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Bill· HRH.R. 5420 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990
Defense Economic Adjustment Act of 1990 - Establishes the Office of Defense Adjustment (ODA) within the Executive Office of the President. Directs the ODA to: (1) disseminate information to Federal, State, and local agencies with respect to the cancellation of major defense contracts; (2) implement a program for job retraining and extension of health and unemployment benefits to workers displaced from defense-related employment as the result of such cancellations; (3) coordinate job information services in the Department of Labor and in State and local government agencies; (4) disseminate information on Federal programs pertaining to economic adjustment for distressed communities, businesses, and workers; and (5) provide and coordinate technical assistance to private industry and State and local governments to assist them in developing adjustment plans for communities affected by such cancellations. Requires the Secretary of Defense, acting through the ODA, to notify Federal, State, and local agencies of the cancellation or termination of a major defense contract at least six months before such action or such shorter period if required for national security reasons or a military emergency.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 445 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the United States should: (1) support efforts for peace, freedom, and democracy in Lebanon; (2) lend assistance to a new nonpartisan cabinet in Lebanon to oversee the ending of the foreign military presence, obtain international guarantees for free and fair elections, and restore state authority; (3) encourage unity within all branches of the Lebanese Government; (4) support the right of the elected representatives of the Lebanese people to effectuate political reconstruction and reconciliation; (5) extend support to eradicate the narcotics industry and dismantle the drug trafficking network in Lebanon; (6) assist in a political and economic reconstruction of Lebanon that will reinforce constitutional democracy; and (7) commit to an overall assistance program to enable Lebanon to reconstruct an economic, social, and political infrastructure.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 446 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 31 July 1990
Expresses the sense of the House of Representatives that the Government of Angola and the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) should: (1) reaffirm that deprivation of food and medicine will not be used as a weapon in their political and military conflict; (2) agree to free passage arrangements for the safe delivery of relief assistance; (3) enter into discussions with international relief organizations and countries offering famine relief assistance to develop an agreement for the most efficient and cost-effective means of delivering relief supplies; (4) work toward a cessation of hostilities and conclude negotiations aimed at ending the civil war; and (5) encourage other southern African countries to cooperate in the delivery of famine relief supplies. Declares that: (1) the Agency for International Development should participate in and contribute to any famine relief plan consistent with such agreement; and (2) all entities supplying external military support to the Angolan Government or UNITA should promote an end to the war.
Bill· HRH.R. 5389 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Troubled Defense Programs Accountability Act - Prohibits funds appropriated for a major system from being released to the Secretary of the military department concerned until the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition finds, and the Comptroller of the Department of Defense concurs, that the system meets established requirements and criteria (in terms of cost, schedule, technical specifications, and testing). Authorizes the Comptroller to release funds for a major system to the extent necessary to enable the system to meet such requirements and criteria. Requires the Secretary of each military department, at the beginning of each fiscal year, to establish a funding schedule (expressed as projected costs for meeting requirements and criteria) for each major system. Directs each Secretary to maintain and update such schedules to reflect changes in requirements, criteria, and projected costs. Requires the Comptroller to review such schedules.
Bill· HRH.R. 5386 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Military Personnel Transition Benefits Act of 1990 - Title I: Department of Defense Transition Benefits - Provides separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of the denial of reenlistment if such member has completed at least six but less than 20 years of active service, unless the Secretary concerned determines that the conditions of discharge do not warrant such pay. Repeals the limitation on the amount of separation pay inapplicable to a member of the armed forces who is serving on active duty as of September 30, 1990, is discharged or released, and who has at least five but less than six years of active service. Makes ineligible for separation pay a member who is discharged or released from active duty during an initial term of enlistment or an initial period of obligated service. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a Military Personnel Readjustment Assistance Office to develop and coordinate programs to assist members of the armed forces and their dependents in readjusting to civilian life after discharge or release from active duty. Sets forth matters to be covered by preseparation counseling provided for members discharged or released from active duty. Directs the Secretary of Defense to: (1) provide to discharged or released members a certification or verification of any job skills and experience acquired while on active duty that may have application to employment in the private sector; (2) establish permanent employment assistance centers at appropriate military installations; and (3) provide involuntarily separated members and their dependents with a preference in hiring by nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the Department of Defense (DOD). Requires the Secretary of Labor to establish and maintain a program to furnish transition counseling, employment, and placement assistance training and other information and services to members who are being separated from active duty and their spouses. Provides such services to members during the 180-day period before the member is separated from active duty. Sets forth elements of the program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to encourage and promote maximum participation by members eligible for such assistance. Authorizes appropriations. Entitles a member of the armed forces who is involuntarily separated from active duty during the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to medical and dental care and other health benefits provided while on active-duty service for a transitional period of 60 days for those separated with less than six years of active service, and 120 days for those with six or more years of active service. Directs the Secretary to inform each member involuntarily separated after October 1, 1990, of the availability for purchase of a conversion health policy for members and their dependents to pay the costs of health care for one year. Urges the Secretary of the military department concerned to consider, on an individual basis in cases of hardship, the provision of health care at a military facility for members separated during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, and who are ineligible for transitional health care or who do not obtain a conversion health policy. Directs the Secretary of Defense to allow such members to continue to use commissary and exchange stores during the two-year period beginning on the date of the member's separation. Requires the Secretary concerned to permit individuals involuntarily separated during such period to continue for up to 180 days after such separation to reside with their dependents in military family housing provided or leased by DOD during their active service. Directs the Secretary concerned to require a reasonable rental for such use. Requires the Secretary of Defense to develop a program (to be carried out at at least ten military installations outside the United States) to assist members of the armed forces stationed overseas who are preparing for discharge or release from active duty and their dependents in readjusting to civilian life. Requires the Secretary concerned to grant a member who is to be involuntarily separated such excess leave (up to 30 days) or permissive temporary duty (up to ten days) as the member requires to carry out necessary relocation activities unless to do so would interfere with military missions. Authorizes an individual who is involuntarily separated from the armed forces during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, and who within 12 months after such separation becomes a member of the National Guard or reserve unit, to remain a member of such unit for up to three years without regard to strength limitations or limitations with respect to grade or military occupational qualifications. Prohibits the total number of members in reserve units from exceeding ten percent of the authorized total strength for such a unit. Authorizes members who are involuntarily separated during the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to select their homes for purposes of travel and transportation expenses. Entitles such members to transportation of dependents, baggage, and household effects to the home and to a per diem for dependents. Requires the Secretary of a military department to provide nontemporary storage of baggage and household effects for a period of up to one year for such members. Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to provide that a member of the armed forces involuntarily separated during the five-year period who has a dependent enrolled in a school of the defense dependents' education system shall continue to be eligible to enroll such dependent in such school until the earlier of the completion of the dependent's secondary education, the end of the two-year period following such separation, or, in the case of dependents not enrolled at the time of separation, the completion of the period of enrollment during which the member is involuntarily separated. Repeals Federal law concerning the starting period and the aggregate amount of unemployment compensation to be paid to individuals released or discharged from Federal service. Title II: Veterans Benefits Programs - Revises the policy of the United States with respect to the provision of veterans' recruitment appointment authority (the offering of post-service Federal employment opportunities) to declare a Government obligation to assist veterans in readjusting to civilian life. Waives the current maximum GS-9 level for such appointments. Makes all qualifying veterans eligible for such appointments without regard to the number of years of education completed. Gives a preference to such appointments to veterans entitled to veterans' disability compensation or who were discharged or released from active duty for a disability incurred or aggravated in the line of duty. Requires veterans receiving such an appointment to receive appropriate training or education by the agency involved, complete the prescribed probationary period, and acquire a competitive civil service status. Extends eligibility for veterans' recruitment appointment authority to veterans who first became members of the armed forces or entered active duty after May 7, 1975, and were discharged or released from active duty under conditions other than dishonorable. Places a time limitation on such appointment authority for such members of five years from such release or discharge or from the enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Waives such limitation for veterans with service-connected disabilities or who served on active duty for which a campaign badge was authorized. Entitles individuals meeting specified conditions who are involuntarily separated after December 31, 1990, or 90 days after this Act's enactment, whichever is later, to basic educational assistance under Federal veterans' benefits provisions. Provides that such individuals are entitled to the lesser of: (1) 36 months of educational assistance; or (2) the number of months of such assistance equal to the number of months served by such individual on active duty. Entitles individuals meeting specified conditions who are discharged or released from active duty for a physical or mental condition that was not characterized as a disability and did not result from willful misconduct but did interfere with the individuals' performance of duty to basic educational assistance under Federal veterans' benefits provisions. Makes specified requirements concerning years of service for entitlement to educational assistance for service in the Selected Reserve inapplicable to individuals with such disabilities. Title III: Defense Officer Personnel Management Policies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to allow the Secretary of the military department concerned, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, to: (1) shorten the period of the continuation of active duty for a regular officer who is serving on active duty pursuant to a selection for continuing such duty; (2) provide that regular officers on the active-duty list may be considered for early retirement; (3) suspend current Federal law stating that so long as an officer below brigadier general or rear admiral holds the same grade, he may not be considered for early retirement more than once in any five-year period; and (4) convene selection boards to consider for discharge regular officers on the active-duty list in grades below lieutenant colonel or commander who have at least one year in such grade, whose names are not on a recommended-for-promotion list and who are not eligible to be retired or within two years of becoming eligible. Limits the total number of officers who may be recommended during a fiscal year for discharge by such a selection board. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretary of the military department concerned to reduce the time-in-grade requirement before voluntary retirement is permitted to two years in the case of retirements effective during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretary concerned, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, to reduce the required length of commissioned service before voluntary retirement is permitted from ten years to eight years.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 356 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 July 1990
Condemns: (1) the arrest and detention of Kenyan citizens for the peaceful expression of political views and the recent violence against Kenyan citizens by security forces; and (2) the Kenyan Government's disregard of human rights and fundamental freedoms. Calls upon the Kenyan Government to: (1) end intimidation and harassment of those critical of government policies; and (2) implement safeguards to ensure freedom of the press and independence of the judiciary and to guarantee civil and human rights for individuals detained by the government. Expresses the sense of the Congress that all military and economic support fund assistance to Kenya should be suspended until the Kenyan Government: (1) restores basic human rights and fundamental freedoms; (2) releases persons arrested for the peaceful expression of their views and ends harassment and detention of political opponents and human rights lawyers; and (3) enables the Kenyan people to determine whether they want to pursue a multi-party democratic system.
Bill· SS. 2915 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Strategic Environmental Research Program Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified Department of Defense research and development funds for the Program and its activities.
Bill· SS. 2911 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase or decrease the authorizations for various procurement programs and to increase the authorizations for specified research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) programs. Earmarks specified FY 1990 Marine Corps funds for procurement of M1A1 main battle tanks. Prohibits the further procurement of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines with funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for any fiscal year including FY 1991, other than those submarines currently authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense committees on the need to maintain competition in submarine construction. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend a deadline for full integration of fixed-wing aircraft into the range instrumentation system of the National Test Center. Part B: B-2 Bomber Program - Limits the obligation of FY 1991 funds for procurement and advance procurement of B-2 aircraft. Places additional limitations concerning the procurement of two new production B-2 aircraft during FY 1991. Part C: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs as of the beginning of FY 1991: (1) the 155 millimeter nuclear projectile program; (2) the Air Defense Heavy Missile system; (3) the Follow-On to Lance program; and (4) the Milstar Satellite program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for R&D. Requires such R&D funds to be available for the Strategic Relocatable Target Attack project and the Earth Penetrating Weapons project. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prescribe an acquisition plan for the acquisition of an armored gun system for use on nondevelopmental item vehicles. Prohibits FY 1991 Army acquisition funds from being used for such system except in accordance with such acquisition plan. Places certain restrictions on the armored systems modernization program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to use certain prior-year unobligated funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program, subject to specified conditions and prohibitions. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to complete certain R&D work with respect to the advanced tactical fighter of the Air Force. Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete certain R&D work with respect to the Army light helicopter program. Prohibits funds from FY 1991 from being obligated for full-scale development of the Army advanced tank cannon program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to acquire aircraft for the Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group to replace certain other aircraft. Authorizes the use of funds to convert the existing space launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for use as a Titan IV launch facility. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds of FY 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Requires a report on the allocation of FY 1991 SDI funding. Describes certain limitations on the development and testing of antiballistic missile systems or components and the use of funding for such purposes. Prohibits the obligation of funding for any operational test and evaluation in support of a strategic defense system or a program, project, or activity of SDI. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance expenses for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities-defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration-defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs and those necessitated as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital within DOD. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds authorized in this title for training and operations of the military services to ensure that high priority military forces are maintained at appropriate readiness levels. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, by the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the operation of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Part B: Program Changes and Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the authority governing the operation of working-capital funded activities within DOD. Repeals: (1) a restriction on the contracting-out of core logistics functions; and (2) prohibitions on the use of competitions among defense maintenance activities in the selection of entities to perform depot maintenance workloads. Authorizes naval shipyards and naval aviation depots to compete during FY 1991 for contracts for the production of defense related articles and for the provision of services related to defense programs. Requires successful bids under such contracts to include all direct and indirect cost factors. Requires the Secretary to issue a single, uniform policy on the management of inventory items of DOD. Requires personnel evaluations for acquisition personnel within DOD to include consideration of efforts to eliminate wasteful practices and achieve cost savings in the acquisition and management of inventory items. Lifts a certain naval homeporting restriction in the case of voyage repairs. Extends to March 1, 1991, the date for completion of a waste recycling study under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to carry out the mission of hurricane reconnaisance during FY 1991 unless another Federal department or agency assumes such responsibility and has adequate funding. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain oversight expenses associated with environmental response actions at DOD facilities. Prohibits FY 1991 funds from being obligated for the purchase of performance bonds and similar guaranties for the performance of any direct function by DOD. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991 and 1995. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being involuntarily separated unless the Secretary of the military department concerned has made certain certifications to the defense committees and followed certain procedures with respect to military force reduction actions. Defines those military personnel to be covered under such prohibition as those who: (1) are serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; (2) have five or more years of active service in the armed forces; (3) if involuntarily separated, would not be immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay; and (4) if involuntarily separated, would be eligible for employment transition assistance under specified Federal provisions. Specifies limits on the authorized strength for general and flag officers on active duty effective FY 1991 and 1995. Reduces the current authorized number of active-duty Air Force colonels. Exempts certain three-star generals and flag officer positions from fiscal year strength level limitations. Authorizes the President to designate not more than six such positions as exempted. Prohibits the delegation of such presidential authority. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Prescribes end strength reductions or increases based on the number of units of the Selected Reserve component on active duty. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate the reserve forces in order to meet national security requirements. Prescribes the number of personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of reserve personnel for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to assign active component members to reserve units to meet the requirements of the reserve components. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal an increase under such Act in the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to DOD for military personnel. Part E: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD for FY 1991. Outlines provisions regarding the counting of such personnel within such end strengths (including or excluding certain personnel categories from such limitations). Authorizes the Secretary to exceed such end strength limitation when determined necessary for the national interest. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of senior level civilian DOD employees, such reduction to be phased in gradually over five years beginning in FY 1992. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Personnel Management Matters - Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned, over the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to take specified actions designed to enhance the early retirement incentives for officer personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reduce from three to two years the time-in-grade required for an officer to retain such grade upon a voluntary retirement effective during such five-year period. Requires the maximum number of officers in the grade in which an officer was retired under such provision to be reduced whenever the Secretary approves such reduction in time-in-grade. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary concerned, during such five-year period, to reduce the required period of active service as a commissioned officer before retirement from at least ten years to no less than eight years. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and desirability of initially appointing all commissioned officers in the armed forces as reserve officers; and (2) the appropriate active duty service obligation for graduates of the service academies. Part B: Other Matters - Revises provisions concerning Navy rations to authorize the President to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration and to replace any such rations with other articles if economy and the health and comfort of naval personnel require such action. Repeals the authority of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate cadets and midshipmen for appointment to the service academies. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay consistent with the FY 1991 adjustment in the General Schedule of the Federal Government, providing instead a 3.5 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence effective January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for funding permanent change of station moves in FY 1991. Part B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pay - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to terminate the bonus installments normally due to a member who does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid or who ceases to perform in the specialty for which a bonus was paid under the selective reenlistment bonus program. Increases the monthly special pay authorized for optometrists in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of incentive pay for qualified intensive-care nurses and certified nurse-midwives. Authorizes special pay for officers in the armed forces or the Public Health Service Corps who have been awarded a Certificate as a Diplomate in a special area of practice approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Provides the yearly rate of such special pay based on years of creditable service. Part C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such a member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 which terminated the authority for the payment of costs of labor furnished in connection with the transportation of baggage and household goods. Authorizes the Secretary to authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for civilian and military personnel and their dependents when public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or unavailable. Authorizes a specified baggage and household goods weight allowance for cadets and midshipmen in connection with a change of temporary or permanent station. Part D: Other Benefits - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits such reimbursement to $2,000 per adoption and $5,000 per year. Provides identical provisions for members of the Coast Guard. Part E: Transition Assistance for Persons Involuntarily Discharged or Released from Active Duty - Authorizes the payment of separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of a denial of reenlistment, who has completed five or more, but less than 20, years of active service, and who is serving on at least a second enlistment. Repeals certain current limitations on the amount of separation pay authorized. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the premiums for health insurance provided on a voluntary basis to a member of the uniformed services upon discharge or release from active duty for the month in which such member is discharged or released and the six months after such release or discharge in the case of any member who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who has completed two or more years of continuous service. Covers the member and his or her dependents. Covers preexisting health conditions for one year following such discharge or release. Provides an exception for coverage of premiums if the Secretary determines that conditions under which the person was discharged or released do not warrant such benefits. Terminates such authority after September 30, 1995. Provides eligibility for basic educational assistance under the armed forces or veterans' educational assistance programs for persons involuntarily discharged or released from active duty. Provides conditions and limitations to such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Labor and Veterans Affairs and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, to conduct a program to furnish employment, education, and other information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated from the armed forces. Requires such services to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Outlines services and activities to be provided under such program. Requires the Secretary, within the 180-day period prior to such discharge or release, to: (1) notify the member of the date of separation; and (2) brief such member on the availability of the benefits and services provided under the information program. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, veterans' employment representatives, other employment services personnel, and representatives of veterans' services organizations to furnish the employment and training information and services under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide such program. Requires coordination of such program with similar veterans' programs. Provides that, in the preparation for discharge or release from active duty of members stationed outside the United States whose dependents accompanied them, the Secretary shall to the extent feasible reassign the member and their dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of such member's tour of active duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report to the Congress, the President, and the Secretary regarding effective and practical ways of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to members being involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces. Repeals current Federal law which: (1) prohibits a Federal employee from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service in any benefit year. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Prohibits a reduction in the number of medical personnel serving on active duty or in the reserve components of the armed forces below the number serving on September 30, 1989, unless the Secretary: (1) certifies to the defense committees that the number being reduced is excess; and (2) includes in the certification certain information concerning current and projected requirements of medical personnel in the armed forces. Authorizes the United States to recover from third party insurance providers the reasonable costs for health care services (currently, only inpatient hospital care) provided in military medical facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents. Repeals a provision of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) which denies as a covered medical expense the services of pastoral counselors, family and child counselors, and marital counselors. Extends through 1994 (currently, 1990) a demonstration program under which health care is furnished to military personnel and their dependents in certain Public Health Service hospitals as part of a cost-comparison study. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as to assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Part B: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market resarch to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level of market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review of the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of the Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part D: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Part E: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Matter - Part A: Force Structure - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to reduce the end strength under such Act for military personnel assigned to duty in Europe. Authorizes the President to waive such force limitations in the national interest as long as the Congress is notified. Requires the Secretary to reduce by four percent per year for FY 1991 through 1995 the number of DOD acquisition workforce employees, as well as the number of military and civilian employees assigned to management headquarters activities and headquarters support activities. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a joint review of all intelligence-related activities under certain national and foreign intelligence programs. Reduces the number of personnel assigned or detailed to such intelligence programs. Establishes for FY 1991 a special account to be managed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and used to provide funds to commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the U.S. Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for listed activities. Provides funding amounts and limitations. Part B: General Management Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine mobility requirements for the armed forces and to develop an integrated plan to meet those requirements. Requires a report. Eliminates the statutory position of the Chief of Naval Research. Title X: Strategic Environmental Research Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program (Program) to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified R&D funds authorized under this Act for the Program and its activities. Title XI: Drug Interdiction - Earmarks specified drug interdiction and counterdrug activities funds authorized under this Act for drug interdiction and counterdrug activities for FY 1991 in the following areas: (1) operations and maintenance; (2) procurement; (3) National Guard Bureau pay and allowances; (4) research, development, test, and evaluation; and (5) minor construction. Authorizes the Secretary to provide support to such activities in other Federal departments and agencies if requested and if funds are available. Provides purposes and activities for which such funding is to be utilized. Authorizes the Secretary to plan and execute otherwise valid military training or operations in order to aid civilian agencies in drug interdiction and counterdrug activities. Title XII: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in Division A of this Act between any authorizations contained therein for FY 1991. Provides transfer limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for military personnel, operations, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress a six-year defense program in lieu of a five-year plan. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to specified congressional committees annually the current five-year foreign intelligence program reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations required to support such program. Revises provisions concerning the formats for presentation of DOD matters in the annual budget submitted to the President and the Congress. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Requires the President to report on U.S. security arrangements and commitments worldwide. Revises reporting requirements with respect to special access (classified) programs of DOD. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the addition of more nuclear risk reduction measures. Commends the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union for their joint statements on the pursuit of additional nuclear confidence-building measures. Asks the President to invite the Soviet Union to conduct reviews and enter into discussions in order to agree on additional roles and functions that could be assigned to the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers to lessen the risks of the accidental outbreak of nuclear war. Earmarks specified R&D funds for making a grant for the support of research by emigrants from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba regarding political, economic, social, and other developments in those countries. Title XIII: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces and military pay and allowances provisions. Repeals specified reports and notifications required under various national defense authorization Acts, as well as under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies specified reports currently required under Federal armed forces provisions and under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Part C: Report Provisions Previously Terminated by Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, National Guard provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, and specified military authorization Acts which were terminated by a provision of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Restores one reporting requirement previously terminated by such Act. Repeals the reports termination section of such Act. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. Title XIV: Guard and Reserve Initiative - Part A: Utilization of Reserve Components - Declares that: (1) the structure and strength of the current reserve components should be preserved; (2) the equipment levels in such components should be increased to match their active-duty counterparts; (3) selective missions of active duty forces should be transferred to the reserve components; (4) equipment available to the reserves should be modernized; and (5) integration of active and reserve components should be promoted. Part B: Force Structure - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Part C: Military Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding use of, and funding for, the annual muster to inform Ready Reserve personnel of their continuing obligation for immediate service in the active military forces in the event of a war or national emergency. Requires members of the Ready Reserve, as a condition of eligibility for certain military-to-civilian transitional assistance provided under current law and certain provisions of this Act, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the military department concerned to serve in the Ready Reserve for three years following the person's discharge or release from active duty. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the desirability of requiring active-duty officers to serve a minimum of two years in support of a National Guard or Reserve unit as a condition of eligibility for consideration for promotion to certain grades. Prohibits certain members of the reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components, after the end of FY 1991, from being assigned to duty with any unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (ROTC). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1993 (currently, 1990) the authority for the payment of special pay for critically short wartime health services specialists in the Selected Reserve. Provides special pay for reserve medical officers serving in military medical facilities. Authorizes a member of a military department who would be eligible for retired pay except for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to have commissary privileges in DOD facilities for 12 days each year. Authorizes for such members and members of the Selected Reserve in good standing and their dependents unrestricted use of military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel. Part D: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for procurement by the reserve components of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute not less than 24 CH-47 aircraft to the Army National Guard under a plan devised by such Secretary in which CH-54 aircraft are retired gradually through FY 1993 to make room for the CH-47s. Earmarks specified funds authorized under this Act for: (1) MH-53 minesweeper helicopters; and (2) AH-1W helicopters. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, military family housing functions, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXII: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXIII: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized in this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a building on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for a R&D facility. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, base closure and realignment activities authorized under prior law, conforming storage facilities constructed under prior law, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces, in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1992, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1993, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to extend through FY 1991 the military housing rental guarantee program. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire an option to acquire or lease (currently, only acquire) a parcel of real property before its acquisition or lease is authorized by law, if it is considered suitable and needed by such department. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units if the Secretary complies with certain congressional notification requirements. Transfers jurisdiction, custody, operation and control of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon building and its surrounding facilities and parking lots) to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel to perform law enforcement and security functions on the Reservation. Establishes in the Treasury the Pentagon Maintenance Revolving Fund for real property management, operation, construction, repair and related activities at the Reservation. Transfers funds to the Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) take such actions as necessary to close or realign any military installation chosen to be so closed or realigned; (2) provide economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; (3) carry out environmental restoration and mitigation activities; and (4) provide outplacement assistance to civilian DOD employees of military installations being closed or realigned. Provides funding for each such purpose. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to utilize or dispose of real property with respect to excess and surplus real property located at a military installation being closed or realigned. Outlines other conditions concerning such transfer and disposal authority, including a requirement that the Secretary consult with the Governor and the heads of local government of the State involved in a property disposal or transfer for the purpose of considering any plan for the use of such property by the local community concerned. States the applicability and inapplicability of certain laws to any action taken by the Secretary with respect to a base realignment or closure. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Account to be used by the Secretary for base closure and realignment activities. Provides that when funds from the Account are used for such purposes and the cost of the project will exceed the maximum amount authorized by law for a minor military construction project, the Secretary must notify the appropriate congressional committees of the nature of, and the justification for, the expenditure of such sum. Provides for the transfer of certain funds for the homeowners assistance program. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to entitle a Federal employee who is entitled to reemployment as a result of the closure or realignment of an overseas U.S. military installation to all benefits provided under such Act to employees currently employed at such installations. Provides that, in the case of a publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major defense acquisition program, community planning assistance may be provided if the reduction, cancellation, termination, or failure will have a direct and significant impact on a community and will result in the loss of: (1) not less than 2,500 jobs, in the case of an urban area; (2) not less than 1,000 jobs, in the case of a rural area; or (3) one percent or more of the labor force in either such area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide that if the Secretary determines land under DOD control is excess property, the Secretary shall request the Administrator of GSA to dispose of such land under provisions of such Act. Provides for the deposit and authorized uses of funds derived from such disposal. Provides authorized uses for money rentals received pursuant to leases entered into by the Secretary of a military department in the leasing of DOD assets. Requires at least 50 percent of such moneys received to be made available for maintenance and repair of facilities or for environmental restoration expenses at such facilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the case of any military facility outside the United States released in whole or in part to a host nation, the United States should be the lead official in determining the residual value of such facility and should only be required to pay for the percentage of environmental cleanup required at such facility that is based on the determined residual value. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account for the collection of the residual value of any property of DOD released to host nations. Allows such funds to be used for facility maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration at such released facilities. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to modify the reporting requirements of the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities with respect to possible use of such facilities as Federal confinement or correctional facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to jointly conduct a study to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of converting airfields under the jurisdiction of each military department: (1) to civilian use; or (2) in the case of any airfield which continues to be used for military purposes, to joint military and civilian use. Provides study funding. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Land Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) release to the University of Arkansas all rights and interest of the United States in specified real property in Arkansas leased by the United States to the University; and (2) convey to the University all interest in all improvements constructed on such land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville, Alabama, all rights and interest to a parcel of real property at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, that is currently being leased to the Authority. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture certain real property at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands so as to preserve the paleontological, archaeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area. Outlines other permissible uses for such area, including research activities and livestock grazing. Prohibits such area from being used for the storage or processing of any type of waste. Directs the Secretary to develop a management plan for such area. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Delaware all rights and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, known as the Fort Meade Recreation Area. Requires reversion to the United States if such property is used for any purposes other than for public park or recreational use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to pay Florida a specified amount solely to assist such State in relocating the Florida Solar Energy Center from Cape Canaveral Air Station to a new site in Florida other than on federally-owned land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Columbus, Georgia, all rights and interest to a specified portion of Fort Benning, Georgia, in exchange for a tract of land to be conveyed to the United States and located adjacent to the southern boundary of Fort Benning. Provides for monetary consideration if the fair market value of the lands exchanged is not found to be equal. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with Hawaii providing that the Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, be used for general civilian aviation and military purposes jointly. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Hawaii all rights and interest to a portion of Dillingham Military Reservation, Mokuleia, Hawaii, on the condition that such property be used for joint military and civilian use as an airfield by the State and the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Civic Foundation, Incorporated, a nonprofit Indiana corporation, the property in South Bend, Indiana, known as the Northside Army Reserve Training Center, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Kansas City, Missouri, all rights and interest to a parcel of land located near the family housing area of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release to Oregon the reversionary interest of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon, in exchange for Oregon agreeing to convey to the United States a contingent interest in land comprising Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all rights and interest of the United States in and to the land comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, under specified conditions. Requires such conveyance to be made within one year of enactment of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with such University which would provide for joint use between the University and the Army Reserve of existing utility facilities at Fort Douglas and equitable sharing of the cost of such utilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Burlington, Vermont, all rights and interest to specified real property comprising the Naval Reserve Center, Burlington, Vermont. Terminates the authority for such conveyance if not made by January 1, 1992. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Northern Virginia Regional Correctional Commission all rights and interest to specified land located at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires reversion of such property to the United States if such property is used for purposes other than the construction and operation of a regional correctional facility. Prohibits such facility from housing Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia unless written consent of the government of the county of the facility is obtained. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1991 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors development; (9) safeguards and security construction; (10) site management construction; and (11) capital equipment not related to construction. Earmarks specified DOE operating expenses funds for payment of the second installment of a settlement entered into between DOE in a specified court suit. Prohibits the reprogramming of funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1991 for atomic energy defense activities if such reprogramming would reduce the amount made available to DOE for the defense inertial confinement fusion program for FY 1991. Limits the manner in which funds authorized for special isotope separation may be used to program phaseout only. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified DOD R&D funds for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction, planning, and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit a report on the remanufacture of nuclear stockpile weapons as directed under a prior Senate report. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing the government-owned and contractor-operated laboratories that are funded by DOE national security programs to engage in independent laboratory-directed research and development programs. Provides funding. Part C: Environment, Safety, and Management - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to allow DOE contractors and subcontractors carrying out certain activities at the Hanford Reservation, Washington, (a DOE center for national security programs) to loan personnel and facilities to community development organizations near the Reservation. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees on a quarterly basis during FY 1991 and 1992 reports on DOE compliance with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 concerning the environmental impact of proposed DOE actions. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring to any other Federal department or agency his authority with respect to site management, control, or oversight of environmental remediation and restoration activities at any DOE facility. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight expenses borne by such agency with regard to environmental response actions at DOD facilities conducted pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXIV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures and contracts and commitments as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal, earmarking specified administrative expenses. Authorizes funds to be made available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel across the Canal. Authorizes funds to be obligated to permit the payment of pay increases to officers and employees of the Commission to the extent authorized by administrative action. Revises the compensation level for certain Board members of the Commission, as well as certain expenses to be paid for the Deputy Administrator and Chief Engineers of such Commission. Provides retirement annuity eligibility for certain persons who were employed by the Commission between September 30, 1979, and January 1, 2000. Amends the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 to provide that payments made in the form of Workers' Compensation to Commission employees shall be made directly from the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. (Currently, amounts from such Fund are transferred to the Employee Compensation Fund for such payments.) Provides for discontinuance of the Commission Compensation Fund upon a finding by the Secretary of Labor that no further liability exists for workers compensation benefits for Commission employees.
Bill· SS. 2907 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
National Guard and Reserve Initiative Act of 1990 - Title I: Utilization of Reserve Components - Declares that: (1) the structure and strength of the current reserve components should be preserved; (2) the equipment levels in such components should be increased to match their active-duty counterparts; (3) selective missions of active duty forces should be transferred to the reserve components; (4) equipment available to the reserves should be modernized; and (5) integration of active and reserve components should be promoted. Title II: Force Structure - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Title III: Military Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding use of, and funding for, the annual muster to inform Ready Reserve personnel of their continuing obligation for immediate service in the active military forces in the event of a war or national emergency. Requires members of the Ready Reserve, as a condition of eligibility for certain military-to-civilian transitional assistance provided under current law and certain provisions of this Act, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the military department concerned to serve in the Ready Reserve for three years following the person's discharge or release from active duty. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the desirability of requiring active-duty officers to serve a minimum of two years in support of a National Guard or Reserve unit as a condition of eligibility for consideration for promotion to certain grades. Prohibits certain members of the reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components, after the end of FY 1991, from being assigned to duty with any unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (ROTC). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1993 (currently 1990) the authority for the payment of special pay for critically short wartime health services specialists in the Selected Reserve. Provides special pay for reserve medical officers serving in military medical facilities. Authorizes a member of a military department who would be eligible for retired pay except for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to have commissary privileges in DOD facilities for 12 days each year. Authorizes for such members and members of the Selected Reserve in good standing and their dependents unrestricted use of military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel. Title IV: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for procurement by the reserve components of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute not less than 24 CH-47 aircraft to the Army National Guard under a plan devised by such Secretary in which CH-54 aircraft are retired gradually through FY 1993 to make room for the CH-47s. Earmarks specified funds authorized under this Act for: (1) MH-53 minesweeper helicopters; and (2) AH-1W helicopters.
Bill· SS. 2913 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Title I: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, military family housing functions, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title II: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title III: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized in this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a building on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for a R&D facility. Title IV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, base closure and realignment activities authorized under prior law, conforming storage facilities constructed under prior law, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title V: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title VI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces, in specified amounts. Title VII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1992, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1993, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title VIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to extend through FY 1991 the military housing rental guarantee program. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire an option to acquire or lease (currently, only acquire) a parcel of real property before its acquisition or lease is authorized by law, if it is considered suitable and needed by such department. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units if the Secretary complies with certain congressional notification requirements. Transfers jurisdiction, custody, operation and control of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon building and its surrounding facilities and parking lots) to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel to perform law enforcement and security functions on the Reservation. Establishes in the Treasury the Pentagon Maintenance Revolving Fund for real property management, operation, construction, repair and related activities at the Reservation. Transfers funds to the Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) take such actions as necessary to close or realign any military installation chosen to be so closed or realigned; (2) provide economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; (3) carry out environmental restoration and mitigation activities; and (4) provide outplacement assistance to civilian DOD employees of military installations being closed or realigned. Provides funding for each such purpose. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to utilize or dispose of real property with respect to excess and surplus real property located at a military installation being closed or realigned. Outlines other conditions concerning such transfer and disposal authority, including a requirement that the Secretary consult with the Governor and the heads of local government of the State involved in a property disposal or transfer for the purpose of considering any plan for the use of such property by the local community concerned. States the applicability and inapplicability of certain laws to any action taken by the Secretary with respect to a base realignment or closure. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Account to be used by the Secretary for base closure and realignment activities. Provides that when funds from the Account are used for such purposes and the cost of the project will exceed the maximum amount authorized by law for a minor military construction project, the Secretary must notify the appropriate congressional committees of the nature of, and the justification for, the expenditure of such sum. Provides for the transfer of certain funds for the homeowners assistance program. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to entitle a Federal employee who is entitled to reemployment as a result of the closure or realignment of an overseas U.S. military installation to all benefits provided under such Act to employees currently employed at such installations. Provides that, in the case of a publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major defense acquisition program, community planning assistance may be provided if the reduction, cancellation, termination, or failure will have a direct and significant impact on a community and will result in the loss of: (1) not less than 2,500 jobs, in the case of an urban area; (2) not less than 1,000 jobs, in the case of a rural area; or (3) one percent or more of the labor force in either such area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide that if the Secretary of Defense determines land under DOD control is excess property, the Secretary shall request the Administrator of GSA to dispose of such land under provisions of such Act. Provides for the deposit and authorized uses of funds derived from such disposal. Provides authorized uses for money rentals received pursuant to leases entered into by the Secretary of a military department in the leasing of DOD assets. Requires at least 50 percent of such moneys received to be made available for maintenance and repair of facilities or for environmental restoration expenses at such facilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the case of any military facility outside the United States released in whole or in part to a host nation, the United States should be the lead official in determining the residual value of such facility and should only be required to pay for the percentage of environmental cleanup required at such facility that is based on the determined residual value. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account for the collection of the residual value of any property of DOD released to host nations. Allows such funds to be used for facility maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration at such released facilities. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to modify the reporting requirements of the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities with respect to possible use of such facilities as Federal confinement or correctional facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to jointly conduct a study to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of converting airfields under the jurisdiction of each military department: (1) to civilian use; or (2) in the case of any airfield which continues to be used for military purposes, to joint military and civilian use. Provides study funding. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Land Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) release to the University of Arkansas all rights and interest of the United States in specified real property in Arkansas leased by the United States to the University; and (2) convey to the University all interest in all improvements constructed on such land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville, Alabama, all rights and interest to a parcel of real property at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, that is currently being leased to the Authority. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture certain real property at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands so as to preserve the paleontological, archaeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area. Outlines other permissible uses for such area, including research activities and livestock grazing. Prohibits such area from being used for the storage or processing of any type of waste. Directs the Secretary to develop a management plan for such area. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Delaware all rights and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, known as the Fort Meade Recreation Area. Requires reversion to the United States if such property is used for any purposes other than for public park or recreational use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to pay Florida a specified amount solely to assist such State in relocating the Florida Solar Energy Center from Cape Canaveral Air Station to a new site in Florida other than on federally-owned land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Columbus, Georgia, all rights and interest to a specified portion of Fort Benning, Georgia, in exchange for a tract of land to be conveyed to the United States and located adjacent to the southern boundary of Fort Benning. Provides for monetary consideration if the fair market value of the lands exchanged is not found to be equal. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with Hawaii providing that the Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, be used for general civilian aviation and military purposes jointly. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Hawaii all rights and interest to a portion of Dillingham Military Reservation, Mokuleia, Hawaii, on the condition that such property be used for joint military and civilian use as an airfield by the State and the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Civic Foundation, Incorporated, a nonprofit Indiana corporation, the property in South Bend, Indiana, known as the Northside Army Reserve Training Center, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Kansas City, Missouri, all rights and interest to a parcel of land located near the family housing area of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release to Oregon the reversionary interest of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon, in exchange for Oregon agreeing to convey to the United States a contingent interest in land comprising Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all rights and interest of the United States in and to the land comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, under specified conditions. Requires such conveyance to be made within one year of enactment of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with such University which would provide for joint use between the University and the Army Reserve of existing utility facilities at Fort Douglas and equitable sharing of the cost of such utilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Burlington, Vermont, all rights and interest to specified real property comprising the Naval Reserve Center, Burlington, Vermont. Terminates the authority for such conveyance if not made by January 1, 1992. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Northern Virginia Regional Correctional Commission all rights and interest to specified land located at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires reversion of such property to the United States if such property is used for purposes other than the construction and operation of a regional correctional facility. Prohibits such facility from housing Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia unless written consent of the government of the county of the facility is obtained.
Bill· SS. 2905 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Omnibus National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase or decrease the authorizations for various procurement programs and to increase the authorizations for specified research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) programs. Earmarks specified FY 1990 Marine Corps funds for procurement of M1A1 main battle tanks. Prohibits the further procurement of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines with funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for any fiscal year including FY 1991, other than those submarines currently authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense committees on the need to maintain competition in submarine construction. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend a deadline for full integration of fixed-wing aircraft into the range instrumentation system of the National Test Center. Part B: B-2 Bomber Program - Limits the obligation of FY 1991 funds for procurement and advance procurement of B-2 aircraft. Places additional limitations concerning the procurement of two new production B-2 aircraft during FY 1991. Part C: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs as of the beginning of FY 1991: (1) the 155 millimeter nuclear projectile program; (2) the Air Defense Heavy Missile system; (3) the Follow-On to Lance program; and (4) the Milstar Satellite program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for R&D. Requires such R&D funds to be available for the Strategic Relocatable Target Attack project and the Earth Penetrating Weapons project. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prescribe an acquisition plan for the acquisition of an armored gun system for use on nondevelopmental item vehicles. Prohibits FY 1991 Army acquisition funds from being used for such system except in accordance with such acquisition plan. Places certain restrictions on the armored systems modernization program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to use certain prior-year unobligated funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program, subject to specified conditions and prohibitions. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to complete certain R&D work with respect to the advanced tactical fighter of the Air Force. Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete certain R&D work with respect to the Army light helicopter program. Prohibits funds from FY 1991 from being obligated for full-scale development of the Army advanced tank cannon program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to acquire aircraft for the Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group to replace certain other aircraft. Authorizes the use of funds to convert the existing space launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for use as a Titan IV launch facility. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds of FY 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Requires a report on the allocation of FY 1991 SDI funding. Describes certain limitations on the development and testing of antiballistic missile systems or components and the use of funding for such purposes. Prohibits the obligation of funding for any operational test and evaluation in support of a strategic defense system or a program, project, or activity of SDI. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance expenses for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities-defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration-defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs and those necessitated as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital within DOD. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds authorized in this title for training and operations of the military services to ensure that high priority military forces are maintained at appropriate readiness levels. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, by the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the operation of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Part B: Program Changes and Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the authority governing the operation of working-capital funded activities within DOD. Repeals: (1) a restriction on the contracting-out of core logistics functions; and (2) prohibitions on the use of competitions among defense maintenance activities in the selection of entities to perform depot maintenance workloads. Authorizes naval shipyards and naval aviation depots to compete during FY 1991 for contracts for the production of defense related articles and for the provision of services related to defense programs. Requires successful bids under such contracts to include all direct and indirect cost factors. Requires the Secretary to issue a single, uniform policy on the management of inventory items of DOD. Requires personnel evaluations for acquisition personnel within DOD to include consideration of efforts to eliminate wasteful practices and achieve cost savings in the acquisition and management of inventory items. Lifts a certain naval homeporting restriction in the case of voyage repairs. Extends to March 1, 1991, the date for completion of a waste recycling study under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to carry out the mission of hurricane reconnaissance during FY 1991 unless another Federal department or agency assumes such responsibility and has adequate funding. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain oversight expenses associated with environmental response actions at DOD facilities. Prohibits FY 1991 funds from being obligated for the purchase of performance bonds and similar guaranties for the performance of any direct function by DOD. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991 and 1995. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being involuntarily separated unless the Secretary of the military department concerned has made certain certifications to the defense committees and followed certain procedures with respect to military force reduction actions. Defines those military personnel to be covered under such prohibition as those who: (1) are serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; (2) have five or more years of active service in the armed forces; (3) if involuntarily separated, would not be immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay; and (4) if involuntarily separated, would be eligible for employment transition assistance under specified Federal provisions. Specifies limits on the authorized strength for general and flag officers on active duty effective FY 1991 and 1995. Reduces the current authorized number of active-duty Air Force colonels. Exempts certain three-star generals and flag officer positions from fiscal year strength level limitations. Authorizes the President to designate not more than six such positions as exempted. Prohibits the delegation of such presidential authority. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Prescribes end strength reductions or increases based on the number of units of the Selected Reserve component on active duty. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate the reserve forces in order to meet national security requirements. Prescribes the number of personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of reserve personnel for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to assign active component members to reserve units to meet the requirements of the reserve components. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal an increase under such Act in the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to DOD for military personnel. Part E: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD for FY 1991. Outlines provisions regarding the counting of such personnel within such end strengths (including or excluding certain personnel categories from such limitations). Authorizes the Secretary to exceed such end strength limitation when determined necessary for the national interest. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of senior level civilian DOD employees, such reduction to be phased in gradually over five years beginning in FY 1992. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Personnel Management Matters - Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned, over the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to take specified actions designed to enhance the early retirement incentives for officer personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reduce from three to two years the time-in-grade required for an officer to retain such grade upon a voluntary retirement effective during such five-year period. Requires the maximum number of officers in the grade in which an officer was retired under such provision to be reduced whenever the Secretary approves such reduction in time-in-grade. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary concerned, during such five-year period, to reduce the required period of active service as a commissioned officer before retirement from at least ten years to no less than eight years. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and desirability of initially appointing all commissioned officers in the armed forces as reserve officers; and (2) the appropriate active duty service obligation for graduates of the service academies. Part B: Other Matters - Revises provisions concerning Navy rations to authorize the President to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration and to replace any such rations with other articles if economy and the health and comfort of naval personnel require such action. Repeals the authority of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate cadets and midshipmen for appointment to the service academies. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay consistent with the FY 1991 adjustment in the General Schedule of the Federal Government, providing instead a 3.5 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence effective January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for funding permanent change of station moves in FY 1991. Part B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pay - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to terminate the bonus installments normally due to a member who does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid or who ceases to perform in the specialty for which a bonus was paid under the selective reenlistment bonus program. Increases the monthly special pay authorized for optometrists in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of incentive pay for qualified intensive-care nurses and certified nurse-midwives. Authorizes special pay for officers in the armed forces or the Public Health Service Corps who have been awarded a Certificate as a Diplomate in a special area of practice approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Provides the yearly rate of such special pay based on years of creditable service. Part C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such a member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 which terminated the authority for the payment of costs of labor furnished in connection with the transportation of baggage and household goods. Authorizes the Secretary to authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for civilian and military personnel and their dependents when public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or unavailable. Authorizes a specified baggage and household goods weight allowance for cadets and midshipmen in connection with a change of temporary or permanent station. Part D: Other Benefits - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits such reimbursement to $2,000 per adoption and $5,000 per year. Provides identical provisions for members of the Coast Guard. Part E: Transition Assistance for Persons Involuntarily Discharged or Released from Active Duty - Authorizes the payment of separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of a denial of reenlistment, who has completed five or more, but less than 20, years of active service, and who is serving on at least a second enlistment. Repeals certain current limitations on the amount of separation pay authorized. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the premiums for health insurance provided on a voluntary basis to a member of the uniformed services upon discharge or release from active duty for the month in which such member is discharged or released and the six months after such release or discharge in the case of any member who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who has completed two or more years of continuous service. Covers the member and his or her dependents. Covers preexisting health conditions for one year following such discharge or release. Provides an exception for coverage of premiums if the Secretary determines that conditions under which the person was discharged or released do not warrant such benefits. Terminates such authority after September 30, 1995. Provides eligibility for basic educational assistance under the armed forces or veterans' educational assistance programs for persons involuntarily discharged or released from active duty. Provides conditions and limitations to such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Labor and Veterans Affairs and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, to conduct a program to furnish employment, education, and other information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated from the armed forces. Requires such services to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Outlines services and activities to be provided under such program. Requires the Secretary, within the 180-day period prior to such discharge or release, to: (1) notify the member of the date of separation; and (2) brief such member on the availability of the benefits and services provided under the information program. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, veterans' employment representatives, other employment services personnel, and representatives of veterans' services organizations to furnish the employment and training information and services under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide such program. Requires coordination of such program with similar veterans' programs. Provides that, in the preparation for discharge or release from active duty of members stationed outside the United States whose dependents accompanied them, the Secretary shall to the extent feasible reassign the member and their dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of such member's tour of active duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report to the Congress, the President, and the Secretary regarding effective and practical ways of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to members being involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces. Repeals current federal law which: (1) prohibits a Federal employee from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service in any benefit year. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Prohibits a reduction in the number of medical personnel serving on active duty or in the reserve components of the armed forces below the number serving on September 30, 1989, unless the Secretary: (1) certifies to the defense committees that the number being reduced is excess; and (2) includes in the certification certain information concerning current and projected requirements of medical personnel in the armed forces. Authorizes the United States to recover from third party insurance providers the reasonable costs for health care services (currently, only inpatient hospital care) provided in military medical facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents. Repeals a provision of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) which denies as a covered medical expense the services of pastoral counselors, family and child counselors, and marital counselors. Extends through 1994 (currently, 1990) a demonstration program under which health care is furnished to military personnel and their dependents in certain Public Health Service hospitals as part of a cost-comparison study. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Part B: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market research to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level or market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review on the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part D: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Part E: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Matter - Part A: Force Structure - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to reduce the end strength under such Act for military personnel assigned to duty in Europe. Authorizes the President to waive such force limitations in the national interest as long as the Congress is notified. Requires the Secretary to reduce by four percent per year for FY 1991 through 1995 the number of DOD acquisition workforce employees, as well as the number of military and civilian employees assigned to management headquarters activities and headquarters support activities. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a joint review of all intelligence-related activities under certain national and foreign intelligence programs. Reduces the number of personnel assigned or detailed to such intelligence programs. Establishes for FY 1991 a special account to be managed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and used to provide funds to commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the U.S. Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for listed activities. Provides funding amounts and limitations. Part B: General Management Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine mobility requirements for the armed forces and to develop an integrated plan to meet those requirements. Requires a report. Eliminates the statutory position of the Chief of Naval Research. Title X: Strategic Environmental Research Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program (Program) to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified R&D funds authorized under this Act for the Program and its activities. Title XI: Drug Interdiction - Earmarks specified drug interdiction and counterdrug activities funds authorized under this Act for drug interdiction and counterdrug activities for FY 1991 in the following areas: (1) operations and maintenance; (2) procurement; (3) National Guard Bureau pay and allowances; (4) R&D; and (5) minor construction. Authorizes the Secretary to provide support to such activities in other Federal departments and agencies if requested and if funds are available. Provides purposes and activities for which such funding is to be utilized. Authorizes the Secretary to plan and execute otherwise valid military training or operations in order to aid civilian agencies in drug interdiction and counterdrug activities. Title XII: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in Division A of this Act between any authorizations contained therein for FY 1991. Provides transfer limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for military personnel, operations, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress a six-year defense program in lieu of a five-year plan. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to specified congressional committees annually the current five-year foreign intelligence program reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations required to support such program. Revises provisions concerning the formats for presentation of DOD matters in the annual budget submitted to the President and the Congress. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Requires the President to report on U.S. security arrangements and commitments worldwide. Revises reporting requirements with respect to special access (classified) programs of DOD. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the addition of more nuclear risk reduction measures. Commends the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union for their joint statements on the pursuit of additional nuclear confidence-building measures. Asks the President to invite the Soviet Union to conduct reviews and enter into discussions in order to agree on additional roles and functions that could be assigned to the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers to lessen the risks of the accidental outbreak of nuclear war. Earmarks specified R&D funds for making a grant for the support of research by emigrants from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba regarding political, economic, social, and other developments in those countries. Title XIII: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces and military pay and allowances provisions. Repeals specified reports and notifications required under various national defense authorization Acts, as well as under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies specified reports currently required under Federal armed forces provisions and under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Part C: Report Provisions Previously Terminated by Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, National Guard provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, and specified military authorization Acts which were terminated by a provision of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Restores one reporting requirement previously terminated by such Act. Repeals the reports termination section of such Act. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. Title XIV: Guard and Reserve Initiative - Part A: Utilization of Reserve Components - Declares that: (1) the structure and strength of the current reserve components should be preserved; (2) the equipment levels in such components should be increased to match their active-duty counterparts; (3) selective missions of active duty forces should be transferred to the reserve components; (4) equipment available to the reserves should be modernized; and (5) integration of active and reserve components should be promoted. Part B: Force Structure - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Part C: Military Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding use of, and funding for, the annual muster to inform Ready Reserve personnel of their continuing obligation for immediate service in the active military forces in the event of a war or national emergency. Requires members of the Ready Reserve, as a condition of eligibility for certain military-to-civilian transitional assistance provided under current law and certain provisions of this Act, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the military department concerned to serve in the Ready Reserve for three years following the person's discharge or release from active duty. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the desirability of requiring active-duty officers to serve a minimum of two years in support of a National Guard or Reserve unit as a condition of eligibility for consideration for promotion to certain grades. Prohibits certain members of the reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components, after the end of FY 1991, from being assigned to duty with any unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (ROTC). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1993 (currently, 1990) the authority for the payment of special pay for critically short wartime health services specialists in the Selected Reserve. Provides special pay for reserve medical officers serving in military medical facilities. Authorizes a member of a military department who would be eligible for retired pay except for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to have commissary privileges in DOD facilities for 12 days each year. Authorizes for such members and members of the Selected Reserve in good standing and their dependents unrestricted use of military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel. Part D: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for procurement by the reserve components of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute not less than 24 CH-47 aircraft to the Army National Guard under a plan devised by such Secretary in which CH-54 aircraft are retired gradually through FY 1993 to make room for the CH-47s. Earmarks specified funds authorized under this Act for: (1) MH-53 minesweeper helicopters; and (2) AH-1W helicopters. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, military family housing functions, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXII: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXIII: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized in this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a building on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for a R&D facility. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, base closure and realignment activities authorized under prior law, conforming storage facilities constructed under prior law, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces, in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1992, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1993, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to extend through FY 1991 the military housing rental guarantee program. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire an option to acquire or lease (currently, only acquire) a parcel of real property before its acquisition or lease is authorized by law, if it is considered suitable and needed by his Department. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units if the Secretary complies with certain congressional notification requirements. Transfers jurisdiction, custody, operation, and control of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon building and its surrounding facilities and parking lots) to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel to perform law enforcement and security functions on the Reservation. Establishes in the Treasury the Pentagon Maintenance Revolving Fund for real property management, operation, construction, repair, and related activities at the Reservation. Transfers funds to the Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) take such actions as necessary to close or realign any military installation chosen to be so closed or realigned; (2) provide economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; (3) carry out environmental restoration and mitigation activities; and (4) provide outplacement assistance to civilian DOD employees of military installations being closed or realigned. Provides funding for each such purpose. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to utilize or dispose of real property with respect to excess and surplus real property located at a military installation being closed or realigned. Outlines other conditions concerning such transfer and disposal authority, including a requirement that the Secretary consult with the Governor and the heads of local government of the State involved in a property disposal or transfer for the purpose of considering any plan for the use of such property by the local community concerned. States the applicability and inapplicability of certain laws to any action taken by the Secretary with respect to a base realignment or closure. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Account to be used by the Secretary for base closure and realignment activities. Provides that when funds from the Account are used for such purposes and the cost of the project will exceed the maximum amount authorized by law for a minor military construction project, the Secretary must notify the appropriate congressional committees of the nature of, and the justification for, the expenditure of such sum. Provides for the transfer of certain funds for the homeowners assistance program. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to entitle a Federal employee who is entitled to reemployment as a result of the closure or realignment of an overseas U.S. military installation to all benefits provided under such Act to employees currently employed at such installations. Provides that, in the case of a publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major defense acquisition program, community planning assistance may be provided if the reduction, cancellation, termination, or failure will have a direct and significant impact on a community and will result in the loss of: (1) not less than 2,500 jobs, in the case of an urban area; (2) not less than 1,000 jobs, in the case of a rural area; or (3) one percent or more of the labor force in either such area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide that if the Secretary of Defense determines land under DOD control is excess property, the Secretary shall request the Administrator of GSA to dispose of such land under provisions of such Act. Provides for the deposit and authorized uses of funds derived from such disposal. Provides authorized uses for money rentals received pursuant to leases entered into by the Secretary of a military department in the leasing of DOD assets. Requires at least 50 percent of such moneys received to be made available for maintenance and repair of facilities or for environmental restoration expenses at such facilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the case of any military facility outside the United States released in whole or in part to a host nation, the United States should be the lead official in determining the residual value of such facility and should only be required to pay for the percentage of environmental cleanup required at such facility that is based on the determined residual value. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account for the collection of the residual value of any property of DOD released to host nations. Allows such funds to be used for facility maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration at such released facilities. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to modify the reporting requirements of the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities with respect to possible use of such facilities as Federal confinement or correctional facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to jointly conduct a study to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of converting airfields under the jurisdiction of each military department: (1) to civilian use; or (2) in the case of any airfield which continues to be used for military purposes, to joint military and civilian use. Provides study funding. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Land Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) release to the University of Arkansas all rights and interest of the United States in specified real property in Arkansas leased by the United States to the University; and (2) convey to the University all interest in all improvements constructed on such land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville, Alabama, all rights and interest to a parcel of real property at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, that is currently being leased to the Authority. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture certain real property at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands so as to preserve the paleontological, archaeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area. Outlines other permissible uses for such area, including research activities and livestock grazing. Prohibits such area from being used for the storage or processing of any type of waste. Directs the Secretary to develop a management plan for such area. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Delaware all rights and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, known as the Fort Meade Recreation Area. Requires reversion to the United States if such property is used for any purpose other than for public park or recreational use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to pay Florida a specified amount solely to assist such State in relocating the Florida Solar Energy Center from Cape Canaveral Air Station to a new site in Florida other than on federally-owned land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Columbus, Georgia, all rights and interest to a specified portion of Fort Benning, Georgia, in exchange for a tract of land to be conveyed to the United States and located adjacent to the southern boundary of Fort Benning. Provides for monetary consideration if the fair market value of the lands exchanged is not found to be equal. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with Hawaii providing that the Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, be used for general civilian aviation and military purposes jointly. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Hawaii all rights and interest to a portion of Dillingham Military Reservation, Mokuleia, Hawaii, on the condition that such property be used for joint military and civilian use as an airfield by the State and the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Civic Foundation, Incorporated, a nonprofit Indiana corporation, the property in South Bend, Indiana, known as the Northside Army Reserve Training Center, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Kansas City, Missouri, all rights and interest to a parcel of land located near the family housing area of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release to Oregon the reversionary interest of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon, in exchange for Oregon agreeing to convey to the United States a contingent interest in land comprising Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all rights and interest of the United States in and to the land comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, under specified conditions. Requires such conveyance to be made within one year of enactment of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with such University which would provide for joint use between the University and the Army Reserve of existing utility facilities at Fort Douglas and equitable sharing of the cost of such utilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Burlington, Vermont, all rights and interest to specified real property comprising the Naval Reserve Center, Burlington, Vermont. Terminates the authority for such conveyance if not made by January 1, 1992. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Northern Virginia Regional Correctional Commission all rights and interest to specified land located at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires reversion of such property to the United States if such property is used for purpose other than the construction and operation of a regional correctional facility. Prohibits such facility from housing Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia unless written consent of the government of the county of the facility is obtained. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1991 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors development; (9) safeguards and security construction; (10) site management construction; and (11) capital equipment not related to construction. Earmarks specified DOE operating expenses funds for payment of the second installment of a settlement entered into between DOE in a specified court suit. Prohibits the reprogramming of funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1991 for atomic energy defense activities if such reprogramming would reduce the amount made available to DOE for the defense inertial confinement fusion program for FY 1991. Limits the manner in which funds authorized for special isotope separation may be used to program phaseout only. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified DOD R&D funds for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction, planning, and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit a report on the remanufacture of nuclear stockpile weapons as directed under a prior Senate report. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing the government-owned and contractor-operated laboratories that are funded by DOE national security programs to engage in independent laboratory-directed research and development programs. Provides funding. Part C: Environment, Safety, and Management - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to allow DOE contractors and subcontractors carrying out certain activities at the Hanford Reservation, Washington, (a DOE center for national security programs) to loan personnel and facilities to community development organizations near the Reservation. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees on a quarterly basis during FY 1991 and 1992 reports on DOE compliance with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 concerning the environmental impact of proposed DOE actions. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring to any other Federal department or agency his authority with respect to site management, control, or oversight of environmental remediation and restoration activities at any DOE facility. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse EPA for oversight expenses borne by such agency with regard to environmental response actions at DOD facilities conducted pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXIV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures and contracts and commitments as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal, earmarking specified administrative expenses. Authorizes funds to be made available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel across the Canal. Authorizes funds to be obligated to permit the payment of pay increases to officers and employees of the Commission to the extent authorized by administrative action. Revises the compensation level for certain Board members of the Commission, as well as certain expenses to be paid for the Deputy Administrator and Chief Engineers of such Commission. Provides retirement annuity eligibility for certain persons who were employed by the Commission between September 30, 1979, and January 1, 2000. Amends the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 to provide that payments made in the form of Workers' Compensation to Commission employees shall be made directly from the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. (Currently, amounts from such Fund are transferred to the Employee Compensation Fund for such payments.) Provides for discontinuance of the Commission Compensation Fund upon a finding by the Secretary of Labor that no further liability exists for workers compensation benefits for Commission employees.
Bill· SS. 2916 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Defense Acquisition Improvement Act of 1990 - Title I: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as to assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Title II: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market research to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level or market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year and divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review on the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of the Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Title III: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Title IV: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Title V: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions.
Bill· SS. 2912 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase or decrease the authorizations for various procurement programs and to increase the authorizations for specified research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) programs. Earmarks specified FY 1990 Marine Corps funds for procurement of M1A1 main battle tanks. Prohibits the further procurement of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines with funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for any fiscal year including FY 1991, other than those submarines currently authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense committees on the need to maintain competition in submarine construction. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend a deadline for full integration of fixed-wing aircraft into the range instrumentation system of the National Test Center. Part B: B-2 Bomber Program - Limits the obligation of FY 1991 funds for procurement and advance procurement of B-2 aircraft. Places additional limitations concerning the procurement of two new production B-2 aircraft during FY 1991. Part C: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs as of the beginning of FY 1991: (1) the 155 millimeter nuclear projectile program; (2) the Air Defense Heavy Missile system; (3) the Follow-On to Lance program; and (4) the Milstar Satellite program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for R&D. Requires such R&D funds to be available for the Strategic Relocatable Target Attack project and the Earth Penetrating Weapons project. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prescribe an acquisition plan for the acquisition of an armored gun system for use on nondevelopmental item vehicles. Prohibits FY 1991 Army acquisition funds from being used for such system except in accordance with such acquisition plan. Places certain restrictions on the armored systems modernization program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to use certain prior-year unobligated funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program, subject to specified conditions and prohibitions. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to complete certain R&D work with respect to the advanced tactical fighter of the Air Force. Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete certain R&D work with respect to the Army light helicopter program. Prohibits funds from FY 1991 from being obligated for full-scale development of the Army advanced tank cannon program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to acquire aircraft for the Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group to replace certain other aircraft. Authorizes the use of funds to convert the existing space launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for use as a Titan IV launch facility. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds of FY 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Requires a report on the allocation of FY 1991 SDI funding. Describes certain limitations on the development and testing of antiballistic missile systems or components and the use of funding for such purposes. Prohibits the obligation of funding for any operational test and evaluation in support of a strategic defense system or a program, project, or activity of SDI. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance expenses for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities-defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration-defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs and those necessitated as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital within DOD. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds authorized in this title for training and operations of the military services to ensure that high priority military forces are maintained at appropriate readiness levels. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, by the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the operation of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Part B: Program Changes and Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the authority governing the operation of working-capital funded activities within DOD. Repeals: (1) a restriction on the contracting-out of core logistics functions; and (2) prohibitions on the use of competitions among defense maintenance activities in the selection of entities to perform depot maintenance workloads. Authorizes naval shipyards and naval aviation depots to compete during FY 1991 for contracts for the production of defense related articles and for the provision of services related to defense programs. Requires successful bids under such contracts to include all direct and indirect cost factors. Requires the Secretary to issue a single, uniform policy on the management of inventory items of DOD. Requires personnel evaluations for acquisition personnel within DOD to include consideration of efforts to eliminate wasteful practices and achieve cost savings in the acquisition and management of inventory items. Lifts a certain naval homeporting restriction in the case of voyage repairs. Extends to March 1, 1991, the date for completion of a waste recycling study under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to carry out the mission of hurricane reconnaisance during FY 1991 unless another Federal department or agency assumes such responsibility and has adequate funding. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain oversight expenses associated with environmental response actions at DOD facilities. Prohibits FY 1991 funds from being obligated for the purchase of performance bonds and similar guaranties for the performance of any direct function by DOD. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991 and 1995. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being involuntarily separated unless the Secretary of the military department concerned has made certain certifications to the defense committees and followed certain procedures with respect to military force reduction actions. Defines those military personnel to be covered under such prohibition as those who: (1) are serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; (2) have five or more years of active service in the armed forces; (3) if involuntarily separated, would not be immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay; and (4) if involuntarily separated, would be eligible for employment transition assistance under specified Federal provisions. Specifies limits on the authorized strength for general and flag officers on active duty effective FY 1991 and 1995. Reduces the current authorized number of active-duty Air Force colonels. Exempts certain three-star generals and flag officer positions from fiscal year strength level limitations. Authorizes the President to designate not more than six such positions as exempted. Prohibits the delegation of such presidential authority. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Prescribes end strength reductions or increases based on the number of units of the Selected Reserve component on active duty. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate the reserve forces in order to meet national security requirements. Prescribes the number of personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of reserve personnel for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to assign active component members to reserve units to meet the requirements of the reserve components. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal an increase under such Act in the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to DOD for military personnel. Part E: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD for FY 1991. Outlines provisions regarding the counting of such personnel within such end strengths (including or excluding certain personnel categories from such limitations). Authorizes the Secretary to exceed such end strength limitation when determined necessary for the national interest. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of senior level civilian DOD employees, such reduction to be phased in gradually over five years beginning in FY 1992. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Personnel Management Matters - Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned, over the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to take specified actions designed to enhance the early retirement incentives for officer personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reduce from three to two years the time-in-grade required for an officer to retain such grade upon a voluntary retirement effective during such five-year period. Requires the maximum number of officers in the grade in which an officer was retired under such provision to be reduced whenever the Secretary approves such reduction in time-in-grade. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary concerned, during such five-year period, to reduce the required period of active service as a commissioned officer before retirement from at least ten years to no less than eight years. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and desirability of initially appointing all commissioned officers in the armed forces as reserve officers; and (2) the appropriate active duty service obligation for graduates of the service academies. Part B: Other Matters - Revises provisions concerning Navy rations to authorize the President to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration and to replace any such rations with other articles if economy and the health and comfort of naval personnel require such action. Repeals the authority of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate cadets and midshipmen for appointment to the service academies. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay consistent with the FY 1991 adjustment in the General Schedule of the Federal Government, providing instead a 3.5 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence, effective January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for funding permanent change of station moves in FY 1991. Part B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pay - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to terminate the bonus installments normally due to a member who does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid or who ceases to perform in the specialty for which a bonus was paid under the selective reenlistment bonus program. Increases the monthly special pay authorized for optometrists in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of incentive pay for qualified intensive-care nurses and certified nurse-midwives. Authorizes special pay for officers in the armed forces or the Public Health Service Corps who have been awarded a Certificate as a Diplomate in a special area of practice approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Provides the yearly rate of such special pay based on years of creditable service. Part C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such a member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 which terminated the authority for the payment of costs of labor furnished in connection with the transportation of baggage and household goods. Authorizes the Secretary to authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for civilian and military personnel and their dependents when public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or unavailable. Authorizes a specified baggage and household goods weight allowance for cadets and midshipmen in connection with a change of temporary or permanent station. Part D: Other Benefits - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits such reimbursement to $2,000 per adoption and $5,000 per year. Provides identical provisions for members of the Coast Guard. Part E: Transition Assistance for Persons Involuntarily Discharged or Released from Active Duty - Authorizes the payment of separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of a denial of reenlistment, who has completed five or more, but less than 20, years of active service, and who is serving on at least a second enlistment. Repeals certain current limitations on the amount of separation pay authorized. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the premiums for health insurance provided on a voluntary basis to a member of the uniformed services upon discharge or release from active duty for the month in which such member is discharged or released and the six months after such release or discharge in the case of any member who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who has completed two or more years of continuous service. Covers the member and his or her dependents. Covers preexisting health conditions for one year following such discharge or release. Provides an exception for coverage of premiums if the Secretary determines that conditions under which the person was discharged or released do not warrant such benefits. Terminates such authority after September 30, 1995. Provides eligibility for basic educational assistance under the armed forces or veterans' educational assistance programs for persons involuntarily discharged or released from active duty. Provides conditions and limitations to such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Labor and Veterans Affairs and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, to conduct a program to furnish employment, education, and other information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated from the armed forces. Requires such services to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Outlines services and activities to be provided under such program. Requires the Secretary, within the 180-day period prior to such discharge or release, to: (1) notify the member of the date of separation; and (2) brief such member on the availability of the benefits and services provided under the information program. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, veterans' employment representatives, other employment services personnel, and representatives of veterans' services organizations to furnish the employment and training information and services under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide such program. Requires coordination of such program with similar veterans' programs. Provides that, in the preparation for discharge or release from active duty of members stationed outside the United States whose dependents accompanied them, the Secretary shall to the extent feasible reassign the member and their dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of such member's tour of active duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report to the Congress, the President, and the Secretary regarding effective and practical ways of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to members being involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces. Repeals current Federal law which: (1) prohibits a Federal employee from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service in any benefit year. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Prohibits a reduction in the number of medical personnel serving on active duty or in the reserve components of the armed forces below the number serving on September 30, 1989, unless the Secretary: (1) certifies to the defense committees that the number being reduced is excess; and (2) includes in the certification certain information concerning current and projected requirements of medical personnel in the armed forces. Authorizes the United States to recover from third party insurance providers the reasonable costs for health care services (currently, only inpatient hospital care) provided in military medical facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents. Repeals a provision of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) which denies as a covered medical expense the services of pastoral counselors, family and child counselors, and marital counselors. Extends through 1994 (currently, 1990) a demonstration program under which health care is furnished to military personnel and their dependents in certain Public Health Service hospitals as part of a cost-comparison study. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as to assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Part B: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market research to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level of market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year and divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review of the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of the Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part D: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Part E: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Matter - Part A: Force Structure - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to reduce the end strength under such Act for military personnel assigned to duty in Europe. Authorizes the President to waive such force limitations in the national interest as long as the Congress is notified. Requires the Secretary to reduce by four percent per year for FY 1991 through 1995 the number of DOD acquisition workforce employees, as well as the number of military and civilian employees assigned to management headquarters activities and headquarters support activities. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a joint review of all intelligence-related activities under certain national and foreign intelligence programs. Reduces the number of personnel assigned or detailed to such intelligence programs. Establishes for FY 1991 a special account to be managed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and used to provide funds to commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the U.S. Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for listed activities. Provides funding amounts and limitations. Part B: General Management Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine mobility requirements for the armed forces and to develop an integrated plan to meet those requirements. Requires a report. Eliminates the statutory position of the Chief of Naval Research. Title X: Strategic Environmental Research Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program (Program) to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified R&D funds authorized under this Act for the Program and its activities. Title XI: Drug Interdiction - Earmarks specified drug interdiction and counterdrug activities funds authorized under this Act for drug interdiction and counterdrug activities for FY 1991 in the following areas: (1) operations and maintenance; (2) procurement; (3) National Guard Bureau pay and allowances; (4) research, development, test, and evaluation; and (5) minor construction. Authorizes the Secretary to provide support to such activities in other Federal departments and agencies if requested and if funds are available. Provides purposes and activities for which such funding is to be utilized. Authorizes the Secretary to plan and execute otherwise valid military training or operations in order to aid civilian agencies in drug interdiction and counterdrug activities. Title XII: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in Division A of this Act between any authorizations contained therein for FY 1991. Provides transfer limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for military personnel, operations, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress a six-year defense program in lieu of a five-year plan. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to specified congressional committees annually the current five-year foreign intelligence program reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations required to support such program. Revises provisions concerning the formats for presentation of DOD matters in the annual budget submitted to the President and the Congress. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Requires the President to report on U.S. security arrangements and commitments worldwide. Revises reporting requirements with respect to special access (classified) programs of DOD. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the addition of more nuclear risk reduction measures. Commends the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union for their joint statements on the pursuit of additional nuclear confidence-building measures. Asks the President to invite the Soviet Union to conduct reviews and enter into discussions in order to agree on additional roles and functions that could be assigned to the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers to lessen the risks of the accidental outbreak of nuclear war. Earmarks specified R&D funds for making a grant for the support of research by emigrants from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba regarding political, economic, social, and other developments in those countries. Title XIII: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces and military pay and allowances provisions. Repeals specified reports and notifications required under various national defense authorization Acts, as well as under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies specified reports currently required under Federal armed forces provisions and under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Part C: Report Provisions Previously Terminated by Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, National Guard provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, and specified military authorization Acts which were terminated by a provision of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Restores one reporting requirement previously terminated by such Act. Repeals the reports termination section of such Act. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. Title XIV: Guard and Reserve Initiative - Part A: Utilization of Reserve Components - Declares that: (1) the structure and strength of the current reserve components should be preserved; (2) the equipment levels in such components should be increased to match their active-duty counterparts; (3) selective missions of active duty forces should be transferred to the reserve components; (4) equipment available to the reserves should be modernized; and (5) integration of active and reserve components should be promoted. Part B: Force Structure - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Part C: Military Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding use of, and funding for, the annual muster to inform Ready Reserve personnel of their continuing obligation for immediate service in the active military forces in the event of a war or national emergency. Requires members of the Ready Reserve, as a condition of eligibility for certain military-to-civilian transitional assistance provided under current law and certain provisions of this Act, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the military department concerned to serve in the Ready Reserve for three years following the person's discharge or release from active duty. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the desirability of requiring active-duty officers to serve a minimum of two years in support of a National Guard or Reserve unit as a condition of eligibility for consideration for promotion to certain grades. Prohibits certain members of the reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components, after the end of FY 1991, from being assigned to duty with any unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (ROTC). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1993 (currently, 1990) the authority for the payment of special pay for critically short wartime health services specialists in the Selected Reserve. Provides special pay for reserve medical officers serving in military medical facilities. Authorizes a member of a military department who would be eligible for retired pay except for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to have commissary privileges in DOD facilities for 12 days each year. Authorizes for such members and members of the Selected Reserve in good standing and their dependents unrestricted use of military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel. Part D: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for procurement by the reserve components of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute not less than 24 CH-47 aircraft to the Army National Guard under a plan devised by such Secretary in which CH-54 aircraft are retired gradually through FY 1993 to make room for the CH-47s. Earmarks specified funds authorized under this Act for: (1) MH-53 minesweeper helicopters; and (2) AH-1W helicopters.
Bill· SS. 2908 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Military Personnel Transition Assistance Act of 1990 - Authorizes the payment of separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of a denial of reenlistment, who has completed five or more, but less than 20, years of active service, and who is serving on at least a second enlistment. Repeals certain current limitations on the amount of separation pay authorized. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to pay the premiums for health insurance provided on a voluntary basis to a member of the uniformed services upon discharge or release from active duty for the month in which such member is discharged or released and the six months after such release or discharge in the case of any member who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who has completed two or more years of continuous service. Covers the member and his or her dependents. Covers preexisting health conditions for one year following such discharge or release. Provides an exception for coverage of premiums if the Secretary determines that conditions under which the person was discharged or released do not warrant such benefits. Terminates such authority after September 30, 1995. Provides eligibility for basic educational assistance under the armed forces or veterans' educational assistance programs for persons involuntarily discharged or released from active duty. Provides conditions and limitations to such program. Directs the Secretary of Defense, in conjunction with the Secretaries of Labor and Veterans Affairs and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, to conduct a program to furnish employment, education, and other information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated from the armed forces. Requires such services to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Outlines services and activities to be provided under such program. Requires the Secretary, within the 180-day period prior to such discharge or release, to: (1) notify the member of the date of separation; and (2) brief such member on the availability of the benefits and services provided under the information program. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, veterans' employment representatives, other employment services personnel, and representatives of veterans' services organizations to furnish the employment and training information and services under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide such program. Requires coordination of such program with similar veterans' programs. Provides that, in the preparation for discharge or release from active duty of members stationed outside the United States whose dependents accompanied them, the Secretary shall to the extent feasible reassign the member and their dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of such member's tour of duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report to the Congress, the President, and the Secretary regarding effective and practical ways of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to members being involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces. Repeals current Federal law which: (1) prohibits a Federal employee from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service in any benefit year. Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty.
Bill· SS. 2914 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
National Defense Programs Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Title I: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1991 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors development; (9) safeguards and security construction; (10) site management construction; and (11) capital equipment not related to construction. Earmarks specified DOE operating expense funds for payment of the second installment of a settlement entered into by DOE in a specified court suit. Prohibits the reprogramming of funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1991 for atomic energy defense activities if such reprogramming would reduce the amount made available to DOE for the defense inertial confinement fusion program for FY 1991. Limits the manner in which funds authorized for special isotope separation may be used to program phaseout only. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified DOD R&D funds for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction, planning, and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit a report on the remanufacture of nuclear stockpile weapons as directed under a prior Senate report. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing the Government-owned and contractor-operated laboratories that are funded by DOE national security programs to engage in independent laboratory-directed research and development programs. Provides funding. Part C: Environment, Safety, and Management - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to allow DOE contractors and subcontractors carrying out certain activities at the Hanford Reservation, Washington (a DOE center for national security programs) to loan personnel and facilities to community development organizations near the Reservation. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees on a quarterly basis during FY 1991 and 1992 reports on DOE compliance with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 concerning the environmental impact of proposed DOE actions. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring to any other Federal department or agency his authority with respect to site management, control, or oversight of environmental remediation and restoration activities at any DOE facility. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight expenses borne by such agency with regard to environmental response actions at DOD facilities conducted pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Title II: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title III: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title IV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures and contracts and commitments as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal, earmarking specified administrative expenses. Authorizes funds to be made available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel across the Canal. Authorizes funds to be obligated to permit the payment of pay increases to officers and employees of the Commission to the extent authorized by administrative action. Revises the compensation level for certain Board members of the Commission, as well as certain expenses to be paid for the Deputy Administrator and Chief Engineers of such Commission. Provides retirement annuity eligibility for certain persons who were employed by the Commission between September 30, 1979, and January 1, 2000. Amends the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 to provide that payments made in the form of workers' compensation to Commission employees shall be made directly from the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. (Currently, amounts from such Fund are transferred to the Employee Compensation Fund for such payments.) Provides for discontinuance of the Commission Compensation Fund upon a finding by the Secretary of Labor that no further liability exists for workers compensation benefits for Commission employees.
Bill· SS. 2910 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Department of Defense Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities of the Department of Defense (DOD). Earmarks amounts for specified operations and maintenance, procurement, research, development, test, evaluation, and construction activities and for pay and allowances. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, if requested by an appropriate official and funds are available, to provide support for the counter-drug activities of any other Federal agency or State or local civilian law enforcement agency for: (1) the maintenance and repair of equipment; (2) the transportation of personnel or supplies and equipment to facilitate counter-drug activities within or outside the United States; (3) the establishment and operations of bases or training facilities to facilitate such activities; (4) counter-drug related training of Federal, State, and local law enforcement personnel; and (5) aerial and ground reconnaissance outside, at, or near U.S. borders. Permits the Secretary to: (1) provide such support in any case in which the support would adversely affect the military preparedness of the United States if the importance of providing such support outweighs the short-term adverse effect on such preparedness; and (2) plan and execute otherwise valid military training or operations to aid civilian agencies.
Bill· SS. 2906 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase or decrease the authorizations for various procurement programs and to increase the authorizations for specified research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) programs. Earmarks specified FY 1990 Marine Corps funds for procurement of M1A1 main battle tanks. Prohibits the further procurement of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines with funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for any fiscal year including FY 1991, other than those submarines currently authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense committees on the need to maintain competition in submarine construction. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend a deadline for full integration of fixed-wing aircraft into the range instrumentation system of the National Test Center. Part B: B-2 Bomber Program - Limits the obligation of FY 1991 funds for procurement and advance procurement of B-2 aircraft. Places additional limitations concerning the procurement of two new production B-2 aircraft during FY 1991. Part C: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs as of the beginning of FY 1991: (1) the 155 millimeter nuclear projectile program; (2) the Air Defense Heavy Missile system; (3) the Follow-On to Lance program; and (4) the Milstar Satellite program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for R&D. Requires such R&D funds to be available for the Strategic Relocatable Target Attack project and the Earth Penetrating Weapons project. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prescribe an acquisition plan for the acquisition of an armored gun system for use on nondevelopmental item vehicles. Prohibits FY 1991 Army acquisition funds from being used for such system except in accordance with such acquisition plan. Places certain restrictions on the armored systems modernization program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to use certain prior-year unobligated funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program, subject to specified conditions and prohibitions. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to complete certain R&D work with respect to the advanced tactical fighter of the Air Force. Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete certain R&D work with respect to the Army light helicopter program. Prohibits funds from FY 1991 from being obligated for full-scale development of the Army advanced tank cannon program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to acquire aircraft for the Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group to replace certain other aircraft. Authorizes the use of funds to convert the existing space launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for use as a Titan IV launch facility. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds of FY 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Requires a report on the allocation of FY 1991 SDI funding. Describes certain limitations on the development and testing of antiballistic missile systems or components and the use of funding for such purposes. Prohibits the obligation of funding for any operational test and evaluation in support of a strategic defense system or a program, project, or activity of SDI. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance expenses for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities-defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration-defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs and those necessitated as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital within DOD. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds authorized in this title for training and operations of the military services to ensure that high priority military forces are maintained at appropriate readiness levels. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, by the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the operation of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Part B: Program Changes and Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the authority governing the operation of working-capital funded activities within DOD. Repeals: (1) a restriction on the contracting-out of core logistics functions; and (2) prohibitions on the use of competitions among defense maintenance activities in the selection of entities to perform depot maintenance workloads. Authorizes naval shipyards and naval aviation depots to compete during FY 1991 for contracts for the production of defense related articles and for the provision of services related to defense programs. Requires successful bids under such contracts to include all direct and indirect cost factors. Requires the Secretary to issue a single, uniform policy on the management of inventory items of DOD. Requires personnel evaluations for acquisition personnel within DOD to include consideration of efforts to eliminate wasteful practices and achieve cost savings in the acquisition and management of inventory items. Lifts a certain naval homeporting restriction in the case of voyage repairs. Extends to March 1, 1991, the date for completion of a waste recycling study under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to carry out the mission of hurricane reconnaisance during FY 1991 unless another Federal department or agency assumes such responsibility and has adequate funding. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain oversight expenses associated with environmental response actions at DOD facilities. Prohibits FY 1991 funds from being obligated for the purchase of performance bonds and similar guaranties for the performance of any direct function by DOD. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991 and 1995. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being involuntarily separated unless the Secretary of the military department concerned has made certain certifications to the defense committees and followed certain procedures with respect to military force reduction actions. Defines those military personnel to be covered under such prohibition as those who: (1) are serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; (2) have five or more years of active service in the armed forces; (3) if involuntarily separated, would not be immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay; and (4) if involuntarily separated, would be eligible for employment transition assistance under specified Federal provisions. Specifies limits on the authorized strength for general and flag officers on active duty effective FY 1991 and 1995. Reduces the current authorized number of active-duty Air Force colonels. Exempts certain three-star generals and flag officer positions from fiscal year strength level limitations. Authorizes the President to designate not more than six such positions as exempted. Prohibits the delegation of such presidential authority. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Prescribes end strength reductions or increases based on the number of units of the Selected Reserve component on active duty. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate the reserve forces in order to meet national security requirements. Prescribes the number of personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of reserve personnel for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to assign active component members to reserve units to meet the requirements of the reserve components. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal an increase under such Act in the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to DOD for military personnel. Part E: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD for FY 1991. Outlines provisions regarding the counting of such personnel within such end strengths (including or excluding certain personnel categories from such limitations). Authorizes the Secretary to exceed such end strength limitation when determined necessary for the national interest. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of senior level civilian DOD employees, such reduction to be phased in gradually over five years beginning in FY 1992. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Personnel Management Matters - Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned, over the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to take specified actions designed to enhance the early retirement incentives for officer personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reduce from three to two years the time-in-grade required for an officer to retain such grade upon a voluntary retirement effective during such five-year period. Requires the maximum number of officers in the grade in which an officer was retired under such provision to be reduced whenever the Secretary approves such reduction in time-in-grade. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary concerned, during such five-year period, to reduce the required period of active service as a commissioned officer before retirement from at least ten years to no less than eight years. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and desirability of initially appointing all commissioned officers in the armed forces as reserve officers; and (2) the appropriate active duty service obligation for graduates of the service academies. Part B: Other Matters - Revises provisions concerning Navy rations to authorize the President to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration and to replace any such rations with other articles if economy and the health and comfort of naval personnel require such action. Repeals the authority of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate cadets and midshipmen for appointment to the service academies. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay consistent with the FY 1991 adjustment in the General Schedule of the Federal Government, providing instead a 3.5 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence effective January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for funding permanent change of station moves in FY 1991. Part B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pay - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to terminate the bonus installments normally due to a member who does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid or who ceases to perform in the specialty for which a bonus was paid under the selective reenlistment bonus program. Increases the monthly special pay authorized for optometrists in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of incentive pay for qualified intensive-care nurses and certified nurse-midwives. Authorizes special pay for officers in the armed forces or the Public Health Service Corps who have been awarded a Certificate as a Diplomate in a special area of practice approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Provides the yearly rate of such special pay based on years of creditable service. Part C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such a member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 which terminated the authority for the payment of costs of labor furnished in connection with the transportation of baggage and household goods. Authorizes the Secretary to authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for civilian and military personnel and their dependents when public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or unavailable. Authorizes a specified baggage and household goods weight allowance for cadets and midshipmen in connection with a change of temporary or permanent station. Part D: Other Benefits - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits such reimbursement to $2,000 per adoption and $5,000 per year. Provides identical provisions for members of the Coast Guard. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Prohibits a reduction in the number of medical personnel serving on active duty or in the reserve components of the armed forces below the number serving on September 30, 1989, unless the Secretary: (1) certifies to the defense committees that the number being reduced is excess; and (2) includes in the certification certain information concerning current and projected requirements of medical personnel in the armed forces. Authorizes the United States to recover from third party insurance providers the reasonable costs for health care services (currently, only inpatient hospital care) provided in military medical facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents. Repeals a provision of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) which denies as a covered medical expense the services of pastoral counselors, family and child counselors, and marital counselors. Extends through 1994 (currently, 1990) a demonstration program under which health care is furnished to military personnel and their dependents in certain Public Health Service hospitals as part of a cost-comparison study. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as to assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Part B: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market research to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level of market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year and divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review of the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of the Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part D: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Part E: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable, mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Matter - Part A: Force Structure - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to reduce the end strength under such Act for military personnel assigned to duty in Europe. Authorizes the President to waive such force limitations in the national interest as long as the Congress is notified. Requires the Secretary to reduce by four percent per year for FY 1991 through 1995 the number of DOD acquisition workforce employees, as well as the number of military and civilian employees assigned to management headquarters activities and headquarters support activities. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a joint review of all intelligence-related activities under certain national and foreign intelligence programs. Reduces the number of personnel assigned or detailed to such intelligence programs. Establishes for FY 1991 a special account to be managed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and used to provide funds to commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the U.S. Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for listed activities. Provides funding amounts and limitations. Part B: General Management Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine mobility requirements for the armed forces and to develop an integrated plan to meet those requirements. Requires a report. Eliminates the statutory position of the Chief of Naval Research. Title X: Strategic Environmental Research Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program (Program) to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified R&D funds authorized under this Act for the Program and its activities. Title XII (sic): General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in Division A of this Act between any authorizations contained therein for FY 1991. Provides transfer limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for military personnel, operations, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress a six-year defense program in lieu of a five-year plan. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to specified congressional committees annually the current five-year foreign intelligence program reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations required to support such program. Revises provisions concerning the formats for presentation of DOD matters in the annual budget submitted to the President and the Congress. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Requires the President to report on U.S. security arrangements and commitments worldwide. Revises reporting requirements with respect to special access (classified) programs of DOD. Earmarks specified R&D funds for making a grant for the support of research by emigrants from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba regarding political, economic, social, and other developments in those countries. Title XIII: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces and military pay and allowances provisions. Repeals specified reports and notifications required under various national defense authorization Acts, as well as under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies specified reports currently required under Federal armed forces provisions and under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Part C: Report Provisions Previously Terminated by Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, National Guard provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, and specified military authorization Acts which were terminated by a provision of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Restores one reporting requirement previously terminated by such Act. Repeals the reports termination section of such Act. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. Title XIV: Guard and Reserve Initiative - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, military family housing functions, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXII: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXIII: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized in this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a building on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for a R&D facility. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, base closure and realignment activities authorized under prior law, conforming storage facilities constructed under prior law, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces, in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1992, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1993, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to extend through FY 1991 the military housing rental guarantee program. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire an option to acquire or lease (currently, only acquire) a parcel of real property before its acquisition or lease is authorized by law, if it is considered suitable and needed by his Department. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units if the Secretary complies with certain congressional notification requirements. Transfers jurisdiction, custody, operation and control of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon building and its surrounding facilities and parking lots) to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel to perform law enforcement and security functions on the Reservation. Establishes in the Treasury the Pentagon Maintenance Revolving Fund for real property management, operation, construction, repair and related activities at the Reservation. Transfers funds to the Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) take such actions as necessary to close or realign any military installation chosen to be so closed or realigned; (2) provide economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; (3) carry out environmental restoration and mitigation activities; and (4) provide outplacement assistance to civilian DOD employees of military installations being closed or realigned. Provides funding for each such purpose. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to utilize or dispose of real property with respect to excess and surplus real property located at a military installation being closed or realigned. Outlines other conditions concerning such transfer and disposal authority, including a requirement that the Secretary consult with the Governor and the heads of local government of the State involved in a property disposal or transfer for the purpose of considering any plan for the use of such property by the local community concerned. States the applicability and inapplicability of certain laws to any action taken by the Secretary with respect to a base realignment or closure. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Account to be used by the Secretary for base closure and realignment activities. Provides that when funds from the Account are used for such purposes and the cost of the project will exceed the maximum amount authorized by law for a minor military construction project, the Secretary must notify the appropriate congressional committees of the nature of, and the justification for, the expenditure of such sum. Provides for the transfer of certain funds for the homeowners assistance program. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to entitle a Federal employee who is entitled to reemployment as a result of the closure or realignment of an overseas U.S. military installation to all benefits provided under such Act to employees currently employed at such installations. Provides that, in the case of a publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major defense acquisition program, community planning assistance may be provided if the reduction, cancellation, termination, or failure will have a direct and significant impact on a community and will result in the loss of: (1) not less than 2,500 jobs, in the case of an urban area; (2) not less than 1,000 jobs, in the case of a rural area; or (3) one percent or more of the labor force in either such area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide that if the Secretary determines land under DOD control is excess property, the Secretary shall request the Administrator of GSA to dispose of such land under provisions of such Act. Provides for the deposit and authorized uses of funds derived from such disposal. Provides authorized uses for money rentals received pursuant to leases entered into by the Secretary of a military department in the leasing of DOD assets. Requires at least 50 percent of such moneys received to be made available for maintenance and repair of facilities or for environmental restoration expenses at such facilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the case of any military facility outside the United States released in whole or in part to a host nation, the United States should be the lead official in determining the residual value of such facility and should only be required to pay for the percentage of environmental cleanup required at such facility that is based on the determined residual value. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account for the collection of the residual value of any property of DOD released to host nations. Allows such funds to be used for facility maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration at such released facilities. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to modify the reporting requirements of the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities with respect to possible use of such facilities as Federal confinement or correctional facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to jointly conduct a study to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of converting airfields under the jurisdiction of each military department: (1) to civilian use; or (2) in the case of any airfield which continues to be used for military purposes, to joint military and civilian use. Provides study funding. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Land Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) release to the University of Arkansas all rights and interest of the United States in specified real property in Arkansas leased by the United States to the University; and (2) convey to the University all interest in all improvements constructed on such land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville, Alabama, all rights and interest to a parcel of real property at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, that is currently being leased to the Authority. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture certain real property at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands so as to preserve the paleontological, archaeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area. Outlines other permissible uses for such area, including research activities and livestock grazing. Prohibits such area from being used for the storage or processing of any type of waste. Directs the Secretary to develop a management plan for such area. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Delaware all rights and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, known as the Fort Meade Recreation Area. Requires reversion to the United States if such property is used for any purpose other than for public park or recreational use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to pay Florida a specified amount solely to assist such State in relocating the Florida Solar Energy Center from Cape Canaveral Air Station to a new site in Florida other than on federally-owned land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Columbus, Georgia, all rights and interest to a specified portion of Fort Benning, Georgia, in exchange for a tract of land to be conveyed to the United States and located adjacent to the southern boundary of Fort Benning. Provides for monetary consideration if the fair market value of the lands exchanged is not found to be equal. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with Hawaii providing that the Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, be used for general civilian aviation and military purposes jointly. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Hawaii all rights and interest to a portion of Dillingham Military Reservation, Mokuleia, Hawaii, on the condition that such property be used for joint military and civilian use as an airfield by the State and the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Civic Foundation, Incorporated, a nonprofit Indiana corporation, the property in South Bend, Indiana, known as the Northside Army Reserve Training Center, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Kansas City, Missouri, all rights and interest to a parcel of land located near the family housing area of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release to Oregon the reversionary interest of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon, in exchange for Oregon agreeing to convey to the United States a contingent interest in land comprising Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all rights and interest of the United States in and to the land comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, under specified conditions. Requires such conveyance to be made within one year of enactment of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with such University which would provide for joint use between the University and the Army Reserve of existing utility facilities at Fort Douglas and equitable sharing of the cost of such utilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Burlington, Vermont, all rights and interest to specified real property comprising the Naval Reserve Center, Burlington, Vermont. Terminates the authority for such conveyance if not made by January 1, 1992. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Northern Virginia Regional Correctional Commission all rights and interest to specified land located at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires reversion of such property to the United States if such property is used for purposes other than the construction and operation of a regional correctional facility. Prohibits such facility from housing Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia unless written consent of the government of the county of the facility is obtained. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1991 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors development; (9) safeguards and security construction; (10) site management construction; and (11) capital equipment not related to construction. Earmarks specified DOE operating expenses funds for payment of the second installment of a settlement entered into between DOE in a specified court suit. Prohibits the reprogramming of funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1991 for atomic energy defense activities if such reprogramming would reduce the amount made available to DOE for the defense inertial confinement fusion program for FY 1991. Limits the manner in which funds authorized for special isotope separation may be used to program phaseout only. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified DOD R&D funds for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction, planning, and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit a report on the remanufacture of nuclear stockpile weapons as directed under a prior Senate report. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing the government-owned and contractor-operated laboratories that are funded by DOE national security programs to engage in independent laboratory-directed research and development programs. Provides funding. Part C: Environment, Safety, and Management - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to allow DOE contractors and subcontractors carrying out certain activities at the Hanford Reservation, Washington, (a DOE center for national security programs) to loan personnel and facilities to community development organizations near the Reservation. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees on a quarterly basis during FY 1991 and 1992 reports on DOE compliance with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 concerning the environmental impact of proposed DOE actions. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring to any other Federal department or agency his authority with respect to site management, control, or oversight of environmental remediation and restoration activities at any DOE facility. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency for oversight expenses borne by such agency with regard to environmental response actions at DOD facilities conducted pursuant to the Comprehensive Environment Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXIV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures and contracts and commitments as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal, earmarking specified administrative expenses. Authorizes funds to be made available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel across the Canal. Authorizes funds to be obligated to permit the payment of pay increases to officers and employees of the Commission to the extent authorized by administrative action. Revises the compensation level for certain Board members of the Commission, as well as certain expenses to be paid for the Deputy Administrator and Chief Engineers of such Commission. Provides retirement annuity eligibility for certain persons who were employed by the Commission between September 30, 1979, and January 1, 2000. Amends the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 to provide that payments made in the form of Workers' Compensation to Commission employees shall be made directly from the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. (Currently, amounts from such Fund are transferred to the Employee Compensation Fund for such payments.) Provides for discontinuance of the Commission Compensation Fund upon a finding by the Secretary of Labor that no further liability exists for workers compensation benefits for Commission employees.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 441 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1990
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 5313 (military construction funding).
Bill· SS. 2893 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Defense Realignment and Worker Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Industrial Diversification Study - Directs the Secretary of Commerce, in consultation with the Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), the Secretary of Defense, and the Director of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA), to study the extent to which diversification of defense industries to non-defense production can be effectuated. Requires a report from the Secretary of Commerce on the study's results. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Presidential Council on Economic Diversification and Adjustment - Establishes in the Executive Office of the President the Council on Economic Diversification and Adjustment, co-chaired by the Secretaries of Commerce and Labor, and the Office of Economic Diversification and Adjustment. Outlines Council duties, including the identification of defense related impact problems of States, metropolitan areas, or communities requiring assistance, the dissemination of aid and assistance information, and the development of strategies and plans for Federal, State, and local economic adjustment efforts necessitated as the result of the termination or reduction of a defense contract or the closure or realignment of a defense facility which substantially adversely affects the local community involved. Requires the Council to prepare and distribute an economic diversification and adjustment handbook containing explanations, outlines, information, and directories concerning the economic diversification required for workers in a community as the result of curtailment of defense production. Requires the Secretary of Defense to notify the Council at least one year in advance of a pending or proposed change in defense spending that would affect local employment in the defense industry. Requires the Council to submit an annual report to the Congress on the required economic diversification and adjustment for the previous year. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Defense Industrial Diversification Accounts - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow any qualified defense facility to establish a defense industrial diversification account for the purpose of providing qualified plant and equipment in the United States or the retraining of employees in order to convert qualified defense facilities from predominately relying on defense contracts to non-defense lines of business. Restricts deposits to such accounts to the sum of: (1) depreciation allowances with respect to eligible plant and equipment; (2) net proceeds from the sale or other disposition of such plant and equipment, or insurance or indemnity attributable to such plant and equipment; and (3) receipts from investment of amounts in such accounts. Allows deposits to such accounts during the five-year period after its establishment. Restricts deposits after the fifth taxable year to receipts from investments. Provides for the nontaxability of earnings deposited into such accounts. Allows withdrawals over a ten-year period for: (1) acquisition, construction, or reconstruction of qualified plant and equipment; (2) the payment of principal on indebtedness incurred in connection with plant and equipment acquisition construction, or reconstruction; or (3) the retraining or continued education of employees. Provides for taxation of nonqualified withdrawals. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury to report to the Secretary of Defense annually on such accounts. Provides for computing the alternative minimum tax on earnings deposited in such accounts. Title IV: Small Business Diversification - Establishes in the SBA a Committee on Defense and Economic Diversification and an Office of Economic Diversification. Directs the Committee to: (1) carry out programs under title V of this Act; (2) identify defense related problems of small business that require assistance; (3) disseminate information useful to small business concerns; (4) prepare a plan for coordinating the efforts of the SBA and the Administration's programs for assisting firms adversely affected by defense cutbacks; and (5) work with and coordinate efforts with the President's Office of Economic Diversification and Adjustment to assist small businesses in finding alternative procurement opportunities with Federal agencies. Authorizes appropriations. Title V: Small Business Assistance - Empowers the Administrator of the SBA to make either loans or grants to a qualified small manufacturing firm to assist such firm to diversify from defense related to nondefense related business. Outlines loan and grant limits, conditions, and specific purposes. Directs the Administrator to promulgate regulations to carry out this title. Authorizes appropriations. Title VI: Economic Adjustment Assistance for Employees - Prohibits an employer or defense agency from ordering a closing or a significant workforce reduction in a defense facility which is prompted by the cancellation of a defense contract, or a significant reduction in the volume of defense work in relation to total defense work in such facility, until the end of a 90-day period after the employer or defense agency has served written notice to appropriate employee representatives and to the State dislocated worker unit. Defines a "significant workforce reduction" as a reduction of: (1) at least 50 employees if such amount constitutes at least 33 percent of the workforce; or (2) at least 300 employees. Requires all displacements of workers employed by a defense agency, or of civilian workers employed by the armed services, to be reported by the management of the defense facility to the Office of Economic Diversification and Adjustment and to the State employment security agency acting as the agent of the Secretary of Labor for the administration of the program under this title. Requires the Office to certify eligibility of displaced workers under this title for benefits. Provides to displaced workers so certified: (1) severance pay; and (2) health benefits, including minimum health insurance. Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to decrease from 80 to 75 percent of the portion of funds available under such Act for job training and retraining that are to be divided among the States. Increases from 20 to 25 percent of such amount the funds that are to be set aside for special grants to substates for special employment problems (intending displaced worker assistance under this Act to qualify as one such special problem). Directs the Secretary of Labor, in coordination with the Council, to develop statistical data on the permanent dislocation of defense workers due to reductions in defense expenditures, termination or reduction of defense contracts, or the closure or realignment of defense facilities. Requires the Secretary to publish a report after compilation of such data. Directs the Council to enter into agreements with States (or any State agency administering the unemployment compensation laws) under which the State makes all necessary payments for benefits enumerated previously under this title, with reimbursement by the Council. Outlines administrative provisions concerning such payment agreements. Requires moneys not expended for such purposes to be returned to the Defense Economic Adjustment Fund. Requires the Secretary to administer benefits to eligible participating workers in a State in lieu of such a payment agreement. Requires a qualified dislocated worker, in order to continue to receive such benefits, to maintain an active registration with the Secretary or appropriate State employment agency and to accept employment as specified later under this Act if offered. States that the payment of dislocated worker assistance under this title shall in no way affect eligibility for Federal or State unemployment compensation. Terminates such benefits either: (1) on the date that a worker achieves certain qualifying replacement employment; or (2) one year after displacement. Directs the Council to promulgate regulations to carry out this title. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Economic Adjustment Fund. Authorizes appropriations to the Fund for seven fiscal years after enactment of this Act. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exempt from individual retirement account early withdrawal penalties any withdrawals made by dislocated workers and used for either mortgage payments on a primary residence or rent payments for one year following the worker's layoff. Title VII: Community Economic Adjustment Planning - Requires the Secretary of Defense, upon release of the President's budget or any announcement of the realignment or closure of a qualified defense facility, to promptly notify any State or local government affected by the realignment, closure, or contract slowdown or termination which is being proposed or will likely result. Makes eligible for economic adjustment planning assistance any community which: (1) is likely to be substantially and seriously affected by the realignment or closure of a defense facility, or the slowdown, termination, or cancellation of any defense contract; and (2) prepares an analysis and forecast of the effect of any such action on the local economy and workforce as well as a proposal for an economic adjustment plan to reduce the adverse effect of any such action. Requires the Council to review the analyses, forecasts, and proposals submitted. Requires the Council to: (1) publish a list annually of the communities eligible for economic adjustment planning assistance after review of such documentation; and (2) allow a community which failed in such termination to petition the Council for review of such determination for inclusion on such list. Provides that any community found eligible for such assistance by the Council shall be eligible for community planning assistance offered by the Secretary of Defense under specified Federal armed forces provisions. Increases from $2,000,000 to $20,000,000 the fiscal year funding limitation available under the armed forces community planning assistance provisions. Provides that any substantially and seriously affected community shall also be eligible for economic adjustment assistance authorized under title IX of the Public Works and Economic Development Act of 1965. Title VIII: Commercial and Defense Production Integration - Establishes within DOD the Office of Commercial and Defense Production Integration to develop and implement policies, practices, and procedures designed to achieve an effective integration of commercial production processes and defense procurement practices. Attempts to accomplish such integration by increasing the use of commercial products in defense procurement, lowering unit costs in defense production through streamlining acquisition procedures, encouraging integrated processes for manufacturing civilian and defense products, and encouraging research and development of products having both civilian and military applications. Calls for the elimination of unique military specifications in the procurement of defense products and the identification of commercial suppliers that have exhibited high standards of product quality and reliability in commercial or defense production. Requires the Office to assist the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition in the acquisition and increased usage of nondevelopmental items in defense procurement (items that are generally available in the commercial marketplace). Directs the Secretary of Defense, acting through the Office, to conduct not less than three projects to demonstrate the feasibility of achieving effective integration of commercial production processes and military procurement practices. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress at least 30 days in advance of the commencement of each such project, and requires project reports. Title IX: Commission on Military Budget Reform - Establishes the Commission on Military Budget Reform to conduct a study of the desirability and feasibility of the Congress instituting a three-year budget cycle program for DOD. Requires the Commission, in carrying out such study, to consider: (1) the advantages and disadvantages of the three-year budget program; (2) the likely savings from the program; (3) the effects of the program on other activities and programs of DOD, on short and long-range national security planning, and on foreign military sales; (4) the favorable and adverse effects that multiyear defense budgets have had on the defense budget processes of foreign nations that have adopted such programs; and (5) alternative means of carrying out such a program. Requires a findings report from the Commission to the Secretary and the Congress. Provides powers of the Commission as well as other administrative provisions. Terminates the Commission 30 days after its report. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 5357 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Permits procurement technical assistance furnished by eligible entities assisted by the Department of Defense to include technical assistance with respect to procurement with other Federal agencies. Limits the amount available to the Defense Logistics Agency for administering such assistance.
Bill· HJRESH.J.Res. 630 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Declares that the Congress recognizes and commends efforts to provide for the installation of a special gallery at the United States Army Museum at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, devoted to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of military artifacts relating to the Battle of the Bulge.
Resolution· HCONRESH.Con.Res. 355 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1990
Condemns political killings and disappearances in Guatemala and the Guatemalan Government's failure to stem human rights abuses. Declares that: (1) Guatemala should not receive military assistance until the government exercises control over the security forces and human rights abuses have ended; and (2) withheld military assistance and economic assistance should be used to support civilian institutions in Guatemala. Calls upon the Guatemalan Government to investigate and bring to justice those implicated in human rights abuses and to appoint a commission to investigate disappearances. Commends President Bush and the Secretary of State for taking specific actions with respect to Guatemala and urges the Bush Administration to continue monitoring human rights in Guatemala. Supports negotiations by the Guatemalan National Reconciliation Commission and the Guatemalan National Revolutionary Union and calls upon the government and the military to facilitate and strengthen this process.
Bill· HRH.R. 5343 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1990
Permits retired members of the armed forces to be paid retirement pay concurrently with compensation for any service-connected disability if the person's entitlement to such retirement pay is based solely on: (1) age; (2) length of service; or (3) both. Reduces the amount of retirement pay, in the case of individuals receiving both types of pay, by a specified percentage of the disability compensation which decreases as the disability rating increases. Prohibits any reduction in the retirement pay of a disabled person when the disability rating is total.
Bill· SS. 2884 (101st)passed
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for the procurement of aircraft, missiles, weapons and tracked combat vehicles, ammunition, shipbuilding and conversion, and other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for the defense agencies, the Defense Inspector General, the reserve components for procurement, and for the destruction of lethal chemical weapons under the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 to increase or decrease the authorizations for various procurement programs and to increase the authorizations for specified research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) programs. Earmarks specified FY 1990 Marine Corps funds for procurement of M1A1 main battle tanks. Prohibits the further procurement of Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines with funds appropriated to the Department of Defense (DOD) for any fiscal year including FY 1991, other than those submarines currently authorized by law. Requires a report from the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to the defense committees on the need to maintain competition in submarine construction. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend a deadline for full integration of fixed-wing aircraft into the range instrumentation system of the National Test Center. Part B: B-2 Bomber Program - Limits the obligation of FY 1991 funds for procurement and advance procurement of B-2 aircraft. Places additional limitations concerning the procurement of two new production B-2 aircraft during FY 1991. Part C: Program Terminations - Terminates the following programs as of the beginning of FY 1991: (1) the 155 millimeter nuclear projectile program; (2) the Air Defense Heavy Missile system; (3) the Follow-On to Lance program; and (4) the Milstar Satellite program. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and the defense agencies for R&D. Requires such R&D funds to be available for the Strategic Relocatable Target Attack project and the Earth Penetrating Weapons project. Part B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Directs the Secretary of the Army to prescribe an acquisition plan for the acquisition of an armored gun system for use on nondevelopmental item vehicles. Prohibits FY 1991 Army acquisition funds from being used for such system except in accordance with such acquisition plan. Places certain restrictions on the armored systems modernization program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to use certain prior-year unobligated funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program, subject to specified conditions and prohibitions. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to complete certain R&D work with respect to the advanced tactical fighter of the Air Force. Directs the Secretary of the Army to complete certain R&D work with respect to the Army light helicopter program. Prohibits funds from FY 1991 from being obligated for full-scale development of the Army advanced tank cannon program. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to acquire aircraft for the Fleet Electronic Warfare Support Group to replace certain other aircraft. Authorizes the use of funds to convert the existing space launch facility at Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, for use as a Titan IV launch facility. Part C: Strategic Defense Initiative - Earmarks specified R&D funds of FY 1991 for the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI). Requires a report on the allocation of FY 1991 SDI funding. Describes certain limitations on the development and testing of antiballistic missile systems or components and the use of funding for such purposes. Prohibits the obligation of funding for any operational test and evaluation in support of a strategic defense system or a program, project, or activity of SDI. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for operation and maintenance expenses for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the reserves and National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities-defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration-defense, and for humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for such fiscal year for unbudgeted increases for fuel costs and those necessitated as the result of inflation. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for working capital within DOD. Directs the Secretary to allocate funds authorized in this title for training and operations of the military services to ensure that high priority military forces are maintained at appropriate readiness levels. States as the purpose of the humanitarian assistance program to provide transportation and humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds to the Secretary of State for the purpose of providing such assistance. Requires transportation for such assistance, by the most economical means possible, to be under the direction of the Secretary of State. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the operation of the U.S. Soldiers' and Airmen's Home. Part B: Program Changes and Miscellaneous Provisions - Revises the authority governing the operation of working-capital funded activities within DOD. Repeals: (1) a restriction on the contracting-out of core logistics functions; and (2) prohibitions on the use of competitions among defense maintenance activities in the selection of entities to perform depot maintenance workloads. Authorizes naval shipyards and naval aviation depots to compete during FY 1991 for contracts for the production of defense related articles and for the provision of services related to defense programs. Requires successful bids under such contracts to include all direct and indirect cost factors. Requires the Secretary to issue a single, uniform policy on the management of inventory items of DOD. Requires personnel evaluations for acquisition personnel within DOD to include consideration of efforts to eliminate wasteful practices and achieve cost savings in the acquisition and management of inventory items. Lifts a certain naval homeporting restriction in the case of voyage repairs. Extends to March 1, 1991, the date for completion of a waste recycling study under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to continue to carry out the mission of hurricane reconnaissance during FY 1991 unless another Federal department or agency assumes such responsibility and has adequate funding. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for certain oversight expenses associated with environmental response actions at DOD facilities. Prohibits FY 1991 funds from being obligated for the purchase of performance bonds and similar guaranties for the performance of any direct function by DOD. Title IV: Personnel Authorizations for Fiscal Year 1991 - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1991 and 1995. Prohibits a member of the armed forces from being involuntarily separated unless the Secretary of the military department concerned has made certain certifications to the defense committees and followed certain procedures with respect to military force reduction actions. Defines those military personnel to be covered under such prohibition as those who: (1) are serving on active duty or full-time National Guard duty; (2) have five or more years of active service in the armed forces; (3) if involuntarily separated, would not be immediately eligible for retired or retainer pay; and (4) if involuntarily separated, would be eligible for employment transition assistance under specified Federal provisions. Specifies limits on the authorized strength for general and flag officers on active duty effective FY 1991 and 1995. Reduces the current authorized number of active-duty Air Force colonels. Exempts certain three-star generals and flag officer positions from fiscal year strength level limitations. Authorizes the President to designate not more than six such positions as exempted. Prohibits the delegation of such presidential authority. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1991. Prescribes end strength reductions or increases based on the number of units of the Selected Reserve component on active duty. Authorizes the Secretary to reallocate the reserve forces in order to meet national security requirements. Prescribes the number of personnel authorized to be on active duty in support of reserve personnel for FY 1992 and 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to assign active component members to reserve units to meet the requirements of the reserve components. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to repeal an increase under such Act in the number of members in certain grades authorized to be on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1991. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Part D: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to DOD for military personnel. Part E: Civilian Personnel - Authorizes end strengths for civilian personnel of DOD for FY 1991. Outlines provisions regarding the counting of such personnel within such end strengths (including or excluding certain personnel categories from such limitations). Authorizes the Secretary to exceed such end strength limitation when determined necessary for the national interest. Directs the Secretary to reduce the number of senior level civilian DOD employees, such reduction to be phased in gradually over five years beginning in FY 1992. Title V: Military Personnel - Part A: Personnel Management Matters - Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary of the military department concerned, over the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to take specified actions designed to enhance the early retirement incentives for officer personnel. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to reduce from three to two years the time-in-grade required for an officer to retain such grade upon a voluntary retirement effective during such five-year period. Requires the maximum number of officers in the grade in which an officer was retired under such provision to be reduced whenever the Secretary approves such reduction in time-in-grade. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretary concerned, during such five-year period, to reduce the required period of active service as a commissioned officer before retirement from at least ten years to no less than eight years. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on: (1) the advantages, disadvantages, and desirability of initially appointing all commissioned officers in the armed forces as reserve officers; and (2) the appropriate active duty service obligation for graduates of the service academies. Part B: Other Matters - Revises provisions concerning Navy rations to authorize the President to prescribe the components and quantities of such ration and to replace any such rations with other articles if economy and the health and comfort of naval personnel require such action. Repeals the authority of the Administrator of the Panama Canal Commission to nominate cadets and midshipmen for appointment to the service academies. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives the automatic adjustment in military pay consistent with the FY 1991 adjustment in the General Schedule of the Federal Government, providing instead a 3.5 percent increase in the rates of basic pay, basic allowance for quarters, and basic allowance for subsistence effective January 1, 1991. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for funding permanent change of station moves in FY 1991. Part B: Bonuses and Special and Incentive Pay - Authorizes the Secretary, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard when it is not operating as a service in the Navy, to terminate the bonus installments normally due to a member who does not complete the term of enlistment for which a bonus was paid or who ceases to perform in the specialty for which a bonus was paid under the selective reenlistment bonus program. Increases the monthly special pay authorized for optometrists in the armed forces. Authorizes the payment of incentive pay for qualified intensive-care nurses and certified nurse-midwives. Authorizes special pay for officers in the armed forces or the Public Health Service Corps who have been awarded a Certificate as a Diplomate in a special area of practice approved by the Council on Podiatric Medical Education of the American Podiatric Medical Association. Provides the yearly rate of such special pay based on years of creditable service. Part C: Travel and Transportation Allowances - Revises provisions concerning travel and transportation allowances for persons discharged or released from active duty to authorize (current law requires) such allowances even if such a member is not entitled to separation or readjustment pay. Provides an allowance for dependents and baggage and household goods for members who are involuntarily discharged or released from active duty or who are not accepted for an additional tour of duty. Repeals a provision of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 which terminated the authority for the payment of costs of labor furnished in connection with the transportation of baggage and household goods. Authorizes the Secretary to authorize the commander of a unified combatant command to use Government owned or leased vehicles to provide transportation in an area outside the United States for civilian and military personnel and their dependents when public or private transportation in such area is unsafe or unavailable. Authorizes a specified baggage and household goods weight allowance for cadets and midshipmen in connection with a change of temporary or permanent station. Part D: Other Benefits - Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Limits such reimbursement to $2,000 per adoption and $5,000 per year. Provides identical provisions for members of the Coast Guard. Part E: Transition Assistance for Persons Involuntarily Discharged or Released from Active Duty - Authorizes the payment of separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of a denial of reenlistment, who has completed five or more, but less than 20, years of active service, and who is serving on at least a second enlistment. Repeals certain current limitations on the amount of separation pay authorized. Directs the Secretary concerned to pay the premiums for health insurance provided on a voluntary basis to a member of the uniformed services upon discharge or release from active duty for the month in which such member is discharged or released and the six months after such release or discharge in the case of any member who is involuntarily discharged or released from active duty and who has completed two or more years of continuous service. Covers the member and his or her dependents. Covers preexisting health conditions for one year following such discharge or release. Provides an exception for coverage of premiums if the Secretary determines that conditions under which the person was discharged or released do not warrant such benefits. Terminates such authority after September 30, 1995. Provides eligibility for basic educational assistance under the armed forces or veterans' educational assistance programs for persons involuntarily discharged or released from active duty. Provides conditions and limitations to such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretaries of Labor and Veterans Affairs and the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, to conduct a program to furnish employment, education, and other information and services to members of the armed forces during the 180 days before such members are involuntarily separated from the armed forces. Requires such services to assist such members in assimilating to civilian life. Outlines services and activities to be provided under such program. Requires the Secretary, within the 180-day period prior to such discharge or release, to: (1) notify the member of the date of separation; and (2) brief such member on the availability of the benefits and services provided under the information program. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize disabled veterans' outreach program specialists, veterans' employment representatives, other employment services personnel, and representatives of veterans' services organizations to furnish the employment and training information and services under the program. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts to provide such program. Requires coordination of such program with similar veterans' programs. Provides that, in the preparation for discharge or release from active duty of members stationed outside the United States whose dependents accompanied them, the Secretary shall to the extent feasible reassign the member and their dependents to the United States for the final three to six months of such member's tour of active duty. Urges and requests the President to establish a special committee to report to the Congress, the President, and the Secretary regarding effective and practical ways of encouraging civilian employers to cooperate with and assist the Government in providing employment training and job placement services to members being involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces. Repeals current federal law which: (1) prohibits a Federal employee from being entitled to unemployment compensation before the fifth week after discharge or release; and (2) limits the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service in any benefit year. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Prohibits a reduction in the number of medical personnel serving on active duty or in the reserve components of the armed forces below the number serving on September 30, 1989, unless the Secretary: (1) certifies to the defense committees that the number being reduced is excess; and (2) includes in the certification certain information concerning current and projected requirements of medical personnel in the armed forces. Authorizes the United States to recover from third party insurance providers the reasonable costs for health care services (currently, only inpatient hospital care) provided in military medical facilities for retired military personnel and their dependents. Repeals a provision of the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) which denies as a covered medical expense the services of pastoral counselors, family and child counselors, and marital counselors. Extends through 1994 (currently, 1990) a demonstration program under which health care is furnished to military personnel and their dependents in certain Public Health Service hospitals as part of a cost-comparison study. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy and Management - Part A: Defense Industrial and Technology Base - Requires the inclusion in the annual critical technologies plan of information on each program element for which funds are budgeted for the support of the development of any critical technology identified. Establishes the Critical Technologies Institute (Institute) as a federally-funded research and development center operated via a nonprofit membership corporation. Requires the Institute to: (1) survey private and Government views on each critical technology identified in the most recent report of the National Critical Technologies Panel, as well as each technology that the Institute considers critical; (2) on the basis of such surveys, identify national objectives for the research, development, and production capability of the United States with respect to such technologies, as well as the preparation of possible strategies for achieving the identified objectives; and (3) publish reports discussing such national strategies as well as their implementation. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology to sponsor the Institute to enter into an agreement with the Institute's Board of Directors to perform such functions as the Director may specify, and to permit the Institute to perform functions for member agencies of the Federal Coordinating Council on Science, Engineering, and Technology Policy that are consistent with their functions. Provides deadlines and funding. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized DOD policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD plans and policies promoting the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment. Requires the Secretary to develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan (Plan) to provide such guidance and policy for defense manufacturing, as well as assure its implementation by defense agencies and other related Federal agencies. Requires the Secretary to establish within DOD a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project, headed by a Director who shall be responsible for the planning and execution of all DOD activities relating to manufacturing technology except those activities specifically delegated to another agency. Requires the Secretary to enhance basic research in scientific disciplines relating to manufacturing technology by promoting research and creating technology transfer in such field. Directs the Secretary to promote the use of computer-integrated manufacturing in order to improve manufacturing quality, reduce manufacturing costs, and reduce production lead times. Directs the Secretary to use manufacturing extension programs to help small manufacturers to disseminate DOD manufacturing concepts. Provides that, if the Secretary of Commerce undertakes to develop model programs for national defense laboratories, the Secretaries of Defense and Energy shall assist such Secretary in the development and implementation of such programs. Provides, with respect to the development and implementation of national defense laboratories, for: (1) covered model programs and their participants; (2) cooperative and joint activities by the directors of such laboratories; and (3) the use of partnership intermediaries for the performance of laboratory services. Requires reimbursement to the Secretary of Commerce for expenses incurred by such Secretary regarding such model programs, with a fiscal year limitation of $50,000. Directs the Secretary of Defense to prescribe regulations governing the payment by DOD of independent research and development costs or bid and proposal costs. Requires that, when such costs exceed $7,000,000 to a person in a fiscal year, the Secretary and such person shall enter into an advance agreement regarding the manner and extent to which DOD may pay such costs. Authorizes changes to such price limitation to reflect changing economic indices. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees annually on the defense industrial base of the United States, actions taken to improve such base, and the effects of defense budgets on the ability of the base to meet national security needs. Requires inclusion of the Under Secretary's analysis of the ability of U.S. businesses to conduct research, apply technologies, and maintain and expand such industrial base when necessary. Part B: Acquisition Streamlining Initiatives - Calls for the use of multiyear defense acquisition contracts if their use will result in substantial savings of total anticipated costs of carrying out the program through annual contracts. Requires multiyear contracts to be used unless the Secretary finds the use of annual contracts to be in the national interest. Requires DOD to conduct market research to determine whether nondevelopmental items (commercial products not uniquely designed for other purposes) are available or could be easily modified to meet the needs of the procuring military department or defense agency. Directs the Secretary to prescribe streamlined procedures for the acquisition of commercial products which will enhance the ability of DOD to take advantage of the competitive marketplace, short delivery time, market-driven efficiency and innovation, and high-value products that are available in the commercial market. Requires offerors of commercial products to demonstrate that their products have achieved a suitable level or market acceptance, have been satisfactorily supplied, and otherwise meet criteria prescribed by public notice and solicitation. Requires the use of past performance of products and sources as a factor in award decisions. Directs the Secretary to conduct a test program to determine the feasibility and desirability of using two sets of procedures for the procurement of commercial products by DOD. Outlines requirements of the test program. Requires each participating component to publish each list of commercial products that may be procured under the procedures established. Authorizes the participating component to solicit participation by interested persons in a list of sources to be prescribed under the test program. Requires the Secretary to prescribe procedures for a source to protest a decision not to be placed on such source list. Requires such regulations to prescribe the minimum number of qualified sources that must be included on a source list. Provides for a participating component to issue solicitations for the procurement of commercial products from the sources appearing on the list. Provides solicitation rules and procedures. Requires the Comptroller General to report to various congressional committees an evaluation of the test program. Requires the head of any participating component to make available to the Comptroller General data on contracts awarded under the test program. Requires interim and final regulations covering actions under the test program to be proposed and published by the Secretary. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress proposed legislation regarding any provision of law that the Secretary considers an unnecessary restriction on the acquisition of commercial items. Redefines the "small purchase threshold" (the price at which a purchase will still be considered a small purchase for purposes of defense acquisition policies and regulations) as $25,000, adjusted on October 1 of each year divisible by five to the amount equal to $25,000 in constant FY 1990 dollars (rounded to the nearest $1,000). Makes conforming changes to such amount in various Federal provisions and Acts concerning Government procurement generally, as well as to the Small Business Act and the Solid Waste Disposal Act. Authorizes an Assistant Secretary of Defense performing acquisition responsibilities to serve on, and attend meetings of, the Federal Acquisition Regulatory Council in place of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that, before full-scale development of a major defense program is initiated, there is an acquisition strategy that includes a plan for the use of competitive alternative sources for such program and each major subsystem of such program if use of two or more sources: (1) would likely result in reduced costs and would not result in unacceptable delays; and (2) is otherwise in the national security interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to authorize the head of a defense agency to consider life-cycle costs as a factor in determining the lowest overall cost with respect to contracts awarded without discussions. Increases from $100,000 to $500,000 the certified cost or pricing data threshold. Directs the Secretary to require a review on the reasonableness of the contract, subcontract, or pricing adjustment when cost or pricing data is not required because the expected price is not expected to exceed $500,000. Authorizes the Secretary to conduct a pilot program to determine the potential for increasing the efficiency and effectiveness of the acquisition process in major defense acquisition programs. Authorizes the Secretary to designate no more than six major defense acquisition programs for participation in the pilot program. Directs the Secretary to designate each participating program as a defense enterprise program. Directs the Secretary to publish proposed regulations to implement the pilot program and an invitation for public comment on the proposed regulations. Prescribes procedures for the waiver or limitation of certain acquisition laws or requirements with respect to programs participating in the pilot program. Requires the Secretary to notify the defense committees of each major defense acquisition program proposed to be designated by the Secretary for participation in the pilot program, as well as any laws or requirements to be waived with respect to such major defense acquisition program under the pilot program. Limits the waiver authority with respect to each program. Terminates such waiver authority as of the end of FY 1992. Establishes in the legislative branch the Advisory Panel on Streamlining and Codifying Acquisition Laws to: (1) review U.S. acquisition laws with a view toward streamlining the Federal acquisition process; (2) recommend the repeal or amendment of appropriate acquisition laws; and (3) prepare a proposed code of Federal acquisition laws. Requires the Panel to secure from DOD and other departments and agencies necessary information to carry out its responsibilities. Terminates the Panel 90 days after it submits its final report to each House of Congress and the President. Earmarks specified FY 1991 amounts appropriated to the defense agencies under this Act for the Panel's use. Authorizes the payment of overseas severance pay as an allowable defense contractor cost when it is determined that such pay is: (1) necessary to comply with laws in effect on the date of the contract award and generally applicable to businesses of such country; and (2) in the national interest of the United States. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to ensure that professional and technical services are acquired on the basis of the task to be performed rather than on the basis of the number of hours of services to be provided. Authorizes the Secretary to waive certain task order limitations on a case-by-case basis. Limits the effect of such waiver on task order increases under master agreements of a contracting activity. Part C: Acquisition Workforce - Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations for the management of the acquisition workforce of DOD. Provides payment of relocation expenses into all areas of the United States (currently, the continental United States) for acquisition workforce employees. Waives the application of Federal dual compensation prohibitions in the case of no more than 1,000 DOD employees who are in scientific, engineering, professional, or managerial positions designated as critical positions by the Secretary. Allows the Secretary of Energy to apply an identical waiver for up to 250 employees. Allows the payment of certain expenses related to the death of employees reassigned from their home of record pursuant to a mandatory mobility agreement which was executed as a condition of employment. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain DOD employee positions in which there is a current or anticipated shortage of qualified personnel, to provide training and financial assistance which allows DOD employees to obtain necessary or needed academic degrees. Prohibits employee agreements entered into for the provision of financial assistance from being made after September 30, 1993. Provides an optional performance rating exclusion for certain temporary DOD employees. Repeals certain restrictions on the appointment of retired military personnel to positions in DOD. Authorizes increases in the special pay payable to DOD employees on the basis of duty performed at remote worksites. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to recruit and retain highly qualified personnel for scientific, engineering, and professional positions in DOD, to establish a program under which the Secretary repays the student loan of a DOD employee who enters into an agreement with the Secretary to remain in the employ of DOD for a specified period (minimum of three years). Limits the student loan repayment to $6,000 in a calendar year and $40,000 total per student. Requires reimbursement by the employee of any loan paid for which the applicable period of employment agreed upon was not served. Waives such reimbursement in certain instances. Outlines other loan repayment conditions. Requires that, in selecting employees for such student loan repayment program, the Secretary shall attempt to achieve a balanced workforce in which women and members of racial and ethnic minorities are appropriately represented in Government service. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on the exercise of the degree training or student loan repayment authority. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to implement certain post-employment restrictions made applicable to DOD acquisition employees under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part D: National Defense Stockpile - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the acquisition and disposal authority of the National Defense Stockpile Manager under such Act. Repeals the authority of the Manager to make certain stockpile disposals during FY 1991. Directs the Secretary to transfer certain unobligated funds from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to an account established for the purpose of supporting advanced defense research projects provided for in cooperative agreements. Makes moneys available in the Fund available for managing and maintaining stockpile materials. Part E: Miscellaneous - Expresses the sense of the Congress that: (1) the United States and Japan should strengthen their cooperation with regard to technology that would contribute to the security of both countries; (2) technological cooperation between the two countries should be based upon an equitable mutual sharing of the costs and benefits of such cooperation; and (3) the Secretary should improve the staffing, funding, and organization of activities within DOD which are responsible for implementing and overseeing technological cooperation with Japan. Requests the President and directs the Secretary to pursue such technological cooperation, especially in those technologies that have both commercial and military application (known as "dual use" technologies). Earmarks specified FY 1991 R&D funds for pursuing such cooperation through the use of a memorandum of understanding or other formal agreement with Japan. Provides funding conditions. Limits the authority of the Secretary to delegate certain authority required pursuant to such actions. Prohibits the use of any earmarked R&D funds for R&D under SDI. Urges the Secretary to increase staffing in the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for International Programs to provide oversight of the joint R&D projects of the United States and Japan under this part. Establishes the Commission on the Consolidation and Conversion of Defense Research and Development Laboratories to conduct a study to determine the feasibility and desirability of various means to improve the operation of DOD laboratories. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report to the Secretary. Directs the Secretary, on a continuing basis, to: (1) identify actions which DOD can take to increase the capabilities of U.S. educational institutions in scientific, mathematic, and engineering skills necessary to meet the long-term national defense needs of the United States; and (2) establish and conduct programs to carry out such actions. Requires the Secretary to designate an individual to assist the Secretary in carrying out such responsibilities. Requires the Secretary to establish no less than two programs for awarding grants to public colleges or universities for the improvement of undergraduate or graduate education in scientific disciplines critical to the national security functions of DOD. Requires the Secretary to give priority to programs which stimulate interest of women and minorities in such areas of educational endeavor. Requires each defense laboratory director to enter into one or more education partnership agreements with public school systems, colleges, and universities to encourage and enhance study in scientific disciplines at all levels of education. Outlines partnership agreement provisions. Authorizes the directors to establish, in association with such programs, cooperative work-education programs for undergraduate and graduate students. Outlines work-education program provisions. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management Matter - Part A: Force Structure - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to reduce the end strength under such Act for military personnel assigned to duty in Europe. Authorizes the President to waive such force limitations in the national interest as long as the Congress is notified. Requires the Secretary to reduce by four percent per year for FY 1991 through 1995 the number of DOD acquisition workforce employees, as well as the number of military and civilian employees assigned to management headquarters activities and headquarters support activities. Requires the Secretary and the Director of Central Intelligence to conduct a joint review of all intelligence-related activities under certain national and foreign intelligence programs. Reduces the number of personnel assigned or detailed to such intelligence programs. Establishes for FY 1991 a special account to be managed by the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) and used to provide funds to commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the U.S. Commander of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for listed activities. Provides funding amounts and limitations. Part B: General Management Matters - Directs the Secretary to conduct a study to determine mobility requirements for the armed forces and to develop an integrated plan to meet those requirements. Requires a report. Eliminates the statutory position of the Chief of Naval Research. Title X: Strategic Environmental Research Program - Directs the Secretary to establish the Strategic Environmental Research Program (Program) to address environmental concerns in the Departments of Defense and Energy, identify energy and environmental technologies, and provide information on such concerns and technology development. Establishes a Joint Strategic Environmental Research Program Council to prescribe policies and procedures to implement the Program and to enter into contracts, prepare research plans, promote the exchange of information, and ensure nonduplication of efforts with other Federal programs. Requires Council reports and a five-year strategic environmental research plan. Places an Executive Director at the head of the Council. Requires such Director to be responsible for the management of the Program and to enter into appropriate contracts. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to jointly appoint a Strategic Environmental Research Program Scientific Advisory Board. Requires the Council to refer to the Board each proposed environmental research project and each budget proposal for R&D of technologies related to such activities which are in excess of $1,000,000. Requires the Board to then make recommendations with respect to the efficacy and justification of each such project and budget proposal. Requires Board reports. Provides due dates for Council and Board reports. Earmarks specified R&D funds authorized under this Act for the Program and its activities. Title XI: Drug Interdiction - Earmarks specified drug interdiction and counterdrug activities funds authorized under this Act for drug interdiction and counterdrug activities for FY 1991 in the following areas: (1) operations and maintenance; (2) procurement; (3) National Guard Bureau pay and allowances; (4) R&D; and (5) minor construction. Authorizes the Secretary to provide support to such activities in other Federal departments and agencies if requested and if funds are available. Provides purposes and activities for which such funding is to be utilized. Authorizes the Secretary to plan and execute otherwise valid military training or operations in order to aid civilian agencies in drug interdiction and counterdrug activities. Title XII: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in Division A of this Act between any authorizations contained therein for FY 1991. Provides transfer limitations. Requires congressional notification of any such transfers. Limits the amount authorized to be appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for military personnel, operations, and maintenance. Authorizes the Secretary to submit to the Congress a six-year defense program in lieu of a five-year plan. Requires the Director of Central Intelligence to submit to specified congressional committees annually the current five-year foreign intelligence program reflecting the estimated expenditures and proposed appropriations required to support such program. Revises provisions concerning the formats for presentation of DOD matters in the annual budget submitted to the President and the Congress. Part B: Miscellaneous Matters - Requires the President to report on U.S. security arrangements and commitments worldwide. Revises reporting requirements with respect to special access (classified) programs of DOD. Expresses the sense of the Congress with respect to the addition of more nuclear risk reduction measures. Commends the Presidents of the United States and the Soviet Union for their joint statements on the pursuit of additional nuclear confidence-building measures. Asks the President to invite the Soviet Union to conduct reviews and enter into discussions in order to agree on additional roles and functions that could be assigned to the Nuclear Risk Reduction Centers to lessen the risks of the accidental outbreak of nuclear war. Earmarks specified R&D funds for making a grant for the support of research by emigrants from the Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, and Cuba regarding political, economic, social, and other developments in those countries. Title XIII: Elimination and Modification of Reports Required By Law - Part A: Repeal of Existing Report Requirements - Repeals various reporting requirements under Federal armed forces and military pay and allowances provisions. Repeals specified reports and notifications required under various national defense authorization Acts, as well as under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Industrial Reserve Act, and the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961. Part B: Modifications to Existing Report Requirements - Modifies specified reports currently required under Federal armed forces provisions and under the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985. Part C: Report Provisions Previously Terminated by Goldwater-Nichols Act - Repeals certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions, National Guard provisions, military pay and allowances provisions, and specified military authorization Acts which were terminated by a provision of the Goldwater-Nichols Department of Defense Reorganization Act of 1986. Restores one reporting requirement previously terminated by such Act. Repeals the reports termination section of such Act. Part D: Technical and Clerical Amendments - Makes technical and clerical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. Title XIV: Guard and Reserve Initiative - Part A: Utilization of Reserve Components - Declares that: (1) the structure and strength of the current reserve components should be preserved; (2) the equipment levels in such components should be increased to match their active-duty counterparts; (3) selective missions of active duty forces should be transferred to the reserve components; (4) equipment available to the reserves should be modernized; and (5) integration of active and reserve components should be promoted. Part B: Force Structure - Directs the Secretary to ensure that the force structure of the Selected Reserve components during FY 1991 is equivalent to the force structure of such components on January 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to change the present force structure of the Selected Reserve in the interests of national security. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to ensure, through the transfer of aircraft from regular to reserve squadrons, that the average number of aircraft assigned to aircraft squadrons of the Air National Guard or the Air Reserve is equal to aircraft squadron amounts in the active duty components of the Air Force. Authorizes the Secretary to temporarily waive such requirement if its implementation would be detrimental to the national security interest. Provides similar requirements for the Secretary of the Navy, requiring the average number of aircraft assigned to a P-3 aircraft squadron in the Naval Reserve to be equal to such number assigned in the regular Navy. Provides similar waiver authority. Directs the Secretary of Defense to assign the tactical airlift mission of DOD to the Air Force Reserve and the Air National Guard. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force to develop a plan for the transfer of all tactical airlift transport aircraft to the Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard at the earliest practicable date and to submit such plan to the defense committees by June 1, 1991. Prohibits any funds appropriated for fiscal years after FY 1996 from being used to operate or maintain OV-1 aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Army to retire such aircraft on a gradual basis from September 30, 1991, through September 30, 1996. Requires the Secretary of the Air Force to provide each military department with flight training, fleet support, and depot maintenance with respect to all A-10 aircraft assigned to each such department. Part C: Military Personnel - Expresses the sense of the Congress regarding use of, and funding for, the annual muster to inform Ready Reserve personnel of their continuing obligation for immediate service in the active military forces in the event of a war or national emergency. Requires members of the Ready Reserve, as a condition of eligibility for certain military-to-civilian transitional assistance provided under current law and certain provisions of this Act, to enter into a written agreement with the Secretary of the military department concerned to serve in the Ready Reserve for three years following the person's discharge or release from active duty. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense committees regarding the desirability of requiring active-duty officers to serve a minimum of two years in support of a National Guard or Reserve unit as a condition of eligibility for consideration for promotion to certain grades. Prohibits certain members of the reserves serving on full-time active duty in support of the reserve components, after the end of FY 1991, from being assigned to duty with any unit of the Reserve Officer Training Corps Program (ROTC). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1993 (currently, 1990) the authority for the payment of special pay for critically short wartime health services specialists in the Selected Reserve. Provides special pay for reserve medical officers serving in military medical facilities. Authorizes a member of a military department who would be eligible for retired pay except for the fact that such member is under 60 years of age to have commissary privileges in DOD facilities for 12 days each year. Authorizes for such members and members of the Selected Reserve in good standing and their dependents unrestricted use of military morale, welfare, and recreational facilities on the same basis as active-duty personnel. Part D: Procurement - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for procurement by the reserve components of aircraft, vehicles, communications equipment, and other equipment. Directs the Secretary of the Army to distribute not less than 24 CH-47 aircraft to the Army National Guard under a plan devised by such Secretary in which CH-54 aircraft are retired gradually through FY 1993 to make room for the CH-47s. Earmarks specified funds authorized under this Act for: (1) MH-53 minesweeper helicopters; and (2) AH-1W helicopters. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: Army - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, military family housing functions, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1989 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at the Tooele Army Depot, Utah. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXII: Navy - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXIII: Air Force - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, the construction of defense access roads, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized in this title. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire a building on Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, for a R&D facility. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire three military family housing units and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1987 to extend through FY 1991 the authority of the Secretary to carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law for conforming storage facilities. Authorizes appropriations to the defense agencies for fiscal years beginning after FY 1990 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, base closure and realignment activities authorized under prior law, conforming storage facilities constructed under prior law, and military family housing functions within DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Increases the amount authorized for a military construction project at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada. Extends certain prior-year military construction projects. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years after 1990 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and Reserve forces, in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXV of this Division on October 1, 1992, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1993, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Military Construction Program Changes - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 to extend through FY 1991 the military housing rental guarantee program. Authorizes the Secretary of a military department to acquire an option to acquire or lease (currently, only acquire) a parcel of real property before its acquisition or lease is authorized by law, if it is considered suitable and needed by his Department. Waives a certain per-unit expenditure limitation for improvements to military family housing units if the Secretary complies with certain congressional notification requirements. Transfers jurisdiction, custody, operation and control of the Pentagon Reservation (the Pentagon building and its surrounding facilities and parking lots) to the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes the Secretary to appoint military or civilian personnel to perform law enforcement and security functions on the Reservation. Establishes in the Treasury the Pentagon Maintenance Revolving Fund for real property management, operation, construction, repair and related activities at the Reservation. Transfers funds to the Revolving Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) take such actions as necessary to close or realign any military installation chosen to be so closed or realigned; (2) provide economic adjustment assistance to any community located near a military installation being closed or realigned; (3) carry out environmental restoration and mitigation activities; and (4) provide outplacement assistance to civilian DOD employees of military installations being closed or realigned. Provides funding for each such purpose. Directs the Administrator of the General Services Administration (GSA) to delegate to the Secretary of Defense the authority to utilize or dispose of real property with respect to excess and surplus real property located at a military installation being closed or realigned. Outlines other conditions concerning such transfer and disposal authority, including a requirement that the Secretary consult with the Governor and the heads of local government of the State involved in a property disposal or transfer for the purpose of considering any plan for the use of such property by the local community concerned. States the applicability and inapplicability of certain laws to any action taken by the Secretary with respect to a base realignment or closure. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Base Closure and Realignment Account to be used by the Secretary for base closure and realignment activities. Provides that when funds from the Account are used for such purposes and the cost of the project will exceed the maximum amount authorized by law for a minor military construction project, the Secretary must notify the appropriate congressional committees of the nature of, and the justification for, the expenditure of such sum. Provides for the transfer of certain funds for the homeowners assistance program. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to entitle a Federal employee who is entitled to reemployment as a result of the closure or realignment of an overseas U.S. military installation to all benefits provided under such Act to employees currently employed at such installations. Provides that, in the case of a publicly-announced planned reduction in DOD spending, the cancellation or termination of a DOD contract, or the failure to proceed with a previously approved major defense acquisition program, community planning assistance may be provided if the reduction, cancellation, termination, or failure will have a direct and significant impact on a community and will result in the loss of: (1) not less than 2,500 jobs, in the case of an urban area; (2) not less than 1,000 jobs, in the case of a rural area; or (3) one percent or more of the labor force in either such area. Amends the Federal Property and Administrative Services Act of 1949 to provide that if the Secretary of Defense determines land under DOD control is excess property, the Secretary shall request the Administrator of GSA to dispose of such land under provisions of such Act. Provides for the deposit and authorized uses of funds derived from such disposal. Provides authorized uses for money rentals received pursuant to leases entered into by the Secretary of a military department in the leasing of DOD assets. Requires at least 50 percent of such moneys received to be made available for maintenance and repair of facilities or for environmental restoration expenses at such facilities. Expresses the sense of the Congress that, in the case of any military facility outside the United States released in whole or in part to a host nation, the United States should be the lead official in determining the residual value of such facility and should only be required to pay for the percentage of environmental cleanup required at such facility that is based on the determined residual value. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account for the collection of the residual value of any property of DOD released to host nations. Allows such funds to be used for facility maintenance, repair, and environmental restoration at such released facilities. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to modify the reporting requirements of the Commission on Alternative Utilization of Military Facilities with respect to possible use of such facilities as Federal confinement or correctional facilities. Directs the Secretaries of Defense and Transportation to jointly conduct a study to evaluate the desirability and feasibility of converting airfields under the jurisdiction of each military department: (1) to civilian use; or (2) in the case of any airfield which continues to be used for military purposes, to joint military and civilian use. Provides study funding. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Land Transactions - Directs the Secretary of the Army to: (1) release to the University of Arkansas all rights and interest of the United States in specified real property in Arkansas leased by the United States to the University; and (2) convey to the University all interest in all improvements constructed on such land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Solid Waste Disposal Authority of Huntsville, Alabama, all rights and interest to a parcel of real property at the Redstone Arsenal, Alabama, that is currently being leased to the Authority. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the Secretary of Agriculture certain real property at the Pinon Canyon Maneuver Site, Colorado. Requires the Secretary of Agriculture to administer such lands so as to preserve the paleontological, archaeological, wildlife, vegetative, aquatic, and other natural resources of the area. Outlines other permissible uses for such area, including research activities and livestock grazing. Prohibits such area from being used for the storage or processing of any type of waste. Directs the Secretary to develop a management plan for such area. Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Agriculture. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Delaware all rights and interest of the United States to a parcel of real property at Cape Henlopen, Delaware, known as the Fort Meade Recreation Area. Requires reversion to the United States if such property is used for any purpose other than for public park or recreational use. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to pay Florida a specified amount solely to assist such State in relocating the Florida Solar Energy Center from Cape Canaveral Air Station to a new site in Florida other than on federally-owned land. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to Columbus, Georgia, all rights and interest to a specified portion of Fort Benning, Georgia, in exchange for a tract of land to be conveyed to the United States and located adjacent to the southern boundary of Fort Benning. Provides for monetary consideration if the fair market value of the lands exchanged is not found to be equal. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to enter into an agreement with Hawaii providing that the Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii, be used for general civilian aviation and military purposes jointly. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to Hawaii all rights and interest to a portion of Dillingham Military Reservation, Mokuleia, Hawaii, on the condition that such property be used for joint military and civilian use as an airfield by the State and the Army. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Civic Foundation, Incorporated, a nonprofit Indiana corporation, the property in South Bend, Indiana, known as the Northside Army Reserve Training Center, under specified conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Kansas City, Missouri, all rights and interest to a parcel of land located near the family housing area of the Marine Corps Finance Center, Kansas City, Missouri. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to release to Oregon the reversionary interest of the United States in two parcels of land at Camp Withycombe, Clackamas County, Oregon, in exchange for Oregon agreeing to convey to the United States a contingent interest in land comprising Camp Rilea, Clatsop County, Oregon. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the University of Utah all rights and interest of the United States in and to the land comprising Fort Douglas, Utah, under specified conditions. Requires such conveyance to be made within one year of enactment of this section. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into an agreement with such University which would provide for joint use between the University and the Army Reserve of existing utility facilities at Fort Douglas and equitable sharing of the cost of such utilities. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Burlington, Vermont, all rights and interest to specified real property comprising the Naval Reserve Center, Burlington, Vermont. Terminates the authority for such conveyance if not made by January 1, 1992. Directs the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Northern Virginia Regional Correctional Commission all rights and interest to specified land located at Fort A.P. Hill, Virginia. Requires reversion of such property to the United States if such property is used for purpose other than the construction and operation of a regional correctional facility. Prohibits such facility from housing Federal prisoners or prisoners convicted in the District of Columbia unless written consent of the government of the county of the facility is obtained. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1991 for operating expenses incurred and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) environmental restoration and management of defense waste and transportation; (4) verification and control technology; (5) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development program; (6) security investigations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors development; (9) safeguards and security construction; (10) site management construction; and (11) capital equipment not related to construction. Earmarks specified DOE operating expenses funds for payment of the second installment of a settlement entered into between DOE in a specified court suit. Prohibits the reprogramming of funds appropriated to DOE for FY 1991 for atomic energy defense activities if such reprogramming would reduce the amount made available to DOE for the defense inertial confinement fusion program for FY 1991. Limits the manner in which funds authorized for special isotope separation may be used to program phaseout only. Part B: General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for: (1) the cost of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is the lesser; or (2) programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary of Energy transmits to the appropriate committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed since such statement was submitted. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary of Energy specified DOD R&D funds for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Directs the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction, planning, and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Requires the Secretary to prepare and submit a report on the remanufacture of nuclear stockpile weapons as directed under a prior Senate report. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations authorizing the government-owned and contractor-operated laboratories that are funded by DOE national security programs to engage in independent laboratory-directed research and development programs. Provides funding. Part C: Environment, Safety, and Management - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1992 (currently, 1990) the authority of the Secretary to allow DOE contractors and subcontractors carrying out certain activities at the Hanford Reservation, Washington, (a DOE center for national security programs) to loan personnel and facilities to community development organizations near the Reservation. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees on a quarterly basis during FY 1991 and 1992 reports on DOE compliance with provisions of the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 concerning the environmental impact of proposed DOE actions. Prohibits the Secretary from transferring to any other Federal department or agency his authority with respect to site management, control, or oversight of environmental remediation and restoration activities at any DOE facility. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse EPA for oversight expenses borne by such agency with regard to environmental response actions at DOD facilities conducted pursuant to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the establishment and operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXIV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures and contracts and commitments as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal, earmarking specified administrative expenses. Authorizes funds to be made available for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel across the Canal. Authorizes funds to be obligated to permit the payment of pay increases to officers and employees of the Commission to the extent authorized by administrative action. Revises the compensation level for certain Board members of the Commission, as well as certain expenses to be paid for the Deputy Administrator and Chief Engineers of such Commission. Provides retirement annuity eligibility for certain persons who were employed by the Commission between September 30, 1979, and January 1, 2000. Amends the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund Act of 1988 to provide that payments made in the form of Workers' Compensation to Commission employees shall be made directly from the Panama Canal Commission Compensation Fund. (Currently, amounts from such Fund are transferred to the Employee Compensation Fund for such payments.) Provides for discontinuance of the Commission Compensation Fund upon a finding by the Secretary of Labor that no further liability exists for workers compensation benefits for Commission employees.
Bill· HRH.R. 5333 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
Reduces from six to four years the active-duty service obligation for graduates of the U.S. Military Academy. Increases from two to four years the service obligation in the Ready Reserve of such graduates following completion of their tour of active duty.
Bill· HRH.R. 5326 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1990 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Title II: Miscellaneous Program Amendments - Increases from three to six months the period during which a veteran having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be paid a monthly pension by the Secretary. Requires that any amount of pension being withheld from a veteran due to the provision of domiciliary or nursing home care by the Department shall be paid in a lump sum after the veteran's discharge or release. Limits such payment to $5,000. Provides that in order to continue to receive payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay after being rated incompetent, a veteran receiving Government hospital treatment or domiciliary care may not have an estate the value of which exceeds $4,500 (currently $1,500). Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts, devises, and bequests which enhance the Secretary's ability to provide services or benefits. Allows the payment of parents dependency and indemnity compensation less frequently than monthly if the amount of the annual benefit is less than four percent of the maximum annual rate payable. Prohibits a readjustment in the rating schedule from causing a veteran's compensation amount to be reduced unless an improvement in the veteran's disability is shown to have occurred. Makes the presumptive period (the period after service in a radiation-risk activity during which a disease must become manifest in order to be considered service-connected and, therefore, compensable as disability compensation) for leukemia 40 years (currently, 30). Creates a 40-year presumptive period for members of the reserves who were exposed to atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device during active duty or inactive duty for training and who contract specified diseases or illnesses within such period. States as an exception the disease of leukemia, which is given a 30-year manifestation period in such reserve members. Increases the amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance available to a veteran owning a home to the lesser of $90,000 or the amount of the loan outstanding on the home. (Currently, the amount is the lesser of $40,000 or such amount.) Increases from one to two years the required time after discharge or release permitted to qualify for National Service Life Insurance (for service-disabled veterans). Title III: Agent Orange - Veterans Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service Benefits Act of 1990 - Provides that the disease of chloracne in Vietnam veterans shall be considered to have been service-connected if such disease became manifest to a ten percent or more degree of disability within one year after the last date on which the veteran performed such service in Vietnam. Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected for veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of such service: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma; (2) soft-tissue sarcoma; and (3) melanoma and basal cell carcinoma. Provides a presumption of service-connection in the case of a Vietnam veteran suffering from a disease associated with effects of exposure to certain dioxins or other herbicide agents during such service in Vietnam. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations listing a positive association between any disease and the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent in Vietnam. Requires the Secretary to update such list continually. Requires the Secretary, in prescribing and revising such list, to obtain by contract the determinations and estimates of a contract scientific organization. Requires such organization to: (1) determine which diseases have any degree of association with the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent; and (2) estimate the extent of association between each such disease and each such biological effects. Requires the organization to determine such association specifically with respect to non-Hodgkins lymphoma, each soft-tissue sarcoma, lung cancer, and each other cancer. Outlines contract provisions required in such agreements between the Secretary and the scientific organization, including surveys, evaluations, and periodic determinations. Requires such scientific organization to provide reports to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees regarding its determinations and evaluations. Requires such organization to determine, in the effect of a positive association, whether there is reasonable basis for concluding that a Vietnam veteran with the highest level of exposure to that herbicide agent in Vietnam was exposed to such agent under the circumstances necessary for such biological effects. Requires a report from the organization to the Secretary and the veterans' committees when there is no such reasonable basis found. Requires the Secretary to make certain determinations and follow-up reports after receiving such reports from the contract scientific organization, including the issuance of a report to the veterans' committees and the promulgation of positive associations regulations if necessary. Requires benefits to be continued even though a disease is removed from the regulations listing diseases having positive associations. Terminates such contracting authority ten years after the first day of the fiscal year in which a scientific organization transmits its first report to the Secretary. Provides special effective dates. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze all clinical data that: (1) is obtained by the Department in connection with examinations and treatment of veterans for disabilities related to exposure to certain herbicides or to service in Vietnam; and (2) is likely to be scientifically useful in determining the association, if any, between the disabilities of such veterans and their exposure to such herbicides and other toxic substances. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the veterans' committees concerning such analysis and its results. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Director of the National Institutes of Health Research and Grants Division (NIH) before compiling and analyzing such information. Requires the Director of NIH to review each annual report submitted by the Secretary and transmit to the Secretary an evaluation of the contents of each report. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed samples of blood and tissue of veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines provisions concerning the security and authorized uses of such specimens as well as limitations on the acceptance of such samples. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to the extent that an agreement has been reached with the NAS serving as the contract scientific organization for the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Director of the Medical Follow-up Agency in the event of no agreement with NAS. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide for the conduct of studies of the feasibility of conducting additional scientific research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in support of U.S. and allied military operations in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and (3) active military, naval, or air service there. Requires the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees on the results of such studies. Requires the Secretary to consult with the NAS before undertaking such studies and requires the NAS to review such studies and report recommendations to the Secretary and the veterans' committees, to the extent provided under any agreement between the Secretary and NAS. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to require the Secretary to annually furnish updated information to veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Agent Orange Registry on health risks resulting from exposure to dioxin or other toxic agents in herbicides as a result of service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the veterans' committees on the research being conducted to develop treatments for physiological absorption of dioxin and other toxic agents used in herbicides by the United States in Vietnam, including research relating to exposure to dioxin and other toxic agents outside Vietnam. Extends through December 31, 2000, the eligibility for hospital and nursing home care for veterans exposed to toxic substances in Vietnam. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to authorize direct consultation between the Ranch Hand Advisory Committee and Department of the Air Force scientists conducting the Ranch Hand Study (a study of the long-term health effects of exposure to phenoxy herbicides and contaminants). Requires the preparation and submission of annual reports and a final report in connection with such study.
Bill· HRH.R. 5335 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 20 July 1990
Defense Budgeting and Full-Cost Disclosure Act of 1990 - Requires the total life-cycle cost (costs of development, procurement, construction, operation, maintenance, and support) of a major defense acquisition program to be included in Selected Acquisition Reports required for such programs. Requires the Secretary of Defense to implement such cost criteria in a uniform manner throughout the Department of Defense. Allows a defense funds restoral (a restoration of funds to an appropriation account of the Department) to be carried out only during the first fiscal year following the end of the period of availability for obligation of the funds to be restored. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress on the feasibility of the periodic submission of reports on anticipated termination costs of major defense acquisition programs.
Law· HRH.R. 5313 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1990
Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1991 - Appropriates funds for FY 1991 for military construction functions administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for: (1) military construction, Army (including rescissions of such funds under prior law); (2) military construction, Navy (including a rescission); (3) military construction, Air Force (including rescissions); (4) military construction, defense agencies (including rescissions and a specified transfer of funds); (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) military construction, Army National Guard; (7) military construction, Air National Guard; (8) military construction, Army Reserve; (9) military construction, Naval Reserve; (10) military construction, Air Force Reserve; (11) family housing, Army (including a rescission of funds); (12) family housing, Navy and Marine Corps (including a rescission); (13) family housing, Air Force (including rescissions); (14) family housing, defense agencies (including rescissions); (15) homeowners assistance fund, defense; and (16) the Department of Defense Base Closure Account. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used for payments under certain cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts without specific approval by the Secretary of Defense. Authorizes funds appropriated in this Act to be used for: (1) the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and (2) advances to the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, for the construction of defense access roads. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) construction of new bases inside the continental United States for which specific appropriations have not been made; (2) the purchase of certain lands or easements for amounts in excess of 100 percent of their value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command, except under specified conditions; (3) acquisition, site preparation, or the installation of any utilities for family housing, except for housing for which funds have been made available under annual military construction appropriation Acts; (4) transferring or relocating any activity from one base or installation to another without prior notification to the Committees on Appropriations; and (5) the procurement of steel for any construction project or activity for which American steel producers have been denied the opportunity to compete. Prohibits the use of funds available for military construction and housing during FY 1990 to pay real property taxes in any foreign nation. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) the initiation of a new installation overseas without prior notification to the Committees on Appropriations; (2) certain architect and engineer contracts for projects in Japan or in any NATO-member country, unless awarded to U.S. firms solely or in joint ventures; or (3) the award of any contract for military construction in the U.S. territories and possessions in the Pacific and on Kwajalein Island in excess of $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary to notify the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees of the plans and scope of any military exercise involving U.S. personnel 30 days prior to its occurrence if amounts expended for construction are expected to exceed $100,000. Transfers certain funds of the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing provided in this Act. Prohibits more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated in this Act which are limited for obligation during the current fiscal year from being obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year. Makes certain prior year funds available for military construction authorized during the second session of the 101st Congress. Directs the Secretary, by February 15, 1991, to provide the Appropriations Committees with a report detailing the specific actions proposed to be taken by DOD during FY 1991 to encourage other members of NATO and Japan to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Permits certain expired or lapsed funds to be used to pay certain overhead and other costs associated with military construction or family housing projects. Allows funds appropriated for military construction projects to be obligated by the end of the fourth year after such funds were appropriated, with certain conditions. Limits the amount of funds that may be obligated for the contract cleaning of military family housing units. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being used for new military family housing units in the Republic of Korea in connection with any increase in accompanied tours after June 6, 1988. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act for planning and design activities from being used to initiate design of the Pentagon Annex. Prohibits any funds appropriated in this Act from being available for study, planning, design, or architect and engineer services related to the relocation of the Yongsan Garrison, Korea. Prohibits any funds herein or previously appropriated for military construction and family housing from being available for funding costs associated with military operations in Panama known as Operation Just Cause. Disapproves certain deferrals related to DOD as set forth in a message delivered to the Congress by the Comptroller General. Directs the Secretary of the Army to transfer by the end of FY 1991 to the Secretary of the Interior specified real property located at Fort Meade, Maryland, together with a power-line right-of-way. Requires the Secretary of the Interior to administer such property consistent with wildlife conservation purposes and provide for the continued use of such property by Federal agencies using it at the time of enactment of this Act. Prohibits such Secretary from transferring such property without specific approval of such transfer by law. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to transfer to the city of Tacoma, Washington, all rights and interest to specified real property in Tacoma in consideration for a 50-year leasehold interest in and to a certain pier at the Port of Tacoma. Outlines transfer conditions and provides for reversion to the United States if the property transferred is not used for public purposes. Prohibits the expenditure of funds appropriated by this Act, except NATO infrastructure funds, for planning, design, or construction of military facilities or family housing to support the relocation of the 401st Tactical Fighter Wing from Spain to another country. Requires funds necessary for FY 1991 pay raises for programs funded by this Act to be absorbed within the levels appropriated in this Act.
Bill· SS. 2871 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1990
Amends the Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 to authorize the disclosure to the Department of Veterans Affairs of the names and addresses of those persons receiving payments, by means of direct deposit or electronic funds transfer, of compensation, dependency and indemnity compensation, or pension benefits, when such disclosure is necessary for proper administration of those programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 5296 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1990
Veterans' Compensation Amendments of 1990 - Title I: Compensation Rate Increases - Increases the rates of: (1) veterans' disability compensation; (2) additional compensation for veterans' dependents; (3) the clothing allowance for certain disabled veterans; (4) dependency and indemnity compensation for surviving spouses and children; and (5) supplemental dependency and indemnity compensation for disabled adult children. Authorizes the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to adjust administratively the rates of disability compensation payable to persons who are not in receipt of compensation for service-connected disability or death. Title II: Miscellaneous Program Amendments - Increases from three to six months the period during which a veteran having neither spouse nor child and being furnished domiciliary care by the Department of Veterans Affairs will be paid a monthly pension by the Secretary. Requires that any amount of pension being withheld from a veteran due to the provision of domiciliary or nursing home care by the Department shall be paid in a lump sum after the veteran's discharge or release. Limits such payment to $5,000. Provides that in order to continue to receive payments of pension, compensation, or emergency officers' retirement pay after being rated incompetent, a veteran receiving Government hospital treatment or domiciliary care may not have an estate the value of which exceeds $4,500 (currently, $1,500). Authorizes the Secretary to accept gifts, devises, and bequests which enhance the Secretary's ability to provide services and benefits. Allows the payment of parents dependency and indemnity compensation less frequently than monthly if the amount of the annual benefit is less than four percent of the maximum annual rate payable. Prohibits a readjustment in the rating schedule from causing a veteran's compensation amount to be reduced unless an improvement in the veteran's disability is shown to have occurred. Makes the presumptive period (the period after service in a radiation-risk activity during which a disease must become manifest in order to be considered service-connected and, therefore, compensable as disability compensation) for leukemia 40 years (currently, 30). Creates a 40-year presumptive period for members of the reserves who were exposed to atmospheric detonation of a nuclear device during active duty or inactive duty for training and who contract specified diseases or illnesses within such period. States as an exception the disease of leukemia, which is given a 30-year manifestation period in such reserve members. Authorizes the payment of emergency officers', regular, or reserve retirement pay to any veteran concurrently with compensation for any service-connected disability, without deduction from either the compensation or the retirement pay. Increases the amount of Veterans' Mortgage Life Insurance available to a veteran owning a home to the lesser of $90,000 or the amount of the loan outstanding on the home. (Currently, the amount is the lesser of $40,000 or such amount.) Increases from one to two years the required time after discharge or release permitted to qualify for National Service Life Insurance (for service-disabled veterans). Title III: Agent Orange - Veterans Agent Orange Exposure and Vietnam Service Benefits Act of 1990 - Provides that the disease of chloracne in Vietnam veterans shall be considered to have been service-connected if such disease became manifest to a ten percent or more degree of disability within one year after the last date on which the veteran performed such service in Vietnam. Presumes the following diseases to be service-connected for veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era, notwithstanding that there is no record of evidence of such disease during the period of such service: (1) non-Hodgkins lymphoma; (2) soft-tissue sarcoma; and (3) melanoma and basal cell carcinoma. Provides a presumption of service-connection in the case of a Vietnam veteran suffering from a disease associated with effects of exposure to certain dioxins or other herbicide agents during such service in Vietnam. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations listing a positive association between any disease and the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent in Vietnam. Requires the Secretary to update such list continually. Requires the Secretary, in prescribing and revising such list, to obtain by contract the determinations and estimates of a contract scientific organization. Requires such organization to: (1) determine which diseases have any degree of association with the biological effects of exposure to an herbicide agent; and (2) estimate the extent of association between each such disease and each such biological effects. Requires the organization to determine such association specifically with respect to non-Hodgkins lymphoma, each soft-tissue sarcoma, lung cancer, and each other cancer. Outlines contract provisions required in such agreements between the Secretary and the scientific organization, including surveys, evaluations, and periodic determinations. Requires such scientific organization to provide reports to the Secretary and the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees regarding its determinations and evaluations. Requires such organization to determine, in the effect of a positive association, whether there is a reasonable basis for concluding that a Vietnam veteran with the highest level of exposure to that herbicide agent in Vietnam was exposed to such agent under the circumstances necessary for such biological effects. Requires a report from the organization to the Secretary and the veterans' committees when there is no such reasonable basis found. Requires the Secretary to make certain determinations and follow-up reports after receiving such reports from the contract scientific organization, including the issuance of a report to the veterans' committees and the promulgation of positive associations regulations if necessary. Requires benefits to be continued even though a disease is removed from the regulations listing diseases having positive associations. Terminates such contracting authority ten years after the first day of the fiscal year in which a scientific organization transmits its first report to the Secretary. Provides special effective dates. Directs the Secretary to compile and analyze all clinical data that: (1) is obtained by the Department in connection with examinations and treatment of veterans for disabilities related to exposure to certain herbicides or to service in Vietnam; and (2) is likely to be scientifically useful in determining the association, if any, between the disabilities of such veterans and their exposure to such herbicides and other toxic substances. Requires the Secretary to submit an annual report to the veterans' committees concerning such analysis and its results. Directs the Secretary to consult with the Director of the National Institutes of Health Research and Grants Division (NIH) before compiling and analyzing such information. Requires the Director of NIH to review each annual report submitted by the Secretary and transmit to the Secretary an evaluation of the contents of each report. Directs the Secretary to establish and maintain a system for the collection and storage of voluntarily contributed samples of blood and tissue of veterans who performed active service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Outlines provisions concerning the security and authorized uses of such specimens, as well as limitations on the acceptance of such samples. Requires the Secretary to consult with the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) to the extent that an agreement has been reached with the NAS serving as the contract scientific organization for the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to consult with the Director of the Medical Follow-up Agency in the event of no agreement with NAS. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to provide for the conduct of studies of the feasibility of conducting additional scientific research on health hazards resulting from: (1) exposure to dioxin; (2) exposure to other toxic agents in herbicides used in support of U.S. and allied military operations in Vietnam during the Vietnam era; and (3) active military, naval, or air service there. Requires the Secretary to report to the veterans' committees on the results of such studies. Requires the Secretary to consult with the NAS before undertaking such studies and requires the NAS, to review such studies and report recommendations to the Secretary and the veterans' committees, to the extent provided under any agreement between the Secretary and NAS. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to require the Secretary to annually furnish updated information to veterans listed in the Department of Veterans Affairs' Agent Orange Registry on health risks resulting from exposure to dioxin or other toxic agents in herbicides as a result of service in Vietnam during the Vietnam era. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services to report to the veterans' committees on the research being conducted to develop treatments for physiological absorption of dioxin and other toxic agents used in herbicides by the United States in Vietnam, including research relating to exposure to dioxin and other toxic agents outside Vietnam. Extends through December 31, 2000, the eligibility for hospital and nursing home care for veterans exposed to toxic substances in Vietnam. Amends the Veterans' Benefits Improvement Act of 1988 to authorize direct consultation between the Ranch Hand Advisory Committee and Department of the Air Force scientists conducting the Ranch Hand Study (a study of the long-term health effects of exposure to phenoxy herbicides and contaminants). Requires the preparation and submission of annual reports and a final report in connection with such study.
Bill· HRH.R. 5283 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1990
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to carry out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 348 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
Declares that the Congress recognizes and commends the efforts of the Battle of the Bulge Historical Foundation to provide for the installation of a special gallery at the United States Army Museum at Fort George G. Meade, Maryland, devoted to the collection, preservation, and exhibition of military artifacts relating to the Battle of the Bulge.
Bill· HRH.R. 5276 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 13 July 1990
Defense Language Institute Act of 1990 - Establishes in the Department of Defense (DOD) a school to be known as the Defense Language Institute (Institute) to: (1) provide instruction in foreign languages to military and civilian personnel of DOD and other Government personnel as approved by the Secretary of Defense; and (2) encourage foreign language instruction throughout educational institutions in the United States in order to meet national defense requirements. Provides for a Commandant of the Institute. Requires the Secretary to assign military staff positions at the Institute. Authorizes the employment of civilians as faculty members.
Bill· HRH.R. 5261 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 12 July 1990
Deems the Department of the Navy to have had authority to enter into agreements with local governments before enactment of this Act for police, fire, and other civil services for the Department, notwithstanding Federal law prohibiting the Department of Defense from entering into contracts for the performance of firefighting and security-guard functions at any military installation or facility.
Bill· SS. 2838 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Small Business-National Defense Laboratory Technology Partnership Act of 1990 - Directs the Secretaries of Defense and of Energy to cooperate with the Secretary of Commerce in developing model programs involving national defense laboratories, small businesses, State and local government partnership intermediaries, the private sector, and universities for: (1) commercialization of federally funded research; (2) development of partnerships between Federal, State, and local government agencies in promoting economic growth in connection with technology commercialization; and (3) promotion of advanced manufacturing techniques for products having commercial and defense-related markets. Outlines the scope of the programs. Requires the Secretary of Commerce to submit progress reports as part of the triennial reports required under the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980.
Bill· HRH.R. 5249 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 11 July 1990
Provides that limitations on the payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces providing for a five-week waiting period before such payments accrue and limiting the aggregate amount of compensation payable on the basis of Federal service with respect to a benefit year shall not apply to individuals involuntarily discharged or released from the armed forces.
Bill· SS. 2834 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1990 and 1991 for intelligence activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and the Department of Defense (DOD). Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified schedule of authorizations. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary for the performance of important intelligence functions. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1991, with a specified amount earmarked for the Security Evaluation Office of the CIA. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 240 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees. Provides that such staff shall be administered in the same manner as the CIA. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1991. Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency Administrative Provisions - Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees to eliminate the statutory provisions requiring a 15-year career review and an election option for participants in the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System (CIARDS) and the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) Special Category, and requiring such participants to remain under CIARDS or in FERS Special Category status for the duration of their CIA service. Specifies that the five years of marriage spent outside the United States required to qualify for former spouse status must have been during periods of the participant's service with the CIA. Entitles a surviving spouse who remarries a retiree to a CIARDS survivor annuity only upon electing such annuity instead of any other Federal survivor annuity to which he or she may be entitled. Permits a retiree under CIARDS who was unmarried at the time of retirement to irrevocably elect within one year of marriage after retirement, where his or her annuity was not reduced or fully reduced to provide a survivor annuity at the time of retirement, to receive a reduced retirement annuity in order to provide for a survivor annuity for the new spouse. (Currently, an election for a current spouse can only be made to the extent that a previous election was made for a spouse to whom the participant was married at the time of retirement.) Provides for the restoration of benefits of certain former CIA spouses whose benefits were terminated because of remarriage before the age of 55 if the remarriage is dissolved by death, annulment, or divorce. Conforms provisions of the CIARDS which lower the remarriage age for the termination of surviving spouses' annuities from 60 to 55 to the Civil Service Retirement System. Authorizes the DCI to apply any unused portion of the annual allocation provided by the CIA Act of 1949 (permitting the DCI to authorize entry into the United States for permanent residence of up to 100 aliens annually) for FY 1991 through 1996, to permit the entry of employees of the Foreign Broadcast Information Service in Hong Kong and their dependents, prior to 1997. Title V: Department of Defense Foreign Intelligence Enhancements - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense, with the approval of the DCI and in coordination with the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to engage in commercial activities to provide security for intelligence collection activities undertaken by DOD. Provides for the use and disposition of the proceeds generated by such activities and for annual audits thereof. Requires such commercial activities to be carried out in accordance with applicable Federal law, except where the Secretary of Defense or specified officials certify in writing that compliance with Federal laws and regulations pertaining to the management and administration of Federal agencies would create an unacceptable risk of compromise of authorized intelligence collection activities. Specifies that such commercial activity shall not constitute a waiver of legal defenses and immunities of the United States. Bars the establishment of any corporation, partnership, or other legal entity to carry out such commercial activities except with the approval of the Secretary (or Deputy Secretary) of Defense. Specifies that nothing in this Act authorizes the conduct of intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by law or executive order. Provides that such activities may be undertaken in the United States only as necessary to support intelligence activities abroad or to continue intelligence activities initiated abroad. Prohibits employing, assigning, or detaining U.S. citizens and permanent resident aliens with any entity engaged in such activity without informing them of the purpose of such activity. Requires the Secretary to issue regulations which, at a minimum: (1) specify all officials authorized to approve such commercial activities; (2) designate a single office within the Defense Intelligence Agency to implement, and maintain accountability for, all such authorized activities; (3) require prior legal review of all such authorized activities; and (4) provide for internal audit controls and oversight of such activities. Requires the Secretary to submit annual reports on such activities to the House Select Committee on Intelligence and the Senate Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence (intelligence committees). Amends the National Security Agency Act of 1959 to permit the Director of the National Security Agency (NSA) to use appropriated funds to provide employment and medical or psychological assistance to former NSA employees for up to five years after leaving NSA employment where such assistance is determined essential to avoid circumstances that might lead to the unlawful disclosure of classified information to which such employees had access. Permits the Secretary of Defense to authorize use of the DOD reimbursement rate for airlift services provided by DOD components to the CIA for activities related to national security objectives. Title VI: Department of Energy Personnel Authority - Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to except from the competitive service all positions within the Department which are determined by the Secretary of Energy to be devoted to intelligence and intelligence-related activities. Title VII: Oversight of Intelligence Activities - Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 and the National Security Act of 1947 to revise and consolidate intelligence oversight provisions. Requires the President (under current law, the CIA Director and agency heads) to ensure that: (1) the intelligence committees are kept informed of U.S. intelligence activity, including any significant anticipated intelligence activities; and (2) any illegal intelligence activity as well as any corrective action is reported to the intelligence committees. Includes "covert actions" within the definition of "intelligence activities." Provides statutory authority for the President to authorize the conduct of covert actions by departments, agencies, or entities of the United States only when he determines such activities are necessary to support the foreign policy objectives of the United States and are important to the national security of the United States. (Current law requires the President to determine only that each such operation is important to national security.) Requires such a determination to be set forth in a written finding that: (1) is not retroactive; (2) specifies each participating Government entity and whether a third party not subject to U.S. regulations will be used; and (3) may not authorize any action which is intended to influence the U.S. political process, media, or public opinion or which violates the Constitution or statutes of the United States. Requires the President to ensure that any such determination or finding is reported to the intelligence committees before the covert activities are initiated, except in rare occasions which shall be justified by the President to the committees. Authorizes the President, in extraordinary circumstances affecting vital U.S. interests, to limit the reporting of findings or determinations to specified congressional officials. Requires the President to notify the intelligence committees or congressional officials of any significant change in a previously-approved covert action. Prohibits the expenditure of any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to any Government entity for any covert action until such a presidential finding has been issued. Defines "covert action" as any activity conducted by an element of the U.S. Government to influence political, economic, or military conditions abroad so that the Government's role is not apparent or acknowledged. Excludes: (1) activities the primary purpose of which is to acquire intelligence, traditional counterintelligence activities, traditional activities to improve or maintain the operational security of U.S. Government programs, or administrative activities; (2) traditional diplomatic or military activities, or routine support to such activities; (3) traditional law enforcement activities conducted by U.S. Government law enforcement agencies or routine support to such activities; or (4) certain activities to provide routine support to the overt activities of other U.S. Government agencies abroad. Title VIII: General Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for increases in salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees which are authorized by law.
Bill· HRH.R. 5233 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 10 July 1990
Directs the Secretary of Defense to provide that any funds made available after September 30, 1990, for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure program may be used only for: (1) verifying or implementing the terms of conventional arms control agreements; (2) environmental restoration of military installations or portions thereof previously used for military activities in connection with NATO; and (3) the completion of any construction project that began before October 1, 1990, if the Secretary makes certain cost determinations concerning such project and reports to the Armed Services Committees at least 21 days before obligating funds.
Law· SS. 2806 (101st)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Redesignates the Interstate Highway System as the Dwight D. Eisenhower Interstate Highway System.
Bill· SS. 2825 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Defense Manufacturing Technology Enhancement Act of 1990 - Amends Federal law to direct the Secretary of Defense, through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, to: (1) provide centralized policy guidance and direction to the military departments and the defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; and (2) direct the development and implementation of Department of Defense (DOD) plans, programs, and policies that promote the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop and implement a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan; and (2) establish, within the DOD, a consolidated Joint Manufacturing Technology Project. Makes the Director of the Joint Manufacturing Technology Office responsible, subject to exception, for the planning and execution of all DOD manufacturing technology activities. Directs the Secretary, through the Under Secretary, to: (1) enhance basic research in manufacturing technology scientific disciplines; (2) promote the use of computer integrated "intelligent" manufacturing; (3) enhance DOD activities in concurrent engineering through manufacturing technology strategy, acquisition strategies, and education and training; and (4) promote the upgrading of subtier defense industry and Department of Energy suppliers.
Bill· HRH.R. 5225 (101st)open
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Amends the Defense Production Act to authorize the President or his designee to conduct a review to determine whether an investigation should be conducted to determine the effects on national security of certain mergers, acquisitions, and takeovers by foreign persons which could result in foreign control of persons or activities engaged in interstate commerce in the United States. (Currently, there is no review process prior to such investigation.) Authorizes the Secretaries of Commerce and Defense, if the President's designee is an interagency committee, to collect and analyze such takeover proposals, identify the plans of the acquiring foreign person with respect to the transfer of technology, and make recommendations to the committee concerning the need to conduct such an investigation. Authorizes the Secretaries to: (1) solicit assurances from the foreign person that their plans will not impair the national security; (2) conduct a review to determine if such assurances are being implemented and complied with; and (3) request that the interagency committee conduct an investigation if the Secretary of Commerce finds that a foreign person is not appropriately implementing or complying with the assurances. Requires a foreign person making a direct investment in a United States person (entity) to file with the President or his designee an advisement which discloses specified information with respect to such investment. Requires each agency serving on the interagency committee to identify technologies which are essential to the industrial and technological base of the United States, a list of which shall be published in the Federal Register. Requires the Secretaries to identify, in connection with any merger, acquisition, or takeover involving a foreign person, any essential technology which is involved. Requires an investigation to be commenced if an essential technology is found to be involved. Requires the foreign person, as part of such investigation, to make assurances that the involvement of such essential technology will not adversely affect the national security by eroding the industrial and technological base of the United States. Authorizes the President to suspend or prohibit any merger, acquisition, or takeover by a foreign person in the United States if the President believes that national security might be impaired by the effects such takeover could have on the industrial or technological base of the United States. Allows General Accounting Office officials and employees access to information collected by the Secretary of Commerce concerning foreign direct investment in the United States for purposes of responding to requests for information and conducting research and analysis for the Congress. Directs the President to report to the Congress the results of a study conducted to identify trends in foreign direct investment in the United States.
Bill· HRH.R. 5211 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act - Revises Federal armed forces provisions relating to procurement personnel within the Department of Defense (DOD). Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish policies for the effective management (including accession, education, training, and career development) of persons serving in acquisition positions within DOD. Requires the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the acquisition workforce in DOD. Requires the service acquisition executive for each military department to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary of such military department with respect to the acquisition workforce within such department and ensure that all appropriate management policies are implemented in the department. Establishes within the Office of the Under Secretary a Director of Acquisition Education, Training, and Career Development, who shall: (1) formulate, implement, and oversee the training, education, and career development policies and programs for persons serving in acquisition positions within DOD; and (2) report to the Under Secretary on the effectiveness of such policy and program implementation. Establishes within the office of the service acquisition executive of each department a Director of Acquisition Career Management to monitor compliance and coordinate the management of the acquisition workforce and serve in a liaison capacity for acquisition career program functions. Directs the Secretary of each military department to establish an acquisition career program board to advise the service acquisition executive in managing the accession, training, education, and career development of military and civilian personnel in the acquisition workforce and in selecting individuals for appointment into the Acquisition Corps. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish and implement policies for the effective management of persons serving in acquisition positions in the Office of the Secretary of Defense and the defense agencies, including the establishment of an Acquisition Corps with respect to such persons. Makes the above provisions applicable to reserve officers in an active status not on the active duty list. Requires the Secretary to designate DOD acquisitions positions for the purposes of these provisions. Specifies positions to be included as acquisition positions. Requires acquisition-related positions in management headquarters support and management headquarters activities to be included in such classification. Directs the Secretary to establish education, training, and experience requirements for each acquisition position. Provides that, in order to serve in an acquisition position as a contracting officer authorized to administer contracts for more than $25,000 (the small purchase contract limit), a person must have specified contracting courses, experience, and education and meet such additional requirements as may be established by the Secretary. Specifies the experience and education required before a person may be employed by DOD in the GS-1102 occupational series, with certain exceptions, including having at least ten years of experience in acquisition or comparable positions. Authorizes the career management board of a military department to waive such experience and education requirements if the board certifies that the employee possesses significant potential for advancement to levels of greater responsibility and authority based on demonstrated job performance and qualifying experience. Directs the Secretary to ensure that appropriate career paths for civilian and military personnel who wish to pursue careers in acquisition are identified in terms of the education, training, experience, and assignments necessary for career progression to the most senior acquisition positions. Requires the Secretary to ensure that civilian personnel are provided the opportunity to acquire the experience, background, and education required to qualify for senior acquisition positions. Provides that no requirement may be imposed relating to the civilian or military status of a person under consideration for an acquisition position. Requires that both civilian and military members of the armed forces be considered for such positions on an equal basis. Allows a position to be classified as open only to members of the armed forces only upon a determination that such a member is essential for such position or is necessary for another compelling reason. Requires the Secretary to review such a classification to determine whether it should remain. Directs the Secretary to: (1) ensure that the best qualified individual shall be selected for the position; (2) ensure that the acquisition workforce is managed so that, over time, more civilians become qualified and are selected for senior acquisition positions; and (3) establish a policy on assignments for both civilian and military personnel to acquisition positions that provides a balance between the need for career-broadening assignments and the need for requiring sufficient time for each assignment. Requires the Secretary of each military department to: (1) ensure that qualifications of officers selected for the Acquisition Corps are such that such officers are expected to be promoted at a rate not less than the rate for all line officers of the same armed force in the same grade; and (2) require that any performance appraisal of a person serving in an acquisition position be performed by a person serving in an acquisition position in the same career field. Authorizes the Secretary, in order to attract and retain employees to serve in acquisition positions in areas with high housing costs, to pay an employee a housing allowance. Requires the Secretary to establish a pilot program in four cities where housing allowances shall be paid and to make reports concerning such pilot program. Establishes within each military department an Acquisition Corps consisting of civilian employees and members of the armed forces. Outlines education, training, and experience requirements and exceptions. Allows the career management board of a military department to waive such requirements when the board certifies that the employee involved possesses significant potential for advancement to levels of greater responsibility and authority. Outlines provisions concerning critical acquisition positions within DOD. Allows such positions to be filled only by members of the Acquisition Corps. Outlines requirements for the designation of an acquisition position as critical and specifies certain positions as critical. Directs the Secretary to establish requirements for education, training, and experience for all critical positions. Prohibits any civilian or military employee not meeting such requirements from performing in such position for more than six months, unless he or she is granted a waiver. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive such requirements on a case-by-case basis if unusual circumstances exist or if the individual's qualifications obviate the need for such requirements. Limits the delegation of authority for granting such waivers. Outlines requirements an individual must meet before being assigned to a critical position as a program manager or deputy program manager, including completion of a specified program management course, the execution of a written agreement, and specified years of experience in acquisition. Describes a minimum period in which a program manager or deputy manager must serve (a major milestone assignment period). Requires a minimum service agreement to be signed. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive such assignment period only in exceptional circumstances. Limits the delegation of authority for granting such waivers. Directs the Secretary of Defense to issue uniform guidelines defining major milestones. Outlines requirements an individual must meet before being assigned to a critical position as a program executive officer or a senior contracting official. Requires ten years' acquisition experience for a person in the Senior Executive Service or who is a general or flag officer before such person can be assigned to a critical acquisition position. Directs the Secretary of each department to provide that no person shall be assigned to a critical acquisition position for fewer than three years. Requires such person to execute a written agreement to remain in the position for such period. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive the required assignment period only in specified exceptional circumstances (poor performance, suspension from active duty, retirement, reassignment for unusual reasons). Limits the delegation of authority for granting such waivers. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a policy encouraging the rotation of members of the Acquisition Corps serving in critical acquisition positions to new assignments after five years, or, in the case of a program manager, after completion of the major milestone period, whichever is longer. Requires the Secretary of each department to review critical acquisition assignments to determine whether the Government and the individual would be better served by a reassignment. Directs the Secretary concerned to select civilian personnel for critical acquisition positions from a centralized job referral system. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a test program in which members of the Acquisition Corps serving in a military department or defense agency are assigned or detailed to an acquisition position in another department or agency. Requires such test program to operate for at least three years. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish policies for the establishment and implementation of the education and training programs authorized under this Act. Directs the Under Secretary to recommend to the Secretary appropriate funding levels to implement the education and training programs. Directs the Secretary of each military department to implement such program. Directs the Secretary of Defense to require each military department to establish and implement: (1) an intern program to provide highly qualified and talented individuals an opportunity for accelerated promotions, career broadening assignments, and specified training to prepare them for entry into the Acquisition Corps; and (2) a cooperative education program in which cooperative arrangements are entered into to provide educational credit to undergraduate students who are employed by DOD in an acquisition position. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish: (1) a tuition reimbursement program for purposes of career development of acquisition personnel in DOD; (2) a scholarship program for acquisition personnel in DOD; and (3) a program under which DOD employees may be assigned to attend, as full-time students, accredited institutions for education leading to a master's or doctor's degree in a qualifying field of study, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines, for each of such programs, eligibility and written agreement requirements, including a promised period of service. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to repay all or part of a student loan for a DOD employee appointed to an acquisition position that requires highly qualified professional, technical, or administrative personnel if the employee agrees to be employed in an acquisition position for at least three years. Provides that DOD shall cease repayment of such loan if the employee is voluntarily or involuntarily separated from such service before the termination of the required period. Requires repayment to the United States from persons participating in the scholarship program or the full-time student employee degree program for educational assistance provided when such person fails to complete the agreed-upon period of Federal employment after graduation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a structure for a defense acquisition university. Authorizes the Secretary to employ professors, instructors, and lecturers in such university. Directs the Secretary to develop procedures to ensure that the military departments implement a management information system to provide standardized information to the Secretary on the qualifications of personnel serving in acquisition positions. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the Congress concerning acquisition positions available, the number of persons serving the Acquisition Corps, the total number of critical acquisition positions held, and other information relating to defense acquisition personnel during the prior year. Requires regulation revisions and waiver documents to be submitted to the Congress at the same time that the Secretary submits his annual defense budget to the Congress. Provides for the payment of a retention bonus for officers serving in critical acquisition positions who execute a written agreement to extend by at least one year their period of active duty in such position. Outlines officers covered and provided bonus terms and conditions, limiting the bonus paid to no more than $6,000 per year. Requires repayment of such bonus on a pro rata basis for an officer who fails to complete the total period of additional duty agreed upon. Directs the Secretary of Defense to review all acquisition positions to determine which positions should be specified as available only for military members. Requires the Secretaries of the military departments to fill critical acquisition positions by Acquisition Corps members as soon as possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to publish the first list of positions designated as critical acquisition positions within 18 months after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary of Defense to report to the Armed Services Committees within six months after enactment of this Act an implementation plan for the defense acquisition university structure. States that the 180-day waiting period for the hire of retired military personnel shall not apply to a person appointed to a critical acquisition position. States that a certain reduction in retired or retainer pay for persons employed by the Government after retirement also shall not apply to members appointed to critical acquisition positions. Repeals Federal provisions concerning: (1) the assignment of contracting officers under the Department of Defense Authorization, 1986; and (2) the tour of duty for defense acquisition program managers. Directs the Comptroller General to conduct an independent evaluation of the actions taken by the Secretary of Defense to carry out this Act and to report on such evaluation to the Armed Services Committees within two years after the enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5199 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Directs the Secretary of Energy to provide any naval reactor contractor with notice of contract termination as far in advance of the cessation of the work under the contract as is feasible. Directs the Secretary, in any case in which a contract is terminated, to: (1) allow the contractor to use, for other than military purposes, the patents, designs, processes, and manufacturing data developed under the contract; and (2) assist the contractor in identifying services and technologies which may be needed by the Department of Energy or other Government departments and agencies and for which such patents and information may be used.
Bill· HRH.R. 5210 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Defense Contractor Selection Improvement Act - Amends Federal defense contract provisions to require a solicitation for competitive proposals to include either a statement that the proposals are intended to be evaluated after discussions with the offerors, or a statement that the proposals are intended to be evaluated without discussions with the offerors unless determined to be necessary. (Currently, only the former statement is required.) Requires the head of a defense agency to make an award based solely on the factors specified in the solicitation. Authorizes the head of a defense agency to evaluate competitive proposals and award a contract either with or without discussions with the offerors, depending on the statement included in the solicitation.
Bill· HRH.R. 5202 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Defense Environmental Activities Act - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for the armed forces and other agencies and activities of the Department of Defense (DOD) for environmental restoration, defense. Earmarks a specified amount of other funds appropriated to DOD for FY 1991 for carrying out environmental activities, including research and development for environmental purposes. Directs the Secretary of Defense to create a major force program category for environmental activities carried out by DOD for its five-year defense program. Requires funding levels for environmental activities of DOD to be included in the budget request for each of the five years. Requires the Secretary to make a certification and certain reports regarding program recommendations and budget proposals for environmental activities included in the environmental major force program category.
Bill· HRH.R. 5221 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 28 June 1990
Amends Federal armed forces provisions to repeal the social security offset applicable to certain annuities paid to surviving spouses under the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) for retired members of the armed forces, to the extent that such offset is due to social security benefits which are based on the surviving spouse's own earnings or self-employment. Directs the Secretary of the military department concerned to recompute the existing annuities of certain individuals currently under the SBP or who have become eligible for such annuity by the date of enactment of this Act, in order to determine if such recomputation is more favorable due to changes made by this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 5174 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 to the Department of Defense Base Closure Account to be used for environmental restoration at military installations scheduled to be closed under current law. Makes such Account the exclusive source of funding for such environmental restoration. Establishes an interagency task force and requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Congress the findings and recommendations of the task force regarding ways to improve, coordinate, and streamline interagency action concerning environmental restoration activities at military installations that are being closed.
Bill· HRH.R. 5169 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 27 June 1990
Provides that attorneys' fees may not be charged in the case of an individual applying for benefits under laws administered by the Department of Veterans Affairs before the date on which the Board of Veterans' Appeals first makes a final decision in the case. States that there shall be no limit upon attorneys' fees charged at any stage of a proceeding involving the Department in: (1) any case in which the United States is seeking to collect an indebtedness, which involves waiver of overpayments; or (2) proceedings before a court.
Bill· HRH.R. 5154 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Military Personnel Readjustment Assistance Act of 1990 - Title I: Military Personnel Readjustment Benefits - Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish within the Office of the Secretary of Defense a Military Personnel Readjustment Office to develop and coordinate Department of Defense (DOD) programs designed to assist military personnel and their dependents in readjusting to civilian life after discharge or release from active duty. Provides separation pay for a regular enlisted member of the armed forces who is discharged involuntarily or as the result of the denial of reenlistment if such member has completed at least six but less than 20 years of active service, unless the Secretary determines that the conditions of discharge do not warrant such pay. Repeals the limitation on the amount of separation pay for any individual. Makes the payment of such separation pay inapplicable to a member of the armed forces who is serving on active duty as of September 30, 1990, is discharged or released, and who has at least five but less than six years of active service. Entitles a member of the armed forces who is involuntarily separated from active duty during the five-year period beginning October 1, 1990, to medical and dental care and other health benefits provided while on active-duty service for a transitional period of 60 days for those separated with less than six years of active service, and 120 days for those with six or more years of active service. Directs the Secretary to inform each member involuntarily separated after October 1, 1990, of the availability for purchase of a conversion health policy for members and their dependents to pay the costs of health care for one year. Urges the Secretary of the military department concerned to consider, on an individual basis in cases of hardship, the provision of health care at a military facility for members separated during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, and who are ineligible for transitional health care or who do not obtain a conversion health policy. Requires the Secretary concerned to give special consideration to requests for such care when the condition for which treatment is required was incurred or aggravated before separation. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to allow a member of the armed forces involuntarily separated during such five-year period to continue to use commissary and exchange stores for one year. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to permit individuals involuntarily separated during such period to continue for up to 180 days after such separation to reside with their dependents in military family housing provided or leased by DOD during their active service. Directs the Secretary concerned to require a reasonable rental for such use. Includes as part of preseparation counseling available to members of the armed forces: (1) information concerning government and private-sector programs for job search and job placement assistance; (2) job placement counseling for a member's spouse; (3) information concerning the availability of medical coverage following separation from active duty; (4) information concerning the availability of relocation assistance services; (5) counseling on the effects of career changes on individuals and their families; and (6) financial planning assistance. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program to promote and publicize job fairs which may be of interest to members of the armed forces and their dependents; (2) establish a program to provide to members discharged or released from active duty a certification or verification of any skills and experience acquired while on active duty that may have application to employment in the private sector; (3) provide that members of the armed forces who are involuntarily separated (and their dependents) are awarded a preference in hiring by nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of DOD; and (4) develop and carry out at not less than ten military installations outside the United States a program to assist members who are preparing for discharge or release from active duty (and their dependents) in readjusting to civilian life. Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to provide that a member of the armed forces involuntarily separated during the five-year period who has a dependent enrolled in a school of the defense dependents' education system shall continue to be eligible to enroll such dependent in such school until the earliest of the completion of the dependent's secondary education, the end of the two year period following such separation, or, in the case of dependents not enrolled at the time of separation, the completion of the period of enrollment during which the member is involuntarily separated. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the implementation of provisions of this title. Repeals Federal law concerning the starting period and the aggregate amount of unemployment compensation to be paid to individuals released or discharged from Federal service. Title II: Defense Officer Personnel Management Policies - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to allow the Secretary of the military department concerned, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, to: (1) shorten the period of the continuation of active duty for a regular officer who is serving on active duty pursuant to a selection for continuation on such duty; (2) provide that regular officers on the active-duty list may be considered for early retirement by a selection board for specified officers in the regular grade; (3) suspend current Federal law stating that so long as an officer below brigadier general or rear admiral holds the same grade, he may not be considered for early retirement more than once in any five-year period; and (4) convene selection boards to consider for discharge regular officers on the active-duty list in grades below lieutenant colonel or commander who have at least one year in such grade, whose names are not on a recommended-for-promotion list, and who are not eligible to be retired and are not within two years of becoming eligible. Limits the total number of officers who may be recommended during a fiscal year for discharge by such a selection board. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretary of the military department concerned to reduce the time-in-grade requirement before voluntary retirement is permitted to two years in the case of retirements effective during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the Secretary concerned, during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1990, to reduce the required length of commissioned service before voluntary retirement is permitted from ten years to eight years.
Bill· HRH.R. 5163 (101st)referred
United States · United States Congress · 26 June 1990
Directs the Secretary of Defense to conduct a comprehensive survey to determine the potential for reducing energy consumption at Department of Defense facilities through the use of energy-saving measures. Directs the Secretary to implement the survey results by the year 2000. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to establish policies under which a military installation that achieves savings on energy costs may retain two-thirds of the savings realized during each of the first five years. Requires one half of any retained savings to be used for additional energy conservation measures and one-half for morale, welfare, or recreation facilities or for minor military construction projects that will enhance the quality of life for members at the installation involved. Directs the Secretary, in evaluating sealed bids or competitive proposals for a contract for an energy system for DOD, to take into account the manner in which the bidder or offeror carried out energy conservation measures in the performance of previous contracts. Directs the Secretary to require each military installation to participate in any programs conducted by publicly-regulated utility companies for the management of electricity demand or for energy conservation.