Aviation

11 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if she has received the report of the task force established to examine the concerns of the Retired Aviation Staff Association in relation to the Irish Airline (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme from the chairmen of Aer Lingus and Aer Rianta; the plans, if any, she has to address the concerns expressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17335/00]

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 June 2000

11 Ms McManus asked the Minister for Public Enterprise if she has received the report of the task force established to examine the concerns of the Retired Aviation Staff Association in relation to the Irish Airline (General Employees) Superannuation Scheme from the chairmen of Aer Lingus and Aer Rianta; the plans, if any, she has to address the concerns expressed; and if she will make a statement on the matter. [17335/00]

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

United States · United States Congress · 13 June 2000

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 (with specified transfers of funds, limitations on obligations and administrative expenses, and liquidations and rescissions of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) the Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (5) the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (6) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (7) the Federal Railroad Administration; (8) the Federal Transit Administration; (9) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (10) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (11) the Office of Inspector General; and (12) the Surface Transportation Board. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-69). (Sec. 303) Makes funds appropriated under this Act for FAA expenditures available for: (1) expenses of primary and secondary schooling for dependents of FAA personnel stationed outside the continental United States at costs for any given area not in excess of those of the Department of Defense for the same area, when it is determined that the schools, if any, available in the locality are unable to provide adequately for the education of such dependents; and (2) transportation of such dependents between schools serving the area that they attend and their places of residence when it is determined that such schools are not accessible by public means of transportation on a regular basis. (Sec. 305) Bars the availability of funds under this Act for salaries and expenses of more than 104 political and Presidential appointees in the Department of Transportation. (Sec. 309) Prohibits a recipient of funds made available under this Act from disseminating: (1) driver's license personal information or motor vehicle records for any purpose not permitted under specified law; and (2) a person's driver license photograph, social security number, and medical or disability information from a motor vehicle record without the express consent of the person, except as permitted under specified law. Declares that such requirements shall not affect the use of organ donation information on the individual's driver license or affect the administration of organ donation initiatives in the States. (Sec. 313) Bars the use of funds under this Act to establish a vessel traffic safety fairway less than five miles wide between the Santa Barbara Traffic Separation Scheme and the San Francisco Traffic Separation Scheme. (Sec. 314) Authorizes airports to transfer to the FAA, without consideration, instrument landing systems (along with associated approach lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment) which conform to FAA design and performance specifications and which were purchased with airport development grant funds. (Sec. 318) Bars the use of funds under this Act to compensate in excess of 320 technical staff-years under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2001. (Sec. 319) Reduces the amount of funds provided in this Act for the Transportation Administrative Service Center (TASC). Authorizes appropriations for projects involving construction of, and improvements to, corridors of the Appalachian Development Highway System. (Sec. 323) Bars the use of funds, unless authorized by Congress, to pay for specified lobbying activities with respect to a Member of Congress or a State legislature. Permits DOT or related agency employees to communicate to Members of Congress or to a State legislature with respect to requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of business. (Sec. 324) Prohibits expenditure of funds made available under this Act by any entity that does not agree to comply with the Buy American Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only U.S.-made equipment and products to the greatest extent practicable. Prohibits the use of funds for contracts with persons falsely labeling products as made in America. (Sec. 328) Authorizes appropriations for expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council for FY 2002. Includes within the duties of such Council the identification of Amtrak routes which are candidates for closure or realignment based on performance rankings developed by Amtrak which incorporate information on each route's fully allocated costs and ridership on core intercity passenger service, and which assume that Federal subsidies for Amtrak will decline from FY 1999 to FY 2002. (Sec. 330) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for FY 2001 for activities under the Aircraft Purchase Loan Guarantee Program. (Sec. 331) Amends the Federal Transit Act of 1998 to increase from 50 percent to 90 percent the Federal share of costs with respect to grants for increasing over-the-road bus service accessibility to persons with disabilities (particularly in rural areas). (Sec. 332) Directs the Secretary of Transportation to execute a demonstration program of the "fractional ownership" concept in performing administrative support flight missions in order to determine whether cost savings, as well as increased operational flexibility and aircraft availability, can be realized through the use by the government of such concept. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to report to the Committees on Appropriations on the results of such evaluation. (Sec. 333) Bars the use of funds in this Act to make a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the Committees on Appropriations not less than three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced by the Department of Transportation or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the FHA other than the emergency relief program; (2) the FAA airport improvement program; or (3) any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. (Sec. 334) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to add the Wilmington Downtown transit corridor and the Honolulu Bus Rapid Transit project to the list of projects for new fixed guideway systems and extensions to existing systems. (Sec. 336) Amends the Intermodal Surface Transportation Efficiency Act of 1991 to direct the Secretary of Transportation to study, and report to Congress on, the maximum axle weight limitations applicable to vehicles using the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways as they apply to over-the-road buses and public transit vehicles. (Sec. 337) Bars the use of funds appropriated under this Act to propose or issue regulations or orders for implementation of the Kyoto Protocol (adopted on December 11, 1997, in Kyoto, Japan at the Third Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change) which has not been submitted to the Senate for advice and consent to ratification and has not been entered into force. (Sec. 340) Bars the use of funds in this Act to adopt guidelines or regulations requiring airport sponsors to provide to the FAA without cost building construction, maintenance, utilities and expenses, or space in airport sponsor-owned buildings for services relating to air traffic control, air navigation or weather reporting. Provides that such prohibition does not apply to negotiations between the FAA and airport sponsors to achieve agreement on "below-market" rates for such items or to grant assurances that require airport sponsors to provide land without cost to the FAA for ATC facilities. (Sec. 341) Bars the availability of funds under this Act or prior Appropriations Acts for Coast Guard acquisition, construction, and improvements after the 15th of any quarter of any fiscal year beginning after December 31, 1999, unless the Commandant of the Coast Guard first reports quarterly to the Committees on Appropriations on all major Coast Guard acquisition projects executed for it by the U.S. Navy and vessel traffic service projects. (Sec. 342) Amends Federal transportation law to require the Secretary of Transportation to withhold five percent of the funds authorized for Federal aid highway programs for FY 2004, and ten percent of such amounts for subsequent fiscal years, from any State that has not enacted and is not enforcing a law that considers as intoxicated an individual who has an alcohol concentration level of 0.08 percent or greater while operating a motor vehicle in such State. Allows funds withheld from a State during FY 2004 to be available for up to three fiscal years after such date (to allow a State to meet such requirement within such period), but allows no grace period with respect to funds withheld during subsequent fiscal years. (Sec. 343) Authorizes the Secretary of Transportation to waive, without charge, any terms contained in the deed conveying U.S. lands to a public institution of higher education in Oklahoma that restrict the use of such land that, as of the date of enactment of this Act, is not being used for the operation of an airport or for air traffic.

Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act

United States · United States Congress · 8 June 2000

Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act - Prohibits the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture from taking any action which would permanently close or render or declare as unserviceable any aircraft landing strip located on Federal land under the administrative jurisdiction of either Secretary unless: (1) the head of the aviation department of each State in which the aircraft landing strip is located has approved the action; and (2) certain notice and comment requirements have been met. Requires the Secretaries to adopt a nationwide policy, meeting specified requirements, for governing backcountry aviation issues related to the management of Federal land under their jurisdiction of those Secretaries, and require regional managers to adhere to it. Prescribes requirements for maintenance of such landing strips.

To amend title 49, United States Code, to prohibit the employment of certain individuals in positions affecting air transportation security.

United States · United States Congress · 24 May 2000

Amends Federal aviation transportation law to proscribe employment of certain convicted felons whom the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration determines indicate a propensity for placing contraband aboard an aircraft in return for money.

Zivilluftfahrtbeirat

Austria · National Council · 17 May 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Parnigoni, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Zivilluftfahrtbeirat

Joint Aviation Authorities

Austria · National Council · 17 May 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Rudolf Parnigoni, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Joint Aviation Authorities <i>(Harmonisierung des Flugrechts)</i>

Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

United States · United States Congress · 17 May 2000

Title I: Department of Transportation - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 (with specified rescissions, transfers of funds, limitations on obligations and administrative expenses, and liquidations of contract authorizations) for: (1) the Office of the Secretary of Transportation; (2) the Coast Guard; (3) the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA); (4) the Federal Highway Administration (FHA); (5) Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration; (6) the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration; (7) the Federal Railroad Administration; (8) the Federal Transit Administration (FTA); (9) the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corporation; (10) the Research and Special Programs Administration; (11) the Office of Inspector General; and (12) the Surface Transportation Board. Title II: Related Agencies - Makes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) the Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board; and (2) the National Transportation Safety Board. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth specified prohibitions, limitations, permissions, and mandates with respect to the use of appropriations under this Act identical or similar to those enacted in the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 (P.L. 106-69). (Sec. 312) Authorizes airports to transfer to the FAA, without consideration, instrument landing systems (along with associated approach lighting equipment and runway visual range equipment) which conform to FAA design and performance specifications and which were purchased with airport development grant funds. (Sec. 316) Bars the use of funds under this Act to compensate in excess of 320 technical staff-years under the federally funded research and development center contract between the FAA and the Center for Advanced Aviation Systems Development during FY 2001. (Sec. 320) Prohibits the use of funds for employee training which: (1) does not meet identified needs for knowledge, skills, and abilities bearing directly upon the performance of official duties; (2) contains elements likely to induce high levels of emotional response or psychological stress in some participants; (3) does not require prior employee notification of the content and methods to be used in the training and written end of course evaluations; (4) contains any methods or content associated with religious or quasi-religious belief systems or "new age" belief systems; (5) is offensive to, or designed to change, participants' personal values or lifestyle outside the workplace; or (6) includes content related to human immunodeficiency virus-acquired immune deficiency syndrome (HIV-AIDS) other than that necessary to make employees more aware of its medical ramifications and the workplace rights of HIV-positive employees. (Sec. 321) Bars the use of funds, unless expressly authorized by Congress, to pay for specified lobbying activities with respect to a Member of Congress or a State legislature. Permits DOT or related agency employees to communicate to Members of Congress or to a State legislature with respect to requests for legislation or appropriations which they deem necessary for the efficient conduct of business. (Sec. 322) Prohibits expenditure of funds made available under this Act by any entity that does not agree to comply with the Buy American Act. Expresses the sense of Congress that entities receiving assistance under this Act should purchase only U.S.-made equipment and products to the greatest extent practicable. Prohibits the use of funds for contracts with persons falsely labeling products as made in America. (Sec. 323) Reduces the amount of funds provided in this Act for the Transportation Administrative Service Center (TASC). (Sec. 326) Authorizes appropriations for expenses of the Amtrak Reform Council for FY 2002. Includes within the duties of such Council the identification of Amtrak routes which are candidates for closure or realignment based on performance rankings developed by Amtrak which incorporate information on each route's fully allocated costs and ridership on core intercity passenger service, and which assume that Federal subsidies for Amtrak will decline from FY 1999 to FY 2002. (Sec. 328) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act for: (1) activities under the Aircraft Purchase Loan Guarantee Program; and (2) construction of a light rail system in Houston, Texas. (Sec. 329) Bars the use of funds in this Act to make a grant unless the Secretary of Transportation notifies the Committees on Appropriations not less than three full business days before any discretionary grant award, letter of intent, or full funding grant agreement totaling $1 million or more is announced by the Department of Transportation or its modal administrations from: (1) any discretionary grant program of the FHA other than the emergency relief program; (2) the FAA airport improvement program; or (3) any FTA program other than the formula grants and fixed guideway modernization programs. (Sec. 330) Repeals a specified section of the Miscellaneous Appropriations Act, 2000 (as enacted by the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2000) regarding supplemental appropriations for FY 2001 through 2003 to the Federal Railroad Administration for expenses necessary to enable the James A. Farley Post Office in New York City to be used as a train station and commercial center. (Sec. 332) Amends the Federal Transit Act of 1998 to increase from 50 percent to 90 percent the Federal share of costs with respect to grants for increasing over-the-road bus service accessibility to persons with disabilities (particularly in rural areas). (Sec. 333) Authorizes the Government's share of costs of up to 100 percent on construction projects (funded under the surface transportation program) for the elimination of hazards of railway-highway crossings. (Sec. 334) Authorizes certain Federal highway funds for: (1) the congestion mitigation and air quality improvement program to be used for capital costs for vehicles and facilities that are used to provide intercity passenger service by rail (including vehicles and facilities used to provide transportation systems using magnetic levitation) if the project or program will contribute to attainment or maintenance of a national ambient air quality standard within a nonattainment or maintenance area; and (2) the surface transportation program to be used for capital costs for vehicles and facilities that are used to provide such rail service. (Sec. 335) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to replace the high priority project to reconstruct I-235 and improve the interchange for access to the Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway in Des Moines, Iowa, with a high priority project to construct the north-south segments of such Parkway. (Sec. 336) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to revise the high priority project for a feasibility and design study of Louisiana Highway 30 between Louisiana Highway 44 and I-10 to include, as an alternative to the study, construction of that segment of Louisiana Highway 30. (Sec. 337) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to eliminate the high priority project for the upgrade of U.S. Route 5 between the vicinity of Chillicothe, Ohio, and the Village of Richmond Dale, Ohio. Increases the authorized funding for the high priority project to construct the Chesapeake Bypass in Lawrence County, Ohio. (Sec. 338) Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to pay the salaries or expenses of any departmental official to authorize project approvals or advance construction authority for the Central Artery-Third Harbor Tunnel project in Boston, Massachusetts. (Sec. 339) Amends the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century to increase the maximum annual amount of mass transportation funds that may be provided to a transit provider that operates 20 or fewer vehicles in an urbanized area with a population of at least 200,000 to finance the operating costs of equipment and facilities used by it in providing mass transportation services to the elderly and persons with disabilities. (Sec. 340) Authorizes the use of unobligated balances for the Ebensburg Bypass Demonstration Project (contained in Public Law 101-164) for improvements along Route 56 in Cambria County, Pennsylvania, including the construction of a parking facility in the vicinity.

Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 2000

Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) the Defense Health Program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army to the defense and appropriations committees on the process for developing the objective force in the transformation of the Army. Directs such Secretary to develop and carry out, and report to such committees on, a plan comparing the costs and operational effectiveness of the medium armored combat vehicles selected for the infantry battalions of the interim brigade combat teams with the costs and effectiveness of such vehicles currently in the Army inventory for use by infantry battalions. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense (DOD) to review such plan and report results to such Secretary. Prohibits more than 60 percent of the amount authorized for the procurement of such vehicles for FY 2001 and FY 2002 from being obligated until 30 days after such Secretary's reports are submitted. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the aircraft carrier designated CVNX-1, and authorizes such Secretary to enter into contracts for advanced procurement and construction of components for such carrier (earmarking funds authorized under this section for such purpose). (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to increase the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers that may be procured by the Navy and to extend through FY 2005 the authority for such multiyear procurement. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to any such destroyers procured after FY 2001, should achieve the most economical rate of procurement by procuring three destroyers in each of FY 2002 and 2003 and one in FY 2004. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees updating information required in a 1993 report on DDG-51 (destroyer) class ships. Requires such update to be transmitted to the Comptroller General (CG), and requires the CG to review such report and report review results to the defense committees. (Sec. 123) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for the Virginia class submarine program, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the procurement of up to five of such submarines during FY 2003 through 2006. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense and appropriations committees on the Navy's fleet of fast attack submarines. (Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the construction of all ADC(X) class ships in one shipyard when determined to be more cost effective than construction in more than one shipyard. (Sec. 125) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for commencement of nuclear refueling and overhaul of the CVN-69 aircraft carrier during FY 2001. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 and 1991 to repeal a required annual report on the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in determining technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, to consider only incineration or any technologies demonstrated under the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment on or before May 1, 2000. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for basic and applied research projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to carry out a joint field experiment in FY 2002 for exploring war fighting challenges for joint U.S. military forces after 2010. Provides experiment funding from RDT&E funds. (Sec. 212) Earmarks RDT&E funds for the conversion and development of nuclear aircraft carrier design data. (Sec. 213) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to pursue a technology insertion approach for the construction of the DD-21 destroyer on a specified construction schedule. Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) calling for the sequential construction of such destroyers until 32 are constructed; and (2) that the Secretary of the Navy, in providing for the acquisition of such destroyers, should take into consideration certain needs of the Navy and Marine Corps for the surface fire support of such destroyers, along with certain related considerations. Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to submit to the defense committees a plan for pursuing a technology insertion approach for such construction; and (2) Defense to report to such committees on the Navy's plan for the acquisition and maintenance of such destroyers. (Sec. 214) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to allow a one percent increase for certain development and production expenditures for the F-22 aircraft program if the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation determines such increase is necessary to ensure adequate testing. (Sec. 215) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the joint strike fighter program. Authorizes limited transfers to such program from other Navy and Air Force accounts. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to require and coordinate a concept demonstration of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned vehicle. Requires such demonstration to: (1) take place as early as practicable in FY 2001; and (2) be conducted in a counter-drug surveillance scenario for the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command. Requires a demonstration report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 217) Provides future-years goals for unmanned, advanced capability aircraft and ground combat vehicles. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on all demonstration programs undertaken by the various military departments with respect to such vehicles. Provides program funding from RDT&E funds. (Sec. 218) Earmarks RDT&E funds for Army space control technology development, including the kinetic energy anti-satellite technology program. (Sec. 219) Prohibits funds for the Russian American Observation Satellites program from being obligated or expended until 30 days after the Secretary submits to Congress a plan for protecting U.S. advanced military technology associated with such program. (Sec. 220) Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated for the procurement of an anthrax vaccine until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees certain information concerning Food and Drug Administration production approval of such a vaccine, as well as contingencies associated with continuing to rely on the current manufacturer to supply such vaccine. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the acquisition of biological warfare defense vaccines for DOD. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense and appropriations committees on long-term challenges and short-term objectives of the Air Force science and technology program. Directs such Secretary to establish a task force for identifying the short-term objectives. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2001. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for: (1) payments for children with disabilities under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and (2) analyses by the joint warfighting capabilities assessment teams of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. Subtitle C: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary to provide humanitarian and civic assistance in connection with military operations for areas of a country that are underserved by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals. Authorizes the use of up to ten percent of such assistance for pay and allowances of special operations command reserves furnishing demining training and related assistance. Subtitle D: Department of Defense Industrial Facilities - Expresses policy with respect to the U.S. armaments industrial base. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to be known as the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative which shall, among other things: (1) encourage commercial firms to use Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition manufacturing facilities for commercial purposes; (2) increase the opportunities for small businesses to use such facilities; (3) maintain an appropriate workforce to meet industrial emergency requirements for national security purposes; (4) demonstrate innovative business practices for future defense conversion initiatives; and (5) reduce or eliminate Army costs of owning such facilities. Requires the Secretary of the Army to fully utilize facility use contracts, leases, and other appropriate arrangements. Authorizes such Secretary to accept consideration for facility use other than rental payments or revenue generated at such facility. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees on procedures and controls implemented to carry out this section. Authorizes such Secretary to carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use such facilities. Provides loan guarantee limits of: (1) $20 million per borrower; and (2) $320 million for all borrowers. Authorizes such Secretary to carry out programs for the support of armaments retooling and manufacturing in the national defense industrial and technology base. Repeals the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of the military department concerned, to designate depot-level activities of the military departments and defense agencies (current law) and each Army arsenal as Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence in recognized core competencies. Includes as objectives for public-private partnerships in connection with such Centers: (1) maximizing the capacity utilization of such Centers; (2) reducing or eliminating ownership and production costs of such Centers; (3) leveraging private sector investment in such Centers; and (4) fostering cooperation between the armed forces and private industry. Authorizes a designating Secretary to waive certain commercial nonavailability requirements for articles and services produced at such Centers when necessary to achieve one or more of the objectives. Allows the Secretary to charge the full cost of manufacturing articles at, or performing services through, such Centers. Authorizes private sector use of excess Center capacity. Authorizes the acceptance of consideration for use of Center property. Allows, under limited conditions, the use by private sector partners of Center excess equipment or facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use such Centers for stated purposes. Provides loan guarantee limits of: (1) $20 million per borrower; and (2) $320 million for all borrowers. (Sec. 333) Requires the Secretary, at least 30 days before any DOD official enters into a contract for the private sector performance of a workload already being performed by more than 50 employees at a Center or ammunition plant, to report to Congress describing the effect that the performance and administration of the contract will have on the overhead costs of the Center or plant. (Sec. 334) Authorizes the President (currently, the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department) to waive certain limitations on the performance by non-Government personnel of depot-level maintenance of materiel for reasons of national security. Requires the President to notify Congress of any such waiver and the reasons therefor. Subtitle E: Environmental Provisions - Establishes in DOD the Environmental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites. (Sec. 342) Prohibits the Secretary or a military department Secretary from paying a fine or penalty imposed for an environmental violation unless the payment is specifically authorized by law if the fine or penalty: (1) is $1.5 million or more; or (2) is based on the application of economic benefit criteria or size-of-business criteria. (Sec. 343) Repeals required annual reports of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council to summarize Board activities in their annual reports. (Sec. 344) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to revise the Secretary's authority for indemnification of transferees of defense property closed under the base closure laws to include within such indemnification the release or threatened release of petroleum or petroleum derivatives or unexploded ordnance at a closed or realigned military installation, or the payment of environmental costs in connection with all covered releases. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements specifying the contribution of any person to a covered release or threatened release. Adds indemnification conditions and limitations. (Sec. 345) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to use O&M funds to pay certain fines and penalties imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a State in connection with environmental violations at specified sites. (Sec. 346) Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a specified account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund to reimburse the EPA for certain environmental costs in connection with the former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site in Suffolk, Virginia. (Sec. 347) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 2000 through 2003, to use DOD environmental restoration account funds for the costs of permanently relocating facilities because of a release or threatened release of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants from real property or facilities: (1) currently under the Secretary's jurisdiction; or (2) that were under the Secretary's jurisdiction at the time of the actions leading to such release or threatened release. Prohibits more than five percent of account funds from being used for such purpose. Requires three annual reports from the Secretary to Congress on each such response action. (Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to continue during FY 2001 a ship disposal project (requiring a project report to the defense and appropriations committees); (2) Defense to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information Management program; and (3) the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on effects of worldwide U.S. contingency operations on the readiness of military aircraft and ground equipment. (Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a new methodology for ensuring more accurate future years Army O&M requirements. Expresses the sense of Congress calling for such methodology, and to use such methodology in the preparation of such budget requests for fiscal years after 2001. (Sec. 363) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require additional elements in a plan for ensuring visibility over all in-transit end items and secondary items. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress any plan revisions required by any law enacted after October 17, 1998. (Sec. 364) Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from converting to contractor performance the emergency response functions of any chemical weapons storage installation that are currently performed by U.S. employees until such Secretary submits to the defense committees a certification that there will be no lapse of the capability to perform such functions during the performance transition period. (Sec. 365) Requires the Secretary, before a decision is made to enter into the engineering and manufacturing development phase for the acquisition of a system to use the radio frequency spectrum, to notify the defense and appropriations committees of the frequencies to be used and related information. (Sec. 366) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for monitoring the performance of DOD functions that: (1) are performed by 50 or more DOD employees; and (2) have been subjected to a workforce review. Requires the system to measure costs and benefits of selecting one workforce over another workforce after a workforce review. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress. Directs the Secretary, in preparing the future years defense program, to consider costs incurred and savings derived from changed workforces after such a review. Requires specified information in a required congressional notification of changed workforces. (Sec. 367) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to suspend all activities associated with the reorganization or relocation of the performance of Navy auditing functions until 60 days after a report to the defense and appropriations committees setting forth the Navy's plans and justifications for such reorganization or relocation. (Sec. 368) Directs the Secretary to invest that portion of the Commissary Trust Revolving Fund not required to meet current withdrawals. (Sec. 369) Repeals a provision requiring a nonappropriated fund instrumentality, under certain conditions, to be considered the most economical method of distribution of alcoholic beverages within the commissary system. (Sec. 370) Requires that, whenever the Secretary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or otherwise) of armor-piercing ammunition or a component of such ammunition, such Secretary shall include as a disposal condition that the recipient agree in writing not to sell or transfer such ammunition or component to any purchaser in the United States other than a law enforcement or other governmental agency (with an exception for transfers for metal reclamation only). Provides a special rule for non-piercing components of such ammunition. (Sec. 371) Directs the Secretary to assess damage caused to DOD aviation facilities by alkali silica reactivity. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and carry out during FY 2001 through 2006 a plan to prevent and mitigate such damage. Provides funding from authorized O&M funds. (Sec. 372) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through FY 2010 a pilot program for the acceptance and use of landing fees charged for the use of domestic military airfields by civilian aircraft. Extends related report requirements. (Sec. 373) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to require payments by a civil air carrier for support provided by the United States at Johnston Atoll that is either: (1) requested by such carrier; or (2) determined necessary to accommodate such carrier's use of the Atoll. Requires amounts charged to equal the total costs of such support. Prohibits landing fees to be charged if support costs are charged. (Sec. 374) Requires the CG to: (1) review annual costs incurred by DOD to comply with requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act; and (2) report review results to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 375) Amends the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary to sell certain aircraft for use in wildfire suppression, and to extend a related report requirement. (Sec. 376) Amends provisions which authorize the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to contract with private air carriers for the interstate transportation of passengers or property by transportation category aircraft to: (1) remove a requirement that contracts for such transportation be for a period in excess of 31 days; (2) authorize such transportation between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States; and (3) allow such transportation between two foreign places by a carrier that has aircraft in the civil reserve air fleet whenever such transportation is reasonably available. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2001. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2001 for the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum number of military technicians (dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end of FY 2001. (Sec. 414) Sets forth the maximum number of military technicians (non-dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end of FY 2001. Postpones until October 1, 2002 (currently a year earlier) a provision limiting such number to 1,950. (Sec. 415) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths - Authorizes the President to suspend end strength limitations in times or war or national emergency declared by Congress or the President with respect to senior enlisted personnel and senior reserve officers on active duty or full-time National Guard or reserves administrative duty. Limits such suspension period to two years from the suspension or one year after the declaration of war or national emergency, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 422) Excludes from personnel end strength limitations reserve personnel on active duty for more than 180 days to perform special work in support of the armed forces and combatant commands, except that such number may not exceed two tenths of one percent of the end strength for all active-duty personnel. (Sec. 423) Excludes Army and Air Force medical and dental officers from end strength limitations on reserve commissioned officers in grades below brigadier general. (Sec. 424) Authorizes an increase in the number of certain reserve and enlisted personnel serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty for administrative support of the Guard and reserves by the same percentage as the increase in a fiscal year for active-duty and full-time National Guard duty personnel who are to be paid from funds appropriated for reserve personnel. (Sec. 425) Excludes, until the end of FY 2005, an Air Force officer serving as Director of the National Security Agency from end strength limitations on the number of Air Force officers above the grade of major general. Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Allows Army Reserve colonels and brigadier generals to be recommended for position vacancy promotions under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army. (Sec. 502) Amends Coast Guard provisions to direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for promotion, to establish a promotion zone for officers serving in each grade and competitive category to be considered by a selection board. Requires such Secretary, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for a promotion to a grade above lieutenant (junior grade), to determine the maximum number of officers in that grade and competitive category that the board may recommend. Authorizes such Secretary, when the needs of the Coast Guard require, to allow the consideration of officers in a grade above lieutenant (junior grade) for promotion to the next higher grade from below the promotion zone. Outlines provisions for determination by such Secretary of the maximum number that may be recommended for promotion in both of the above categories. Authorizes such Secretary to use a running mate system during consideration of Reserve officers in an active status for promotion to the next higher grade. Allows such running mate system to be used when selecting officers for promotion from below the promotion zone only when considered appropriate to meet the needs of the Coast Guard. (Sec. 503) Provides revised times for the release to the armed force concerned of the names of active-duty and reserve active-status list officers recommended for promotion, such times varying within the various promotion grades. Prohibits any such list from including any name removed by the President from the report of a selection board, or the name of any officer whose promotion the Senate failed to confirm. (Sec. 504) Allows for the posthumous commissions and warranting of officers who were recommended for appointment or promotion to a commissioned grade but died in the line of duty before it was approved by the Secretary concerned or before accepting the appointment or promotion. (Sec. 505) Makes certain active-duty list promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement authorities inapplicable to reserve general and flag officers serving in certain positions designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). (Sec. 506) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct a person's military records in accordance with a recommendation made by a special board. Requires the appropriate relief associated with such correction (restoration to duty status, eligibility for additional pay). Considers as final a previous corrective action taken when a special board recommends not to correct the action taken, but allows for judicial review of such decision after such board's consideration. Makes such provisions inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Prohibits U.S. courts from taking any action on a claim based on the failure of an officer for selection for promotion by a promotion board until: (1) the claim has been considered and acted upon by a special selection board; or (2) the claim has been rejected by the Secretary without consideration by a special selection board. Authorizes judicial review after either event. (Sec. 507) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to retain Medical Service Corps officers in an active status until 67 years of age. (Sec. 508) Removes an application requirement for the continuation of officers on the reserve active-status list. (Sec. 510) Requires the Chiefs of the Army and Air Force Reserve, while in such position, to hold the grade of lieutenant general (currently, major general). Requires the Chief of Naval Reserve to hold the grade of vice admiral (currently, rear admiral). Requires National Guard Bureau Directors to hold the grade of lieutenant general. Allows an officer to be appointed as Commander, Marine Forces Reserve, in the grade of lieutenant general (usually, major general) if appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the waiver of the latter requirement, until October 1, 2002, when necessary for the good of the service. Subtitle B: Joint Officer Management - Requires an officer, in order to qualify for the joint specialty designation, to: (1) have successfully completed a program of education in residence at a joint professional military education school accredited by the JCS Chairman, and a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment; or (2) have successfully completed two full tours of duty in a joint duty assignment (without the education). Authorizes the Secretary to waive such qualifications for an officer who, due to unusual circumstances, has one or more qualifications comparable to the qualification waived. Allows such qualifications to be waived in the case of a general or flag officer only when determined necessary to meet a critical need. Requires the: (1) Secretary to designate joint duty assignments for general and flag officers that must be filled by joint specialty officers; and (2) JCS Chairman to accredit joint professional military education schools. (Sec. 522) Revises promotion policy objectives for joint officers. Requires the appropriate military department Secretary to validate the qualifications of officers for eligibility for joint duty assignments, including satisfaction of requirements for promotion to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). Directs the Secretary to prescribe policies to ensure that promotion-eligible joint specialty officers are appropriately considered for such promotion. (Sec. 523) Repeals the requirement that an officer graduating from an accredited joint professional military education school be assigned to a joint duty assignment as that officer's next duty assignment. (Sec. 524) Repeals provisions specifying the length of joint duty assignments. Requires such length to be equivalent to the standard length for assignments of other officers at such installation or place of duty. Allows the Secretary to: (1) waive such requirement when critical to meet military personnel management requirements; and (2) curtail by up to two years a joint duty assignment of more than two years for an officer who has served in that assignment for at least two years. Provides conditions under which an officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment. Prohibits joint duty credit for joint task force assignments of less than one year in more than one such assignment in the headquarters of a joint task force. (Sec. 525) Revises generally information required in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on joint specialty officers and assignments. (Sec. 526) Considers multiple assignments as a single tour of duty for joint duty assignment purposes if such assignments consist of joint duty assignments and one or more assignments that provide significant experience in joint matters, as determined by the Secretary. Subtitle C: Education and Training - Entitles to appointment to a service academy the children of members of the reserves who: (1) are currently so serving and are credited with at least eight years of service; or (2) would be, or who died while they would have been, entitled to retired pay except for not having attained 60 years of age. (Sec. 542) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in selecting persons from approved foreign countries to receive instruction at a service academy, to give a priority to persons who have a national service obligation to their countries upon academy graduation. (Sec. 543) Repeals a provision authorizing a certain funding increase to be used for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. (Sec. 544) Revises provisions concerning the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class program to: (1) make Marine Corps Reserve officers (currently only Marine Corps Reserve enlisted personnel) eligible for such program; (2) remove certain age limitations; (3) allow assistance to eligible individuals for the pursuit of a law degree requiring no more than four (currently three) academic years; and (4) make program noncompletion sanctions inapplicable to officers. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Directs the Secretary of the Army, during the period beginning on October 1, 2000, and ending on December 31, 2005, to carry out pilot programs to test various recruiting approaches. Requires one pilot program to be a program: (1) of public outreach that associates the Army with motor sports competition; (2) a program under which Army recruiters are assigned at postsecondary vocational institutions and community colleges to recruit such students and graduates; and (3) a program that expands the scope of the Army's current recruiting initiatives. Authorizes such Secretary to expand or extend a pilot program after notification of the defense committees. Requires a pilot program report. (Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary to enhance the effectiveness of the Joint and Service Recruiting and Advertising Programs through advertising and market research targeted to prospective recruits and persons who influence such recruits. (Sec. 553) Amends Federal provisions requiring access to secondary schools for military recruiting purposes to provide that if a local educational agency denies such access, then the Secretary concerned shall designate a general or flag officer of that armed force to visit such school and seek such access. Provides that if the agency continues to deny such access, then the Secretary shall transmit to the chief executive of such State a notification of such denial and a request for assistance in obtaining the requested access. Directs the Secretary, upon determining that agency denial of recruiting access extends to at least two of the armed forces, to notify the defense committees and the Senators and appropriate Representative of the State in which the denial has occurred. Makes such requirements effective as of July 1, 2002. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Ed W. Freeman, James K. Okubu, and Andrew J. Smith for service during the Vietnam conflict, World War II, and the Civil War, respectively. (Sec. 562) Waives certain time limitations with respect to recommendations for the award of the: (1) Silver Star to Louis Rickler, for service during World War I; and (2) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals for service during World War II or Korea. (Sec. 563) Makes ineligible for involuntary separation pay individuals who decline to continue to serve on active duty. (Sec. 564) Exempts a military testamentary instrument from State testamentary laws. Accords such instruments the same legal effect as State testamentary instruments presented for probate. Outlines requirements for the legal execution of such instruments. Makes such instrument self-proving upon such execution, signature, and witnessing. Requires each instrument to include a statement that it meets applicable testamentary requirements. (Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the American people should recognize the lack of culpability of then-Captain Charles B. McVay III in connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea during World War II, as well as his lack of culpability for the tragic loss of the INDIANAPOLIS and the lives of the men who died as a result of her sinking; (2) Captain McVay's military record should reflect such exoneration; and (3) the Secretary of the Navy should award a Navy Unit Commendation to the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS and its final crew. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2001 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 3.7 percent, effective January 1, 2001, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to revise certain pay table amounts. (Sec. 603) Authorizes members performing funeral honors duty to receive either the allowance for such duty or the rate of pay for members of the reserves or National Guard performing inactive-duty training. (Sec. 604) Excludes from creditable service as a Marine Corps officer only that service performed concurrently as an enlisted member with the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class program. (Sec. 605) Repeals the current calculation of the monthly amount of basic allowance for housing (BAH) for housing inside the United States. Requires the Secretary to base such amount on the costs of adequate housing determined for such area. Repeals provisions requiring BAH reductions and adjustments. (Sec. 606) Authorizes the payment of BAH for members without dependents in pay grade E-4 (currently only E-5) who are on sea duty. (Sec. 607) Authorizes the payment of a personal money allowance of $2,000 yearly for senior enlisted members serving in Sergeant Major, Master Chief Petty Officer, or Chief Master Sergeant positions. (Sec. 608) Increases the initial and annual allowance for officers for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment. (Sec. 609) Authorizes the Secretary (currently, the President) and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy to prescribe requirements and allowances for clothing for enlisted personnel. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2001 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2000 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 614) Includes as eligible activities for the payment of special pay currently provided for reserve medical and dental officers active duty for training, annual training, or special work. (Sec. 615) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard physician assistants. (Sec. 616) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay special pay to an officer who is: (1) a pharmacy officer in the Medical Service Corps of the Army or Navy or the Biomedical Sciences Corps of the Air Force; and (2) on active duty under a call or order for a period of at least one year. Authorizes similar payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to such officers in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. Prohibits such payments for pay grades above O-6. Provides varying rates of such special pay based on creditable years of service and whether or not the officer is undergoing pharmacy internship training. Authorizes the payment of an accession bonus to individuals graduating from an accredited pharmacy school who, between the enactment of this Act and September 30, 2004, execute a written agreement to accept a commission as an officer and to remain on active duty for at least four years. Limits such bonus to $30,000. Requires pro rata repayment for unserved periods. (Sec. 618) Entitles Public Health Service Regular or Reserve Corps health officers to the same special pay as health professions officers of the armed forces. (Sec. 619) Entitles a member on sea duty to career sea pay at a monthly rate prescribed by the Secretary concerned, but not to exceed $750. (Currently, such rates vary depending on the length of such duty, with a high-end limit of $520.) Authorizes a pay premium of up to $350 for every month served after 36 consecutive months. (Sec. 620) Increases the monthly rate of special duty assignment pay for enlisted members. Eliminates the separate rate for military recruiters. (Sec. 621) Authorizes the payment of a critical skills enlistment bonus for all military departments (currently, only the Army). Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the advance payment of temporary lodging expenses incurred by a member and his or her dependents while making a change in permanent duty stations. Allows such payment for up to ten days. Revises generally provisions concerning the per diem for members on duty outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska. (Sec. 632) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to a member a share of the savings resulting from less-than-average shipping and storage costs of the member's baggage and household effects in connection with a change of duty station. (Sec. 633) Allows the payment of certain travel and transportation expenses of military dependents of overseas personnel when such dependents are engaged in obtaining a formal education (currently, only a secondary or undergraduate college education) (thereby allowing graduate or vocational educational programs to be included). (Sec. 634) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a member a share of the savings realized from not having a vehicle transported or stored overseas. Authorizes a member to elect to have a vehicle stored at Government expense in lieu of a transportation allowance for an unaccompanied assignment. Subtitle D: Retirement Benefits - Provides an exception to the high-36 month retired pay computation for: (1) enlisted personnel who are reduced in grade; or (2) officer personnel who do not serve satisfactorily in the highest grade held. States that such retired pay base shall be determined as if the member first became a member before September 8, 1980. (Sec. 642) Provides automatic participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for reserve personnel who are married or have a dependent child unless such member declines such participation with his or her spouse's concurrence. Requires spousal consent for a member to elect: (1) not to participate in the SBP; or (2) to designate as the effective date for the commencement of SBP payments in the event that the member dies before becoming 60 years of age the 60th anniversary of such member's birth. (Sec. 643) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to make 180 days after the enactment of this Act the effective date for the authority of members of the Ready Reserve to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Allows the Secretary to postpone such effective date by up to 360 additional days if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to participate earlier would place an excessive burden on accommodating TSP participants. Requires notification of specified congressional committees when such a postponement is utilized. (Sec. 644) Outlines procedures for retirement from active reserve service which is performed after retirement from the regular armed forces. (Sec. 645) Repeals a Federal provision suspending the payment of military retired pay while an individual serves as a Federal judge. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a member for parking expenses incurred for a private vehicle being used to commute to a duty station to perform recruiting activities, duty with a military entrance processing facility, or instructional or administrative duties at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is maintained. (Sec. 652) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to authorize the Secretary to extend for up to 18 additional months the deadline for filing claims associated with the capture and internment of certain persons by North Vietnam. (Sec. 653) Authorizes the Secretary to settle claims for payments for unused accrued leave and for retired pay. (Sec. 654) Entitles to Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance a person who volunteers for assignment to a category in the Individual Ready Reserve that is subject to an involuntary call to active duty. (Sec. 655) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a gratuity of $20,000 to veterans of Bataan and Corregidor who were captured, held as prisoners of war, and forced to perform slave labor in Japan during World War II. Title VII: Health Care - Subtitle A: Senior Health Care - Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through 2005 the TRICARE Senior Supplement demonstration program. (Sec. 702) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through 2005 the Senior Prime demonstration program. Includes a DOD major medical center as a facility participant in such program, and allows such centers to be designated as additional sites. (Sec. 703) Extends through 2005 a demonstration project for including certain eligible military beneficiaries for health care coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Includes additional areas for participation in the project. (Sec. 704) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to authorize the Secretary to require DOD pharmacy system participants to pay an enrollment fee for such participation, but requires the Secretary to ensure that any such fee charged after December 31, 2000, is lower than the fee charged on such date. Allows the Secretary to impose other cost-sharing requirements on system participants. Allows for the monthly or quarterly payment of premiums. Subtitle B: TRICARE Program - Authorizes coverage under the TRICARE Program (a DOD managed-care program) for remote areas of the continental United States for members of the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Public Health Service. Requires coverage for the medical care of eligible military dependents to be comparable to medical care coverage and timely access standards under the TRICARE Prime option. (Sec. 712) Prohibits a copayment from being charged to a dependent of a member eligible for care under TRICARE Prime. (Sec. 713) Directs the Secretary to take all necessary action to improve the business practices used in administering TRICARE. Subtitle C: Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans Affairs - Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to jointly prescribe a centralized process for the reporting, compiling, and analysis of errors in the provision of health care under their respective health care systems that endanger patients beyond the normal risks associated with such care and treatment. (Sec. 722) Directs such Secretaries to jointly develop a system for the use of bar codes for the identification of pharmaceuticals, and directs the Secretary to experiment with the use of such bar codes in the DOD mail order pharmaceuticals program. (Sec. 723) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require certain additional information in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD medical informatics. Earmarks specified FY 2001 O&M funds for pharmaceuticals-related medical informatics. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to provide the following persons with prescription pharmaceuticals by mail: (1) persons eligible for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); and (2) persons who would be eligible for CHAMPUS medical care except for concurrent eligibility for hospital insurance under Medicare part A. (Sec. 732) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to authorize the Secretary to provide domiciliary and custodial care to CHAMPUS beneficiaries whose eligibility for such care was discontinued due to their concurrent eligibility for hospital insurance benefits under Medicare and subsequently reestablished under other legal authority. Limits to $100 million per fiscal year the total cost for the individual case management program for CHAMPUS beneficiaries. (Sec. 733) Entitles Medal of Honor recipients and their dependents to CHAMPUS medical and dental care. (Sec. 734) Directs CHAMPUS administering Secretaries to furnish an eligible CHAMPUS minor dependent (at least 5 and less than 12 years old) a school-required physical examination. (Sec. 735) Extends until three year after an eligible member's death (currently, one year) the continuation of CHAMPUS medical and dental benefits for such member's survivors. (Sec. 736) Extends through FY 2002 the authority to contract for medical services at locations outside of military medical treatment facilities. (Sec. 737) Directs the Secretary to complete the development and implementation of a program to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for all TRICARE Prime enrollees as a permanent part of the military health care system. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to continue certain chiropractic benefits under such Act until the new program is implemented. (Sec. 738) Directs the Secretary to take necessary actions to use, in at least one TRICARE program region, commercially available information technology systems and products to simplify critical administrative processes of the defense health program and otherwise improve the performance of such services. (Sec. 739) Directs the Secretary to establish a patient care error reporting and management system, with specified purposes and requirements. Directs the Secretary to expand the health care team coordination program to integrate that program into all DOD health care operations. (Sec. 740) Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to explore opportunities for improving the planning and management of the DOD health care system. Terminates the program on December 31, 2001. Requires a program report. Provides funding from O&M funds. (Sec. 741) Directs the Secretary to carry out two studies to assess the feasibility and desirability of financing the military health care program for retirees on an accrual basis. Requires one study to be conducted by: (1) one or more DOD organizations; and (2) an independent organization with expertise in financial programs and health care. Requires a final report to the Secretary on each study, to be transmitted to Congress. (Sec. 742) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Health and Human Services to jointly conduct a program to augment the Army Medical Department by exercising available authority for detailing reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service not in an active status to the Army Medical Department. Requires a report to the defense committees. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure that, no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation is revised to establish a preference for performance-based contracts or task orders for the purchase of DOD services. Outlines conditions under which such a contract or task order will be treated as a contract for the procurement of commercial items. Directs the Secretary of each military department to establish at least one center of excellence in contracting for services for assistance to the acquisition community. Requires the Secretary to ensure that classes focusing on such contracting are offered by the Defense Acquisition University and the Defense Systems Management College and available to contracting personnel throughout DOD. Requires appropriate training for defense contracting personnel. (Sec. 802) Adds a $500 million threshold prior to the applicability of a reporting requirement relating to DOD multiyear contracting authority. (Sec. 803) Includes additional responsibilities of DOD Chief Information Officers with respect to the maintenance of mission critical and mission essential information technology systems. Prohibits the Milestone I, II, or III approval of a major automated information system within DOD until the Chief Information Officer of that department has determined that the system is being developed in accordance with requirements under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and related requirements, including appropriate registration. Requires reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees during FY 2001 through 2003 on the implementation of such requirements. (Sec. 804) Directs the Secretary of each military department to administer an automated system for tracking and managing the purchase of information technology products and services by that department. Requires such system, at a minimum, to apply to purchases of information products and services in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Prohibits such a purchase in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless: (1) data concerning such purchase is included in the tracking system; or (2) the purchase is approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics or the senior procurement executive of that military department. Requires: (1) an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees; and (2) a report from the CG to the defense and appropriations committees on systems developed under this section. (Sec. 805) Repeals the requirement for certain contractor assurances regarding the completeness, accuracy, and contractual sufficiency of contractor-provided technical data. (Sec. 806) Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to extend until October 1, 2007, the authority for certain DOD acquisition pilot programs. (Sec. 807) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to add cost-sharing requirements for DOD prototype project agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program for follow-on contracting for the production of items and processes that are developed by nontraditional defense contractors under prototype projects. Terminates the pilot program authority at the end of FY 2004. Extends through such date the authority to enter into prototype projects and agreements. (Sec. 808) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to limit the right of the CG to review records of prototype project participants to only those records that are of the same type that the Government has the right to examine under audit access clauses or previous agreements or transactions. (Sec. 809) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to make small businesses owned and controlled by women eligible for assistance under the mentor-prot?g? program. (Sec. 810) Prohibits the performance of a contract for the acquisition of a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet from commencing until the Secretary of the Navy submits to Congress specified contract information. Prohibits the part of such program that is implemented during the first year from including any activities of the Marine Corps, the naval shipyards, or the naval aviation depots. Requires such Intranet acquisition to be managed by the Navy in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and all directives applicable to major investments in information technology and related services. Requires the CG to review such Intranet and submit comments to Congress. (Sec. 811) Amends provisions concerning qualifications for employment and assignment in DOD contracting positions to: (1) make members of the armed forces eligible; and (2) provide the occupational series and requirements for positions to be filled by members of the armed forces (with an exception for those already employed in such position on September 30, 2000). (Sec. 812) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the sufficiency of the acquisition and support workforce of DOD, including sufficient size and expertise to ensure the cost-effective management of the defense acquisition system to obtain needed products and services at the best value. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through November 17, 2003, a demonstration project on revising personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD acquisition workforce. Prohibits the defense acquisition and support workforce from being reduced during FY 2001 through 2003 below such level as of September 30, 2000, but authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition and reduce such levels upon certification that the reduced workforce will efficiently and effectively perform its required workloads. (Sec. 813) Directs the Secretary to carry out, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a financial analysis of the costs and benefits of the use of dual rates for quantifying overhead costs at Army industrial facilities. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Repeals Federal provisions reducing the number of major headquarters activities personnel in DOD, as well as a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 902) Designates one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, with appropriate duties in such areas. Provides as an additional duty the supervision of all DOD activities for combating terrorism. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to establish a non-partisan, independent National Defense Panel 2001 to: (1) assess defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the defense program and policies established since the quadrennial defense review of 1996; and (2) identify the most critical changes that should be made to the defense strategy for the ensuing ten years and the ensuing 20 years. Requires two reports from the Panel to the Secretary and the defense committees. Terminates such Panel at the end of the next year following submission of its second report. (Sec. 904) Requires the Secretary, each year preceding a year in which a President is to be inaugurated, to establish a non-partisan, independent National Defense Panel to undertake specified assessments, identifications, and recommendations with respect to the current and projected strategic environment. Requires two reports as above, and terminates each Panel as above. (Sec. 905) Includes within the definition of an Inspector General, for purposes of general investigations, an officer of the armed forces or DOD employee assigned or detailed to serve as an inspector general at any level in DOD. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the defense and appropriations committees on the development and implementation of network centric warfare concepts in DOD; and (2) conduct a study of, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, the present and future use of the joint experimentation program of DOD in the development of such concepts. Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to such committees describing the coordination of the science and technology investments of the military departments and defense agencies in the development of future joint network centric warfare capabilities. (Sec. 907) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to add specified duties for the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization. (Sec. 908) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide base operating support for Fisher houses associated with Navy health care facilities. (Sec. 909) Defines the Civil Air Patrol as a federally chartered nonprofit corporation and not an instrumentality of the Federal Government for any purposes. Makes the Patrol a voluntary civilian auxiliary of the Air Force when used by any Federal department or agency. Authorizes the Patrol, at the request of State or local governmental entities, to provide disaster relief missions and activities and other emergency and nonemergency missions and activities. Authorizes the Patrol to use Air Force equipment, supplies, and resources to perform such missions and activities. Requires funds appropriated for the Patrol to be available only for their use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use Patrol chaplains in support of Air Force active duty and reserve personnel. Makes the Patrol Board of Governors its governing body. Requires Patrol regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force to be approved by the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 910) Makes the Secretary solely responsible (currently, acting through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau) for administering the National Guard Challenge Program. Requires all Program costs to be funded by DOD (currently, Federal) expenditures. Requires the Secretary to prescribe specified regulations in carrying out such Program. (Sec. 911) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to empower the Secretary with supervisory control over the Retirement Home Board. Requires all Board appointments to be subject to the Secretary's approval, and allows the Secretary to terminate a member at any time. Makes the Board Chairman responsible to the Secretary. (Sec. 912) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer all amounts in the: (1) Naval Historical Center Fund to the Department of the Navy General Gift Fund; and (2) United States Naval Academy Museum Fund to the gift fund maintained for the benefit and use of the U.S. Naval Academy. Requires closure of the depleted Funds. Combines the latter funds under (1) and (2), above, into the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund, and allows such Fund to accept loans of personal property other than money in addition to gifts and bequests. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe written guidelines to determine whether the acceptance of any gift, bequest, or loan would reflect unfavorably on the Navy or any of its officers and employees. (Sec. 913) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to disburse to an entity designated by a gift donor the current cash value of a gift accepted before the enactment of this Act for the Naval Academy general gift fund. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Division for FY 2001 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2000 by the amounts by which such appropriations were increased or decreased in any law making supplemental appropriations for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1003) Prohibits the total amount that may be contributed by the Secretary in FY 2001 for the common-funded budgets of NATO from being greater than the total that would otherwise be applicable under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation. (Sec. 1004) Requires the annual joint Office of Management and Budget/Congressional Budget Office report on the scoring of budget outlays to reflect the differences between the relevant defense budget outlay rates or assumptions used by the two offices. Requires the inclusion of additional information for each account for which a difference is reported by the two offices. (Sec. 1005) Requires that, of the contract vouchers received by the Defense Finance and Accounting System by means of the mechanization of contract administration service, the number of such vouchers that remain unpaid for more than 30 days at the end of each month may not exceed five percent of the total number of vouchers received. Directs the Secretary, for any month that such requirement is not met, to report to Congress on the magnitude of the unpaid vouchers. (Sec. 1006) Repeals specified provisions of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 relating to the timing of defense contract payments. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees and to carry out a plan for: (1) the prompt posting throughout DOD of defense contractual obligations; and (2) ensuring that all documentation submitted to DOD in support of claims for payment under contracts is submitted electronically. (Sec. 1009) Provides for the crediting of amounts deducted from amounts due a carrier and representing an administrative offset for an overpayment previously made to such carrier under any DOD contract for transportation services, or as liquidated damages due under such contract. Provides a simplified offset procedure for the collection of claims not in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Subtitle B: Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2006 the authority of the Secretary to provide counter-drug support assistance to the Governments of Peru and Columbia. Authorizes the transfer of one light observation aircraft as part of such assistance. Increases the maximum annual amount of such support from $20 million to $40 million (with a limit of $10 million for assistance for Peru). (Sec. 1012) Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees whether expanded support for counter-drug activities in Peru and Columbia should be authorized. (Sec. 1013) Directs the Secretary to review the riverine counter-drug support program in such countries and report to the defense committees on such program. Subtitle C: Strategic Forces - Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive review of the nuclear posture of the United States for the next five to ten years. Requires a report to Congress. Expresses the sense of Congress that a revised nuclear posture should be conducted and that the posture review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. arms control objectives and negotiating positions. (Sec. 1016) Directs the Secretary to develop a long-range plan for sustaining and modernizing U.S. strategic nuclear forces to counter emerging threats and to satisfy the evolving requirements of deterrence. Requires such plan to be submitted to Congress. (Sec. 1017) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to apply to any strategic nuclear delivery system the authority of the Secretary to waive funding limitations for the retiring or dismantling of specified systems below certain levels. (Sec. 1018) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study relating to the defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets. Requires study results to be reported to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements - Requires the inclusion of additional information after FY 2000 in an annual report of the JCS Chairman on combatant command requirements. (Sec. 1022) Directs the JCS Chairman to report semiannually to the defense and appropriations committees on activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. (Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD preparedness of first responders with regard to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction on military installations. (Sec. 1024) Revises the date for submission of certain reports on shortfalls within future-years defense programs in equipment procurement and military construction for the reserve components. (Sec. 1025) Directs the CG to: (1) review the efficiency of each operation of the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Information Systems Agency; and (2) report findings to the defense committees. Subtitle E: Information Security - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Institute for Defense Computer Security and Information Protection, with appropriate responsibilities; and (2) enter into a contract with a non-profit entity or consortium to organize and operate the Institute. Provides Institute funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 1042) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to encourage the recruitment and retention of DOD personnel with computer and network security skills necessary to meet DOD information assurance requirements, to establish a program to provide educational assistance to persons pursuing a program of education in such skills. Requires, in exchange for such assistance, that a person enter into a service agreement to either serve on active duty in a military department or to continue in the employment of a military department for a period of one year for each year that such assistance is provided. Requires a pro rata refund of assistance amounts for unserved periods. Makes the program inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Provides program funding from DOD O&M funds. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees a plan for implementing an information security scholarship program. (Sec. 1043) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a process for expediting the completion of background investigations necessary for granting security clearances for DOD personnel engaged in sensitive duties critical to the national security. Requires the Secretary to annually review and revise such process. (Sec. 1044) Authorizes the national security official concerned (the Secretary of Defense with respect to DOD, the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating in the Navy, and the Secretary of Energy with respect to Department of Energy national security programs) to withhold from otherwise-required public disclosure certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations if such official determines that the release of such information would have an adverse effect on the ability of the U.S. Government to obtain the same or similar information in the future. Provides limitations and exceptions. (Sec. 1045) Authorizes the Secretary to withhold from public disclosure operational files of the Defense Intelligence Agency, subject to judicial review. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Calls upon DOD, the armed forces, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to commemorate the occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities. (Sec. 1053) Authorizes the Secretary to allow a dependent of an employee of the American Red Cross performing armed forces emergency services in Puerto Rico to enroll in a DOD domestic dependent school in Puerto Rico. Requires reimbursement for such educational services. (Sec. 1054) Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the American Red Cross for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2003 for support of the Armed Forces Emergency Services program. Requires Red Cross matching funds to support such program. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1055) Directs the Secretary to establish a transit pass program for the transportation to and from work of DOD personnel who reside in areas that do not meet revised national ambient air quality standards provided under the Clean Air Act. (Sec. 1056) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, Navy, or Air Force to charge a fee for providing requested information from the United States Army Military History Institute, the United States Naval Historical Center or Marine Corps Historical Center, or the United States Air Force Military History Institute, respectively. Limits the fee to the actual cost of providing the information. (Sec. 1057) Amends provisions concerning access by Federal agencies to individual criminal history information for national security purposes to authorize the Department of Transportation to request such information. Allows the use of such information to determine eligibility for: (1) acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or (2) appointment, retention, or assignment to a position of public trust or a critical or sensitive position while employed with the Federal Government or performing a Federal contract. Prohibits fees charged from exceeding actual costs. Prohibits a criminal justice agency providing such information from requiring the requester to enter into an indemnification agreement indemnifying the State or locality for damages or loss caused by the release of such information. Requires automated information delivery systems to be used to provide such information whenever possible. (Sec. 1058) Expresses the sense of Congress that the CVN-77 aircraft carrier should be named the U.S.S. LEXINGTON to honor the men and women who served in the armed forces during World War II, as well as citizens on the home front who provided mobilization support. (Sec. 1059) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Edward Dorr Tracey, Jr. Camp 18 of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, a specified 12-pound Napoleon cannon. (Sec. 1060) Revises the maximum size of parcel post packages transported overseas for military post offices. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistive technology, devices, and services to DOD employees, organizations within DOD that have requirements to make programs or facilities accessible by the handicapped, and any other Federal department or agency requesting such technology, devices, or services. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1102) Authorizes the payment of special pay for foreign language proficiency determined to be beneficial to U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 1103) Increases from 492 to 517 the maximum authorized number of positions in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. (Sec. 1104) Extends through FY 2010 the authority for tuition reimbursement and training for civilian employees in the defense acquisition workforce. (Sec. 1105) Directs the Secretary to carry out a defense employees work safety demonstration program, requiring the use of private sector work safety models. Requires such program to be carried out: (1) at no fewer than two installations of each military department; and (2) in at least two defense agencies. Requires such program to commence within 180 days after enactment of this Act and to terminate on September 30, 2002. Requires a program interim and final report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1106) Outlines employment and compensation provisions for employees of temporary organizations (a commission, committee, board, or other organization with a duration of three years or less which is established by law or Executive Order to perform a specific project or study, and is terminated upon the completion of such project or study). (Sec. 1107) Extends through FY 2005 the authority for DOD civilian employees to participate in voluntary reductions in force. (Sec. 1108) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to administer and maintain its performance appraisal systems electronically. (Sec. 1109) Authorizes the Secretary to grant a cash award in excess of $10,000 without regard to certain Federal certification and approval requirements. (Sec. 1110) Authorizes payment for accrued but unused leave for civil service mariners of the Military Sealift Command on temporary promotion aboard ship. (Sec. 1111) Requires a DOD employee who is designated as an emergency essential employee to be insured under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program if such employee elects to be so insured within 60 days after such designation. (Sec. 1112) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to assess the extent to which the effectiveness and efficiency of the performance of civilian personnel services for DOD could be increased by conducting competitions for the performance of such services between the public and private sectors. Requires the Secretary to ensure that, in the case of conversion to private sector performance under the program, displaced Federal employees have the right of first refusal for such jobs. Requires the program to be conducted from October 1, 2000, through December 31, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1113) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) extend until October 16, 2005, a program for the experimental use of special personnel management authority to facilitate the recruitment of experts in science or engineering for research and development projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; (2) include under such program the recruitment of individuals for designated research and development projects from among the laboratories of each of the military departments; (3) limit the number of such appointments; and (4) extend a required annual report. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer, on either a combined lease-sale basis or grant basis, specified naval vessels to Australia, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Greece, and Turkey. Prohibits the value of any of the transferred vessels from being counted against the aggregate value of excess defense articles authorized to be transferred to other countries under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires transfer expenses to be borne by vessel recipients. Directs such Secretary, as a transfer condition, to require any needed vessel repair or refurbishment to be performed at a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Provides conditions for vessels transferred on a combined lease-sale basis. Authorizes appropriations into the Defense Vessels Transfer Program Account to cover costs connected with the lease-sale transfers. Terminates such transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1202) Limits to $15 million the total amount of FY 2001 DOD funds that may be used in support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992. Extends through FY 2001 the authority to provide such support. (Sec. 1203) Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary from entering into military airlift agreements with allied countries under any authority other than that currently provided. (Sec. 1204) Directs the Secretary to operate an education and training facility to be called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Professional Education and Training, under which professional education and training is provided to military and law enforcement personnel and civilians (whether or not employed by a government of the Western Hemisphere). Requires within the Institute's curriculum instruction on human rights, the rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and the role of the military in a democratic society. Establishes a Board of Visitors for the Institute to review its curriculum for compliance with such educational requirements. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on Institute activities. Repeals a provision authorizing the Secretary of the Army to operate the United States Army School of the Americas. (Sec. 1205) Requires a semiannual report from the President to specified congressional committees on the contributions of European nations and organizations to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo. (Sec. 1206) Authorizes the Secretary to accept funds, services, or property from a foreign government, international organization, or other entity for the development, procurement, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of equipment for monitoring test explosions of nuclear devices, or for communications relating to the operation of such equipment. Authorizes the Secretary to assist a foreign government in monitoring such tests under limited conditions, including that the Secretary receive timely access to data collected, as well as access to such equipment for repair and maintenance. (Sec. 1207) Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on activities and assistance under Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs. Requires the CG to report to Congress an assessment of each report. Repeals superseded reporting requirements. (Sec. 1208) Prohibits CTR funds for FY 2000 and thereafter from being used for construction of the Schuch'ye chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia until 30 days after the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that specified conditions have been met by Russia. (Sec. 1209) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the funds authorized for the elimination of weapons grade plutonium until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a report on an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation regarding a new option for the shutdown or conversion of Russian reactors that produce such plutonium. Title XIII: Navy Activities on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico - Authorizes the President to provide economic assistance for the people and communities of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, with a total limit of $40 million. (Sec. 1302) Directs the President to conduct on the Island a referendum to determine whether the people approve or disapprove of the continuation of the conduct of Navy live-fire training and other training on the Island. Makes the referendum unnecessary if the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps jointly certify to the defense and appropriations committees that the Vieques Naval Training Range is no longer needed for training purposes. Limits live-fire training under the referendum to 90 days each year. States that if the referendum is approved, then the President may provide additional economic assistance of up to $50 million. (Sec. 1304) Requires certain actions if either the referendum is not approved or there is a certification that such training is no longer necessary, including: (1) terminating all Navy and Marine Corps training operations on the Island; (2) terminating all Navy and Marine Corps activities at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, that are related to such training; (3) closing all DOD installations and facilities on the Island; and (4) a review by the CG of the continued use of Fort Buchanan by active Army forces (with a required report to the defense and appropriations committees). (Sec. 1305) Makes non-transferable certain DOD property on the Island. (Sec. 1306) Prohibits, with exceptions, any acquisition, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1307) Directs the Secretary, except for non-transferable property, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior all DOD properties on the western part of the Island that are identified as conservation zones. (Sec. 1308) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, pending the enactment of an alternative law, to assume responsibility for administration of the Live Impact Area on the Island, and to deny public access to such Area.

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001

United States · United States Congress · 12 May 2000

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the chemical demilitarization program; and (4) the Defense Health Program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Requires a report from the Secretary of the Army to the defense and appropriations committees on the process for developing the objective force in the transformation of the Army. Directs such Secretary to develop and carry out, and report to such committees on, a plan comparing the costs and operational effectiveness of the medium armored combat vehicles selected for the infantry battalions of the interim brigade combat teams with the costs and effectiveness of such vehicles currently in the Army inventory for use by infantry battalions. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation of the Department of Defense (DOD) to review such plan and report results to such Secretary. Prohibits more than 60 percent of the amount authorized for the procurement of such vehicles for FY 2001 and FY 2002 from being obligated until 30 days after such Secretary's reports are submitted. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the aircraft carrier designated CVNX-1, and authorizes such Secretary to enter into contracts for advanced procurement and construction of components for such carrier (earmarking funds authorized under this section for such purpose). (Sec. 122) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to increase the number of Arleigh Burke class destroyers that may be procured by the Navy and to extend through FY 2005 the authority for such multiyear procurement. Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of the Navy, with respect to any such destroyers procured after FY 2001, should achieve the most economical rate of procurement by procuring three destroyers in each of FY 2002 and 2003 and one in FY 2004. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees updating information required in a 1993 report on DDG-51 (destroyer) class ships. Requires such update to be transmitted to the Comptroller General (CG), and requires the CG to review such report and report review results to the defense committees. (Sec. 123) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for the Virginia class submarine program, authorizing the Secretary of the Navy to enter into contracts for the procurement of up to five of such submarines during FY 2003 through 2006. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense and appropriations committees on the Navy's fleet of fast attack submarines. (Sec. 124) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to procure the construction of all ADC(X) class ships in one shipyard when determined to be more cost effective than construction in more than one shipyard. (Sec. 125) Earmarks FY 2001 procurement funds for commencement of nuclear refueling and overhaul of the CVN-69 aircraft carrier during FY 2001. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 and 1991 to repeal a required annual report on the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in determining technologies for the destruction of lethal chemical agents and munitions at the Pueblo Chemical Depot, Colorado, to consider only incineration or any technologies demonstrated under the Assembled Chemical Weapons Assessment on or before May 1, 2000. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for research, development, test, and evaluation (RDT&E). Earmarks specified amounts for basic and applied research projects. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to carry out a joint field experiment in FY 2002 for exploring war fighting challenges for joint U.S. military forces after 2010. Provides experiment funding from RDT&E funds. (Sec. 212) Earmarks RDT&E funds for the conversion and development of nuclear aircraft carrier design data. (Sec. 213) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to pursue a technology insertion approach for the construction of the DD-21 destroyer on a specified construction schedule. Expresses the sense of Congress: (1) calling for the sequential construction of such destroyers until 32 are constructed; and (2) that the Secretary of the Navy, in providing for the acquisition of such destroyers, should take into consideration certain needs of the Navy and Marine Corps for the surface fire support of such destroyers, along with certain related considerations. Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to submit to the defense committees a plan for pursuing a technology insertion approach for such construction; and (2) Defense to report to such committees on the Navy's plan for the acquisition and maintenance of such destroyers. (Sec. 214) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to allow a one percent increase for certain development and production expenditures for the F-22 aircraft program if the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation determines such increase is necessary to ensure adequate testing. (Sec. 215) Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress on the joint strike fighter program. Authorizes limited transfers to such program from other Navy and Air Force accounts. (Sec. 216) Directs the Secretary to require and coordinate a concept demonstration of the Global Hawk high altitude endurance unmanned vehicle. Requires such demonstration to: (1) take place as early as practicable in FY 2001; and (2) be conducted in a counter-drug surveillance scenario for the Commander in Chief of the U.S. Southern Command. Requires a demonstration report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 217) Provides future-years goals for unmanned, advanced capability aircraft and ground combat vehicles. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees on all demonstration programs undertaken by the various military departments with respect to such vehicles. Provides program funding from RDT&E funds. (Sec. 218) Earmarks RDT&E funds for Army space control technology development, including the kinetic energy anti-satellite technology program. (Sec. 219) Prohibits funds for the Russian American Observation Satellites program from being obligated or expended until 30 days after the Secretary submits to Congress a plan for protecting U.S. advanced military technology associated with such program. (Sec. 220) Prohibits this Act's funds from being obligated for the procurement of an anthrax vaccine until the Secretary has submitted to the defense and appropriations committees certain information concerning Food and Drug Administration production approval of such a vaccine, as well as contingencies associated with continuing to rely on the current manufacturer to supply such vaccine. (Sec. 221) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the acquisition of biological warfare defense vaccines for DOD. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to report to the defense and appropriations committees on long-term challenges and short-term objectives of the Air Force science and technology program. Directs such Secretary to establish a task force for identifying the short-term objectives. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of DOD. (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2001. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Earmarks specified defense-wide O&M funds for: (1) payments for children with disabilities under the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965; and (2) analyses by the joint warfighting capabilities assessment teams of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. Subtitle C: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary to provide humanitarian and civic assistance in connection with military operations for areas of a country that are underserved by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals. Authorizes the use of up to ten percent of such assistance for pay and allowances of special operations command reserves furnishing demining training and related assistance. Subtitle D: Department of Defense Industrial Facilities - Expresses policy with respect to the U.S. armaments industrial base. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a program to be known as the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Initiative which shall, among other things: (1) encourage commercial firms to use Government-owned, contractor-operated Army ammunition manufacturing facilities for commercial purposes; (2) increase the opportunities for small businesses to use such facilities; (3) maintain an appropriate workforce to meet industrial emergency requirements for national security purposes; (4) demonstrate innovative business practices for future defense conversion initiatives; and (5) reduce or eliminate Army costs of owning such facilities. Requires the Secretary of the Army to fully utilize facility use contracts, leases, and other appropriate arrangements. Authorizes such Secretary to accept consideration for facility use other than rental payments or revenue generated at such facility. Requires a report from such Secretary to the defense committees on procedures and controls implemented to carry out this section. Authorizes such Secretary to carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use such facilities. Provides loan guarantee limits of: (1) $20 million per borrower; and (2) $320 million for all borrowers. Authorizes such Secretary to carry out programs for the support of armaments retooling and manufacturing in the national defense industrial and technology base. Repeals the Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support Act of 1992. (Sec. 332) Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of the military department concerned, to designate depot-level activities of the military departments and defense agencies (current law) and each Army arsenal as Centers of Industrial and Technical Excellence in recognized core competencies. Includes as objectives for public-private partnerships in connection with such Centers: (1) maximizing the capacity utilization of such Centers; (2) reducing or eliminating ownership and production costs of such Centers; (3) leveraging private sector investment in such Centers; and (4) fostering cooperation between the armed forces and private industry. Authorizes a designating Secretary to waive certain commercial nonavailability requirements for articles and services produced at such Centers when necessary to achieve one or more of the objectives. Allows the Secretary to charge the full cost of manufacturing articles at, or performing services through, such Centers. Authorizes private sector use of excess Center capacity. Authorizes the acceptance of consideration for use of Center property. Allows, under limited conditions, the use by private sector partners of Center excess equipment or facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a loan guarantee program to encourage commercial firms to use such Centers for stated purposes. Provides loan guarantee limits of: (1) $20 million per borrower; and (2) $320 million for all borrowers. (Sec. 333) Requires the Secretary, at least 30 days before any DOD official enters into a contract for the private sector performance of a workload already being performed by more than 50 employees at a Center or ammunition plant, to report to Congress describing the effect that the performance and administration of the contract will have on the overhead costs of the Center or plant. (Sec. 334) Authorizes the President (currently, the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department) to waive certain limitations on the performance by non-Government personnel of depot-level maintenance of materiel for reasons of national security. Requires the President to notify Congress of any such waiver and the reasons therefor. Subtitle E: Environmental Provisions - Establishes in DOD the Environmental Restoration Account, Formerly Used Defense Sites. (Sec. 342) Prohibits the Secretary or a military department Secretary from paying a fine or penalty imposed for an environmental violation unless the payment is specifically authorized by law if the fine or penalty: (1) is $1.5 million or more; or (2) is based on the application of economic benefit criteria or size-of-business criteria. (Sec. 343) Repeals required annual reports of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council to summarize Board activities in their annual reports. (Sec. 344) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 to revise the Secretary's authority for indemnification of transferees of defense property closed under the base closure laws to include within such indemnification the release or threatened release of petroleum or petroleum derivatives or unexploded ordnance at a closed or realigned military installation, or the payment of environmental costs in connection with all covered releases. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements specifying the contribution of any person to a covered release or threatened release. Adds indemnification conditions and limitations. (Sec. 345) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Navy to use O&M funds to pay certain fines and penalties imposed by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) or a State in connection with environmental violations at specified sites. (Sec. 346) Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a specified account within the Hazardous Substance Superfund to reimburse the EPA for certain environmental costs in connection with the former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site in Suffolk, Virginia. (Sec. 347) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during FY 2000 through 2003, to use DOD environmental restoration account funds for the costs of permanently relocating facilities because of a release or threatened release of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants from real property or facilities: (1) currently under the Secretary's jurisdiction; or (2) that were under the Secretary's jurisdiction at the time of the actions leading to such release or threatened release. Prohibits more than five percent of account funds from being used for such purpose. Requires three annual reports from the Secretary to Congress on each such response action. (Sec. 348) Directs the Secretary of: (1) the Navy to continue during FY 2001 a ship disposal project (requiring a project report to the defense and appropriations committees); (2) Defense to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Defense Environmental Security Corporate Information Management program; and (3) the Army to report to the defense and appropriations committees on the Plasma Energy Pyrolysis System. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on effects of worldwide U.S. contingency operations on the readiness of military aircraft and ground equipment. (Sec. 362) Directs the Secretary of the Army to develop a new methodology for ensuring more accurate future years Army O&M requirements. Expresses the sense of Congress calling for such methodology, and to use such methodology in the preparation of such budget requests for fiscal years after 2001. (Sec. 363) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require additional elements in a plan for ensuring visibility over all in-transit end items and secondary items. Requires the Secretary to submit to Congress any plan revisions required by any law enacted after October 17, 1998. (Sec. 364) Prohibits the Secretary of the Army from converting to contractor performance the emergency response functions of any chemical weapons storage installation that are currently performed by U.S. employees until such Secretary submits to the defense committees a certification that there will be no lapse of the capability to perform such functions during the performance transition period. (Sec. 365) Requires the Secretary, before a decision is made to enter into the engineering and manufacturing development phase for the acquisition of a system to use the radio frequency spectrum, to notify the defense and appropriations committees of the frequencies to be used and related information. (Sec. 366) Directs the Secretary to establish a system for monitoring the performance of DOD functions that: (1) are performed by 50 or more DOD employees; and (2) have been subjected to a workforce review. Requires the system to measure costs and benefits of selecting one workforce over another workforce after a workforce review. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress. Directs the Secretary, in preparing the future years defense program, to consider costs incurred and savings derived from changed workforces after such a review. Requires specified information in a required congressional notification of changed workforces. (Sec. 367) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to suspend all activities associated with the reorganization or relocation of the performance of Navy auditing functions until 60 days after a report to the defense and appropriations committees setting forth the Navy's plans and justifications for such reorganization or relocation. (Sec. 368) Directs the Secretary to invest that portion of the Commissary Trust Revolving Fund not required to meet current withdrawals. (Sec. 369) Repeals a provision requiring a nonappropriated fund instrumentality, under certain conditions, to be considered the most economical method of distribution of alcoholic beverages within the commissary system. (Sec. 370) Requires that, whenever the Secretary of the Army carries out a disposal (by sale or otherwise) of armor-piercing ammunition or a component of such ammunition, such Secretary shall include as a disposal condition that the recipient agree in writing not to sell or transfer such ammunition or component to any purchaser in the United States other than a law enforcement or other governmental agency (with an exception for transfers for metal reclamation only). Provides a special rule for non-piercing components of such ammunition. (Sec. 371) Directs the Secretary to assess damage caused to DOD aviation facilities by alkali silica reactivity. Authorizes the Secretary to develop and carry out during FY 2001 through 2006 a plan to prevent and mitigate such damage. Provides funding from authorized O&M funds. (Sec. 372) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through FY 2010 a pilot program for the acceptance and use of landing fees charged for the use of domestic military airfields by civilian aircraft. Extends related report requirements. (Sec. 373) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to require payments by a civil air carrier for support provided by the United States at Johnston Atoll that is either: (1) requested by such carrier; or (2) determined necessary to accommodate such carrier's use of the Atoll. Requires amounts charged to equal the total costs of such support. Prohibits landing fees to be charged if support costs are charged. (Sec. 374) Requires the CG to: (1) review annual costs incurred by DOD to comply with requirements of the National Historic Preservation Act; and (2) report review results to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 375) Amends the Wildfire Suppression Aircraft Transfer Act of 1996 to extend through FY 2005 the authority of the Secretary to sell certain aircraft for use in wildfire suppression, and to extend a related report requirement. (Sec. 376) Amends provisions which authorize the Secretary or the Secretary of a military department to contract with private air carriers for the interstate transportation of passengers or property by transportation category aircraft to: (1) remove a requirement that contracts for such transportation be for a period in excess of 31 days; (2) authorize such transportation between a place in the United States and a place outside the United States; and (3) allow such transportation between two foreign places by a carrier that has aircraft in the civil reserve air fleet whenever such transportation is reasonably available. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2001. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2001 for the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 413) Sets forth the minimum number of military technicians (dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end of FY 2001. (Sec. 414) Sets forth the maximum number of military technicians (non-dual status) within the Army and Air Force Reserves and National Guards as of the end of FY 2001. Postpones until October 1, 2002 (currently a year earlier) a provision limiting such number to 1,950. (Sec. 415) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Other Matters Relating to Personnel Strengths - Authorizes the President to suspend end strength limitations in times or war or national emergency declared by Congress or the President with respect to senior enlisted personnel and senior reserve officers on active duty or full-time National Guard or reserves administrative duty. Limits such suspension period to two years from the suspension or one year after the declaration of war or national emergency, whichever occurs first. (Sec. 422) Excludes from personnel end strength limitations reserve personnel on active duty for more than 180 days to perform special work in support of the armed forces and combatant commands, except that such number may not exceed two tenths of one percent of the end strength for all active-duty personnel. (Sec. 423) Excludes Army and Air Force medical and dental officers from end strength limitations on reserve commissioned officers in grades below brigadier general. (Sec. 424) Authorizes an increase in the number of certain reserve and enlisted personnel serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty for administrative support of the Guard and reserves by the same percentage as the increase in a fiscal year for active-duty and full-time National Guard duty personnel who are to be paid from funds appropriated for reserve personnel. (Sec. 425) Excludes, until the end of FY 2005, an Air Force officer serving as Director of the National Security Agency from end strength limitations on the number of Air Force officers above the grade of major general. Subtitle D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Allows Army Reserve colonels and brigadier generals to be recommended for position vacancy promotions under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Army. (Sec. 502) Amends Coast Guard provisions to direct the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for promotion, to establish a promotion zone for officers serving in each grade and competitive category to be considered by a selection board. Requires such Secretary, before convening a selection board to recommend Reserve officers for a promotion to a grade above lieutenant (junior grade), to determine the maximum number of officers in that grade and competitive category that the board may recommend. Authorizes such Secretary, when the needs of the Coast Guard require, to allow the consideration of officers in a grade above lieutenant (junior grade) for promotion to the next higher grade from below the promotion zone. Outlines provisions for determination by such Secretary of the maximum number that may be recommended for promotion in both of the above categories. Authorizes such Secretary to use a running mate system during consideration of Reserve officers in an active status for promotion to the next higher grade. Allows such running mate system to be used when selecting officers for promotion from below the promotion zone only when considered appropriate to meet the needs of the Coast Guard. (Sec. 503) Provides revised times for the release to the armed force concerned of the names of active-duty and reserve active-status list officers recommended for promotion, such times varying within the various promotion grades. Prohibits any such list from including any name removed by the President from the report of a selection board, or the name of any officer whose promotion the Senate failed to confirm. (Sec. 504) Allows for the posthumous commissions and warranting of officers who were recommended for appointment or promotion to a commissioned grade but died in the line of duty before it was approved by the Secretary concerned or before accepting the appointment or promotion. (Sec. 505) Makes certain active-duty list promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement authorities inapplicable to reserve general and flag officers serving in certain positions designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). (Sec. 506) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct a person's military records in accordance with a recommendation made by a special board. Requires the appropriate relief associated with such correction (restoration to duty status, eligibility for additional pay). Considers as final a previous corrective action taken when a special board recommends not to correct the action taken, but allows for judicial review of such decision after such board's consideration. Makes such provisions inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Prohibits U.S. courts from taking any action on a claim based on the failure of an officer for selection for promotion by a promotion board until: (1) the claim has been considered and acted upon by a special selection board; or (2) the claim has been rejected by the Secretary without consideration by a special selection board. Authorizes judicial review after either event. (Sec. 507) Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to retain Medical Service Corps officers in an active status until 67 years of age. (Sec. 508) Removes an application requirement for the continuation of officers on the reserve active-status list. (Sec. 510) Requires the Chiefs of the Army and Air Force Reserve, while in such position, to hold the grade of lieutenant general (currently, major general). Requires the Chief of Naval Reserve to hold the grade of vice admiral (currently, rear admiral). Requires National Guard Bureau Directors to hold the grade of lieutenant general. Allows an officer to be appointed as Commander, Marine Forces Reserve, in the grade of lieutenant general (usually, major general) if appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Authorizes the waiver of the latter requirement, until October 1, 2002, when necessary for the good of the service. Subtitle B: Joint Officer Management - Requires an officer, in order to qualify for the joint specialty designation, to: (1) have successfully completed a program of education in residence at a joint professional military education school accredited by the JCS Chairman, and a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment; or (2) have successfully completed two full tours of duty in a joint duty assignment (without the education). Authorizes the Secretary to waive such qualifications for an officer who, due to unusual circumstances, has one or more qualifications comparable to the qualification waived. Allows such qualifications to be waived in the case of a general or flag officer only when determined necessary to meet a critical need. Requires the: (1) Secretary to designate joint duty assignments for general and flag officers that must be filled by joint specialty officers; and (2) JCS Chairman to accredit joint professional military education schools. (Sec. 522) Revises promotion policy objectives for joint officers. Requires the appropriate military department Secretary to validate the qualifications of officers for eligibility for joint duty assignments, including satisfaction of requirements for promotion to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). Directs the Secretary to prescribe policies to ensure that promotion-eligible joint specialty officers are appropriately considered for such promotion. (Sec. 523) Repeals the requirement that an officer graduating from an accredited joint professional military education school be assigned to a joint duty assignment as that officer's next duty assignment. (Sec. 524) Repeals provisions specifying the length of joint duty assignments. Requires such length to be equivalent to the standard length for assignments of other officers at such installation or place of duty. Allows the Secretary to: (1) waive such requirement when critical to meet military personnel management requirements; and (2) curtail by up to two years a joint duty assignment of more than two years for an officer who has served in that assignment for at least two years. Provides conditions under which an officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment. Prohibits joint duty credit for joint task force assignments of less than one year in more than one such assignment in the headquarters of a joint task force. (Sec. 525) Revises generally information required in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on joint specialty officers and assignments. (Sec. 526) Considers multiple assignments as a single tour of duty for joint duty assignment purposes if such assignments consist of joint duty assignments and one or more assignments that provide significant experience in joint matters, as determined by the Secretary. Subtitle C: Education and Training - Entitles to appointment to a service academy the children of members of the reserves who: (1) are currently so serving and are credited with at least eight years of service; or (2) would be, or who died while they would have been, entitled to retired pay except for not having attained 60 years of age. (Sec. 542) Authorizes the Secretary concerned, in selecting persons from approved foreign countries to receive instruction at a service academy, to give a priority to persons who have a national service obligation to their countries upon academy graduation. (Sec. 543) Repeals a provision authorizing a certain funding increase to be used for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. (Sec. 544) Revises provisions concerning the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class program to: (1) make Marine Corps Reserve officers (currently only Marine Corps Reserve enlisted personnel) eligible for such program; (2) remove certain age limitations; (3) allow assistance to eligible individuals for the pursuit of a law degree requiring no more than four (currently three) academic years; and (4) make program noncompletion sanctions inapplicable to officers. Subtitle D: Matters Relating to Recruiting - Directs the Secretary of the Army, during the period beginning on October 1, 2000, and ending on December 31, 2005, to carry out pilot programs to test various recruiting approaches. Requires one pilot program to be a program: (1) of public outreach that associates the Army with motor sports competition; (2) a program under which Army recruiters are assigned at postsecondary vocational institutions and community colleges to recruit such students and graduates; and (3) a program that expands the scope of the Army's current recruiting initiatives. Authorizes such Secretary to expand or extend a pilot program after notification of the defense committees. Requires a pilot program report. (Sec. 552) Directs the Secretary to enhance the effectiveness of the Joint and Service Recruiting and Advertising Programs through advertising and market research targeted to prospective recruits and persons who influence such recruits. (Sec. 553) Amends Federal provisions requiring access to secondary schools for military recruiting purposes to provide that if a local educational agency denies such access, then the Secretary concerned shall designate a general or flag officer of that armed force to visit such school and seek such access. Provides that if the agency continues to deny such access, then the Secretary shall transmit to the chief executive of such State a notification of such denial and a request for assistance in obtaining the requested access. Directs the Secretary, upon determining that agency denial of recruiting access extends to at least two of the armed forces, to notify the defense committees and the Senators and appropriate Representative of the State in which the denial has occurred. Makes such requirements effective as of July 1, 2002. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Ed W. Freeman, James K. Okubu, and Andrew J. Smith for service during the Vietnam conflict, World War II, and the Civil War, respectively. (Sec. 562) Waives certain time limitations with respect to recommendations for the award of the: (1) Silver Star to Louis Rickler, for service during World War I; and (2) Distinguished Flying Cross to certain individuals for service during World War II or Korea. (Sec. 563) Makes ineligible for involuntary separation pay individuals who decline to continue to serve on active duty. (Sec. 564) Exempts a military testamentary instrument from State testamentary laws. Accords such instruments the same legal effect as State testamentary instruments presented for probate. Outlines requirements for the legal execution of such instruments. Makes such instrument self-proving upon such execution, signature, and witnessing. Requires each instrument to include a statement that it meets applicable testamentary requirements. (Sec. 565) Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the American people should recognize the lack of culpability of then-Captain Charles B. McVay III in connection with the sinking of the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea during World War II, as well as his lack of culpability for the tragic loss of the INDIANAPOLIS and the lives of the men who died as a result of her sinking; (2) Captain McVay's military record should reflect such exoneration; and (3) the Secretary of the Navy should award a Navy Unit Commendation to the U.S.S. INDIANAPOLIS and its final crew. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives any FY 2001 pay increases tied to increases in the General Schedule of Compensation for Government employees. Increases by 3.7 percent, effective January 1, 2001, the rates of basic pay for military personnel. (Sec. 602) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to revise certain pay table amounts. (Sec. 603) Authorizes members performing funeral honors duty to receive either the allowance for such duty or the rate of pay for members of the reserves or National Guard performing inactive-duty training. (Sec. 604) Excludes from creditable service as a Marine Corps officer only that service performed concurrently as an enlisted member with the Marine Corps Platoon Leaders Class program. (Sec. 605) Repeals the current calculation of the monthly amount of basic allowance for housing (BAH) for housing inside the United States. Requires the Secretary to base such amount on the costs of adequate housing determined for such area. Repeals provisions requiring BAH reductions and adjustments. (Sec. 606) Authorizes the payment of BAH for members without dependents in pay grade E-4 (currently only E-5) who are on sea duty. (Sec. 607) Authorizes the payment of a personal money allowance of $2,000 yearly for senior enlisted members serving in Sergeant Major, Master Chief Petty Officer, or Chief Master Sergeant positions. (Sec. 608) Increases the initial and annual allowance for officers for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment. (Sec. 609) Authorizes the Secretary (currently, the President) and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy to prescribe requirements and allowances for clothing for enlisted personnel. Subtitle B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Extends through 2001 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2000 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 614) Includes as eligible activities for the payment of special pay currently provided for reserve medical and dental officers active duty for training, annual training, or special work. (Sec. 615) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard physician assistants. (Sec. 616) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay special pay to an officer who is: (1) a pharmacy officer in the Medical Service Corps of the Army or Navy or the Biomedical Sciences Corps of the Air Force; and (2) on active duty under a call or order for a period of at least one year. Authorizes similar payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services with respect to such officers in the Regular or Reserve Corps of the Public Health Service. Prohibits such payments for pay grades above O-6. Provides varying rates of such special pay based on creditable years of service and whether or not the officer is undergoing pharmacy internship training. Authorizes the payment of an accession bonus to individuals graduating from an accredited pharmacy school who, between the enactment of this Act and September 30, 2004, execute a written agreement to accept a commission as an officer and to remain on active duty for at least four years. Limits such bonus to $30,000. Requires pro rata repayment for unserved periods. (Sec. 618) Entitles Public Health Service Regular or Reserve Corps health officers to the same special pay as health professions officers of the armed forces. (Sec. 619) Entitles a member on sea duty to career sea pay at a monthly rate prescribed by the Secretary concerned, but not to exceed $750. (Currently, such rates vary depending on the length of such duty, with a high-end limit of $520.) Authorizes a pay premium of up to $350 for every month served after 36 consecutive months. (Sec. 620) Increases the monthly rate of special duty assignment pay for enlisted members. Eliminates the separate rate for military recruiters. (Sec. 621) Authorizes the payment of a critical skills enlistment bonus for all military departments (currently, only the Army). Subtitle C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the advance payment of temporary lodging expenses incurred by a member and his or her dependents while making a change in permanent duty stations. Allows such payment for up to ten days. Revises generally provisions concerning the per diem for members on duty outside the United States or in Hawaii or Alaska. (Sec. 632) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to a member a share of the savings resulting from less-than-average shipping and storage costs of the member's baggage and household effects in connection with a change of duty station. (Sec. 633) Allows the payment of certain travel and transportation expenses of military dependents of overseas personnel when such dependents are engaged in obtaining a formal education (currently, only a secondary or undergraduate college education) (thereby allowing graduate or vocational educational programs to be included). (Sec. 634) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a member a share of the savings realized from not having a vehicle transported or stored overseas. Authorizes a member to elect to have a vehicle stored at Government expense in lieu of a transportation allowance for an unaccompanied assignment. Subtitle D: Retirement Benefits - Provides an exception to the high-36 month retired pay computation for: (1) enlisted personnel who are reduced in grade; or (2) officer personnel who do not serve satisfactorily in the highest grade held. States that such retired pay base shall be determined as if the member first became a member before September 8, 1980. (Sec. 642) Provides automatic participation in the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for reserve personnel who are married or have a dependent child unless such member declines such participation with his or her spouse's concurrence. Requires spousal consent for a member to elect: (1) not to participate in the SBP; or (2) to designate as the effective date for the commencement of SBP payments in the event that the member dies before becoming 60 years of age the 60th anniversary of such member's birth. (Sec. 643) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to make 180 days after the enactment of this Act the effective date for the authority of members of the Ready Reserve to participate in the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP). Allows the Secretary to postpone such effective date by up to 360 additional days if the Secretary determines that permitting such members to participate earlier would place an excessive burden on accommodating TSP participants. Requires notification of specified congressional committees when such a postponement is utilized. (Sec. 644) Outlines procedures for retirement from active reserve service which is performed after retirement from the regular armed forces. (Sec. 645) Repeals a Federal provision suspending the payment of military retired pay while an individual serves as a Federal judge. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a member for parking expenses incurred for a private vehicle being used to commute to a duty station to perform recruiting activities, duty with a military entrance processing facility, or instructional or administrative duties at an institution where a unit of the Senior Reserve Officers' Training Corps is maintained. (Sec. 652) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 to authorize the Secretary to extend for up to 18 additional months the deadline for filing claims associated with the capture and internment of certain persons by North Vietnam. (Sec. 653) Authorizes the Secretary to settle claims for payments for unused accrued leave and for retired pay. (Sec. 654) Entitles to Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance a person who volunteers for assignment to a category in the Individual Ready Reserve that is subject to an involuntary call to active duty. (Sec. 655) Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to pay a gratuity of $20,000 to veterans of Bataan and Corregidor who were captured, held as prisoners of war, and forced to perform slave labor in Japan during World War II. Title VII: Health Care - Subtitle A: Senior Health Care - Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through 2005 the TRICARE Senior Supplement demonstration program. (Sec. 702) Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend through 2005 the Senior Prime demonstration program. Includes a DOD major medical center as a facility participant in such program, and allows such centers to be designated as additional sites. (Sec. 703) Extends through 2005 a demonstration project for including certain eligible military beneficiaries for health care coverage under the Federal Employees Health Benefits Program. Includes additional areas for participation in the project. (Sec. 704) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to authorize the Secretary to require DOD pharmacy system participants to pay an enrollment fee for such participation, but requires the Secretary to ensure that any such fee charged after December 31, 2000, is lower than the fee charged on such date. Allows the Secretary to impose other cost-sharing requirements on system participants. Allows for the monthly or quarterly payment of premiums. Subtitle B: TRICARE Program - Authorizes coverage under the TRICARE Program (a DOD managed-care program) for remote areas of the continental United States for members of the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy and members of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and Public Health Service. Requires coverage for the medical care of eligible military dependents to be comparable to medical care coverage and timely access standards under the TRICARE Prime option. (Sec. 712) Prohibits a copayment from being charged to a dependent of a member eligible for care under TRICARE Prime. (Sec. 713) Directs the Secretary to take all necessary action to improve the business practices used in administering TRICARE. Subtitle C: Joint Initiatives With Department of Veterans Affairs - Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Veterans Affairs to jointly prescribe a centralized process for the reporting, compiling, and analysis of errors in the provision of health care under their respective health care systems that endanger patients beyond the normal risks associated with such care and treatment. (Sec. 722) Directs such Secretaries to jointly develop a system for the use of bar codes for the identification of pharmaceuticals, and directs the Secretary to experiment with the use of such bar codes in the DOD mail order pharmaceuticals program. (Sec. 723) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to require certain additional information in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on DOD medical informatics. Earmarks specified FY 2001 O&M funds for pharmaceuticals-related medical informatics. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program to provide the following persons with prescription pharmaceuticals by mail: (1) persons eligible for medical care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS); and (2) persons who would be eligible for CHAMPUS medical care except for concurrent eligibility for hospital insurance under Medicare part A. (Sec. 732) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to authorize the Secretary to provide domiciliary and custodial care to CHAMPUS beneficiaries whose eligibility for such care was discontinued due to their concurrent eligibility for hospital insurance benefits under Medicare and subsequently reestablished under other legal authority. Limits to $100 million per fiscal year the total cost for the individual case management program for CHAMPUS beneficiaries. (Sec. 733) Entitles Medal of Honor recipients and their dependents to CHAMPUS medical and dental care. (Sec. 734) Directs CHAMPUS administering Secretaries to furnish an eligible CHAMPUS minor dependent (at least 5 and less than 12 years old) a school-required physical examination. (Sec. 735) Extends until three year after an eligible member's death (currently, one year) the continuation of CHAMPUS medical and dental benefits for such member's survivors. (Sec. 736) Extends through FY 2002 the authority to contract for medical services at locations outside of military medical treatment facilities. (Sec. 737) Directs the Secretary to complete the development and implementation of a program to provide chiropractic health care services and benefits for all TRICARE Prime enrollees as a permanent part of the military health care system. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to continue certain chiropractic benefits under such Act until the new program is implemented. (Sec. 738) Directs the Secretary to take necessary actions to use, in at least one TRICARE program region, commercially available information technology systems and products to simplify critical administrative processes of the defense health program and otherwise improve the performance of such services. (Sec. 739) Directs the Secretary to establish a patient care error reporting and management system, with specified purposes and requirements. Directs the Secretary to expand the health care team coordination program to integrate that program into all DOD health care operations. (Sec. 740) Directs the Secretary to carry out a demonstration program to explore opportunities for improving the planning and management of the DOD health care system. Terminates the program on December 31, 2001. Requires a program report. Provides funding from O&M funds. (Sec. 741) Directs the Secretary to carry out two studies to assess the feasibility and desirability of financing the military health care program for retirees on an accrual basis. Requires one study to be conducted by: (1) one or more DOD organizations; and (2) an independent organization with expertise in financial programs and health care. Requires a final report to the Secretary on each study, to be transmitted to Congress. (Sec. 742) Authorizes the Secretaries of the Army and Health and Human Services to jointly conduct a program to augment the Army Medical Department by exercising available authority for detailing reserve commissioned officers of the Public Health Service not in an active status to the Army Medical Department. Requires a report to the defense committees. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure that, no later than 180 days after enactment of this Act, the Department of Defense Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation is revised to establish a preference for performance-based contracts or task orders for the purchase of DOD services. Outlines conditions under which such a contract or task order will be treated as a contract for the procurement of commercial items. Directs the Secretary of each military department to establish at least one center of excellence in contracting for services for assistance to the acquisition community. Requires the Secretary to ensure that classes focusing on such contracting are offered by the Defense Acquisition University and the Defense Systems Management College and available to contracting personnel throughout DOD. Requires appropriate training for defense contracting personnel. (Sec. 802) Adds a $500 million threshold prior to the applicability of a reporting requirement relating to DOD multiyear contracting authority. (Sec. 803) Includes additional responsibilities of DOD Chief Information Officers with respect to the maintenance of mission critical and mission essential information technology systems. Prohibits the Milestone I, II, or III approval of a major automated information system within DOD until the Chief Information Officer of that department has determined that the system is being developed in accordance with requirements under the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and related requirements, including appropriate registration. Requires reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees during FY 2001 through 2003 on the implementation of such requirements. (Sec. 804) Directs the Secretary of each military department to administer an automated system for tracking and managing the purchase of information technology products and services by that department. Requires such system, at a minimum, to apply to purchases of information products and services in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Prohibits such a purchase in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold unless: (1) data concerning such purchase is included in the tracking system; or (2) the purchase is approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics or the senior procurement executive of that military department. Requires: (1) an annual report from the Secretary to the defense committees; and (2) a report from the CG to the defense and appropriations committees on systems developed under this section. (Sec. 805) Repeals the requirement for certain contractor assurances regarding the completeness, accuracy, and contractual sufficiency of contractor-provided technical data. (Sec. 806) Amends the Federal Acquisition Streamlining Act of 1994 to extend until October 1, 2007, the authority for certain DOD acquisition pilot programs. (Sec. 807) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to add cost-sharing requirements for DOD prototype project agreements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out a pilot program for follow-on contracting for the production of items and processes that are developed by nontraditional defense contractors under prototype projects. Terminates the pilot program authority at the end of FY 2004. Extends through such date the authority to enter into prototype projects and agreements. (Sec. 808) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 to limit the right of the CG to review records of prototype project participants to only those records that are of the same type that the Government has the right to examine under audit access clauses or previous agreements or transactions. (Sec. 809) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to make small businesses owned and controlled by women eligible for assistance under the mentor-prot?g? program. (Sec. 810) Prohibits the performance of a contract for the acquisition of a Navy-Marine Corps Intranet from commencing until the Secretary of the Navy submits to Congress specified contract information. Prohibits the part of such program that is implemented during the first year from including any activities of the Marine Corps, the naval shipyards, or the naval aviation depots. Requires such Intranet acquisition to be managed by the Navy in accordance with the Clinger-Cohen Act of 1996 and all directives applicable to major investments in information technology and related services. Requires the CG to review such Intranet and submit comments to Congress. (Sec. 811) Amends provisions concerning qualifications for employment and assignment in DOD contracting positions to: (1) make members of the armed forces eligible; and (2) provide the occupational series and requirements for positions to be filled by members of the armed forces (with an exception for those already employed in such position on September 30, 2000). (Sec. 812) Requires the Secretary to report to Congress on the sufficiency of the acquisition and support workforce of DOD, including sufficient size and expertise to ensure the cost-effective management of the defense acquisition system to obtain needed products and services at the best value. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through November 17, 2003, a demonstration project on revising personnel management policies and procedures applicable to the DOD acquisition workforce. Prohibits the defense acquisition and support workforce from being reduced during FY 2001 through 2003 below such level as of September 30, 2000, but authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition and reduce such levels upon certification that the reduced workforce will efficiently and effectively perform its required workloads. (Sec. 813) Directs the Secretary to carry out, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, a financial analysis of the costs and benefits of the use of dual rates for quantifying overhead costs at Army industrial facilities. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Repeals Federal provisions reducing the number of major headquarters activities personnel in DOD, as well as a related reporting requirement. (Sec. 902) Designates one of the Assistant Secretaries of Defense as the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict, with appropriate duties in such areas. Provides as an additional duty the supervision of all DOD activities for combating terrorism. (Sec. 903) Directs the Secretary to establish a non-partisan, independent National Defense Panel 2001 to: (1) assess defense strategy, force structure, force modernization plans, infrastructure, budget plan, and other elements of the defense program and policies established since the quadrennial defense review of 1996; and (2) identify the most critical changes that should be made to the defense strategy for the ensuing ten years and the ensuing 20 years. Requires two reports from the Panel to the Secretary and the defense committees. Terminates such Panel at the end of the next year following submission of its second report. (Sec. 904) Requires the Secretary, each year preceding a year in which a President is to be inaugurated, to establish a non-partisan, independent National Defense Panel to undertake specified assessments, identifications, and recommendations with respect to the current and projected strategic environment. Requires two reports as above, and terminates each Panel as above. (Sec. 905) Includes within the definition of an Inspector General, for purposes of general investigations, an officer of the armed forces or DOD employee assigned or detailed to serve as an inspector general at any level in DOD. (Sec. 906) Directs the Secretary to: (1) report to the defense and appropriations committees on the development and implementation of network centric warfare concepts in DOD; and (2) conduct a study of, and report to the defense and appropriations committees on, the present and future use of the joint experimentation program of DOD in the development of such concepts. Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics to report to such committees describing the coordination of the science and technology investments of the military departments and defense agencies in the development of future joint network centric warfare capabilities. (Sec. 907) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to add specified duties for the Commission to Assess United States National Security Space Management and Organization. (Sec. 908) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to provide base operating support for Fisher houses associated with Navy health care facilities. (Sec. 909) Defines the Civil Air Patrol as a federally chartered nonprofit corporation and not an instrumentality of the Federal Government for any purposes. Makes the Patrol a voluntary civilian auxiliary of the Air Force when used by any Federal department or agency. Authorizes the Patrol, at the request of State or local governmental entities, to provide disaster relief missions and activities and other emergency and nonemergency missions and activities. Authorizes the Patrol to use Air Force equipment, supplies, and resources to perform such missions and activities. Requires funds appropriated for the Patrol to be available only for their use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use Patrol chaplains in support of Air Force active duty and reserve personnel. Makes the Patrol Board of Governors its governing body. Requires Patrol regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the Air Force to be approved by the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 910) Makes the Secretary solely responsible (currently, acting through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau) for administering the National Guard Challenge Program. Requires all Program costs to be funded by DOD (currently, Federal) expenditures. Requires the Secretary to prescribe specified regulations in carrying out such Program. (Sec. 911) Amends the Armed Forces Retirement Home Act of 1991 to empower the Secretary with supervisory control over the Retirement Home Board. Requires all Board appointments to be subject to the Secretary's approval, and allows the Secretary to terminate a member at any time. Makes the Board Chairman responsible to the Secretary. (Sec. 912) Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer all amounts in the: (1) Naval Historical Center Fund to the Department of the Navy General Gift Fund; and (2) United States Naval Academy Museum Fund to the gift fund maintained for the benefit and use of the U.S. Naval Academy. Requires closure of the depleted Funds. Combines the latter funds under (1) and (2), above, into the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund, and allows such Fund to accept loans of personal property other than money in addition to gifts and bequests. Requires the Secretary of the Navy to prescribe written guidelines to determine whether the acceptance of any gift, bequest, or loan would reflect unfavorably on the Navy or any of its officers and employees. (Sec. 913) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to disburse to an entity designated by a gift donor the current cash value of a gift accepted before the enactment of this Act for the Naval Academy general gift fund. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer up to $2 billion of the amounts made available to DOD in this Division for FY 2001 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year, with limitations. Requires congressional notification of each transfer. (Sec. 1002) Adjusts amounts authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 2000 by the amounts by which such appropriations were increased or decreased in any law making supplemental appropriations for that fiscal year. (Sec. 1003) Prohibits the total amount that may be contributed by the Secretary in FY 2001 for the common-funded budgets of NATO from being greater than the total that would otherwise be applicable under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation. (Sec. 1004) Requires the annual joint Office of Management and Budget/Congressional Budget Office report on the scoring of budget outlays to reflect the differences between the relevant defense budget outlay rates or assumptions used by the two offices. Requires the inclusion of additional information for each account for which a difference is reported by the two offices. (Sec. 1005) Requires that, of the contract vouchers received by the Defense Finance and Accounting System by means of the mechanization of contract administration service, the number of such vouchers that remain unpaid for more than 30 days at the end of each month may not exceed five percent of the total number of vouchers received. Directs the Secretary, for any month that such requirement is not met, to report to Congress on the magnitude of the unpaid vouchers. (Sec. 1006) Repeals specified provisions of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 2000 relating to the timing of defense contract payments. (Sec. 1007) Directs the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees and to carry out a plan for: (1) the prompt posting throughout DOD of defense contractual obligations; and (2) ensuring that all documentation submitted to DOD in support of claims for payment under contracts is submitted electronically. (Sec. 1009) Provides for the crediting of amounts deducted from amounts due a carrier and representing an administrative offset for an overpayment previously made to such carrier under any DOD contract for transportation services, or as liquidated damages due under such contract. Provides a simplified offset procedure for the collection of claims not in excess of the simplified acquisition threshold. Subtitle B: Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to extend through FY 2006 the authority of the Secretary to provide counter-drug support assistance to the Governments of Peru and Columbia. Authorizes the transfer of one light observation aircraft as part of such assistance. Increases the maximum annual amount of such support from $20 million to $40 million (with a limit of $10 million for assistance for Peru). (Sec. 1012) Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees whether expanded support for counter-drug activities in Peru and Columbia should be authorized. (Sec. 1013) Directs the Secretary to review the riverine counter-drug support program in such countries and report to the defense committees on such program. Subtitle C: Strategic Forces - Directs the Secretary to conduct a comprehensive review of the nuclear posture of the United States for the next five to ten years. Requires a report to Congress. Expresses the sense of Congress that a revised nuclear posture should be conducted and that the posture review should be used as the basis for establishing future U.S. arms control objectives and negotiating positions. (Sec. 1016) Directs the Secretary to develop a long-range plan for sustaining and modernizing U.S. strategic nuclear forces to counter emerging threats and to satisfy the evolving requirements of deterrence. Requires such plan to be submitted to Congress. (Sec. 1017) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to apply to any strategic nuclear delivery system the authority of the Secretary to waive funding limitations for the retiring or dismantling of specified systems below certain levels. (Sec. 1018) Directs the Secretary to conduct a study relating to the defeat of hardened and deeply buried targets. Requires study results to be reported to the defense and appropriations committees. Subtitle D: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements - Requires the inclusion of additional information after FY 2000 in an annual report of the JCS Chairman on combatant command requirements. (Sec. 1022) Directs the JCS Chairman to report semiannually to the defense and appropriations committees on activities of the Joint Requirements Oversight Council. (Sec. 1023) Directs the Secretary to report to Congress on DOD preparedness of first responders with regard to incidents involving weapons of mass destruction on military installations. (Sec. 1024) Revises the date for submission of certain reports on shortfalls within future-years defense programs in equipment procurement and military construction for the reserve components. (Sec. 1025) Directs the CG to: (1) review the efficiency of each operation of the Defense Logistics Agency and Defense Information Systems Agency; and (2) report findings to the defense committees. Subtitle E: Information Security - Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Institute for Defense Computer Security and Information Protection, with appropriate responsibilities; and (2) enter into a contract with a non-profit entity or consortium to organize and operate the Institute. Provides Institute funding through DOD O&M funds. Requires an implementation report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. (Sec. 1042) Authorizes the Secretary, in order to encourage the recruitment and retention of DOD personnel with computer and network security skills necessary to meet DOD information assurance requirements, to establish a program to provide educational assistance to persons pursuing a program of education in such skills. Requires, in exchange for such assistance, that a person enter into a service agreement to either serve on active duty in a military department or to continue in the employment of a military department for a period of one year for each year that such assistance is provided. Requires a pro rata refund of assistance amounts for unserved periods. Makes the program inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Provides program funding from DOD O&M funds. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees a plan for implementing an information security scholarship program. (Sec. 1043) Directs the Secretary to prescribe a process for expediting the completion of background investigations necessary for granting security clearances for DOD personnel engaged in sensitive duties critical to the national security. Requires the Secretary to annually review and revise such process. (Sec. 1044) Authorizes the national security official concerned (the Secretary of Defense with respect to DOD, the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating in the Navy, and the Secretary of Energy with respect to Department of Energy national security programs) to withhold from otherwise-required public disclosure certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations if such official determines that the release of such information would have an adverse effect on the ability of the U.S. Government to obtain the same or similar information in the future. Provides limitations and exceptions. (Sec. 1045) Authorizes the Secretary to withhold from public disclosure operational files of the Defense Intelligence Agency, subject to judicial review. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Requests the President to issue a proclamation commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Calls upon DOD, the armed forces, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Armed Forces to commemorate the occasion with appropriate ceremonies and activities. (Sec. 1053) Authorizes the Secretary to allow a dependent of an employee of the American Red Cross performing armed forces emergency services in Puerto Rico to enroll in a DOD domestic dependent school in Puerto Rico. Requires reimbursement for such educational services. (Sec. 1054) Authorizes the Secretary to make a grant to the American Red Cross for each of fiscal years 2001 through 2003 for support of the Armed Forces Emergency Services program. Requires Red Cross matching funds to support such program. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1055) Directs the Secretary to establish a transit pass program for the transportation to and from work of DOD personnel who reside in areas that do not meet revised national ambient air quality standards provided under the Clean Air Act. (Sec. 1056) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army, Navy, or Air Force to charge a fee for providing requested information from the United States Army Military History Institute, the United States Naval Historical Center or Marine Corps Historical Center, or the United States Air Force Military History Institute, respectively. Limits the fee to the actual cost of providing the information. (Sec. 1057) Amends provisions concerning access by Federal agencies to individual criminal history information for national security purposes to authorize the Department of Transportation to request such information. Allows the use of such information to determine eligibility for: (1) acceptance or retention in the armed forces; or (2) appointment, retention, or assignment to a position of public trust or a critical or sensitive position while employed with the Federal Government or performing a Federal contract. Prohibits fees charged from exceeding actual costs. Prohibits a criminal justice agency providing such information from requiring the requester to enter into an indemnification agreement indemnifying the State or locality for damages or loss caused by the release of such information. Requires automated information delivery systems to be used to provide such information whenever possible. (Sec. 1058) Expresses the sense of Congress that the CVN-77 aircraft carrier should be named the U.S.S. LEXINGTON to honor the men and women who served in the armed forces during World War II, as well as citizens on the home front who provided mobilization support. (Sec. 1059) Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Edward Dorr Tracey, Jr. Camp 18 of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans, a specified 12-pound Napoleon cannon. (Sec. 1060) Revises the maximum size of parcel post packages transported overseas for military post offices. Title XI: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary to provide assistive technology, devices, and services to DOD employees, organizations within DOD that have requirements to make programs or facilities accessible by the handicapped, and any other Federal department or agency requesting such technology, devices, or services. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1102) Authorizes the payment of special pay for foreign language proficiency determined to be beneficial to U.S. national security interests. (Sec. 1103) Increases from 492 to 517 the maximum authorized number of positions in the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service. (Sec. 1104) Extends through FY 2010 the authority for tuition reimbursement and training for civilian employees in the defense acquisition workforce. (Sec. 1105) Directs the Secretary to carry out a defense employees work safety demonstration program, requiring the use of private sector work safety models. Requires such program to be carried out: (1) at no fewer than two installations of each military department; and (2) in at least two defense agencies. Requires such program to commence within 180 days after enactment of this Act and to terminate on September 30, 2002. Requires a program interim and final report from the Secretary to the defense committees. Provides funding from DOD O&M funds. (Sec. 1106) Outlines employment and compensation provisions for employees of temporary organizations (a commission, committee, board, or other organization with a duration of three years or less which is established by law or Executive Order to perform a specific project or study, and is terminated upon the completion of such project or study). (Sec. 1107) Extends through FY 2005 the authority for DOD civilian employees to participate in voluntary reductions in force. (Sec. 1108) Authorizes the head of a Federal agency to administer and maintain its performance appraisal systems electronically. (Sec. 1109) Authorizes the Secretary to grant a cash award in excess of $10,000 without regard to certain Federal certification and approval requirements. (Sec. 1110) Authorizes payment for accrued but unused leave for civil service mariners of the Military Sealift Command on temporary promotion aboard ship. (Sec. 1111) Requires a DOD employee who is designated as an emergency essential employee to be insured under the Federal Employees Group Life Insurance program if such employee elects to be so insured within 60 days after such designation. (Sec. 1112) Directs the Secretary to establish a pilot program to assess the extent to which the effectiveness and efficiency of the performance of civilian personnel services for DOD could be increased by conducting competitions for the performance of such services between the public and private sectors. Requires the Secretary to ensure that, in the case of conversion to private sector performance under the program, displaced Federal employees have the right of first refusal for such jobs. Requires the program to be conducted from October 1, 2000, through December 31, 2004. Requires a program report from the Secretary to the defense committees. (Sec. 1113) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to: (1) extend until October 16, 2005, a program for the experimental use of special personnel management authority to facilitate the recruitment of experts in science or engineering for research and development projects administered by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency; (2) include under such program the recruitment of individuals for designated research and development projects from among the laboratories of each of the military departments; (3) limit the number of such appointments; and (4) extend a required annual report. Title XII: Matters Relating to Other Nations - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer, on either a combined lease-sale basis or grant basis, specified naval vessels to Australia, Brazil, Chile, Egypt, Greece, and Turkey. Prohibits the value of any of the transferred vessels from being counted against the aggregate value of excess defense articles authorized to be transferred to other countries under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Requires transfer expenses to be borne by vessel recipients. Directs such Secretary, as a transfer condition, to require any needed vessel repair or refurbishment to be performed at a U.S. shipyard, including a Navy shipyard. Provides conditions for vessels transferred on a combined lease-sale basis. Authorizes appropriations into the Defense Vessels Transfer Program Account to cover costs connected with the lease-sale transfers. Terminates such transfer authority two years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1202) Limits to $15 million the total amount of FY 2001 DOD funds that may be used in support of United Nations-sponsored efforts to inspect and monitor Iraqi weapons activities under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Control Act of 1992. Extends through FY 2001 the authority to provide such support. (Sec. 1203) Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary from entering into military airlift agreements with allied countries under any authority other than that currently provided. (Sec. 1204) Directs the Secretary to operate an education and training facility to be called the Western Hemisphere Institute for Professional Education and Training, under which professional education and training is provided to military and law enforcement personnel and civilians (whether or not employed by a government of the Western Hemisphere). Requires within the Institute's curriculum instruction on human rights, the rule of law, due process, civilian control of the military, and the role of the military in a democratic society. Establishes a Board of Visitors for the Institute to review its curriculum for compliance with such educational requirements. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on Institute activities. Repeals a provision authorizing the Secretary of the Army to operate the United States Army School of the Americas. (Sec. 1205) Requires a semiannual report from the President to specified congressional committees on the contributions of European nations and organizations to peacekeeping operations in Kosovo. (Sec. 1206) Authorizes the Secretary to accept funds, services, or property from a foreign government, international organization, or other entity for the development, procurement, installation, operation, maintenance, or repair of equipment for monitoring test explosions of nuclear devices, or for communications relating to the operation of such equipment. Authorizes the Secretary to assist a foreign government in monitoring such tests under limited conditions, including that the Secretary receive timely access to data collected, as well as access to such equipment for repair and maintenance. (Sec. 1207) Requires an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on activities and assistance under Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) programs. Requires the CG to report to Congress an assessment of each report. Repeals superseded reporting requirements. (Sec. 1208) Prohibits CTR funds for FY 2000 and thereafter from being used for construction of the Schuch'ye chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia until 30 days after the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that specified conditions have been met by Russia. (Sec. 1209) Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of more than 50 percent of the funds authorized for the elimination of weapons grade plutonium until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a report on an agreement between the United States and the Russian Federation regarding a new option for the shutdown or conversion of Russian reactors that produce such plutonium. Title XIII: Navy Activities on the Island of Vieques, Puerto Rico - Authorizes the President to provide economic assistance for the people and communities of the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico, with a total limit of $40 million. (Sec. 1302) Directs the President to conduct on the Island a referendum to determine whether the people approve or disapprove of the continuation of the conduct of Navy live-fire training and other training on the Island. Makes the referendum unnecessary if the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps jointly certify to the defense and appropriations committees that the Vieques Naval Training Range is no longer needed for training purposes. Limits live-fire training under the referendum to 90 days each year. States that if the referendum is approved, then the President may provide additional economic assistance of up to $50 million. (Sec. 1304) Requires certain actions if either the referendum is not approved or there is a certification that such training is no longer necessary, including: (1) terminating all Navy and Marine Corps training operations on the Island; (2) terminating all Navy and Marine Corps activities at Roosevelt Roads, Puerto Rico, that are related to such training; (3) closing all DOD installations and facilities on the Island; and (4) a review by the CG of the continued use of Fort Buchanan by active Army forces (with a required report to the defense and appropriations committees). (Sec. 1305) Makes non-transferable certain DOD property on the Island. (Sec. 1306) Prohibits, with exceptions, any acquisition, construction, conversion, rehabilitation, extension, or improvement of any facility at Fort Buchanan, Puerto Rico, after the date of enactment of this Act. (Sec. 1307) Directs the Secretary, except for non-transferable property, to transfer to the Secretary of the Interior all DOD properties on the western part of the Island that are identified as conservation zones. (Sec. 1308) Directs the Secretary of the Interior, pending the enactment of an alternative law, to assume responsibility for administration of the Live Impact Area on the Island, and to deny public access to such Area. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Title XXI(sic): Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes such Secretary to construct or acquire family housing units, carry out architectural planning and design activities, and improve existing military family housing in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years after 2000 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Army. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2105) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 to: (1) decrease the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort Stewart, Georgia; (2) cancel a construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas; and (3) increase the amount authorized for unspecified minor construction projects. (Sec. 2106) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to increase amounts authorized for construction projects at Fort Hood, Texas, and Fort Riley, Kansas. (Sec. 2107) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 to increase the amount authorized for a construction project at Fort Stewart, Georgia. (Sec. 2108) Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to accept funds from the Federal Highway Administration or the State of Kentucky for a military construction project involving a rail connector at Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Title XXII: Navy - Provides, with respect to the Navy, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under the previous title. (Sec. 2205) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to carry out a military construction project at the Marine Corps Combat Development Command, Quantico, Virginia, using funds authorized under a prior-year military construction authorization Act for a sanitary landfill at such facility. Title XXIII: Air Force - Provides, with respect to the Air Force, authorizations paralleling those provided for the Army under Title XXI. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years after 2000 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. (Sec. 2402) Authorizes the Secretary to carry out certain energy conservation projects. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Security Investment Program and authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2000 for such purpose. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 2000 for the Guard and reserve forces for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities. Title XXVII: Expiration and Extension of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in Titles XXI through XXVI of this Act on October 1, 2003, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 2004, whichever is later, with exceptions. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Expresses the sense of Congress that in preparing the budget for a fiscal year, the Secretary should: (1) seek to identify military construction projects that are suitable as joint construction projects; and (2) identify and give priority to such projects. Directs the Secretary to include within each fiscal year budget a certification by each Secretary concerned that such Secretary evaluated the feasibility of carrying out projects as joint construction projects. Requires an annual report from the Secretary to the appropriate congressional committees on such projects. (Sec. 2802) Excludes certain installation, maintenance, and repair costs from a spending limit on the improvement of military family housing. (Sec. 2803) Removes certain limitations on housing space based on pay grade and directs the Secretary concerned to ensure that room patterns and floor areas are generally comparable to patterns and areas of similar housing units in the private sector in that locality. (Sec. 2804) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of military family housing units at the United States Southern Command in Miami, Florida, to: (1) remove an annual $60,000 limit on individual housing lease costs; (2) allow such leases to extend for up to five years; and (3) require the Secretary of the Army to adjust the maximum annual limit on such leases by the amount of annual basic allowance for housing increase in the Miami area. (Sec. 2805) Directs the Secretary concerned to use competitive procedures when entering into contracts under certain alternative authority for the acquisition or improvement of military housing. Allows a waiver of such requirement when such Secretary: (1) determines that such procedures would be inconsistent with the public interest; and (2) submits to Congress a written notification of such determination at least 30 days before entering into such a contract. (Sec. 2806) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to furnish specified utilities and related services in connection with any military housing acquired or constructed pursuant to such alternative authority. Requires reimbursement for such utilities and services. (Sec. 2807) Extends such alternative authority through February 10, 2004. (Sec. 2808) Includes a military readiness center within the definition of an armory. Subtitle B: Real Property and Facilities Administration - Increases from $200,000 to $500,000 the minor real property transaction threshold before certain congressional notification and reporting is required from the Secretary concerned. (Sec. 2812) Amends provisions concerning the leasing of non-excess property of military departments to: (1) remove the requirement that such property is not currently needed for public use; (2) prohibit such leases from providing for the maintenance, protection, or restoration of such property; and (3) provide for the acceptance of additional in-kind consideration with regard to such leases, including environmental restoration. Adds additional requirements before the acceptance of in-kind consideration valued in excess of $500,000. Authorizes the use of lease proceeds for protection, alteration, improvement, or restoration of property or facilities, leasing of other facilities, or facilities operation support. (Currently, such uses are limited to maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration.) Requires at least 50 percent of lease proceeds to be used at the installation where the leased property is located. Prohibits the Secretary concerned from constructing or acquiring facilities valued in excess of $500,000 until 30 days after notifying the defense and appropriations committees of such construction or acquisition. Revises reporting dates with respect to such leases, and requires such reports to be submitted to the appropriations (currently, only defense) committees. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into agreements indemnifying any person or entity leasing such property from damage or loss resulting from: (1) the release or threatened release of any hazardous substance, pollutant or contaminant, petroleum or petroleum derivative, or unexploded ordnance as a result of DOD activities on the installation on which the leased property is located; and (2) any environmental remediation obligations required by any such release. Provides agreement provisions, conditions, and limitations. (Sec. 2813) Provides limited authority for the Secretary concerned to use procedures other than competitive procedures for selecting conveyees of utility systems of a military department. Subtitle C: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 and the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to limit to the initial transfer of property the right of the Secretary to transfer at or below its estimated fair market value real and personal property located at a military installation to be closed or realigned. Subtitle D: Land Conveyances - Part I: Army Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to: (1) the Tri-City Regional Port District of Granite City, Illinois, the Charles Melvin Price Support Center, for a port facility and other public purposes; (2) the city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Lieutenant General Malcolm Hay Army Reserve Center; (3) the Ellis School, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, the Colonel Harold E. Steele Army Reserve Center and Maintenance Shop; (4) the city of Seattle, Washington, specified real property at Fort Lawton, Washington, for inclusion in Seattle's Discovery Park; and (5) the city of Vancouver, Washington, the west barracks at Vancouver Barracks, for inclusion within the Vancouver National Historic Reserve. Part II: Navy Conveyances - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1990 and 1991 to modify a land conveyance with respect to the Marine Corps Air Station, El Toro, California. (Sec. 2852) Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to authorize the Secretary to replace the electric utility service removed during the course of environmental remediation at the Defense Fuel Supply Point, Casco Bay, Maine. (Sec. 2853) Modifies a land conveyance at the former Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland, to allow the Secretary of the Navy to choose whether to receive consideration upon the further transfer of such property to the State of Maryland. (Sec. 2854) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to the State of Maine, or a subdivision or agency thereof, the Naval Computer and Telecommunications Station in Cutler, Maine. Part III: Defense Agencies Conveyances - Authorizes the Secretary to convey the Army and Air Force Exchange Service in Farmers Branch, Texas, requiring a cash payment equal to the fair market value of such property. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees following such conveyance. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Designates the Army missile testing range at Kwajalein Atoll in the Marshall Islands as the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile Defense Test Site at Kwajalein Atoll. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI(sic): Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 2001 for operating expenses, capital equipment, and plant projects necessary in carrying out the following activities for national security programs: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear nonproliferation; (3) naval reactors activities; (4) defense environmental restoration and waste management; (5) other defense activities; (6) defense environmental management privatization activities; (7) an energy employees compensation initiative; and (8) defense nuclear waste disposal. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 110 percent of the program authorization or $1 million more than the amount authorized; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, Congress until the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this Division) transmits to the defense and appropriations committees a full statement of the action proposed and 30 days have since expired. (Sec. 3122) Places certain funding limits for general plant and construction projects of DOE. Requires congressional reports when amounts exceed such limits. (Sec. 3124) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer DOE-authorized funds: (1) to other Federal agencies for the performance of work for which such funds were authorized; or (2) between authorizations within DOE, to be merged with and available for the same purposes. Requires congressional notification to the defense committees of any such transfer. (Sec. 3125) Directs the Secretary, before submitting a funding request for a construction project in support of a DOE national security program, to complete a conceptual design for such project. Requires a separate funding requests for designs for which the estimated cost exceeds $3 million. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for the design does not exceed $600,000. Requires specific authorization by law for designs exceeding such amount. (Sec. 3126) Authorizes the use of DOE funds for planning, design, or construction activities for any DOE national security program that must proceed expeditiously in order to protect public health and safety, meet the needs of national defense, or protect property. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense and appropriations committees when funds are so used. (Sec. 3127) Makes amounts appropriated pursuant to this title for management and support activities and for general plant projects available for use in connection with all DOE national security programs. (Sec. 3129) Directs the Secretary, during FY 2001, to empower each DOE field office manager with the authority to transfer defense environmental management funds from a program or project under such office's jurisdiction to another program or project in order to address a risk to health, safety, or the environment or to assure the most efficient use of such funds at that field office. Limits such transfer to a total of $5 million per fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to notify Congress within 30 days after any such transfer. Subtitle C: National Nuclear Security Administration - Mandates a three-year term of office for the person first appointed to the position of Under Secretary for Nuclear Security of the Department of Energy. Limits the reasons for removal from such position to inefficiency, neglect of duty, or malfeasance in office. Includes such Under Secretary as a member of the Joint Nuclear Weapons Council. (Sec. 3133) Amends the National Nuclear Security Administration Act to specifically limit the authority of the Secretary to establish, alter, or discontinue any unit of the National Nuclear Security Administration (Administration) to that provided under such Act. (Sec. 3134) Amends the above Act to prohibit any DOE funds made available after FY 2000 from being obligated or expended to pay an officer or employee of DOE who: (1) serves concurrently in a position within and outside such Administration; or (2) performs concurrently the duties of a position within and outside such Administration. (Sec. 3135) Requires the Administrator of such Administration to submit to the defense committees a plan for assigning roles and responsibilities to and among the headquarters and field organizational units of the Administration. (Sec. 3136) Requires the Under Secretary for Nuclear Security to submit to the defense and appropriations committees a future-years nuclear security program for FY 2001 and the five succeeding fiscal years. Outlines the required level of detail of such program. Requires such program to be submitted by November 1, 2000. Limits the use of certain funds pending submission of such program and a waiting period of 45 days thereafter. (Sec. 3137) States as an objective of the Administration to obligate certain percentages of the total funds appropriated for the Administration for cooperative research and development agreements or similar cooperative, cost-shared partnerships with non-Federal organizations. Requires the Administrator to report to the defense and appropriations committees recommending the appropriate percentages for such funding during each fiscal year. Requires follow-up reports on whether such funding objectives were achieved. Subtitle D: Program Authorizations, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary to continue operations and to maintain a high state of readiness at the F- and H-canyon facilities at the Savannah River Site, South Carolina, and to provide technical staff necessary to maintain such facilities. Prohibits any DOE funds from being used to decommission the F-facility until the Secretary and the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board jointly submit to the defense and appropriations committees a certification concerning the stability of materials and that future needs can be met utilizing only the H-facility. Directs the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a plan for the transfer of all long-term chemical separation activities from the F- to the H-facility. (Sec. 3152) Prohibits, as of March 1, 2001, any DOE funds from being used for travel expenses by the Secretary or any employees of the Office of the Secretary unless the Secretary certifies to the defense and appropriations committees that DOE is in compliance with certain requirements prohibiting the use of funds for treatment, storage, or disposal activities at formerly used defense sites. (Sec. 3153) Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the status of efforts to secure weapons-usable nuclear materials in Russia that have been identified as being at risk for theft or diversion. Prohibits FY 2001 funds for the Nuclear Cities Initiative from being obligated or expended until 30 days after the Secretary submits to the defense committees a copy of an agreement between Russia and the United States which provides that Russia will close some of its facilities engaged in nuclear weapons assembly and disassembly work. Provides a further Nuclear Cities Initiative funding limitation until the Secretary establishes and implements project review procedures for Initiative projects. Requires a report to the defense committees on such procedures. (Sec. 3154) Amends the Department of Energy Facilities Safeguards, Security, and Counterintelligence Enhancement Act of 1999 to include within the counterintelligence polygraph requirements of such Act certain individuals involved in or applying for high-risk positions, as specified under the Code of Federal Regulations. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the polygraph requirements if: (1) the Secretary determines the waiver to be in the national security interests; (2) the covered person has been previously granted a security clearance; and (3) the covered person acknowledges in writing that such requirements must be met after the expiration of the waiver. Allows such a waiver if: (1) another Federal agency certifies that the covered person has successfully completed a full scope of such an examination during a five-year period prior to such certification; or (2) the Secretary determines that the treatment of a medical or psychological condition should preclude the administration of such polygraph. Limits any waiver to 120 days. Includes as authorized examination questions those concerning terrorism and deliberate damage to or malicious use of a U.S. Government information or defense system. (Sec. 3155) Authorizes the Secretary to provide certain incentives to an individual who: (1) is a Federal employee who has worked continuously at a closure facility for at least two years; (2) has a fully satisfactory or equivalent performance rating; and (3) meets any other required incentive conditions as determined by the Secretary. Includes among such incentives: (1) the right to accumulate annual leave (with limitations); (2) the right to be paid a retention bonus; (3) an administrative detail; and (4) the right to receive a voluntary separation incentive payment. Requires such employee to enter into an agreement to remain in such employment until a date to be determined by the Secretary, in return for the receipt of one of more of the incentives. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the agreement requirement for good cause shown. Requires a report on such incentives by the Secretary as part of a required annual report under a prior defense authorization Act. Terminates the authority for such incentives at the end of FY 2011. Authorizes the head of an executive agency to detail within such agency, within another executive agency, or to a non-Federal employer an employee who has been identified as being, or likely to become, a surplus or displaced employee. Provides temporary health care coverage for employees who are voluntarily or involuntarily separated from DOE by reason of a closure project. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1995 to extend through FY 2002 the authority of the Secretary to appoint up to 200 positions in DOE for scientific, engineering, and technical personnel whose duties will relate to safety at defense nuclear facilities. (Sec. 3172) Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to require biennial updates of a report concerning DOE nuclear test readiness postures, and to require certain additional information in such reports. (Sec. 3173) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to require the Secretary on a quarterly basis (currently, only 30 days after an inadvertent release) to notify specified committees and the Assistant to the President for National Security Affairs of the inadvertent release of records containing restricted or formerly restricted data during the automatic declassification of records. (Sec. 3174) Requires any certification submitted to the President by the Secretaries of Energy or Defense concerning the safety or reliability of a nuclear weapon type in the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile to be submitted in classified form only. (Sec. 3175) Allows the Secretary to authorize the plant manager of a covered nuclear weapons production plant to engage in research, development, and demonstration activities to maintain and enhance the engineering and manufacturing capabilities at such plant. Provides funding from DOE national security programs funds. Includes as covered plants those in Kansas City, Missouri, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, and Amarillo, Texas. (Sec. 3176) Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to authorize the Federal waiver of a license from a DOE laboratory to a party to have such party practice an invention discovered in a DOE laboratory by or on behalf of the Government when the designated official finds that the retention of such license would substantially inhibit the commercialization of an invention that would otherwise serve an important Federal mission. Terminates such waiver authority five years after the enactment of this Act. (Sec. 3177) Authorizes the Secretary to present a certificate of commendation to any current or former DOE employee, or current or former employee of a DOE contractor, whose service in matters relating to stockpile stewardship and security assisted DOE in furthering U.S. national security interests. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: Naval Petroleum Reserves - Amends Federal provisions concerning the naval petroleum reserves to: (1) remove a requirement that the Secretary sell such petroleum at a price equal to at least 90 percent of comparable petroleum in the same area; (2) remove Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1 from inclusion in any price requirements; and (3) repeal provisions authorizing the Secretary to enter into cooperative plans for the exploration, development, use, and operation of lands inside Naval Petroleum Reserve Number 1. Title XXXIV: National Defense Stockpile - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager, during FY 2001, to obligate up to $75 million of the funds in the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) for authorized Fund uses, including the disposal of hazardous materials that are environmentally sensitive. Authorizes the NDS Manager to obligate amounts in excess of such amount 45 days after notifying Congress that extraordinary or emergency conditions necessitate the additional obligations. (Sec. 3402) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to increase the authorized receipts for NDS disposals occurring by the end of FY 2002, 2003, and 2005.

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 2000

Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2001 - Division A - Title I: Agricultural Programs - Appropriates funds for FY 2001 for the following Department of Agriculture programs and services: (1) Office of the Secretary of Agriculture (Secretary); (2) executive operations; (3) Office of the Chief Information Officer; (4) Office of the Chief Financial Officer; (5) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Administration; (6) agriculture buildings and facilities and rental payments; (7) hazardous materials management; (8) departmental administration; (9) Office of the Assistant Secretary for Congressional Relations; (10) Office of Communications; (11) Office of the Inspector General; (12) Office of the General Counsel; (13) Office of the Under Secretary for Research, Education, and Economics; (14) Economic Research Service; (15) National Agricultural Statistics Service; (16) Agricultural Research Service; (17) Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service; (18) Office of the Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Programs; (19) Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service; (20) Agricultural Marketing Service; (21) Grain Inspection, Packers and Stockyards Administration; (22) Office of the Under Secretary for Food Safety; (23) Food Safety and Inspection Service; (24) Office of the Under Secretary for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services; (25) Farm Service Agency; (26) Risk Management Agency; (27) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; and (28) Commodity Credit Corporation Fund. Title II: Conservation Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Natural Resources and Environment; and (2) Natural Resources Conservation Service. Title III: Rural Development Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Rural Development; (2) Rural Housing Service; (3) Rural Business-Cooperative Service; and (4) Rural Utilities Service. Title IV: Domestic Food Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Office of the Under Secretary for Food, Nutrition and Consumer Services; and (2) Food and Nutrition Service. Title V: Foreign Assistance and Related Programs - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Foreign Agricultural Service; and (2) Public Law 480 program account, title I ocean freight differential grants, and titles II and III grants. Title VI: Related Agencies and Food and Drug Administration - Appropriates funds for the: (1) Food and Drug Administration; (2) Commodity Futures Trading Commission; and (3) Farm Credit Administration. Title VII: General Provisions - Specifies certain uses and limits on or prohibitions against the use of funds appropriated by this Act. (Sec. 714) Authorizes the Natural Resources and Conservation Service to enter into noncompetitive cooperative agreements. (Sec. 728) Prohibits, with an exception for field laboratory facilities, funds under this Act from being used to: (1) reduce the Detroit, Michigan, Food and Drug Administration District Office below specified 1999 staffing levels; (2) change the Office to a station or similarly modified office; or (3) reassign residence posts. Establishes the income eligibility level for Alaskan rural development programs at 150 percent. (Sec. 736) Requires, with exceptions, Foreign Agricultural Service approval of sales of residences used by agricultural attaches abroad. (Sec. 737) Authorizes the Department of Agriculture to acquire personal services agreements for overseas operations. (Sec. 738) Prohibits funds under this Act from being used to close or relocate a State Rural Development office unless cost and operation effective. (Sec. 739) Requires the Secretary to use specified amounts of commodities for foreign HIV and AIDS related assistance. Division B - Title I: National Disaster Assistance and Other Emergency Appropriations - Chapter 1 - Appropriates funds for FY 2000 for the following Department of Agriculture programs and services: (1) Farm Service Agency; (2) Federal Crop Insurance Corporation Fund; (3) Rural Community Advancement Program; (4) Rural Housing Service; and (5) Rural Utilities Service. (Sec. 1101) Provides additional FY 2000 amounts for technical assistance activities related to the conservation reserve and the wetlands reserve programs. (Sec. 1102) Extends certain livestock assistance eligibility through February 7, 2000. (Sec. 1104) Reduces specified crop and upland cotton loan indebtedness for entities and persons in qualifying North Carolina counties who suffered losses from Hurricanes Dennis, Floyd, or Irene. (Sec. 1105) Conforms the definition of "livestock" for livestock indemnity program purposes. (Sec. 1106) Provides supplemental assistance for qualifying dairy producers. (Sec. 1107) Authorizes assistance for agricultural losses due to: (1) Mexican fruit fly quarantines in San Diego and San Bernadino-Riverside counties, California; (2) Pierce's disease; (3) grasshoppers and mormon crickets; and (4) citrus canker. (Sec. 1108) Amends the Agricultural Market Transition Act to extend the milk price support program through 2001. (Sec. 1109) Provides assistance for livestock producers in designated emergency counties (for 2000 losses) through September 30, 2001. Requires the Secretary to consider the effects of drought in establishing payment levels. (Sec. 1110) Directs the Secretary to offset the assessment on peanut producers for 1999 program losses using excess assessments to be collected in 2000 and subsequent years. Chapter 2: Department of Defense- Civil Department of the Army - Appropriates additional amounts for the: (1) Corps of Engineers- Civil; and (2) Appalachian Regional Commission. Chapter 3: Department of the Interior - Appropriates additional amounts for the: (1) Bureau of Land Management; (2) United States Fish and Wildlife Service; (3) National Park Service; (4) United States Geological Survey; (5) Office of Surface Mining Reclamation and Enforcement; (6) Bureau of Indian Affairs; and (7) Forest Service (Department of Agriculture). Chapter 4: Department of Health and Human Services - Appropriates additional amounts for the: (1) Health Care Financing Administration; and (2) Administration for Children and Families. Chapter 5: Legislative Branch - Appropriates additional amounts for the : (1) Capitol Police Board; (2) Capitol Police; and (3) Architect of the Capitol. (Sec. 1501) Amends the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993 to increase the amount of private donations that the Architect of the Capitol may accept for the National Garden. (Sec. 1502) Amends the Omnibus Consolidated and Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1999 with respect to Trade Deficit Review Commission funding and reporting requirements. Chapter 6: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies - Appropriates additional amounts for the National Transportation Safety Board. Chapter 7: Department of the Treasury - Appropriates additional amounts for: (1) departmental offices; (2) Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms; and (3) General Services Administration (Independent Agencies). Chapter 8: Department of Housing and Urban Development - Appropriates additional amounts for: (1) community planning and development; and (2) Federal Emergency Management Agency (Independent Agencies). Chapter 9: General Provision - Appropriates additional amounts for: (1) Saint John's Lutheran Hospital, Libby, Montana; and (2) Libby, Montana. (Sec. 1902) Appropriates additional amounts for fisheries disaster relief for: (1) Pribilof Island and east Aleutian area of the Bering Sea; (2) affected families in Alaska, Washington, and Oregon; (3) Bering Sea ecosystem research; and (4) Alaskan crab fisheries. (Sec. 1903) Appropriates additional amounts for the District of Columbia Metropolitan Police Department related to the International Monetary Fund and World Bank Organization Spring Conference, April 2000. Title II: Supplemental Appropriations and Offsets - Chapter 1 - Authorizes specified funds to be used for the Food Safety and Inspection Service (Department of Agriculture). (Sec. 2101) Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act make cities or towns with more than 50, 000 persons eligible for rural business and industry loan guarantees if the primary beneficiaries of a project are agricultural producers. (Sec. 2102) Directs the Natural Resources Conservation Service to provide financial and technical assistance to the: (1) Long Park Dam, Utah; (2) Kuhn Bayou Project, Arkansas; and (3) Snake River Project, Minnesota. Chapter 2 - Provides funds for the: (1) Radiation Exposure Trust Fund (Department of Justice); (2) Economic Development Administration, and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Department of Commerce); and (3) Presidential Advisory Commission on Holocaust Assets in the United States. Chapter 3 - Provides additional amounts for the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund. Chapter 4 - Provides additional amounts for the: (1) Employment and Training Administration, and Mine Safety and Health Administration (Department of Labor); (2) Administration for Children and Families, and Administration on Aging (Department of Health and Human Services); (3) Railroad retirement Board; and (4) Social Security Administration. Extends the availability of specified Department of Education higher education funds through September 30, 2000. Chapter 5 - Provides additional amounts for the Federal Aviation Administration. (Sec. 2501) Expands permitted fund use for the Salt Lake City, Utah, regional commuter system project. (Sec. 2502) Directs the Coast Guard to transfer specified funds to Unalaska, Alaska, for municipal pier construction and harbor improvements. (Sec. 2503) Makes specified funds available for testing the potential for ultra- wideband signals to interfere with global positioning system receivers by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. (Sec. 2504) Appropriates funds to the Federal Highway Administration for transfer to the Utah Department of Transportation. Directs the Utah Department of Transportation to make specified State funds available for the 2002 Olympic Winter Games in Salt Lake City. Chapter 6 - Makes funds available to the Department of Housing and Urban Development for: (1) homeless assistance grants; (2) FHA- General and Special Risk Program Account; and (3) Office of the Inspector General. Provides additional amounts for: (1) National Aeronautics and Space Administration; and (20 National Science Foundation. (Sec. 2601) Amends Federal law with respect to enhanced vouchers. (Sec. 2604) Makes technical revisions with respect to specified grants to Alaska and South Dakota. (Sec. 2608) Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to exempt State housing finance agencies that administer public or section 8 housing programs from the requirement to appoint a resident of such housing to the board of directors. Requires appointment of resident advisory committees. Chapter 7 - Cancels specified amounts transferred to the Department of Agriculture's Office of the Chief Information Officer for information technology system conversion. Rescinds specified amounts made available to the Department of Justice for: (1) general administration; (2) United States Parole Commission; (3) legal activities; (4) Federal Bureau of Investigation (information sharing initiative); (5) Immigration and Naturalization Service; and (6) Office of Justice programs. Rescinds specified amounts from the: (1) Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (advanced technology program); and (2) Small Business Administration (new markets venture capital program). Cancels specified amounts transferred to the Department of Health and Human Services for information technology systems and computer conversions. Rescinds specified amounts from: (1) Executive Office of the President for Federal drug control programs; and (2) Department of Housing and Urban Development for the housing certificate fund. (Sec. 2701) Rescinds specified nondefense, general purpose amounts for information technology. Chapter 8 - Extends the patent term held for an elemental biologic (as defined by this Act). (Sec. 2802) Amends Federal law to designate Ketchikan, Alaska, as the new home port of the vessel RAINIER. (Sec. 2804) Directs the Department of Justice to transfer back to any Federal department or agency tobacco litigation funds. (Sec. 2807) Makes additional amounts available for the purchase of two Sabreliner-class aircraft for Department of Justice prisoner and alien transportation. (Sec. 2808) Amends the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State , the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 2000 to: (1) obligate funds for reimbursement of Seattle and other Washington State jurisdictions for security costs in connection with the Third World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference; and (2) make additional amounts available for a new site for the National Domestic Preparedness Office and related "Blueprint" implementation. (Sec. 2809) Provides for the transfer of specified funds to the Violent Offender Incarceration and Truth in Sentencing Incentive Grants program for construction of the Hoonah Spirit Camp. (Sec. 2811) Obligates specified Department of Commerce amounts for the Commission on Online Child Protection. Title III: General Provisions - Prohibits fund use to reallocate Cental Arizona Project water until Congress directs the Secretary of the Interior to allocate funds and enter into contracts for delivery of such water. (Sec. 3104) Prohibits fund use related to closure or post-closure of the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant, New Mexico. (Sec. 3105) Limits certain fund use by the Secretary of the Interior to specified matters of the National Research Council's Hardrock Mining on Federal Lands report. (Sec. 3106) Prohibits FY 2000 fund use by the Federal Communications Commission for certain spectrum competitive bidding procedures. (Sec. 3107) Provides interim compensation for certain closed Alaskan fisheries. (Sec. 3108) Directs the Secretaries of the Interior and the Army to jointly designate land for the jetty and sand transfer system for the Oregon Inlet on the North Carolina coast. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to transfer administrative jurisdiction over such land to the Secretary of the Army. (Sec. 3109) Authorizes the Indian Health Service to improve municipal, tribal, or private lands for construction of a clinic in King Cove, Alaska. (Sec. 3110) Amends federal law to repeal a provision respecting Federal salary payment due dates. Title IV: Food and Medicine for the World Act - Food and Medicine for the World Act - Prohibits the President from imposing a unilateral agricultural sanction or unilateral medical sanction against a foreign country, except for specified circumstances, unless: (1) not less than 60 days before the sanction is proposed to be imposed, the President makes a specified report to Congress; and (2) Congress enacts a joint resolution approving the report. Sets forth license and sanction provisions for countries supporting international terrorism.

TRICARE Enhancement Act of 2000

United States · United States Congress · 10 May 2000

TRICARE Enhancement Act of 2000 - Prohibits the Secretary of Defense, in the case of a covered beneficiary entitled to medical and dental care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) who is enrolled in TRICARE Standard (a DOD managed health care program), from requiring with respect to authorized health care (other than mental health services) under any new health care contract that the beneficiary obtain: (1) a nonavailability statement or preauthorization from a military medical facility in order to receive services from a civilian provider; or (2) a nonavailability statement for care in specialized treatment facilities outside the 200-mile radius of a military medical facility. Provides exceptions. (Sec. 3) Requires the Secretary to direct that: (1) the Composite Health Care System (CHS) be used in lieu of the Customer Satisfaction Survey to measure the performance of the Department of Defense in scheduling appointments in military medical facilities for covered beneficiaries under TRICARE Prime; (2) any necessary modifications be made to the CHS to standardize appropriate access throughout the military health care system; and (3) compliance with appointment timeliness standards under TRICARE Prime in military medical facilities be reported at the facility level, the service level, the system level, and by various beneficiary categories. Requires a report from the Secretary to Congress. (Sec. 4) Authorizes covered beneficiary access under CHAMPUS to certified mental health counselors. Requires the Secretary to recognize such counselors as qualified to: (1) prescribe levels and courses of treatment for substance abuse disorders; and (2) conduct mental health evaluations. (Sec. 5) Requires new contracts under TRICARE to require a covered beneficiary under TRICARE Prime who is referred to a provider or facility more than 100 miles away due to the unavailability of a local provider to be reimbursed by the referring provider or facility for appropriate mileage costs or air travel. (Sec. 6) Requires that when TRICARE Standard is a secondary payer for health care provided to a covered beneficiary, it shall reimburse a provider the difference between the amounts paid by the primary insurance provider and the total charge for health care provided to the beneficiary, with a maximum limit. (Sec. 7) Directs the Secretary to extend the appeals process for the resolution of claims for participating dental care providers under TRICARE to non-network providers who provide dental care under CHAMPUS. Outlines procedures for disenrollment from the TRICARE dental program for military retirees and their dependents. (Sec. 8) Requires a report from: (1) the Secretary to Congress on the use of authority to provide reimbursement to health care providers at rates higher than otherwise authorized, but not exceeding 115 percent of CHAMPUS maximum allowable charges; and (2) the Comptroller General to Congress on whether the use of a mandatory floor of 70 percent of the usual and customary rates for reimbursement to health care providers under the TRICARE program, rather than a ceiling of 115 percent of CHAMPUS maximum allowable charges, would assist in providing a more robust health care network.

Aviation Regulation Act 2001

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 9 May 2000

Act to make provision for the establishment of a body to be known as the Commission for Aviation Regulation or, in the Irish language, as An Coimisiún um Rialáil Eitlíochta, to define its functions, to amend the Irish Aviation Authority Act, 1993, the Freedom of Information Act, 1997, the Air Navigation and Transport (Amendment) Act, 1998, and the Air Navigation and Transport Act, 1973, and to provide for connected matters

To limit the age restrictions imposed by the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration for the issuance or renewal of certain airman certificates, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 2 May 2000

Amends Federal aviation law to prohibit the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, solely by reason of a person's age, if such person is less than 65 years old, from: (1) refusing to issue to, or renew for, such person an airman certificate for the operation of a commercial aircraft; or (2) requiring an air carrier to terminate the employment of, or refuse to employ, such person as a pilot on such aircraft.

Edward M. Bolen, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 27 April 2000

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001

United States · United States Congress · 27 April 2000

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2001 - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for the Army, Navy and Marine Corps, and Air Force for aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. (Sec. 104) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) defense-wide procurement; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the Defense Health Program; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Multi-Year Contract Authorizations - Authorizes the Secretary of the: (1) Army to enter into multiyear procurement contracts for the M2A3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle and the UH/60-CH/60 helicopter; and (2) Navy to enter into a multiyear procurement contract for the DDG-51 (destroyer). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for research, development, test, and evaluation for the armed forces. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for operation and maintenance (O&M) for the armed forces and specified activities and agencies of the Department of Defense (DOD). (Sec. 302) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for: (1) working capital and revolving funds; and (2) the Armed Forces Retirement Home. (Sec. 304) Authorizes the transfer of up to $150 million from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to specified military O&M accounts for FY 2001. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to use specified O&M funds to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain costs incurred in connection with the former Nansemond Ordnance Depot Site in Suffolk, Virginia. (Sec. 312) Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay from any available funds certain fines or penalties imposed by the EPA or a State in connection with environmental violations at specified sites. Subtitle C: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to require payment by civil air carriers for support provided by the United States at Johnston Atoll that is either requested by such carrier or required to accommodate the carrier's use of the Atoll. Prohibits landing fees from being charged if support costs are charged. (Sec. 322) Authorizes the Secretary to transfer excess titanium sponge from the National Defense Stockpile to a military department or defense agency for use in manufacturing defense equipment. (Sec. 323) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to extend through FY 2003 a pilot program for the acceptance and use of landing fees charged for the use of domestic military airfields by civilian aircraft. Extends related report requirements. (Sec. 324) Repeals a provision requiring a nonappropriated fund instrumentality, under certain conditions, to be the most economical method of distribution of alcoholic beverages within the commissary system. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths for active-duty forces as of the end of FY 2001. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Sets forth the authorized end strengths as of the end of FY 2001 for the Selected Reserve and reserve personnel on active duty in support of the reserves, as well as reserve military technicians. (Sec. 414) Increases the number of certain officers and enlisted personnel authorized to serve on active duty in support of the reserves. (Sec. 415) Excludes from active-duty end strength limitations reserve personnel on active duty, or members performing full-time National Guard duty, to perform funeral honors functions. (Sec. 416) Excludes from the above limitations reserve personnel serving on active duty for more than 180 days to perform special work in support of the armed forces and combatant commands, except that such number may not exceed two tenths of one percent of the end strength for all active-duty personnel. (Sec. 417) Authorizes the Secretary to suspend grade strength limitations in times of war or national emergency declared by Congress or the President with respect to senior enlisted personnel and senior reserve officers on active duty for full-time National Guard or reserve administrative duty. Limits such suspension to two years from the suspension or one year after the declaration of war or national emergency, whichever occurs first. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Officer Personnel Policy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to retain Medical Service Corps officers in an active status until 67 years of age. (Sec. 503) Authorizes the release to the armed force concerned of the names of active-duty and reserve active-status list officers recommended for promotion upon transmittal to the President of the report of the selection board that considers such officers for promotion. Subtitle B: Reserve Component Personnel Policy - Makes certain active-duty list promotion, separation, and involuntary retirement authorities inapplicable to reserve general and flag officers serving in certain positions designated by the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS). (Sec. 512) Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to increase the number of officers and enlisted personnel serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty in specified grades. (Sec. 514) Excludes medical and dental officers from reserve commissioned officer end strength limitations. (Sec. 515) Makes certain active-duty promotion, separation, and retirement authorities inapplicable to members on the reserve active status list ordered to active duty for a period of three years or less. (Sec. 516) Removes an application requirement for the continuation of officers on the reserve active-status list. Subtitle C: Education and Training - Repeals a provision authorizing a certain funding increase to be used for the Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps. (Sec. 522) Removes an annual funding limit with respect to the National Guard Challenge Program. Subtitle D: Medal of Honor Recipients - Authorizes the President to award the Medal of Honor to Ed W. Freeman for service during the Vietnam conflict and to Andrew J. Smith for service during the Civil War. Subtitle E: Joint Management - Requires an officer, in order to qualify for a joint specialty designation, to: (1) have successfully completed an accredited program from a joint professional military education institution and a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment; or (2) have successfully completed two full tours of duty in a joint duty assignment. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such qualifications for an officer who, due to unusual circumstances, has one or more qualifications comparable to the qualifications waived. Allows such qualifications to be waived in the case of a general or flag officer when determined necessary to meet a critical need. Requires the: (1) Secretary to designate joint duty assignments for general and flag officers that must be filled by joint specialty officers; and (2) JCS Chairman to accredit joint professional military education institutions. (Sec. 542) Revises promotion policy objectives for joint officers. Requires the appropriate military department Secretary to validate the qualifications of officers for eligibility for joint duty assignments, including satisfaction of requirements for promotion to brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half). Directs the Secretary to prescribe policies to ensure that promotion-eligible joint specialty officers are appropriately considered for such promotion. (Sec. 543) Repeals the requirement that an officer graduating from an accredited joint professional military education school be assigned to a joint duty assignment as that officer's next duty assignment. Decreases to two (currently three) months the minimum duration of a principal course of instruction provided by the Armed Forces Staff College. (Sec. 544) Repeals provisions specifying the length of joint duty assignments. Requires such length to mirror the standard length established by the Secretary for each installation or location at which joint duty assignments are authorized. Allows the Secretary to: (1) waive such requirement when critical to meet military personnel management requirements; and (2) curtail a joint duty assignment for an officer who has served in that assignment for at least two years. Provides conditions under which an officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment. (Sec. 545) Directs the Secretary to enhance the capabilities of the Joint Staff to monitor the personnel issues of officers with the joint specialty designation and other officers who have served in joint duty assignments. (Sec. 546) Revises, generally, information required in an annual report from the Secretary to Congress on joint specialty officers and assignments. Subtitle F: Selection Board Appeals - Makes ineligible for judicial relief a person challenging the action or recommendation of a military selection board unless such person has first been considered by a special board or denied such consideration by the Secretary concerned. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to correct a person's military records in accordance with a recommendation made by a special board. Requires the appropriate relief associated with such correction (restoration to duty status; eligibility for additional pay). Makes such provisions inapplicable to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy. Authorizes judicial review of a decision not to convene a special selection board for consideration of a corrective action taken. Subtitle G: Other Matters - Exempts from recalled retiree limits those officers assigned to the Army, Navy, or Air Force Retiree Council. (Sec. 562) Requires the following defense acquisition positions to be assigned for at least a three-year period: program manager or deputy program managers for a significant nonmajor defense acquisition program, program executive officers, general or flag officers or their civilian equivalent, and senior contracting officials. Title VI: Compensation and Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pays - Authorizes the Secretary concerned to delegate (with a limitation) the authority to waive operational flying duty requirements prior to the award of aviation career incentive pay. (Sec. 602) Includes as eligible activities for the payment of special pay currently provided for reserve medical and dental officers active duty for training, annual training, or special work. (Sec. 603) Authorizes members performing funeral honors duty to receive either the allowance for such duty or the rate of pay for members of the reserves or National Guard performing inactive-duty training. (Sec. 604) Extends through FY 2002 specified authorities currently scheduled to expire at the end of 2000 with respect to certain special pay and bonus programs within the regular and reserve armed forces. (Sec. 607) Authorizes special pay for Coast Guard physician assistants. Subtitle B: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Authorizes the advance payment of temporary lodging expenses incurred by a member and his or her dependents while making a change in permanent duty stations. (Sec. 612) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay to a member a share of the savings resulting from less-than-average shipping and storage costs of the member's baggage and household effects in connection with a change of duty station. (Sec. 614) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a member a share of the savings realized from not having a vehicle transported or stored overseas. Authorizes a member to elect to have a vehicle stored at Government expense in lieu of a transportation allowance for an unaccompanied assignment. Subtitle C: Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance and Survivors Benefit Plan - Entitles to Servicemembers' Group Life Insurance a person who volunteers for assignment to a category in the Individual Ready Reserve that is subject to an involuntary call to active duty. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Entitles to appointment to a service academy the children of members of the reserves who: (1) are currently so serving and have earned at least 2,880 retirement credit points; or (2) would be, or who died while they would have been, entitled to retired pay except for not having attained 60 years of age. (Sec. 632) Authorizes the annual payment of a $2,000 personal money allowance for individuals serving as the senior enlisted member of an armed force. (Sec. 633) Increases the initial and annual allowance for officers for the purchase of required uniforms and equipment. (Sec. 634) Authorizes the Secretary (currently, the President) and the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when not operating as a service in the Navy to prescribe requirements and allowances for clothing for enlisted personnel. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Entitles Medal of Honor recipients and their dependents to medical and dental care under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS). Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Amendments to General Contracting Authorities, Procedures, and Limitations - Prohibits the head of an agency, unless certain congressional reporting requirements are first met, from entering into or extending a multiyear contract for any defense system if the value of such contract would exceed $500 million. (Sec. 802) Repeals the requirement for certain contractor assurances regarding the completeness, accuracy, and contractual sufficiency of contractor-provided technical data. (Sec. 803) Exempts cost and cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts with a contractor that maintains an approved purchasing system from certain subcontract notification requirements. (Sec. 805) Authorizes the Secretary to allow participation by defense contractor employees in the analytical and logistic support for the operational test and evaluation of a system. Places limitations with respect to participation in the establishment of operational test and evaluation criteria for contractors that have participated in the development or production of a system. (Sec. 806) Authorizes DOD acquisition pilot programs to be continued through the end of program production. (Sec. 807) Amends the Small Business Act to reduce from ten to five days the wait period after posting notice of a solicitation from an executive agency for a contract for property or services exceeding $25,000, when such notice is accessible electronically. States that providing widespread electronic public notice of contract solicitation in a convenient form that allows user access through a single Government-wide point of entry shall satisfy Federal contract solicitation publication requirements. Makes identical amendments to the Office of Federal Procurement Policy Act with respect to required notice of solicitation for Federal procurement contracts. Changes from annually to biennially a report requirement under the latter Act with respect to implementation of the use of electronic commerce in Federal procurement. Makes this section inapplicable when the President determines such application would be inconsistent with any international agreement to which the United States is a party. (Sec. 808) Authorizes the Secretary to have orders made under DOD indefinite-delivery contracts for gloves, boots, humanitarian and operational rations, and toxicological agent protection clothing for States, territories, State or territory departments or agencies, the government of an Indian tribe, the District of Columbia, and qualified, non-profit agencies for the blind and severely handicapped. Authorizes the Secretary to require the appropriate entity to reimburse DOD for administrative costs in connection with such orders. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Amends provisions concerning defense procurement contract goals for small disadvantaged businesses and certain minority educational institutions to prohibit the suspension of the authority to enter into a contract for a price exceeding fair market value when the President or his designee determines that such contracts are necessary to remedy demonstrated discrimination in an industry category. (Sec. 812) Amends the Strom Thurmond National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 to redefine "conventional ammunition" as that ammunition managed by DOD's Single Manager for Conventional Ammunition (includes a list of qualifying conventional ammunition). (Sec. 813) Extends through the end of production the authority for the Joint Direct Attack Munition pilot program. (Sec. 814) Amends provisions concerning rights to equipment technical data developed exclusively at private expense to authorize DOD rights to such data when operation, maintenance, or installation services are to be provided by other than the original contractor or subcontractor. Requires such rights to be negotiated between the Government and the contractors involved. Prohibits any private-only rights to such data when the information is necessary for critical operation, maintenance, or installation of deployed equipment and such services are to be provided by other than the original contractor or subcontractor. (Sec. 815) Waives live-fire survivability requirements with respect to the MH-47E/MH-60K helicopter modification programs. Requires any waiver granted to be included in program reporting requirements. (Sec. 816) Repeals the requirement that, before a multiyear contract may be entered into for a defense acquisition program, the Secretary must certify to Congress that the current future-years defense program fully funds the support costs associated with the multiyear program. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: Department of Defense Organization - Redesignates as deputy commandants the chief and deputy and assistant chiefs of staff within the Marine Corps headquarters. (Sec. 902) Includes within the definition of an Inspector General, for purposes of general investigations, an officer of the armed forces or DOD employee assigned or detailed to serve as an inspector general at any level in DOD. (Sec. 903) Authorizes the Secretary, the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating, and the Secretary of Energy to withhold from otherwise required public disclosure certain sensitive information of foreign governments and international organizations if such Secretary determines that the release of such information would have an adverse effect on the ability of the U.S. Government to obtain the same or similar information in the future. Provides limitations and exceptions. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to accept gifts intended for the Naval Academy or the Naval Academy Museum and to deposit such gifts into the United States Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund. Repeals the Naval Academy Museum Fund and the Naval Historical Center Fund and requires amounts in such funds to be transferred to the Naval Academy Gift and Museum Fund and the Navy General Gift Fund, respectively. (Sec. 912) Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy, during FY 2000, to disburse to an entity designated by a gift donor the current cash value of gifts previously accepted for the Naval Academy Gift Fund. (Sec. 913) Revises the maximum size of parcel post packages authorized to be mailed from postal services at U.S. military installations, at no cost to the sender, by U.S. military personnel and forces of friendly foreign nations. (Sec. 914) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a pilot program for the temporary assignment (detail) at a DOD laboratory of up to 100 individuals previously employed by private commercial entities to conduct science and engineering. (Sec. 915) Authorizes the Secretary to establish a pilot program for the payment of retraining and relocation expenses to facilitate the reemployment of DOD employees being separated due to a reduction in force or transfer of functions at a DOD facility or installation. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Provides DOD administrative offsets for overpayments made to carriers supporting DOD or for liquidated damages due under DOD transportation services contracts. (Sec. 1002) Requires the annual joint Office of Management and Budget/Congressional Budget Office report on the scoring of budget outlays to reflect and include specified information on the differences between the relevant defense budget outlay rates or assumptions used by the two offices. (Sec. 1003) Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 requiring a two-year defense budget cycle. (Sec. 1004) Codifies a recurring appropriations Act provision concerning the use of O&M funds for reimbursements related to certain reserve intelligence or counterintelligence support. Subtitle B: Humanitarian and Civic Assistance - Authorizes the Secretary to provide humanitarian and civic assistance in connection with military operations for areas of a country that are underserved by medical, dental, and veterinary professionals. Authorizes the use of up to ten percent of such assistance for pay and allowances of special operations command reserves providing training and activities related to the clearing of land mines for humanitarian purposes. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Reporting Requirements and Repeals - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal a required annual report on the B-2 bomber aircraft program. (Sec. 1016) Revises an annual report deadline from the Secretary to Congress with respect to National Guard and reserve equipment. Requires the Coast Guard Reserve to be included in such reports and requires additional report information. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Exempts a military testamentary instrument from State testamentary laws. Accords such instruments the same legal effect as State testamentary instruments presented for probate. Outlines requirements for the legal execution of such instruments. Makes such instrument self-proving upon such execution, signature, and witnessing. (Sec. 1022) Authorizes the Secretary concerned to charge and retain fees for providing historical material or research assistance to public requesters from the Army Military History Institute, the Naval or Marine Corps Historical Center, or Air Force Historical Research Agency. Requires such fees to be used to offset the cost of such material or assistance. (Sec. 1023) Amends provisions concerning cooperative military airlift agreements to remove a provision which requires the Secretary to enter into such agreements only under the authority provided therein. (Sec. 1024) Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2000 which prohibits any Cooperative Threat Reduction funds from being used for the planning, design, or construction of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia. Title XI: Base Realignment and Closure Act of 2000 - Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 2000 - Establishes the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission. Authorizes Commission appropriations. Terminates the Commission on December 31, 2005. (Sec. 1103) Requires the Secretary, as part of the budget documents submitted to Congress for each of FY 2004 and 2006, to include a military force structure plan assessing probable threats to national security for the proceeding six-year period and the anticipated levels of funding needed to address such threats. Requires each plan to be submitted to the Commission. Requires the Secretary to: (1) publish in the Federal Register and transmit to the defense and appropriations committees the proposed and final criteria to be used in making recommendations for the closure or realignment of military installations inside the United States; and (2) publish and transmit to such committees a list of recommended installations based on the force structure plan. Prohibits the Secretary, in considering installations, from taking into account whether an installation has previously been considered or proposed for closure or realignment, or whether any advance conversion planning has been undertaken by a community in anticipation of a closure or realignment. Directs the Commission, after receiving the Secretary's recommendations, to conduct public hearings and report to the President its findings and conclusions with respect to such recommendations. Authorizes the Commission to make recommendations different from the Secretary if it determines that the Secretary deviated substantially from the force structure plan. Requires prior publication of such changes, together with public hearings. Requires Commission report copies to be transmitted to the defense and appropriations committees. Requires the President, by specified dates, to approve or disapprove Commission recommendations by way of reports to the Commission and Congress. Requires the Commission to submit a revised list if any recommendations are disapproved, subject to presidential certification. (Sec. 1104) Directs the Secretary, after a final list is approved, to: (1) begin to close or realign all recommended installations within two years after the date of approval; and (2) complete all closures and realignments within six years after such approval. Prohibits the Secretary from carrying out any closure or realignment if a joint congressional resolution is enacted which disapproves such recommendation. (Sec. 1105) Authorizes the Secretary to take all necessary actions to implement such closure or realignment recommendations, including required transfers or disposals of property. Requires appropriate consideration of any redevelopment plan for the community within or surrounding such an installation. Directs the Secretary to consult with the entity responsible for the redevelopment plan to identify items (nonmilitary) of personal property on an installation that the entity desires to be retained for installation reuse or redevelopment. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer real and personal property on such an installation to the redevelopment authority concerned for job generation purposes. Requires all property transferred to support the economic redevelopment of the installation. Directs the Secretary, after taking appropriate action with an entity with respect to a redevelopment plan, to determine whether another Federal department or agency has identified a use for, or will accept transfer of, any remaining portion of an installation. Outlines procedures for property transfers to a redevelopment authority or another Federal department or agency. Expresses the sense of Congress that, as soon as practicable after the date of approval of a closure or realignment, the appropriate redevelopment authority should begin to conduct outreach efforts to provide information on the availability of an installation's buildings and property to representatives of the homeless or other entities interested in assisting the homeless. Outlines procedures for State and local governments, representatives of the homeless, and other interested parties to notify a redevelopment authority of interest in, and plans for, buildings and property for such purpose. Requires the redevelopment authority, after such notification, to develop a redevelopment plan (with opportunity for public comment). Requires such plan to be submitted to the Secretaries of Defense and Housing and Urban Development (HUD). Requires the HUD Secretary to review such plan, taking into consideration the predominant views of the local communities, and to notify the Secretary and the redevelopment authority of plan approval or disapproval. Requires submission of a revised plan if the original plan is disapproved. Provides for implementation of an approved plan. Requires the Secretary to carry out an environmental impact analysis of the closure or realignment of each installation. Authorizes the Secretary, when it is determined to be in the best interests of DOD, to enter into agreements with local governments for the provision at such installations of police or security, fire protection, airfield operation, or other community services. Outlines required actions for closed or realigned installations under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 and other environmental compliance laws. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into agreements for the transfer of property or facilities located at or near an installation to any person who agrees to transfer to the Secretary housing units located at or near a military installation at which there is a shortage of suitable military housing. Requires a report to the defense and appropriations committees on each agreement. Authorizes the Secretary to purchase from military personnel any interests in manufactured housing located at a manufactured housing park at an installation to be closed or realigned, or to make a payment to a member to relocate such housing, if the Secretary determines that: (1) it is in the best interests of the Federal Government to eliminate or relocate the housing park; and (2) such elimination or relocation would result in unreasonable financial hardship to the housing owners. Limits such payments to 90 percent of the purchase price of such housing, plus the costs of any permanent improvements. (Sec. 1106) Establishes the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 2000 for use in connection with all closures or realignments under this Title. Requires annual Account financial reports from the Secretary to the defense and appropriations committees. Provides for the disposal or transfer of commissary stores and property purchased with nonappropriated funds located on a military installation to be closed or realigned. (Sec. 1107) Directs the Secretary, as part of the DOD budget request for FY 2005 and each subsequent year in which the Secretary carries out activities under this Title, to report to the defense and appropriations committees: (1) a schedule of the closures and realignments to be carried out, together with costs incurred and savings to be achieved; and (2) a description of the military installations to which functions are to be transferred as a result of such closures and realignments, as well as the environmental effects of such transfers. (Sec. 1108) Outlines procedures for the congressional consideration of a joint resolution disapproving the recommendations of the Commission under this Title. (Sec. 1109) Makes this Title the exclusive military base closure and realignment authority during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on December 31, 2005. Prohibits any DOD funds other than those provided herein from being used to select, close, or realign any military installation (with exceptions for those authorized under prior law).

Motorflugplatz Feldkirchen - Ossiachersee

Austria · National Council · 26 April 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Eva Glawischnig, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend Motorflugplatz Feldkirchen - Ossiachersee

plötzliche Fluglärmbelastung im Landschaftsschutzgebiet Rax-Schneeberg

Austria · National Council · 26 April 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Eva Glawischnig, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Verkehr, Innovation und Technologie betreffend plötzliche Fluglärmbelastung im Landschaftsschutzgebiet Rax-Schneeberg

Phil Boyer, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 13 April 2000

Airport Security Improvement Act of 2000

United States · United States Congress · 13 April 2000

Airport Security Improvement Act of 2000 - Amends the Federal transportation code with respect to aviation security to repeal mandatory criminal history checks in any case in which an employment investigation by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) reveals a gap in employment of 12 months or more for which the subject of the investigation does not account satisfactorily. Requires the FAA Administrator to provide by regulation that criminal background checks be done expeditiously. Directs the FAA Administrator to: (1) complete development of uniform performance standards for providing security screening services; (2) prescribe minimum standards for training security screeners that include at least 40 hours of classroom instruction and at least 40 hours of practical training before an individual is qualified to provide security screening services at a regulated airport; and (3) require by regulation that computer-based training facilities intended for use at a hub airport be conveniently located for that airport and easily accessible. Directs the FAA Administrator to enforce compliance with airport access control requirements, including: (1) suspending, or requiring the suspension of, employees who fail to comply with those requirements, with or without pay, for appropriate periods of time; and (2) imposing specified penalties. Directs the FAA Administrator to: (1) work with airport operators and air carriers to implement and strengthen existing controls to eliminate access control weaknesses; (2) require airport operators and air carriers to develop comprehensive and recurring training programs that teach employees their role in airport security and how performance will be evaluated and treated; (3) require airport operators and air carriers to develop programs that foster and reward compliance with access control requirements, discourage and penalize noncompliance, and enforce individual compliance requirements under FAA oversight; (4) assess and test for compliance with access control requirements, and take appropriate enforcement actions for noncompliance; (5) improve and better administer the FAA security database; (6) improve the execution of the FAA quality control program; and (7) require airport operators and air carriers to strengthen access control points in secured areas (including air traffic control operations areas) to ensure the security of passengers and aircraft.

Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of 2000

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2000

Technical Assistance, Trade Promotion, and Anti-Corruption Act of 2000 - Title I: Promoting Trade and Protecting United States Jobs - Subtitle A: Private Sector Development - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the President to designate a private, nonprofit organization as eligible to receive Enterprise Funds with respect to any country for promoting: (1) development of the private sectors of eligible countries, including small businesses, the agricultural sector, and joint ventures with United States and host country participants; and (2) policies and practices conducive to private sector development in such countries on the same basis as Enterprise Funds are provided for Poland and Hungary under the Support for East European Democracy (SEED) Act of 1989. Subtitle B: Protection of United States Jobs and Exports - Prohibits: (1) U.S. bilateral assistance (including direct and guaranteed loans and credit and insurance programs by the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC)) to finance any loan to establish or expand production of any commodity for export by any country other than the United States, if such commodity is likely to be in surplus on world markets and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity; and (2) U.S. development assistance for any testing or breeding feasibility study, variety improvement or introduction, consultancy, publication, conference, or training in connection with the growth or production in a foreign country of an agricultural commodity grown or produced in the United States, with specified exceptions. (Sec. 112) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to direct the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Directors of specified international financial institutions to use the U.S. vote to oppose any assistance by them for the production or extraction of any commodity or mineral for export, if it is in surplus on world markets and such assistance will cause substantial injury to U.S. producers of the same, similar, or competing commodity. (Sec. 113) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to prohibit U.S. assistance (other than direct and guaranteed loans and credit and insurance programs by OPIC) to provide: (1) financial incentive to a business enterprise located in the United States to relocate outside the United States if such incentive is likely to reduce the number of employees of such enterprise because U.S. production is being replaced by it outside the United States; (2) assistance to establish or develop in a foreign country any export processing zone in which the tax, tariff, labor, environment, and safety laws of such country do not apply to activities within the zone, unless the President determines and certifies that such assistance is not likely to cause a loss of jobs within the United States; or (3) assistance for any project that contributes to the violation of internationally recognized workers rights within a recipient country or zone, except that such assistance shall not be precluded for the informal sector of such country, micro and small-scale enterprise, and smallholder agriculture. (Sec. 114) Declares that assistance under this Act should make full use of American resources, including commodities, products, and services, to the maximum extent possible. Expresses the sense of Congress that, to the greatest extent practicable, all agricultural commodities, equipment, and products purchased with funds made available in this Act should be American-made. Requires Federal agency heads, in providing financial assistance to or entering into any contract with any entity using funds made available in this Act, to notify such entity of this intention. Subtitle C: Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement - Trade Sanctions Reform and Export Enhancement Act of 2000 - Sets forth provisions respecting presidential and congressional authorities and procedures for the imposition of new, and termination of existing, unilateral agricultural and medical sanctions. (Sec. 125) Requires prohibitions on certain U.S. assistance to a country supporting international terrorism to remain in effect until the Secretary of State determines that such country has repeatedly provided support for such terrorism. Title II: Economic Assistance - Subtitle A: Assistance Authorities - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise certain principles in the provision of U.S. bilateral development assistance to a foreign country to state that the successful transition of a developing country is dependent upon the economic reform and development of its institutions of democratic governance and its adherence to the rule of law. (Sec. 202) Increases from 25 million to $50 million the amount of foreign assistance funds that the President is authorized to use for emergency contingencies during any fiscal year. (Sec. 203) Provides for a waiver of restrictions on foreign assistance for narcotics-related assistance to foreign countries. (Sec. 204) Establishes a working capital fund for the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) which shall be available without fiscal year limitation for expenses of personal and nonpersonal services, equipment, and supplies for international cooperative administrative support services, and rebates from the use of U.S. Government credit cards. (Sec. 205) Provides that an organization shall be eligible for population planning assistance in a fiscal year if the AID Administrator determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that it has not used such assistance for abortions or involuntary sterilizations. (Sec. 206) Authorizes appropriations for development assistance to foreign countries. Earmarks specified amounts from such appropriations for: (1) certain activities of the Global Environment Center of the AID; (2) certain water and coastal resources activities; and (3) assistance to East Timor. (Sec. 208) Amends the Horn of Africa Recovery and Food Security Act to make Economic Support Fund (ESF) assistance available for certain activities to aid the poor majority in the Horn of Africa. (Sec. 209) Declares that the total amount of development assistance made available for FY 2001 for sub-Saharan Africa shall bear the same proportion to the total amount of development assistance made available for that fiscal year as the total amount of development assistance for such region made available for FY 2000 bears to the total amount of development assistance made available for FY 2000. (Sec. 210) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make U.S. foreign assistance funds available for nonmilitary education programs and for anticorruption programs. Subtitle B: International Disaster Assistance - Authorizes the President to provide, through international disaster assistance, for the reconstruction of foreign countries affected by natural disasters. (Sec. 212) Requires the Administrator of AID, in processing applications for the transportation of humanitarian assistance abroad, to afford priority to applications for the transportation of disaster relief assistance. Subtitle C: Sudan Peace Act - Sudan Peace Act - Declares that Congress: (1) condemns violations of human rights on all sides of the conflict in Sudan (including the Government of Sudan), the ongoing slave trade there, and the Government's increasing use and organization of "murahalliin" or "mujahadeen", Popular Defense Forces (PDF), and regular Sudanese Army units into raiding and slaving parties in Bahr al Ghazal, the Nuba Mountains, Upper Nile, and Blue Nile regions; and (2) recognizes that the use of raiding and slaving parties is a tool for creating food shortages as a systematic means to destroy the societies, culture, and economies of the Dinka and Nuba peoples in a policy of low-intensity ethnic cleansing. (Sec. 225) Expresses the sense of Congress that it: (1) declares its support for the efforts by U.S. executive branch officials and the President's Special Envoy for Sudan to lead in a reinvigoration of the Inter-Governmental Authority on Development (IGAD)-sponsored peace process; (2) calls on IGAD member states, the European Union, the Organization of African Unity, Egypt, and other key states to support such process; (3) urges Kenya's leadership in the implementation of the process; and (4) declares that any such diplomatic efforts toward resolution of the conflict in Sudan are best made through a peace process based on the Declaration of Principles reached in Nairobi, Kenya, on July 20, 1994, and that the President should not create any process which could be viewed as a parallel or competing diplomatic track. (Sec. 226) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President, acting through the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations, should take specified actions to increase pressure on the combatants involved in the war in Sudan. (Sec. 227) Directs the President to report to Congress on: (1) the specified sources (including any U.S. sources) and current status of Sudan's financing and construction of oil exploitation infrastructure and pipelines; (2) such financing's relation to sanctions contained in the Executive Order of November 4, 1997; (3) the extent of aerial bombardment by the Government of Sudan forces in areas outside its control; (4) the number, duration, and locations of air strips or other humanitarian relief facilities to which access is denied by any party to the conflict; and (5) the status of the IGAD-sponsored peace process or any other ongoing effort to end the conflict, including specific and verifiable steps taken by the parties to the conflict, the members of the IGAD Partners Forum, and the members of IGAD toward a comprehensive solution to the war. (Sec. 228) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should organize and maintain a formal consultative process with the European Union, the United Nations Security Council, and other relevant parties on coordinating an effort within the UN to revise the terms of Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS) to end the Government of Sudan's veto power over OLS plans for air transport relief flights. (Sec. 229) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to increase the use of non-OLS agencies in the distribution of relief supplies in southern Sudan. (Sec. 230) Directs the President to develop and report to Congress on a contingency plan to provide, outside UN auspices, the greatest amount of U.S. Government and privately donated relief to all affected areas in Sudan, including the Nuba Mountains, Upper Nile, and Blue Nile, in the event the Government of Sudan imposes a ban on OLS air transport relief flights. (Sec. 231) Supports the President's ongoing efforts to diversify and increase the effectiveness of U.S. assistance to populations in areas of Sudan outside the control of the Government of Sudan, especially the long-term focus shown in the Sudan Transition Assistance for Rehabilitation (STAR) program with its emphasis on promoting democracy, self-reliance, and actively supporting people-to-people reconciliation efforts. Authorizes appropriations. Grants the President authority to undertake any appropriate programs using Federal agencies, contractual arrangements, or direct support of indigenous groups, agencies, or organizations in areas outside the control of the Government of Sudan (including northern, southern, and eastern regions) in an effort to provide emergency relief, economic self-sufficiency, build civil authority, provide education, enhance rule of law and the development of the judiciary, support people-to-people reconciliation efforts, or implementation of any programs in support of any viable peace agreement. Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the President should immediately and to the fullest extent possible utilize the Office of Transition Initiatives at the Agency for International Development to pursue such programs in the Sudan; and (2) priority should be given in current and future development or transition programs undertaken by the U.S. Government to rebuilding and supporting the Rumbek Secondary School in the Sudan. (Sec. 232) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should assess the humanitarian needs in the Nuba Mountains, Red Sea Hills, and Blue Nile regions of Sudan, and respond appropriately to those needs. (Sec. 233) Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees detailing possible options or plans of the U.S. Government for the provision of nonlethal assistance to participants of the National Democratic Alliance. Subtitle D: Assistance to Countries With Large Populations Having HIV/AIDS - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise requirements for assistance for health programs in developing countries to declare that Congress recognizes: (1) the growing international dilemma of children with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV); and (2) that mother-to-child transmission prevention strategies can serve as a major force for change in developing regions, and that it is therefore a major objective of the foreign assistance program to control the acquired immune deficiency syndrom (AIDS) epidemic. Provides that Congress expects the agency primarily responsible for administering this Act to make the prevention and control of HIV/AIDS a priority in the foreign assistance program for developing countries. Authorizes appropriations (earmarking amounts for training and training facilities in sub-Saharan Africa and U.S. contributions to the Global Alliance for Vaccines and Immunizations and the International AIDS Vaccine Initiative). (Sec. 245) Directs the President to enter into negotiations with foreign government officials and other interested parties to establish an international vaccine purchase fund that would: (1) accept contributions from governments to purchase and distribute in developing countries vaccines for malaria, tuberculosis, HIV, and any infectious disease which causes the deaths of over one million people worldwide each year; and (2) be a significant market incentive for private sector vaccine research. (Sec. 246) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to enter into negotiations with the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development (World Bank) or the International Development Association (IDA), and with their member nations and other interested parties, for the creation of two trust funds which would accept contributions from governments, the private sector, and nongovernmental entities to: (1) address the AIDS epidemic in countries eligible to borrow from the IDA; and (2) provide support for or the establishment of programs which provide primary and secondary education for orphans in sub-Saharan Africa. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 248) Directs the President to coordinate the development of multidonor strategy to provide for the support and education of AIDS orphans and the families, communities, and institutions most affected by the HIV/AIDS epidemic in sub-Saharan Africa. Requires the United States to ensure that classroom training under the African Crisis Response Initiative includes military-based education on the prevention of the spread of AIDS. Subtitle E: International Tuberculosis Control - International Tuberculosis Control Act of 2000 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to revise requirements for assistance for health programs in developing countries to declare that Congress recognizes: (1) the growing international problem of tuberculosis; and (2) that the means exist to control and treat it, and that it is therefore a major objective of the foreign assistance program to control the disease. (Sec. 253) Declares that Congress expects the agency primarily responsible for administering this Act to: (1) coordinate with the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control, the National Institutes of Health, and other organizations toward the development and implementation of a comprehensive tuberculosis control program; and (2) set as a goal the detection of at least 70 percent of the cases of infectious tuberculosis, and the cure of at least 85 percent of the cases detected, in those countries in which the agency has established development programs, by December 31, 2010. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle F: Global Opportunities for Biotechnology in Agriculture - Advancing the Global Opportunities for Biotechnology in Agriculture Act of 2000 - Authorizes the appropriation of certain foreign assistance funds to the President for programs and projects designed, through the establishment of technical exchange programs for foreign officials and U.S. biotechnology experts, to educate government officials in developing countries regarding the use of biotechnology in the agricultural sector and the regulatory procedures used by the United States with respect to agricultural products using biotechnology. Declares that such programs shall encourage acceptance by such countries of products approved under the U.S. regulatory system or, in the case of countries which choose to establish a national regulatory system based on science, to encourage adoption of domestic approval processes based on objective scientific principles. (Sec. 265) Directs the President to establish an interagency process for all relevant executive branch agencies, including the Department of Agriculture, the Office of the U.S. Trade of Representative, the Department of State, the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID), the Department of Commerce, the Food and Drug Administration, and the Environmental Protection Agency, to coordinate efforts and to generate support for the acceptance of agricultural biotechnology. Urges U.S. policies to stress the prominence of science as the foundation for regulatory decision-making and work aggressively in international fora such as the World Trade Organization, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, including its CODEX Alimentarius, and the United Nations, to advocate for science-based decision-making. Urges AID and the Department of Agriculture to ensure that all food and grain products that meet U.S. health and safety requirements are acceptable to foreign countries under relevant food aid programs. (Sec. 266) Expresses the sense of Congress that the Secretary of State should work with U.S. embassies abroad to develop bilateral support from foreign governments for the approval of science-based trading regimes in multilateral forums and organizations. Title III: Peace Corps of the United States - Amends the Peace Corps Act to redesignate the Peace Corps as the Peace Corps of the United States. Title IV: Strengthening Anticorruption Measures and Accountability - Amends the Bretton Woods Agreement Act to authorize appropriations through FY 2003 for U.S. contributions to the Heavily Indebted Poor Country Trust Fund of the World Bank. (Sec. 402) Directs the Secretary of the Treasury to instruct the U.S. Executive Director of each multilateral development bank to exert U.S. influence to strengthen each bank's procedures and management controls to ensure that funds disbursed by it to borrowing countries are used as intended and in a manner that complies with the conditions of the bank's loan to such country. (Sec. 403) Directs the Comptroller General to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on the sufficiency of audits of the financial operations of each multilateral development bank conducted by persons or entities outside of such bank. (Sec. 404) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to repeal the President's discretionary authority to transfer certain funds to certain international financial institutions for the purpose of bilateral funding. Title V: Serbia Democratization Act - Serbia Democratization Act of 2000 - Subtitle A: Support for the Democratic Forces - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance and other support to promote and strengthen institutions of democratic government and the growth of an independent civil society in Serbia, including ethnic tolerance and respect for internationally recognized human rights. Authorizes appropriations. Urges the President to take all necessary steps to ensure that such assistance shall not be provided to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 512) Authorizes the President to provide assistance to the Government of Montenegro, unless the President determines, and reports to the appropriate congressional committees, that the leadership of such government is not committed to, or is not taking steps to promote, democratic principles, the rule of law, or respect for internationally recognized human rights. (Sec. 513) Directs the Broadcasting Board of Governors to further the open communication of information and ideas through the increased use of radio and television broadcasting (Voice of America and Radio Free Europe-Radio Liberty, Incorporated) to Yugoslavia in both the Serbo-Croatian and Albanian languages. Subtitle B: Assistance to the Victims of Oppression - Expresses the sense of Congress that: (1) the Government of Yugoslavia and the Government of Serbia bear responsibility to the victims of the conflict in Kosovo, including refugees and internally displaced persons, and for property damage in Kosovo; (2) under President Milosevic's direction neither government has provided the resources to assist innocent, civilian victims of oppression in Kosovo; and (3) because neither government has fulfilled the responsibilities of a sovereign government toward the Kosovar people, the international community offers the only course for humanitarian assistance to victims of oppression in Kosovo. (Sec. 523) Authorizes the President to furnish assistance (including economic support funds) under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the Migration and Refugee Assistance Act of 1962 for: (1) relief, rehabilitation, and reconstruction in Kosovo; and (2) refugees and persons displaced by the conflict there. Prohibits assistance to any organization that has been designated as a terrorist organization. Subtitle C: "Outer Wall" Sanctions - Imposes certain economic and non-economic ("Outer Wall") sanctions against Yugoslavia until the President determines, and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, that the Government of Yugoslavia has made significant progress in meeting certain conditions, including: (1) agreement on a lasting settlement in Kosovo; (2) compliance with the General Framework Agreement for Peace in Bosnia and Herzegovina; (3) implementation of internal democratic reform; (4) settlement of all succession issues with the other republics that emerged from the break-up of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia; and (5) cooperation with the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, including the transfer to the Hague of all individuals in Yugoslavia indicted by the Tribunal. (Sec. 531) Sets forth such sanctions, including instructing: (1) the U.S. executive directors of the international financial institutions to oppose, and vote against, any extension of any financial assistance of any kind to the Government of Yugoslavia; (2) the U.S. Ambassador to the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) to oppose and block any consensus to allow the participation of Yugoslavia in the OSCE; (3) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) to oppose any resolution in the UN Security Council to admit Yugoslavia to the UN, including any proposal to allow it to assume the membership of the former Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in the UN General Assembly; (4) the U.S. Permanent Representative to the North Atlantic Council to oppose the extension to Yugoslavia of membership in the Partnership for Peace program or any other affiliated NATO organization; and (5) the U.S. Representatives to the Southeast European Cooperation Initiative (SECI) to actively oppose the extension of SECI membership to Yugoslavia. Expresses the sense of Congress that the President: (1) should not restore full diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia until the President has determined, and reported to the appropriate congressional committees, that Yugoslavia has met the aforementioned conditions; and (2) should encourage all other European countries to diminish their level of diplomatic relations with Yugoslavia. (Sec. 532) Expresses the sense of Congress that if any international financial institution approves a loan or other financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia over the opposition of the United States, then the Secretary of the Treasury should withhold from payment the U.S. share of any increase in the paid-in capital of such institution in an amount equal to the amount of such loan or other assistance. Subtitle D: Other Measures Against Yugoslavia - Blocks all property of the Government of Serbia or the Government of Yugoslavia (including commercial, industrial, or public utility or entities) that is in the United States. (Sec. 542) Directs the President to use the authorities under the Immigration and Nationality Act to suspend the entry into the United States of any alien who: (1) holds a position in the senior leadership of the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia; or (2) is a spouse, minor child, or agent of such person. (Sec. 543) Prohibits the export of computers, computer software, or goods or technology intended to manufacture or service computers to or for use by the Government of Yugoslavia or by the Government of Serbia (including the military, the police, the prison system, and the national security agencies of such republics). Declares that nothing in this section shall prevent the issuance of licenses to ensure the safety of civil aviation and safe operation of U.S.-origin commercial passenger aircraft and to ensure the safety of ocean-going maritime traffic in international waters. (Sec. 544) Prohibits: (1) any Government agency (including the Export-Import Bank and the Overseas Private Investment Corporation) from extending any loan, credit guarantee, insurance, financing, or other similar financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia; and (2) any funds being made available for activities of the Trade and Development Agency in or for Serbia. Urges all other countries, particularly European countries, to suspend any of their programs that provide similar financial assistance to the Government of Yugoslavia or the Government of Serbia, including rescheduling either government's debt under more favorable conditions. Prohibits any U.S. national from making or approving any loan or other extension of credit (unless it is for housing, education, or humanitarian benefit to assist the victims of repression in Kosovo), directly or indirectly, to the Government of Yugoslavia or to the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 545) Prohibits the U.S. Government (including any Federal agency or entity) from providing assistance under the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act (including the provision of Foreign Military Financing or international military education and training (IMET)) or providing any defense articles or defense services under such Acts, to the armed forces of the Government of Yugoslavia or of the Government of Serbia. (Sec. 546) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should continue to seek to coordinate with other countries, particularly European countries, a comprehensive, multilateral strategy to further the purposes of this Act, including, as appropriate, encouraging other countries to take similar measures contained in this title. (Sec. 547) Exempts from the sanctions imposed in this Act both Kosovo and Montenegro (unless the President determines and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees that the leadership of the Government of Montenegro is not committed to, or is not taking steps to promote, democratic principles, the rule of law, or respect for internationally recognized human rights). Provides for a waiver and termination of sanctions imposed against Yugoslavia. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Declares it is U.S. policy to support the investigation of President Slobodan Milosevic by the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia for genocide, crimes against humanity, war crimes, and grave breaches of the Geneva Convention. (Sec. 552) Expresses the sense of Congress that the President should call on NATO allies in negotiating the future of Kosovo to establish guarantees for the rights of the ethnic Hungarian community of Vojvodina. (Sec. 553) Declares it is U.S. policy to insist that the Government of Yugoslavia has the responsibility to engage in good faith negotiations with the Governments of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Croatia, the Former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, and Slovenia for resolution of outstanding property issues and disposition of specified properties located in the United States. Expresses the sense of Congress that if the Government of Yugoslavia refuses to negotiate in good faith, the President should take steps to return such properties to such governments. (Sec. 554) Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to Yugoslavia if he determines, and certifies to the appropriate congressional committees, that the Government of Yugoslavia is committed to democratic principles and the rule of law and respects internationally recognized human rights. Title VI: Microenterprise Assistance - Microenterprise for Self-Reliance Act of 2000 - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth congressional findings and policy, including that: (1) the development of microenterprise (including micro- and small enterprises) is a vital factor in the growth of developing countries and in the development of free, open, and equitable international economic systems; (2) it is in the best interest of the United States to assist the development of microenterprises and of enterprises of the poor in developing countries; and (3) the support of microenterprise can be served by programs that provide credit, savings, training, technical assistance, and business development services. (Sec. 604) Authorizes the President to provide grants and other assistance for programs to increase the availability of credit and other services to microenterprises (including micro- and small enterprises) lacking full access to capital training, technical assistance, and business development services through: (1) grants to microfinance institutions; (2) loans and guarantees to credit institutions (with a limit of $30 million per borrower); (3) grants to microenterprise institutions for training, technical assistance, and business development services; and (4) policy and regulatory programs at the country level. (Sec. 606) Directs the Administrator of the U.S. Agency for International Development (AID) to establish: (1) a monitoring system that provides, among other things, for performance goals for microenterprise development grant assistance; (2) eligibility criteria for determining which entities shall carry out activities receiving credit assistance; and (3) a U.S. Microfinance Loan Facility to prevent the bankruptcy of microfinance institutions caused by natural disasters, war or civil conflict, national financial crisis, or other short-term financial movements that threaten the long-term development of such institutions. Authorizes appropriations. (Sec. 607) Directs the President to report to the appropriate congressional committees on the most cost-effective methods and measurements for increasing the access of poor people overseas to credit, other financial services, and related training. (Sec. 608) Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the administrator of AID and the Secretary of State should seek to support and strengthen the effectiveness of microfinance activities in United Nations (UN) agencies, such as the International Fund for Agricultural Development and the UN Development Program, which have provided key leadership in developing the microenterprise sector; and (2) the Secretary of the Treasury should instruct each U.S. Executive Director of the multilateral development banks to advocate the development of a coherent and coordinated strategy to support the microenterprise sector, including an increase of multilateral resource flows for building microenterprise retail and wholesale intermediaries. Title VII: Defense and Security Assistance - Subtitle A: Military and Related Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for foreign military financing grants and direct loans. (Sec. 711) Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to increase the aggregate value of the emergency drawdown of defense articles from the stocks of the Department of Defense (DOD), defense services of DOD, and international military education and training (IMET) to foreign countries in any fiscal year. Authorizes the drawdown of such articles, services, and training for counterterrorism and nonproliferation purposes. (Sec. 712) Authorizes the President to provide for the transportation of excess defense articles without charge to a country for the costs of such transportation if, among other things, the total weight of such transfer does not exceed 50,000 pounds (currently, 25,000 pounds). Subtitle B: International Military Education and Training - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for IMET assistance to foreign countries. Sets forth certain additional requirements with respect to the provision of such assistance. Subtitle C: Nonproliferation and Export Control Assistance - Authorizes the President to furnish assistance to foreign countries in order to enhance their ability to halt the proliferation of nuclear, chemical, and biological weapons, and advanced conventional weaponry. (Sec. 731) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 (earmarking amounts for training and education of personnel from friendly countries in the United States, science and technology centers in the independent states of the former Soviet Union, and static cargo x-ray facility in Malta). Subtitle D: Antiterrorism Assistance - Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for antiterrorism assistance to foreign countries. Subtitle E: Integrated Security Assistance Planning - Requires the Secretary of State to report annually to the appropriate congressional committees on a National Security Assistance Strategy for the United States. (Sec. 752) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for security assistance surveys used in preparing the Strategy. (Sec. 761) Authorizes appropriations for FY 2001 for foreign military financing grants for the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland. Earmarks specified amounts of IMET assistance funds for such countries, including Greece and turkey. (Sec. 763) Earmarks specified amounts for FY 2001 for foreign military financing grants for Israel and Egypt. Earmarks specified amounts for such grants (including IMET assistance) for: (1) Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania; (2) Philippines; (3) Georgia; (4) Malta; (5) Slovenia; (6) Slovakia; (7) Romania; and (8) Bulgaria. (Sec. 765) Earmarks certain funds for FY 2001 to assist GUUAM countries (group of countries that signed a protocol on quadrilateral cooperation on November 25, 1997) and Armenia to: (1) strengthen national control of their borders (including to prevent the trafficking of illegal narcotics and the proliferation of technology and materials related to weapons of mass destruction, and to contain and inhibit transnational organized criminal activities); and (2) promote the independence and territorial sovereignty of such countries. Subtitle F: Other Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to authorize the use of defense articles and defense services made available through the provision of U.S. military assistance to foreign countries for antiterrorism and nonproliferation purposes. (Sec. 772) Amends the Arms Export Control Act to authorize the President to reduce the price for the sale of DOD and Coast Guard defense articles to eligible foreign countries if certain conditions are met. (Sec. 773) Repeals certain congressional reporting and certification requirements with respect to cooperative projects with North American Treaty Organization countries. (Sec. 774) Exempts a prohibition on U.S. assistance to the Government of Azerbaijan from certain congressional oversight provisions under the National Security Act of 1947. (Sec. 775) Sets forth the maximum value of additions to stockpiles in foreign countries for FY 2001. Makes amounts available for such stockpiles in the Republic of Korea. (Sec. 776) Authorizes the President to transfer to Israel certain obsolete or surplus defense articles in return for concessions to be negotiated by the Secretary of Defense. (Sec. 777) Prohibits US sale of Stinger missiles in the Persian Gulf, with certain exceptions. (Sec. 778) Amends Federal law to increase: (1) the bond required to be filed with the Secretary of the Treasury in cases where certain required export information may be filed with the Secretary by a carrier in connection with the exportation or transportation of cargo after the departure of such carrier from the port or place of exportation or transportation; and (2) the penalty for a carrier's failure to file such information within the prescribed period. Subjects a person who knowingly fails to file, or knowingly files false or misleading, export information through the Shipper's Export Declaration (SED) or the Automated Export System (AES) to a fine not to exceed $10,000, or imprisoned for not more than five years, or both. Increases the civil penalty with respect to the violation of the other reporting requirements under this Act. (Sec. 779) Authorizes for FY 2001 the use of DOD funds for crating, packing, handling, and transporting excess defense articles to Mongolia. (Sec. 780) Directs the President to certify annually to the appropriate congressional committees that any Russian person engaged in a commercial operation involving Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) equipment or technology with a U.S. person pursuant to an arms export license issued within the 36 months preceding the certification is not suspected of contributing to the acquisition, design, development, or production of MTCR-class ballistic missiles in Iran at any time since January 1, 2000. Authorizes the President to terminate such license if it is determined that the foreign person has engaged in the transfer of any MTCR equipment or technology. (Sec. 781) Makes specified amounts of economic support fund (ESF) and foreign military financing funds available only to Israel for FY 2001 through 2008. Subtitle G: Transfers of Naval Vessels - Authorizes the President to transfer certain naval vessels to: (1) Australia; (2) Brazil; (3) Chile; (4) Egypt; (5) Greece; and (6) Turkey. (Sec. 792) Sets forth requirements with respect to: (1) the inapplicability of aggregate annual limitation on the value of transferred excess defense articles; (2) who should be charged the costs related to such transfers; (3) conditions related to the transfer of naval vessels on a combined lease-sale basis; and (4) the funding of costs related to such transfers. Subtitle H: Definition - Defines "appropriate committees of Congress". Title VIII: Special Authorities and Other Provisions - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to set forth additional authority under the Arms Export Control Act for the prohibition on assistance to any foreign government that provides lethal military equipment to a country that the Secretary of State has determined has a terrorist government, unless the President determines that furnishing such assistance is in the U.S. national interest. (Sec. 802) Authorizes the Administrator of the agency primarily responsible for administering development assistance to foreign countries to provide program and management oversight for activities that are funded by such assistance in countries in which such agency does not have a field mission or office. (Sec. 803) Sets forth revised requirements with respect to the availability of foreign assistance funds for the winding up of programs that have been terminated. (Sec. 804) Authorizes the President to furnish foreign assistance to support or strengthen the administration of justice in countries in Latin American and the Caribbean. Repeals the prohibition against the participation of DOD personnel and members of the U.S. armed forces in the provision of training with respect to the administration of justice in such countries. (Sec. 805) Amends the International Financial Institutions Act to require the annual reporting of environmental impact of multilateral development bank assistance proposals (currently made semi-annually). (Sec. 806) Expresses the sense of the Senate on environmental contamination and health effects emanating from former U.S. military facilities in the Philippines. (Sec. 807) Repeals obsolete provisions of specified Federal laws.

A resolution to direct the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in the name of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in United States of America v. Northwest Airlines Corporation, et al.

United States · United States Congress · 7 April 2000

Directs the Senate Legal Counsel to intervene in the name of the Senate Committee on Appropriations and the Senate Committee on the Judiciary in the case of United States v. Northwest Airlines Corporation, et al., to protect the Senate's privileges under the Speech or Debate Clause of the Constitution.

Geoffrey T. Crowley, of Wisconsin, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Debbie D. Branson, of Texas, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Edward M. Bolen, of Maryland, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Robert W. Baker, of Texas, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

J. Randolph Babbitt, of Virginia, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of three years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Kendall W. Wilson, of the District of Columbia, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of one year. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Robert A. Davis, of Washington, to be a Member of the Federal Aviation Management Advisory Council for a term of two years. (New Position)

United States · United States Senate · 30 March 2000

Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 3922/91 on the harmonisation of technical requirements and administrative procedures in the field of civil aviation

European Union · European Commission · 24 March 2000

A bill instituting a Federal fuels tax holiday.

United States · United States Congress · 23 March 2000

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for: (1) a 4.3 cents per gallon reduction in taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene during the period beginning after April 15, 2000, and ending before January 1, 2001; and (2) a zero rate of tax during such period if the national average price of unleaded regular gasoline is at least two dollars per gallon. Provides: (1) for the modification of such reduction if it would result in a reduction in revenues to the Treasury exceeding the Federal on-budget surplus; and (2) that in determining the amounts to be appropriated to the Highway Trust Fund and the Airport and Airway Trust Fund, an amount equal such reduction in revenues to the Treasury shall be treated as taxes received. Sets forth similar provisions with respect to the tax on: (1) fuel used in commercial transportation on inland waterways; and (2) aviation fuel. Sets forth floor stocks provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) consumers should immediately receive the benefit of the reduction; and (2) motor fuels producers and dealers should take such actions as necessary to reduce prices to reflect any reduction. Requires a study and report.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue code of 1986 to institute a Federal fuels tax holiday.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2000

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a temporary reduction in fuel taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and aviation fuel. Sets forth floor stock provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that consumers should immediately receive the benefit of the tax reduction through fuel price reductions. Requires a study to determine if there has been a passthrough of such reduction.

A bill to amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to institute a Federal fuels tax holiday.

United States · United States Congress · 21 March 2000

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for a temporary reduction in fuel taxes on gasoline, diesel fuel, kerosene, and aviation fuel. Sets forth floor stock provisions. Expresses the sense of the Congress that consumers should immediately receive the benefit of the tax reduction through fuel price reductions. Requires a study to determine if there has been a passthrough of such reduction.

Commission working document - In view of the discussions within the Council on the creation of the European aviation safety authority in the Community framework

European Union · European Commission · 21 March 2000

Flugverkehr in Österreich

Austria · National Council · 14 March 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Gabriela Moser, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Landesverteidigung betreffend Flugverkehr in Österreich

Flugverkehr in Österreich

Austria · National Council · 14 March 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Dr. Gabriela Moser, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Wissenschaft und Verkehr betreffend Flugverkehr in Österreich

Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 1000) to amend title 49, United States Code, to reauthorize programs of the Federal Aviation Administration, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 14 March 2000

Waives points of order against the consideration of the conference report on H.R. 1000 (Federal Aviation Administration programs reauthorization).

Fuel Tax Cost Reduction Act of 2000

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 2000

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce by 4.3 cents the tax on aviation gasoline and fuel, diesel fuel, and kerosene.

To amend the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 to repeal the 1993 4.3-cent increases in highway motor fuel taxes.

United States · United States Congress · 8 March 2000

Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce by 4.3 cents the tax on non-aviation gasoline, diesel fuel, and kerosene.

Verspätungen im Luftverkehr aus Flugsicherheitsgründen (G-SIG: 14051553)

Germany · German Bundestag · 25 February 2000

Backcountry Landing Strip Access Act

United States · United States Congress · 15 February 2000

General Aviation Access Act - Prohibits the Secretaries of the Interior or of Agriculture from taking any action or inaction, including neglect, which would permanently close or render or declare as unserviceable any aircraft landing strip, unless: (1) the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the head of the aviation department of each State in which the aircraft landing strip is located have approved such action; (2) notice of the proposed action has been published in the Federal Register; (3) a 90-day public comment period on the action has been provided; and (4) any comments received during the comment period have been taken into consideration by the Secretaries, as the case may be, the FAA Administrator, and the head of the aviation department of each State in which the affected aircraft landing strip is located. Directs the Secretaries to: (1) adopt a nationwide policy in accordance with this Act for governing general aviation issues related to the management of Federal land under their jurisdiction; and (2) require regional managers to adhere to it. Declares that a policy affecting access to an aircraft landing strip located on Federal land (including any national policy required under this Act) shall not take effect unless certain conditions are met, including that the FAA has the sole authority to control aviation and airspace over the United States.

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives concerning the participation of the extremist FPO in the government of Austria.

United States · United States Congress · 8 February 2000

Recognizes the right of the Austrian people to express their political views through a democratic election, but reaffirms the right and obligation of the U.S. House of Representatives to express its opposition to the anti-democratic, racist, and xenophobic views that have been expressed by Joerg Haider and other leaders of the FPO and to state its opposition to the party's participation in the Austrian Government. Condemns the insulting, racist, and xenophobic statements which have been made over many years by Haider and other leaders of the party. Expresses regret and dismay that the FPO under Haider's leadership will play a major role in the new Austrian Government. Commends the leaders of the European Union (EU), the 14 other member states of the EU, Canada, Norway, and other countries which have expressed their serious concerns regarding the participation of the FPO in such Government. Calls upon: (1) the President, the Secretary of State, and other U.S. Government officials and agencies to emphasize to Austrian Government officials the dissatisfaction with the inclusion of the FPO in the Government by not promoting or accepting any official contacts at a political level with officials of that Government which includes the FPO, by giving no support to Austrian candidates seeking positions in international organizations, and by receiving Austrian ambassadors only at a technical level; (2) Members of Congress to refuse to meet with ministers and other political leaders of the Austrian Government and to refuse to meet with members of the Austrian Parliament who are members of the parties participating in the governing coalition; and (3) the American people and others to show their strong disapproval of FPO participation in the Austrian governing coalition by refusing to travel to Austria, use Austrian products and services (including Austrian airlines), or invest in Austrian businesses.

A bill to amend title 49, United States Code, to clarify the application of the Act popularly known as the "Death on the High Seas Act" to aviation incidents.

United States · United States Congress · 7 February 2000

Amends Federal aviation law to declare that nothing in such law or in the Death on the High Seas Act with respect to additional remedies shall affect any remedy existing at common law or under State law with respect to any injury or death arising out of any aviation incident occurring on or after January 1, 1995.

Unrechtmäßig mit den Luftsicherheitsgebühren durch die Deutsche Lufthansa und andere Fluggesellschaften seit 1. Juli 1990 eingezogene Beträge; Rückforderung (G-SIG: 14041419)

Germany · German Bundestag · 4 February 2000

To direct the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration to treat certain aircraft as amateur-built aircraft for the purposes of issuing experimental certificates for the operation of such aircraft.

United States · United States Congress · 27 January 2000

Directs the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Administration, in issuing experimental certificates for the operation of amateur-built aircraft, to treat as an amateur-built aircraft any aircraft the majority of which has been assembled by: (1) persons who undertook the construction project solely for their own education or recreation; or (2) their agents, if the fabrication and assembly work of the agents is inspected and approved by a certified airframe and powerplant mechanic and by an inspector located at a manufacturing inspection district office or a flight standards district office of the Administration. Directs the Administrator to designate not less than one inspector for each office to perform inspections and grant approvals.

Order of the Court of First Instance (Second Chamber, extended composition) of 27 January 2000.#TAT European Airlines SA v Commission of the European Communities.#State aid - Air transport - Authorisation of aid payable in three tranches - Action brought against the decision authorising payment of the third tranche - Adoption of a fresh decision authorising the aid in implementation of an annulling judgment - No need to adjudicate - Conditions.#Case T-49/97.

European Union · Court of Justice of the European Union · 27 January 2000

"Montrealer Konvention" - Ratifizierung

Austria · National Council · 26 January 2000

Schriftliche Anfrage der Abgeordneten Mag. Johann Maier, Kolleginnen und Kollegen an den Bundesminister für Justiz betreffend "Montrealer Konvention" - Ratifizierung <i>(eines neuen Haftungsabkommens der internationalen</i> <i>Zivilluftfahrtbehörde)</i>

Zulassung der "China-Airlines" in Deutschland (G-SIG: 14041385)

Germany · German Bundestag · 14 January 2000