any contract with a U.S. or third-country contractor that had been funded with assistance prior to the termination of such assistance. Revises provisions concerning prohibitions on assistance. Requires the President to maintain a list of Communist countries for purposes of restricting assistance. Authorizes the President to remove or exempt a country from the list or prohibitions on assistance if he reports to the Congress that such removal or exemption is important to the U.S. national interest. Prohibits assistance to any country whose elected head of government is deposed by military coup. Permits the President to resume assistance to such a country if he reports to the Congress that subsequent to the coup a democratically elected government has taken office. Prohibits assistance to any country which is more than one year in arrears to the U.S. Government on loan or credit payments extended under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or former authorities of the Arms Export Control Act unless the President reports to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that such assistance is in the national interest. Requires the Administrator of the Agency for International Development (AID) to ensure that for every assistance project there is prominently displayed an acknowledgment that the project was funded by the people of the United States. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should continue to make efforts to improve the management of the foreign economic assistance program. Requires the President to study the feasibility and impact of reducing the number of countries receiving such assistance and improving coordination and management of the foreign assistance programs. Directs the AID Administrator to report to the Speaker of the House and the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on: (1) actions taken by AID and any other proposals to improve management of such programs; and (2) the findings of the President's study. Requires the President to report to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on the extent to which ESF assistance provided in excess of $10,000,000 in FY 1987 through 1991 to a country has contributed to economic reform along market economic principles in such country. Title VI: Special Assistance Initiatives and Other Region or Country Specific Provisions - Chapter 1: East Asia and the Pacific - Subchapter A: Assistance to the Philippines - Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines Act of 1991 - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States should continue to participate with multilateral financial institutions and other bilateral donors in an economic reform and development program in the Philippines; and (2) a multiyear commitment of resources by the United States, donors, and institutions with a continued reform effort and leadership role by the Government of the Philippines will continue to be necessary to ensure continued economic growth in the Philippines and enhanced participation of the Filipino people in the democratic process. Authorizes the President to provide assistance on such terms as determined necessary to carry out this Act. Links assistance to progress by the Government of the Philippines in implementing its economic, structural, and administrative reform program and provides that such assistance may include programs to stimulate and strengthen private sector growth, including voluntary debt reduction, greater U.S. participation in such sector, and sustained economic growth. Authorizes appropriations. Limits the amount of appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) coordination of programs by donors, institutions, and the Government of the Philippines is critical to the success of the Multilateral Assistance Initiative; (2) all donors should simplify procurement and disbursement procedures and ensure that conditions on the provision or use of assistance are complementary; and (3) the Philippines will ensure the most effective use of such assistance. Subchapter B: Humanitarian Assistance for Cambodian Democracy - Makes specified amounts of development and ESF assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 available for humanitarian and development assistance for civilians and civilian members of the Cambodian noncommunist resistance. Requires the President to terminate assistance to any Cambodian organization that is cooperating with the Khmer Rouge in military operations. Directs the Administrator of the administering agency to: (1) contract with a private sector employee to establish an office in Phnom Penh to oversee program activities; and (2) conduct an on-site assessment within Cambodia to determine requirements for the development of infrastructure and the eradication of explosive mines. Requires the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the President pro tempore of the Senate on all instances of military cooperation since January 1, 1991, between the Khmer Rouge and any faction of the noncommunist resistance and all instances of human rights abuses by the Khmer Rouge. Makes available an additional amount of development and ESF assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 for humanitarian assistance to children and victims of wars in Cambodia. Subchapter C: Other Provisions Relating to the Region - Permits funds authorized by this Act and funds made available in prior foreign assistance appropriations Acts for Burma (Myanmar) to be made available for training and education assistance for Burmese outside of Burma who are displaced as a result of civil conflict and for activities which support democratic pluralism in Burma. Expresses the sense of the Congress that additional assistance should be provided for Mongolia in recognition of Mongolia's movement toward democracy and a free market economy. Chapter 2: Near East and South Asia - Extends a certain waiver on a prohibition on assistance to Pakistan through FY 1994. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1985 to earmark development and ESF assistance for humanitarian assistance to the Afghan people and for the implementation of bilateral and multilateral reconstruction efforts for Afghanistan and the establishment of a broad-based freely-elected Afghan Government. Sets forth provisions concerning human rights abuses in Sri Lanka. Requires the President, in determining whether to provide assistance or make sales of defense articles or services to Sri Lanka during FY 1992 and 1993, to take into account whether the Government of Sri Lanka has: (1) established a public register of detainees and ensured that detainees have access to lawyers and family members; (2) taken steps to deter disappearances and killings of civilians by persons under control of government forces; (3) taken measures to minimize civilian casualties in combat operations in the north and east; and (4) made serious efforts to investigate and prosecute those involved in the murder of journalist Richard DeZoysa. Encourages the Government of Sri Lanka to provide human rights education and training. Chapter 3: Europe - Subchapter A: SEED Program Support for Transformation From Communism to Free-Market Democracy - Support for East European Democracy Act of 1991 (or SEED II Act) - Amends the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989 to include within the definition of "Eastern Europe" all nations of Europe which experienced Communist rule after World War II. Permits the President, where an authority in such Act is available for a bilateral activity for Poland or Hungary, to exercise such authority with respect to another Eastern European country or a constituent republic of such country if he determines that: (1) such country or republic has taken steps toward democracy and a market-oriented economy; (2) such activity would promote the institutions of democracy and a free-market economy; and (3) such activity would not sustain or fortify organizations which are inimical to the development of democracy and a free-market economy. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for assistance under SEED. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to establishing, and providing ESF and technical assistance for, nondiplomatic liaison offices in the Baltic states and in constituent republics of East European countries to facilitate liaison with entities aspiring to achieve democracy and free-market institutions. Supports adoption of agricultural policies in East European countries that are based on free-market policies and discourages policies that distort market signals through protective import barriers or government export subsidies. Provides for the establishment of Institutes for Agricultural Policies in Eastern Europe and the United States for the education and training of policy makers in agricultural free-market economics. Declares that 20 percent of SEED food assistance for FY 1992 and 1993 should be in the form of value added agricultural products. Applies limitations and authorities for the Enterprise Funds for Poland and Hungary to any other Enterprise Fund to which the President determines the United States should contribute. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the President should: (1) designate a director within the Department of Commerce for American business initiative in Eastern Europe to promote the development of American business opportunities in East European countries; and (2) establish American Business Centers to support American business initiatives in Eastern Europe. Andrei Sakharov Educational Exchange Act - Amends the Mutual Educational and Cultural Exchange Act of 1961 to establish the Andrei Sakharov Educational Exchange Program to further U.S.-Eastern European cooperation in the fields of environmental protection and the health sciences through the exchange of graduate students. Urges the President to use the authority provided by such Act as an integral part of the SEED program. Amends SEED to express the sense of the Congress that the President should allocate a specified amount annually for NATO's plan for expanded East European participation. Eastern European Security Assistance Act of 1991 - Makes a specified amount of administration of justice assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 for U.S. participation in a program aimed at strengthening democratic institutions in Eastern European countries by promoting the empowerment of civilian managers in the justice, defense, and internal security establishments. Prohibits such programs from taking place with the authorities of a nonelected government or with a regime that carries out human rights violations or is negligent in the prosecution of hate crimes. Authorizes the President to: (1) include an appropriate number of students from Eastern European countries in the training offered by the National Academy of the Federal Bureau of Investigation; and (2) furnish international criminal investigative training assistance and administration of justice assistance to Eastern European countries. Urges the Director of the U.S. Information Agency to arrange for the translation into the appropriate languages of books and other materials relevant to purposes of this Act for distribution to parliaments, ministries, and institutions of higher education in Eastern Europe. Directs the Secretary of State, together with the Attorney General, to report to specified congressional committees on possible sites for the establishment of at least three legal attache posts at U.S. embassies in Eastern Europe. Treats the Regional Environmental Center for Central and Eastern Europe in Budapest, Hungary, as an international organization for purposes of detailing U.S. Government personnel. Makes a specified amount of nonconvertible Polish currencies held by the United States available for the Research Center on Jewish History and Culture of the Jagiellonian University of Krakow, Poland. Subchapter B: Baltic Humanitarian Relief - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to declare that the Congress recognizes that prompt U.S. assistance is desirable to help alleviate suffering in the Baltic republics. Directs the AID Administrator to: (1) furnish humanitarian assistance for the relief of the Estonian, Latvian, and Lithuanian people; and (2) solicit donations of humanitarian assistance for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and cooperate with private relief agencies attempting to provide such assistance. Authorizes the Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Transportation Command to provide all necessary airlift and sealift to transport donations of medical supplies to the Baltic peoples. Earmarks ESF assistance for such purposes. Urges the President to begin negotiations with the nations surrounding Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania, including Poland and the U.S.S.R., regarding the importation of humanitarian assistance. Subchapter C: CSCE Assembly - CSCE Assembly Participation Act - Provides that up to 17 Members of the Congress shall be appointed to meet annually with representative parliamentary groups from other Conference on Security and Cooperation in Europe (CSCE) member nations to: (1) assess the implementation of CSCE objectives; (2) discuss subjects addressed during the meetings of the Council of Ministers for Foreign Affairs and the biennial Summit of Heads of State or Government; and (3) initiate and promote national and multilateral measures to further cooperation and security in Europe. Earmarks amounts from funds available to the Department of State for contributions to international organizations for the U.S. contribution toward the maintenance of the CSCE Assembly and for meeting the expenses of the U.S. delegation. Chapter 4: Middle East - Subchapter A: Arms Suppliers Regime - Arms Suppliers Regime Act of 1991 - Declares that the Secretary should undertake to convene a conference of appropriate nations to establish an arms suppliers regime. States that the purpose of such regime should be to: (1) halt the flow of unconventional arms and technologies necessary to produce such arms to nations in the Middle East; (2) limit and control the proliferation of advanced conventional arms to such nations; and (3) provide incentives for regional arms control agreements in the Middle East. Lists actions to be taken to carry out such purposes. Authorizes the President to negotiate and commit the United States to participating in a multilateral moratorium prohibiting the transfer of advanced conventional arms to the Middle East. Requires the President to report annually to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on: (1) all transfers of arms to the Middle East over the previous five years; (2) the current military balance in the region; (3) the current and projected military threat to allied and friendly nations in the Middle East and the military equipment needed to deter and defend against such threat; (4) the operation of agreements comprising the arms suppliers regime; (5) the supplier nations that have refused to participate in such regime; and (6) specific actions of supplier nations that have engaged in conduct that violates or undermines the regime. Prohibits the sale of defense articles or services, or the issuance of export licenses for such articles or services, to any nation in the Middle East unless the President: (1) certifies that the Secretary has undertaken to convene the conference for the establishment of an arms suppliers regime; and (2) submits a specified report on such regime. Subchapter B: Miscellaneous - Declares that specified amounts of development assistance should be used to finance the Cooperative Development Program, cooperative development research projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries, and cooperative development projects among the United States, Israel, and Eastern Europe. Prohibits assistance to Syria until the President reports to the House Foreign Affairs Committee and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the Government of Syria: (1) has demonstrated willingness to enter into negotiations with Israel; (2) does not deny its citizens the right to emigrate and does not impose taxes with respect to emigration; (3) is assisting the U.S. Government in obtaining the release of American hostages in Lebanon; (4) no longer supports international terrorist groups; (5) is withdrawing its armed forces from Lebanon; (6) is no longer acquiring chemical, biological, or nuclear weapons and will not use weapons currently in its arsenal to threaten its neighbors; (7) is cooperating with U.S. antinarcotics efforts and taking steps to remove members of the government who are involved in the drug trade; and (8) has made progress in improving human rights. Requires the President to report to such committees on third country transfers of weapons and military equipment to Syria. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should support educational, cultural, and humanitarian activities that bring Israelis together with Palestinians living in the West Bank and Gaza. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) all Arab nations which have refused to recognize Israel and have maintained a state of belligerency against Israel should recognize israel, end the state of belligerency and economic boycott against Israel, and enter into negotiations with Israel; and (2) the United States should encourage the Arab states which were allied with the United States in the Persian Gulf War to achieve such objectives. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should work with its Arab coalition partners to: (1) encourage their support for efforts to achieve peace and stability in the Middle East and to settle the Arab-Israeli conflict; and (2) take specific steps with respect to Israel and terrorism. Chapter 5: Latin America and the Caribbean - Subchapter A: Provisions Pertaining to Central America and the Caribbean - Requires advance congressional notification for the transfer of helicopters or military aircraft to any country in Central America or the Caribbean. Directs the Secretary to notify the appropriate congressional committees whenever any helicopters or other military aircraft are provided to such countries by any foreign country. Prohibits military assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to Guatemala during FY 1992 and 1993, except in connection with a peace agreement. Establishes the Lasting Peace Fund for Guatemala. Authorizes the President to transfer amounts available for military assistance to the Fund. Makes funds available only upon notification to the appropriate congressional committees that the Guatemalan Government and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Unit have signed a peace agreement. Permits funds to be available for: (1) costs of retraining, relocation, and reemployment in civilian pursuits of former combatants and noncombatants affected by the conflict; and (2) costs of monitoring activities associated with the peace agreement. Prohibits the authorites of the Arms Export Control Act from being used to sell to the Guatemalan Government, or issue licenses for the export to Guatemala of: (1) weapons or ammunition; or (2) aircraft, unless the aircraft are unarmed and the Guatemalan Government has agreed that they will not be armed. Permits FY 1992 and 1993 development and ESF assistance and assistance under the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 for Guatemala to be used only by civilian government agencies and nongovernmental organizations. Requires such assistance to be targeted for: (1) programs that address poverty, basic human needs, and environmental concerns; (2) the improvement of democratic institutions and the promotion of political pluralism; (3) the National Reconciliation Commission; (4) fiscal reform and administration; or (5) programs that promote trade and investment. Prohibits such assistance from being used for partisan political purposes or as an instrument of counterinsurgency. Waives assistance target requirements if the President notifies the appropriate congressional committees that Guatemala has made progress in eliminating human rights violations and in bringing to trial those responsible for major human rights cases. Prohibits foreign assistance for any member of the Nicaraguan resistance who has not disarmed or is not abiding by the terms of the cease-fire agreement and the addenda to the Toncontin Agreement. Earmarks a specified amount of FY 1992 and 1993 ESF assistance for Central America for implementing programs consistent with the purposes of the Concerted Plan of Action in Favor of Central American Refugees, Returnees and Displaced Persons. Prohibits funds authorized to be appropriated by any Act to be made available for the Sandinista Popular Army unless requested and authorized in advance by the President of Nicaragua. Subchapter B: Provisions Pertaining to the Caribbean - Congratulates Haiti on its transition to democracy. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should: (1) provide assistance to the Haitian Government so long as it abides by the Haitian Constitution and respects freedom of expression and human rights; (2) continue to provide assistance to Haitian private voluntary organizations to institutionalize democracy and promote economic development; and (3) provide a specified amount of food, development, and economic assistance to Haiti during FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits military assistance to Haiti during FY 1992 and 1993, except for nonlethal military assistance provided through a democratically-elected head of state and pursuant to specified notification procedures. Encourages the Government of the Dominican Republic to improve respect for the human rights of Haitian laborers engaged in the sugar cane harvesting industry in the Dominican Republic. Declares that the President should consider increasing the Dominican Republic's allocation of the U.S. sugar quota and providing additional economic and development assistance if the Government of the Dominican Republic makes progress in specified matters concerning such laborers. Permits assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Agricultural Trade Development and Assistance Act of 1954 to be provided to the Government of Guyana only if the President reports to the appropriate congressional committees that such government is in power as a result of free and fair elections. Exempts from such restriction international narcotics control assistance or assistance for the holding of free and fair elections. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) following the submission of the report regarding Guyana, the President should provide economic assistance for Guyana under such Acts; and (2) a specified amount of assistance should be used to meet basic human needs. Subchapter C: Andean Initiative - Amends the International Narcotics Control Act of 1990 to extend the authorization of appropriations for development and ESF assistance to Andean countries through FY 1993. Requires priority in the use of funds for Bolivia and Peru to be given to support programs that focus on providing coca farmers with alternative sources of income. Earmarks a specified amount for each fiscal year (currently, FY 1991) for administration of justice assistance for Bolivia, Colombia, and Peru. Declares that a specified amount of such assistance should be made available for the Office of Human Rights in the Office of the Attorney General of the Government of Peru. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for military assistance to Andean countries. Applies certain limitations on FY 1991 military and law enforcement assistance to such countries to assistance for FY 1992 and 1993. Decreases the amounts of assistance to be made available for armed forces and law enforcement units in such countries. Prohibits Peru's Sinchi Police from being considered as a law enforcement unit. Extends certain conditions on assistance to such countries to assistance for FY 1992 and 1993. Exempts from such conditions assistance for programs that focus on providing coca farmers with alternative sources of income. Extends a certain waiver of a prohibition on assistance to countries in default on loans to narcotics-related assistance to Andean countries for FY 1992 and 1993. Subchapter D: South America - Congratulates the Governments of Argentina and Brazil for taking certain steps with respect to nuclear nonproliferation. Permits military assistance to Chile during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the appropriate congressional committees are notified in advance. Subchapter E: Other Provisions Pertaining to the Region - Earmarks an amount of funds made available for narcotics-related assistance for the Andean countries for efforts to deal with the cholera epidemic in Latin America. Makes law enforcement assistance available for countries with democratically-elected governments in Latin America and the Caribbean. Prohibits the use of such funds for: (1) lethal equipment; and (2) the participation of Department of Defense personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces in law enforcement training. Permits law enforcement training in the Caribbean to be provided only by the Department of Justice Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program. Earmarks funds for such assistance. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to permit the delivery of military assistance and sales to the armed forces of a Latin American or Caribbean country with a civilian government only with the prior approval of the country's head of government. Subchapter F: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1969 to authorize appropriations for the Inter-American Foundation for FY 1992 and 1993. Revises provisions concerning the composition of the Foundation's Board of Directors and the principal office. Declares that the Senate applauds the actions of the United Nations Human Rights Commission of March 6, 1991, (concerning human rights in Cuba) and calls on the Government of Cuba to cooperate fully with the Commission. Chapter 6: Africa - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the Development Fund for Africa. Expresses the sense of the Congress that a certain amount of funds should be made available to support sector projects supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference. Amends the International Security and Development Cooperation Act of 1980 to authorize appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the African Development Foundation. Permits assistance to Sudan during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government of Sudan has: (1) taken actions to begin a process of national reconciliation; and (2) demonstrated a commitment to hold free and fair elections monitored by international observers. Permits military and ESF assistance to Kenya during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government of Kenya has taken steps to: (1) release political detainees and end the prosecution of individuals for the expression of their political beliefs; (2) cease mistreatment of political prisoners; and (3) restore judicial independence and freedom of expression. Authorizes military and ESF assistance and international military education and training for Zaire during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the President reports to the Congress that: (1) a neutral, transitional government has been formed to oversee the drafting of a new constitution for Zaire; (2) free and fair elections are held in Zaire; and (3) the elected government demonstrates a commitment to bring about freedom of expression, a reformed and independent judiciary, and reform of the security forces. Prohibits development assistance to Zaire, except as provided through nongovernmental organizations. Expresses the sense of the Senate that the President should continue to support the peacekeeping efforts in Liberia carried out by the Economic Community of West Africa Monitoring Group. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to provide assistance for civil strife relief, rehabilitation, and general recovery in Liberia. Permits assistance to Liberia during FY 1992 and 1993 only if the President reports to the Congress that the Government of Liberia has achieved progress toward reconciliation and free and fair elections monitored by international observers. Provides that such restriction shall not apply to humanitarian assistance. Authorizes the President to furnish assistance for strengthening judicial institutions in African countries. Expresses the sense of the Senate that a study should be undertaken by the Office of Technology Assessment, in a cross-section of Subsaharan African countries, of the formulation and the economic, social, and environmental impact of adjustment programs supported or leveraged by AID through the Development Fund for Africa. Title VII: Enterprise for the Americas Initiative - Enterprise for the Americas Act of 1991 - Chapter 1: Statement of Findings and Purpose - Sets forth findings and purposes with respect to the Enterprise for the Americas Initiative. Chapter 2: Programs to Facilitate Investment Flows - Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to work with the Inter-American Development Bank to ensure the implementation of the Bank's investment sector reform program and the coordination of U.S. bilateral assistance programs with multilateral efforts to enhance liberalization efforts in Latin America and the Caribbean. Authorizes the Secretary, subject to certain conditions, to make a payment to the Enterprise for the Americas Fund. Requires U.S. assistance to the Fund to be disbursed only for technical assistance for resolving domestic constraints to investment, human capital programs, and assistance to private enterprises. Chapter 3: Eligibility Requirements for Benefits - Makes eligible for participation in activities under this Act any Latin American or Caribbean country that: (1) has in effect, or is making progress toward, policies designed to liberalize its investment regime and to undertake economic reforms in conjunction with specified multilateral financial institutions; and (2) qualifies for assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (waives prohibitions on assistance to countries in default on loans to the United States). Chapter 4: Enterprise for the Americas Facility - Establishes the Enterprise for the Americas Facility in the Department of the Treasury. Declares that the purpose of the Facility is to serve as the coordinating mechanism within the U.S. Government to carry out provisions of this Act related to debt reductions, sales, and cancellations of loans or assets for eligible countries. Chapter 5: Debt Reduction - Authorizes the President to reduce the amount owed to the United States (as a result of concessional loans made pursuant to the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or predecessor foreign economic assistance legislation) by any eligible country. Deems debt reductions to be assistance for purposes of provisions of law limiting assistance to a country (waives restrictions on assistance to countries in default on loans to the United States). Sets forth requirements with respect to the exchange of obligations, repayment of principal, and interest on new obligations issued by eligible countries. Encourages the President to consider undertaking the full liquidation of outstanding obligations to the United States for an eligible country if such liquidation will assist in significant progress toward economic reform. Chapter 6: Enterprise for the Americas Accounts - Requires eligible countries that enter into Enterprise for the Americas Agreements to establish Enterprise for the Americas Accounts. Authorizes the President to enter into Enterprise for the Americas Agreements with eligible countries concerning the operation and use of Americas Accounts. Sets forth required contents of such Agreements. Permits grants from an Americas Account to be used only for funding activities that: (1) support local nongovernmental organizations in child health programs; (2) link the conservation and sustainable use of natural resources with local community development; (3) support community-based primary and secondary education programs; and (4) support alternative development programs that seek to reduce dependence on the production of crops from which narcotic and psychotropic drugs are derived. Lists eligible grant recipients. Declares that: (1) the President should encourage other official creditors of eligible countries whose debt is reduced to provide comparable debt reduction to such countries; and (2) the Secretary should encourage private creditors of eligible countries to explore mechanisms for reducing outstanding debts to levels that more accurately reflect the market value of such debts. Chapter 7: Sales, Reductions, or Cancellations of Loans or Assets - Authorizes the President to: (1) sell to any eligible purchaser any loan of an eligible country made pursuant to the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945; (2) sell to any eligible purchaser any asset acquired by the Commodity Credit Corporation in connection with export sales to an eligible country or specified export credit guarantee programs; and (3) reduce or cancel any loans or assets made or acquired before 1991 upon receipt of payment from an eligible purchaser. Permits loans or assets to be sold only to purchasers who present plans to AID for using such loans or assets to engage in debt-for-child survival, debt-for-education, debt-for-equity, debt-for-development, or debt-for-nature swaps. Authorizes loans or assets to be sold, reduced, or canceled only for purposes of facilitating such swaps. Chapter 8: International University for the Americas - Requires the Secretary of State to determine the most appropriate location for the International University for the Americas, an institution to be established for promoting economic integration and the strengthening of democratic institutions in the Western Hemisphere and for commemorating the 500th anniversary of the discovery of the Americas by Christopher Columbis. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 9: Reports - Sets forth annual reporting requirements with respect to this Act. Title VIII: Repeal of Obsolete Provisions - Repeals provisions of specified Acts. Title IX: Multilateral Development Banks - Chapter 1: International Monetary Fund - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreements Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the International Monetary Fund to consent to: (1) an increase in the U.S. quota in the Fund; and (2) the amendments to the Articles of Agreement of the Fund approved in resolution 45-3 of the Fund's Board of Governors. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of the Fund to approve the Fund's pledge to sell a specified amount of the Fund's gold to restore the resources of the Reserve Account of the Enhanced Structural Adjustment Facility Trust to meet obligations to lenders who have made loans to the Trust for financing programs of members previously in arrears to the Fund. Chapter 2: African Development Fund - Amends the African Development Fund Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the African Development Fund to contribute a specified amount to the sixth replenishment of the Fund. Authorizes appropriations. Chapter 3: Asian Development Bank - Amends the Asian Development Bank Act to authorize the U.S. Governor of the Asian Development Bank to subscribe to additional shares of the Bank's capital stock. Authorizes appropriations. Title X: Presidential Contingency Fund - Authorizes appropriations to the President for FY 1992 and 1993 for unanticipated contingencies in programs within the International Affairs Budget Function. Title XI: Peace Corps - Amends the Peace Corps Act to: (1) extend authorizations of appropriations for the Peace Corps for FY 1992; (2) establish the Foreign Currency Fluctuations, Peace Corps, Account to pay expenses for Peace Corps operations which exceed appropriations for such expenses as a result of currency exchange rate fluctuations. Authorizes appropriations for such Account. Requires the Director of the Peace Corps to contract with an eligible organization to conduct three evaluations of the health care needs of Peace Corps volunteers and the adequacy of the Peace Corps health care system. Provides for the submission of such evaluations to the Director and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Requires the Director and the Secretary of Labor to report to such committees on: (1) the information provided by the Peace Corps to its volunteers and applicants on the benefits and services to which volunteers or trainees may be entitled in the event they sustain injuries or become disabled during their Peace Corps service or training; (2) the efforts by the Peace Corps and the Department of Labor to coordinate the provision of such information to Peace Corps volunteers and applicants and the processing of claims by volunteers under the Federal Employees Compensation Act (FECA); (3) the number of Peace Corps volunteers and applicants who have filed claims under FECA and the percentage of claims that have been approved; and (4) the timeliness of approvals or denials of such claims. Encourages the Director to continue to develop, assist, and implement education-related programs which enable volunteers to share their volunteer experiences with primary and secondary school students and communities in the United States. Title XII: Effective Date - Provides that this Act shall take effect on October 1, 1991.

United States Law and Business Training Program for Soviet Graduate Students Act

United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1991

United States Law and Business Training Program for Soviet Graduate Students Act - Directs the President, acting through the U.S. Information Agency, to provide scholarships for study at U.S. institutions of higher education, coupled with private and public internships, by nationals of the Soviet Union who have completed their undergraduate education and could not otherwise study in the United States. Provides that such scholarships shall be in the form of loans, with repayment to be forgiven: (1) entirely, upon the student's prompt return to the Soviet Union for a period at least one year longer than that of U.S. study; or (2) by one-half, if the student is granted asylum in or is admitted as a refugee to the United States. Sets forth scholarship program guidelines. Limits scholarship opportunities to fields that are critical to economic and political reforms in the Soviet Union, particularly business administration, economics, law, or public administration. Authorizes appropriations to the U.S. Information Agency for FY 1992 and 1993 to carry out this Act. Provides that any authority provided by this Act shall be effective only to the extent or in such amounts as are provided in advance in appropriations Acts.

Zentrale Unterbringung neuer Asylbewerber und unmittelbare Abschiebung bei unbegründeten Asylanträgen gemäß dem Vorschlag des Bundesinnenministers; Harmonisierung des Asylrechts in Europa (G-SIG: 12040945)

Germany · German Bundestag · 14 June 1991

Bemühungen der Bundesregierung um Rückführung der ca. 2 Mio Flüchtlinge aus Ruanda in ihre Heimat (G-SIG: 12050893)

Germany · German Bundestag · 14 June 1991

Anzahl der wegen mangelhafter Ausweispapiere nicht abschiebbaren Asylbewerber; Lösung dieses Problems (G-SIG: 12050894)

Germany · German Bundestag · 14 June 1991

Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992

United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1991

Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992 - Title I: Department of the Treasury - Treasury Department Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes appropriations to the Department of the Treasury for FY 1992 for: (1) departmental offices; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network; (4) the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center; (5) the Financial Management Service; (6) the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; (7) the United States Customs Service; (8) the United States Mint; (9) the Bureau of the Public Debt; (10) the Internal Revenue Service; and (11) the United States Secret Service. Prohibits funds appropriated under this title from being used for the collection of any underpayment of tax, unless collected under specified procedures. Requires appropriated funds attributable to efficiency savings for FY 1992 to be withheld from obligation unless the estimated savings are not achieved. Title II: Postal Service - Postal Service Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes appropriations to the Postal Service Fund for FY 1992. Title III: Executive Office of the President - Executive Office Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the Executive Office of the President, for salaries and/or operating expenses of the following: (1) compensation of the President; (2) the executive residence at the White House; (3) the Office of Administration; (4) the White House Office; (5) the official residence of the Vice President; (6) the provision of special assistance to the President; (7) the Council of Economic Advisers; (8) the Office of Policy Development; (9) the National Critical Materials Council; (10) the National Security Council; (11) the Office of Management and Budget; (12) the Office of Federal Procurement Policy; (13) the Office of National Drug Control Policy; and (14) unanticipated needs. Title IV: Independent Agencies - Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the following independent agencies: (1) the Administrative Conference of the United States; (2) the Advisory Commission on Intergovernmental Relations; (3) the Committee for Purchase from the Blind and Other Severely Handicapped; and (4) the Federal Election Commission. Makes funds deposited in the Federal Buildings Fund available for specified purchases of the General Services Administration (GSA), limiting the availability of such funds for certain programs, construction projects, purchases, and repairs and alterations of GSA. Makes appropriations to GSA for FY 1992 for: (1) the Federal Supply Service; (2) the Federal Property Resources Service; (3) real property relocation; (4) general management and administration; (5) the Information Resources Management Service; (6) the Office of Inspector General; and (7) allowances and office staff for former Presidents. Limits the amount of funds that may be transferred between appropriations within the GSA, requiring such proposed transfers to be submitted to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees for approval. Authorizes agencies to make rent payments to GSA for lease space relating to expansion needs at commercial equivalent rates specified under the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949. Authorizes appropriations out of the Federal Buildings Fund. Requires the specific approval of the Congress before the obligation or expenditure of funds for the sale, excessing, surplusing, or disposal of lands in the vicinity of Norfolk Lake, Arkansas, and lands in the vicinity of Bull Shoals Lake, Arkansas, both administered by the Corps of Engineers. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services by persons employed to provide such services for Federal agencies. Directs the Administrator to coordinate its requirements for office and other space to house Government activities by utilizing assets of the Resolution Trust Corporation and its receivers and conservators. Authorizes the fund for real property management to receive any revenues, collections, or other income during FY 1992 related to energy savings to remain available for Federal energy management improvement programs authorized by law or deemed appropriate by the Administrator of GSA. Directs GSA to pay for expenses related to the relocation of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service regional office. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to: (1) accept property from Maryland at no cost for the construction of a computer facility for the Bureau of the Census; and (2) begin preliminary design work. Requires the submission of a prospectus and a project need evaluation to the Congress no later than August 23, 1991. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the following purposes: (1) the National Archives and Records Administration; (2) the Office of Government Ethics; and (3) the Office of Personnel Management. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Federal Labor Relations Authority, the United States Tax Court, and the Office of Special Counsel. Title V: General Provisions (this Act) - Sets forth certain prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made under this Act. Prohibits any of the funds made available under this Act from being used for any of the following: (1) for administrative expenses in closing the GSA Federal Information Center in Sacramento, California; (2) for the purpose of eliminating any existing requirements for sureties on customs bonds; (3) for the funding of any activity or the payment of any Government employee which would prohibit the enforcement of a specified provision of the 1930 Tariff Act; and (4) to transfer control over the Federal Law Enforcement Training Centers in Glynco, Georgia, Marana, Arizona, and Artesia, New Mexico, out of the Treasury Department. Prohibits the use of any part of an appropriation made in this Act for the payment of the salary of any officer or employee of the U.S. Postal Service who in any way interferes with another employee's ability to communicate with any member or committee of the Congress in connection with any matter pertaining to the employment of such officers or employees with the Postal Service. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, the use of any funds appropriated under this Act to pay for an abortion, or to fund any Federal health plan which provides any benefits or coverage for abortions. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being available to solicit bids or enter into any contracts to close or consolidate executive seminar centers for the Office of Personnel Management. Authorizes the Administrator of GSA to acquire space for the United States Courts in Tacoma, Washington, at the site of Union Station in that city. Provides authority to establish pay rates for Federal employees during FY 1992. Prohibits the use of funds to contract out positions or downgrade the position classification of the United States Mint Police Force and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Police Force. Authorizes the United States Secret Service to accept donations of money to offset costs incurred while protecting former Presidents and their spouses when traveling for the purpose of making an appearance or speech for a payment of money or any thing of value. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act or any other Act: (1) to withdraw the designation of the Virginia Inland Port at Front Royal, Virginia, as a United States Customs Service port of entry; or (2) to transfer mail processing capabilities from the Las Cruces, New Mexico, postal facility. Requires the Postal Service to recognize the rapid rate of population growth in Las Cruces and to automate such facility. Requires the absorption of FY 1992 pay raises within the levels appropriated by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds to reduce the rank or rate of pay of a career appointee in the Senior Executive Service upon reassignment or transfer. Prohibits the use of funds to award a Federal agency lease in the Omaha, Nebraska - Council Bluffs, Iowa, geographical area which does not meet specified criteria. Prohibits the use of funds, with respect to an employee of the Bureau of the Public Debt in the Washington Metropolitan region on April 10, 1991, to separate, reduce the grade or pay of, or carry out any other adverse personnel action against such individual for declining to accept a directed reassignment to a position in Parkersburg, West Virginia. Makes such prohibition inapplicable for any individual who declines a comparable position in the Department of the Treasury and in the region. Requires the Commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service to report to the Congress on the program to prevent abuses of taxpayers' rights by the Service. Directs the Commissioner to establish a group of individuals to monitor and evaluate the effectiveness of such program. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on an assessment and evaluation of the implementation and effectiveness of the program to prevent such abuses. Title VI: General Provisions (Departments, Agencies, and Corporations) - Sets forth certain requirements for and prohibitions and limitations on the use of appropriations made by this Act. Prohibits any part of any funds appropriated in this or any other Act from being used to pay the salary of any officer or employee of the Government whose post of duty is in the continental United States unless such person: (1) is a citizen of the United States; (2) has filed a declaration of intention to become a citizen of the United States; (3) is a person owing allegiance to the United States; (4) is a lawfully-admitted alien from Poland, Cuba, South Vietnam, or the Baltic countries; or (5) is a South Vietnamese, Cambodian, or Laotian refugee paroled in the United States after January 1, 1975. States exceptions and provides penalties for those persons submitting false affidavits under this provision. Prohibits funds from any appropriation in the current year from being paid to a person for filling a position for which he or she has been nominated after the Senate has voted not to approve such nomination. Authorizes the use of foreign credits owed to or owned by the United States for any purpose for which appropriations are made for the current year, only when the appropriate reimbursement is made to the Treasury from the agency concerned. Prohibits funds available pursuant to this Act from being used to implement any regulation which has been disapproved by a resolution duly adopted under the laws of the United States. Prohibits any funds made available under this Act from being used to plan, implement, or administer: (1) any reduction in the number of regions, districts, or entry processing locations of the U.S. Customs Service; or (2) any consolidation or centralization of duty assessment or appraisement functions of any offices of such Service. Requires the advance approval of the House and Senate Committees on Appropriations before an executive agency purchases, constructs, and/or leases any additional facilities, except within or contiguous to existing locations, for the purposes of conducting Federal law enforcement training. Sets forth the conditions under which Federal agencies may procure automatic data processing equipment other than through the procurement known as FTS2000. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of any FY 1992 appropriations by any Federal agency or instrumentality unless it has in place and administers in good faith a drug-free workplace policy. Sets forth conditions for the use of Federal grant money to finance the acquisition of goods or services with an aggregate value in excess of $500,000. Authorizes the use of funds for the interagency funding of national security and emergency preparedness telecommunications initiatives which benefit multiple government entities. Allows the use of funds by participants in the Federal Flexiplace Project to install telephone lines, necessary equipment, and pay monthly charges, in any private residence or apartment. Makes sick leave available to Federal employees for purposes relating to the adoption of a child. Allows an employee in or under an executive agency to be granted leave without loss of or reduction in pay, leave to which otherwise entitled, credit for time or service, or performance or efficiency rating, for the time, not to exceed seven days in a calendar year, necessary to permit the employee to serve as a bone marrow or other organ donor, to test the feasibility of this concept during FY 1992. Requires Federal employing agencies to make deposits into the Federal Employees Compensation Account of the Unemployment Trust Fund not later than 30 days after the Department of Labor has billed such agencies. Authorizes the reimbursement of travel, transportation, and subsistence expenses incurred for training classes, conferences, or other meetings in connection with the provision of child care services for Federal employees. Prohibits the use of funds to implement the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990 (Public Law 101-576), concerning the financial management systems of the Federal Government.

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1992

United States · United States Congress · 12 June 1991

Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1992 - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the payment at maturity, or the redemption or buying before maturity, of a Government obligation included in the public debt for purposes of reducing a portion of such debt caused by borrowings to finance specified international affairs accounts. Title I: Multilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the U.S. contribution to the: (1) International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) and the Global Environmental Facility of such bank; (2) the International Development Association; (3) the International Finance Corporation; (4) the Inter-American Development Bank and the Fund for Special Operations of such bank; (5) the Inter-American Investment Corporation; (6) the Enterprise for the Americas Investment Fund; (7) the Asian Development Bank; (8) the Asian Development Fund; (9) the African Development Fund; (10) the African Development Bank; and (11) the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD). Limits the callable capital portion of the U.S. share of increases in the stock of the World Bank, the Inter-American Development Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the African Development Bank, and the EBRD. Requires the President to reduce from the amounts obligated for the International Development Association and the Asian Development Bank the U.S. proportionate share of any loans approved for China for non-basic human needs since October 1, 1991, if China is denied most-favored-nation trading status. Limits the amount of funds for the International Finance Corporation that may be expended for the purchase of stock. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive director of the Inter-American Development Bank to oppose assistance to any recipient who refuses to agree to conduct procurement of goods or services utilizing Bank funds in a nondiscriminatory manner. Requires the Secretary to certify to the Appropriations Committees that none of the funds for the Asian Development Fund will be made available for China. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for reports calculating loans, guarantees, and insurance commitments for credit programs within the international affairs (Budget Function 150) account: (1) the probability of repayment on loans and default on guarantees; (2) subsidy estimates for each country and credit program; and (3) risk assessments for each country within each credit program. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for international organizations and programs. Prohibits such funds from being made available to the United Nations Fund for Science and Technology. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for certain international organizations and United Nations programs. Provides that funds may be made available to the International Atomic Energy Agency only if the Secretary of State reports to the Congress that Israel is not being denied its right to participate in the Agency. Permits funds to be made available for the Tropical Forestry Action Plan (TFAP) only if the Secretary reports to the Congress that: (1) TFAP has been reorganized, with an international steering committee and secretariat independent of the Food and Agriculture Organization; (2) TFAP's responsibilities have been broadened to include areas outside the forestry sector; and (3) procedures exist to ensure increased participation in TFAP plans. Title II: Bilateral Economic Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for development assistance. Earmarks amounts for: (1) health and child survival activities and activities relating to research on, and the treatment and control of, acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS); (2) development projects of private entities and cooperatives for dairy development; (3) the Vitamin A Deficiency Program and activities relating to iodine deficiency and other micro-nutrients; (4) U.S. participation in the Associate Professional Officers Program of the international food agencies; (5) activities relating to the control and prevention of River Blindness; (6) operations for blind children; (7) cooperative projects among the United States, Israel, and developing countries (with amounts made available for the Cooperative Development Program and cooperative development research projects); (8) the Central and Latin American Rural Electrification Support project; (9) technical assistance and training programs for Soviet and Czechoslovakian statisticians and economists; and (10) Soviet and East European research and training. Limits the amount to be made available for child survival activities for Laos. Earmarks amounts from funds made available for the Agency for International Development (AID) under this title for: (1) child survival activities; and (2) programs in support of basic education activities. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for population planning assistance. Prohibits funding for coercive abortion or involuntary sterilization. Earmarks amounts for: (1) the AID Office of Population; and (2) the United Nations Population Fund (only for contraceptive commodities and related logistics). Prohibits such funds from being made available for programs in China. Applies prohibitions on the use of funds for abortion and involuntary sterilization to funds for the Fund. Requires the Fund to maintain such funds in a separate account, without commingling. Provides for the refund of such funds to the United States if the Fund provides more than a specified amount for family planning programs for China. Prohibits the obligation of any amount for the Fund if China is denied most-favored-nation trading status. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the Development Fund for Africa. Earmarks an amount for activities supported by the Southern African Development Coordination Conference. Provides for the transfer of a specified amount of such funds for the International Fund for Agricultural Development's Special Program for Subsaharan African Countries Affected by Drought and Desertification. Prohibits the transfer of funds appropriated by this Act to the Government of Zaire. Earmarks development assistance funds for: (1) displaced children; (2) children in Cambodia; (3) civilians injured as a result of civil strife and warfare; (4) women in development; and (5) Burmese students. Prohibits any development assistance funds from being made available to U.S. private and voluntary organizations (except cooperative development organizations) which obtain less than 20 percent of annual funding for international activities from sources other than the U.S. Government. Provides that such prohibition shall supersede certain provisions with respect to such organizations of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Foreign Assistance and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1985. Earmarks an amount of development assistance for humanitarian assistance to Romania (with amounts for AIDS activities, child health, foster care and adoption activities, and family planning, subject to certain conditions). Limits the amount of commitments for certain loan guarantees and direct loans under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) American schools and hospitals abroad; (2) international disaster assistance; (3) the Foreign Service Retirement and Disability Fund; and (4) AID operating expenses. Requires AID, in order to effectively monitor the West Bank and Gaza program, to station one professional at either the Consulate General in Jerusalem or the embassy in Tel Aviv. Directs AID to increase the number of direct-hire professional environmental and energy staff by 20 over the number of such staff within AID at the end of FY 1991. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for the AID Office of the Inspector General. Prohibits the use of funds from any Act to relocate the overseas offices of the Inspector General to a U.S. location without the Inspector General's approval. Requires the number of positions authorized for such office in Washington and overseas to be at least 251 by the end of FY 1992. Authorizes the Inspector General to establish a regional office in Europe to carry out responsibilities with regard to assistance for Eastern Europe. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) modifying direct loans authorized under development and economic support assistance provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and under provisions of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945; and (2) economic support fund (ESF) assistance. Earmarks amounts of ESF assistance for: (1) Israel; (2) Egypt, including an amount for the Commodity Import Program; (3) the West Bank and Gaza Program; and (4) scholarships or bicommunal projects for Cyprus. Authorizes funds for Egypt to be provided through cash transfer assistance if Egypt will undertake economic reforms. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the recommended levels of ESF assistance for Egypt and Israel are based on their continued participation in the Camp David Accords and upon the Egyptian-Israeli peace treaty. Prohibits ESF funds from being made available for El Salvador's Special Investigative Unit until the Secretary of State submits a plan of the El Salvadoran Government to transfer the Unit from military to civilian control. Prohibits ESF assistance to Zaire. Limits the amount of ESF assistance for tied aid credits and for humanitarian assistance for Armenia. Earmarks ESF assistance for technical assistance in support of democratic or market-oriented reforms for Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania and eligible recipients in the Soviet Union that request such assistance. Permits such assistance to be provided only through the government of such state or republic or through nongovernmental organizations. Defines "an eligible recipient in the Soviet Union" as the government of any republic or local government that was elected through free and fair elections, any indigenous nongovernmental organization that promotes democratic reforms, human rights, the rule of law, or market-oriented reforms, or any Soviet governmental agency that promotes such reforms, provided that funds are not provided directly to such agency. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) the U.S. contribution to the International Fund for Ireland; (2) the Multilateral Assistance Initiative for the Philippines; and (3) nonproject sector assistance for the Philippines. Requires the President, if the United States and the Government of the Philippines are unable to agree to a military base agreement, to report to the Appropriations Committees justifying requested or modified assistance levels for the Philippines in light of the failure to achieve such agreement. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for economic assistance for Eastern Europe. Earmarks amounts of such assistance for: (1) technical assistance and training and for assistance to support housing sectors; (2) environment and energy activities; (3) activities to foster democratic pluralism; and (4) the Polish-American, Hungarian-American, and other Enterprise Funds and for other private enterprise activities. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) independent agencies and the African Development Foundation; (2) the Inter-American Foundation; (3) the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC) for direct and guaranteed loan programs; (4) the Peace Corps (prohibits abortion funding); (5) international narcotics control; (6) the U.S. contribution to the International Red Cross and assistance to refugees; (7) the U.S. Emergency Refugee and Migration Assistance Fund; and (8) antiterrorism assistance. Earmarks amounts of migration and refugee assistance for: (1) refugees resettling in Israel; (2) Tibetan refugees; (3) voluntary repatriation of Hmong refugees from Thailand to Laos; and (4) overseas refugee programs. Limits the amount of such assistance to be made available to the Department of State Office of Refugee Programs. Title III: Military Assistance - Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) international military education and training (prohibits the use of such funds for countries whose annual per capita GNP exceeds $2,349 unless such countries agree to fund transportation and living allowances of their students and the provision of such funds to Zaire, Liberia, Sudan, and Somalia); (2) the foreign military financing program; and (3) peacekeeping operations. Earmarks amounts of foreign military financing for Israel and Egypt. Requires the interest rate on foreign military financing loans to be at least five percent annually. Makes available a specified amount of foreign military financing on a grant basis for Greece if Turkey receives financing on a grant basis. Prohibits foreign military financing for Zaire, Sudan, Liberia, or Somalia. Permits financing for Malawi to be provided only to support the Malawian military's efforts to secure the Nacala Railroad and for military activities to assist in the Mozambican peace process. Limits: (1) the amount of foreign military financing for the procurement of defense articles and services not sold by the U.S. Government for countries other than Israel and Egypt; (2) the amount of funds for administering military assistance and sales; (3) foreign military financing for Greece, Turkey, Portugal, and the Philippines; and (4) obligations with respect to the Special Defense Acquisition Fund. Permits the procurement of defense articles and services or design and construction services not sold by the U.S. Government only by countries for which assistance was justified for the foreign military financing program in the FY 1989 congressional presentation for security assistance programs. Directs the Department of Defense, as requested by the Defense Security Assistance Agency, to conduct audits of private firms whose contracts are made directly with foreign governments and are financed under this title. Requires the total of grants and direct loans provided for Greece and Turkey under the foreign military financing program to be made available according to a seven to ten ratio. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1988 that concerns lowering the interest rate on certain foreign military sales. Title IV: Export Assistance - Authorizes the Export-Import Bank to make expenditures within the limit of funds and borrowing authority and to make any necessary contracts and commitments. Prohibits the use of Bank funds for nuclear exports to a non-nuclear weapon state. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 to subsidize gross obligations for the principal amount of direct loans, tied-aid grants, interest subsidies, and total loan principal under Export-Import Bank programs. Prohibits the use of such funds or the use of credits or grants to support the financing of any item covered by the U.S. Munitions List. Limits the amount available for administrative expenses of the Export-Import Bank. Makes appropriations for FY 1992 for: (1) administrative expenses incurred in connection with contracting for the issuance of and servicing of insurance and reinsurance or in lieu of contracting for the performance of services by the Export-Import Bank; and (2) the Trade and Development Program. Title V: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated in this Act (other than funds appropriated for international organizations and programs) for any water or related land resource project which has not met specified standards and criteria for such projects proposed for construction in the United States. Limits the percentage of appropriations, with specified exceptions, that may be obligated during the last month of availability. Prohibits using certain funds appropriated or made available pursuant to this Act for: (1) retirement pay for any person serving in the armed forces of any recipient country; (2) making payments on procurement contracts which do not authorize the termination of such contract for the convenience of the United States; or (3) paying any assessments, arrearages, or dues of any member of the United Nations. Prohibits using any of the funds contained in title II of this Act to carry out the transfer of funds to international or multilateral lending organizations. Limits the amounts of funds made available under this Act to be used for: (1) official residence expenses, entertainment expenses, and representation allowances of AID; (2) entertainment expenses and representation allowances for foreign military financing programs, the Inter-American Foundation, and the Trade and Development Program; and (3) entertainment expenses for international military education and training programs and the Peace Corps. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act (other than funds for international organizations and programs) to finance the export of nuclear equipment, fuel, or technology. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to: (1) assist any foreign government in repressing the legitimate rights of its population; (2) finance assistance or reparations to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, Iran, or Syria (including assistance provided by the Export-Import Bank or its agents); or (3) finance assistance to any country whose elected head of government is deposed by military coup. Prohibits obligating funds made available under this Act under an appropriation account to which they were not appropriated, unless the President provides a written policy justification to the Appropriations Committees. Continues the availability of certain AID funds and funds for credit sales under the Arms Export Control Act, provided the Appropriations Committees are notified. Prohibits appropriations contained in this Act from remaining available after expiration of the current fiscal year, except as provided in this Act. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act to: (1) be used for publicity or propaganda purposes within the United States; (2) assist a country in default for more than a year on a U.S. loan under a program for which funds are appropriated under this Act (exempts from such prohibition funds for Nicaragua and for narcotics-related assistance for Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru); or (3) be made available for any international financial institution whose U.S. representative cannot obtain any document developed by or in the possession of the management, unless such representative certifies to the Appropriations Committees that such document's confidentiality is essential to the institution's operation. Prohibits the use of funds made available under this Act for direct assistance, the Export-Import Bank, and OPIC to finance any loan or other assistance to establish or expand production of any commodity for export by a foreign country if such commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets and will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar or competing commodity. Exempts the Export-Import Bank from such prohibition if the Bank determines that the benefits to industry and employment in the United States are likely to outweigh the injury to such producers. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated under any Act available for any testing, study, variety improvement, or certain other activities related to the growth or production in a foreign country of an agricultural commodity for export which would compete with a similar commodity grown or produced in the United States. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated to AID, other than funds to carry out the Caribbean Basin Initiative, to procure studies or assist in establishing facilities for the manufacture of import-sensitive articles that compete with U.S. exports. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. executive directors of specified international financial institutions to oppose assistance for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export if it is in surplus on world markets and if the assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of a similar or competing commodity. Sets forth congressional notification procedures for the obligation of specified funds made available under this Act. Waives notification requirements if there is a risk to human health or welfare. Limits expenditures for consulting services through procurement contracts. Prohibits using funds appropriated under this Act to lobby for abortion. Prohibits any of the international organizations and programs funds from being available for the U.S. proportionate share of any programs for the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), Libya, Iran, or, at the discretion of the President, Communist countries to which foreign assistance is prohibited. Prohibits the United States from making a contribution to the United Nations or any of its affiliated agencies if such an agency grants full membership to any organization that does not have the internationally recognized attributes of statehood. Authorizes Israel to use any loan made available under the Arms Export Control Act for which repayment is forgiven before using any other loan made available under such Act. Prohibits U.S. employees from recognizing or negotiating with the PLO so long as the PLO does not recognize Israel's right to exist, does not accept Security Council Resolutions 242 and 338, and does not renounce the use of terrorism. Declares that it is U.S. policy that ESF assistance for Israel shall not be less than the annual debt repayment from Israel to the United States. Limits the amount to be used for a Democracy Contingency Fund. Requires congressional notification prior to making funds available for military aircraft in Central America. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever helicopters or military aircraft are provided to Central American countries by any foreign country. Expresses the policy of the United States that sustainable economic growth must be predicated on sustainable use of natural resources. Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to: (1) instruct U.S. executive directors of the multilateral development banks to promote programs which address the problems of global climate change; and (2) promote reforms within the International Monetary Fund which address such problems. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on: (1) how natural resource management initiatives mandated by this Act have been incorporated in the Bush Administration's efforts to address third world debt (the Brady Plan); (2) progress made by the multilateral development banks in meeting standards set forth for programs to address global climate change; (3) the progress made by the Inter-American Development Bank in implementing environmental reforms; (4) each multilateral development bank's forestry sector and energy sector loans and their impact on carbon dioxide emissions; and (5) the progress made by the World Bank in implementing the recommendations set forth in a certain report on debt-for-nature swaps. Directs the AID Administrator to: (1) update and issue guidance to all AID bureaus detailing the elements of a Global Warming Initiative to emphasize the need to reduce emissions of greenhouse gases and to accelerate sustainable development strategies; (2) increase the number and expertise of personnel devoted to the Initiative; (3) accelerate the activities of the Multi-Agency Working Group on Power Sector Innovation; (4) focus tropical forestry assistance programs on the key middle- and low-income developing countries projected to contribute large amounts of greenhouse gases to the environment; (5) assist countries in developing an analysis of the appropriate use of their total tropical forest resources, with the goal of developing national programs for sustainable forestry; and (6) focus energy assistance activities on the key countries. Prohibits making any funds appropriated by this Act available for activities that would: (1) result in any significant loss of tropical forests; or (2) involve commercial timber extraction in primary tropical forest areas unless an environmental assessment meeting certain conditions is made. Permits the use of certain funds for programs to support tropical forestry and energy programs aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions in key countries, subject to certain conditions. Earmarks funds for: (1) environment and energy activities (with amounts for biological diversity activities, renewable energy projects, elephant conservation and preservation, and the AID Office of Energy); and (2) the creation of a fund to support global participation in the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer, provided that such funds are not contributed to developing countries that are not parties to the Protocol. Prohibits the use of development assistance funds to pay for: (1) abortions or involuntary sterilizations as a method of family planning or to motivate or coerce any persons to practice abortions or undergo sterilization; or (2) any biomedical research concerning abortions or involuntary sterilization as a method of family planning. Reaffirms the congressional commitment to population, development assistance and the need for informed voluntary family planning. Earmarks specified amounts of development and economic assistance appropriated by this Act for the Afghan people. Requires the AID Administrator to ensure that an equitable portion of such funds is made available to benefit Afghan women and girls. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated by this Act available to a private voluntary organization which fails to provide the records necessary for an AID audit or which is not registered with AID. Withholds a specified amount of military aid and financing from El Salvador until the President reports to the Appropriations Committees that El Salvador has: (1) substantially concluded all investigations with respect to those responsible for the January 1981 murders of specified U.S. and Salvadoran land reformers; and (2) pursued all legal avenues to bring to trial and obtain a verdict of those responsible for such murders and for the deaths of certain peasants, priests, and trade unionists. Expresses the sense of the Congress that all countries receiving U.S. foreign aid should cooperate in facilitating lasting solutions to refugee situations. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated by this Act available for: (1) costs of Ethiopia's forced resettlement or villagization programs; or (2) Sudan, Uganda, Liberia, Lebanon, Zaire, Yemen, Guatemala, Chile, or Somalia, except through regular congressional notification procedures. Earmarks certain appropriated funds for child survival activities and activities relating to research on, and the treatment and control of, AIDS in developing countries. Permits ESF funds to be provided to Chile to support the efforts of private individuals and groups to develop a national consensus on the importance of an independent judiciary and the administration of justice. Prohibits making any of the funds appropriated under this Act available to finance indirectly any assistance or reparations to Angola, Cambodia, Cuba, Iraq, Libya, Vietnam, Iran, or Syria unless the President certifies that the withholding of these funds is contrary to the national interest of the United States. Amends the Arms Export Control Act to extend waiver authority with respect to reciprocal leasing agreements through FY 1992. Requires delivery of defense equipment (permitted under special authority during unforeseen emergencies) within 120 days of congressional notification. Sets forth additional notification requirements with respect to the transfer of excess defense equipment to NATO. Requires the Secretary of State to transmit copies of all debt relief agreements to the appropriate congressional committees. Continues the funding of Middle East regional cooperative programs. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the U.S. Government should use its influence in the Asian Development Bank to secure reconsideration of the decision to designate Taiwan as "Taipei, China"; and (2) the Asian Development Bank should resolve this dispute in a fashion that is acceptable to Taiwan. Prohibits the use of funds provided under any Act for the sale of M-833 or comparable antitank shells containing a depleted uranium penetrating component to any country except a NATO member country, major non-NATO ally, or Taiwan. Allows earmarked funds to be reprogrammed for other programs within the same account if: (1) compliance with the earmark is made impossible by any Act; or (2) with respect to countries with which the United States has base access agreements, the President determines that the recipient of funds has reduced its military or economic cooperation with the United States. Requires the President, before funds for such countries are reprogrammed, to provide a written policy justification to the Appropriations Committees. Subjects such reprogramming to the regular notification procedures of such committees. Provides for U.S. opposition to assistance to terrorist countries by international financial institutions. Prohibits bilateral assistance to such countries. Earmarks amounts of ESF assistance for: (1) scholarships to disadvantaged South Africans; and (2) Peru, Bolivia, Colombia, and Ecuador, provided such countries are making progress in certain narcotics control efforts. Permits development and ESF assistance to be made available to Bolivia, Peru, Colombia, Ecuador, and Jamaica for reducing dependence on the production of crops from which narcotic and psychotropic drugs are derived. Limits the amount of foreign military financing to be made available for Bolivia, Peru, and Colombia. Prohibits such financing for any government that engages in a consistent pattern of human rights violations. Permits funds to be made available for training and equipment for narcotics law enforcement agencies in Colombia, Bolivia, and Peru (except for Peru's Sinchi Police). Prohibits assistance to countries which fail to take measures to prevent illicit drugs from being sold to U.S. Government personnel or from entering the United States illegally. Earmarks amounts of assistance made available to AID for narcotics education and awareness programs and narcotics related economic assistance activities. Requires that any agreement for the sale or provision of any article on the U.S. Munitions List shall expressly state that the article is being provided by the United States only with the understanding that it will not be transferred to Cyprus or otherwise used to further the severance or division of Cyprus. Directs the President to report to the Congress when such equipment is used for such purposes. Permits the commercial leasing of defense articles (other than major defense equipment) by Israel, Egypt, NATO countries, and major non-NATO allies if the President determines that there are compelling foreign policy or national security reasons for those defense articles being provided by commercial lease rather than by government-to-government sale. Limits the amount of ESF and development assistance to be made available for humanitarian and development assistance for Cambodians. Terminates assistance to any Cambodian organization that is cooperating with the Khmer Rouge in their military operations. Requires the President to report to the Speaker of the House and the President of the Senate on the extent of military cooperation between the Khmer Rouge and the non-Communist resistance. Provides that funds made available for humanitarian assistance for Cambodian children shall also be available for civilian victims of war. Provides that all AID contracts and solicitations shall require U.S. marine insurance companies to have a fair opportunity to bid for marine insurance. Expresses the sense of the Congress that funds made available for the International Fund for Ireland should be allocated to programs which emphasize jobs creation in areas having the highest rates of unemployment. Prohibits the use of certain assistance provided under this Act for assistance to Afghanistan if such assistance would be provided through the Soviet-controlled government of Afghanistan. Requires at least 25 percent of ESF assistance for El Salvador to be used for certain development projects and activities in accordance with the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires at least ten percent of FY 1990 development assistance and assistance for the Development Fund for Africa (unless the AID Administrator determines otherwise) to be made available only for U.S. organizations and individuals that are: (1) business concerns or private organizations owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; (2) historically black colleges or universities; and (3) colleges and universities in which more than 40 percent of the students are Hispanic American. Directs the Administrator to: (1) utilize the authority of the Small Business Act; (2) enter into contracts with such entities using less than full and open competitive procedures; and (3) issue regulations requiring contracts in excess of $500,000 to provide that at least ten percent of the contract shall be subcontracted to such entities. Requires AID personnel with contracting authority to notify the AID Office of Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization before advertising contracts in excess of $100,000. Directs the Administrator to: (1) include as part of the performance evaluation of any mission director such director's efforts to carry out such activities; and (2) report annually to the Congress on the implementation of such program. Prohibits the United States from selling or making available Stinger missiles to any Persian Gulf country. Prohibits the provision of funds appropriated under this Act to any person undertaking an action prohibited by U.S. law. Authorizes nongovernmental organizations which receive AID economic assistance to invest any local currencies which accrue to such organizations as a result of such assistance. Earmarks a specified amount of development and ESF assistance for Lebanon. Sets forth the value of additions to be made to stockpiles in Israel during FY 1992. Extends the period during which the President may waive prohibitions on assistance to Pakistan to April 1, 1993. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of funds for Pakistan except through the notification procedures of the Committees on Appropriations. Sets forth requirements for the maintenance of separate accounts for, and the use of, local currencies, cash transfers, and non-project sector assistance. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act for: (1) any member of the Nicaraguan resistance who has not disarmed and is not abiding by the terms of the cease-fire agreement and the addenda to the Toncontin Agreement; and (2) payments to international financial institutions that compensate U.S. directors in excess of specified rates. Sets forth human rights reporting requirements for the Secretary of State. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to provide assistance to any country that is not in compliance with the United Nations Security Council sanctions against Iraq unless the President certifies to the Congress that such assistance: (1) is in the U.S. national interest; (2) will directly benefit the needy people in such country; or (3) will be humanitarian assistance for foreign nationals who have fled Iraq and Kuwait. Authorizes the President to prohibit the importation into the United States of products of any foreign country that has not prohibited the importation of Iraqi products and the export of its products to Iraq. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury, in all negotiations concerning the EBRD, to seek: (1) establishment of procedures for environmental assessment of all proposed operations with significant environmental impacts; (2) establishment of an environmental unit to review operations and monitor compliance with environmental provisions; (3) establishment of procedures for consultation with and involvement of the public in the development of EBRD policies; and (4) agreement that a significant portion of EBRD funds shall be devoted to environmental restoration and protection projects. Repeals a provision of the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 which made excess defense articles avilable to countries supporting Operation Desert Shield. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to finance the procurement of chemicals or chemical agents that may be used for chemical weapons production. Prohibits ESF and foreign military financing assistance for Kenya unless the President certifies to the Congress that the Kenyan Government is taking steps to: (1) charge and try or release all prisoners and cease mistreatment of prisoners; and (2) restore the independence of the judiciary and freedoms of expression. Requires the delivery of excess defense articles to NATO allies and major non-NATO allies on the southern and southeastern NATO flanks to be given priority over the delivery of such articles to other countries. Amends the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1991 to revise the amount of defense articles and services authorized to be drawn down for Israel. Prohibits the use of funds appropriated by this Act to implement the Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990. Directs the President to submit to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee: (1) a U.S. plan for establishing a multilateral regime to restrict transfers of arms to the Middle East; and (2) an analysis of the feasibility and potential elements of such regime. Prohibits the United States from agreeing to any transfers of major military equipment to the Middle East and Persian Gulf region unless the President submits such plan and analysis and reports that there has been agreement by another major arms supplier on or after May 21, 1991, to transfer such equipment to any nation in the region. Exempts from such prohibition emergency or replacement transfers or transfers pursuant to agreements entered into before May 21, 1991. Requires the President to report to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee and the House Foreign Affairs Committee on: (1) all transfers of conventional and unconventional arms to the Middle East; (2) the current military balance in the region; (3) the operation of any agreements comprising the arms transfer and control regime; and (4) supplier nations that have refused to participate in such a regime or that have engaged in conduct that violates or undermines the regime. Directs the President to seek negotiations among, and undertake efforts to convene a conference of, the five members of the United Nations Security Council and other nations, as appropriate, to establish a multilateral arms transfer and control regime with respect to the Middle East and Persian Gulf region. Declares that the purpose of such regime should be to: (1) limit the proliferation of conventional weapons and ballistic missile technologies and systems and halt the proliferation of unconventional weapons; (2) maintain the military balance in the region through the reduction of conventional weapons and the elimination of unconventional weapons; and (3) promote regional arms control in such region.