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Report· Rapport d'information1992-107introduced

La politique de la ville

France · Senate · 10 December 1992

La politique de la ville

Record· Divisionvote_4carried

Housing Policy: Motion.

Ireland · Seanad Éireann · 21 October 1992

Question put: "That the motion, as amended, be agreed to."

Question· oralPQ 47asked

47 Mr. McCartan asked the Minister for the Environment the progress, if any, made to date in the implementation of the Government housing programme announced in February 1991; the number of people who have applied for the shared ownership schemes; the number of house purchases which have been completed under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

47 Mr. McCartan asked the Minister for the Environment the progress, if any, made to date in the implementation of the Government housing programme announced in February 1991; the number of people who have applied for the shared ownership schemes; the number of house purchases which have been completed under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Question· oralPQ 22asked

47 Mr. McCartan asked the Minister for the Environment the progress, if any, made to date in the implementation of the Government housing programme announced in February 1991; the number of people who have applied for the shared ownership schemes; the number of house purchases which have been completed under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

47 Mr. McCartan asked the Minister for the Environment the progress, if any, made to date in the implementation of the Government housing programme announced in February 1991; the number of people who have applied for the shared ownership schemes; the number of house purchases which have been completed under the scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Question· oralPQ 20asked

17 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give details of the implementation to date of the Programme for Social Housing; the number of families and individuals housed to date under this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

17 Mr. Howlin asked the Minister for the Environment if he will give details of the implementation to date of the Programme for Social Housing; the number of families and individuals housed to date under this programme; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Question· oralPQ 19asked

16 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for the Environment , in respect of each housing authority, (1) the number of applications received for the shared ownership home loan scheme (2) the number of such applications which have been approved (3) the number of loans which have been issued and (4) the number of house sales that have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

16 Mr. O'Shea asked the Minister for the Environment , in respect of each housing authority, (1) the number of applications received for the shared ownership home loan scheme (2) the number of such applications which have been approved (3) the number of loans which have been issued and (4) the number of house sales that have been completed; and if he will make a statement on the matter.

Question· oralPQ 10asked

9 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for the Environment the number of co-operative housing schemes which he has approved this year; the number of houses which will be provided under these schemes; and the total cost of these schemes.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

9 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for the Environment the number of co-operative housing schemes which he has approved this year; the number of houses which will be provided under these schemes; and the total cost of these schemes.

Question· oralPQ 6asked

6 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for the Environment the number of local authority dwelling units which will be started and which will be completed in 1992; the number of housing starts which have been sanctioned so far this year; and the number of units which have been completed so far this year.

Ireland · Dáil Éireann · 20 October 1992

6 Mr. Dukes asked the Minister for the Environment the number of local authority dwelling units which will be started and which will be completed in 1992; the number of housing starts which have been sanctioned so far this year; and the number of units which have been completed so far this year.

Bill· HRH.R. 6206 (102nd)referred

Community Credit Improvement Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992

Community Credit Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Community Credit Availability Improvements - Amends the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977 (CRA) to direct the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agencies to jointly develop a format for collecting data from regulated financial institutions in connection with examinations of their record of meeting the credit needs of their local communities, including low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. Includes the following among the data required: (1) home mortgage lending; (2) small business lending; (3) community development; (4) consumer loans; and (5) branch closures. Prescribes guidelines under which the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agencies, as part of their written evaluations of the institutions under their purview, must actively solicit comments from affected community members, with particular emphasis upon low- and moderate-income and minority residents. Amends the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act of 1975 to include among the required public disclosures of depository institutions located in specified metropolitan statistical areas the number and total dollar amount by census tract of small business loans and of personal loans to consumers. Amends the CRA to require financial institutions to be rated on the adequacy of their record of meeting community credit needs. Precludes such institutions from receiving a rating unless they have actually extended significant amounts of credit in low-income neighborhoods, and not merely been in compliance with a plan for extending such credit in the future. Title II: Community Support Requirements - Sets forth certain community support requirements for private mortgage insurance companies, including a biennial report to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (the Secretary) on the availability of, and underwriting guidelines for, mortgage insurance policies for low- and moderate-income families within those areas in which the companies write a significant number of mortgage insurance policies. Directs the Secretary to establish within the Department of Housing and Urban Development the Office of Private Mortgage Insurance Company Oversight to conduct biennial community support reviews of private mortgage insurance companies. Title III: Pattern or Practice - Amends the CRA to require the appropriate Federal financial supervisory agency to deny an application for a deposit facility by a regulated financial institution if the institution has exhibited a pattern or practice of opening or closing branches in a way that tends to exclude low- and moderate-income or minority communities.

Law· HRH.R. 6183 (102nd)enacted

Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 6 October 1992

Federally Supported Health Centers Assistance Act of 1992 - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include entities receiving Federal funds under provisions relating to migrant health centers, community health centers, or health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing, and officers, employees, or certain contractors of such entities who are licensed or certified health practitioners, in the coverage of provisions regulating civil actions for injury resulting from medical or related functions against commissioned officers or employees of the Public Health Service. Makes such actions the exclusive remedy against such entities and individuals. Subrogates to the United States any insurance claim such an entity or person has. Terminates such inclusion after a specified date. Prohibits deeming such an entity to be an employee of the Public Health Service unless the entity has: (1) implemented policies and procedures to assure against malpractice and the risk of lawsuits; (2) reviewed the professional credentials, claims history, and other information regarding its licensed health care practitioners; (3) no history of claims against the United States under these provisions, or has cooperated with the Attorney General in defending against such claims and has taken corrective action; and (4) has cooperated with the Attorney General in providing information relating to an estimate of expected claims. Empowers the Attorney General, if certain conditions are met, to determine that an individual physician or other practitioner not be deemed a Public Health Service employee for purposes of these provisions. Prohibits hospitals from denying admitting privileges to an otherwise qualified health care provider who is an officer, employee, or contractor of such an entity. Mandates an annual estimate of the amount of claims expected to be paid and, subject to appropriations and a dollar maximum, establishment of a fund of that amount.

Bill· SS. 3339 (102nd)referred

Supportive Services in Housing Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Supportive Services in Housing Act of 1992 - Title I: General Improvements to Programs Providing Housing for the Elderly - Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to establish in the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) an office of Assistant Secretary for Supportive Housing to administer HUD supportive housing programs for the elderly and persons with disabilities. Requires the Secretary (Secretary) of HUD to: (1) review each HUD multifamily housing project for the elderly at least once every four years; and (2) review annually the adequacy of such projects' funding levels and geographic targeting of resources. Directs the Secretary to enter into agreements with local housing agencies to provide one-stop housing assistance application centers for elderly and disabled persons. Title II: Section 202 Supportive Housing for the Elderly - Directs the Secretary to carry out a mixed-income demonstration project of housing for the elderly, including the provision of supportive services. Funds such project from assistance available under section 202 of the Housing Act of 1959. Requires: (1) the selection of at least ten project applicants; and (2) annual program reports to the Congress. Title III: Revised Congregate Housing Services - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to redefine "frail elderly" for purposes of congregate housing services to mean an elderly person with any functional disability which may impair the person's ability to live independently. Gives assistance priority to persons with the greatest economic need and the greatest risk of being institutionalized. Title IV: Service Coordinators in Federally Assisted Housing - Amends the Cranston-Gonzalez National Affordable Housing Act to require congregate housing service coordinators to receive training in the aging process and related concerns. Amends the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide service coordinators for section 8 projects serving elderly persons. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to provide service coordinators for frail elderly persons in certain multifamily housing. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Housing Act of 1949 to authorize rural rental housing grants to provide service coordinators for frail persons. Authorizes appropriations. Makes related service coordinator revisions to the Housing Act of 1959 (section 202) and the United States Housing Act of 1937 (public housing). Title V: Mortgage Insurance for Assissted Living Facilities - Amends the National Housing Act to make assisted living facilities (as defined by this Act) for frail elderly persons eligible for mortgage insurance.

Bill· HRH.R. 6171 (102nd)referred

Action Now Health Care Reform Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Action Now Health Care Reform Act of 1992 - Title I: Improved Access to Affordable Health Care Coverage - Subtitle A: Increased Affordability and Availability for Employees - Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services (the Secretary) to request the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (the NAIC) to develop model regulations requiring each carrier that makes available in a State any small employer health benefit plan to make available to each small employer in the State a MedAccess basic plan and a MedAccess standard. Directs the Secretary to develop such regulations, if the NAIC does not. Defines MedAccess plan as a health benefits plan that: (1) provides benefits typical of the benefits offered in the small employer health coverage market or provides only benefits for essential preventive and medical services and has an average actuarial value not exceeding 60 percent of the average actuarial value of the typical benefits offered in the small employer health coverage market; (2) accepts every small employer in the State applying for coverage and accepts for enrollment every eligible individual (defined as an individual who is a full-time employee and, if family coverage is offered, covers the employee's spouse and dependents under age 19 or under age 25 for students); and (3) meets consumer protection standards established by this Act relating to limitation of pre-existing condition clauses, continuity of coverage, renewability, and premium limitations. Prohibits the imposition, by a carrier, of a limitation of benefits based on the fact a condition pre-existed the effectiveness of the policy if: (1) the condition relates to a condition not diagnosed within three months before coverage under the plan; (2) the limitation extends beyond six months after coverage under the plan; (3) the limitation applies to an individual who, as of date of birth, was covered under the plan; and (4) the limitation relates to pregnancy. Requires continuous coverage. Prohibits cancellation of a plan or denial of coverage unless there is: (1) nonpayment of premiums; (2) fraud; (3) noncompliance with plan provisions; (4) failure to maintain the required number of enrollees; (5) misuse of a provider network provision; or (6) a cessation by the carrier of the provision of any plan in a State. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose an excise tax which shall be paid by the carrier on the failure of a carrier or an employer health benefit plan to comply with the provisions of the Act. Directs the Secretary to request the NAIC to develop models for reinsurance or allocation of risk mechanisms for individuals and small employers who are enrolled under a small employer health benefit plan that meets the consumer protection standards and for whom a carrier is at risk of incurring high costs under the plan. Requires each State to establish and fund one or more reinsurance or allocation or allocation of risk mechanisms that are consistent with a model. Directs the Secretary to develop models, if the NAIC does not. Permits a State, in order to insure the financial solvency of the mechanism, to impose charges on any entity, including a self-insured entity, providing employee-related health benefits, so long as such charges do not discriminate with respect to entities that would not be subject to such charges. Directs the Secretary to establish a reinsurance or allocation of risk mechanism, if a State does not. Imposes an excise tax which shall be paid by the carrier on the providing of any health benefit plan which covers any employee in a Federal reinsurance State. Permits either a State or the Secretary (in a Federal reinsurance State) to require each employer health benefit plan to: (1) be registered; and (2) provide such information as is necessary for the reinsurance or allocation of risk mechanisms. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an Office of Private Health Coverage to be headed by a Director appointed by the Secretary; and (2) provide for the appointment of an advisory committee to advise the Director. Permits the Director to research the impact of this subtitle and conduct related demonstration projects. Requires the Director to develop: (1) methods of measuring, in terms of the expected costs of providing benefits under small employer health benefit plans and, in particular, MedAccess plans, the relative health risks of eligible individuals; and (2) a model for equitably distributing health risks among carriers in the small employer health care coverage market. Authorizes appropriations for the purposes of this paragraph. Subtitle B: Improved Small Employer Purchasing Power of Affordable Health Insurance - Preempts from insurance mandates a qualified small employer purchasing group, if the group consists of employers with not more than 100 employees, the group consists of not fewer than 100 employers, and the health benefit plans with respect to the employer members are in compliance with applicable State laws relating to health benefit plans. Subtitle C: Health Deduction Fairness - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to make permanent and, in phases, increase from 25 to 100 percent the health insurance tax deduction for the self-employed. Subtitle D: Improved Access to Community Health Services - Directs the Secretary to provide for a program of grants to migrant and community health centers receiving grants or contracts under provisions of the Public Health Service Act in order to promote the provision of primary health care services for underserved individuals. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Public Health Service Act to deem as an employee of the Public Health Service, for purposes of civil actions against commissioned officers or employees, any officer, employee, or contractor who is a physician or other licensed health care practitioner while performing functions for an entity receiving Federal funds under provisions of the Public Health Service Act relating to migrant or community health centers, health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing. Requires an entity, in order to receive a grant under such provisions, to implement certain policies to assure against malpractice. Requires: (1) the Attorney General to estimate, for specified fiscal years, the amount of all claims expected, during each year, to arise against such an entity from acts of officers or employees; (2) the Secretary to withhold from grants to such entities the amount estimated; and (3) the withheld amount to be transferred to the Treasury to pay judgments against the United States arising from such claims. Directs the Secretary to make grants to public and nonprofit private entities to carry out demonstration projects for the purpose of increasing access to outpatient primary health services in geographic areas with a: (1) population of not more than 500,000 individuals; (2) shortage of personal health services; and (3) significant number of low-income or underinsured individuals. Sets forth requirements for receiving such grants. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle E: Improved Access to Rural Health Services - Retitles title XII of the Public Health Service Act "Emergency Medical Services" (formerly, "Trauma Care") and directs the Secretary to establish the Office of Emergency Medical Services which shall, with respect to emergency medical services (including trauma care): (1) conduct research; (2) sponsor workshops; (3) assist States; and (4) coordinate activities. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States for the purposes of improving the availability and quality of emergency medical services through the operation of State offices of emergency medical services. Sets forth matching fund requirements. Provides for demonstration projects to establish telecommunications between rural medical facilities and other medical facilities that have equipment that can be utilized through telecommunications. Authorizes appropriations for purposes of the programs of this paragraph. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States to assist in the creation or enhancement of air medical transport systems that provide victims of medical emergencies in rural areas access to treatments for the injuries or other conditions arising from such emergencies. Sets forth requirements for grant applications. Authorizes appropriations. Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend for one year special treatment rules for Medicare-dependent small rural hospitals. Title II: Health Care Cost Containment and Quality Enhancement - Subtitle A: Medical Malpractice Liability Reform - Prohibits bringing a medical malpractice claim: (1) more than two years after the alleged injury should reasonably have been discovered and in no event more than four years after the alleged injury occurred; and (2) in any State court unless there has been an initial resolution through a certified alternative dispute resolution system (ADR). Directs the Attorney General to establish an ADR for the resolution of Federal medical malpractice claims, to be used after completion of the administrative process under specified provisions. Requires a pre-trial settlement conference in any medical malpractice liability action. Sets limits on: (1) noneconomic damages; (2) punitive damages; and (3) attorney's fees. Requires offsets for damages paid by a collateral source. Requires liability in a medical malpractice action to be several and not joint. Provides a complete defense to any allegation of negligence in a medical malpractice liability action to any defendant who followed the appropriate practice guideline. Prohibits finding a defendant guilty in a medical malpractice liability action relating to services provided during labor or delivery of a baby if the defendant did not previously treat the plaintiff during the pregnancy, unless the malpractice is proven by clear and convincing evidence. Establishes requirements for and provides for annual certification of State ADRs. Directs the Secretary to establish an alternative Federal ADR for claims in States without certified ADRs. Amends title XI (General Provisions and Professional Standards Review) of the Social Security Act to earmark funds for sanctioning practice guidelines for purposes of an affirmative defense in medical malpractice liability actions. Permits a State agency responsible for the conduct of disciplinary actions for a type of health care practitioner to enter into agreements with State or county professional societies for such type of health care practitioner to permit such societies to participate in the licensing of such health care practitioner and to review health care malpractice allegations. Requires each State to require each health care professional and provider to participate in a risk management program to prevent and provide early warning of practices which may result in injuries to patients or which otherwise endanger patient safety. Directs the Secretary to make grants for the conduct of basic research in the prevention of and compensation for injuries resulting from health care professional or health care provider malpractice, and research of the outcomes of health care procedures. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary to study the factors discouraging physicians from volunteering to provide health care services in medically underserved areas. Subtitle B: Administrative Cost Savings - Directs the Secretary to adopt standards relating to each of the following: (1) data elements for use in claims processing under health benefits plans; (2) uniform claim forms; and (3) uniform electronic transmission of the data elements. Authorizes the Secretary to require providers to submit claims to health benefit plans in accordance with such standards. Provides for periodic review of the standards. States that the term "health benefit plan," in this subtitle, includes the Medicare and Medicaid programs (titles XVIII and XIX of the Social Security Act) programs and Medicare supplemental health insurance. Requires the Secretary to promulgate standards for hospitals concerning electronic medical data. Permits the Secretary to promulgate standards concerning electronic medical data for providers that are not hospitals. Requires hospitals, in order to participate in Medicare, to: (1) maintain clinical data in a set of comprehensive data elements in electronic form on all patients; and (2) upon the Secretary's request, transmit electronically the data set and any data from such set. Provides for electronic transmission to Federal agencies. Prohibits a health benefit plan, if standards with respect to data elements are promulgated with respect to a class of provider, from requiring for the purpose of utilization review or as a condition of providing benefits under the plan that a provider in the class: (1) provide any data element not in the set of comprehensive data elements; or (2) transmit or present any such data element in a manner inconsistent with applicable standards. Directs the Secretary to establish an advisory commission of hospital executive and data base managers, physicians, health services researchers, and technical experts in the collection and use of data and operation of data systems. Authorizes appropriations for such commission. Requires the Secretary, in order to assure the availability of comparative value information to purchasers of health care in each State, to determine whether each State is developing and implementing a health care value information program that meets stated criteria. Permits grants to a State for the development of its health care value information program. Authorizes appropriations for such grants. Requires the head of each Federal agency with responsibility for the provision of health insurance or health care services to individuals to promptly develop health care value information relating to each program that such head administers. Directs the Secretary to develop model systems to facilitate: (1) the gathering of data on health care cost, quality, and outcome; and (2) analyzing such data to permit the valid comparison of such data. Authorizes appropriations for the development of such model systems. Directs the Secretary to adopt standards relating to the design and use of magnetized Medicare identification cards for the purpose of assisting health care providers in determining eligibility and billing. Authorizes appropriations. Nullifies any State law requiring that medical or health insurance records be maintained in written rather than electronic form. Requires each health benefit plan: (1) for each of its beneficiaries that has a social security number, to use that number as an identification number for claims processing; and (2) for each provider that has a unique identifier for Medicare purposes, to use that identifier for claims processing. Requires the Secretary to determine whether problems relating to the rules for determining liability when benefits are payable under two or more plans or the availability of information among such plans causes significant administrative problems, and if so, directs the Secretary to promulgate standards concerning liability and the transfer of information among plans. Directs the Secretary to provide grants to qualified entities to demonstrate the application of comprehensive information systems in continuously monitoring patient care and in improving patient care. Authorizes appropriations from the Federal Hospital Insurance Trust Fund. Subtitle C: Medical Savings Accounts (Medisave) - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to exclude from the gross income of an employee any amount contributed by the employer to a medical savings account pursuant to a qualified medical savings account plan. Sets contribution limits. Defines a "medical savings account" as a trust created exclusively for purpose of paying an individual's medical expenses. Permits expenses from such account only to the extent such amounts are not compensated for by insurance. Imposes a penalty on distributions not used for that individual's medical expenses. Subjects the employee to taxation as owner of the account. Subtitle D: Medicaid Program Flexibility - Amends title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify Medicaid contracting requirements for coordinated care services. Subtitle E: Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to extend physician self-referral limitations to all payors as well as to certain additional services. Revises exceptions. Requires the Secretary to conduct a study in order to estimate the changes in aggregate costs for designated health services, under the Medicare program and other health plans, which will result from the implementation of the amendments made by this subtitle. Subtitle F: Removing Restrictions on Managed Care - Preempts managed care restrictions under State law. Requires the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the benefits and cost effectiveness of the use of managed care in the delivery of health services. Subtitle G: Medicare Payment Changes - Amends the Medicare program to make revisions in the methodology for determining updates to Medicare hospital payments. Provides for a reduction in Medicare payment for clinical diagnostic laboratory tests. Subtitle H: Limitation of Antitrust Recovery for Certain Hospital Joint Ventures - Limits antitrust recovery to actual damages if the requirements of this subtitle are met, including the filing and publication of certain information regarding hospital joint ventures. Establishes the Interagency Committee on Competition, Antitrust Policy, and Health Care to make recommendations to the Congress regarding antitrust and health care. Subtitle I: Encouraging Enforcement Activities of Medical Self-Regulatory Entities - Prohibits damages, interest on damages, costs, or attorney's fees from being recovered (except for actual damages, interest on damages, costs, or attorney's fees for injury sustained) under the Clayton Act or any similar State law from any medical self-regulatory entity as a result of engaging in standard setting or enforcement activities designed to promote the quality of health care provided to patients and not conducted for financial gain.

Bill· HRH.R. 6150 (102nd)referred

Foreign Aid Reduction and Reform Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Foreign Aid Reduction and Reform Act of 1992 - Declares the policy of the Congress that: (1) humanitarian aid to foreign nations should continue to be provided in the form of grants; (2) foreign aid to military and economic development purposes should be converted to loans, rather than grants; and (3) the conversion should be implemented over a reasonable period of time, in recognition of prior commitments and managerial efficiency. Title I: Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs - Rescinds FY 1993 funds made available to the President for the Agency for International Development for: (1) population, development assistance; (2) operating expenses; (3) the housing guaranty program account; (4) the economic support fund; (5) the international fund for Ireland; (6) Philippines assistance; (7) assistance for Eastern Europe and the Baltic States; and (8) assistance for Russia and emerging Eurasian democracies. Rescinds funds made available to the African Development Foundation and the Inter-American Foundation. Provides supplemental FY 1993 funds to the: (1) Overseas Private Investment Corporation Program account; (2) the Peace Corps; and (3) the Department of State for international narcotics control and anti-terrorism assistance. Rescinds funds made available to the President for international military education and training and the foreign military financing program. Provides supplemental FY 1993 funds to the President for direct loans under the foreign military financing program, peacekeeping operations, the subsidy appropriation, and administrative expenses. Title II: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - Rescinds FY 1993 funds made available to the Department of State for: (1) the administration of foreign affairs; (2) the Office of Inspector General; (3) representation allowances; (4) protection of foreign missions and officials; (5) acquisition and maintenance of buildings abroad; (6) emergencies in the diplomatic and consular service; (7) the repatriation loans program account; (8) payment to the American Institute in Taiwan; and (9) international organizations and conferences. Rescinds FY 1993 funds made available to: (1) certain international commissions; (2) payment to the Asia Foundation; (3) the Board for International Broadcasting; (4) the Commission for the Preservation of America's Heritage Abroad; (5) the International Trade Commission; (6) the Japan-United States Friendship Commission; and (7) the United States Information Agency.

Bill· HRH.R. 6144 (102nd)referred

To amend title 10, United States Code, to assist members of the Armed Forces who are separated from active duty and civilian employees of the Department of Defense who are terminated to obtain new employment with certain community health centers, hospitals, and nursing homes.

United States · United States Congress · 5 October 1992

Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a program to assist eligible members of the armed forces after their separation from active duty to: (1) obtain certification in the occupations of the allied health professions, nursing, and social work; and (2) fill employment vacancies in such occupations existing in community health centers that serve medically underserved populations, other nonprofit community health centers, and nursing homes that participate in State Medicaid (title XIX of the Social Security Act) programs (underprivileged and Medicaid health services). Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a survey to identify those States with alternative certification requirements for allied health professionals, nursing professionals, or social workers; and (2) periodically request information from such States to identify underprivileged and Medicaid health services that are experiencing a shortage of allied health professionals, nursing professionals, or social workers. Makes eligible for the program members of the armed forces who: (1) during the five-year period beginning on October 1, 1992, are discharged or released from active duty under honorable conditions after two or more years of continuous active-duty service immediately before such discharge; (2) have received a minimum of a high school diploma or its equivalent; and (3) are certified as allied health professionals, nursing professionals, or social workers or are determined by the Secretary as likely to obtain such certification within a reasonable time after discharge or release. Authorizes the Secretary to accept program applications from members discharged or released during the period between October 1, 1990, and October 1, 1992, if other eligibility conditions are met. Outlines application requirements. Requires the Secretary to give priority to members who have educational or military experience related to health care or social work or in another subject area identified by the Secretary as important for national health care objectives. Requires sufficient appropriated funds before program operation. Requires members chosen for the program to enter into an agreement with the Secretary in which the member agrees to either obtain certification as a health or nursing professional or social worker within a reasonable time period or, within such time period, to obtain full-time employment within the underprivileged and Medicaid health services. Directs the Secretary to pay a stipend to participating members during their period of obtaining certification or while seeking employment. Requires stipend reimbursement upon failure to meet program agreement conditions, with exceptions. Sets forth similar provisions requiring the Secretary to establish a program to assist eligible civilian employees of the Departments of Defense and Energy to either obtain certification in such fields or to obtain employment in the underprivileged and Medicaid health services. Makes eligible for such program employees who were terminated (no two-year minimum service requirement necessary) from such employment as a result of reductions in defense spending or the closure or realignment of a military installation. Provides similar provisions as under the armed forces program with respect to applications, participant selections, priorities in employment, required appropriations, agreement conditions, and stipend payments.

Bill· HRH.R. 6094 (102nd)referred

Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992

Federal Housing Enterprises Financial Safety and Soundness Act of 1992 - Sets forth congressional findings and definitions. Declares that this Act and the amendments it makes may not be construed: (1) as obligating the Federal Government, either directly or indirectly, to provide any funds to the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (Freddie Mac), the Federal National Mortgage Association (Fannie Mae), or the Federal Home Loan Banks, or to honor, reimburse, or otherwise guarantee any of their obligations or liabilities; or (2) as implying that any such enterprise or Bank, or any obligations or securities of such an enterprise or Bank, are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States. Title I: Supervision and Regulation of Enterprises - Subtitle A: Financial Safety and Soundness Regulator - Establishes within the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, managed by a presidentially appointed Director, who shall ensure that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (the enterprises) and their affiliates are adequately capitalized and operating safely. Authorizes the Director to require financial reports from the enterprises in addition to quarterly and annual reports required under specified Acts. Authorizes the Director to establish and collect from the enterprises annual assessments for the reasonable costs and expenses of the Office, including an initial assessment of $1.5 million to cover its start-up costs. Establishes a Federal Housing Enterprises Oversight Fund for the deposit of such assessments. Requires the Director to conduct annual on-site examinations of each enterprise to determine its condition. Authorizes other examinations as necessary. Permits contracting out to specified Federal offices or instrumentalities for examiners. Requires the Director to prohibit the enterprises from paying any officer compensation that is not reasonable and comparable with compensation in other similar businesses involving similar duties, but prohibits the Director from prescribing or setting a specific level or range of compensation. Permits the Director to contract with nationally recognized statistical rating organizations to conduct enterprise reviews. Requires each enterprise to establish a minority outreach program to ensure inclusion in its contracts of minorities and women and businesses owned by them. Requires annual reports by the Director to specified congressional committees. Requires immediate public disclosure of all final orders and agreements, except in certain circumstances. Prohibits the Director and any former officer or employee of the Office, who was compensated at certain levels higher than GS-15 while employed by the Office, from accepting compensation from any enterprise during the two years following separation from the Office. Requires General Accounting Office audits of the Office. Subtitle B: Authority of Secretary - Grants the Secretary of HUD, except for specified authority of the Director of the Office, general regulatory power over each enterprise. Requires the Secretary to require each enterprise to obtain the Secretary's approval for any new program before implementing it. Sets forth approval standards. Directs the Secretary to make mortgage information (except proprietary information) submitted by the enterprises available to the public. Requires annual reports by the Secretary to specified congressional committees, including an annual housing report aggregating and analyzing certain data. Directs the Secretary, by regulation, to impose on the enterprises specified fair housing requirements and prohibitions. Prohibits the public disclosure of proprietary information. Requires the Secretary to establish specified housing goals for each enterprise, including goals for purchase of mortgages on housing for low- and moderate-income families (adjustable annually to meet unaddressed needs of such families for affordable housing), and on housing located in underserved areas (both urban and rural). Sets forth factors to be applied in establishing such goals. Requires the Secretary to monitor and enforce compliance with such goals, establishing guidelines, filing goal failure notices, and requiring (of noncompliant enterprises) submission of housing plans. Prescribes deadlines for approval or disapproval of such housing plans. Authorizes the Secretary to issue cease-and-desist orders, subject to administrative hearings. Provides for judicial review of such orders by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Sets forth civil money penalties for noncompliance with housing plan requirements, ranging from $10,000 to $25,000 for each day of failure. Requires immediate public disclosure of final orders and agreements, except in certain circumstances. Requires the Secretary to issue final regulations implementing this subtitle by a certain deadline. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Provisions - Amends Federal law to make certain amendments conforming to this title. Amends the Department of Housing and Urban Development Act to prohibit the Secretary from merging or consolidating the Office of Federal Housing Enterprise Oversight, or any of its functions or responsibilities, with any function or program the Secretary administers. Requires each of the enterprises to review and report to the Secretary and specified congressional committees on its underwriting guidelines, examining: (1) the extent to which they prevent or inhibit the purchase or securitization of mortgages for housing located in mixed-use, urban center, and predominantly minority neighborhoods and for housing for low- and moderate-income families; (2) the standards employed by private mortgage insurers and the extent to which they inhibit such purchases or securitizations; and (3) the implications of implementing underwriting standards that establish a downpayment requirement for mortgagors of five percent or less, allow the use of cash on hand as a downpayment source, and approve borrowers with a credit history of delinquencies if the borrower can demonstrate a satisfactory credit history for at least the 12 months ending on the date of the mortgage application. Directs the Comptroller General, the Secretary of HUD, the Secretary of the Treasury, and the Director of the Congressional Budget Office each to study and report to specified congressional committees on the desirability and feasibility of repealing the Federal charters of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, eliminating any Federal sponsorship of them, and allowing them to continue to operate as fully private entities. Requires each study to examine the effects of privatization on specified requirements, markets, and other factors. Title II: Requires Capital Levels for Enterprises and Special Enforcement Powers - Requires the Director to establish by regulation a risk-based capital test for the enterprises. Requires such test, when applied to an enterprise, to determine the amount of regulatory capital sufficient for the enterprise to maintain positive capital during a ten-year period ("stress period") in which specified circumstances occur with respect to credit risk, interest rate risk, and new enterprise business. Requires the minimum capital level for each enterprise to be the sum of: (1) 2.5 percent of its aggregate on-balance sheet assets; (2) 0.45 percent of the unpaid principal balance of outstanding mortgage-backed securities and substantially equivalent instruments issued or guaranteed by it that are not included in (1); and (3) 0.45 percent of other off-balance sheet obligations not included in (2) (excluding certain commitments), adjusted to reflect differences in the credit risk of such obligations in relation to the instruments included in (2). Requires the critical capital level for each enterprise to be the sum of: (1) 1.25 percent of the aggregate on-balance sheet assets of the enterprise; (2) 0.25 percent of the unpaid principal balance of outstanding mortgage-backed securities and substantially equivalent instruments issued or guaranteed by it that are not included in (1); and (3) 0.25 percent of other off-balance sheet obligations not included in (2) (excluding certain commitments), adjusted to reflect differences in the credit risk of such obligations in relation to the instruments included in (2). Requires the Director to classify the enterprises as adequately capitalized (maintaining total capital equal to or exceeding the established risk-based capital level, and core capital equal to or exceeding the established minimum capital level), undercapitalized, significantly undercapitalized, or critically undercapitalized. Authorizes the Director to lower an enterprise's capital classification upon determining that the enterprise is engaging in unapproved conduct that could result in a rapid depletion of core capital or that the value of property subject to mortgages held or securitized by the enterprise has decreased significantly. Requires the Director to determine capital classifications quarterly. Sets forth the contents of capital restoration plans. Subjects the Director's actions to judicial review. Requires the Director to conduct an annual financial condition examination of each enterprise. Requires undercapitalized and significantly undercapitalized enterprises to submit capital restoration plans to the Director and, after approval, carry them out. Prohibits such enterprises from making any capital distribution that would result in a lower classification. Authorizes the Director, in the event an enterprise fails to submit a substantially compliant plan or make reasonable good-faith efforts to comply with an approved plan, to: (1) reclassify an undercapitalized enterprise as significantly undercapitalized, or a significantly undercapitalized enterprise as critically undercapitalized; and (2), with respect to significantly undercapitalized enterprises, limit increases in obligations, limit or prohibit asset growth, restrict certain activities, require new capital, and (in certain circumstances) appoint a conservator. Requires the Director to appoint a conservator for a critically undercapitalized enterprise, unless to do so would have serious adverse effects on economic conditions of national financial markets or on the financial stability of the housing finance market, and the public interest would be better served by some other enforcement action. Requires written notification of an enterprise before any proposed discretionary enforcement action may be taken. Grants such an enterprise a 30-day period in which to respond to such a notice, although this response period may be lengthened or shortened. Provides a procedure for the appointment of a conservator, judicial review of such appointment, and termination of a conservatorship. Specifies the powers of a conservator, and provides for errors or omissions liability protection. Specifies the general contents of a capital restoration plan, requiring restoration of an enterprise's core capital to at least its minimum capital level and its total capital to at least its risk-based capital level. Provides for judicial review of certain classifications or supervisory enforcement actions by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. Title III: Enforcement Actions - Sets forth general procedures for: (1) issuing temporary and permanent cease-and-desist orders against enterprises; (2) hearings; (3) judicial review; (4) civil money penalties; (5) notice after separation from service; (7) private rights of action; and (8) public disclosure of final orders and agreements. Title IV: Amendments to Charter Acts of Enterprises - Makes conforming amendments to the Federal National Mortgage Association Charter Act and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation Act. Requires establishment of an Affordable Housing Advisory Council in each enterprise. Title V: Regulation of Federal Home Loan Bank System - Amends the Federal Home Loan Bank Act to declare that: (1) the primary duty of the Federal Housing Finance Board is to ensure that the Federal Home Loan Banks operate in a financially safe and sound manner; (2) all Board directors shall serve on a full-time basis beginning January 1, 1994; and (3) the aggregate amount of advances permissible by the Federal Home Loan Bank System to members that are not qualified thrift lenders shall not exceed 30 percent of the System's total advances. Declares that an otherwise qualified advance to a State housing finance agency to facilitate mortgage lending that benefits individuals and families meeting certain income requirements (with respect to mortgage revenue bonds and qualified residential rental project exempt facility bonds) need not be collateralized by a mortgage insured under the National Housing Act or otherwise, if any real estate collateral for such loan comprises single family or multifamily residential mortgages. Requires the Federal Housing Finance Board, the Comptroller General of the United States, the Director of the Congressional Budget Office, and the Secretary to study and report to the Congress on specified aspects of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Requires the Secretary of the Treasury and certain Federal agencies to submit opinions to the Congress to the extent that their views differ from those of the study participants. Requires the Federal Home Loan Banks to set up a Study Committee to study and report to specified congressional committees, the Federal Housing Finance Board, and the presidents of the Federal Home Loan Banks on the same topics covered by the above study, as well as the costs and benefits of consolidating the Federal Home Loan Bank System. Requires the Board of Directors of each Federal Home Loan Bank to report to such congressional committees their evaluation of the costs and benefits of such consolidation.

Bill· HRH.R. 6107 (102nd)referred

John Heinz Neighborhood Development Program Amendments Act

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992

John Heinz Neighorhood Development Program Amendments Act - Amends the Housing and Urban-Rural Recovery Act of 1983 to redesignate the Neighborhood Development Demonstration as the John Heinz Neighborhood Development Program. Provides for increased Program coordination between community funding organizations and local development organizations.

Bill· HRH.R. 6097 (102nd)referred

Native American Veterans' Home Loan Equity Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 2 October 1992

Native American Veterans' Home Loan Equity Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement a pilot program under which the Secretary may make direct housing loans to aid Native American (Indian, Alaska or Hawaii native, or Pacific Islander) veterans in purchasing, constructing, or improving dwellings on trust land. Requires such loans to be made in a variety of geographic areas and in areas experiencing a variety of economic circumstances. Prohibits any such loans from being made after the end of FY 1997. Authorizes the Secretary to make such a direct housing loan to a Native American if: (1) the Secretary has entered into a memorandum of understanding with respect to such loans with the tribal organization having jurisdiction over such veteran; and (2) the memorandum is in effect when the loan is made. Outlines provisions to be included in each such memorandum. Prohibits entering into any such memorandum unless the Secretary determines that it provides standards and procedures necessary for the reasonable protection of the financial interests of the United States. Limits to $80,000 the principal amount of any such loan, but authorizes the Secretary to exceed such amount in a geographic area in which housing costs are significantly higher than average housing costs nationwide. Sets forth provisions concerning loan interest rates and credit underwriting standards. Directs the Secretary to determine the reasonable value of the interest in property that will serve as security for a loan made under this Act and to establish procedures for appraisals upon which to base such determinations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish minimum requirements for planning, construction or improvement, and general acceptability relating to any direct loan; and (2) establish credit underwriting standards to be used in evaluating such loans. Requires loans to be repaid in monthly installments. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make advances to provide for repairs, alterations, and improvements and to meet incidental expenses of the loan transaction; and (2) take any other actions and make any necessary determinations with respect to expenses, rules and regulations, and the use of persons, organizations, or departments or agencies to carry out his functions. Directs the Secretary to carry out an outreach program to inform tribal organizations and Native American veterans of the pilot program and the availability of direct housing loans for Native American veterans residing on trust lands. Establishes in the Treasury the Native American Veteran Housing Loan Program Account to carry out financial activities relating to the making of loans under this Act. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the pilot program, to consider the views and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Native-American Veterans established under the Veteran's Health-Care Amendments of 1986. Directs the Secretary to report annually in 1994 through 1998 to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees on: (1) the pilot program and recommendations for legislation regarding the program; (2) the exercise of authority to exceed the maximum loan limit; and (3) the real property appraisals performed for the Secretary during such year. Allows new direct loan obligations for Native American veteran housing loans under this Act to be incurred only to the extent that appropriations to cover their anticipated cost are made in advance. Authorizes appropriations for such loans for FY 1993.

Bill· HRH.R. 6084 (102nd)referred

Housing Assistance Innovation Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 1 October 1992

Housing Assistance Innovation Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to permit a qualifying public housing agency or resident management corporation to carry out a demonstration program allowing it to set policies for the operation and development of one or more projects, without regard to certain public housing requirements. Excludes employee-residents of specified HUD-assisted housing from certain wage rate requirements. Provides for evictions and tenancy terminations based upon felony convictions under specified public and Indian housing programs. Authorizes appropriations.

Law· HRH.R. 6056 (102nd)enacted

Making appropriations for the government of the District of Columbia and other activities chargeable in whole or in part against the revenues of said District for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 30 September 1992

Title I: Fiscal Year 1993 Appropriations - District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1993 - Appropriates funds to the District of Columbia for FY 1993 for: (1) the Federal payment to the District of Columbia; (2) the Federal contribution to retirement funds; (3) expenses incurred in connection with presidential inauguration activities; and (4) the Federal contribution to establish the Trauma Care Fund. Appropriates specified sums out of the District of Columbia general fund for the current fiscal year for: (1) governmental direction and support; (2) economic development and regulation; (3) public safety and justice; (4) public education; (5) human support services; (6) public works; (7) the Washington Convention Center Fund; (8) repayments of specified loans and interest; (9) repayment of the general fund deficit; (10) employees' optical and dental benefits; (11) inaugural expenses; (12) the rental and leasing of facilities for governmental purposes; (13) the Trauma Care Fund; (14) furlough adjustments; (15) within-grade salary adjustments; (16) capital outlay; (17) the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund and water construction projects; (18) the Lottery and Charitable Games Enterprise Fund; (19) the Cable Television Enterprise Fund; and (20) the Starplex Fund. Prohibits the use of funds to implement or enforce: (1) any registration system for unmarried, cohabitating couples whether they are homosexual, lesbian, or heterosexual, including registration for the extension of employment, health, or governmental benefits to such couples on the same basis as that extended to legally married couples; or (2) the District Domestic Partner Act (also called the District of Columbia Health Care Benefits Expansion Act of 1992). Requires the District of Columbia to operate and maintain a telephone hotline for Lorton-area residents to receive information concerning escapes, fires, and riots at Lorton prison. Directs the District of Columbia Mayor to reduce appropriations and expenditures for personal and nonpersonal services by a specified amount. Sets forth certain uses of and restrictions on the expenditure of appropriations made by this Act. Prohibits the use of funds for: (1) activities which permit or encourage partisan political activities; (2) the salary of any District of Columbia government employee whose name, title, grade, salary, or work and salary history are not available for inspection by specified congressional committees and the District of Columbia Council, or whose name and salary are not available for public inspection; (3) publicity or propaganda purposes; (4) abortions, except where the life of the mother would be endangered if the fetus were carried to term; (5) reprogramming, unless the reprogramming was approved according to specified procedures; or (6) the operation, after June 1, 1993, of the Cedar Knoll Facility. Requires that the annual budget for the District of Columbia government for FY 1994 be transmitted to the Congress by April 15, 1993. Requires the Mayor to develop an annual plan for capital outlay borrowings. Prohibits the Mayor from: (1) borrowing funds for capital projects without the prior approval of the District of Columbia Council; or (2) using money borrowed for capital projects for operating expenses of the District of Columbia government. Directs the Mayor to submit to the D.C. Council, within 30 days after the end of the first quarter of FY 1993, the FY 1993 revenue estimates. Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to extend, for one year, the District's authority to sell its general obligation bonds through negotiated sales. Prohibits the renewal or extension of any sole source contract with the District of Columbia government without opening that contract to the competitive bidding process, subject to exception. Requires any sequestration order under the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to be applied to each account appropriating Federal funds in this Act (rather than to the aggregate total of those accounts) which is not specifically exempted from sequestration by specified Federal law. Provides for repayment to the Federal Treasury of any amounts appropriated and paid to the District of Columbia before a sequestration order is issued, applying the sequestration percentage proportionately to each account not specifically exempted from sequestration. Requires the District of Columbia to pay interest on its quarterly payments to the United States that are made more than 60 days after its receipt of an itemized statement from the Federal Bureau of Prisons of amounts due for housing D.C. convicts in Federal penitentiaries. Authorizes an entity of the District of Columbia government to accept and use a gift or donation during FY 1993 if: (1) the Mayor approves; and (2) the entity uses such gift or donation to carry out its authorized functions or duties. Requires the entity to keep accurate and detailed records of acceptance and use of any gift or donation and to make them available for audit and public inspection. Authorizes the Board of Education to accept gifts to the public schools without prior approval by the Mayor. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to issue or renew a registration certificate or identification tag for any motor vehicle if unpaid fines for traffic violations are outstanding against any registered owner (or authorized user) of the vehicle. Provides for waivers of such prohibition, subject to certain conditions. Prohibits the use of funds under this Act to impose, collect, transfer, or enforce a payment in lieu of taxes on the Water and Sewer Utility Administration that would increase payments in Maryland or Virginia under the Blue Plains Intermunicipal Agreement of 1985. Mandatory Life Imprisonment or Death Penalty for Murder in the District of Columbia - Requires the District of Columbia Board of Elections and Ethics to place the Mandatory Life Imprisonment or Death Penalty for Murder in the District of Columbia initiative on the ballot. Declares that such measure, if passed, would provide for the death penalty or life imprisonment without parole for persons convicted of first degree murder in the District of Columbia. Amends the District of Columbia Code to establish mitigating and aggravating factors to be considered by the jury before recommending the death sentence. Sets forth provisions concerning: (1) governmental notification of intent to seek the death penalty; (2) capital sentencing hearings; (3) proof of mitigating and aggravating factors; (4) findings by the jury of such factors or concerning a sentence of death; (5) precautions to assure against discrimination; (6) imposition of a death sentence; (7) death sentence appeal rights; (8) implementation of a death sentence; (9) a prohibition on the execution of pregnant women; (10) conscientious objection to participation in execution; (11) appointment of counsel for indigent capital defendants; (12) representation for the defendant after finality of judgment; (13) standards for competence of counsel; (14) claims of ineffectiveness of counsel in collateral proceedings; (15) time for collateral attack on death sentences; (16) stays of execution; and (17) finality of the appeal decision. Grants the Mayor the power to commute a death sentence to a sentence of life imprisonment without parole. Title II: Fiscal Year 1992 Supplemental District of Columbia Funds - District of Columbia Supplemental Appropriations and Rescissions Act, 1992 - Makes supplemental appropriations (including rescissions) to the District of Columbia for FY 1992 for: (1) governmental direction and support; (2) economic development and regulation; (3) public safety and justice; (4) public education; (5) human support services; (6) repayment of the general fund deficit; (7) resizing; (8) the rental and leasing of facilities for governmental purposes; (9) capital outlay; (10) the Water and Sewer Enterprise Fund; and (11) the Starplex Fund. Rescinds specified FY 1992 funds earmarked for public works, the Washington Convention Center Fund, and repayment of certain loans and interest. Amends the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1992 to authorize the District of Columbia Board of Education to accept and use gifts to the public schools without prior approval by the Mayor. Declares that appropriations made and authority granted under this title shall be deemed available for FY 1992.

Law· HJRESH.J.Res. 553 (102nd)enacted

Making continuing appropriations for the fiscal year 1993, and for other purposes.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1992

Makes continuing appropriations for FY 1993 for projects or activities including the costs of direct loans and loan guarantees provided for in the following Acts: (1) the Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993; (2) the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1993; (3) the District of Columbia Appropriations Act, 1993; (4) the Energy and Water Development Appropriations Act, 1993; (5) the Foreign Operations, Export Financing, and Related Programs Appropriations Act, 1993; (6) the Department of the Interior and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993; (7) the Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and Education, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993; (8) the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 1993; (9) the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1993; (10) the Department of Transportation and Related Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993; (11) the Treasury, Postal Service, and General Government Appropriations Act, 1993; and (12) the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies Appropriations Act, 1993. Sets forth limitations on the use of such funds. Requires each agency, office, and instrumentality of the District of Columbia government, except the District of Columbia Courts, to furlough each employee for one day in each month of FY 1993, or a proportional number of hours for part-time employees. Prohibits such employees from receiving within-grade salary increases during FY 1993 and prohibits time from accruing toward the waiting period for advancement to the following rate within the grade. Requires the Federal Communications Commission's Salaries and Expenses account to be maintained at the current rate of operations.

Resolution· HRESH.Res. 579 (102nd)passed

Waiving points of order against the conference report to accompany the bill (H.R. 5679) making appropriations for the Department of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and for sundry independent agencies, boards, commissions, corporations, and offices for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1993, and for other purposes, and against the consideration of such conference report.

United States · United States Congress · 24 September 1992

Waives points of order against the conference report on H.R. 5679 (appropriations for the Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development and sundry independent entities) and against its consideration.

Bill· HRH.R. 5978 (102nd)referred

Prevention of Illegal Residency and Activity in Public Housing Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 18 September 1992

Prevention of Illegal Residency and Activity in Public Housing Act of 1992 - Requires public housing agencies: (1) to certify to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development that the agency has inspected each public housing unit in projects administered by the agency to ensure that such units are not occupied by illegal aliens and are not being used for illegal activity in order to receive Federal assistance; and (2) that have identified illegal aliens occupying such units or determined that criminal activity is taking place in any such unit to notify the appropriate authorities and remove or evict the illegal aliens and tenants involved in criminal activity from such units. Conditions receipt of public housing assistance on such certification. Amends lease provisions of the United States Housing Act of 1937 to provide for similar inspections and evictions with respect to illegal aliens and tenants involved in criminal activity.

Bill· HRH.R. 5973 (102nd)referred

Family Investment Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 17 September 1992

Family Investment Act of 1992 - Title I: Family and Medical Leave - Subtitle A: Short Title; Findings and Purposes - Family and Medical Leave Act of 1992 - Sets forth the short title of this title I, along with findings and purposes. Subtitle B: General Requirements for Leave - Establishes certain requirements for family and medical leave for permanent employees. Makes employees eligible for such leave if they have been employed, by the employer from whom leave is sought, for at least: (1) a total of 12 months; and (2) 1,250 hours of service during the previous 12-month period. (Excludes from such coverage: (1) employees at worksites at which the employer employs less than 50 persons, if the total number of employees of that employer within 75 miles of that worksite is less than 50; and (2) Federal officers and employees covered under subtitle C of this title.) Entitles employees to 12 workweeks of leave during any 12-month period because of: (1) the birth and care of their child; (2) the placement of a child for their adoption or foster care; (3) their care of a child, spouse, or parent who has a serious health condition; or (4) their own serious health condition which makes them unable to perform the functions of their position. Conditions such leave for the birth or placement of a child as follows: (1) the entitlement ends 12 months after the birth or placement; (2) such leave may not be taken intermittently unless employee and employer agree otherwise. Allows intermittent leave for necessary medical treatment of an employee or family member. Allows the employer to require a temporary transfer to an equivalent alternative position that better accommodates such intermittent leave. Allows all leave to which an employee is entitled under this subtitle: (1) to be taken on a reduced leave schedule, upon agreement with the employer; and (2) to consist of unpaid leave, except under specified conditions when substitution of certain types of paid leave may be elected or required. Declares that nothing in this Act shall require an employer to provide paid sick or medical leave in any situation in which the employer would not normally provide any such paid leave. Requires employees to: (1) give at least 30 days' notice of the need for leave to which they are entitled under this Act, when foreseeable; and (2) make a reasonable effort to schedule medical treatment or supervision so as not to disrupt unduly the employer's operations, subject to approval of the health care provider. Allows limitation of the dual aggregate leave entitlement to 12 weeks in any 12-month period, in the case of spouses employed by the same employer, if such leave is for the birth or placement of a child or for the care of a sick parent. Sets forth conditions of certification for leave entitlements under this title, including provisions relating to: (1) sufficient certification; (2) explanation of inability to perform job functions; (3) dates and duration of planned medical treatment in the case of intermittent leave; (4) second opinion; (5) resolution of conflicting opinions; and (6) subsequent recertification. Sets forth employment and benefits protections relating to leave entitlements under this title. Requires restoration of the employee to his or her position or an equivalent position upon return from such leave. Allows an employer to deny such restoration to certain highly compensated employees (i.e. those among the highest paid ten percent of the employer's employees within 75 miles of the facility at which the employee works), under specified conditions, if necessary to prevent substantial and grievous economic injury to the employer's operations. Requires maintenance of employee health benefits during such leave. Allows the employer to recover premiums paid for such coverage if the employee fails to return to work after the leave period has expired for reasons other than a certified serious health condition or other circumstances beyond the employee's control. Prohibits employers or other persons from: (1) interfering with employee rights under this title; or (2) from discriminating against any individual because of participation in proceedings or inquiries under this subtitle, or because the individual opposes any practice made unlawful by this subtitle. Sets forth the investigative authority of the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under this subtitle. Provides for enforcement of this title. Provides for administrative action by the Secretary to resolve complaints of violations under this subtitle in the same manner as under specified provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938. Provides for civil actions by employees, and by the Secretary on their behalf. Makes an employer who violates this subtitle's prohibitions against interfering with employee exercise of rights or discriminating against employees liable for damages in the amount of: (1) any wages, salary, employment benefits, or other compensation denied or lost to the employee by reason of the violation; (2) (in any case where such compensation has not been denied or lost) any actual monetary losses sustained by the employee as a direct result of the violation, such as the cost of providing care, up to the amount of 12 weeks' wages or salary; (3) interest on such losses; and (4) an additional amount of liquidated damages equal to the sum of such losses and the interest (except that the court may reduce or eliminate such additional liquidated damages in cases where the employer can show good faith and reasonable grounds for believing that the act or omission was not a violation). Makes such employers also liable for appropriate equitable relief, including, without limitation, employment, reinstatement, and promotion. Requires the court to allow attorney's fees and other costs of the action to be paid by the defendant in addition to any judgment awarded to the plaintiff. Sets forth provisions for limitations of such civil actions. Sets forth provisions for action for injunction by the Secretary. Sets forth special rules concerning employees of local educational agencies and of private elementary and secondary schools, including provisions relating to intermittent leave for instructional employees, periods near the completion of an academic term, and reduction of liability. Requires employers to post notice of the pertinent provisions of this subtitle. Requires fines for willful violations of such requirement. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this subtitle. Subtitle C: Leave for Civil Service Employees - Amends specified Federal law to entitle civil service employees to family and temporary medical leave for specified periods. Makes such employees eligible for such leave if they have been employed by an employing agency for at least 12 months on other than a temporary or intermittent basis. Allows such employees up to 12 administrative workweeks in any 12-month period for: (1) family leave (i.e., leave because of the birth or placement of a child or care of a sick spouse, child, or parent), but such leave may not be used at a time more than 12 months after such birth or placement; or (2) temporary medical leave for a serious health condition that makes the employee unable to perform the functions of their position. Provides that such leave shall be without pay. Allows employees to substitute other types of paid leave for any part of such leave. Sets forth requirements for employees to give prior notice of the need for such leave, when foreseeable, and to schedule medical treatments, if possible, so as to not unduly disrupt the employing agency's operations. Sets forth certification provisions. Provides for protection for job position and health insurance benefits of employees using such leave. Sets forth prohibitions against coercion. Requires the Office of Personnel Management to prescribe regulations for administration of this title which are consistent with the regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Labor under subtitle B of this title. Subtitle D: Commission on Leave - Establishes the Commission on Leave. Requires the Commission to conduct a comprehensive study of: (1) existing and proposed policies relating to leave; (2) the potential costs, benefits, and impact on productivity of such policies on employers; and (3) alternative and equivalent State enforcement of this title with respect to employees of local educational agencies and private schools. Requires the Commission to report on such study to the Congress within two years after the Commission first meets. Terminates the Commission within 30 days after its report to the Congress. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Provisions - Sets forth the effect of this title on other laws and existing employment benefits. Provides that nothing in this title shall be construed to discourage employers from adopting more generous leave policies. Directs the Secretary of Labor to prescribe regulations to carry out this subtitle within 60 days. Subtitle F: Coverage of Congressional Employees - Applies the rights and protections established under specified provisions of subtitle B of this title to Senate employees and any employing office of the Senate. Makes specified provisions of the Government Employee Rights Act of 1991 applicable, with certain exceptions including limitations on the period for requests for counseling. Provides that allegations shall be considered by the Office of Senate Fair Employment Practices or another entity designated by the Senate. Requires such Office to ensure that Senate employees are informed of their rights under this title. Applies the rights and protections under subtitle B of this title to employees of the House of Representatives, except for the exemption concerning highly compensated employees. Requires that the remedies and procedures under the Fair Employment Practices Resolution be applied in administering such coverage. Title II: Head Start, Child Immunization, and WIC Programs as Emergency Funding for Budget Purposes - Amends the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act) to treat as emergency funding requirements not subject to discretionary spending limits the costs of carrying out Head Start programs under the Head Start Act, child immunizations under the Public Health Service Act, and the special supplemental food program (WIC) under the Child Nutrition Act of 1966. Title III: Parents as Teachers - Parents as Teachers: the Family Involvement in Education Act of 1992 - Amends the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 to establish a Parents as Teachers program. Authorizes the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to make grants to States for parents as teachers programs, with special consideration for hard-to-serve populations. Makes eligible for such a grant any State which operates a parents as teachers program associated with the Parents as Teachers National Center in Missouri. Sets forth program requirements, limiting services to families during the period from the last three months of a mother's pregnancy to the child's attaining age three. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a Parents as Teachers National Center for information dissemination and technical and training assistance for States with such programs; and (2) evaluate such programs within four years. Provides for a declining Federal share in such program from 100 percent in the first year to 25 percent in the fifth year. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Family Preservation - Subtitle A: References to Social Security Act - States that, except as otherwise expressly provided, all amendments in this title are to the Social Security Act. Subtitle B: Child Welfare Services - Amends part B (Child Welfare Services) of title IV of the Social Security Act (SSA) to create an entitlement program for specialized child welfare services designed to keep together or reunify families in crises due to substance abuse, and prevent the need for placement in foster care. Repeals provisions for incentive payments to States which maintain a foster care inventory, information system, and case review system; but requires States to provide such protections and other services designed to keep families together or reunify them, or to place children for adoption, with a legal guardian, or in some other planned, permanent living arrangement. Requires States to submit the following types of reports on child welfare services and expenditures: (1) pre-expenditure reports; (2) post-expenditure reports; and (3) comparative financial contributions reports. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to transmit annually to specified congressional committees a summary of the information in such contributions reports. Reserves funds for entitlement grants to State court systems to assess and improve procedures in child welfare cases, in carrying out SSA title IV parts B and E (Foster Care and Adoption Assistance). Sets forth application requirements and formulas for determining the amount of such grants for FY 1994 through 1998. Directs the Secretary to submit interim and final reports to the Congress on the information obtained from assessments conducted with such grants and the impact of such grant program on State court procedures and functions. Requires each State to compile biennially a detailed directory of programs designed to keep families together or reunify them or place children permanenty, identifying which of such programs provides specialized child welfare services to families in crisis due to substance abuse. Requires State part B plans to contain a description of the measures taken by the State to comply with the Indian Child Welfare Act. Subtitle C: Foster Care and Adoption Assistance - Amends SSA title IV to add a new part C, Comprehensive Service Projects to grant States the flexibility and resources to develop comprehensive and coordinated services designed to: (1) preserve and strengthen families with children at risk of placement outside their homes; (2) reunite children with their families expeditiously if an out-of-home placement is found to be necessary; and (3) place children in adoptive homes or other permanent arrangements in a timely fashion if reunification with their families is not appropriate. Permits any State to apply to the Secretary for permission to: (1) conduct a comprehensive service project in a selected area or areas; and (2) suspend certain child welfare services and foster care and adoption assistance requirements with respect to State activities in such area or areas during the project. Sets forth: (1) application requirements and administrative provisions for such projects; (2) requirements with which such a project must comply; (3) provisions for determining project grant amounts; and (4) requirements for notification to States of such amounts, and for grant payments in equal quarterly installments. Places restrictions on the manner in which a State may carry out such projects. Requires States to report annually on funds expended under such projects to the Secretary and the Advisory Commission on Children and Families. Provides for project termination. Permits foster care and adoption assistance payments to be made in certain cases involving abandoned children and children whose adoption has been set aside by a court. Makes technical changes in the foster care maintenance and adoption assistance programs with respect to the removal from home requirement. Gives States the option of providing for respite care for foster parents with children who have special needs. Expands the definition of children with special needs for purposes of the adoption assistance program. Requires each States to submit to the Secretary the factors and conditions it uses to identify children with special needs, for purpsoes of such program, and any modifications to such factors and conditions. Directs the Secretary to establish an Advisory Committee on Foster Care Placement to study and report to the Secretary and the Congress on reasonable efforts requirements under State part E plan provisions. Covers specified percentages of State costs in developing, installing, and operating statewide mechanized data collection and information retrieval systems which: (1) the Secretary determines are likely to enhance the administrations of programs under parts B and E; and (2) meet other specified requirements. Requires State part E plans to provide for: (1) a triennial review of the amounts paid as foster care maintenance payments and adoption assistance to assure their continuing appropriateness; and (2) a report to the Secretary on the results. Requires that the dispositional hearing to determine the final status of a foster child occur within 12 months of his or her original placement, rather than the current 18 months. Revises: (1) the definition of "case review system"; and (2) the time frame for judicial determinations on voluntary placements. Sets forth case plan requirements for placement of children in out-of-State foster care. Requires annual review of the status of children in out-of-State foster care placements with the child present, except under certain circumstances. Requires States to collect data on the numbers of children in out-of-State foster care placements. Requires a State, in order to receive payments for expenditures after FY 1994 for foster care maintenance payments with respect to children placed in foster care outside the State, to conduct and submit to the Secretary a study identifying the number and common characteristics of such children and the reason why they were not placed in foster care in the State. Permits States to allow foster children making the transition from foster care to independent living to accumulate assets for the purpose of establishing a household. Eliminates: (1) the ceilings on Federal foster care payments to States; and (2) the States' authority to transfer unused foster care funds to the Child Welfare Services program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish an advisory committee; and (2) after consultation with it, issue final regulations for training of staff of agencies responsible for administering foster care and adoption assistance programs and for training of foster and adoptive parents. Directs the Secretary to publish annually information, on a State-by-State basis, on expenditures for, and the operations of, the Child Welfare Services program, the Foster Care and Adoption Assistance program, and Comprehensive Service Projects. Amends SSA title IV to add a new part G, Child Welfare Review System, under which the Secretary is required to: (1) establish a new system for reviewing State child welfare program compliance with SSA requirements; and (2) take certain actions in cases of noncompliance, which include imposing financial penalties. Subtitle D: Social Services Block Grant - Amends SSA title XX (Block Grants to States for Social Services) to authorize increased appropriations under such grant program. Provides for the allocation of funds to Indian tribes and tribal organizations. Subtitle E: Research, Demonstration, and Evaluation Activities - Amends part A (General Provisions) of SSA title XI to require the Director of the Office of Technology Assessment (OTA) to establish an Advisory Commission on Children and Families. Requires the Commission to collect and assess specified types of information in order to identify cost-effective approaches to protect and enhance the physical, mental, emotional, and financial well-being of children and their families. Directs OTA to report annually to the Congress on the Commission and its assessment. Requires the Commission to conduct, directly or through contracts with independent research organizations, the following research and evaluation projects: (1) an evaluation of child welfare service programs, including intensive family preservation programs; (2) foster care evaluations; (3) longitudinal child welfare data bases, and studies of child welfare population dynamics; and (4) comprehensive service projects evaluations. Requires the Commission to study child separation guidelines. Directs the Secretary to contract with independent organizations to conduct the following research and evaluations: (1) a study to assess the prevalence and nature of risks to the safety of employees of child welfare systems; and (2) a three-year study to examine methodologies for measuring the workloads of providers of child welfare services and community mental health services. Directs the Secretary to authorize the following types of child welfare demonstration projects: (1) expeditious permanent placement of children; (2) child welfare worker training to deliver culturally sensitive and special needs services in U.S. areas that border on Mexico; (3) child welfare worker recruitment and retention strategies; and (4) joint training of child welfare workers and staff of mental health and juvenile justice agencies. Permits the Secretary to authorize foster care and adoption assistance demonstration projects to test the feasibility of eliminating certain SSA income and resources requirements, and allowing States to receive reimbursement for foster care and adoption assistance payments made with respect to children without regard to such income and resources. Directs the Secretary to provide technical assistance to States for: (1) implementing child welfare services, comprehensive service projects, and foster care and adoption assistance programs; (2) disseminating information on innovative child welfare agencies; (3) correcting problems identified through Federal audits and reviews and carrying out corrective action plans under foster care and adoption assistance programs; (4) implementing the foster care and adoption data collection system; and (5) addressing other matters identified by the Secretary. Subtitle F: Miscellaneous Human Resources Amendments - Amend SSA title IV part A (Aid to Families with Dependent Chidren) (AFDC) to: (1) give States the option to use retrospective budgeting without monthly reporting under the AFDC program; and (2) increase the stepparent income disregarded under the AFDC program. Amends the Family Support Act of 1988 to provide for an extension of the period for demonstration projects for evaluating model procedures for reviewing child support awards. Title V: Safe Children and Communities - Safe Children and Communities Act of 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary to make grants for projects to improve the safety of families with children in low-income, violent communities. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 3237 (102nd)open

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 16 September 1992

Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act Amendments Act of 1992 - Amends the Indian Self-Determination and Education Assistance Act (the Act) to define construction contract as a self-determination contract for any construction program other than a contract: (1) limited to providing architectural and engineering services, planning services, or construction management services; or (2) for the Housing Improvement Program administered by the Secretary of the Interior. Reduces certain reporting requirements under the Act. Specifies that tribal organizations are exempt from Davis-Bacon Act wage requirements under the Act. Recognizes tribal laws involving employment or contract preference. Specifies that all administrative functions of the Departments of the Interior and of Health and Human Services (HHS) which support the delivery of services to Indians are contractable under the Act, including those which are related to, but not part of, the service delivery program and which are otherwise contractable. Provides that programs shall be contractable without regard to the organizational level within the Department. Revises requirements relating to review procedures and approval criteria for proposed self-determination contracts and amendments. Provides for approval of any severable portion of a contract proposal which does not support a declination finding. Places the burden of proof (in a hearing or appeal) on the appropriate Secretary (of the Interior or HHS) to establish by clear and convincing evidence that the contract proposal should be declined. Requires that the final departmental decision in all such appeals be made at a level no lower than that of the Assistant Secretary. Allows a tribal organization in Alaska to redelegate specified contract authority. Specifies that certain Federal procurement policy law and Federal acquisitions regulations apply to contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements under the Act only to the extent that they are not inconsistent with the provisions or policy of the Act. Specifies that a tribe may rescind its request for retrocession. Specifies that the prohibition against the appropriate Secretary's making any contract that impairs ability to carry out trust responsibilities to any Indian tribe or individual refers to contracts for the provision of personal services. Provides that: (1) title to property and equipment furnished with funds under any self-determination contract or grant agreement shall vest in the appropriate tribe or tribal organization; and (2) upon retrocession, rescission, or termination of such contract or grant title to such property having a value in excess of a specified amount, and remaining in use in support of the contracted program, shall revert to the appropriate Secretary, upon that Secretary's option. Establishes procedures for coordinating newly contracted programs with programs which are still being administered by the appropriate Secretary. Authorizes tribal organizations, which are carrying out self-determination contracts, to redesign programs, activities, functions, and services under such contracts to best meet various needs of the Indian people and tribe served. Requires program standards in such contracts to be developed by mutual agreement to maximize such flexibility while assuring adequate protection of trust resources and delivery of satisfactory services. Deems an Indian tribe or tribal organization carrying out a contract, grant, or cooperative agreement under the Act as a Federal executive agency for purposes of access to special rates (for travel, lodging, and so forth) under specified Federal law involving Federal sources of supply. Requires the appropriate Secretary to provide no less an amount for a program under contract than would otherwise have been provided for such program, without regard to organizational levels within the Department. Includes savings in operation under a cost reimbursement contract involving a construction program among the self-determination contract savings that are to be used to provide additional services or benefits under the contract or be expended in the succeeding fiscal year (by the tribal contractor, rather than reverting to the Treasury). Provides for inclusion of certain previously incurred or one-time startup costs as part of the contract or of support costs, if the Secretary has been notified in advance. Includes under accounting and reporting requirements for the appropriate Secretary's annual report to the Congress any deficiency of funds needed to provide: (1) contract support costs (as well as required indirect costs) to all contractors for the current fiscal year; and (2) satisfactory services to any tribes adversely affected by contracting activities under the Act. Requires every Federal agency to pay its full proportionate share of the indirect costs associated with federally funded contracts or grants awarded to tribes or tribal organizations under any other law. Directs the appropriate Secretary, subject to availability of appropriations, to fund shortfalls and report unfunded shortfalls to the Congress, if appropriations are insufficient for Federal agencies (other than the Departments of the Interior or HHS) or for State governments or agencies to pay their full proportionate share. Prescribes when a 365-day statute of limitations begins to run, under provisions for rights of action or other remedies (excluding criminal penalties) relating to disallowance of costs. Allows a tribal organization to use funds provided under a self-determination contract: (1) to meet matching or cost participation requirements under other Federal and non-Federal programs; and (2) without approval, to the extent supportive of a contract program, for various specified purposes. Directs the Office of Management and the Budget, within 12 months after enactment of this Act and with tribal participation, to develop a separate set of cost principles applicable to tribes and tribal organizations consistent with the government-to-government Federal-tribal relationship under this Act. Prohibits the appropriate Secretary from suspending or delaying payments to a tribal organization under a self-determination contract, except in connection with a rescission or reassumption. Specifies that program income earned by a tribal organization in carrying out a self-determination contract: (1) shall be used to further the general purposes of the contract; and (2) shall not be a basis for reducing the amount otherwise obligated under the contract. Requires the appropriate Secretary to make any savings resulting from contracting activities under the Act (which reduce Federal administrative responsibilities for Indian programs and which have not been otherwise included in the contract amount) available to tribal organizations contracting under the Act, to the extent that does not adversely affect the Secretary's ability to carry out responsibilities to other tribes and tribal organizations. Requires that all administrative appeals relating to self-determination contracts be heard by the Interior Board of Contracts (but otherwise retains the applicability of the Contract Disputes Act to self-determination contracts).

Bill· SS. 3222 (102nd)referred

Small Business Capital Enhancement Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1992

Small Business Capital Enhancement Act of 1992 - Establishes the Small Business Capital Enhancement Program to enhance the availability of financing for small business concerns. Authorizes any State to apply to the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development for approval as participating State under the Program and eligible for reimbursement by the Secretary. Sets forth application approval criteria. Provides that a State that is not a participating State but that has its own capital access program providing portfolio insurance for business loans (based on a separate loss reserve fund for each financial institution) may apply to the Secretary to be approved as a participating State, subject to specified requirements. Specifies that: (1) if a State is approved for participation each financial institution with a particular agreement in effect with the participating State shall immediately be considered a participating financial institution; (2) reimbursements may be made under this Act in connection with all contributions made to the reserve funds by the State with respect to lending that occurs on or after the date on which the Secretary approves the State for participation; (3) if an amended participation agreement is required to secure participation approval by the Secretary, contributions subject to reimbursement shall include only those contributions made to a reserve fund with respect to loans enrolled on or after the date that an amended participation agreement becomes effective; and (4) a State with an existing program that is approved for participation may continue to implement the program utilizing the reserve funds accumulated under the State program. Prohibits the Secretary from approving a State for participation in the Program until at least $50,000,000 has been appropriated to the Secretary (subject to an appropriations Act), without fiscal year limitation, for the purpose of making reimbursements. Requires an approved participating State that wishes to amend its form of participation agreement and continue as a participating State to submit such amendment for review by the Secretary in accordance with specified provisions. Provides that any such amendment shall become effective only after it has been approved by the Secretary. Establishes requirements with respect to the terms of participation agreements, including provisions regarding: (1) establishment of separate reserve funds; (2) investment authority; (3) earned income and interest; (4) loan terms and conditions; (5) enrollment process; (6) coverage amount; (7) premium charges; (8) enrollment and other restrictions; (9) State contributions; (10) claims by financial institutions; (11) claims for other expenses; (12) payment and denial of claims; (13) subsequent recovery of claim amounts; (14) termination clauses; and (15) allowable withdrawals from the reserve fund. Sets forth reporting requirements. Provides for reimbursement by the Secretary of participating States, based on specified formulas. Requires a participating State that withdraws funds from a reserve fund pursuant to terms of the participation agreement to reimburse the Secretary according to a specified formula. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· HRH.R. 5911 (102nd)referred

Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance to Meet the Present Emergencies Arising from the Consequences of Hurricane Andrew and other Natural Disasters

United States · United States Congress · 9 September 1992

Dire Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act, 1992, for Disaster Assistance to Meet the Present Emergencies Arising from the Consequences of Hurricane Andrew and other Natural Disasters - Makes supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 for emergencies arising from natural disasters such as Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar. Designates such amounts as emergency requirements for all purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (Gramm-Rudman-Hollings Act). Title I: Department of Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies - Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of Agriculture for: (1) the Agricultural Research Service for buildings and facilities; (2) the Commodity Credit Corporation for crop losses and the tree assistance program; (3) the Soil Conservation Service for watershed and flood prevention operations; (4) the Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service for the emergency conservation program; (5) the Farmers Home Administration for the agricultural credit insurance fund program account, the rural housing insurance fund program account, the rural development insurance fund program account, the rural development loan fund program account, rural water and waste disposal grants, very-low-income housing repair grants, rural housing for domestic farm labor, emergency community water assistance grants, and salaries and expenses; and (6) the Food and Nutrition Service for the food stamp program. Declares that funds provided by this title are available only to the extent funds are not provided by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Title II: Departments of Commerce, Justice, and State, the Judiciary, and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to: (1) the Department of Commerce for the Economic Development Administration, the Minority Business Development Agency, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration; (2) the Department of Justice for general administration, legal activities, the Federal Prison System, and the Office of Justice Programs; (3) the Department of State for the administration of foreign affairs; (4) the Judiciary for Courts of Appeals, District Courts, and other judicial services; and (5) the Small Business Administration for the disaster loans program account. Title III: Department of Defense - Military - Makes additional amounts available for incremental costs of military, reserve, and national guard personnel and for operation and maintenance of military forces. Title IV: Energy and Water Development Department of Defense - Civil - Makes additional funds available to the Army Corps of Engineers-Civil for general construction, flood control and coastal emergencies, operation and maintenance, and flood control for the Mississippi River and tributaries, Arkansas, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Tennessee. Title V: Department of the Interior and Related Agencies - Makes additional appropriations available to the Department of the Interior for: (1) the United States Fish and Wildlife Service; (2) the National Park Service; (3) the United States Geological Survey; and (4) the Bureau of Indian Affairs. Title VI: Departments of Laobr, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to: (1) the Department of Health and Human Services for the Public Health Emergency Fund; (2) the Department of Education for educational excellence, impact aid, student financial assistance, and departmental management. Title VII: Department of Defense - Military - Makes supplemental amounts available to cover incremental costs at Homestead Air Force Base, Florida, for military construction and family housing. Title VIII: Department of Transportation and Related Agencies - Makes additional funds available to the Department of Transportation for: (1) the Coast Guard; (2) the Federal Aviation Administration; (3) the Federal Transit Administration; and (4) the Research and Special Programs Administration. Title IX: Treasury Department, U.S. Postal Service, the Executive Office of the President, and Certain Independent Agencies - Makes supplemental funds available to: (1) the Department of the Treasury for the U.S. Customs Service and the Internal Revenue Service; and (2) the General Services Administration (GSA) for the Federal Buildings Fund and the Federal Supply Service. Authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury and the Administrator of GSA to hire temporary employees as necessary for government operations in areas affected by Hurricane Andrew and Typhoon Omar. Amends the Treasury, Postal Service and General Government Appropriations Act, 1992 to repeal restrictions on travel expenses on employees subject to such Act. Authorizes heads of Federal agencies to establish emergency administrative leave as necessary for employees affected by the Hurricane and the Typhoon. Title X: Departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development, and Independent Agencies - Makes additional amounts available to: (1) Department of Veterans Affairs for the Veterans Health Administration and departmental administration; (2) the Department of Housing and Urban Development for housing programs, housing counseling assistance, guaranteed housing loans, and management administration; and (3) the Federal Emergency Management Agency for disaster relief, the disaster assistance direct loan program account, the community disaster loan program account, and salaries and expenses.

Bill· HRH.R. 5833 (102nd)referred

Rural Health Care Access Improvement Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 12 August 1992

Rural Health Care Access Improvement Act of 1992 - Title I: Provisions Relating to Physicians' Services - Subtitle A: Incentives Under Medicare - Amends title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act to modify requirements regarding payments to new physicians and other new health care practitioners for services in a rural area. Prohibits failure to make Medicare payments based on the failure of an individual to complete a questionnaire concerning the existence of a primary plan. Declares that any such payment remains conditional. Regulates the use, by carriers used for the administration of Medicare benefits, of extrapolation. Prohibits fees (by carriers or the Secretary of Health and Human Services) for filing a claim concerning physicians' services, related errors or appeals, applications for unique identifiers, responding to inquiries respecting physicians' services, or providing information with respect to medical review of such services. Requires consideration, in applying standards and criteria for contracts with carriers, of evaluations submitted by medical societies representing physicians served by the carrier. Provides for appeals of carrier actions. Requires carriers to provide for review (of denial of payments for physicians' services) by a physician in the same medical specialty. Amends titles XVIII (Medicare) and XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act to modify the circumstances in which payments may be made to a physician for services provided by a second physician. Amends the Social Security Act to exclude surgical procedures performed in a rural area from requirements of utilization and quality control review. Subtitle B: Increasing Number of Physicians Practicing in Rural Areas - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a personal interest deduction for qualified medical education loan interest which accrues while the physician is providing primary care to residents of a medically underserved rural area. Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to declare that two-year time limits do not apply to a borrower serving an internship or residency program in preparation for primary care practice with regard to paying interest subsidies on certain educational loans, insuring certain student loans, and repaying the principal and interest on certain educational loans. Amends the Public Health Service Act to add the ratio of medically underserved individuals in a health professional shortage area to the aggregate population of all such areas to the list of exclusive factors to be considered in determining the greatest shortages in the assignment of National Health Service Corps members. Subtitle C: Reduction in Medical Malpractice Liability for Community Health Centers - Amends the Public Health Service Act to include entities receiving Federal funds under provisions relating to migrant health centers, community health centers, or health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing, and officers, employees, or certain contractors of such entities who are licensed or certified health practitioners, in the coverage of provisions regulating civil actions for injury resulting from medical or related functions against commissioned officers or employees of the Public Health Service. Subrogates to the United States any insurance claim such an entity or person has. Terminates the inclusion after a specified date. Prohibits grants under provisions relating to migrant or community health centers, health services for the homeless, or health services for residents of public housing unless the applicant has: (1) implemented policies and procedures to assure against malpractice and the risk of lawsuits; (2) reviewed the professional credentials, claims history, and other information regarding its licensed health care practitioners; (3) no history of claims against it (or its officers, employees, or contractor) under such provisions relating to officers and employees of the Public Health Service, or has cooperated with the Attorney General in defending against such claims and has taken corrective action; and (4) has cooperated with the Attorney General in providing information relating to an estimate of expected claims. Empowers the Attorney General, if certain conditions are met, to determine that an individual physician or other practitioner not be deemed a Public Health Service employee for purposes of these provisions. Prohibits hospitals from denying admitting privileges to an otherwise qualified health care provider who is an officer, employee, or contractor of such an entity. Mandates an annual estimate of the amount of expected claims and withholding that amount from the appropriation for each involved grant program. Subtitle D: Expansion of Exceptions to Limitations on Physician Self-Referrals - Amends provisions of title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act prohibiting physician referrals to an entity with which the physician has a financial relationship to provide for exceptions relating to health maintenance organizations, managed care plans, shared facility services, and certain community services for which it is found that community individuals will be deprived of adequate health services without such an exception. Mandates a study of the changes in aggregate costs, under Medicare and other health plans, which will result from the amendments made by this subtitle. Title II: Provisions Relating to Hospitals - Amends Medicare provisions to require rural hospital prospective payment system amounts for capital-related costs of inpatient services to be based on reasonable costs or on the methodology used to determine the payment for other hospitals, as elected by the hospital. Amends the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1989 to extend the termination date of provisions requiring referral centers. Removes Medicare provisions relating to exceptions and adjustments in certain payments for regional and national referral centers. Provides that the disproportionate share adjustment percentage be determined, in certain circumstances, as though such provisions had not been removed. Shields from certain antitrust laws specified actions of hospitals meeting described requirements, including being outside of a city or in a city with fewer than a specified number of inhabitants. Title III: Miscellaneous Provisions - Subtitle A: Administrative Simplification - Requires any public or private health benefit plan to: (1) issue health claims cards; (2) provide information to the assigned health claims clearinghouse on eligibility and benefits for an individual; and (3) accept the determinations of clean claims made by the clearinghouse. Requires each health service provider to submit claims only to the assigned clearinghouse and only consistent with standards under this Act. Imposes civil penalties. Establishes a sunset date for the penalties. Requires each hospital, as a Medicare participation agreement requirement, to report information in a uniform manner consistent with specified provisions of the Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act of 1987. Requires: (1) designation of clearinghouse areas having about five million residents each; and (2) a separate contract in each area with a public or private organization to perform the clearinghouse functions. Allows a clearinghouse to impose user charges. Sets forth clearinghouse functions, including eligibility and benefit verification and claims processing. Provides for inter-clearinghouse verification and the use of electronic and other communication forms. Allows the clearinghouse contract to provide for claim payment by the clearinghouse, including regarding Medicare payments. Mandates standards for: (1) uniform health claims cards with certain information electronically encoded; and (2) the type and form of information required for claims acceptance and payment. Requires the Secretary of Health and Human Services to develop and make available to providers such computer software as will enable providers to make inquiries, receive responses, and submit claims electronically and, in the case of hospitals, to submit uniform reports. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on the failure of any group health plan to meet certain requirements of this title, specifying sunset dates for the tax. Sets the amount of the tax at 25 percent of the gross premiums received during the year from all group health plans issued by the person on whom the tax is imposed. Requires that Medicare and Medicaid identification cards be modified to meet the requirements of this Act. Subtitle B: Other Provisions - Amends the Public Health Service Act to require that demonstration projects involving telecommunications to improve trauma care in rural areas include specified elements. Authorizes the use of a specified amount from funds appropriated to carry out provisions relating to health personnel student assistance for grants to nursing schools for the establishment of clinics to provide primary care services in medically underserved rural areas or within a certain distance of Indian country and to provide for related clinical training development, faculty enhancement, and student scholarships. Amends Federal law relating to the independent collection of information by an agency to require: (1) a study of the burden of federally conducted or sponsored health care services information collection requests; and (2) setting a goal of reducing that burden by specified percentages.

Resolution· SRESS.Res. 334 (102nd)passed

A resolution to authorize the testimony of Senate employees and release of documents by the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs.

United States · United States Congress · 11 August 1992

Authorizes the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, acting jointly, to provide documents in the custody and control of the committee to the independent counsel in the case of United States v. Dean, except those for which a privilege should be asserted. Authorizes Lory Breneman, a Senate employee, to testify in the case, except concerning matters for which a privilege should be asserted. Directs the Senate Legal Counsel to represent Lory Breneman in connection with her testimony.

Bill· SS. 3141 (102nd)open

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992

Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the design and construction of defense access roads. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, defense access roads, architectural and engineering design services, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to increase by a specified amount the funding permitted to the Army for the worldwide leasing of military family housing. 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, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to: (1) increase the authorized amount of appropriations for a military construction project at the Guam Navy Public Works Center; and (2) decrease the authorized amount of appropriations for military construction projects at the Subic Bay, Philippines, Navy Public Works Center and the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina. Directs the Secretary to expend from prior-law appropriations necessary amounts for planning and design of defense access roads for the Pascagoula, Mississippi, Naval Station. 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 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to transfer an authorized military construction project (and the authorized amount for such project) from Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, to Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Terminates certain FY 1991 and 1992 military construction projects. 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 appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, conforming storage facilities, certain base closure and realignment activities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes the obligation of prior-year unobligated military construction funds for such military construction projects. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. 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 to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts . Reduces certain prior-year authorizations of appropriations for Air Force Reserve military construction projects. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI on October 1, 1995, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out a military construction project for energy conservation not previously authorized by law if prior military construction funds were authorized to be made available for such project. Increases to $1,000,000 ($300,000 for FY 1992) the threshold for FY 1993 through 1995 for minor construction projects carried out with DOD operation and maintenance funds. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress after each such fiscal year on any minor construction projects carried out whose cost exceeded $300,000. Prohibits any funds made available to a military department during FY 1993 from being expended for contracts for the construction, acquisition, or leasing of military family housing that are entered into after October 1, 1992, until the Secretary of that military department has solicited bids for such housing under military construction projects currently authorized under Federal law. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to construct a replacement for a single family housing unit if: (1) authorized by law; (2) a simple home improvement is no longer cost-effective; and (3) 21 days have elapsed since notification to the Congress of such replacement. Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to authorize deposit into the Department of Defense Base Closure Account for its use of any funds that the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) may transfer from funds appropriated to DOD or funds contained in the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress notice of and justification for any such transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize such Account for environmental restoration, community economic adjustment assistance, and disposal of property at bases selected for closure under base closure laws. Makes identical amendments for the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 established under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Provides for the valuation of amounts to be deposited into a reserve account after the sale of real property at a military installation which represents the amount of such property acquired, constructed, or improved with commissary store funds or nonappropriated funds. Requires amounts so reserved to be used only for acquiring, constructing, and improving: (1) commissary stores; and (2) real property and facilities for nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authority of the Secretary to transfer specified funds under base closure laws to the homeowners assistance program. Directs the Secretary to enter into, and report to the Congress on, a one-year contract with a private relocation contractor in order to test the cost-effectiveness of using national relocation contractors to administer the homeowners assistance program. Requires military construction relating to the closure or realignment of a military installation (currently, each military construction project) to meet certain budgeting constraints. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to revise the annual reporting date of the Comptroller General with respect to the Secretary's selection of military installations to be closed or realigned under such Act. Prohibits the Secretary and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission from recommending a realignment of functions and personnel of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service under provisions of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, instead authorizing the Secretary to provide for such a realignment under other Federal base closure and realignment provisions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to direct the Secretary to report annually to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (defense committees) on the operations of the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account during the preceding fiscal year. Subtitle C: Land Transactions - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to remove the San Diego Energy Recovery Project as a possible party to a land exchange between the city of San Diego and the Secretary of the Navy. Provides that, in lieu of conveyance of property owned by the Project, such Secretary may permit San Diego to convey other property suitable for family housing, or to pay the Secretary an amount sufficient for the loss of such property as consideration for the land exchange. Outlines other administrative provisions required in light of the loss of the Project as a party to the land exchange. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to South Carolina all rights and interest to real property comprising the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to allow the Secretary of the Navy to use the proceeds from the sale of certain property to acquire a new site for a naval center in Vermont (currently, only in the Burlington, Vermont area). Lowers the price required to be paid by the city of Burlington to acquire the real property being sold by such Secretary. Extends to June 1, 1995, the deadline for the conveyance of the property. Allows the Secretary to permit the city of Burlington to make alterations or improvements to the property before its conveyance to the City. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease: (1) to the Union Pacific Railroad Company certain property located at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California; and (2) to the City of Oakland or the Port of Oakland, California, certain property also located at the Naval Supply Center. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to enable the San Diego Gas and Electric Company to construct, operate, and maintain an electric transmission and associated electric transmission lines. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Santa Barbara, California, all rights and interest to certain real property located at the Santa Barbara Naval Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Washington County, Maryland, Sanitary District all rights and interest to certain real property, including a waste water treatment facility, located at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire all rights and interest to a parcel of land comprising a portion of the Naval Radio Station at Jim Creek, Washington. Authorizes the United States to acquire by condemnation or otherwise: (1) all rights and interest of Arizona in and to specified trust lands in such State; and (2) any trust mineral estate of Arizona located beneath the surface of such trust lands. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to any person all rights and interest to: (1) a parcel of land comprising a naval family housing area at Paine Field, Snohomish County, Washington; and (2) two parcels of land comprising portions of the naval family housing area at Pier 91, Seattle, Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Central Community College, Hastings, Nebraska, all rights and interest to three parcels of property located in that City which have served as a support complex for the Hastings Radar Bomb Scoring Site. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city of Abbeville, Alabama, all rights and interest to specified real property located at the site of a proposed Army Reserve Center in Abbeville, under specified terms and conditions. Subtitle D: Transfer of Jurisdiction of Rocky Mountain Arsenal - Directs the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding under which: (1) the Secretary of the Army transfers to the Secretary of the Interior, without reimbursement, all responsibility to manage for wildlife and public use purposes the real property comprising the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, with the exception of certain facilities and property or property designated for disposal; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior shall establish and manage such real property as a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Allows the transfer to be made only after certification by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that all site cleanup and remediation measures required under Federal law have been taken. Excludes from such transfer all property used at the Arsenal for water treatment, the disposition of hazardous substances, and any other purposes related to remediation and cleanup of the site. Continues jurisdiction by the Secretary of the Army over the property to be transferred until all cleanup and remediation activities have been completed. Requires consultation between the two Secretaries with respect to all cleanup and remediation activities. Requires the Secretary of the Army to retain environmental liability with respect to the Arsenal after the transfer. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in the property transferred by the Secretary of the Army, to be used for wildlife preservation, public uses, research and education, and land and water conservation. Outlines provisions with respect to cleanup and remediation activities. Prohibits public roads from being constructed through the Refuge. Designates another parcel of real property at the Arsenal for disposal for commercial, highway, or other public use purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to notify the State of Colorado and all appropriate units of local government of the proposed and final determinations made with respect to site cleanup, remediation, and disposal. Provides transfer conditions and limitations, including the requirement that all property disposed of under this subtitle shall be subject to the cleanup and remediation requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. States that all disposal proceeds shall be transferred to the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be used to supplement funds available for the construction of a visitor and education center at the Refuge. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to allow the Secretary of a military department having jurisdiction over a military installation to enter into agreements with gas or electric utilities to design and implement cost-effective energy demand and conservation incentive programs for such military installation. Allows such agreements to provide for a utility to advance financing costs for the design and implementation of an energy demand or conservation incentive program, with repayment terms no less favorable than those applicable to the utility's most favored customer. Vests to the United States title in any energy-saving device or technology installed at a military installation pursuant to an agreement. Directs the Secretary of the Navy, by December 31, 1992, to report to the defense committees and the Comptroller General on actions and plans of the Navy for consolidation and centralization of control over forces assigned to the mine countermeasure mission. Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate such report and submit his evaluation to the defense committees. Requires the report of the Secretary to include a detailed evaluation and analysis of the use of Ingleside, Texas, as the planned homeport for all mine warfare ships, and a comparison of various alternative homeports for such ships including Atlantic and Pacific coast homeports. Prohibits such Secretary from relocating the functions and personnel of certain mine warfare command and training facilities until 90 days after submitting his required report. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, in designating expanded areas for training operations of Air National Guard and Air Reserve aircraft, to provide for such areas within the geographic boundaries of areas that have been approved for tactical training on the date of enactment of this Act.

Bill· SS. 3137 (102nd)open

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992

National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain prior-year unobligated shipbuilding and conversion balances to the FY 1993 shipbuilding and conversion funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for: (1) the defense agencies; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the reserves and National Guard; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which authorized appropriations for the development of the Apache helicopter program. Authorizes the use of funds received from the sales of tanks, infantry vehicles, or armored personnel carriers by the United States under the Arms Export Control Act during FY 1990 and 1991 to upgrade such armored vehicles for fielding to the Army. Prohibits the Improved Chemical Agent Monitor from being procured for the armed forces until the Secretary of the Army completes certain testing and congressional notification with respect to such program. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Earmarks funds from this Act for shipbuilding and conversion for specified replacement, overhaul, and conversion programs within the Navy, with a limitation with respect to advanced procurement for the aircraft carrier replacement program. Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act or otherwise for FY 1993 from being used for: (1) a certain electronic warfare system and the Airborne Self Protection Jammer, until their operational suitability has been determined; and (2) the AV-8B radar upgrade program. Allows for the modification of F-14 aircraft, with limitations as provided in appropriation Acts. Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to the Congress with respect to procurement of strategic sealift. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Earmarks specified funds made available by this Act for Air Force procurement for the C-17 aircraft program, with certain requirements to be met by the Secretary and the Secretary of the Air Force before such sums may be obligated. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) with respect to an initiative to maintain control over costs, contractor performance, and management performance within the C-17 aircraft program. Provides additional funding for such program, with limitations. Requires the Secretary to make certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the correction of fuel leaks on C-17 production aircraft. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to sell components or other material procured during FY 1990 through 1992 for advance procurement for F-16 aircraft and use such proceeds for procurement of spare parts and support equipment for such aircraft. Subtitle E: Defense Agency Programs - Earmarks specified funds made available by this Act for defense agency procurement as funding for certain tactical intelligence programs, with limitations. Requires operational test and evaluation and survivability testing of certain helicopter programs to be completed prior to their release for operational use. Subtitle F: Strategic Programs - Prohibits the obligation of funds for the advance procurement of Trident II missiles until a certain cost savings report has been submitted to the defense committees. Directs the Secretary to prepare and implement a plan for testing the survivability and operational effectiveness of nonstealth heavy bombers against potential targets, as well as defenses that such bombers might encounter during conventional conflicts during the next 20 years. Requires a report. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating funds for the procurement of the CORE electronic countermeasures system until such report is received and the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the operational suitability and effectiveness of such system. Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds under this Act for procurement for the B-2 bomber aircraft program, limiting the deployment of such aircraft to 20 plus one test aircraft. Limits the obligation of funds for such aircraft until the Secretary has made certain reports and certifications to the defense committees with respect to the performance and survivability assessment of such aircraft, as well as total costs. Directs the Secretary to develop, and report to the defense committees on, a strategy for achieving substantial reductions in the cost of developing, acquiring, and supporting space systems operated by the Department of Defense (DOD). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for a study and report by the Secretary concerning the Ground Wave Emergency Network. Subtitle G: Chemical Demilitarization Program - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to extend through December 31, 2004, the deadline for the elimination by DOD of the existing stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the potential alternatives to the use of the Army's baseline disassembly and incineration process for the disposal of such agents and munitions. Prohibits the Army from carrying out any site preparation for such disassembly or incineration until such report is received, with exceptions. Requires the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the Army's plans for destroying all chemical warfare material that would be required to be destroyed if the United States became a party to a chemical weapons convention (a group of countries requiring the destruction by its members of specified binary chemical weapons and munitions). Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the physical and chemical integrity of the existing chemical weapons that are contained in U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles and stored within eight chemical weapons storage sites within the United States. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Earmarks specified amounts of such authorization for: (1) basic research and exploratory development projects; (2) manufacturing technology development; and (3) the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Sets forth program requirements, restrictions, or limitations with respect to the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Directs the Commandant of the Marine Corps to report to the defense committees on the crash of such aircraft prototype that occurred on July 20, 1992. Limits to 50 percent the available FY 1993 authorized funds for such aircraft until such report is received. Earmarks specified FY 1993 R&D funds for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of such aircraft. Directs the Secretary to specify in the FY 1994 defense budget a separate program element for electronic warfare programs involving ship self-defense. Subtitle C: Missile Defense Program - Amends the Missile Defense Act of 1991 to revise provisions concerning the implementation of the U.S. goal of deploying an antiballistic missile system capable of providing a highly effective defense of the United States against limited attacks of ballistic missiles. Directs the Secretary to transfer management and budget responsibility for R&D of all far-term follow-on technologies with respect to missile defense technology from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or the appropriate military department, unless he determines and certifies to the Congress that transfer of a particular technology currently under the Organization would not be in the national security interests. Removes the current reference to the goal of the establishment of capable theater missile defense systems by FY 1996, while limiting R&D of follow-on technologies for such systems to those not likely to be incorporated into weapons within ten to 15 years after the date of enactment of such Act (December 5, 1991). Earmarks for obligation to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) specified amounts of the total amount appropriated or made available to DOD for FY 1993. Earmarks such amounts to specific program elements of SDI. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer such specified amounts among the program elements, with limitations. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the allocation of funds appropriated for SDI for FY 1993. Places certain limitations on the obligation or expenditure of FY 1993 DOD funds for the development or testing of antiballistic missile systems or components, or the acquisition of material or equipment required for such development or testing. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1993 DOD R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD, with limitations. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorizations of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, humanitarian assistance, the Defense Health Program, and support for the 1996 summer Olympics, the 1993 World University Games, and the 1994 World Cup Games. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for the people of Afghanistan and Cambodia, and for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1993 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Requires the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees on his intention to transport humanitarian relief to a country to which such transportation has not been specifically authorized by law. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the 1994 World Cup Games, with a limitation. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds from the Defense Business Operations Fund and the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to appropriations for operation and maintenance for FY 1993, with specified amounts earmarked to each military department. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Requires the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to evaluate, and report to the defense committees on, the use of class I substances (chlorofluorocarbons and halons) by the military departments and defense agencies. Prohibits any DOD contract awarded, modified, amended, or extended after June 1, 1993, from including a specification or standard that requires the use of an ozone-depleting substance unless the specification or standard is approved by the senior acquisition official for the procurement covered by the contract because a suitable substitute for such ozone-depleting substance is not currently available. Requires certain action to be taken by an official granting such an approval, including reports to the Secretary and notifications to the defense committees. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a contractor for reasonable costs incurred in providing a substitute for an ozone-depleting substance in the awarded contract. States that environmental restoration activities at current and former military installations shall be deemed to be functions that facilitate the national defense. Requires the Secretary of a military department to ensure that contracts entered into by such Secretary for environmental restoration activities at a current or former military installation provide for the military department and the contractor to share the risk of liability resulting from such restoration activities. Provides for contracting implementation of such risk-sharing requirement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on its implementation. Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to provide that, in the case of real property owned by the United States that is part of a military installation to be closed, the head of the department or agency with jurisdiction over such property shall identify the real property on which neither hazardous substances nor petroleum products or its derivatives were stored for one year or more, are known to have been released, or were disposed of. Outlines identification procedures and deadlines. Requires a deed for the transfer or sale of such identified property to contain a covenant stating that any corrective action found to be necessary from the presence of hazardous substances or petroleum products on such property shall be conducted by the United States, with access to such property to take such corrective action as necessary. Requires the appropriate agency or department head having jurisdiction over a property used as a military facility on which any hazardous substance or petroleum product or its derivatives was stored for one year or more, is known to have been released, or was disposed of, and on which the United States plans to terminate military operations, to notify the State in which such property is located of any lease entered into by the United States that will encumber the property beyond the date of termination of operations on such property. Directs the Secretary to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless any State, political subdivision, or person that acquires ownership or control of a facility of a military installation against any actions arising out of the release or threatened release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant as a result of DOD activities at any military installation that is closed pursuant to a base closure law, unless such entity or person caused or contributed to such release or threatened release. Prohibits the use of FY 1993 environmental restoration funds for the payment of fines or penalties unless the act or omission for which the fine or penalty is imposed arises out of activites funded by those funds. Includes environmental restoration contracts of DOD (currently only R&D contracts) within provisions providing contractor indemnification for claims from an unusually hazardous risk taken by the contractor in fulfilling such contract. Amends CERCLA and other Federal law to extend through December 31, 1995, the authority to issue contractor surety bonds for the performance of environmental response actions in connection with certain defense environmental programs. Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD for FY 1993 from being used to purchase surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Establishes the Legacy Fellowship Program in Natural and Cultural Resource Management (Program) to provide training to civilian and military personnel in the management of natural and cultural resources. Requires at least three fellows to be appointed for participation in such Program. Provides Program funding from FY 1993 DOD authorizations. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for environmental restoration, defense, and the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Subtitle C: Defense Economic Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization - Amends the Defense Economic Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 to require the Secretary of Defense to be chairman of the Economic Adjustment Committee. (Currently, such chairmanship rotates between the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, and Labor on a yearly basis.) Directs the Chairman to establish an Executive Council of such Committee to develop policies and procedures to ensure that communities, businesses, and workers substantially and seriously affected by reductions in defense expenditures are advised of the assistance available to them under programs administered by the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Labor and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires notification to be provided to affected communities, businesses, and workers with respect to the lack of any follow-on contracts or other defense-related contract activity. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for certain defense stabilization activities outlined under such Act. Provides an identical extension under such Act with respect to defense conversion adjustment. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) if, without such assistance, such LEA will be unable to provide students in schools of such LEA with a level of education that is equivalent to the minimum level of education available in the schools of the other LEAs in the same State. Outlines additional eligibility requirements. Directs the Secretary, in assisting communities in making adjustments resulting from reductions in the size of the armed forces, to transfer to the Secretary of Education funds to make payments to LEAs that are entitled to receive educational benefits for children of persons who reside or work on Federal property, who are on active duty in the armed forces, or who are refugees. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the LEAs affected by the closures and realignments of military installations and by redeployments of members of the armed forces. Provides funding for such payments to eligible LEAs through FY 1993 DOD operation and maintenance authorizations. Subtitle D: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Transition Initiatives - Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, if such Secretary separates an employee from employment under a reduction in force and within two years after such separation seeks to employ a person for that same position or a position in the same competitive area, to first offer the separated employee such position, and to not employ a contract or temporary employee in the position. Requires the Secretary concerned, in seeking to reemploy separated employees but not in a sufficient number to reemploy all such employees, to offer reemployment on the basis of seniority in Federal service. Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and keep current a comprehensive list of all announcements of vacant positions in the competitive service within each agency (except the General Accounting Office and agencies conducting intelligence activities) that are to be filled by appointments for more than one year and for which applications are being accepted from outside the agency work force. Requires such list to be available to the public. Requires the Director of OPM to begin providing such information by toll-free telephone within 120 days after enactment of this Act. Requires an agency, in filling a vacant position for which a qualified displaced employee (a current or former DOD employee notified of termination or separated from employment due to a reduction in force) has properly applied, to give full consideration to such application before selecting any applicant from outside the agency for the position. Provides such preference for 12 months after notice or separation. Requires certain notification to be given, in the case of employees released from employment due to a reduction in force: (1) to the employee; (2) to his or her collective bargaining representative; and (3) if the reduction involves a significant number of employees, to the appropriate State dislocated worker unit and the chief official of the local government concerned. Authorizes the President to shorten the otherwise-required 60-day period of advance notification of such reductions in force because of circumstances not reasonably foreseeable. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to provide that the date of notice of termination of employment of an employee of a military installation being closed or realigned under a base closure law (for purposes of determining eligibility for defense conversion adjustment assistance under the Job Training Partnership Act) shall, unless actual notice of termination is given, be 12 months before the closure or realignment is completed. Makes an identical amendment to the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a civilian employee having been employed for a continuous period of at least 12 months a separation benefit if such employee separates voluntarily from employment by either resignation or retirement. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the payment of such separation benefit, and prohibits such payment for a separation occurring after December 31, 1997. Restores certain leave of a Federal civilian employee of a military installation during the closure of such installation between October 1, 1992, and December 31, 1997. Requires certain reports. Provides for the continuation of certain Federal employee health benefits if the basis for such continuation of coverage is involuntary separation from a DOD position due to a reduction in force, limiting the individual to payments of no more than the required employee contributions for such coverage. Applies Thrift Savings Plan and Civil Service Retirement System benefits to employees (and their spouses) separated from service due to a reduction in force. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretaries of the military departments to provide up to one year of training to civilian DOD employees who are separated from employment as a result of a reduction in force or the closure or realignment of a military installation. Allows such training between October 1, 1992, and September 30, 1995. Directs the Secretary to publish a register of the skill training programs carried out by DOD. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Extends through April 15, 1994, the authorized period of management by the Secretary of the Defense Business Operations Fund (DBOF). Limits the obligations authorized to be incurred by the Secretary in FY 1993 against the supply management divisions of the DBOF, with an exception when determined critical to U.S. national security. Extends through FY 1994 a required annual report from the Secretary concerning the security and control of DOD supplies. Adds to the information required in such report. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary to establish guidelines for reductions in the number of civilian DOD employees employed by industrial- or commercial-type activities. Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide for: (1) the operation and maintenance of indoor and outdoor rifle ranges; (2) the instruction of U.S. citizens in marksmanship and the employment of appropriate instructors; (3) the maintenance and management of matches or competitions in the use of such arms and the issue of necessary supplies; (4) the award of trophies; (5) the loan or sale of rifles and their ammunition and related equipment; and (6) the maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. Authorizes such Secretary to issue for use in training and competition certain ammunition to qualifying gun clubs. Provides that amounts collected by such Secretary in the sale of guns and related supplies and ammunition shall be used to support the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Authorizes appropriations. Requires all rifle ranges constructed in whole or in part with funds provided by the United States to be used by members of the armed forces and persons capable of bearing arms. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish reasonable fees for use by civilians of a rifle range located on a military installation, to cover material and supply costs. Requires such fees collected to be used to maintain such rifle range. Prohibits civilian use of such range from interfering with any required military use. Provides for the payment of certain expenses of members of the armed forces competing at matches or competitions or attending small-arms firing schools. Allows funds authorized under this Act for operation and maintenance to be used to purchase items not exceeding $100,000 for each item. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to repeal a requirement for a competition pilot program for the depot-level maintenance of materials. Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to provide optional summer school programs in the defense dependents' education system. Directs the Secretary to review the practices and procedures of the military departments regarding the use of civilian airfields in flight training activities of the armed forces, giving special consideration to airfields located in heavily populated areas. Directs the Secretary to sell to South Korea all or any part of obsolete ammunition in DOD inventory which is intended for use as reserve stocks for Korea and is located in a stockpile in South Korea on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire logistic support, supplies, and services for elements of the armed forces deployed outside of the United States (currently, deployed in Europe and adjacent waters). Excepts a period of active hostilities involving the armed forces (currently, NATO) from a provision concerning the liabilities that may be accrued by the United States for the acquisition of supplies. Directs the Secretary of a military department or the head of a defense agency, when cost effective, to provide a preference for the procurement of the most energy efficient equipment available that meets the needs or requirements for the procurement. Directs the Secretary, using 50 DOD facilities, to conduct demonstration programs for using energy efficient lighting equipment and energy efficient refrigeration equipment. Requires audits. Requires facility designations and audit completions by specified dates. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to waive an end strength when considered necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer certain amounts appropriated to DOD under this Act in order to prevent involuntary separations that would otherwise be necessary to reduce the size of an armed force to within the authorized end strength. Requires the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust end strengths in the national interest, with limitations to such adjustments for both active-duty and reserve forces. Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which limit reductions in the number of DOD medical personnel. Authorizes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to designate up to eight general and flag officer positions within joint duty requirements for exclusion from limitations on the end strengths for general and flag officers on active duty. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1993. Allows such end strengths to be reduced in proportion to the total amount of reserve members on active duty, with a proportionate increase when such personnel return to reserve duty. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, any unit of the Selected Reserve from being inactivated during FY 1993. Requires the Secretary to provide the defense committees with the rationale for any unit inactivation sought. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Subtitle D: Funding Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the use of the armed forces for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Reserve Component Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure that, by the end of FY 1993, a specified number of active Army combat support positions are transferred to the reserve components of the Army. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the number of Army National Guard or Army Reserve medical personnel below the number existing on September 30, 1992. Extends through FY 1993 certain reserve officer management programs. Prohibits former Army or Air Force reserve officers from being reenlisted if: (1) the person was discharged or released from active duty as a reserve on the basis of misconduct, moral or professional dereliction, duty performance below prescribed standards, or retention being inconsistent with national security; or (2) the person's former enlisted status and grade was based solely on the participation in a precommissioning program that resulted in the reserve commission held by such person before release or discharge. Subtitle B: Services Academies - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated to DOD to support the assignment of more than one general officer to permanent duty at the United States Military Academy and at the United States Air Force Academy or to support the assignment of any general officer in a grade above general to permanent duty at either Academy. Provides a transition provision. Allows the Chairman of the JCS to waive such prohibition to meet unsatisfied requirements for general officer joint duty positions. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for implementing certain recommendations reported by the Comptroller General regarding military preparatory schools. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees legislation for: (1) establishing an equal number of civilian and military faculty members at the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy; and (2) phasing out the assignment of military personnel as permanent professors at those academies. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to support the assignment of enlisted personnel for permanent duty in a military band for any service academy band. Prohibits funds made available for pay of military personnel from being used to pay for noninstructional positions at the service academies not certified by the DOD Inspector General as being directly involved in the administration of the faculty or students or in the maintenance of facilities or equipment. Requires each service academy to be under the supervision and control of the commander of the major Army, Navy, or Air Force command having jurisdiction over that department's officer training program. Subtitle C: Officer Personnel Policy - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the plans of the military departments for the procurement of officer personnel during each of FY 1993 through 1997. Requires a related report on planned officer assignments for commissioned officers who begin their obligated active duty service during such fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to provide for a federally funded research and development center that is independent of the military departments to review the officer personnel management system of each department and to determine and evaluate the effects of the post-Cold War officer strength reductions on that officer personnel management system. Requires a report and provides funding. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary to require the conduct of test assignments of female members of each armed force to duty in combat aircraft. Revises provisions concerning selective early retirement to authorize the Secretary concerned to submit to an early retirement selection board the names of all eligible officers who are also in particular year groups, specialties, or retirement categories, or any combination thereof within that competitive category. Provides for the retirement of certain limited duty Navy captains and commanders who have failed twice for promotion to the following grade. Limits the duration of a deferred retirement for such limited duty Navy officers. Subtitle D: Active Forces Transition Enhancements - Directs the Secretary to implement a program to encourage members and former members of the armed forces to enter into public and community service jobs after discharge or release from active duty. Directs the Secretary to maintain a registry of discharged or released former members who request assistance in pursuing such careers, as well as a registry of public and community service organizations. Directs the Secretary to match former personnel registered with jobs coming available through the service organizations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop proposed uniform standards and procedures for the granting of appropriate credit for service in the armed forces under State teacher certification or licensing procedures; and (2) coordinate with appropriate State agencies the incorporation of such standards and procedures into such State's certification or licensing requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate his responsibilities to the Secretary of Education. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to grant to an eligible member of the armed forces a leave of absence of up to one year to pursue a program of education or training for the development of skills relevant to the performance of public and community service. Outlines provisions concerning eligibility requirements, and excludes any member granted such a leave of absence for such purposes from any required military personnel end strength limitations. Terminates the authority to grant such leaves on September 30, 1995. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, upon the member's request, to grant an early retirement to regular or reserve commissioned officers in their respective military departments who have served between 15 and 20 years, as long as such members agree to register on the public or community service registry maintained under this Act by the Secretary and receive counseling regarding such job opportunities. Provides for the computation of the retired pay of members so retired, and provides funding for the implementation of such early retirement. Terminates such authority on October 1, 1995. Provides that if a member so retired is actually employed by a public or community service organization within their enhanced retirement qualification period, their retirement pay shall be recomputed to provide an increase in the years of service which includes the years of public or community service. Defines the "enhanced retirement qualification period" as the period between the member's early retirement date and the date on which the member would have completed 20 years of service had the member not chosen early retirement. Provides for a similar recomputation of the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) base amount for the purpose of payment of survivor annuities. Allows active-duty personnel who are voluntarily discharged or released from the armed forces, who have completed a program of education leading to a standard college degree, and who previously made an election while on active duty not to participate in the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to withdraw such election within 90 days after discharge or release and participate in the program. Requires a $1,200 payment to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by such individuals for participation in the program. Provides that, except for annual training or active duty for training of 30 days or less, a reserve member entitled to voluntary separation incentive payments who is also entitled to basic pay for active service shall forfeit an amount of voluntary separation incentive pay which is equal to the total amount of basic pay received during such concurrent periods. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for certain employment, job training, and other assistance for members being separated from active duty. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OPM to jointly carry out a program to provide eligible persons with temporary health benefits under the program of continued health coverage provided for former civilian employees of the Government. Makes eligible for such continued coverage members who were voluntarily or involuntarily discharged or released from active duty under other than adverse conditions, were entitled to medical and dental care prior to such discharge or release, and would not otherwise be eligible for such benefits after such discharge or release and any applicable period of transitional health care. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) notification by the Director of eligibility; (2) election by the member to receive such continued benefits; (3) coverage of dependents; (4) charges for such coverage, to be paid into the Employees Health Benefits Fund; (5) contributions into such Fund by the Secretary in the case of coverage for a member involuntarily discharged; (6) the period of continued coverage; (7) transitional provisions; and (8) termination of other health conversion policies upon election of coverage under the above health benefits continuation program. Subtitle E: Guard and Reserve Transition Initiatives - Defines the "force reduction transition period," for purposes of this Subtitle, as the period beginning on October 1, 1991, and ending on September 30, 1995. Provides that during the force reduction transition period (period), no unit in the Selected Reserve may be inactivated and no such member may be involuntarily discharged from a reserve component or involuntarily transferred from the Selected Reserve before the Secretary has promulgated, implemented, and transmitted to the defense committees regulations that govern the treatment of members assigned to such units and members of the Selected Reserve being subjected to such actions. Requires such regulations to ensure that Selected Reserve members are treated fairly, with respect to their service to their country, and with attention to the adverse personal consequences of unit deactivation or involuntary discharges or transfers. States that the protections afforded by such regulations shall not apply with respect to a member discharged or transferred under specified circumstances, including: (1) at the member's request; (2) due to the lack of qualification for further membership; (3) under adverse conditions; or (4) based on current eligibility for retirement or separation pay. Provides for the payment of annual retirement payments by the Secretary concerned to a member of the Selected Reserve who, during the period (and an application period), has completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service, is under 60 years of age, and applies for transfer to the Retired Reserve. Outlines provisions concerning the length of such annual payments as well as its computation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of such provisions in order to meet the specific needs of the service. Provides funding. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on October 1, 1995, to provide early retirement benefits for a person who has completed at least 15, but less than 20 years of service as of October 1, 1991, or after such date and before October 1, 1995, has completed at least 15 years of service and transfers to the Retired Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of such provisions in order to meet the specific needs of the service. Provides separation pay, in a computed amount, to members of the Selected Reserve who have completed at least six but less than 15 years of service and are involuntarily discharged or transferred from the Selected Reserve. Waives the continued service required for eligibility under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for individuals who, before completing the years-in-service requirement, cease to be members of the Selected Reserve by reason of inactivation of their unit during the period. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to authorize a person who involuntarily ceases to be a member of the Selected Reserve during the period to continue to receive commissary and exchange privileges for one year after such cessation or one year after the enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Increases from 120 to 365 days after the involuntary termination as a member of the Selected Reserve the period during which continued coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance will be provided, as long as such member is able to fulfill certain other requirements for eligibility for such insurance. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of any of the above benefits provided to members and former members of the Selected Reserve in order to meet the needs of the service. States that all such benefits are inapplicable to personnel who cease to be members under adverse conditions. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Provides for retention on active duty until the completion of 20 retirement-eligible years of service for certain enlisted regular and reserve members who have completed at least 18, but less than 20 years of such creditable service. Reduces from 300 to 240 the authorized number of enlisted personnel to be assigned to duty at any one time as enlisted aides. Allows the assignment as an enlisted aide to the personal staff of an officer only if such officer is a commander. Limits the authorized amount of FY 1993 DOD funds that may be expended for the costs of permanent changes of station. Reduces the number of personnel authorized to carry out recruiting activities during FY 1994 to 90 percent of that authorized for FY 1992. Limits to 3,500 the total number of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units that may be established and maintained by the military departments. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay the entire amount of such educational costs to an institution if the Secretary determines such to be in the national interest and the interest of the community of that institution. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1993 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 3.7 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1993. Provides temporary rates of basic pay for the period after December 31, 1992, and before October 1, 1995, for certain noncommissioned officers and warrant officers and for certain colonels and Navy captains. Extends through FY 1993: (1) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for members possessing critical skills; (2) the aviator retention bonus; (3) the bonuses for reserve enlistments, reenlistments, affiliations and extensions; (4) the special pay authority for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high priority units; (5) the period for repayment of education loans for certain health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve; (6) the accession bonus for registered nurses; (7) the nurse candidate accession program; and (8) the special pay for nurse anesthetists. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees the Secretary's recommendations for legislation permitting the concurrent payment to members and former members of the armed forces of full military retirement benefits and full compensation for service-connected disabilities payable under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Secretary to reserve in a DOD contingency fund a sufficient amount to ensure such concurrent payments in FY 1994 if such legislation is enacted. Expands the expenses considered reimbursable under a DOD adoption expenses programs covering members adopting a child under 18 years of age to include expenses relating to pregnancy and childbirth for the biological mother, and temporary foster care charges when payment of such charges is required immediately before the child's placement. Includes transportation expenses relating to the adoption, with exceptions. Makes identical expansions under the Coast Guard adoption expenses coverage program. Prohibits any person from having any lien on baggage and household goods being transported for military personnel at Government expense or on a motor vehicle being so transported. Authorizes the payment of an advance of pay of up to two months' basic pay to a member on duty outside the United States or other place designated by the President if the member or his or her dependents are ordered to be evacuated by competent authority. Provides an increase in a recomputed retirement pay for certain enlisted members credited with extraordinary heroism in the line of duty during a period of active service. Includes certain travel and transportation allowances within the benefits authorized under the special separation benefits program (a program of voluntary separation from the armed forces in return for the receipt of certain benefits). Authorizes the payment of retired pay for a person who, before August 16, 1945, was a member of the reserves, if such person performed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service. Excludes certain service before such date in the computation of retirement-creditable service. Provides a subsistence for expenses incurred by a member of the armed forces while performing duties as an escort of an arms control inspection team of a foreign country while the team is engaged in activities relating to the implementation of an arms control treaty or agreement. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Authorizes a chiropractor who is qualified under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned to be appointed as a regular commissioned officer in the Army Medical Service Corps, the Navy Medical Corps, or in the Air Force for designation as a chiropractic officer. Revises the dependents' dental program under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) by: (1) repealing the authority for the provision of a supplemental dental benefits plan for spouses and children of active-duty personnel; (2) increasing to up to $20 monthly (currently $10) the member premium for such coverage; (3) expanding such coverage to include orthodontic services, crowns, gold fillings, bridges, and complete or partial dentures; (4) requiring a percentage payment as determined appropriate by the Secretary for the services provided under such expanded coverage; and (5) directing the Secretary to devise and implement a program for the improvement of the provision of dental benefits to such members' dependents. Expresses the sense of the Congress that members of the armed forces, and their dependents and survivors, should have access to health care under the health care delivery system of the armed forces regardless of age or health care status. Outlines specified action to be taken under a comprehensive managed health care plan for such individuals by the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Transportation. Directs the Secretary to establish a joint services working group on the provision of military health care to persons who rely for health care on health care facilities at military installations being closed or realigned. Requires the working group to solicit views from those affected by such closures or realignments regarding suitable substitutes for such care. Requires the working group to recommend to the Congress and the Secretary alternative means of providing accessible health care to such individuals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program that permits eligible individuals to obtain prescription pharmaceuticals by mail in connection with medical care furnished to such persons under CHAMPUS; and (2) conduct the program in two or more regions, each region consisting of two or more States. Defines as persons eligible for such program any person entitled to medical care under a CHAMPUS contract, or a person over 65 years of age and living in an area affected by the closure of a health care facility as a result of the closure or realignment of a military installation at which the facility is located. Requires: (1) a fee to be charged individuals for the pharmaceuticals; and (2) a report. Directs the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Transportation to conduct annually a formal survey of CHAMPUS beneficiaries with regard to the availability of, familiarity with, and effectiveness of, such health care system. Reduces from $10,000 to $7,500 the maximum yearly cost of CHAMPUS health care required to be paid by a former member of the armed forces or an individual or family of two or more persons, effective as of FY 1993. Includes certain renal disease patients under Medicare coverage under an exception authorizing the continuation of concurrent CHAMPUS coverage for such patients. Applies such concurrent coverage with respect to health care benefits or services received after FY 1991 if such benefits would have been covered under a plan contracted for under CHAMPUS. Allows home health services and other services in connection with extraordinary physical or psychological conditions to be provided through CHAMPUS only through a program of individualized case management established by the Secretary and in a manner determined to be cost-effective and appropriate. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to jointly conduct a demonstration project that provides for the Secretary of HHS to reimburse DOD for health care services furnished to Medicare-eligible persons at a DOD health care facility. Requires amounts reimbursed to be used at that facility for the furnishing and expansion of health care services. Requires a report. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the feasibility and advisability of entering into risk-sharing contracts with health care organizations to furnish health care services to person entitled to such care in a military health care facility; (2) if determined feasible, develop a plan for entering into such contracts; and (3) report study results to the Congress. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary to undertake a comprehensive review of the Federal employees health benefits program in order to determine whether furnishing health care under a similar program to CHAMPUS-eligible persons would be more efficient and cost-effective. Directs the Secretary to provide by contract for the operation of a health claims processing center to be known as the National Centralized Claims Processing System for CHAMPUS (Center). Requires: (1) the Center to commence operations within five years after enactment of this Act; and (2) competitive procedures for entering into such a contract. Outlines Center information collection, storage, and processing activities. Requires claims submitted to conform to requirements applicable to claims submitted under part A of Medicare. Requires the Secretary to determine whether the use of a standard identification card containing electronically readable information will enhance the capabilities of the Center. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1993 through 1996, to continue to test a broad array of reform options for furnishing health care to eligible persons under the CHAMPUS health care reform initiative. Directs the Secretary to ensure that a replacement or successor contract for the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative contract applicable for California and Hawaii is awarded in time to begin provision of health care there under the new contract by August 1, 1993. Directs the Secretary to provide by contract for a person outside the Government to perform an evaluation of the conduct of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative in California and Hawaii, and to report evaluation results to the Secretary and the Congress. Directs the Secretary to modify the Policy Guidelines on the Department of Defense Coordinated Care Program to provide covered beneficiaries with additional positive incentives to enroll in the DOD coordinated care program. Directs the Secretary, as part of such incentive review, to consider the extent to which covered beneficiaries not enrolled in the program are permitted to choose health care providers without prior referral or approval. Prohibits the Secretary from denying access to military treatment facilities to those not enrolled in the program, while allowing the Secretary to establish reasonable admission preferences for those enrolled in the program as an incentive to encourage enrollment. Excludes certain unmarried incapacitated legitimate children of members or former members of the armed forces from CHAMPUS coverage. Entitles a member of the armed forces who is on duty at a station outside the United States (and any accompanying dependent) to the provision of any reproductive health service in a military medical facility outside of the United States serving that duty station in the same manner as any other type of medical care. Requires the member to pay the full cost of receiving such care. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Defense Conversion Policy for the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base - Sets forth provisions concerning the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base (NDTIB). Outlines NDTIB policy objectives and how they relate to defense conversion and civil-military integration objectives. Establishes the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council (Council) to provide overall policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies concerning: (1) the capabilities of the NDTIB to meet U.S. national security objectives; (2) programs for achieving the defense conversion objectives set forth; and (3) changes in acquisition policy that would strengthen the NDTIB. Directs the Council to prepare a comprehensive annual assessment of the NDTIB to achieve its stated objectives. Requires each assessment to include a sector (technology or industry) capability analysis containing specified information with respect to its ability to achieve the stated objectives. Outlines factors concerning foreign dependency on raw materials, systems, equipment, and facilities to be addressed in each assessment. Requires each such assessment to also include: (1) an analysis of the present and projected financial condition of each sector for specified periods; (2) an analysis of the impact of the terminations and significant reductions of major R&D programs and procurement programs of DOD on the capability of each sector to achieve its objectives; (3) a critical technology analysis that identifies the product and process technologies that are most critical for attaining the technology and industrial base objectives; and (4) an analysis of each sector's viability in light of defense and nondefense expenditures, integration with the commercial marketplace, and production. Directs the Council to prepare an annual plan for ensuring that the policies and programs of DOD, the Department of Energy (DOE), and other Federal departments and agencies are planned, coordinated, funded, and implemented in a manner which achieves policy objectives. Requires each plan to provide specific guidance, including goals, milestones, and priorities, with respect to: (1) sector viability; (2) manufacturing technology; (3) critical technologies; (4) integrated financing; (5) civil-military integration; (6) defense conversion; (7) technology and industrial base work force; (8) major program acquisition; and (9) acquisition reform. Requires the plan to establish funding priorities for each area of guidance. Directs the Secretary to provide the annual plan to the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of other affected elements of DOD. Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Commerce to provide such guidance to appropriate officials within their respective departments. Requires an annual report by the Secretary to the Congress on the plan and the NDTIB assessment prepared for that year. Directs the Council to establish a federally funded R&D center to be known as the National Defense Center for Analysis of the Technology and Industrial Base (NDC). Outlines NDC duties with respect to the NDTIB, including assembling of information, studies and analyses, provision of technical support and assistance, and dissemination of unclassified information gathered. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations requiring consideration of the NDTIB in the development and implementation of acquisition plans for each major defense acquisition program. Outlines required contents of such acquisition plans, implementation provisions, and required dates for annual assessments of such plans. Requires the Council to establish the NDC within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets forth provisions concerning dual-use technologies (technologies having both commercial and military applications). Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain non-DOD entities (nonprofit research corporations, Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, agencies of State governments, and other entities showing support for such work) in order to encourage and provide for research, development, and application of technologies to attain the NDTIB objectives. Limits partnership duration to five years. Provides 50 percent Federal funding of the partnership for the first year, reduced by ten percent each year of the partnership. Provides for consideration of in-kind contributions by non-Government participants in a partnership when determining the sharing of partnership costs. Requires competitive procedures to be used in the establishment of such partnerships. Outlines partnership selection criteria, and authorizes the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to perform the responsibilities of the Secretary under the partnerships. Renames the current critical technology application centers assistance program as the regional technology alliances assistance program. Provides funding for: (1) defense dual-use critical technology partnerships; (2) commercial-military integration partnerships; (3) defense regional technology alliances; and (4) the overseas critical technology monitoring and assessment financial assistance program. Directs the Secretary to establish within his Office the Office of Technology Transition to ensure that technology developed for national security purposes is integrated into the private sector of the United States in order to enhance the NDTIB. Provides further duties of the Office, and requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on Office activities. Requires such Office to commence operations within 180 days after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Program to: (1) provide centralized guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD goals, plans, projects, activities, and policies that promote the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment; (3) improve the quality and practices of businesses providing goods and services to DOD; (4) promote dual-use manufacturing processes; (5) disseminate to businesses information concerning improved manufacturing concepts; (6) enhance the skills of the manufacturing work force; and (7) ensure appropriate coordination between the manufacturing technology and industrial preparedness programs of DOD and similar programs undertaken by other Federal departments and agencies and the private sector. Requires the Secretary to revise the program on an annual basis. Authorizes the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to perform the duties of the Secretary under the manufacturing technology program. Earmarks specified amounts authorized for R&D under this Act for: (1) defense advanced manufacturing technology partnerships; (2) manufacturing technology extension programs; and (3) defense manufacturing education programs. Sets forth provisions concerning miscellaneous technology base policies and programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to achieve the NDTIB objectives set forth under this Act by providing dual-use enhancement capability support to various nonprofit, public, and private organizations. Outlines services provided under the program. Provides Federal funding of such program of 50 percent in the first year, 40 percent in the second year, and 30 percent in the third and following years. Outlines criteria for the selection of a program to receive such assistance, including the extent to which the program advances and enhances the NDTIB objectives. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to perform the duties of the Secretary under the dual-use assistance extension program. Provides program funding from funds authorized to be appropriated to DOD under this Act. Reorganizes various Federal provisions relating to the NDTIB, and repeals inconsistent provisions. Earmarks specified funds for FY 1993 and thereafter for research and R&D activities under the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). Limits the amounts paid to a small business concern by DOD under the SBIR. Directs the Secretary to develop and issue a strategy for effectuating the transition of successful projects under the SBIR from phase II to phase III of the program. Extends through FY 1999 the SBIR within DOD. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1993, to give priority in the allocation of specified funds, including SBIR funds, to programs, projects, and activities that provide significant assistance for converting the capabilities of businesses that are economically dependent on DOD business to capabilities having both defense and nondefense commercial applications. Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Agency) as a defense agency, headed by a Director with assistance from a Deputy Director. Makes the Agency the central R&D organization of DOD, with specified defense R&D duties. Subtitle B: Acquisition Assistance Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to provide that a Government defense procurement contracting officer entering into a contract with a small business is not required to refer a determination of nonresponsibility made by that officer to the SBA unless the small business requests a determination of its responsibility, and the issuance of a certificate of responsibility, by the SBA. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1994 a test program for the negotiation of small business subcontracting plans. Limits the FY 1994 participants in such program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1999 the test program of contracting for printing-related services for DOD with disadvantaged small business concerns. Extends through FY 2000 the requirement for DOD to extend five percent of its defense procurement contracts to disadvantaged small businesses, historically Black colleges and universities, and other minority institutions. Directs the Secretary to actively monitor and assess the progress of the military departments, defense agencies and prime contractor of DOD in attaining such goal. Authorizes a person to request the Secretary to determine whether the use of small business set asides by a DOD contracting activity has caused a particular industry category to bear a disproportionate share of the progress made toward attainment of the small business contracting goal. Earmarks specified funds from this Act for FY 1993 for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities and minority institutions. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funds made available under this Act for the pilot Mentor-Protege Program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such earmarked funds for the direct reimbursement of developmental assistance costs incurred by mentor firms under major defense acquisition programs in the participation of such firms in the Program. Requests the Secretary to publish the DOD policy for such Program as required under Federal law within 15 days after enactment of this Act. Prohibits the SBA from making a disadvantaged small business concern ineligible to receive any assistance authorized under the Small Business Act because of participation in, or receipt of developmental assistance under, the Mentor-Protege Program. Directs the Secretary to determine the status of a small business as a disadvantaged small business. Repeals a provision prohibiting a protege firm from being considered an affiliate of a mentor firm for purposes of the Small Business Act solely on the basis of such a relationship under the Mentor-Protege Program. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program, further earmarking specified portions of such funds for specific programs under such program. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Acquisition Policy Matters - Extends through FY 1994 a program for the use of master agreements for the procurement of advisory and assistance services. Revises the definition of a major defense acquisition program (MDAP) to include those programs which require an eventual total for R&D of more than $300,000,000 (currently $200,000,000) or an eventual total for procurement of more than $1,800,000,000 (currently $1,000,000,000), both figures based on constant FY 1990 (currently 1980) dollars. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust such amounts on the basis of DOD cost escalation rates, with written notification of such adjustments to the defense committees. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirement for submission of Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) for a program for a fiscal year under specified circumstances, requiring written notification of such waivers to the defense committees. Provides identical requirements for changes in the contents of an SAR. Revises provisions concerning information required to be included in each SAR for the first quarter of a fiscal year, as well as delivery dates of reports by a MDAP program manager of the unit costs of that program. Requires an additional SAR when the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that the program acquisition or current procurement unit cost of a MDAP has increased by at least 15 percent. Waives a current Federal provision prohibiting the payment of severance pay to foreign nationals when the head of an agency awarding the contract makes certain determinations with respect to such payments. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on any agency head use of such waiver authority. Prohibits the purchase by entities controlled by foreign governments of a company that is performing a DOD contract, a DOE contract under a national security program, or DOD or DOE prime contracts in an amount in excess of $500,000,000. Provides exceptions. Prohibits a DOD or DOE contract under a national security program from being awarded to a company owned by an entity controlled by a foreign government if it is necessary for that company to be given access to information in a proscribed (classified) category of information in order to perform the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition for national security interests. Makes the policy of DOD with respect to the disposition of any invention made during the performance of a federally funded R&D contract, grant, or cooperative agreement identical to Federal provisions concerning patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance. Waives such rights with respect to awards not covered under chapter 18 when the Secretary makes certain determinations. Provides an invention confidentiality requirement. Authorizes a contractor to resubmit a certification of a claim under a shipbuilding contract if the certification is determined to be deficient because of the position, status, or scope of authority of the person executing the certification. Requires such resubmission within 30 days of notification of a deficient certification. Amends the Arms Export Control Act and other Federal provisions to authorize DOD to share equitably with U.S. allies involved in a joint R&D contract the costs of claims with respect to any such R&D programs. Requires a firm that is performing a DOD contract in excess of $10,000,000 to notify DOD in advance of any intention to perform outside the United States any part of such contract in excess of $500,000 which could be performed in the United States. Makes such requirement inapplicable to contracts for military construction. Disallows the payment of an indirect cost under a covered defense contract if such cost violates a principle in the Federal Acquisition Regulation or the DOD Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Requires the Secretary to assess a penalty against any contractor attempting to receive reimbursement for such a cost. Provides for the waiver of such penalty in prescribed circumstances. Directs the Secretary to carry out a science and technology fellowship program to enhance the ability of DOD to recruit and retain employees who are highly qualified in the fields of science and technology. Requires the Secretary to support a fellow under such program in a related research or teaching field in such areas after two years of Federal service as an employee in a science or technology position at DOD. Allows a contractor that has participated in defense system development, production, or testing solely as a representative of the Federal Government to be involved in the establishment of criteria for data collection, performance assessment, or evaluation activities for the operational test and evaluation of such system. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations that prohibit each military department participating in a joint acquisition program approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition from terminating or substantially reducing its participation in such program without the approval of the Under Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary from procuring a sonobuoy in a foreign country unless U.S. firms that manufacture sonobuoys are permitted to compete on an equal basis with foreign manufacturing firms for the sale of such buoys in that foreign country. Provides a waiver in the interest of national security. Defines "units to be procured until procurement is completed" under the shipbuilding total program reporting requirement. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: General Matters - Requires transmission to the Congress after January 1, 1992, by the Secretary of a report of the Chairman of the JCS with respect to the roles and missions of the armed forces in the post-Cold War era. Designates the Vice Chairman of the JCS as a member of the JCS. Directs the Chairman of the JCS to establish on the JCS the position of the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard and Reserve Affairs, to be the principal adviser to the Chairman on matters concerning the reserve components. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to consolidate and streamline the Navy headquarters establishments within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to reflect changes in the roles and missions of the Navy. Designates as one of the Assistant Chiefs of Naval Operations the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Expeditionary Warfare, to supervise the performance of all responsibilities of the Chief regarding expeditionary warfare. Directs the Secretary to make certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the assignment of functions and personnel for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict and the special operations command. Provides an alternative to such certifications. Extends through calendar year 1998 the requirement of a joint duty assignment as a prerequisite for promotion to a general or flag officer. Revises provisions regarding the education and experience requirement for such promotion. Provides that an officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment upon the successful completion of an assignment which gives such officer significant experience in joint duty matters through specified commands, military departments, or defense agencies. Directs the Secretary to credit as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment, for promotion purposes, officers who performed duty in the Persian Gulf combat zone that either provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with units and members of another U.S. military department or an allied armed force. Requires the concurrence of the commanding officer of that officer's service branch before such crediting will be allowed. Makes certain reporting and policy requirements inapplicable to officers for whom such joint duty crediting has been granted. Directs the Secretary to include in the annual defense budget report required to be submitted to the Congress certain information with respect to the total number of officers for whom such joint duty credit was granted. Authorizes the Chairman of the JCS to provide funds from the CINC Initiative Fund to the Director of the Joint Staff with respect to an area not within the responsibility of a commander of a combatant command. Directs the Chairman to give priority consideration in the provision of funds to the Director for activities: (1) that would enhance the war fighting capability, readiness, or sustainability of the forces involved; or (2) that would reduce the threat to, or otherwise increase, the national security. Limits to $5,000,000 the funding to provide military education and training to military and related civilian personnel of foreign countries. Directs the Secretary to reestablish within his Office the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity (Deputy) and require such official to carry out the same or similar duties that were formerly carried out by the Deputy before such position was abolished. Directs the Secretary, within ten days after enactment of this Act, to rescind or revise a certain memorandum of the Deputy Secretary of Defense relating to the delivery of legal services within DOD. Directs the Secretary to establish a Commission on the Conduct and Review of Investigations in the Department of Defense (Commission). Requires the Commission to review, and recommend changes in, policies, procedures, and practices of DOD concerning the conduct and review of investigations. Requires the Commission to report its findings to the Secretary, who in turn is required to transmit the report to the defense committees, together with his comments and recommendations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Army and Marine Corps should intensify efforts to eliminate unnecessary duplication, to improve interservice coordination, and to specialize in areas in which each has a comparative advantage, especially as such goals relate to the provision of armor, artillery, and other high-intensity combat items and related equipment and supplies. Requires the Chairman of the JCS to examine and make recommendations with respect to equipping the Marine Corps with armor, heavy artillery, and other related weapons so as to be capable of sustaining high-intensity combat independent of the other military departments. Directs the Secretary to study the operational support airlift aircraft and administrative transport airlift aircraft operated by the National Guard and reserve components. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense committees are fully and currently informed of all operational activities carried out by members of the armed forces or employees of DOD. Requires the head of any other Federal department or agency to submit to such committees any information requested relating to any operational activities carried out in their department or agency. Prohibits the obligation of more than 50 percent of the authorized funding for specified aircraft or missile programs until 60 days after the Secretary has submitted certain reports to the Congress. Subtitle B: Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) extend through FY 1994 the authority of the Secretary to provide support for the counter-drug activities of any other Federal department or agency or a State, local, or foreign law enforcement agency; and (2) add to such authorized support services the detection, monitoring, and movement of traffic at, near, and outside U.S. geographical boundaries, as well as linguist and intelligence analysis services. Amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1997 the authority of the Secretary to transfer excess personal property to other Federal and State agencies. Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the Congress on, the land-, sea-, or air-based systems used by DOD in carrying out activites relating to the reconnaissance, detection, and monitoring of drug traffic. Prohibits the obligation of FY 1993 funds for such purposes until such report is submitted. Directs the Secretary to conduct an outreach program aimed at reducing the demand among youths for illegal drugs. Authorizes the use of funds made available under this Act for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities for the outreach program. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in this Division for FY 1993 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year (or any subdivisions thereof), to be merged with and available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. Limits to $1,500,000,000 the total amount of authorizations which may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfers. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress with the annual defense budget a multiyear defense budget consistent with a required multiyear defense plan. Requires the DOD military programs in such budget to be organized on the basis of major roles, missions, or forces of DOD. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to provide specified additional transition authority with respect to closing or expired DOD appropriation accounts. Subtitle B: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Amends the Persian Gulf Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend through FY 1993 provisions relating to the establishment of the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account, the authorization of supplemental appropriations to such Account, and monthly reports on transfers to such Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to such account for military personnel and increases the authorized transfers for each fiscal year authorized under such Act by the amount of additional funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act. Subtitle C: Defense Maritime Logistical Readiness - Repeals Federal law allowing only vessels of the United States to be used in the transportation by sea of supplies bought for the armed forces. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prescribe regulations and establish practices for the procurement of transportation by water and related distributions services for DOD cargoes; (2) ensure that all studies and reports of DOD and all actions taken in DOD concerning sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements take into consideration the full range of transportation and distribution capabilities that are available from operators of privately-owned U.S. flag merchant vessels; (3) afford each operator of such a privately-owned U.S. flag vessel at least an annual opportunity to present to DOD information of its port-to-port intermodal transportation capabilities; (4) ensure private vessel owner participation in studies and reports on intermodal transportation possibilities; and (5) submit to the Secretary of Transportation an annual certification of compliance with such requirements. Prohibits, except in time of war, national emergency, or other exigent circumstances, vessels owned by the United States from being operated in competition with privately-owned U.S. flag commercial merchant vessels. Requires DOD cargoes to be transported on such private vessels whenever such vessels are available with reasonable timeliness. Allows U.S.-owned vessels to be used when such reasonable timeliness requirement cannot be met by such private vessels. Allows foreign flag vessels to be used when no private or U.S.-owned vessels are available. Prohibits a contract for the transportation of DOD cargoes by water to include terms or conditions which impair the ability of the contractor to own or operate foreign flag vessels in addition to the U.S.-flag merchant vessels, or which limit the contractor's ability to meet its common carrier obligations to the general public (with an exception to the latter prohibition in time of war or national emergency). Directs the Secretary to enter into logistics readiness agreements with contractors of privately owned U.S.-flag vessels under which the contractor shall, in time of war, national emergency, or foreign crisis, provide services to meet DOD cargo water transportation requirements. Provides required contract provisions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Secretary of Transportation at least annually the DOD projections of weekly requirements, in excess of normal peacetime requirements, for the transportation of DOD cargoes to meet logistics and war fighting requirements in such exigent circumstances. Provides for the payment to contractors of foreign charges incurred under such transportation contracts. Provides transition provisions. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation to promptly take appropriate actions to modernize, update, revise, or eliminate the current Sealift Readiness Program consistent with changes brought about by this Subtitle. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring a party to a logistics readiness agreement to enter into or remain enrolled in the Sealift Readiness Program as a condition for being awarded a contract to provide transportation or distribution services under this Subtitle. Subtitle D: Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. States as a policy of the Congress that qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall be afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to provide approved commodities and services as subcontractors and suppliers under contracts awarded by DOD. Provides that, in the case of a business concern that has negotiated a small business subcontracting plan with a military department or defense agency, purchases made by that business concern from qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall count toward meeting the subcontracting goal provided in that plan. Terminates such provision at the end of FY 1994. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Matters - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the U.S. strategic posture in the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions. Requires such report to include a military threat assessment for such regions. Directs the Secretary to conduct, and report to the defense committees on, an analysis of options for providing forward presence of naval forces during peacetime. Expresses as U.S. policy the opposition to restrictive trade practices fostered or imposed by foreign countries against other countries friendly to the United States or against any other U.S. persons. Prohibits any DOD prime contract in excess of the small purchase threshold from being awarded to any foreign person, company, or entity unless such entity certifies to the Secretary that it does not comply with the secondary Arab boycott of Israel. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition in specific instances when necessary for national security, requiring notice to the Congress of each such waiver. Provides other exceptions to such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to employ as many professors, instructors, and lecturers at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center as the Secretary considers necessary. Provides transition and savings provisions. Allows employees who moved after December 31, 1986, and before April 1, 1991, between different leave systems (appropriated vs. nonappropriated fund employment positions) to elect between the receipt of accrued leave or a lump-sum payment for such leave upon such transfer. Recognizes and grants a Federal charter to the Military Order of the World Wars, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia. Outlines objects and purposes, and prohibits discrimination in conditions of membership or requirements for serving on its board of directors. Includes the corporation within a Federal law providing for audits of accounts of private corporations established under Federal law. Requires the Corporation to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Entitles the corporation to tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code. Terminates the charter if the corporation fails to comply with certain provisions or restrictions. Recognizes and grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Colorado. Provides corporation objects and purposes, membership, and restrictions, including a prohibition against discrimination in conditions of membership or requirements for serving on its board of directors. Includes the corporation within a Federal law providing for audits of accounts of private corporations established under Federal law. Requires the Corporation to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Entitles the corporation to tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code. Terminates the charter if the corporation fails to comply with certain provisions or restrictions. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1993 through 1995, to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II and to coordinate, support, and facilitate other such commemoration programs and activities of Federal, State, and local governments, as well as private persons. Provides funding for such activities from defense agencies operation and maintenance funds for such fiscal years. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Account. Eliminates certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions and other specified Federal law. Authorizes the transfer of excess construction or fire equipment from DOD stocks to any foreign country or international organization prescribed under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act, but only if: (1) no Federal department or agency other than DOD and no State submits a request for such equipment during a specified period; or (2) the President determines that the transfer is necessary in order to respond to an emergency for which the equipment is especially suited. Prohibits, with an exception, the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD during FY 1992 for the construction or capitalization of specified military museums, or the renovation of a certain submarine for use by an Oregon museum. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award fellowships in military history to citizens and nationals of the United States who are graduate students in U.S. military history, have completed their doctoral requirements other than a dissertation, and agree to prepare a dissertation in an area of military history determined by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain vessels to the Department of Transportation to be assigned as training ships to Texas A&M University and the Maine Maritime Academy. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the construction in a U.S. navy yard of the first and each succeeding alternate U.S. combatant and escort vessel. Provides for a method of liquidation of credits and liabilities of parties to cooperative military airlift agreements. Adds Japan and Korea to the list of countries eligible for such agreements. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to authorize a general or flag officer grade for the commanders of the U.S. Southern Command and the U.S. Central Command. Makes permanent (currently expires as of September 30, 1992) the authority of the Secretary to pay the travel, subsistence, and other personal expenses of defense personnel of developing countries for their attendance at bilateral or regional cooperation conferences and programs. Subjects a person appointed as a judge of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals to the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) as of the date of the appointment. Provides transition provisions for those judges who are currently subject to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System (CSRS), allowing continued coverage (upon election) under CSRS or a refund under their former CSRS and election to be covered under FERS. Provides for deposit into the Thrift Savings Fund of a lump-sum payment representing the contribution difference required under the two plans. Designates as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals the senior in commission among the judges who: (1) has served for one or more years as judge; and (2) has not previously served as chief judge. Provides for a chief judge term of five years, with a continuation of such term if there are no other judges eligible for chief judge at the end of such term. Provides for the early termination of such five-year term under certain circumstances. Provides transition provisions to cover the current chief judge. Revises the Uniform Code of Military Justice with respect to: (1) jurisdiction; (2) certain adjudications and postponements of sentences; and (3) offenses relating to the drunken or reckless operation of a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel. Directs the Secretary to establish the Civil-Military Cooperative Action Program under which the Secretary may use the skills, capabilities, and resources of the armed forces to assist civilian efforts to meet the domestic needs of the United States. Outlines Program objectives. Directs the Secretary to encourage the establishment of advisory councils on civil-military cooperation at the regional, State, and local levels, as appropriate, in order to obtain recommendations for projects and activites and guidance for the Program from persons who are familiar with regional, State, and local conditions and needs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe specified rules and regulations governing the provision of assistance under the Program. Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, during FY 1993 through 1995, to conduct a pilot program to be known as the National Guard Civilian Youth Opportunities Program aimed at improving through military based training the life skills and employment potential of civilian youth who cease to attend secondary school before graduation. Requires the pilot program to be conducted at any ten of the States, Territories, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) program agreements made between the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and a chosen jurisdiction; (2) authorized benefits for youth participants in the program; (3) the use of National Guard personnel at a chosen site for administrative, training, or support services for the program; (4) the use of National Guard equipment and facilities for the program; (5) the Federal employee status of participants in the program for purposes of certain laws and benefits; (6) program funding and supplemental funding by the Governor of the chosen jurisdiction; (7) a required report from the National Guard Chief after one year of the pilot program; and (8) an earmarking of specified funds for such program from FY 1993 DOD operation and maintenance funds. Directs the President to report to the Congress on the proposals of the Secretary General of the United Nations made in his report concerning preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, and peacekeeping. Mandates that no funds are authorized to be appropriated under this Act for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title XI: Demilitarization of the Former Soviet Union - Subtitle A: Short Title - Names this title the Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992. Subtitle B: Findings and Program Authority - Authorizes the President to establish and conduct programs to assist in the demilitarization of the independent states of the former Soviet Union. States that such programs shall include the transportation, storage, safeguarding, disabling, and destruction of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the conversion of weapons-related scientific expertise, technologies, and capabilities into appropriate civilian activities. Prohibits any such U.S. assistance unless the President certifies to the Congress that the recipient state of the former Soviet Union is committed to destroying its weapons of mass destruction, forgoing any nuclear weapons or military modernization programs, and facilitating U.S. verification of any weapons destruction carried out. Subtitle C: Administrative and Funding Authorities - Provides funding for the Soviet demilitarization program through funds authorized to be transferred under this Act as well as an extension of the authorization of appropriations for such purpose under the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991. Subtitle D: Reporting Requirements - Requires the President to report to the Congress at least 15 days in advance of each proposed obligation of funds for the Soviet demilitarization program. Directs the President to report quarterly to the Congress on all such activities carried out in the previous quarter. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the design and construction of defense access roads. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, defense access roads, architectural and engineering design services, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to increase by a specified amount the funding permitted to the Army for the worldwide leasing of military family housing. 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, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to: (1) increase the authorized amount of appropriations for a military construction project at the Guam Navy Public Works Center; and (2) decrease the authorized amount of appropriations for military construction projects at the Subic Bay, Philippines Navy Public Works Center and the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina. Directs the Secretary to expend from prior-law appropriations necessary amounts for planning and design of defense access roads for the Pascagoula, Mississippi Naval Station. 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 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to transfer an authorized military construction project (and the authorized amount for such project) from Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, to Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Terminates certain FY 1991 and 1992 military construction projects. 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 appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, conforming storage facilities, certain base closure and realignment activities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes the obligation of prior-year unobligated military construction funds for such military construction projects. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. 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 to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts . Reduces certain prior-year authorizations of appropriations for Air Force Reserve military construction projects. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI on October 1, 1995, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out a military construction project for energy conservation not previously authorized by law if prior military construction funds were authorized to be made available for such project. Increases to $1,000,000 ($300,000 for FY 1992) the threshold for FY 1993 through 1995 for minor construction projects carried out with DOD operation and maintenance funds. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress after each such fiscal year on any minor construction projects carried out whose cost exceeded $300,000. Prohibits any funds made available to a military department during FY 1993 from being expended for contracts for the construction, acquisition, or leasing of military family housing that are entered into after October 1, 1992, until the Secretary of that military department has solicited bids for such housing under military construction projects currently authorized under Federal law. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to construct a replacement for a single family housing unit if: (1) authorized by law; (2) a simple home improvement is no longer cost-effective; and (3) 21 days have elapsed since notification to the Congress of such replacement. Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to authorize deposit into the Department of Defense Base Closure Account for its use of any funds that the Secretary may transfer from funds appropriated to DOD or funds contained in the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress notice of and justification for any such transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize such Account for environmental restoration, community economic adjustment assistance, and disposal of property at bases selected for closure under base closure laws. Makes identical amendments for the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 established under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Provides for the valuation of amounts to be deposited into a reserve account after the sale of real property at a military installation which represents the amount of such property acquired, constructed, or improved with commissary store funds or nonappropriated funds. Requires amounts so reserved to be used only for acquiring, constructing, and improving: (1) commissary stores; and (2) real property and facilities for nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authority of the Secretary to transfer specified funds under base closure laws to the homeowners assistance program. Directs the Secretary to enter into, and report to the Congress on, a one-year contract with a private relocation contractor in order to test the cost-effectiveness of using national relocation contractors to administer the homeowners assistance program. Requires military construction relating to the closure or realignment of a military installation (currently, each military construction project) to meet certain budgeting constraints. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to revise the annual reporting date of the Comptroller General with respect to the Secretary's selection of military installations to be closed or realigned under such Act. Prohibits the Secretary and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission from recommending a realignment of functions and personnel of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service under provisions of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, instead authorizing the Secretary to provide for such a realignment under other Federal base closure and realignment provisions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to direct the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the operations of the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account during the preceding fiscal year. Subtitle C: Land Transactions - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to remove the San Diego Energy Recovery Project as a possible party to a land exchange between the city of San Diego and the Secretary of the Navy. Provides that, in lieu of conveyance of property owned by the Project, such Secretary may permit San Diego to convey other property suitable for family housing, or to pay the Secretary an amount sufficient for the loss of such property as consideration for the land exchange. Outlines other administrative provisions required in light of the loss of the Project as a party to the land exchange. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to South Carolina all rights and interest to real property comprising the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to allow the Secretary of the Navy to use the proceeds from the sale of certain property to acquire a new site for a naval center in the state of Vermont (currently, only in the Burlington, Vermont area). Lowers the price required to be paid by the city of Burlington to acquire the real property being sold by such Secretary. Extends to June 1, 1995, the deadline for the conveyance of the property. Allows the Secretary to permit the city of Burlington to make alterations or improvements to the property before its conveyance to the City. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease: (1) to the Union Pacific Railroad Company certain property located at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California; and (2) to the City of Oakland or the Port of Oakland, California, certain property also located at the Naval Supply Center. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to enable the San Diego Gas and Electric Company to construct, operate, and maintain an electric transmission and associated electric transmission lines. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Santa Barbara, California, all rights and interests to certain real property located at the Santa Barbara Naval Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Washington County, Maryland Sanitary District all rights and interest to certain real property, including a waste water treatment facility, located at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire all rights and interest to a parcel of land comprising a portion of the Naval Radio Station at Jim Creek, Washington. Authorizes the United States to acquire by condemnation or otherwise: (1) all rights and interest of Arizona in and to specified trust lands in such State; and (2) any trust mineral estate of Arizona located beneath the surface of such trust lands. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to any person all rights and interest to: (1) a parcel of land comprising a naval family housing area at Paine Field, Snohomish County, Washington; and (2) two parcels of land comprising portions of the naval family housing area at Pier 91, Seattle, Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Central Community College, Hastings, Nebraska, all rights and interest to three parcels of property located in that City which have served as a support complex for the Hastings Radar Bomb Scoring Site. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city of Abbeville, Alabama, all rights and interest to specified real property located at the site of a proposed Army Reserve Center in Abbeville. Subtitle D: Transfer of Jurisdiction of Rocky Mountain Arsenal - Directs the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding under which: (1) the Secretary of the Army transfers to the Secretary of the Interior, without reimbursement, all responsibility to manage for wildlife and public use purposes the real property comprising the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, with the exception of certain facilities and property or property designated for disposal; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior shall establish and manage such real property as a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Allows the transfer to be made only after certification by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that all site cleanup and remediation measures required under Federal law have been taken. Excludes from such transfer all property used at the Arsenal for water treatment, the disposition of hazardous substances, and any other purposes related to remediation and cleanup of the site. Continues jurisdiction by the Secretary of the Army over the property to be transferred until all cleanup and remediation activities have been completed. Requires consultation between the two Secretaries with respect to all cleanup and remediation activities. Requires the Secretary of the Army to retain environmental liability with respect to the Arsenal after the transfer. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in the property transferred by the Secretary of the Army, to be used for wildlife preservation, public uses, research and education, and land and water conservation. Outlines provisions with respect to cleanup and remediation activities. Prohibits public roads from being constructed through the Refuge. Designates another parcel of real property at the Arsenal for disposal for commercial, highway, or other public use purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to notify the State of Colorado and all appropriate units of local government of the proposed and final determinations made with respect to site cleanup, remediation, and disposal. Provides transfer conditions and limitations, including the requirement that all property disposed of under this subtitle be subject to the cleanup and remediation requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. States that all disposal proceeds shall be transferred to the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be used to supplement funds available for the construction of a visitor and education center at the Refuge. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to allow the Secretary of a military department having jurisdiction over a military installation to enter into agreements with gas or electric utilities to design and implement cost-effective energy demand and conservation incentive programs for such military installation. Allows such agreements to provide for a utility to advance financing costs for the design and implementation of an energy demand or conservation incentive program, with repayment terms no less favorable than those applicable to the utility's most favored customer. Vests title to the United States in any energy-saving device or technology installed at a military installation pursuant to an agreement. Directs the Secretary of the Navy, by December 31, 1992, to report to the defense committees and the Comptroller General on actions and plans of the Navy for consolidation and centralization of control over forces assigned to the mine countermeasure mission. Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate such report and submit his evaluation to the defense committees. Requires the report of the Secretary to include a detailed evaluation and analysis of the use of Ingleside, Texas, as the planned homeport for all mine warfare ships, and a comparison of various alternative homeports for such ships including Atlantic and Pacific coast homeports. Prohibits such Secretary from relocating the functions and personnel of certain mine warfare command and training facilities until 90 days after submitting his required report. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, in designating expanded areas for training operations of Air National Guard and Air Reserve aircraft, to provide for such areas within the geographic boundaries of areas that have been approved for tactical training on the date of enactment of this Act. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1993 for operating expenses and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) new production reactors; (3) environmental restoration and waste management; and (4) defense materials production and other defense programs. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Prohibits the obligation of FY 1993 DOE funds for: (1) the design, purchase, or installation of any fire protection, cooling, or refrigeration system that utilizes class I chlorofluorocarbons unless the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) determines that an alternate system is not commercially available; or (2) the implementation of the reconfiguration of any nonnuclear DOE activities until the Secretary reports the results of certain analyses and certifications to the defense committees. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of the funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the defense committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the total estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to the defense committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of construction 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 to carry out 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 the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceeds $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to protect public health and safety or property or to meet the needs of national defense. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees before taking any such action. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to pay to the EPA a stipulated civil penalty assessed under Federal environmental law against the Fernald Environmental Management Project. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract or other agreement for the performance of environmental restoration and waste management activities with any persons convicted of having committed a criminal violation in connection with activities at a DOE facility under the Clean Air Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the appropriation, obligation, or expenditure of DOE national security program funds for the following activities unless such funds have been specifically authorized by law: (1) procurement of goods or services; (2) R&D or procurement or production related to R&D; (3) nuclear weapons testing; (4) construction; and (5) operation and maintenance of any defense nuclear facility or of the DOE central office. Earmarks specified FY 1993 DOE program management funds for certain oversight activities. Directs the Secretary to establish a citizen advisory group for each DOE nuclear facility to undertake certain review, evaluation, reporting, and recommendation actions with respect to such nuclear facilities. Directs the Secretary to provide funding to each advisory group for the hiring of technical assistance and support staff. Limits such expense to $250,000 per group. Provides funding for such advisory groups from FY 1993 DOE national security funds. Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition on the Nuclear Weapons Council. Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to revise the offset for payments for injuries believed to arise out of the atomic weapons testing program. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the new production reactor program of DOE, requiring such reports until the construction of the new production reactor is completed. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the technology chosen for new production reactor capacity have the highest probability of successfully sustaining operation, the lowest risk of operational failure, and the lowest cost of construction and operation. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require any non-Federal entity that operates a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency to submit to the head of such Federal agency any cooperative R&D agreement that the entity proposes to enter into with a small business firm and the joint work statement required with respect to that agreement. Outlines procedures for the approval or disapproval of the proposed agreement and joint work statement by the Federal agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate and encourage the transfer of technology to small businesses, and to issue guidelines relating to the program by May 1, 1993. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to provide appropriate federally funded technology transfer centers with information on cooperative R&D agreements or other arrangements entered into with respect to DOE laboratories and other Federal departments and agencies. Provides funding for such agreements or arrangements. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989 to authorize the Secretary to allow each DOE contractor and subcontractor carrying out certain activities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to loan personnel in order to assist in the economic diversification of the local economy and reduce reliance by the local community on national security programs at such Laboratory. Provides funding for such personnel loan. Extends such program through FY 1994. Subtitle D: Defense Nuclear Work Force Restructuring - Directs the Secretary to develop, issue, and commence implementation of a plan for the restructuring of the employee work force at each DOE defense nuclear facility: (1) the primary mission of which changes from weapons production and related activities to environmental restoration and waste management; and (2) that is scheduled for closure. Outlines provisions concerning plan requirements and updates, and appropriate consultations in plan development with the Secretary of Labor and local labor organizations. Requires the plan to be submitted to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program for the identification and ongoing medical evaluation of current and former DOE employees who are or were subject to significant health risks as a result of the exposure to hazardous or radioactive substances during such employment. Requires implementation of the program through specified activities. Requires each employee provided with such medical evaluations to be notified of test results. Requires such program to be carried out within one year after enactment of this Act. Requires an agreement between the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out such program. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Subtitle A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials in the NDS, with special limitations on the disposal of certain materials. Authorizes the NDS Manager, during FY 1993, to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Subtitle B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to require the quantities of materials stockpiled to be sufficient to meet the needs of the United States during a period of national emergency that requires a significant level of mobilization of the economy under planning assumptions used by the Secretary of Defense (currently, for three years). Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Allows moneys from the Fund to be used for materials maintenance and disposal (currently, only for materials acquisition). Directs the President to appoint a Market Impact Committee to: (1) advise the NDS Manager on the projected domestic and foreign economic effects of all acquisitions and disposals of materials from NDS that are proposed to be included in the annual materials plan submitted to the Congress under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act; and (2) submit to the Manager the Committee's recommendations regarding such acquisitions and disposals. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1993. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1993 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1993 Commission funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama. Limits such expenditure to $18,000 per vehicle. Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to: (1) authorize the use of Commission funds to defray the cost of health care services to elderly and disabled persons provided by medical facilities licensed and approved by the Republic of Panama and not operated by the United States; and (2) revise a provision concerning the basis of Canal tolls on vessel tonnage measurement. Requires all expenditures made under this title to be made in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and U.S. laws implementing those treaties.

Bill· SS. 3136 (102nd)open

National Defense Multiyear Authorization Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992

National Defense Multiyear Authorization Act of 1992 Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Subtitle A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain prior-year unobligated shipbuilding and conversion balances to the FY 1993 shipbuilding and conversion funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for: (1) the defense agencies; (2) the Defense Inspector General; (3) the reserves and National Guard; and (4) the chemical demilitarization program. Subtitle B: Army Programs - Repeals a provision of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which authorized appropriations for the development of the Apache helicopter program. Authorizes the use of funds received from the sales of tanks, infantry vehicles, or armored personnel carriers by the United States under the Arms Export Control Act during FY 1990 and 1991 to upgrade such armored vehicles for fielding to the Army. Prohibits the Improved Chemical Agent Monitor from being procured for the armed forces until the Secretary of the Army completes certain testing and congressional notification with respect to such program. Subtitle C: Navy Programs - Earmarks funds from this Act for shipbuilding and conversion for specified replacement, overhaul, and conversion programs within the Navy, with a limitation with respect to advanced procurement for the aircraft carrier replacement program. Prohibits the use of funds made available by this Act or otherwise for FY 1993 from being used for: (1) a certain electronic warfare system and the Airborne Self Protection Jammer, until their operational suitability has been determined; and (2) the AV-8B radar upgrade program. Allows for the modification of F-14 aircraft, with limitations as provided in appropriation Acts. Directs the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) to report to the Congress with respect to procurement of strategic sealift. Subtitle D: Air Force Programs - Earmarks specified funds made available by this Act for Air Force procurement for the C-17 aircraft program, with certain requirements to be met by the Secretary and the Secretary of the Air Force before such sums may be obligated. Requires the Secretary to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) with respect to an initiative to maintain control over costs, contractor performance, and management performance within the C-17 aircraft program. Provides additional funding for such program, with limitations. Requires the Secretary to make certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the correction of fuel leaks on C-17 production aircraft. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to sell components or other material procured during FY 1990 through 1992 for advance procurement for F-16 aircraft and use such proceeds for procurement of spare parts and support equipment for such aircraft. Subtitle E: Defense Agency Programs - Earmarks specified funds made available by this Act for defense agency procurement as funding for certain tactical intelligence programs, with limitations. Requires operational test and evaluation and survivability testing of certain helicopter programs to be completed prior to their release for operational use. Subtitle F: Strategic Programs - Prohibits the obligation of funds for the advance procurement of Trident II missiles until a certain cost savings report has been submitted to the defense committees. Directs the Secretary to prepare and implement a plan for testing the survivability and operational effectiveness of nonstealth heavy bombers against potential targets, as well as defenses that such bombers might encounter during conventional conflicts during the next 20 years. Requires a report. Prohibits the Secretary from obligating funds for the procurement of the CORE electronic countermeasures system until such report is received and the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the operational suitability and effectiveness of such system. Earmarks specified Air Force procurement funds under this Act for procurement for the B-2 bomber aircraft program, limiting the deployment of such aircraft to 20 plus one test aircraft. Limits the obligation of funds for such aircraft until the Secretary has made certain reports and certifications to the defense committees with respect to the performance and survivability assessment of such aircraft, as well as total costs. Directs the Secretary to develop, and report to the defense committees on, a strategy for achieving substantial reductions in the cost of developing, acquiring, and supporting space systems operated by the Department of Defense (DOD). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for a study and report by the Secretary concerning the Ground Wave Emergency Network. Subtitle G: Chemical Demilitarization Program - Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to extend through December 31, 2004, the deadline for the elimination by DOD of the existing stockpile of lethal chemical agents and munitions. Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the potential alternatives to the use of the Army's baseline disassembly and incineration process for the disposal of such agents and munitions. Prohibits the Army from carrying out any site preparation for such disassembly or incineration until such report is received, with exceptions. Requires the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the Army's plans for destroying all chemical warfare material that would be required to be destroyed if the United States became a party to a chemical weapons convention (a group of countries requiring the destruction by its members of specified binary chemical weapons and munitions). Directs the Secretary of the Army to report to the Congress on the physical and chemical integrity of the existing chemical weapons that are contained in U.S. chemical weapons stockpiles and stored within eight chemical weapons storage sites within the United States. Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Subtitle A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D). Earmarks specified amounts of such authorization for: (1) basic research and exploratory development projects; (2) manufacturing technology development; and (3) the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program. Subtitle B: Program Requirements, Restrictions, and Limitations - Sets forth program requirements, restrictions, or limitations with respect to the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Directs the Commandant of the Marine Corps to report to the defense committees on the crash of such aircraft prototype that occurred on July 20, 1992. Limits to 50 percent the available FY 1993 authorized funds for such aircraft until such report is received. Earmarks specified FY 1993 R&D funds for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of such aircraft. Directs the Secretary to specify in the FY 1994 defense budget a separate program element for electronic warfare programs involving ship self-defense. Subtitle C: Missile Defense Program - Amends the Missile Defense Act of 1991 to revise provisions concerning the implementation of the U.S. goal of deploying an antiballistic missile system capable of providing a highly effective defense of the United States against limited attacks of ballistic missiles. Directs the Secretary to transfer management and budget responsibility for R&D of all far-term follow-on technologies with respect to missile defense technology from the Strategic Defense Initiative Organization to the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) or the appropriate military department, unless he determines and certifies to the Congress that transfer of a particular technology currently under the Organization would not be in the national security interests. Removes the current reference to the goal of the establishment of capable theater missile defense systems by FY 1996, while limiting R&D of follow-on technologies for such systems to those not likely to be incorporated into weapons within ten to 15 years after the date of enactment of such Act (December 5, 1991). Earmarks for obligation to the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) specified amounts of the total amount appropriated or made available to DOD for FY 1993. Earmarks such amounts to specific program elements of SDI. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer such specified amounts among the program elements, with limitations. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the allocation of funds appropriated for SDI for FY 1993. Places certain limitations on the obligation or expenditure of FY 1993 DOD funds for the development or testing of antiballistic missile systems or components, or the acquisition of material or equipment required for such development or testing. Subtitle D: Other Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1993 DOD R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD, with limitations. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Subtitle A: Authorizations of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, humanitarian assistance, the Defense Health Program, and support for the 1996 summer Olympics, the 1993 World University Games, and the 1994 World Cup Games. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for the people of Afghanistan and Cambodia, and for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1993 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Requires the Secretary to notify specified congressional committees on his intention to transport humanitarian relief to a country to which such transportation has not been specifically authorized by law. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the 1994 World Cup Games, with a limitation. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer funds from the Defense Business Operations Fund and the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to appropriations for operation and maintenance for FY 1993, with specified amounts earmarked to each military department. Subtitle B: Environmental Provisions - Requires the Director of the Defense Logistics Agency to evaluate, and report to the defense committees on, the use of class I substances (chlorofluorocarbons and halons) by the military departments and defense agencies. Prohibits any DOD contract awarded, modified, amended, or extended after June 1, 1993, from including a specification or standard that requires the use of an ozone-depleting substance unless the specification or standard is approved by the senior acquisition official for the procurement covered by the contract because a suitable substitute for such ozone-depleting substance is not currently available. Requires certain action to be taken by an official granting such an approval, including reports to the Secretary and notifications to the defense committees. Authorizes the Secretary to reimburse a contractor for reasonable costs incurred in providing a substitute for an ozone-depleting substance in the awarded contract. States that environmental restoration activities at current and former military installations shall be deemed to be functions that facilitate the national defense. Requires the Secretary of a military department to ensure that contracts entered into by such Secretary for environmental restoration activities at a current or former military installation provide for the military department and the contractor to share the risk of liability resulting from such restoration activities. Provides for contracting implementation of such risk-sharing requirement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on its implementation. Amends the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA) to provide that, in the case of real property owned by the United States that is part of a military installation to be closed, the head of the department or agency with jurisdiction over such property shall identify the real property on which neither hazardous substances nor petroleum products or its derivatives were stored for one year or more, are known to have been released, or were disposed of. Outlines identification procedures and deadlines. Requires a deed for the transfer or sale of such identified property to contain a covenant stating that any corrective action found to be necessary from the presence of hazardous substances or petroleum products on such property shall be conducted by the United States, with access to such property to take such corrective action as necessary. Requires the appropriate agency or department head having jurisdiction over a property used as a military facility on which any hazardous substance or petroleum product or its derivatives was stored for one year or more, is known to have been released, or was disposed of, and on which the United States plans to terminate military operations, to notify the State in which such property is located of any lease entered into by the United States that will encumber the property beyond the date of termination of operations on such property. Directs the Secretary to defend, indemnify, and hold harmless any State, political subdivision, or person that acquires ownership or control of a facility of a military installation against any actions arising out of the release or threatened release of any hazardous substance or pollutant or contaminant as a result of DOD activities at any military installation that is closed pursuant to a base closure law, unless such entity or person caused or contributed to such release or threatened release. Prohibits the use of FY 1993 environmental restoration funds for the payment of fines or penalties unless the act or omission for which the fine or penalty is imposed arises out of activities funded by those funds. Includes environmental restoration contracts of DOD (currently only R&D contracts) within provisions providing contractor indemnification for claims from an unusually hazardous risk taken by the contractor in fulfilling such contract. Amends CERCLA and other Federal law to extend through December 31, 1995, the authority to issue contractor surety bonds for the performance of environmental response actions in connection with certain defense environmental programs. Prohibits funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD for FY 1993 from being used to purchase surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Establishes the Legacy Fellowship Program in Natural and Cultural Resource Management (Program) to provide training to civilian and military personnel in the management of natural and cultural resources. Requires at least three fellows to be appointed for participation in such Program. Provides Program funding from FY 1993 DOD authorizations. Authorizes supplemental appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for environmental restoration, defense, and the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Subtitle C: Defense Economic Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization - Amends the Defense Economic Diversification, Conversion, and Stabilization Act of 1990 to require the Secretary of Defense to be chairman of the Economic Adjustment Committee. (Currently, such chairmanship rotates between the Secretaries of Defense, Commerce, and Labor on a yearly basis.) Directs the Chairman to establish an Executive Council of such Committee to develop policies and procedures to ensure that communities, businesses, and workers substantially and seriously affected by reductions in defense expenditures are advised of the assistance available to them under programs administered by the Departments of Defense, Commerce, and Labor and the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires notification to be provided to affected communities, businesses, and workers with respect to the lack of any follow-on contracts or other defense-related contract activity. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization of appropriations for certain defense stabilization activities outlined under such Act. Provides an identical extension under such Act with respect to defense conversion adjustment. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Education, to provide financial assistance to local educational agencies (LEAs) if, without such assistance, such LEA will be unable to provide students in schools of such LEA with a level of education that is equivalent to the minimum level of education available in the schools of the other LEAs in the same State. Outlines additional eligibility requirements. Directs the Secretary, in assisting communities in making adjustments resulting from reductions in the size of the armed forces, to transfer to the Secretary of Education funds to make payments to LEAs that are entitled to receive educational benefits for children of persons who reside or work on Federal property, who are on active duty in the armed forces, or who are refugees. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on the LEAs affected by the closures and realignments of military installations and by redeployments of members of the armed forces. Provides funding for such payments to eligible LEAs through FY 1993 DOD operation and maintenance authorizations. Subtitle D: Department of Defense Civilian Personnel Transition Initiatives - Requires the Secretary of the military department concerned, if such Secretary separates an employee from employment under a reduction in force and within two years after such separation seeks to employ a person for that same position or a position in the same competitive area, to first offer the separated employee such position, and to not employ a contract or temporary employee in the position. Requires the Secretary concerned, in seeking to reemploy separated employees but not in a sufficient number to reemploy all such employees, to offer reemployment on the basis of seniority in Federal service. Directs the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to establish and keep current a comprehensive list of all announcements of vacant positions in the competitive service within each agency (except the General Accounting Office and agencies conducting intelligence activities) that are to be filled by appointments for more than one year and for which applications are being accepted from outside the agency work force. Requires such list to be available to the public. Requires the Director of OPM to begin providing such information by toll-free telephone within 120 days after enactment of this Act. Requires an agency, in filling a vacant position for which a qualified displaced employee (a current or former DOD employee notified of termination or separated from employment due to a reduction in force) has properly applied, to give full consideration to such application before selecting any applicant from outside the agency for the position. Provides such preference for 12 months after notice or separation. Requires certain notification to be given, in the case of employees released from employment due to a reduction in force: (1) to the employee; (2) to his or her collective bargaining representative; and (3) if the reduction involves a significant number of employees, to the appropriate State dislocated worker unit and the chief official of the local government concerned. Authorizes the President to shorten the otherwise-required 60-day period of advance notification of such reductions in force because of circumstances not reasonably foreseeable. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to provide that the date of notice of termination of employment of an employee of a military installation being closed or realigned under a base closure law (for purposes of determining eligibility for defense conversion adjustment assistance under the Job Training Partnership Act) shall, unless actual notice of termination is given, be 12 months before the closure or realignment is completed. Makes an identical amendment to the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay a civilian employee having been employed for a continuous period of at least 12 months a separation benefit if such employee separates voluntarily from employment by either resignation or retirement. Outlines administrative provisions concerning the payment of such separation benefit, and prohibits such payment for a separation occurring after December 31, 1997. Restores certain leave of a Federal civilian employee of a military installation during the closure of such installation between October 1, 1992, and December 31, 1997. Requires certain reports. Provides for the continuation of certain Federal employee health benefits if the basis for such continuation of coverage is involuntary separation from a DOD position due to a reduction in force, limiting the individual to payments of no more than the required employee contributions for such coverage. Applies Thrift Savings Plan and Civil Service Retirement System benefits to employees (and their spouses) separated from service due to a reduction in force. Authorizes the Secretary and the Secretaries of the military departments to provide up to one year of training to civilian DOD employees who are separated from employment as a result of a reduction in force or the closure or realignment of a military installation. Allows such training between October 1, 1992, and September 30, 1995. Directs the Secretary to publish a register of the skill training programs carried out by DOD. Subtitle E: Other Matters - Extends through April 15, 1994, the authorized period of management by the Secretary of the Defense Business Operations Fund (DBOF). Limits the obligations authorized to be incurred by the Secretary in FY 1993 against the supply management divisions of the DBOF, with an exception when determined critical to U.S. national security. Extends through FY 1994 a required annual report from the Secretary concerning the security and control of DOD supplies. Adds to the information required in such report. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the Secretary to establish guidelines for reductions in the number of civilian DOD employees employed by industrial- or commercial-type activities. Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide for: (1) the operation and maintenance of indoor and outdoor rifle ranges; (2) the instruction of U.S. citizens in marksmanship and the employment of appropriate instructors; (3) the maintenance and management of matches or competitions in the use of such arms and the issue of necessary supplies; (4) the award of trophies; (5) the loan or sale of rifles and their ammunition and related equipment; and (6) the maintenance of the National Board for the Promotion of Rifle Practice. Authorizes such Secretary to issue for use in training and competition certain ammunition to qualifying gun clubs. Provides that amounts collected by such Secretary in the sale of guns and related supplies and ammunition shall be used to support the Civilian Marksmanship Program. Authorizes appropriations. Requires all rifle ranges constructed in whole or in part with funds provided by the United States to be used by members of the armed forces and persons capable of bearing arms. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to establish reasonable fees for use by civilians of a rifle range located on a military installation, to cover material and supply costs. Requires such fees collected to be used to maintain such rifle range. Prohibits civilian use of such range from interfering with any required military use. Provides for the payment of certain expenses of members of the armed forces competing at matches or competitions or attending small-arms firing schools. Allows funds authorized under this Act for operation and maintenance to be used to purchase items not exceeding $100,000 for each item. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to repeal a requirement for a competition pilot program for the depot-level maintenance of materials. Amends the Defense Dependents' Education Act of 1978 to authorize the Secretary to provide optional summer school programs in the defense dependents' education system. Directs the Secretary to review the practices and procedures of the military departments regarding the use of civilian airfields in flight training activities of the armed forces, giving special consideration to airfields located in heavily populated areas. Directs the Secretary to sell to South Korea all or any part of obsolete ammunition in DOD inventory which is intended for use as reserve stocks for Korea and is located in a stockpile in South Korea on the date of enactment of this Act. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire logistic support, supplies, and services for elements of the armed forces deployed outside of the United States (currently, deployed in Europe and adjacent waters). Excepts a period of active hostilities involving the armed forces (currently, NATO) from a provision concerning the liabilities that may be accrued by the United States for the acquisition of supplies. Directs the Secretary of a military department or the head of a defense agency, when cost effective, to provide a preference for the procurement of the most energy efficient equipment available that meets the needs or requirements for the procurement. Directs the Secretary, using 50 DOD facilities, to conduct demonstration programs for using energy efficient lighting equipment and energy efficient refrigeration equipment. Requires audits. Requires facility designations and audit completions by specified dates. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Subtitle A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary to waive an end strength when considered necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer certain amounts appropriated to DOD under this Act in order to prevent involuntary separations that would otherwise be necessary to reduce the size of an armed force to within the authorized end strength. Requires the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust end strengths in the national interest, with limitations to such adjustments for both active-duty and reserve forces. Repeals specified provisions of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 and the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 which limit reductions in the number of DOD medical personnel. Authorizes the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) to designate up to eight general and flag officer positions within joint duty requirements for exclusion from limitations on the end strengths for general and flag officers on active duty. Subtitle B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1993. Allows such end strengths to be reduced in proportion to the total amount of reserve members on active duty, with a proportionate increase when such personnel return to reserve duty. Prohibits, with specified exceptions, any unit of the Selected Reserve from being inactivated during FY 1993. Requires the Secretary to provide the defense committees with the rationale for any unit inactivation sought. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Subtitle C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Subtitle D: Funding Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the use of the armed forces for military personnel. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Subtitle A: Reserve Component Matters - Directs the Secretary to ensure that, by the end of FY 1993, a specified number of active Army combat support positions are transferred to the reserve components of the Army. Prohibits the Secretary from reducing the number of Army National Guard or Army Reserve medical personnel below the number existing on September 30, 1992. Extends through FY 1993 certain reserve officer management programs. Prohibits former Army or Air Force reserve officers from being reenlisted if: (1) the person was discharged or released from active duty as a reserve on the basis of misconduct, moral or professional dereliction, duty performance below prescribed standards, or retention being inconsistent with national security; or (2) the person's former enlisted status and grade was based solely on the participation in a precommissioning program that resulted in the reserve commission held by such person before release or discharge. Subtitle B: Services Academies - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated to DOD to support the assignment of more than one general officer to permanent duty at the United States Military Academy and at the United States Air Force Academy or to support the assignment of any general officer in a grade above general to permanent duty at either Academy. Provides a transition provision. Allows the Chairman of the JCS to waive such prohibition to meet unsatisfied requirements for general officer joint duty positions. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for implementing certain recommendations reported by the Comptroller General regarding military preparatory schools. Directs the Secretary to recommend to the defense committees legislation for: (1) establishing an equal number of civilian and military faculty members at the U.S. Military Academy and the U.S. Air Force Academy; and (2) phasing out the assignment of military personnel as permanent professors at those academies. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD from being used to support the assignment of enlisted personnel for permanent duty in a military band for any service academy band. Prohibits funds made available for pay of military personnel from being used to pay for noninstructional positions at the service academies not certified by the DOD Inspector General as being directly involved in the administration of the faculty or students or in the maintenance of facilities or equipment. Requires each service academy to be under the supervision and control of the commander of the major Army, Navy, or Air Force command having jurisdiction over that department's officer training program. Subtitle C: Officer Personnel Policy - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the plans of the military departments for the procurement of officer personnel during each of FY 1993 through 1997. Requires a related report on planned officer assignments for commissioned officers who begin their obligated active duty service during such fiscal years. Directs the Secretary to provide for a federally funded research and development center that is independent of the military departments to review the officer personnel management system of each department and to determine and evaluate the effects of the post-Cold War officer strength reductions on that officer personnel management system. Requires a report and provides funding. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary to require the conduct of test assignments of female members of each armed force to duty in combat aircraft. Revises provisions concerning selective early retirement to authorize the Secretary concerned to submit to an early retirement selection board the names of all eligible officers who are also in particular year groups, specialties, or retirement categories, or any combination thereof within that competitive category. Provides for the retirement of certain limited duty Navy captains and commanders who have failed twice for promotion to the following grade. Limits the duration of a deferred retirement for such limited duty Navy officers. Subtitle D: Active Forces Transition Enhancements - Directs the Secretary to implement a program to encourage members and former members of the armed forces to enter into public and community service jobs after discharge or release from active duty. Directs the Secretary to maintain a registry of discharged or released former members who request assistance in pursuing such careers, as well as a registry of public and community service organizations. Directs the Secretary to match former personnel registered with jobs coming available through the service organizations. Directs the Secretary to: (1) develop proposed uniform standards and procedures for the granting of appropriate credit for service in the armed forces under State teacher certification or licensing procedures; and (2) coordinate with appropriate State agencies the incorporation of such standards and procedures into such State's certification or licensing requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to delegate his responsibilities to the Secretary of Education. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to grant to an eligible member of the armed forces a leave of absence of up to one year to pursue a program of education or training for the development of skills relevant to the performance of public and community service. Outlines provisions concerning eligibility requirements, and excludes any member granted such a leave of absence for such purposes from any required military personnel end strength limitations. Terminates the authority to grant such leaves on September 30, 1995. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, upon the member's request, to grant an early retirement to regular or reserve commissioned officers in their respective military departments who have served between 15 and 20 years, as long as such members agree to register on the public or community service registry maintained under this Act by the Secretary and receive counseling regarding such job opportunities. Provides for the computation of the retired pay of members so retired, and provides funding for the implementation of such early retirement. Terminates such authority on October 1, 1995. Provides that if a member so retired is actually employed by a public or community service organization within their enhanced retirement qualification period, their retirement pay shall be recomputed to provide an increase in the years of service which includes the years of public or community service. Defines the "enhanced retirement qualification period" as the period between the member's early retirement date and the date on which the member would have completed 20 years of service had the member not chosen early retirement. Provides for a similar recomputation of the Survivor Benefit Plan (SBP) base amount for the purpose of payment of survivor annuities. Allows active-duty personnel who are voluntarily discharged or released from the armed forces, who have completed a program of education leading to a standard college degree, and who previously made an election while on active duty not to participate in the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program to withdraw such election within 90 days after discharge or release and participate in the program. Requires a $1,200 payment to the Secretary of Veterans Affairs by such individuals for participation in the program. Provides that, except for annual training or active duty for training of 30 days or less, a reserve member entitled to voluntary separation incentive payments who is also entitled to basic pay for active service shall forfeit an amount of voluntary separation incentive pay which is equal to the total amount of basic pay received during such concurrent periods. Extends through FY 1995 the authorization of appropriations for certain employment, job training, and other assistance for members being separated from active duty. Directs the Secretary and the Director of OPM to jointly carry out a program to provide eligible persons with temporary health benefits under the program of continued health coverage provided for former civilian employees of the Government. Makes eligible for such continued coverage members who were voluntarily or involuntarily discharged or released from active duty under other than adverse conditions, were entitled to medical and dental care prior to such discharge or release, and would not otherwise be eligible for such benefits after such discharge or release and any applicable period of transitional health care. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) notification by the Director of eligibility; (2) election by the member to receive such continued benefits; (3) coverage of dependents; (4) charges for such coverage, to be paid into the Employees Health Benefits Fund; (5) contributions into such Fund by the Secretary in the case of coverage for a member involuntarily discharged; (6) the period of continued coverage; (7) transitional provisions; and (8) termination of other health conversion policies upon election of coverage under the above health benefits continuation program. Subtitle E: Guard and Reserve Transition Initiatives - Defines the "force reduction transition period," for purposes of this Subtitle, as the period beginning on October 1, 1991, and ending on September 30, 1995. Provides that during the force reduction transition period (period), no unit in the Selected Reserve may be inactivated and no such member may be involuntarily discharged from a reserve component or involuntarily transferred from the Selected Reserve before the Secretary has promulgated, implemented, and transmitted to the defense committees regulations that govern the treatment of members assigned to such units and members of the Selected Reserve being subjected to such actions. Requires such regulations to ensure that Selected Reserve members are treated fairly, with respect to their service to their country, and with attention to the adverse personal consequences of unit deactivation or involuntary discharges or transfers. States that the protections afforded by such regulations shall not apply with respect to a member discharged or transferred under specified circumstances, including: (1) at the member's request; (2) due to the lack of qualification for further membership; (3) under adverse conditions; or (4) based on current eligibility for retirement or separation pay. Provides for the payment of annual retirement payments by the Secretary concerned to a member of the Selected Reserve who, during the period (and an application period), has completed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service, is under 60 years of age, and applies for transfer to the Retired Reserve. Outlines provisions concerning the length of such annual payments as well as its computation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of such provisions in order to meet the specific needs of the service. Provides funding. Authorizes the Secretary concerned, during the period beginning on the date of enactment of this Act and ending on October 1, 1995, to provide early retirement benefits for a person who has completed at least 15, but less than 20 years of service as of October 1, 1991, or after such date and before October 1, 1995, has completed at least 15 years of service and transfers to the Retired Reserve. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of such provisions in order to meet the specific needs of the service. Provides separation pay, in a computed amount, to members of the Selected Reserve who have completed at least six but less than 15 years of service and are involuntarily discharged or transferred from the Selected Reserve. Waives the continued service required for eligibility under the Montgomery GI Bill educational assistance program for individuals who, before completing the years-in-service requirement, cease to be members of the Selected Reserve by reason of inactivation of their unit during the period. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations to authorize a person who involuntarily ceases to be a member of the Selected Reserve during the period to continue to receive commissary and exchange privileges for one year after such cessation or one year after the enactment of this Act, whichever is later. Increases from 120 to 365 days after the involuntary termination as a member of the Selected Reserve the period during which continued coverage under Servicemen's Group Life Insurance will be provided, as long as such member is able to fulfill certain other requirements for eligibility for such insurance. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to limit the applicability of any of the above benefits provided to members and former members of the Selected Reserve in order to meet the needs of the service. States that all such benefits are inapplicable to personnel who cease to be members under adverse conditions. Subtitle F: Other Matters - Provides for retention on active duty until the completion of 20 retirement-eligible years of service for certain enlisted regular and reserve members who have completed at least 18, but less than 20 years of such creditable service. Reduces from 300 to 240 the authorized number of enlisted personnel to be assigned to duty at any one time as enlisted aides. Allows the assignment as an enlisted aide to the personal staff of an officer only if such officer is a commander. Limits the authorized amount of FY 1993 DOD funds that may be expended for the costs of permanent changes of station. Reduces the number of personnel authorized to carry out recruiting activities during FY 1994 to 90 percent of that authorized for FY 1992. Limits to 3,500 the total number of Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps units that may be established and maintained by the military departments. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to pay the entire amount of such educational costs to an institution if the Secretary determines such to be in the national interest and the interest of the community of that institution. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Subtitle A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1993 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 3.7 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1993. Provides temporary rates of basic pay for the period after December 31, 1992, and before October 1, 1995, for certain noncommissioned officers and warrant officers and for certain colonels and Navy captains. Extends through FY 1993: (1) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for members possessing critical skills; (2) the aviator retention bonus; (3) the bonuses for reserve enlistments, reenlistments, affiliations and extensions; (4) the special pay authority for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high priority units; (5) the period for repayment of education loans for certain health professionals who serve in the Selected Reserve; (6) the accession bonus for registered nurses; (7) the nurse candidate accession program; and (8) the special pay for nurse anesthetists. Subtitle B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees the Secretary's recommendations for legislation permitting the concurrent payment to members and former members of the armed forces of full military retirement benefits and full compensation for service-connected disabilities payable under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. Directs the Secretary to reserve in a DOD contingency fund a sufficient amount to ensure such concurrent payments in FY 1994 if such legislation is enacted. Expands the expenses considered reimbursable under a DOD adoption expenses programs covering members adopting a child under 18 years of age to include expenses relating to pregnancy and childbirth for the biological mother, and temporary foster care charges when payment of such charges is required immediately before the child's placement. Includes transportation expenses relating to the adoption, with exceptions. Makes identical expansions under the Coast Guard adoption expenses coverage program. Prohibits any person from having any lien on baggage and household goods being transported for military personnel at Government expense or on a motor vehicle being so transported. Authorizes the payment of an advance of pay of up to two months' basic pay to a member on duty outside the United States or other place designated by the President if the member or his or her dependents are ordered to be evacuated by competent authority. Provides an increase in a recomputed retirement pay for certain enlisted members credited with extraordinary heroism in the line of duty during a period of active service. Includes certain travel and transportation allowances within the benefits authorized under the special separation benefits program (a program of voluntary separation from the armed forces in return for the receipt of certain benefits). Authorizes the payment of retired pay for a person who, before August 16, 1945, was a member of the reserves, if such person performed at least 20 years of retirement-creditable service. Excludes certain service before such date in the computation of retirement-creditable service. Provides a subsistence for expenses incurred by a member of the armed forces while performing duties as an escort of an arms control inspection team of a foreign country while the team is engaged in activities relating to the implementation of an arms control treaty or agreement. Title VII: Health Care Provisions - Authorizes a chiropractor who is qualified under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of the military department concerned to be appointed as a regular commissioned officer in the Army Medical Service Corps, the Navy Medical Corps, or in the Air Force for designation as a chiropractic officer. Revises the dependents' dental program under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) by: (1) repealing the authority for the provision of a supplemental dental benefits plan for spouses and children of active-duty personnel; (2) increasing to up to $20 monthly (currently $10) the member premium for such coverage; (3) expanding such coverage to include orthodontic services, crowns, gold fillings, bridges, and complete or partial dentures; (4) requiring a percentage payment as determined appropriate by the Secretary for the services provided under such expanded coverage; and (5) directing the Secretary to devise and implement a program for the improvement of the provision of dental benefits to such members' dependents. Expresses the sense of the Congress that members of the armed forces, and their dependents and survivors, should have access to health care under the health care delivery system of the armed forces regardless of age or health care status. Outlines specified action to be taken under a comprehensive managed health care plan for such individuals by the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Transportation. Directs the Secretary to establish a joint services working group on the provision of military health care to persons who rely for health care on health care facilities at military installations being closed or realigned. Requires the working group to solicit views from those affected by such closures or realignments regarding suitable substitutes for such care. Requires the working group to recommend to the Congress and the Secretary alternative means of providing accessible health care to such individuals. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish a program that permits eligible individuals to obtain prescription pharmaceuticals by mail in connection with medical care furnished to such persons under CHAMPUS; and (2) conduct the program in two or more regions, each region consisting of two or more States. Defines as persons eligible for such program any person entitled to medical care under a CHAMPUS contract, or a person over 65 years of age and living in an area affected by the closure of a health care facility as a result of the closure or realignment of a military installation at which the facility is located. Requires: (1) a fee to be charged individuals for the pharmaceuticals; and (2) a report. Directs the Secretaries of Defense, Health and Human Services, and Transportation to conduct annually a formal survey of CHAMPUS beneficiaries with regard to the availability of, familiarity with, and effectiveness of, such health care system. Reduces from $10,000 to $7,500 the maximum yearly cost of CHAMPUS health care required to be paid by a former member of the armed forces or an individual or family of two or more persons, effective as of FY 1993. Includes certain renal disease patients under Medicare coverage under an exception authorizing the continuation of concurrent CHAMPUS coverage for such patients. Applies such concurrent coverage with respect to health care benefits or services received after FY 1991 if such benefits would have been covered under a plan contracted for under CHAMPUS. Allows home health services and other services in connection with extraordinary physical or psychological conditions to be provided through CHAMPUS only through a program of individualized case management established by the Secretary and in a manner determined to be cost-effective and appropriate. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) to jointly conduct a demonstration project that provides for the Secretary of HHS to reimburse DOD for health care services furnished to Medicare-eligible persons at a DOD health care facility. Requires amounts reimbursed to be used at that facility for the furnishing and expansion of health care services. Requires a report. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study of the feasibility and advisability of entering into risk-sharing contracts with health care organizations to furnish health care services to person entitled to such care in a military health care facility; (2) if determined feasible, develop a plan for entering into such contracts; and (3) report study results to the Congress. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to direct the Secretary to undertake a comprehensive review of the Federal employees health benefits program in order to determine whether furnishing health care under a similar program to CHAMPUS-eligible persons would be more efficient and cost-effective. Directs the Secretary to provide by contract for the operation of a health claims processing center to be known as the National Centralized Claims Processing System for CHAMPUS (Center). Requires: (1) the Center to commence operations within five years after enactment of this Act; and (2) competitive procedures for entering into such a contract. Outlines Center information collection, storage, and processing activities. Requires claims submitted to conform to requirements applicable to claims submitted under part A of Medicare. Requires the Secretary to determine whether the use of a standard identification card containing electronically readable information will enhance the capabilities of the Center. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1993 through 1996, to continue to test a broad array of reform options for furnishing health care to eligible persons under the CHAMPUS health care reform initiative. Directs the Secretary to ensure that a replacement or successor contract for the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative contract applicable for California and Hawaii is awarded in time to begin provision of health care there under the new contract by August 1, 1993. Directs the Secretary to provide by contract for a person outside the Government to perform an evaluation of the conduct of the CHAMPUS Reform Initiative in California and Hawaii, and to report evaluation results to the Secretary and the Congress. Directs the Secretary to modify the Policy Guidelines on the Department of Defense Coordinated Care Program to provide covered beneficiaries with additional positive incentives to enroll in the DOD coordinated care program. Directs the Secretary, as part of such incentive review, to consider the extent to which covered beneficiaries not enrolled in the program are permitted to choose health care providers without prior referral or approval. Prohibits the Secretary from denying access to military treatment facilities to those not enrolled in the program, while allowing the Secretary to establish reasonable admission preferences for those enrolled in the program as an incentive to encourage enrollment. Excludes certain unmarried incapacitated legitimate children of members or former members of the armed forces from CHAMPUS coverage. Entitles a member of the armed forces who is on duty at a station outside the United States (and any accompanying dependent) to the provision of any reproductive health service in a military medical facility outside of the United States serving that duty station in the same manner as any other type of medical care. Requires the member to pay the full cost of receiving such care. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Subtitle A: Defense Conversion Policy for the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base - Sets forth provisions concerning the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base (NDTIB). Outlines NDTIB policy objectives and how they relate to defense conversion and civil-military integration objectives. Establishes the National Defense Technology and Industrial Base Council (Council) to provide overall policy guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies concerning: (1) the capabilities of the NDTIB to meet U.S. national security objectives; (2) programs for achieving the defense conversion objectives set forth; and (3) changes in acquisition policy that would strengthen the NDTIB. Directs the Council to prepare a comprehensive annual assessment of the NDTIB to achieve its stated objectives. Requires each assessment to include a sector (technology or industry) capability analysis containing specified information with respect to its ability to achieve the stated objectives. Outlines factors concerning foreign dependency on raw materials, systems, equipment, and facilities to be addressed in each assessment. Requires each such assessment to also include: (1) an analysis of the present and projected financial condition of each sector for specified periods; (2) an analysis of the impact of the terminations and significant reductions of major R&D programs and procurement programs of DOD on the capability of each sector to achieve its objectives; (3) a critical technology analysis that identifies the product and process technologies that are most critical for attaining the technology and industrial base objectives; and (4) an analysis of each sector's viability in light of defense and nondefense expenditures, integration with the commercial marketplace, and production. Directs the Council to prepare an annual plan for ensuring that the policies and programs of DOD, the Department of Energy (DOE), and other Federal departments and agencies are planned, coordinated, funded, and implemented in a manner which achieves policy objectives. Requires each plan to provide specific guidance, including goals, milestones, and priorities, with respect to: (1) sector viability; (2) manufacturing technology; (3) critical technologies; (4) integrated financing; (5) civil-military integration; (6) defense conversion; (7) technology and industrial base work force; (8) major program acquisition; and (9) acquisition reform. Requires the plan to establish funding priorities for each area of guidance. Directs the Secretary to provide the annual plan to the Secretaries of the military departments and the heads of other affected elements of DOD. Directs the Secretaries of Energy and Commerce to provide such guidance to appropriate officials within their respective departments. Requires an annual report by the Secretary to the Congress on the plan and the NDTIB assessment prepared for that year. Directs the Council to establish a federally funded R&D center to be known as the National Defense Center for Analysis of the Technology and Industrial Base (NDC). Outlines NDC duties with respect to the NDTIB, including assembling of information, studies and analyses, provision of technical support and assistance, and dissemination of unclassified information gathered. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations requiring consideration of the NDTIB in the development and implementation of acquisition plans for each major defense acquisition program. Outlines required contents of such acquisition plans, implementation provisions, and required dates for annual assessments of such plans. Requires the Council to establish the NDC within six months after enactment of this Act. Sets forth provisions concerning dual-use technologies (technologies having both commercial and military applications). Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain non-DOD entities (nonprofit research corporations, Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, agencies of State governments, and other entities showing support for such work) in order to encourage and provide for research, development, and application of technologies to attain the NDTIB objectives. Limits partnership duration to five years. Provides 50 percent Federal funding of the partnership for the first year, reduced by ten percent each year of the partnership. Provides for consideration of in-kind contributions by non-Government participants in a partnership when determining the sharing of partnership costs. Requires competitive procedures to be used in the establishment of such partnerships. Outlines partnership selection criteria, and authorizes the Director of Defense Research and Engineering to perform the responsibilities of the Secretary under the partnerships. Renames the current critical technology application centers assistance program as the regional technology alliances assistance program. Provides funding for: (1) defense dual-use critical technology partnerships; (2) commercial-military integration partnerships; (3) defense regional technology alliances; and (4) the overseas critrical technology monitoring and assessment financial assistance program. Directs the Secretary to establish within his Office the Office of Technology Transition to ensure that technology developed for national security purposes is integrated into the private sector of the United States in order to enhance the NDTIB. Provides further duties of the Office, and requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees on Office activities. Requires such Office to commence operations within 180 days after enactment of this Act. Directs the Secretary to establish a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Program to: (1) provide centralized guidance and direction to the military departments and defense agencies on all matters relating to manufacturing technology; (2) direct the development and implementation of DOD goals, plans, projects, activities, and policies that promote the development and application of advanced technologies to manufacturing processes, tools, and equipment; (3) improve the quality and practices of businesses providing goods and services to DOD; (4) promote dual-use manufacturing processes; (5) disseminate to businesses information concerning improved manufacturing concepts; (6) enhance the skills of the manufacturing work force; and (7) ensure appropriate coordination between the manufacturing technology and industrial preparedness programs of DOD and similar programs undertaken by other Federal departments and agencies and the private sector. Requires the Secretary to revise the program on an annual basis. Authorizes the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to perform the duties of the Secretary under the manufacturing technology program. Earmarks specified amounts authorized for R&D under this Act for: (1) defense advanced manufacturing technology partnerships; (2) manufacturing technology extension programs; and (3) defense manufacturing education programs. Sets forth provisions concerning miscellaneous technology base policies and programs. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to achieve the NDTIB objectives set forth under this Act by providing dual-use enhancement capability support to various nonprofit, public, and private organizations. Outlines services provided under the program. Provides Federal funding of such program of 50 percent in the first year, 40 percent in the second year, and 30 percent in the third and following years. Outlines criteria for the selection of a program to receive such assistance, including the extent to which the program advances and enhances the NDTIB objectives. Directs the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition to perform the duties of the Secretary under the dual-use assistance extension program. Provides program funding from funds authorized to be appropriated to DOD under this Act. Reorganizes various Federal provisions relating to the NDTIB, and repeals inconsistent provisions. Earmarks specified funds for FY 1993 and thereafter for research and R&D activities under the Small Business Innovation Research Program (SBIR). Limits the amounts paid to a small business concern by DOD under the SBIR. Directs the Secretary to develop and issue a strategy for effectuating the transition of successful projects under the SBIR from phase II to phase III of the program. Extends through FY 1999 the SBIR within DOD. Directs the Secretary, during FY 1993, to give priority in the allocation of specified funds, including SBIR funds, to programs, projects, and activities that provide significant assistance for converting the capabilities of businesses that are economically dependent on DOD business to capabilities having both defense and nondefense commercial applications. Establishes the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Agency) as a defense agency, headed by a Director with assistance from a Deputy Director. Makes the Agency the central R&D organization of DOD, with specified defense R&D duties. Subtitle B: Acquisition Assistance Programs - Amends the Small Business Act to provide that a Government defense procurement contracting officer entering into a contract with a small business is not required to refer a determination of nonresponsibility made by that officer to the SBA unless the small business requests a determination of its responsibility, and the issuance of a certificate of responsibility, by the SBA. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1994 a test program for the negotiation of small business subcontracting plans. Limits the FY 1994 participants in such program. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to extend through FY 1999 the test program of contracting for printing-related services for DOD with disadvantaged small business concerns. Extends through FY 2000 the requirement for DOD to extend five percent of its defense procurement contracts to disadvantaged small businesses, historically Black colleges and universities, and other minority institutions. Directs the Secretary to actively monitor and assess the progress of the military departments, defense agencies and prime contractor of DOD in attaining such goal. Authorizes a person to request the Secretary to determine whether the use of small business set asides by a DOD contracting activity has caused a particular industry category to bear a disproportionate share of the progress made toward attainment of the small business contracting goal. Earmarks specified funds from this Act for FY 1993 for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities and minority institutions. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funds made available under this Act for the pilot Mentor-Protege Program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified amounts of such earmarked funds for the direct reimbursement of developmental assistance costs incurred by mentor firms under major defense acquisition programs in the participation of such firms in the Program. Requests the Secretary to publish the DOD policy for such Program as required under Federal law within 15 days after enactment of this Act. Prohibits the SBA from making a disadvantaged small business concern ineligible to receive any assistance authorized under the Small Business Act because of participation in, or receipt of developmental assistance under, the Mentor-Protege Program. Directs the Secretary to determine the status of a small business as a disadvantaged small business. Repeals a provision prohibiting a protege firm from being considered an affiliate of a mentor firm for purposes of the Small Business Act solely on the basis of such a relationship under the Mentor-Protege Program. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program, further earmarking specified portions of such funds for specific programs under such program. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous Acquisition Policy Matters - Extends through FY 1994 a program for the use of master agreements for the procurement of advisory and assistance services. Revises the definition of a major defense acquisition program (MDAP) to include those programs which require an eventual total for R&D of more than $300,000,000 (currently $200,000,000) or an eventual total for procurement of more than $1,800,000,000 (currently $1,000,000,000), both figures based on constant FY 1990 (currently 1980) dollars. Authorizes the Secretary to adjust such amounts on the basis of DOD cost escalation rates, with written notification of such adjustments to the defense committees. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the requirement for submission of Selected Acquisition Reports (SAR) for a program for a fiscal year under specified circumstances, requiring written notification of such waivers to the defense committees. Provides identical requirements for changes in the contents of an SAR. Revises provisions concerning information required to be included in each SAR for the first quarter of a fiscal year, as well as delivery dates of reports by a MDAP program manager of the unit costs of that program. Requires an additional SAR when the Secretary of the military department concerned determines that the program acquisition or current procurement unit cost of a MDAP has increased by at least 15 percent. Waives a current Federal provision prohibiting the payment of severance pay to foreign nationals when the head of an agency awarding the contract makes certain determinations with respect to such payments. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on any agency head use of such waiver authority. Prohibits the purchase by entities controlled by foreign governments of a company that is performing a DOD contract, a DOE contract under a national security program, or DOD or DOE prime contracts in an amount in excess of $500,000,000. Provides exceptions. Prohibits a DOD or DOE contract under a national security program from being awarded to a company owned by an entity controlled by a foreign government if it is necessary for that company to be given access to information in a proscribed (classified) category of information in order to perform the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition for national security interests. Makes the policy of DOD with respect to the disposition of any invention made during the performance of a federally funded R&D contract, grant, or cooperative agreement identical to Federal provisions concerning patent rights in inventions made with Federal assistance. Waives such rights with respect to awards not covered under chapter 18 when the Secretary makes certain determinations. Provides an invention confidentiality requirement. Authorizes a contractor to resubmit a certification of a claim under a shipbuilding contract if the certification is determined to be deficient because of the position, status, or scope of authority of the person executing the certification. Requires such resubmission within 30 days of notification of a deficient certification. Amends the Arms Export Control Act and other Federal provisions to authorize DOD to share equitably with U.S. allies involved in a joint R&D contract the costs of claims with respect to any such R&D programs. Requires a firm that is performing a DOD contract in excess of $10,000,000 to notify DOD in advance of any intention to perform outside the United States any part of such contract in excess of $500,000 which could be performed in the United States. Makes such requirement inapplicable to contracts for military construction. Disallows the payment of an indirect cost under a covered defense contract if such cost violates a principle in the Federal Acquisition Regulation or the DOD Supplement to the Federal Acquisition Regulation. Requires the Secretary to assess a penalty against any contractor attempting to receive reimbursement for such a cost. Provides for the waiver of such penalty in prescribed circumstances. Directs the Secretary to carry out a science and technology fellowship program to enhance the ability of DOD to recruit and retain employees who are highly qualified in the fields of science and technology. Requires the Secretary to support a fellow under such program in a related research or teaching field in such areas after two years of Federal service as an employee in a science or technology position at DOD. Allows a contractor that has participated in defense system development, production, or testing solely as a representative of the Federal Government to be involved in the establishment of criteria for data collection, performance assessment, or evaluation activities for the operational test and evaluation of such system. Directs the Secretary to prescribe regulations that prohibit each military department participating in a joint acquisition program approved by the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition from terminating or substantially reducing its participation in such program without the approval of the Under Secretary. Prohibits the Secretary from procuring a sonobuoy in a foreign country unless U.S. firms that manufacture sonobuoys are permitted to compete on an equal basis with foreign manufacturing firms for the sale of such buoys in that foreign country. Provides a waiver in the interest of national security. Defines "units to be procured until procurement is completed" under the shipbuilding total program reporting requirement. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Subtitle A: General Matters - Requires transmission to the Congress after January 1, 1992, by the Secretary of a report of the Chairman of the JCS with respect to the roles and missions of the armed forces in the post-Cold War era. Designates the Vice Chairman of the JCS as a member of the JCS. Directs the Chairman of the JCS to establish on the JCS the position of the Assistant to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff for National Guard and Reserve Affairs, to be the principal adviser to the Chairman on matters concerning the reserve components. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to consolidate and streamline the Navy headquarters establishments within the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations to reflect changes in the roles and missions of the Navy. Designates as one of the Assistant Chiefs of Naval Operations the Assistant Chief of Naval Operations for Expeditionary Warfare, to supervise the performance of all responsibilities of the Chief regarding expeditionary warfare. Directs the Secretary to make certain certifications to the defense committees with respect to the assignment of functions and personnel for the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Special Operations and Low Intensity Conflict and the special operations command. Provides an alternative to such certifications. Extends through calendar year 1998 the requirement of a joint duty assignment as a prerequisite for promotion to a general or flag officer. Revises provisions regarding the education and experience requirement for such promotion. Provides that an officer shall be considered to have completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment upon the successful completion of an assignment which gives such officer significant experience in joint duty matters through specified commands, military departments, or defense agencies. Directs the Secretary to credit as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment, for promotion purposes, officers who performed duty in the Persian Gulf combat zone that either provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with units and members of another U.S. military department or an allied armed force. Requires the concurrence of the commanding officer of that officer's service branch before such crediting will be allowed. Makes certain reporting and policy requirements inapplicable to officers for whom such joint duty crediting has been granted. Directs the Secretary to include in the annual defense budget report required to be submitted to the Congress certain information with respect to the total number of officers for whom such joint duty credit was granted. Authorizes the Chairman of the JCS to provide funds from the CINC Initiative Fund to the Director of the Joint Staff with respect to an area not within the responsibility of a commander of a combatant command. Directs the Chairman to give priority consideration in the provision of funds to the Director for activities: (1) that would enhance the war fighting capability, readiness, or sustainability of the forces involved; or (2) that would reduce the threat to, or otherwise increase, the national security. Limits to $5,000,000 the funding to provide military education and training to military and related civilian personnel of foreign countries. Directs the Secretary to reestablish within his Office the position of Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Equal Opportunity (Deputy) and require such official to carry out the same or similar duties that were formerly carried out by the Deputy before such position was abolished. Directs the Secretary, within ten days after enactment of this Act, to rescind or revise a certain memorandum of the Deputy Secretary of Defense relating to the delivery of legal services within DOD. Directs the Secretary to establish a Commission on the Conduct and Review of Investigations in the Department of Defense (Commission). Requires the Commission to review, and recommend changes in, policies, procedures, and practices of DOD concerning the conduct and review of investigations. Requires the Commission to report its findings to the Secretary, who in turn is required to transmit the report to the defense committees, together with his comments and recommendations. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the Army and Marine Corps should intensify efforts to eliminate unnecessary duplication, to improve interservice coordination, and to specialize in areas in which each has a comparative advantage, especially as such goals relate to the provision of armor, artillery, and other high-intensity combat items and related equipment and supplies. Requires the Chairman of the JCS to examine and make recommendations with respect to equipping the Marine Corps with armor, heavy artillery, and other related weapons so as to be capable of sustaining high-intensity combat independent of the other military departments. Directs the Secretary to study the operational support airlift aircraft and administrative transport airlift aircraft operated by the National Guard and reserve components. Directs the Secretary to ensure that the defense committees are fully and currently informed of all operational activities carried out by members of the armed forces or employees of DOD. Requires the head of any other Federal department or agency to submit to such committees any information requested relating to any operational activities carried out in their department or agency. Prohibits the obligation of more than 50 percent of the authorized funding for specified aircraft or missile programs until 60 days after the Secretary has submitted certain reports to the Congress. Subtitle B: Drug Interdiction and Counter-Drug Activities - Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) extend through FY 1994 the authority of the Secretary to provide support for the counter-drug activities of any other Federal department or agency or a State, local, or foreign law enforcement agency; and (2) add to such authorized support services the detection, monitoring, and movement of traffic at, near, and outside U.S. geographical boundaries, as well as linguist and intelligence analysis services. Amend the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1997 the authority of the Secretary to transfer excess personal property to other Federal and State agencies. Directs the Secretary to study, and report to the Congress on, the land-, sea-, or air-based systems used by DOD in carrying out activities relating to the reconnaissance, detection, and monitoring of drug traffic. Prohibits the obligation of FY 1993 funds for such purposes until such report is submitted. Directs the Secretary to conduct an outreach program aimed at reducing the demand among youths for illegal drugs. Authorizes the use of funds made available under this Act for drug interdiction and counter-drug activities for the outreach program. Title X: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Financial Matters - Authorizes the Secretary, in the national interest, to transfer amounts of authorizations made available to DOD in this Division for FY 1993 between any such authorizations for that fiscal year (or any subdivisions thereof), to be merged with and available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. Limits to $1,500,000,000 the total amount of authorizations which may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to promptly notify the Congress of any such transfers. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress with the annual defense budget a multiyear defense budget consistent with a required multiyear defense plan. Requires the DOD military programs in such budget to be organized on the basis of major roles, missions, or forces of DOD. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to provide specified additional transition authority with respect to closing or expired DOD appropriation accounts. Subtitle B: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Amends the Persian Gulf Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend through FY 1993 provisions relating to the establishment of the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account, the authorization of supplemental appropriations to such Account, and monthly reports on transfers to such Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 to such account for military personnel and increases the authorized transfers for each fiscal year authorized under such Act by the amount of additional funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act. Subtitle C: Defense Maritime Logistical Readiness - Repeals Federal law allowing only vessels of the United States to be used in the transportation by sea of supplies bought for the armed forces. Directs the Secretary to: (1) prescribe regulations and establish practices for the procurement of transportation by water and related distributions services for DOD cargoes; (2) ensure that all studies and reports of DOD and all actions taken in DOD concerning sealift and related intermodal transportation requirements take into consideration the full range of transportation and distribution capabilities that are available from operators of privately-owned U.S. flag merchant vessels; (3) afford each operator of such a privately-owned U.S. flag vessel at least an annual opportunity to present to DOD information of its port-to-port intermodal transportation capabilities; (4) ensure private vessel owner participation in studies and reports on intermodal transportation possibilities; and (5) submit to the Secretary of Transportation an annual certification of compliance with such requirements. Prohibits, except in time of war, national emergency, or other exigent circumstances, vessels owned by the United States from being operated in competition with privately-owned U.S. flag commercial merchant vessels. Requires DOD cargoes to be transported on such private vessels whenever such vessels are available with reasonable timeliness. Allows U.S.-owned vessels to be used when such reasonable timeliness requirement cannot be met by such private vessels. Allows foreign flag vessels to be used when no private or U.S.-owned vessels are available. Prohibits a contract for the transportation of DOD cargoes by water to include terms or conditions which impair the ability of the contractor to own or operate foreign flag vessels in addition to the U.S.-flag merchant vessels, or which limit the contractor's ability to meet its common carrier obligations to the general public (with an exception to the latter prohibition in time of war or national emergency). Directs the Secretary to enter into logistics readiness agreements with contractors of privately owned U.S.-flag vessels under which the contractor shall, in time of war, national emergency, or foreign crisis, provide services to meet DOD cargo water transportation requirements. Provides required contract provisions. Requires the Secretary to submit to the Secretary of Transportation at least annually the DOD projections of weekly requirements, in excess of normal peacetime requirements, for the transportation of DOD cargoes to meet logistics and war fighting requirements in such exigent circumstances. Provides for the payment to contractors of foreign charges incurred under such transportation contracts. Provides transition provisions. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Transportation to promptly take appropriate actions to modernize, update, revise, or eliminate the current Sealift Readiness Program consistent with changes brought about by this Subtitle. Prohibits any Federal agency from requiring a party to a logistics readiness agreement to enter into or remain enrolled in the Sealift Readiness Program as a condition for being awarded a contract to provide transportation or distribution services under this Subtitle. Subtitle D: Technical Amendments - Makes technical amendments to Federal armed forces provisions. States as a policy of the Congress that qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall be afforded the maximum practicable opportunity to provide approved commodities and services as subcontractors and suppliers under contracts awarded by DOD. Provides that, in the case of a business concern that has negotiated a small business subcontracting plan with a military department or defense agency, purchases made by that business concern from qualified nonprofit agencies for the blind or other severely handicapped shall count toward meeting the subcontracting goal provided in that plan. Terminates such provision at the end of FY 1994. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous Matters - Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the U.S. strategic posture in the Middle East and Persian Gulf regions. Requires such report to include a military threat assessment for such regions. Directs the Secretary to conduct, and report to the defense committees on, an analysis of options for providing forward presence of naval forces during peacetime. Expresses as U.S. policy the opposition to restrictive trade practices fostered or imposed by foreign countries against other countries friendly to the United States or against any other U.S. persons. Prohibits any DOD prime contract in excess of the small purchase threshold from being awarded to any foreign person, company, or entity unless such entity certifies to the Secretary that it does not comply with the secondary Arab boycott of Israel. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such prohibition in specific instances when necessary for national security, requiring notice to the Congress of each such waiver. Provides other exceptions to such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to employ as many professors, instructors, and lecturers at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center as the Secretary considers necessary. Provides transition and savings provisions. Allows employees who moved after December 31, 1986, and before April 1, 1991, between different leave systems (appropriated vs. nonappropriated fund employment positions) to elect between the receipt of accrued leave or a lump-sum payment for such leave upon such transfer. Recognizes and grants a Federal charter to the Military Order of the World Wars, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of the District of Columbia. Outlines objects and purposes, and prohibits discrimination in conditions of membership or requirements for serving on its board of directors. Includes the corporation within a Federal law providing for audits of accounts of private corporations established under Federal law. Requires the Corporation to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Entitles the corporation to tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code. Terminates the charter if the corporation fails to comply with certain provisions or restrictions. Recognizes and grants a Federal charter to the Retired Enlisted Association, Incorporated, a nonprofit corporation organized under the laws of Colorado. Provides corporation objects and purposes, membership, and restrictions, including a prohibition against discrimination in conditions of membership or requirements for serving on its board of directors. Includes the corporation within a Federal law providing for audits of accounts of private corporations established under Federal law. Requires the Corporation to report annually to the Congress on its activities. Entitles the corporation to tax-exempt status under the Internal Revenue Code. Terminates the charter if the corporation fails to comply with certain provisions or restrictions. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1993 through 1995, to conduct a program to commemorate the 50th anniversary of World War II and to coordinate, support, and facilitate other such commemoration programs and activities of Federal, State, and local governments, as well as private persons. Provides funding for such activities from defense agencies operation and maintenance funds for such fiscal years. Establishes in the Treasury the Department of Defense 50th Anniversary of World War II Commemoration Account. Eliminates certain reporting requirements contained in Federal armed forces provisions and other specified Federal law. Authorizes the transfer of excess construction or fire equipment from DOD stocks to any foreign country or international organization prescribed under provisions of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 or the Arms Export Control Act, but only if: (1) no Federal department or agency other than DOD and no State submits a request for such equipment during a specified period; or (2) the President determines that the transfer is necessary in order to respond to an emergency for which the equipment is especially suited. Prohibits, with an exception, the use of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOD during FY 1992 for the construction or capitalization of specified military museums, or the renovation of a certain submarine for use by an Oregon museum. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to award fellowships in military history to citizens and nationals of the United States who are graduate students in U.S. military history, have completed their doctoral requirements other than a dissertation, and agree to prepare a dissertation in an area of military history determined by the Secretary. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain vessels to the Department of Transportation to be assigned as training ships to Texas A&M University and the Maine Maritime Academy. Repeals a Federal provision requiring the construction in a U.S. navy yard of the first and each succeeding alternate U.S. combatant and escort vessel. Provides for a method of liquidation of credits and liabilities of parties to cooperative military airlift agreements. Adds Japan and Korea to the list of countries eligible for such agreements. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987 to authorize a general or flag officer grade for the commanders of the U.S. Southern Command and the U.S. Central Command. Makes permanent (currently expires as of September 30, 1992) the authority of the Secretary to pay the travel, subsistence, and other personal expenses of defense personnel of developing countries for their attendance at bilateral or regional cooperation conferences and programs. Subjects a person appointed as a judge of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals to the Federal Employees' Retirement System (FERS) as of the date of the appointment. Provides transition provisions for those judges who are currently subject to the Civil Service Retirement and Disability System (CSRS), allowing continued coverage (upon election) under CSRS or a refund under their former CSRS and election to be covered under FERS. Provides for deposit into the Thrift Savings Fund of a lump-sum payment representing the contribution difference required under the two plans. Designates as chief judge of the U.S. Court of Military Appeals the senior in commission among the judges who: (1) has served for one or more years as judge; and (2) has not previously served as chief judge. Provides for a chief judge term of five years, with a continuation of such term if there are no other judges eligible for chief judge at the end of such term. Provides for the early termination of such five-year term under certain circumstances. Provides transition provisions to cover the current chief judge. Revises the Uniform Code of Military Justice with respect to: (1) jurisdiction; (2) certain adjudications and postponements of sentences; and (3) offenses relating to the drunken or reckless operation of a vehicle, aircraft, or vessel. Directs the Secretary to establish the Civil-Military Cooperative Action Program under which the Secretary may use the skills, capabilities, and resources of the armed forces to assist civilian efforts to meet the domestic needs of the United States. Outlines Program objectives. Directs the Secretary to encourage the establishment of advisory councils on civil-military cooperation at the regional, State, and local levels, as appropriate, in order to obtain recommendations for projects and activities and guidance for the Program from persons who are familiar with regional, State, and local conditions and needs. Directs the Secretary to prescribe specified rules and regulations governing the provision of assistance under the Program. Authorizes the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, during FY 1993 through 1995, to conduct a pilot program to be known as the National Guard Civilian Youth Opportunities Program aimed at improving through military based training the life skills and employment potential of civilian youth who cease to attend secondary school before graduation. Requires the pilot program to be conducted at any ten of the States, Territories, Puerto Rico, or the District of Columbia. Outlines provisions concerning: (1) program agreements made between the Chief of the National Guard Bureau and a chosen jurisdiction; (2) authorized benefits for youth participants in the program; (3) the use of National Guard personnel at a chosen site for administrative, training, or support services for the program; (4) the use of National Guard equipment and facilities for the program; (5) the Federal employee status of participants in the program for purposes of certain laws and benefits; (6) program funding and supplemental funding by the Governor of the chosen jurisdiction; (7) a required report from the National Guard Chief after one year of the pilot program; and (8) an earmarking of specified funds for such program from FY 1993 DOD operation and maintenance funds. Directs the President to report to the Congress on the proposals of the Secretary General of the United Nations made in his report concerning preventive diplomacy, peacemaking, and peacekeeping. Mandates that no funds are authorized to be appropriated under this Act for the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Title XI: Demilitarization of the Former Soviet Union - Subtitle A: Short Title - Names this title the Former Soviet Union Demilitarization Act of 1992. Subtitle B: Findings and Program Authority - Authorizes the President to establish and conduct programs to assist in the demilitarization of the independent states of the former Soviet Union. States that such programs shall include the transportation, storage, safeguarding, disabling, and destruction of weapons of mass destruction, as well as the conversion of weapons-related scientific expertise, technologies, and capabilities into appropriate civilian activities. Prohibits any such U.S. assistance unless the President certifies to the Congress that the recipient state of the former Soviet Union is committed to destroying its weapons of mass destruction, forgoing any nuclear weapons or military modernization programs, and facilitating U.S. verification of any weapons destruction carried out. Subtitle C: Administrative and Funding Authorities - Provides funding for the Soviet demilitarization program through funds authorized to be transferred under this Act as well as an extension of the authorization of appropriations for such purpose under the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991. Subtitle D: Reporting Requirements - Requires the President to report to the Congress at least 15 days in advance of each proposed obligation of funds for the Soviet demilitarization program. Directs the President to report quarterly to the Congress on all such activities carried out in the previous quarter. Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - 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 housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to make advances to the Secretary of Transportation for the design and construction of defense access roads. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, defense access roads, architectural and engineering design services, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 to increase by a specified amount the funding permitted to the Army for the worldwide leasing of military family housing. 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, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1989 to: (1) increase the authorized amount of appropriations for a military construction project at the Guam Navy Public Works Center; and (2) decrease the authorized amount of appropriations for military construction projects at the Subic Bay, Philippines Navy Public Works Center and the Marine Corps Air Station, Cherry Point, North Carolina. Directs the Secretary to expend from prior-law appropriations necessary amounts for planning and design of defense access roads for the Pascagoula, Mississippi Naval Station. 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 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and military family housing functions within the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to transfer an authorized military construction project (and the authorized amount for such project) from Lowry Air Force Base, Colorado, to Buckley Air National Guard Base, Colorado. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Terminates certain FY 1991 and 1992 military construction projects. 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 appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, conforming storage facilities, certain base closure and realignment activities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes the obligation of prior-year unobligated military construction funds for such military construction projects. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. 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 to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts . Reduces certain prior-year authorizations of appropriations for Air Force Reserve military construction projects. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI on October 1, 1995, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Subtitle A: Military Construction Program and Military Family Housing Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to carry out a military construction project for energy conservation not previously authorized by law if prior military construction funds were authorized to be made available for such project. Increases to $1,000,000 ($300,000 for FY 1992) the threshold for FY 1993 through 1995 for minor construction projects carried out with DOD operation and maintenance funds. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress after each such fiscal year on any minor construction projects carried out whose cost exceeded $300,000. Prohibits any funds made available to a military department during FY 1993 from being expended for contracts for the construction, acquisition, or leasing of military family housing that are entered into after October 1, 1992, until the Secretary of that military department has solicited bids for such housing under military construction projects currently authorized under Federal law. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to construct a replacement for a single family housing unit if: (1) authorized by law; (2) a simple home improvement is no longer cost-effective; and (3) 21 days have elapsed since notification to the Congress of such replacement. Subtitle B: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act to authorize deposit into the Department of Defense Base Closure Account for its use of any funds that the Secretary may transfer from funds appropriated to DOD or funds contained in the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990. Requires the Secretary to transmit to the Congress notice of and justification for any such transfers. Authorizes the Secretary to utilize such Account for environmental restoration, community economic adjustment assistance, and disposal of property at bases selected for closure under base closure laws. Makes identical amendments for the Department of Defense Base Closure Account 1990 established under the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Provides for the valuation of amounts to be deposited into a reserve account after the sale of real property at a military installation which represents the amount of such property acquired, constructed, or improved with commissary store funds or nonappropriated funds. Requires amounts so reserved to be used only for acquiring, constructing, and improving: (1) commissary stores; and (2) real property and facilities for nonappropriated fund instrumentalities. Revises Federal provisions concerning the authority of the Secretary to transfer specified funds under base closure laws to the homeowners assistance program. Directs the Secretary to enter into, and report to the Congress on, a one-year contract with a private relocation contractor in order to test the cost-effectiveness of using national relocation contractors to administer the homeowners assistance program. Requires military construction relating to the closure or realignment of a military installation (currently, each military construction project) to meet certain budgeting constraints. Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to revise the annual reporting date of the Comptroller General with respect to the Secretary's selection of military installations to be closed or realigned under such Act. Prohibits the Secretary and the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission from recommending a realignment of functions and personnel of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service under provisions of the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990, instead authorizing the Secretary to provide for such a realignment under other Federal base closure and realignment provisions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to direct the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the operations of the Department of Defense Overseas Military Facility Investment Recovery Account during the preceding fiscal year. Subtitle C: Land Transactions - Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1985 to remove the San Diego Energy Recovery Project as a possible party to a land exchange between the city of San Diego and the Secretary of the Navy. Provides that, in lieu of conveyance of property owned by the Project, such Secretary may permit San Diego to convey other property suitable for family housing, or to pay the Secretary an amount sufficient for the loss of such property as consideration for the land exchange. Outlines other administrative provisions required in light of the loss of the Project as a party to the land exchange. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to South Carolina all rights and interest to real property comprising the Myrtle Beach Air Force Base, South Carolina, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to allow the Secretary of the Navy to use the proceeds from the sale of certain property to acquire a new site for a naval center in the state of Vermont (currently, only in the Burlington, Vermont area). Lowers the price required to be paid by the city of Burlington to acquire the real property being sold by such Secretary. Extends to June 1, 1995, the deadline for the conveyance of the property. Allows the Secretary to permit the city of Burlington to make alterations or improvements to the property before its conveyance to the City. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to lease: (1) to the Union Pacific Railroad Company certain property located at the Naval Supply Center, Oakland, California; and (2) to the City of Oakland or the Port of Oakland, California, certain property also located at the Naval Supply Center. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to grant an easement to enable the San Diego Gas and Electric Company to construct, operate, and maintain an electric transmission and associated electric transmission lines. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to convey to Santa Barbara, California, all rights and interest to certain real property located at the Santa Barbara Naval Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the Washington County, Maryland Sanitary District all rights and interest to certain real property, including a waste water treatment facility, located at Fort Ritchie, Maryland. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire all rights and interest to a parcel of land comprising a portion of the Naval Radio Station at Jim Creek, Washington. Authorizes the United States to acquire by condemnation or otherwise: (1) all rights and interest of Arizona in and to specified trust lands in such State; and (2) any trust mineral estate of Arizona located beneath the surface of such trust lands. Authorizes the Secretary to convey to any person all rights and interest to: (1) a parcel of land comprising a naval family housing area at Paine Field, Snohomish County, Washington; and (2) two parcels of land comprising portions of the naval family housing area at Pier 91, Seattle, Washington. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Central Community College, Hastings, Nebraska, all rights and interest to three parcels of property located in that City which have served as a support complex for the Hastings Radar Bomb Scoring Site. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the city of Abbeville, Alabama, all rights and interest to specified real property located at the site of a proposed Army Reserve Center in Abbeville. Subtitle D: Transfer of Jurisdiction of Rocky Mountain Arsenal - Directs the Secretaries of the Army and the Interior to enter into a memorandum of understanding under which: (1) the Secretary of the Army transfers to the Secretary of the Interior, without reimbursement, all responsibility to manage for wildlife and public use purposes the real property comprising the Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Colorado, with the exception of certain facilities and property or property designated for disposal; and (2) the Secretary of the Interior shall establish and manage such real property as a unit of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Allows the transfer to be made only after certification by the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency that all site cleanup and remediation measures required under Federal law have been taken. Excludes from such transfer all property used at the Arsenal for water treatment, the disposition of hazardous substances, and any other purposes related to remediation and cleanup of the site. Continues jurisdiction by the Secretary of the Army over the property to be transferred until all cleanup and remediation activities have been completed. Requires consultation between the two Secretaries with respect to all cleanup and remediation activities. Requires the Secretary of the Army to retain environmental liability with respect to the Arsenal after the transfer. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish the Rocky Mountain Arsenal National Wildlife Refuge in the property transferred by the Secretary of the Army, to be used for wildlife preservation, public uses, research and education, and land and water conservation. Outlines provisions with respect to cleanup and remediation activities. Prohibits public roads from being constructed through the Refuge. Designates another parcel of real property at the Arsenal for disposal for commercial, highway, or other public use purposes. Requires the Secretary of the Army to notify the State of Colorado and all appropriate units of local government of the proposed and final determinations made with respect to site cleanup, remediation, and disposal. Provides transfer conditions and limitations, including the requirement that all property disposed of under this subtitle be subject to the cleanup and remediation requirements of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. States that all disposal proceeds shall be transferred to the Director of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to be used to supplement funds available for the construction of a visitor and education center at the Refuge. Subtitle E: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to allow the Secretary of a military department having jurisdiction over a military installation to enter into agreements with gas or electric utilities to design and implement cost-effective energy demand and conservation incentive programs for such military installation. Allows such agreements to provide for a utility to advance financing costs for the design and implementation of an energy demand or conservation incentive program, with repayment terms no less favorable than those applicable to the utility's most favored customer. Vests title to the United States in any energy-saving device or technology installed at a military installation pursuant to an agreement. Directs the Secretary of the Navy, by December 31, 1992, to report to the defense committees and the Comptroller General on actions and plans of the Navy for consolidation and centralization of control over forces assigned to the mine countermeasure mission. Requires the Comptroller General to evaluate such report and submit his evaluation to the defense committees. Requires the report of the Secretary to include a detailed evaluation and analysis of the use of Ingleside, Texas, as the planned homeport for all mine warfare ships, and a comparison of various alternative homeports for such ships including Atlantic and Pacific coast homeports. Prohibits such Secretary from relocating the functions and personnel of certain mine warfare command and training facilities until 90 days after submitting his required report. Directs the Secretary of the Air Force, in designating expanded areas for training operations of Air National Guard and Air Reserve aircraft, to provide for such areas within the geographic boundaries of areas that have been approved for tactical training on the date of enactment of this Act. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: Department of Energy National Security Programs - Subtitle A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1993 for operating expenses and for plant and capital equipment necessary in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) new production reactors; (3) environmental restoration and waste management; and (4) defense materials production and other defense programs. Earmarks specified FY 1993 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Prohibits the obligation of FY 1993 DOE funds for: (1) the design, purchase, or installation of any fire protection, cooling, or refrigeration system that utilizes class I chlorofluorocarbons unless the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) determines that an alternate system is not commercially available; or (2) the implementation of the reconfiguration of any nonnuclear DOE activities until the Secretary reports the results of certain analyses and certifications to the defense committees. Subtitle B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of the funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the defense committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the total estimated cost of the project does not exceed $1,200,000. Requires reports to the defense committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of construction 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 to carry out 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 the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceeds $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to protect public health and safety or property or to meet the needs of national defense. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees before taking any such action. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Subtitle C: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to pay to the EPA a stipulated civil penalty assessed under Federal environmental law against the Fernald Environmental Management Project. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract or other agreement for the performance of environmental restoration and waste management activities with any persons convicted of having committed a criminal violation in connection with activities at a DOE facility under the Clean Air Act, the Solid Waste Disposal Act, or the Safe Drinking Water Act. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to prohibit the appropriation, obligation, or expenditure of DOE national security program funds for the following activities unless such funds have been specifically authorized by law: (1) procurement of goods or services; (2) R&D or procurement or production related to R&D; (3) nuclear weapons testing; (4) construction; and (5) operation and maintenance of any defense nuclear facility or of the DOE central office. Earmarks specified FY 1993 DOE program management funds for certain oversight activities. Directs the Secretary to establish a citizen advisory group for each DOE nuclear facility to undertake certain review, evaluation, reporting, and recommendation actions with respect to such nuclear facilities. Directs the Secretary to provide funding to each advisory group for the hiring of technical assistance and support staff. Limits such expense to $250,000 per group. Provides funding for such advisory groups from FY 1993 DOE national security funds. Replaces the Director of Defense Research and Engineering with the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition on the Nuclear Weapons Council. Amends the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act to revise the offset for payments for injuries believed to arise out of the atomic weapons testing program. Directs the Secretary to report annually to the defense committees on the new production reactor program of DOE, requiring such reports until the construction of the new production reactor is completed. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the technology chosen for new production reactor capacity have the highest probability of successfully sustaining operation, the lowest risk of operational failure, and the lowest cost of construction and operation. Amends the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980 to require any non-Federal entity that operates a laboratory pursuant to a contract with a Federal agency to submit to the head of such Federal agency any cooperative R&D agreement that the entity proposes to enter into with a small business firm and the joint work statement required with respect to that agreement. Outlines procedures for the approval or disapproval of the proposed agreement and joint work statement by the Federal agency. Directs the Secretary to establish a program to facilitate and encourage the transfer of technology to small businesses, and to issue guidelines relating to the program by May 1, 1993. Directs the Secretary and the Secretary of Defense to provide appropriate federally funded technology transfer centers with information on cooperative R&D agreements or other arrangements entered into with respect to DOE laboratories and other Federal departments and agencies. Provides funding for such agreements or arrangements. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1989 to authorize the Secretary to allow each DOE contractor and subcontractor carrying out certain activities at the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory to loan personnel in order to assist in the economic diversification of the local economy and reduce reliance by the local community on national security programs at such Laboratory. Provides funding for such personnel loan. Extends such program through FY 1994. Subtitle D: Defense Nuclear Work Force Restructuring - Directs the Secretary to develop, issue, and commence implementation of a plan for the restructuring of the employee work force at each DOE defense nuclear facility: (1) the primary mission of which changes from weapons production and related activities to environmental restoration and waste management; and (2) that is scheduled for closure. Outlines provisions concerning plan requirements and updates, and appropriate consultations in plan development with the Secretary of Labor and local labor organizations. Requires the plan to be submitted to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to establish and carry out a program for the identification and ongoing medical evaluation of current and former DOE employees who are or were subject to significant health risks as a result of the exposure to hazardous or radioactive substances during such employment. Requires implementation of the program through specified activities. Requires each employee provided with such medical evaluations to be notified of test results. Requires such program to be carried out within one year after enactment of this Act. Requires an agreement between the Secretary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services to carry out such program. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for the operation of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Subtitle A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials in the NDS, with special limitations on the disposal of certain materials. Authorizes the NDS Manager, during FY 1993, to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Subtitle B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to require the quantities of materials stockpiled to be sufficient to meet the needs of the United States during a period of national emergency that requires a significant level of mobilization of the economy under planning assumptions used by the Secretary of Defense (currently, for three years). Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Allows moneys from the Fund to be used for materials maintenance and disposal (currently, only for materials acquisition). Directs the President to appoint a Market Impact Committee to: (1) advise the NDS Manager on the projected domestic and foreign economic effects of all acquisitions and disposals of materials from NDS that are proposed to be included in the annual materials plan submitted to the Congress under the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act; and (2) submit to the Manager the Committee's recommendations regarding such acquisitions and disposals. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1993. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1993 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1993 Commission funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama. Limits such expenditure to $18,000 per vehicle. Amends the Panama Canal Act of 1979 to: (1) authorize the use of Commission funds to defray the cost of health care services to elderly and disabled persons provided by medical facilities licensed and approved by the Republic of Panama and not operated by the United States; and (2) revise a provision concerning the basis of Canal tolls on vessel tonnage measurement. Requires all expenditures made under this title to be made in accordance with the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977 and U.S. laws implementing those treaties.

Bill· HRH.R. 5795 (102nd)referred

Business and Urban Partnership Act

United States · United States Congress · 6 August 1992

Business and Urban Partnership Act - Title I: Designation of Enterprise Zones - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the designation of tax enterprise zones by the Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Requires such zones to be within the jurisdiction of a qualified city and to have a required course of action designed to reduce the various burdens borne by employers or employees in the area. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to the Congress on the effects of enterprise zone designations. Provides for the coordination of such designations with relocation assistance programs and environmental policy. Title II: Federal Income Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a refundable tax credit to zone employers for 50 percent of the qualified expenses of: (1) employee accident or health plan coverage; (2) employee dependent care assistance; and (3) employee job training expenses. Allows employers to treat the cost of qualified zone property as an expense which is not chargeable to capital account. Allows such cost as a deduction for the year in which the property is placed in service. Allows an individual a deduction for the amount paid for the purchase of enterprise zone stock. Imposes an interest charge if such stock is disposed of within five years of its purchase. Limits enterprise stock in a corporation to $5 million. Requires the allocating commission of an enterprise zone to make allocations of credit amounts, expense treatment amounts, and zone stock deduction amounts. Provides for determining limitations on such amounts. Allows enterprise zone incentives in determining the alternative minimum tax. Title III: Regulatory Flexibility - Revises the definition of "small entity" for purposes of the analysis of regulatory functions to include qualified business, government, and nonprofit enterprises operating within enterprize zones. Provides for the waiver or modification of agency rules in enterprise zones in order to further the job creation, community development, or economic revitalization objectives within such zones. Authorizes the Secretary to convene regional and local coordinating councils of appropriate agencies to assist State and local governments in achieving the required course of action. Title IV: Establishment of Foreign-Trade Zones in Enterprise Zones - Requires enterprise zones to receive priority in the designation of foreign trade zones. Title V: Repeal of Title VII of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987 - Repeals title VII (enterprise zone development) of the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987.

Bill· SS. 3135 (102nd)referred

Rural Homeownership and Utilities Improvement Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992

Rural Homeownership and Utilities Improvement Act of 1992 - Amends the Farm Credit Act of 1971, for certain rural housing finance and secondary mortgage market purposes, to increase: (1) the percentage of outstanding loans that a Farm Credit Bank may have to persons other than farmers or ranchers; and (2) the population size for a rural area city or village. Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to permit water and waste facility loans and grants to individuals for connections to installations within a residence.

Bill· HRH.R. 5777 (102nd)referred

Native American Veterans' Home Loan Equity Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 5 August 1992

Native American Veterans' Home Loan Equity Act of 1992 - Directs the Secretary of Veterans Affairs to establish and implement a pilot program under which the Secretary may make direct housing loans to aid Native American (Indian, Alaska or Hawaii native, or Pacific Islander) veterans in purchasing, constructing, or improving dwellings on trust land. Requires such loans to be made in a variety of geographic areas and in areas experiencing a variety of economic circumstances. Prohibits any such loans from being made after the end of FY 1997. Authorizes the Secretary to make such a direct housing loan to a Native American if: (1) the Secretary has entered into a memorandum of understanding with respect to such loans with the tribal organization having jurisdiction over such veteran; and (2) the memorandum is in effect when the loan is made. Outlines provisions to be included in each such memorandum. Prohibits entering into any such memorandum unless the Secretary determines that it provides standards and procedures necessary for the reasonable protection of the financial interests of the United States. Limits to $80,000 the principal amount of any such loan. Sets forth provisions governing loan interest rates. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish minimum requirements for planning, construction or improvement, and general acceptability relating to any direct loan; and (2) establish credit underwriting standards to be used in evaluating such loans. Requires loans to be repaid in monthly installments. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) make advances to provide for repairs, alterations, and improvements and to meet incidental expenses of the loan transaction; and (2) take any other actions and make any necessary determinations with respect to expenses, rules and regulations, and the use of persons, organizations, or departments or agencies to carry out his functions. Establishes in the Treasury a revolving fund to be known as the Native American Veterans Housing Loan Fund to carry out financial activities relating to the making of loans under this Act. Directs the Secretary, in carrying out the pilot program, to consider the views and recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Native-American Veterans established under the Veterans' Health-Care Amendments of 1986. Directs the Secretary to report annually in 1994 through 1998 to the Senate and House Veterans' Affairs Committees on the pilot program and recommendations for legislation regarding the program. Authorizes appropriations.

Bill· SS. 3130 (102nd)referred

Enterprise Zone Environmental Restoration Act of 1992

United States · United States Congress · 4 August 1992

Enterprise Zone Environmental Restoration Act of 1992 - Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency to establish a program to award grants for environmental testing and characterization on land owned by political subdivisions of States to political subdivisions that submit approved applications and have jurisdiction over: (1) an area designated as an enterprise zone pursuant to the Housing and Community Development Act of 1987; or (2) an area that receives a similar designation under any Federal law. Authorizes appropriations.

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