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Bill· HRH.R. 3053 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
Individuals with Disabilities Education Act Amendments of 1991 - Amends the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) to allow States to opt to include under the definition of "children with disabilities," for children aged three through five, those who need special education and related services because they are experiencing delays in one or more following areas of their development: physical, cognitive, communication, social or emotional, or adaptive. Increases the amount of Assistance for Education of All Handicapped Children grant funds which a State may use for administrative costs. Revises provisions relating to Indian reservations. Requires that payments by the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to the Secretary of the Interior are to meet assistance needs for the education of children with disabilities aged five through 21 on reservations who are enrolled in elementary and secondary schools for Indian children operated or funded by the Secretary of the Interior. Allows Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) schools which are State-accredited to count Indian students aged three through five enrolled in affiliated programs for the purpose of funds distribution. Makes the Secretary of the Interior responsible for meeting all assistance requirements for such children. Makes the State educational agency (SEA) responsible for ensuring that all such requirements are implemented with respect to all other children aged three through 21 on reservations. Revises requirements for the application by the Secretary of the Interior for the allotment payment, including additional requirements for information, coordination, and cooperation in monitoring and oversight. Directs the Secretary to make payments to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution to tribes or tribal organizations or consortia to provide for the coordination of assistance for special education and related services for children aged three through five on reservations served by elementary and secondary schools for Indian children operated or funded by the Department of the Interior. Sets forth formulas for such distribution. Requires such funds to be used to assist in child find, screening, and other procedures for the early identification of children aged three through five, parent training, and direct services. Requires the tribe or tribal organization to report biennially to the Secretary of the Interior on the activities undertaken with such funds. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to offer and, on request, provide technical assistance (especially in the areas of child find, diagnosis, and referrral) to State, local, and intermediate educational agencies, and tribes and tribal organizations. Prohibits specified assistance funds from being used by the Secretary of the Interior for administrative purposes, including child count, and the provision of technical assistance. Directs the Secretary of the Interior, before January 1, 1992, to submit to specified congressional committees a plan for the coordination of services, from whatever source, for all Indian children with disabilities residing on reservations covered under IDEA. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to establish under the BIA an advisory board on education and provision of services to Indian infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. Requires State plans to set forth policies and procedures relating to the smooth transition for those participants in the early intervention program who will participate in preschool programs under IDEA, including a method of ensuring development and implementation, by a child's third birthday, of an individualized education program or, if consistent with specified provisions, an individualized family service plan. Revises application requirements to allow the local or intermediate educational agency, if this is consistent with State policy and has the concurrence of parents or guardian, to establish, annually review, and revise an individualized family service plan (as an alternative to an individualized education plan) for each child with a disability, aged three through five. Revises provisions for preschool grants to increase to $1,500 (from $1,000) the maximum limit on a preschool grant to a State per child with a disability, aged three through five. Allows a State to opt to use a certain portion of its preschool grant to provide a free public education to two-year-old children with disabilities who will reach age three during the school year, whether or not they are receiving or have received services under the early intervention program (also allows the local or intermediate educational agency to use its preschool grant funds from the State for such purpose, if consistent with State policy). Provides that early intervention program provisions do not apply to any child with disabilities receiving a free public education with funds received under preschool grants provisions. Revises IDEA provisions for early education for children with disabilities to include program services and activities for: (1) individuals at risk of having substantial developmental delays if early intervention services are not provided; (2) outreach to low-income, minority, rural, and other underserved populations eligible for assistance under IDEA; and (3) supporting statewide projects in conjunction with an early intervention plan and preschool grant application, to change from segregated to integrated environments the delivery of early intervention services to infants and toddlers with disabilities and of special education and related services to preschool children with disabilities. Directs the Secretary to fund up to five grants to States for three years to establish a statewide interagency, multidisciplinary, coordinated system to identify, track, and refer to appropriate services all categories of children who are biologically and/or environmentally at-risk of having developmental delays. Sets forth requirements for grantees. Revises provisions for personnel training and parent training and information. Directs the Secretary to fund up to five grants to States or other entities to support formation of a consortium or partnerships of public and private entities to provide opportunities for career advancement and/or competency-based training for current workers at public and private agencies providing services to infants, toddlers, children, and youth with disabilities. Sets information dissemination requirements and authorized uses of funds. Provides for award of a cooperative agreement through a separate competition to an entity to provide technical assistance to grantees. Requires grantees to give priority to providing specified parent training and information services to parents of children aged zero through five. Requires the Secretary, in ensuring that parent training and information grants will serve parents of minority children with disabilities representative to the proportion of the minority population in the areas being served, to specify: (1) the special efforts that will be undertaken to involve parents of such children; and (2) budgetary items earmarked for ensuring such services. Requires the Secretary to obtain data on the number of parents served under such parent training and information programs who are parents of children with disabilities aged zero through five. Increases the amounts authorized to be appropriated for FY 1992 through 1994 for provisions for training personnel for the education of individuals with disabilities. Revises definitions, under provisions for early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities, to include references to the following developmental needs: communication, social or emotional, and adaptive. Includes among early intervention services: vision services, assistive technology devices and services, and transportation and related costs. Includes among qualified personnel: family therapists, orientation and mobility specialists, and pediatricians and other physicians. Requires that early intervention services, to the maximum extent appropriate, be provided in natural environments, including the home, and community settings in which children without disabilities participate. Authorizes differential funding for the fourth or fifth year of grant allotments to States under the early intervention program for handicapped infants and toddlers (from birth to age two), thus allowing certain States to continue their participation in such program under specified conditions. Allows States that have not met all or some of fourth or fifth year requirements to request extended participation for such years and, if such request is approved by the Secretary of Education, receive an allotment for such years in an amount set at a specified earlier, lesser rate. Provides for reallotment of the resultant excess funds to States that have met all the requirements for such years and that will consequently be receiving the full grant allotment for such years, as well as such additional funds from their portion of such reallotment. Revises requirements for a statewide system of services, under the early intervention program, include reference to service coordination (rather than case management) services under the individualized family service plan. Requires the comprehensive system of personnel development to: (1) include training of paraprofessionals; and (2) be consistent with the preschool system. Revises the lead State agency responsibilities to: (1) include monitoring compliance of programs and activities used by the State to carry out the early intervention program whether or not these are receiving assistance; and (2) provide for assignment of fiscal responsibility to the appropriate agencies in accordance with provisions for State designation of an individual entity to make such assignment. Revises part H requirements for the State application and assurances. Requires such application to also include: (1) a designation by the State of an individual or entity responsible for assigning financial responsibility among appropriate agencies; (2) a description of the policies and procedures used to ensure a smooth transition for participants in early intervention programs who are eligible to participate in preschool programs, including how the families will be included in transitional plans and how the early intervention programs who are eligible to participate in preschool programs, including how the families will be included in the transitional plan and how the early intervention lead agency will notify the appropriate local or intermediate educational agency at least 90 days before such child is eligible for the preschool program in accordance with State law; and (3) a description of the policies and procedures used to review the child's program options, for the period beginning in the day the child turns three years old through the remainder of the school year, and to establish a transition plan. Requires the State, beginning in FY 1992, to assure that policies and practices have been adopted to ensure meaningful involvement of traditionally underserved families, including minority, low-income, and rural families, in early intervention planning and implementation and access of such families to culturally competent services within their local areas. Allows a State to use early intervention program funds to provide a free appropriate public education, in accordance with preschool program provisions, to children with disabilities in the transitional period from their third birthdays to the beginning of the following school year. Revises early intervention statewide system procedural safeguards to also include the rights of parents or guardians to: (1) written notice of and written consent to the exchange of personnally identifiable information among agencies, consistent with Federal and State laws; and (2) determine whether they, their infant or toddler, or other family members will accept or decline any early intervention service in accordance with State law without jeopardizing other such early intervention services. Revises early intervention requirements relating to State Interagency Coordinating Council: (1) membership composition and numbers; (2) chairperson; (3) functions (adding advice and assistance in toddlers transition to preschool programs and in provision of appropriate services for children from birth through age five); and (4) expenditures (including child care for parent representatives). Revises early intervention requirements for allocation of funds among tribal organizations or consortia. Requires such funds to be used to assist States in child find, screening, and other procedures for the early identification of Indian children aged zero through two, and for parent training. Allows such funds to be used also to provide early intervention services. Requires the tribe or tribal organization to report biennially to the Secretary of the Interior on the activities undertaken with such funds. Directs the Secretary of the Interior to include a summary of such information, biennially, with other specified information required to be submitted to the Secretary of Education. Authorizes the Secretary of Education to require any additional information from the Secretary of the Interior. Prohibits any of such early intervention funds from being used by the Secretary of the Interior for administrative purposes, including child count, and the provision of technical assistance. Extends through FY 1994 the payment of State allotments for early intervention program services. Provides that each State shall receive at least a specified minimum amount in such allotment. Extends through FY 1994 the authorization for early intervention program services. Directs the Secretary of Education (the Secretary) to establish a Federal Interagency Coordinating Council, for early intervention services for infants and toddlers with disabilities and their families and preschool services for children with disabilities, to: (1) minimize duplication of programs and activities at Federal, State, and local agency levels; (2) coordinate Federal agency programs and policies and technical assistance and support to States; and (3) identify gaps in programs and services and barriers to Federal interagency cooperation and program operation. Directs the Secretary to: (1) undertake a study to identify alternative formulas allocating early intervention program funds, including specified analyses; and (2) transmit the study and a report on it to specified congressional committees by March 1, 1993. Amends both Federal law relating to impact aid and the Defense Dependents Education Act of 1978 to require that IDEA provisions for early intervention services and preschool public education apply, respectively, to infants and toddlers age birth through two with disabilities and children aged three through five with disabilities who are military dependents served under such law and such Act. Makes various technical amendments and changes in terminology in IDEA, and updates various Federal laws' references to IDEA. Increases the amount of funds which a State may use for administrative costs under certain IDEA provisions.
Bill· HRH.R. 3038 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
No Net Gain in Federal Lands Act of 1991 - Requires that there be no net gain in Federal land ownership in the acquisition and disposition of Federal lands during any fiscal year. Requires the Director of the Office of Management and Budget to conduct an annual inventory and review, and report to the President and the Congress on the determination of compliance with such requirement. Directs the President, if there is a determination of net gain, to dispose of an amount of land sufficient to achieve compliance, within 24 months beginning on the date of the determination. Requires, if compliance has not been achieved by the end of such period, the President to auction to the highest bidders sufficient amounts of land to comply, notwithstanding any other provision of law. Sets forth regional divisions and other provisions relating to application of such requirement for no net gain in Federal lands, with exceptions for specified types of lands, waters, interest, and real property. Requires, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the sale at public auction to the highest bidder of any real property acquired by any department, agency, or independent establishment of the United States in its capacity as a receiver, conserver or liquidating agent which is so held pending disposal, if it has not been disposed of by the end of the 24 months beginning on the date of such acquisition.
Bill· HRH.R. 3032 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
College Opportunity Act of 1991 - Title I: Institutional Aid - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 (HEA) with respect to institutional aid to historically black colleges and universities. Authorizes the use of grant funds to: (1) establish or enhance a program of teacher education designed to qualify students to teach in public elementary or secondary schools in the State; and (2) perform other proposed activities specifically approved by the Secretary of Education (the Secretary). Increases the minimum allotment to institutions. Revises a list of eligible professional or graduate institutions to eliminate the qualifier "independent" and to add: (1) during any fiscal year, either the Thurgood Marshall School of Law or the College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences (Graduate Program) (but not both), Texas Southern University; (2) North Carolina Central University School of Law; (3) Florida A & M College of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences (Graduate Program); and (4) Xavier University of Louisiana School of Pharmacy (Graduate Program). Sets forth special rules relating to the funding of such new institutions and others already on the list. Requires that Morehouse School of Medicine (an institution already on the list) receive at least a special minimum amount during a certain period when funding of such institutions may be ratably reduced. Repeals specified provisions for a challenge grant program for certain types of institutions. Revises provisions for endowment challenge grants program to: (1) reduce from ten years to five years the period after a grant has ended during which an institution is ineligible to reapply; (2) increase the maximum amount of such a grant to an institution in fiscal years when the appropriation exceeds a specified amount; and (3) eliminate the maximum limitation in any fiscal year when the appropriation exceeds a higher specified amount. Extends the authorization of appropriations for programs covered by this title. Requires the Secretary to set aside certain funds for challege grants to historically black colleges and universities. Title II: Student Assistance - Part A: Pell Grants - Extends the Pell Grants program. Sets forth increasing maximum amounts for individual Pell Grants through academic year 1996-1997. Requires entitlement-based allocation of Pell Grant program reimbursements of institutional advances while eliminating adjustments for insufficient appropriations. Requires institutions of higher education which have Pell Grant agreements with the Secretary to: (1) award the full amount of the Pell Grants to which their eligible students are entitled; (2) credit such awards toward student expenses; and (3) submit vouchers for reimbursement. Directs the Secretary to reimburse each institution submitting a proper voucher for the full amount of Pell Grant awards credited to eligible students. Requires each institution desiring to provide Pell grants to eligible students to enter specified types of agreements with the Secretary. Deems an institution, which has entered such an agreement, awarded such grants, and credited such awards, to have a contractual right against the United States (entitlement) to receive such reimbursements. Considers such reimbursements to be payments made for acquisition of services by contract with the Department of Education. Requires the institution to pay any amount of the Pell Grant that exceeds tuition and fees owed by the student to students who do not reside in institutionally-owned or -operated housing. Treats such amounts paid as amounts credited, and allows such funds to be used by the student to cover room, board, transportation, child care, books, and other costs of attendance. Eliminates a percentage-of-cost-of-attendance limitation on the amount of a Pell Grant. Provides for phase-in of the entitlement to Pell Grants. Part B: Perkins Loans - Revises the Perkins Loan program. Provides that no funds are authorized to be appropriated under such program: (1) after FY 1991, of initial allocations to institutions of higher education; and (2) after FY 1991, of initial allocations to institutions of higher-education; and (3) after FY 1996, to enable students who received such loans for academic years ending prior to October 1, 1991, to complete courses of study. Authorizes appropriations for administrative expenses of such program. Extends specified program provisions relating to distribution of assets from student loan funds. Requires program agreements with institutions of higher education to distribution of assets from student loan funds. Requires program agreements with institutions of higher education to provide for: (1) maintenance of a student loan fund, without additional allocations of funds from the Secretary to institutions, and with necessary modifications; and (2) an institutional option, with the Secretary's approval, to establish an income contingent repayment schedule for not more than ten percent of the total amount of student loans made in each academic year based upon specified income contingent repayment schedule in effect on September 30, 1991. Repeals authority for the Income Contingent Direct Loan Demonstration Project. Authorizes the Secretary to promulgate necessary regulations. Part C: Need Analysis - Applies simplified needs analysis to students who: (1) are receiving cash payments under the aid to families with dependent children (AFDC) program of the Social Security Act; (2) are receiving food stamps under the Food Stamp Act of 1977; or (3) qualify for and reside in public housing. Directs the Secretary to provide a streamlined application form for second-year students reapplying for student assistance and for subsequent year students from families that qualify for simplified needs analysis. States that such form shall require such students to submit concise updated information, including the relevant tax return form for the year preceding that for which the determination is made. Part D: Administration - Authorizes the Secretary to waive a specified student eligibility verification requirement for any eligible institution which the Secretary determines has had no audit exceptions for the three prior award years. Requires the Secretary, in carrying out the Robert T. Stafford Loan Program, to assure that the suspension or termination of any eligible institution based on calculation of the institution's cohort or other default rate: (1) not be arbitrary; (2) include total volume of dollars on default represented by the cohort default rate; and (3) be supported by the most accurate calculation of such rate available. Title III: Educator Recruitment, Retention, and Development - Part A: Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarships - Extends the authorization of appropriatons for the Paul Douglas Teacher Scholarships program. Extends the period of such scholarship program and increases the total maximum number of individuals who may receive scholarships under it. Establishes a minority teaching incentive award of an additional $1,000 for each year of such a scholarship, which the State agency must agree to pay to any minority recipient who agrees to perform the required teaching under such scholarship program in an elementary or secondary school of a local educational agency with a significant number of minority students. Requires statewide panels to give priority when selecting new scholarship recipients to applicants who are members of groups underrepresented in the teaching profession, such as minorities and individuals with disabilities. Part B: Christa McAuliffe Fellowships - Extends the authorization of appropriations for the Christa McAuliffe Fellowship program for teachers. Part C: New Teacher Programs for the Improvement of the Education of Minorities - Provides for teacher recruitment for the improvement of the education of minorities. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education with schools or departments of education to pay the Federal share of programs to: (1) recruit, prepare, and train students to become elementary and secondary school teachers; and (2) place students as teachers in urban and rural local educational agencies having 50 percent minority student enrollment in their elementary and secondary schools. Requires special consideration to be given to historically black colleges and universities in making such grants. Sets forth requirements for grant uses, applications, and Federal share. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to partnerships composed of institutions of higher education and local educational agencies for programs to identify and encourage minority students in the seventh through twelfth grades to aspire to and prepare for careers in elementary and secondary school teaching. Authorizes grants to consortia of institutions of higher education with special expertise which have entered a partnership agreement. Sets forth grant selection criteria, partnership agreement requirements, authorized uses of funds, and application requirements. Authorizes appropriations. Title IV: Additional Reauthorizations and Revisions Part A: Academic Libraries - Extends the authorization of appropriations for: (1) college library resources; (2) library training, research, and development; (3) strengthening of research library resources (but requiring that awards first be made to the libraries at North Carolina Central University and Clark Atlanta University); and (4) college library technology and cooperation grants. Part B: International Education - Authorizes the establishment of a program to significantly increase the numbers of African Americans and other minorities in the foreign service of the United States. Requires such academic and professional program to be established in the Institute for International Public Policy at Howard University (Washington, D.C.) (the Institute), created by this Act. Allows any institution of higher education that wishes to participate in any or all aspects of such program to enter into a Memorandum of Understanding with Howard University. Sets forth the components of the academic program of the Institute, including a junior year abroad, academic year and summer internships, a masters degree program, and Ralph Bunche International Fellowships for graduate study at Howard University or other institutions for students who agree to serve two years in the U.S. foreign service for each year of the fellowship. Requires appointment of a Board of Visitors for the Institute. Sets forth matching requirements and provisions for gifts and donations. Requires Howard University and any institutions of higher education in consortium with it to delegate to a nonprofit institution in the District of Columbia the administration of the Foreign Service Examination preparative and the International Careers Program, which may include the Junior Year Abroad and the Academic Year and Summer Internship programs. Authorizes appropriatons. Part C: Graduate Education - Revises the program for grants to institutions to encourage minorities to enter the higher education professorate (currently, grants to institutions to encourage minority participation in graduate education). Directs the Secretary to make grants to institutions of higher education (or to nonprofit organizations associated with such institutions with a demonstrated record of enhancing minority access to graduate education), in consortia with historically black colleges and universities and other institutions with significant enrollments of African Americans, Asian Americans, Hispanic Americans, and Native Americans. States that such grants shall enable such institutions to: (1) identify talented canidates for and recipients of baccalaureate degrees and faculty who wish to enter or continue in the higher education professorate; and (2) provide such students and faculty with stipends and fellowships to assist them in obtaining a doctoral degree and returning to an institution of higher education to teach. Designates such fellowships as the Augustus F. Hawkins Fellowships. Sets forth application and selection requirements. Requires each Hawkins Fellowship recipient to agree to teach at an institution of higher education for two years for every one year of fellowship assistance, or else repay the fellowship. Sets forth repayment procedures and exceptions.
Bill· HRH.R. 3054 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
Repeals provisions prohibiting Federal payments in lieu of taxes to units of local government for entitlement land that was owned or administered by a State or local government and was exempt from real estate taxes when it was conveyed to the U.S. Government.
Bill· HRH.R. 3062 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow individuals a tax deduction of up to $250 for political contributions.
Bill· HRH.R. 3056 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 25 July 1991
Income Disparities Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to disallow a trade or business expense deduction for any excessive compensation. Describes excessive compensation as that paid or incurred by an employer for the personal services of an employee which exceeds an amount equal to 25 times the lowest compensation paid or incurred by such employer for the personal services of any other employee.
Bill· SS. 1539 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities in specified departments and agencies of the U.S. Government, including the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), the Department of Defense (DOD), and the Drug Enforcement Administration. Declares that the authorized amounts and personnel ceilings for such intelligence activities are those specified in the classified schedule of authorizations. Authorizes the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI) to employ civilian personnel in excess of the ceiling for such personnel when necessary for the performance of important intelligence functions. Requires that the President's annual budget submission to the Congress contain unclassified statements of the total amount requested for the coming fiscal year, and the total expenditures in the previous fiscal year, for intelligence and intelligence-related activities. Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to require that any authorization bill for intelligence and intelligence-related activities that is reported by a conference committee contain an unclassified statement of the aggregate amount of such funds authorized to be appropriated. Title II: Intelligence Community Staff - Authorizes appropriations for the Intelligence Community Staff for FY 1992. Establishes an end strength ceiling of 240 full-time Intelligence Community Staff employees, including 50 full-time personnel who are authorized to serve in the Security Evaluation Office. Provides that such staff and activities shall be administered in the same manner as the CIA staff and activities are administered. Title III: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System Provisions - Authorizes appropriations for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund for FY 1992. Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement Act of 1964 for Certain Employees to provide that, with respect to provisions relating to the computation of survivor benefits for the child or children of a deceased participant or annuitant in the CIA Retirement and Disability System (CIARDS), the existence of the child's other parent, whether that parent is the spouse or former spouse of the employee or annuitant, shall be recognized and the child paid at the rate applicable to a single orphan. Grants CIARDS retirees an additional 18-month period from the date of retirement during which they may change the survivor benefit election made at the time of retirement if they were married at the time of retirement, to provide for or increase a current spouse survivor annuity, subject to specified conditions. Authorizes the DCI to waive the 30-month application requirement with respect to CIARDS survivor benefits. Gives the DCI discretion to provide for reimbursement of less than 100 percent of the costs associated with medical exams and related travel for employees incident to CIARDS disability retirement determinations. Allows survivor benefits to be provided for a previous spouse by court order or an election in the case of any CIARDS annuitant (regardless of the annuitant's date of retirement) whose divorce occurs after September 29, 1990. Provides for mandatory retirement for CIARDS participants of level four or above of the Senior Intelligence Service pay schedule (under current law, of grade GS-18 or above) upon reaching age 65. Excludes CIA foreign national employees who serve overseas and who have been appointed after December 31, 1989, from the definition of "employee" for purposes of provisions relating to the Civil Service Retirement Systems (CSRS). Precludes Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) participation by CIA foreign national employees who serve overseas and are subject to CSRS. Permits the DCI to exclude from Federal Employees Retirement System (FERS) coverage certain CIA foreign nationals who are permanent resident aliens serving overseas. Repeals the statutory entitlement that qualified former spouses of CIA employees covered under FERS currently have to a share of the employee's TSP benefits. Specifies the survivor benefits payable to a qualified former spouse. Eliminates the requirement that the former husband or wife may qualify as a "former spouse" for purposes of such Act only if such spouse (together with the participant) has spent five years outside the United States. Provides that such spouse must have been carried for at least ten years of creditable service by the participant, at least five years of which must have been spent by the participant outside the United States or otherwise in a position whose duties have qualified him or her for designation as a participant under such Act. Title IV: General Provisions - Permits appropriations authorized by this Act for benefits for Federal employees to be increased as may be necessary for increases in compensation or benefits authorized by law. Title V: Federal Bureau of Investigation Provisions - Requires the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to study the establishment of an undergraduate training program for FBI employees that is similar in purpose, conditions, content, and administration to such programs administered by the CIA, National Security Agency, and Defense Intelligence Agency. Authorizes the Director to carry out any such program in a fiscal year only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for that purpose, and only after review and approval by the Department of Justice and the Office of Management and Budget. Title VI: Central Intelligence Agency Provisions - Provides that the position of Inspector General (IG) of the CIA shall be compensated at a statutory level comparable to the IGs of other Government agencies. Title VII: National Security Scholarships, Fellowships, and Grants - Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to create a new title, which may be cited as the National Security Education Act of 1991. Directs the National Security Education Board (NSEB) (established under this Act) to conduct a program which awards: (1) scholarships to undergraduate students who are U.S. citizens or resident aliens to enable such students to study abroad, for at least one semester, in countries identified by the NSEB as critical countries; (2) fellowships to graduate students who are U.S. citizens or resident aliens to enable such students to pursue education in the United States in the disciplines of international studies, area studies, and foreign languages that the NSEB determines to be critical areas of such disciplines, provided that such students agree to work for the Government or in the field of education in the area of study for which the scholarship was awarded; and (3) grants to institutions of higher education to enable such institutions to establish, operate, and improve programs in international studies, area studies, and foreign languages that the NSEB determines to be critical areas. Sets forth additional requirements with respect to: (1) agreements required before making such awards; (2) development of criteria for making such awards, including merit review; (3) disbursement of information regarding the activities assisted under this title; and (4) annual adjustment of such awards for inflation. Directs the Secretary of Defense to establish the NSEB. Sets forth provisions with respect to the composition, term of office, compensation, and functions of the NSEB. Establishes in the Treasury the National Security Education Trust Fund. Directs: (1) the Secretary of Defense to transfer a specified amount to the Fund from funds appropriated for FY 1992 pursuant to the Intelligence Authorization Act, Fiscal Year 1992; (2) the NSEB to reserve specified funds for scholarships, fellowships, and grants; and (3) the Secretary of the Treasury to invest in full amounts transferred to the Fund. Sets forth: (1) administrative provisions (with respect to NSEB activities); (2) reporting requirements (by the NSEB to the President and the Congress); (3) provisions for the appointment and compensation of an Executive Secretary of the NSEB; and (4) auditing provisions.
Bill· SS. 1554 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Emergency Unemployment Compensation Act of 1991 - Establishes an emergency unemployment compensation program. Allows any State to enter into and participate in an agreement with the Secretary of Labor (the Secretary) under which the State agency which administers the State unemployment compensation law will make payments of emergency unemployment compensation: (1) to individuals who have exhausted all rights to regular compensation under State law, have no rights to such regular compensation or any additional State or Federal compensation, and are not receving Canadian compensation; and (2) for any week of unemployment beginning in the individual's eligibility period. Sets forth provisions relating to exhaustion of regular benefits and weekly amount of emergency benefits equal to regular benefits. Requires a State, under such an agreement, to establish an emergency unemployment compensation account with respect to the benefit year of each eligible individual who files an application. Limits benefit payments to not more than the amount in the individual's account. Sets forth formulas for determining the amount in such account. Provides that such amount shall be equal to the lesser of: (1) 100 percent of the total amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable to the individual with respect to the most recent regular benefit year; or (2) the applicable limit times the average weekly benefit amount for the benefit year. Sets the applicable limit at: (1) 20 for an eight-percent period, i.e. one triggered by a total unemployment rate (TUR) of eight percent or more in the State, seasonally adjusted, for the most recent six calendar months with available data; (2) 13 for a seven-percent period; (3) seven for a six-percent period; and (4) four for any other period. Sets forth special rules relating to such applicable limits. Requires reduction in such account by the amount of extended benefits received by the individual relating to the same benefit year under the Federal-State Extended Unemployment Compensation Act of 1970. Sets the weekly benefit amount at the amount of regular compensation (including dependents' allowances) payable under the State law to the individual for such week for total unemployment. Provides for determination of periods and applicable triggers. Sets forth transition and reachback provisions for the eligibility of certain individuals for such benefits. Provides for payments to States having such agreements for emergency unemployment compensation. Sets forth financing provisions. Requires that funds in the extended unemployment compensation account of the Unemployment Trust Fund be used to make payments to States having agreements under this Act. Sets forth provisions relating to fraud and overpayments. Amends specified Federal law to repeal certain limitations on payment of unemployment compensation to former members of the armed forces. Reduces the length of required active duty by reserves for purposes of such payment. Sets forth reachback provisions. Amends the Social Security Act to establish an Advisory Council on Unemployment Compensation. Directs the Secretary of Labor to establish such a council by February 1, 1992, and every fourth year thereafter. Requires each such council to evaluate the unemployment compensation program. Sets forth membership and staff provisions. Requires each council to report to the President and the Congress by January 1 of the second year following the year in which it is required to be established. Designates as emergency requirements, pursuant to the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985, all direct spending amounts provided, and all appropriations authorized, by this Act (for all fiscal years). Provides that this Act shall not take effect unless, by its enactment date, the President submits to the Congress a written designation of all such direct spending amounts and authorized appropriations as such emergency requirements.
Bill· SS. 1551 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide that for purposes of determining the compensation of highly compensated employees for certain pension plans, the rules attributing compensation between spouses will not apply if both spouses are licensed to perform services in the same professional field and perform such services on a full-time basis for the same employer.
Bill· SS. 1536 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Pacific Northwest Forest Community Recovery and Ecosystem Conservation Act of 1991 - Title I: Worker Adjustment Assistance Program for Certain Dislocated Workers - Subtitle A: General Provisions - Provides adjustment assistance, including extended unemployment benefits, for certain dislocated timber and related industry workers. Subtitle B: Financing Provisions - Amends title IX of the Social Security Act to establish in the Unemployment Trust Fund a worker adjustment assistance account. Title II: Community Economic Diversification - Establishes in the Treasury a special economic adjustment fund funded by a portion of Federal forest land timber sales to: (1) assist forest-dependent communities in Washington, Oregon and California to diversify economically; and (2) retrain workers. Establishes a Community Economic Diversification Commission. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Wood Products Incentives - Subtitle A: Export Restrictions - Authorizes specified Western States to restrict log exports. Authorizes appropriations. Subtitle B: Rural Economic Development Magnet Centers - Amends the Consolidated Farm and Rural Development Act to authorize grants to establish rural economic development magnet centers. Authorizes FY 1992 appropriations. Subtitle C: Export Financing - Directs the Export-Import Bank of the United States to establish a wood products export program as part of the working capital guarantee program. Amends the Agricultural Trade Act of 1978 to include "wood" within the definition of "agricultural commodity" for export assistance purposes under such Act. Subtitle D: Report - Directs the Secretary of Commerce to report to the Congress with respect to the short supply of logs in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, and California. Title IV: Reforestation Tax Incentives - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to establish reforestation tax incentives, including: (1) a two percent credit for domestically processed timber; and (2) a five-year class life for timber cutting and saving equipment. Title V: Ecosystem Conservation - Establishes ecosystem natural areas within specified Federal forest lands in Washington, Oregon, and northern California. Sets forth related management and protection provisions. Establishes interim watershed study areas on such lands. States that all Pacific Northwest Federal forest lands not within either of such designations shall be managed in accordance with the recommendations of the Interagency Scientific Committee for lands outside habitat conservation areas. Establishes a three-year Forest Ecosystem Advisory Committee to develop specified ecosystem management objectives for the Pacific Northwest. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Agriculture to develop a Pacific Northwest forest ecosystem research program.
Bill· SJRESS.J.Res. 182 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Constitutional Amendment - Requires the Congress, prior to each fiscal year, to adopt a statement in which total Federal outlays (except those for repayment of debt principal) do not exceed total receipts (except those derived from borrowing), unless a three-fifths vote of both Houses authorizes a specific excess. Limits the rate of increase in receipts in the statement to that of the increase in national income in the previous calendar year, unless law is enacted solely to approve specific additional receipts by a three-fifths majority vote of both Houses. Directs the President to submit a balanced budget. Authorizes waiver of these provisions in time of war. Sets a permanent limit on the amount of Federal public debt, prohibiting any increase unless legislation enacted by a three-fifths majority of both Houses becomes law.
Bill· HRH.R. 3007 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Social Security Amendments of 1991 - Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act (Act) to increase the limit on outside income for individuals who have attained retirement age. Amends title XVI (Supplemental Security Income) (SSI) of the Act and the Renegotiation Act of 1951 to require the States which rely on the Social Security Administration to administer their SSI payments to pay to the Secretary of Health and Human Services the costs for administering such payments. Amends title XI of the Act to authorize the Secretary to recover SSI overpayments from OASDI benefit payments. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to give the Secretary of the Treasury the authority to prescribe magnetic media reporting requirements applicable to income tax return preparers.
Bill· HRH.R. 3014 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to permit penalty-free withdrawals from an individual retirement plan for the first-time home purchase by a child or grandchild of the plan beneficiary.
Bill· HRH.R. 3025 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a taxpayer to elect to take a deduction for the preceding year for any loss attributable to a disaster occurring in an area subsequently determined by the Administrator of the Small Business Administration to warrant assistance under the disaster loan program of the Small Business Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 3013 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an exclusion from gross income for amounts received from the Vaccine Injury Compensation Trust Fund as compensation for vaccine-related injury or death.
Bill· HRH.R. 3020 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the amount of group-term life insurance which may be provided by an employer and excluded from the gross income of an employee.
Bill· HRH.R. 3016 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 24 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow the targeted jobs credit for hiring an involuntarily discharged economically disadvantaged veteran. Describes such veteran as one who: (1) has served on active duty for more than 180 days, or has been discharged or released from active duty for a service-connected disability; (2) has been involuntarily discharged or released (other than dishonorably) after September 30, 1991; (3) has not had a day of extended active duty during the 28-day period ending on the hiring date; and (4) is a member of an economically disadvantaged family.
Bill· HRH.R. 2974 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Rewards for Results Act of 1991 - Title I: Ready to Start School - Entitles all eligible States to receive payments from the Secretary of Health and Human Services (HHS) as a reward for meeting certain criteria in achieving the national educational goal of readiness to start school. Provides for such payments for any of the first six fiscal years beginning after enactment of this Act. Provides for two types of such payments: (1) those relating to eligible children one year old; and (2) those relating to eligible children who register for first grade. Requires States, in order to be eligible, to submit applications containing: (1) certifications of numbers of eligible children, by particular family income category, and their receipt of health care prior to age one or first grade registration, as applicable (and receipt of parental care or early childhood education prior to first grade); and (2) assurances that such payments will be used in addition to other Federal and State funds for, respectively, health care for eligible children less than one year old, and early childhood education and health care to eligible children less than seven years old. Sets forth formulas for determining the amounts of such payments, according to numbers of children certified in specified categories of family income. Title II: Excellence in Student Performance - Entitles eligible States, upon application, to receive payments from the Secretary of Education as a reward for meeting certain criteria in achieving the national educational goal of excellence in student performance. Provides for such payments for any of the first six fiscal years beginning after enactment of this Act. Requires a State, in order to be eligible to receive such payments, to establish a baseline figure for each local educational agency (LEA) each year that represents the most recent available figures for the number of graduating high school seniors whose average scores in mathematics and science on an international test equal or surpass the highest average scores of another nation. Requires an LEA, to qualify to receive payments under this title, to demonstrate an increase in the baseline figure above the previous year's figure. Requires students, to receive scholarship funds under this title, to have an average mathematics and science score on the international test that equals or surpasses the highest average score of another nation. Requires the National Education Goals Panel, established by the President, to select the international test. Directs the Secretary to annually adjust the test results to allow the variation in types of students tested in other nations. Requires State applications to provide specified information, an affidavit regarding accuracy of test results, and assure use of funds to supplement not supplant all other funds. Bases payments to States on a formula involving per student reward amount and the number of eligible students with test scores meeting the criteria. Sets forth formulas for determining per student reward amount, with exceptions for payments to States with LEAs with very high or very low percentages of students meeting the criteria. Requires State educational agencies to submit plans for distribution of such payments, with at least 80 percent of funds received under this title to be distributed to LEAs. Requires LEAs to distribute such funds equitably to all secondary schools within their jurisdiction. Requires qualifying students who desire such scholarship funds to submit applications to the Secretary of Education with their certified test results, within three years after notification of test results. Sets scholarship amounts as follows: (1) $5,000 for a qualified eligible student; and (2) $2,500 who are not eligible to be counted under specified provisions for education of disadvantaged children under chapter 1 title I of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965. Directs the Secretary of Education to pay such funds to the institution of higher education of the qualifying student's choice where they are enrolled for a recognized course of study. Directs the National Education Goals Panel to report to the Congress, within two years after enactment of this Act, on the feasibility of testing in other academic subjects and grade levels. Title III: Increase in Rate of Corporate Income Tax - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to increase the rate of tax on corporations applicable to taxable years 1992 through 1997. Title IV: General Provisions- - Directs the appropriate Secretary (of HHS for title I, of Education for title II) to: (1) conduct random annual audits of at least ten percent of States receiving payments under this Act; and (2) impose specified sanctions for noncompliance. Provides for contingent advance payments for the second year.
Law· HRH.R. 2969 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
District of Columbia Emergency Deficit Reduction Act of 1991 - Amends the District of Columbia Self-Government and Governmental Reorganization Act to authorize the Mayor of the District of Columbia, with the approval of the Council, to reduce the appropriations or amounts made available to District of Columbia independent agencies (including the Board of Education) for a fiscal year, if a reduction in such amounts is necessary to balance the District's budget. Exempts the District of Columbia courts and the District of Columbia Council from coverage under this Act. Permits the District government to separate an officer or employee subject to its merit system if: (1) such officer's or employee's position is determined by the District of Columbia Council to be excessive; and (2) the separation is implemented during the 18-month period that begins on the date of enactment of the Comprehensive Merit Personnel Act Emergency Amendment Act of 1991. Authorize the District of Columbia to issue general obligation bonds to finance its outstanding general fund deficit for FY 1990. Ceases the issuance of such bonds after September 30, 1992. Waives the period for congressional review for the General Fund Recovery Act of 1991. Makes such Act effective upon its enactment or the enactment of this Act.
Bill· HRH.R. 2971 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Amends title II (Old Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) (OASDI) of the Social Security Act to explicitly prohibit State or local governments from taxing OASDI benefits.
Bill· HRH.R. 2978 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide for the treatment under the partnership allocation rules if: (1) any liability of a partnership is qualified nonrecourse financing treated as amounts at-risk; (2) such financing is not provided by a partner who holds more than 50 percent of capital interest or profits interest in such partnership (and is not provided by a related person); and (3) the allocation of partnership items to each partner is a qualified allocation.
Bill· HRH.R. 3000 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Common Sense Campaign Reform Act - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow a tax credit for 100 percent of qualified congressional campaign contributions which do not exceed $25, and 50 percent of the remaining portion of such contributions. Limits the amount of such credit to $100 ($200 in the case of a joint return). Provides for an inflation adjustment of such credit and disallows its use by estates and trusts. Amends the Federal Election Campaign Act of 1971 to reduce the ceiling (from $5,000 to $2,500) on multicandidate political committee contributions to candidates for Federal office. Increases the ceiling (from $1,000 to $2,000) on contributions to such candidates by persons other than multicandidate political committees. Prohibits a candidate for Federal office from establishing, maintaining, financing, or controlling a political committee (leadership committee) other than the principal campaign committee. Prohibits contributions between multicandidate political committees. Requires the authorized committee of a candidate to include in the report of contributions to such committee certain identifying information of contributors of more than $25. Requires certain separate segregated funds established by national banks, corporations, or labor organizations that are multicandidate political committees to include in its name the name of the entity that established the fund. Requires the candidate to sign any required reports.
Resolution· HRESH.Res. 200 (102nd)passed
United States · United States Congress · 23 July 1991
Waives points of order against the consideration of H.R. 2942 (Department of Transportation and related agencies funding).
Bill· SS. 1523 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
National Institutes of Health Reauthorization Act of 1991 - Title I: Reauthorization of Certain Institutes and Expansion of Various Programs - Amends the Public Health Service Act to authorize appropriations for the National Cancer Institute. Authorizes appropriations to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI). Requires the NHLBI Director to support programs of training and education. Authorizes appropriations to carry out specified provisions relating to the National Library of Medicine (NLM). Mandates grants for research, development, and demonstration of new educational technologies that assist in training health professions students and improve the research and teaching capabilities of health professionals. Removes the cap on grants to medical libraries or related instrumentalities for establishing, expanding, and improving basic resources. Establishes in the NLM the National Information Center on Health Services Research and Health Care Technology to collect, store, analyze, and disseminate information. Removes similar provisions from provisions relating to the Agency for Health Care Policy and Research. Mandates grants for comprehensive programs to recruit women, underrepresented minorities, and individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds into biomedical or behavioral research and to provide research training to such people. Authorizes appropriations for payments under National Research Service Awards and under grants for such Awards. Authorizes appropriations for the National Center for Biotechnology Information. Excludes from voting rights the ex officio members of the National Foundation for Biomedical Research. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes grants to institutions that conduct biomedical or behavioral research to expand, remodel, renovate, or alter existing research facilities or construct new facilities, but not to acquire land or make off-site improvements. Establishes in the National Center for Research Resources of the National Institutes of Health a Technical Review Board on Biomedical and Behavioral Research Facilities to advise on construction of facilities and conduct peer review of applications under these provisions. Provides for recapture of payments in certain circumstances for 20 years. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Women's Health Research - Requires that women and members of minority groups be included as subjects in each clinical research project under title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act. Requires projects to be designed and carried out so as to provide for an analysis of whether the variables being tested affect women or minorities differently than other subjects. Establishes in the advisory council of each of the national research institutes the Clinical Research Equity Subcommittee with the duty of determining the extent to which the research is being conducted in accordance with these requirements. Requires, if not in accordance, suspension or revocation of research authority. Requires that technical and scientific peer review conducted under existing provisions include an evaluation of the merit of the proposal regarding women and minorities. Requires the Director of the Institute on Aging to conduct research into the aging processes of women. Directs the Secretary of Health and Human Services, through the Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), to establish the Office of Women's Health Research to ensure that research on women's health is identified and addressed throughout the research activities conducted and supported by NIH. Establishes in the Office the Women's Health Clinical Research Advisory Committee. Establishes: (1) a program to provide information on research, treatment, and prevention activities relating to women's health and gender differences; and (2) a data bank to compile and disseminate information on research concerning women's health and gender differences that affect women's health. Requires maintenance of a registry of ongoing clinical trials of experimental treatments relating to women's health and gender differences. Authorizes appropriations to carry out these provisions relating to the Office, the Advisory Committee, the information program, the data bank, and the registry. Mandates expansion, intensification, and coordination of activities regarding breast cancer, ovarian cancer, and other cancers of the reproductive systems of women, including basic and clinical research, prevention and control programs, information programs, and demonstration programs. Requires demonstration programs on breast cancer to include the development and operation of at least six breast and prostate cancer research centers. Authorizes appropriations. Establishes a program to expand and intensify research and related activities concerning osteoporosis, Paget's disease, and related bone disorders. Authorizes appropriations. Title III: Contraception and Infertility - Mandates grants or contracts for three centers to conduct activities to improve methods of contraception and two centers to conduct activities for diagnosing and treating infertility. Establishes a program of agreements under which health professionals, including graduate students, agree to conduct research on contraception or infertility in consideration of repayment of up to a specified amount of their educational loans. Authorizes appropriations to carry out this title. Title IV: Programs Relating to Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome - Sets at three years the minimum service period for participation in an existing loan repayment program involving research, as an employee of NIH, on acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). Authorizes appropriations for the program. Modifies the duties of the AIDS Clinical Research Review Committee and the AIDS clinical evaluation units. Adds references to participation of primary care providers in provisions relating to community-based evaluations of experimental therapies. Authorizes appropriations. Allows financial assistance for international AIDS efforts to be used for research and training on the natural history and pathogenesis and the development and evaluation of vaccines for AIDS, opportunistic infections, and other emerging microbial diseases. Authorizes appropriations. Adds treatment as one of the services provided under grants for model protocols for clinical care of individuals infected with the etiologic agent for AIDS. Authorizes appropriations. Adds collecting information on the natural history of infection with the etiologic agent to provisions requiring development of an epidemiological data base and long-term studies. Requires a comprehensive plan for the conduct and support of AIDS research by the agencies of NIH. Mandates studies to determine, with regard to AIDS: (1) the impact of parallel-track drug-release mechanisms on public and private clinical research and on drug approval activities; (2) the policies of third-party payers regarding payment of costs of health services provided incident to the participation of individuals as subjects in clinical trials of drugs; and (3) the coordination of various advisory committees. Title V: NIH Director's Discretionary Fund, Child Health Research Centers, and Interagency Program for Trauma Research - Requires that the NIH Director have a discretionary fund. Authorizes appropriations. Mandates development and support for centers to build the research capacity of pediatric institutions and develop pediatric investigators. Establishes: (1) a comprehensive program to conduct and support basic and clinical research on trauma, including on diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation and management; and (2) the Trauma Research Interagency Coordinating Committee. Title VI: National Center for Human Genome Research - Adds the National Center for Human Genome Research to the list of agencies of NIH, declaring its purpose to be characterizing the structure and function of the human genome, including the mapping and sequencing of individual genes. Title VII: Designation of Senior Biomedical Research Service in Honor of Silvio Conte, and Limitation on Number of Members - Renames the Senior Biomedical Research Service as the Silvio Conte Senior Biomedical Research Service and increases the maximum number of its members. Title VIII: Miscellaneous Provisions - Allows the National Library of Medicine to make publications, materials, facilities, or services available under licensing arrangements that provide for quality control and full recovery of access costs. Amends the Health Omnibus Programs Extension of 1988 to extend the due date for the final report of the National Commission on Sleep Disorders Research. Transfers from the Health Research Extension Act of 1985 to title IV (National Research Institutes) of the Public Health Service Act provisions authorizing a grant for an Alzheimer's disease registry. Requires that a report by the Secretary of Health and Human Services on carcinogens be published biennially rather than annually. Includes tropical diseases in provisions setting forth the purpose of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Applies to Directors of each of the NIH agencies provisions setting forth the general duties and authorities of Directors of each of the national research institutes. Authorizes the Directors of each of the national research institutes and each of the NIH agencies, in disseminating information, to enter into licensing agreements that provide for quality control and full recovery of access costs. Requires, for purposes of Federal income, estate, and gift taxes, any gift accepted by NIH to be considered to be a gift or transfer to the United States.
Bill· SS. 1514 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Department of Energy National Security Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) Office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarshps and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in order to facilitate the construction of a facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions.
Bill· SS. 1513 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Military Construction Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applies Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant.
Bill· SS. 1510 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Military Personnel Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title IV: (SIC) Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary of Defense in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persian Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces.
Bill· SS. 1509 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Omnibus National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theater missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persian Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities witihin DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applies Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) Office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated costs exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarshps and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stock Piling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commision funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made only in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.
Bill· SS. 1512 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Department of Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theater missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D objectives for each element. Limits the FY 1992 R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persin Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or rear admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities within DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies).
Bill· SS. 1511 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
National Defense Desert Storm Supplemental Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act.
Bill· SS. 1508 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
National Defense Multiyear Authorization Act of 1991 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for entering into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theatre missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertant introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grde below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persin Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current detrmination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat position; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances permitted for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 pecent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to incude those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailbility of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fisal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provisioin of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropraite participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to particpating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide as assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Fedeal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Require the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatent commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and substainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities witihin DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specfied in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and constructioin design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applied Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of products services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorized the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico, State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recruiting General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarships and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapon Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commision funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made ony in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.
Bill· SS. 1522 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to allow farmers' cooperatives to elect to treat as ordinary income or loss certain capital gains and losses from the disposition of assets used in conducting business with or for patrons.
Bill· HRH.R. 2966 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 22 July 1991
Petroleum Marketing Competition Enhancement Act - Amends the Petroleum Marketing Practices Act to prohibit a refiner from: (1) selling motor fuel to a customer for resale (customer) at a price higher than the refiner's adjusted retail price for the same or a similar grade or quality of motor fuel sold from a direct operated outlet in the same geographic area (sale of fuel at higher prices); and (2) entering into a scheme or agreement to set, change, or maintain maximum retail prices of motor fuel, except with respect to a refiner's retail sales at its direct operated outlets. Requires that: (1) in comparing a refiner's adjusted retail price to a refiner's price to other customers, adjustments be made to account for differences in freight, taxes, and inspection fees, whether or not the items are separately listed as part of the price; and (2) if a refiner includes consumer credit as part of its price, an adjustment for the cost of such credit be made in comparing the prices. Sets forth enforcement provisions, including: (1) proceedings by the Attorney General (establishes fines ranging from $5,000 to $25,000 for each violation, and authorizes civil actions and equitable relief); (2) private civil actions, including class actions, (and establishes a right to jury trial); and (3) proceedings by State attorneys general. Allows a person bringing an action to enforce provisions concerning the sale of fuel at higher prices to establish a prima facie case by showing that the refiner has sold motor fuel to a customer at a price that is higher than: (1) 94 percent of its consumer retail price per gallon (or, in the event of a sale to a branded wholesaler, 90 percent); or (2) the refiner's consumer retail price per gallon less the most recently available average retail operating expenses per gallon (and, in the event of a sale by a refiner to a branded wholesaler, also less the most recently available average wholesale operating expenses per gallon for the State in which the consumer retail price was charged). Specifies that: (1) in the event that the relevant State has not conducted an annual survey (pursuant to this Act) to determine the average retail or average wholesale operating expenses, the average operating expenses for the retail and wholesale petroleum industry, as determined by the Secretary of Energy, shall be used; and (2) such prima facie case may be overcome by a preponderance of evidence that the refiner's actual retail and average wholesale operating expenses, if applicable, are less than the evidence presented by the plaintiff to establish such prima facie case. Directs the Secretary to conduct an annual survey to determine the average retail and average wholesale operating expenses per gallon for the petroleum industry. Permits a State or State agency to authorize an annual State survey to reflect local conditions with respect to motor fuels sold to the public in that State. Directs that any such survey regarding: (1) retail operating expenses and actual wholesale operating expenses be based upon all direct and indirect expenses attributable to the sale of a gallon of motor fuel to the public by direct and nondirect operated outlets; and (2) wholesale operating expenses be based on all direct and indirect expenses attributable to the wholesale sale of a gallon of motor fuel by a refiner or a branded wholesaler to a branded dealer.
Bill· SS. 1507 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 19 July 1991
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 - Division A: Department of Defense Authorizations - Title I: Procurement - Part A: Funding Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, and Air Force for FY 1992 and 1993 for: (1) aircraft; (2) missiles; (3) weapons and tracked combat vehicles; (4) ammunition; (5) shipbuilding and conversion; and (6) other procurement. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) FY 1992 and 1993 for the defense agencies; (2) FY 1992 for the Defense Inspector General; (3) FY 1992 and 1993 for the reserves and National Guard; and (4) FY 1992 and 1993 for the chemical demilitarization program. Amend the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1986 to: (1) change from April 30, 1997, to July 31, 1999, the deadline for the destruction of stockpiled lethal chemical agents and munitions of the Department of Defense (DOD); and (2) authorize the Secretary of Defense to provide funds to assist State and local governments in reviewing applications for permits or licenses required for the construction and operation of facilities to be used to destroy the lethal weapons stockpile. Authorizes the use of funds appropriated for FY 1992 for into multiyear procurement contracts for specified Army and Navy systems and programs. Part B: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Army to obligate specified funds appropriated to the Army for FY 1991 and 1992 for the M1A2 tank program. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer specified FY 1991 research, development, test, and evaluation (R&D) funds for the procurement of Navy aircraft. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 Navy funds for shipbuilding and conversion in connection with the sealift program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Navy shipbuilding and conversion funds for the air cushion landing craft program. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees (the defense committees) before funds may be obligated for such program. Provides that restrictions on the construction or repair of U.S. vessels in foreign shipyards shall not apply to inflatable boats as defined by the Secretary of the Navy. Prohibits FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds from being obligated for the production or installation of upgrades in the MK-92 fire control system until the successful completion of operational testing of such system has been certified. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer unobligated FY 1991 procurement funds for the procurement during FY 1992 of Trident missiles. Earmarks specified FY 1992 Air Force procurement funds for procurement of the B-2 bomber aircraft program. Requires certain performance and compliance certification requirements to be met by the Secretary of Defense (Secretary) before such funds may be obligated. Requires the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation, upon the completion of all testing with respect to the B-1B bomber aircraft, including software changes, to review all flight test data related to the electronic countermeasures system of such aircraft and report the results to the defense committees. Requires: (1) an independent analysis of such report by a panel established under prior law; (2) a report review, evaluation, and report by the Comptroller General; and (3) a B-1B modification plan and certification of necessity for FY 1993 through 1999 by the Secretary. Provides FY 1992 funding for B-1B modifications and repeals a provision providing funding for the B-1B avionics and modifications. Prohibits FY 1992 funding for the C-17 aircraft program until the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees concerning such program. Places further limitations on FY 1993 funds for such program, other than funds for advance procurement. Earmarks funds made available from the sale of F-15 aircraft for the procurement of replacement F-15 aircraft and for support equipment for such aircraft. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to prohibit the obligation of funds for the AMRAAM missile program until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation reports to the defense committees on its effectiveness and suitability for combat. Repeals a Federal provision requiring certain budgeting report information for the procurement of common weapon systems (systems procured by more than one military department). Title II: Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation - Part A: Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the armed forces, the defense agencies, the Deputy Director of Defense Research and Engineering, and the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation for research, development, test, and evaluation. Part B: Strategic Defense Initiative - Directs the Secretary to aggressively pursue the development of a range of advanced theater missile defenses (TMDs), with the option of selecting and deploying such systems by the mid-1990s. Directs the Secretary, by FY 1996, to develop for deployment an effective and ABM Treaty-compliant anti-ballistic missile (ABM) system at a single site to protect the United States against limited ballistic missile threats, including accidental or unauthorized launches or Third World attack. Requires the Secretary to submit to the defense committees a deployment plan for TMDs and an ABM system which meet such guidelines. Urges the President to immediately pursue negotiations to amend the ABM Treaty to permit completion of the ABM system as described and to adopt a new negotiating strategy to reach agreements with the Soviet Union with respect to sites, interceptors, and the development and testing of space-based missile defenses and ballistic missile defenses. States that increased funding for follow-on ABM technologies is currently required as part of U.S. defense policy, including the Brilliant Pebbles technology. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on issues associated with the option of deploying space-based interceptors, including Brilliant Pebbles, for providing global defenses against ballistic missile attacks. Prohibits obligation of more than 50 percent of FY 1992 funding for the Brilliant Pebbles program until 45 days after submission of the Secretary's report. Defines the following exclusive program elements of the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI): (1) the limited defense system; (2) theatre missile defenses; (3) space-based interceptors; (4) other follow-on systems; and (5) research and support activities. States that such elements shall be the only program elements referred to in support of SDI budget submissions after FY 1992. Provides the R&D program funding for SDI and earmarks specific amounts for each of the program elements. Earmarks specified amounts for an environmental impact statement and related studies, surveys, assessments, and analyses related to the program elements. Requires a report from the Secretary on the FY 1992 allocation of funding for SDI. Provides certain funds transfer authority, with limitations. Directs the President and the Congress, as single-site ABM deployment nears its target date of FY 1996, to review the progress in the ABM Treaty amendments negotiations. Requires an interim report on the progress of such negotiations. Prohibits the obligation or expenditure of FY 1992 funding for the development and testing of ABM systems or components except as consistent with the development and testing described in the May 1991 SDIO Report, or for the acquisition of materials or equipment used as part of such development and testing except as consistent with such Report, with an exception. Part C: Other Matters - Directs the Secretary of the Navy to transfer certain FY 1991 funds for R&D in connection with the V-22 Osprey aircraft program. Prohibits the FY 1992 or 1993 obligation or expenditure of such funds until the Director of Operational Test and Evaluation has made certain evaluations and assessments to the Secretary with respect to such program. Earmarks certain funds authorized to the defense agencies under this Act for R&D in connection with the special operations variant of the V-22. Prohibits the obligation on or after January 1, 1992, of FY 1992 or 1993 Navy funds for developing and testing Navy mine countermeasures systems unless primary responsibility for such testing is transferred to the Research, Development, and Acquisition Command of the Marine Corps. Prohibits the obligation of the same funds on or after the same date for R&D in non-acoustic anti-submarine warfare unless the Secretary makes certain certifications to the defense committees. Prohibits the obligation of funds for any anti-submarine stand-off weapon system until 45 days after the Secretary of the Navy has made certain certifications to the defense committees. Limits the obligation of funds for the Submarine Tactical Warfare System program until the Secretary of the Navy reports to the defense committees on the Navy's requirements for ship-to-shore fire support. Limits the FY 1992 funding for the intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) modernization program, earmarking specified sums for specific parts of such program. Transfers certain unobligated FY 1991 R&D funds for obligation in FY 1992 for the procurement of MX missiles. Prohibits such funds from being used to conduct certain flight testing of such missile and limits the obligation of funding until the Secretary certifies to the defense committees that no such funds will be used for such flight testing. Expresses the sense of the Congress that the United States should rescind its previous designation (made for purposes of START negotiations) of the MX ICBM as a mobile ICBM system. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for the medical component of the Biological Defense Research Program of DOD. Limits the obligation of such funds to the product development or for R&D of medical countermeasures against a validated biowarfare threat agent or a long-term biowarfare threat agent. Earmarks specified amounts of such funds for R&D against long-term biowarfare threats only. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D under the University Research Initiative program of DOD, with amounts earmarked for specific projects of such program. Earmarks specified FY 1992 R&D funds for R&D projects conducted jointly by the United States and Japan as part of a prior cooperative technology R&D agreement. Directs the Secretary, as part of annual defense budget documents required to be submitted by the President, to set forth the proposed amount of DOD funding for each federally-funded research and development center for the fiscal year. Prohibits funds made available to DOD for FY 1992 from being obligated at any of specified centers for work performed in excess of a specified amount of man-hours. Limits the FY 1992 DOD funds to be obligated for the center known as MITRE. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such limitations upon certain congressional notifications and determinations regarding the essentiality of such work to the national security. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on FY 1992 funding levels of such centers. Title III: Operation and Maintenance - Part A: Authorization of Appropriations - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for operation and maintenance for the Army, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the Air Force, the defense agencies, the reserve components of the armed forces, the National Guard, the National Board for Promotion of Rifle Practice, the Defense Inspector General, drug interdiction and counter-drug activities, defense, the Court of Military Appeals, environmental restoration, and humanitarian assistance. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for working capital funds of the armed forces and the defense agencies. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 from the Armed Forces Retirement Home Trust Fund for the operation of the Armed Forces Retirement Home. States that funds authorized under this Act for humanitarian assistance shall be used to provide transportation for humanitarian relief for persons displaced or made refugees by the invasion of Afghanistan by the Soviet Union. Earmarks specified sums for noncombatants at or near the border between Thailand and Cambodia. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer specified sums to the Secretary of State for FY 1992 for providing such humanitarian assistance, requiring the Secretary of State to use the most economical commercial or military transportation possible. Requires the Secretary of Defense to report to specified congressional committees on specified dates on the provision of such assistance. Authorizes the Secretary to provide logistical support and personnel services in connection with the: (1) 1993 World University Games in New York State; and (2) 1996 games of the XXVI Olympiad in Atlanta, Georgia. Authorizes appropriations. Part B: Other Matters - Limits the incurring of obligations against DOD stock funds during 1992 to 80 percent of the sales from such funds during such fiscal year, with a waiver of such limitation for national security reasons. Makes funds available to DOD for a fiscal year available for contracts for the maintenance and operation of equipment (currently, only for tools, facilities, and depot maintenance). Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1992 a depot maintenance workload competition pilot program conducted by the Secretary. Repeals a current prohibition on such competitions. Repeals a Federal provision which empowers the commander of a military installation to contract for the performance of commercial activities on such installation. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through 1992 the authority for aviation depots and naval shipyards to engage in defense-related production and services. Prohibits funds made available to DOD during FY 1992 or 1993 from being obligated or expended for the purchase of surety bonds or other guaranties of financial responsibility in order to guarantee the performance of any direct function of DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to provide grant assistance during FY 1992 to Nye County, Nevada, for impact assistance relating to capital improvements made by such county to accommodate military personnel and dependents and other personnel of DOD and the Department of Energy (DOE) supporting the mission of the Tonapah Research Center. Directs the Secretary to take necessary action to prevent the inadvertent introduction of brown tree snakes from Guam to Hawaii in aircraft and vessels transporting personnel or cargo for DOD. Authorizes the Secretary to donate not more than 15 tons of cruise missile scrap to the Memorial Fund for Disaster Relief. States that, if it is necessary for a contractor to furnish a performance surety bond for any contract under the defense environmental restoration program, the provisions of the Miller Act (an Act requiring contracts for the construction, alteration, or repair of any public building or public work to be accompanied by a performance bond protecting the United States) shall apply. Entitles the surety on such a bond to any indemnification or limitation of liability to which its principal is entitled under the contract or other applicable law. Prohibits any person other than the obligee named in the bond from having a right of action on any performance bond so furnished. Outlines liability limits for a performance bond surety in a defense environmental restoration program contract. Repeals the requirement for the authorization of civilian DOD personnel by end strength. Title IV: Military Personnel Authorizations - Part A: Active Forces - Authorizes end strengths for active-duty forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Prohibits the Secretary in FY 1992 from requiring the involuntary separation of active-duty members who have completed their initial period of obligated service but are ineligible to retire with retired or retainer pay. Excepts certain separations from such prohibition. Authorizes the Secretary to waive the prescribed end strengths when necessary to prevent personnel imbalances that would impair long-term combat readiness. Amends the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985 to reduce the authorized permanent end strength of U.S. military personnel assigned to permanent duty in Europe. Reduces the number of permanent active-duty Air Force colonels. Part B: Reserve Forces - Authorizes end strengths for reserve components of the armed forces for FY 1992 and 1993. Allows such end strengths to vary by up to two percent. Authorizes reductions for the Selected Reserve components for each such fiscal year. Authorizes end strengths for FY 1992 and 1993 for reserve personnel serving on active duty in support of the reserves. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) adjust the authorized number of personnel assigned to the Army Reserve and Army National Guard; and (2) extend such authorized end strengths through FY 1998 (currently, 1997). Increases the number of active-duty officers assigned to full-time support and training of Army National Guard personnel. Increases the authorized number of certain enlisted and officer personnel on active duty in support of the reserves. Part C: Military Training Student Loads - Authorizes the average military training student loads for FY 1992 and 1993. Provides for the adjustment of such student loads consistent with manpower strengths authorized under this Act. Title V: Military Personnel Policy - Part A: General Matters - Prohibits an individual from receiving an original appointment as a commissioned officer in the regular armed forces until such individual has served at least one year on active duty as a commissioned officer in a reserve component. Reduces from 90 to 30 the number of days certain general and flag officers awaiting retirement shall continue to hold such grade, such period beginning on the date when such officer is relieved from duty. Excludes from a list of officers submitted to a selection board for consideration for early retirement any officer of that grade and competitive category who has been approved for retirement during the fiscal year in which the selection board is convened, or, if different, for retirement in the fiscal year in which any officer selected for retirement by the selection board is required to retire. Provides an alternate retirement date for officers not considered by a selection board under such exception, unless the Secretary of the military department concerned approves a modification to such date in order to prevent a personal hardship for the officer or for other humanitarian reasons. Provides a temporary early retirement selection authority for officers holding a regular grade below the grade of lieutenant colonel or commander who will become eligible for retirement before being retired by a selection board and whose names are not on an officer promotion list. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to waive a current prohibition on certain reserve service with the ROTC program if such Secretary determines that the removal of such member from such assignment will cause a financial hardship for such member. Authorizes the Chief of Naval Operations and the Commandant of the Marine Corps to be retired in the highest grade in such service in the discretion of the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate (currently, in the discretion of the President alone). Removes the requirement that each candidate for admission to the Naval Academy must have served at least one year as an enlisted member. Directs the Secretary to appoint a board to review the administration of the athletics programs of the military academies and to determine ways in which the administration of such programs can serve as a model for civilian institutions of higher education. Establishes the position of Academic Dean and Provost at the Naval Academy, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Navy. Authorizes the Secretary of the military department concerned to waive the current service academy maximum appointment age of 22 in the case of persons who became 22 while serving in the Persian Gulf or who were candidates for admission but were prevented from being admitted due to being called to duty in connection with the Persian Gulf War. Extends through FY 1995: (1) the effective date of an amendment which states that, for purposes of determining years of service of a commissioned officer for mandatory retirement, any time of service before appointment as a commissioned officer shall not be counted; (2) the current determination for original appointment grades of Medical Corps Reserve officers; (3) the current determination for the promotion of reserve commissioned officers on active duty but not on the active duty list; and (4) the authority of the Secretary concerned to repay educational loans of certain health professionals in the Selected Reserve. Makes permanent (currently ends on September 30, 1992) the authority for temporary promotions of certain Navy lieutenants. Directs the Secretary to prescribe uniform regulations governing information furnished to selection boards convened for determining promotions, separations, and involuntary retirements of officers on the active-duty list. Requires the Secretary to approve any supplements to such regulations proposed by the Secretaries of any of the military departments. Requires each communication made to such a selection board to be made to each member and made a part of the record. Outlines specific information authorized to be received by a selection board, prohibiting any other types. Directs the Secretary concerned to provide that the officer to be placed before a selection board: (1) is notified that information will be presented to the board; and (2) is afforded a reasonable opportunity to comment on such information. Provides that recommendations of a selection board may be disclosed only in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary and in no event may such recommendation be disclosed to any person who is not a member of the board until each board member has signed the written report of the recommendation. Prohibits a Secretary convening a selection board, or any officer exercising authority over any member of a board, from: (1) censuring, reprimanding, or admonishing such board member with respect to a recommendation or the exercise of any board function; or (2) attempting to coerce or influence any action of a selection board or any of its members. Provides that if the Secretary or Secretary concerned recommends that the name of an officer be removed from a report of a selection board and the recommendation includes information that was not presented to that board, such officer shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity for comment on such information to the recommending officials and the officials reviewing such recommendation. Revises provisions concerning the inclusion of officers to be considered for promotion by a selection board from below the promotion zone. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries concerned to preclude from consideration by selection boards for promotion to the grade of brigadier general or real admiral (lower half) officers in the grade of colonel or Navy captain who: (1) have been considered but not selected for promotion to such grades by at least two selection boards; and (2) are determined as not being exceptionally well qualified for promotion. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees on the supervision, management, and administration of the reserve components of the armed forces. Part B: Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces - Establishes the Commission on the Assignment of Women in the Armed Forces to study all matters relating to the assignment of women in the armed forces and to make findings on: (1) the implications on combat readiness of permitting women to be assigned to all combat positions; (2) the social and cultural implications of such position assignments; (3) the advisability of permitting only voluntary assignments of women to combat positions and of permitting involuntary assignments; (4) the advisability of requiring women to register and be drafted under the Military Selective Service Act; (5) the legal and policy implications of permitting women to qualify for assignment to combat positions; (6) the extent of the need to modify facilities, vessels, vehicles, aircraft, and other equipment to accommodate women assigned to combat positions, as well as the costs of such action and its practicality; and (7) the effects of existing laws relating to the recruitment, assignment, and promotion of women in the armed forces on combat readiness, opportunities for women in the armed forces, and the quality of personnel in the armed forces. Directs the Commission to transmit a final report to the President by November 15, 1992. Requires the President, by December 15, 1992, to transmit such report to the defense committees, along with comments and recommendations. Outlines administrative provisions concerning Commission powers, procedures, personnel matters, and expenses. Terminates the Commission 90 days after submission of its final report. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Provides that a retired officer ordered back to active duty shall serve at either the member's retired grade (current law) or any higher grade in which the member satisfactorily served on active duty, as determined by the Secretary. Entitles a retired officer recalled to active duty and later released from such duty to be placed on the retired list in the highest of: (1) the member's original retired grade; (2) the highest grade in which the member satisfactorily served for at least 180 days (current law); or (3) the highest grade in which the member served on active duty satisfactorily as determined by the Secretary for at least three years, including the recalled tour of duty. Allows a member of the armed forces whose certification for foreign language proficiency pay was interrupted by an assignment to duty in connection with a contingency operation (an operation involving the possibility of military action or intervention against a hostile force) to be paid such special pay for the duration of such duty. Allows such member 180 days following such duty to obtain such necessary certification and authorizes the Secretary concerned to extend such period in accordance with regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense. Title VI: Compensation and Other Personnel Benefits - Part A: Pay and Allowances - Waives during FY 1992 a required pay increase for military personnel in conformity with the annual GS-level increase for the Federal Government. Increases by 4.2 percent the rates of basic pay, basic subsistence allowance, and basic allowance for quarters (BAQ) on January 1, 1992. Limits the amount of BAQ in the case of a member of the armed forces who is authorized such allowance solely by reason of the member's payment of child support pursuant to a court order. Requires each member of the armed forces claiming entitlement to: (1) a BAQ to annually certify to the Secretary concerned the dependency status of each dependent of such member; and (2) a variable housing allowance (VHA) to annually certify to the Secretary the member's housing costs. Part B: Miscellaneous Pay and Benefits Matters - Entitles aviation cadets of the armed forces to the lowest pay grade rate prescribed for grade E-4, unless any such cadet is entitled to the basic pay of a higher pay grade. Entitles a senior noncommissioned officer who completes his or her service and is placed on terminal leave pending retirement to the rate of basic pay authorized for the senior enlisted member of that armed force. Allows the Secretary concerned to provide reimbursement or a travel allowance for the dependents of a member assigned to a vessel under construction for the travel of such dependents from the designated home port of the ship or the residence of the member's dependents (currently, only from the home port of the ship). Authorizes the payment of a travel and transportation allowance to a member who: (1) performs duty under emergency circumstances at a location within the limits of a member's station; and (2) uses overnight accommodations because of such duty. Revises the definition of a "dependent" for purposes of eligibility for benefits as a military dependent to include dependent parents-in-law, dependent children whose custody is granted to a member by a court order or decree, and other dependent minors who reside in the member's household. Revises hazardous duty pay provisions for parachute jumping to include all free fall operations involving jumper deployed parachute openings. Extends the authority for the payment of the following bonuses and special pay: (1) the aviator retention bonus, through FY 1993; (2) special pay for enlisted members of the Selected Reserve assigned to high-priority units, through FY 1993; (3) the accession bonus for nurse officer candidates, through FY 1994; (4) special pay for nurse anesthetists, through FY 1993; (5) the reenlistment bonus for regular military personnel and the enlistment bonus for extended active duty, through FY 1997; and (6) the enlistment and reenlistment bonus for reservists as well as the bonus pay for affiliation with the Selected Reserve, through FY 1995. Directs the Secretary to carry out a program under which a member of the armed forces may be reimbursed for qualifying expenses incurred in the adoption of a child under 18 years of age. Provides identical provisions for reimbursement of adoption expenses for members of the Coast Guard. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to transport (or pay the cost of such transport) the remains of dependents of retired military personnel for burial when such dependents die in a military medical facility. (Currently, such transportation is provided only to the retired decedents.) Authorizes the use of appropriated funds (currently nonappropriated funds only) for reimbursement of incidental expenses of persons providing voluntary services for programs operated by a military department or the Coast Guard. Authorizes travel and transportation allowances for members performing consecutive tours of duty to be deferred for up to one year after the member begins the consecutive tour at the same duty station or another. Entitles Federal employees assigned to a post at Johnstown Island in the Pacific Ocean to a separate maintenance allowance during the period of assignment if the head of the department or agency responsible for such assignment designates such duty as remote duty and finds it necessary for the employee to maintain his or her spouse or dependents at a location other than the Island. Allows a person to choose a base amount for a supplemental spouse annuity under the Survivor Benefit Plan of between five and 20 percent of the base amount under the plan. Waives a required reduction in military retired pay for persons returning to employment in the case of persons employed in the legislative branch for which there is exceptional difficulty in recruiting and retaining qualified employees. Authorizes the payment of a military survivor annuity to a representative of: (1) a person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has been appointed; or (2) a minor, mentally incompetent, or otherwise legally disabled person for whom a guardian or other fiduciary has not been appointed. Increases from $500 to $2500 the amount of a claim of the United States against a Federal employee, member of the military, or member of the Coast Guard for overpayment of pay, allowances, or expenses which is authorized to be waived by the department head or Secretary concerned when the collection of such claim would be against equity and good conscience or otherwise not in the best interests of the United States. Part C: Matters Related to Contingency Operations - Defines a "contingency operation" as one in which members of the armed forces are or may become involved in military actions against an enemy or opposing military force, or which results in a call or order to, or retention on, active duty during a war or national emergency. Provides for the payment of accrued leave to the survivors of members who die as a result of an injury or illness incurred while serving on active duty in support of a contingency operation. Allows the 60-day ceiling on the accumulation of accrued leave to be exceeded, by up to 30 additional days, in the case of members assigned to active duty in support of a contingency operation during a fiscal year. Repeals the current $10,000 limit applicable to a savings deposit program in the case of members of the armed forces serving in a contingency operation. Allows the Secretary to authorize a member serving on temporary duty outside the United States in support of a contingency operation to make deposits of unallotted pay and allowances during such duty. Provides for the payment of a BAQ for reserve members without dependents who are called to active duty in support of a contingency operation when such active duty makes the member unable to occupy his or her primary residence or rental housing. Entitles reserve or retired members recalled to active duty who are not authorized transportation of household goods from their residence to their place of assignment to a VHA in lieu of such allowance. Provides for special pay for: (1) reserve medical officers on active duty under a call or order for more than 30 days but less than one year; (2) a health care officer who is involuntarily retained on or recalled to active duty for more than 30 days; and (3) a medical officer who voluntarily agrees to remain on active duty for less than one year at a time when such officers are being involuntarily retained or when the Secretary determines that such pay is justified. Increases: (1) the hazardous duty incentive pay for duty performed under conditions of imminent danger; (2) the authorized monthly family separation allowance from $60 to $75; and (3) the death gratuity to a standard $6,000 for members of all grades. Allows a reserve member to be paid a VHA for active duty service of less than 140 days (currently, at least 140 days is required) when the call or order to duty is in support of a contingency operation. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to extend from August 1, 1990 (currently, November 5, 1990) to 180 days after the end of such conflict the period for the authorization of special pay for reserve, recalled, or retained medical officers in the armed forces. Title VII: Health Care Services - Authorizes the Secretary to establish one or more supplemental dental benefit plans for members (and their spouses and dependents) already enrolled in basic dental benefit plans. Requires a monthly premium to be paid by the member for such additional coverage. Outlines copayment requirements under such supplemental plan. Amends the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services (CHAMPUS) to authorize the provision under such Program of palliative care and support services in connection with hospice care to a terminally ill patient who chooses such hospice care rather than continuing hospitalization or other health care services for treatment of the patient's terminal illness. Authorizes the provision of such services for dependents of military personnel under contracts for medical care through other medical care providers. Allows contracts providing for inpatient mental health services to include provisions for partial hospitalization services in connection with such psychiatric care. Defines "partial hospitalization services" as items and services that are: (1) prescribed for and provided to a patient by a physician; (2) reasonable and necessary for the diagnosis and treatment of the patient's condition; and (3) not provided on an overnight hospitalization basis. Outlines the items and services to be included as part of such care, including various types of therapy, services of trained staff, and therapeutic drugs that cannot be self-administered. Includes as part of authorized medical care at military medical facilities well-baby care that includes one screening of an infant to determine the level of lead in the blood. Repeals a Federal provision which authorizes the payment of a multiyear retention bonus to general and flag officers serving as practicing physicians in military medical facilities. Expands the eligibility for coverage under CHAMPUS to include those persons entitled to hospital insurance benefits under title XVIII (Medicare) of the Social Security Act or who would be entitled to such benefits if under 65 years of age. Prevents CHAMPUS benefits from being paid to the extent that a person is entitled to the same benefits under either title XIX (Medicaid) of the Social Security Act or under Medicare. Authorizes the commanding officer of a military health care facility, in determining whether to issue a nonavailability of health care statement for any person entitled to health care in such facility, to consider the availability of such services for such person pursuant to any contract or agreement entered into for the provision of such services within the area served by such facility. Requires each provider of services under CHAMPUS to submit claims for payment for such services directly to the claims processing office designated pursuant to joint regulations prescribed by the administering Secretaries. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through October 1, 1993, the deadline for the issuance of regulations relating to the use of diagnosis-related groups for the allocation of resources to military health care facilities. Authorizes the Secretary to designate any facility owned or operated by the Uniformed Services Treatment Facilities that is authorized to provide medical or dental care for persons eligible to receive such care in military health care facilities as a facility of the uniformed services for purposes of the provision of services under CHAMPUS. Sets forth facility reimbursement provisions. Authorizes the provision of transitional medical and dental care under CHAMPUS for: (1) members of the reserves called to active duty in support of a contingency operation; (2) active-duty personnel retained on active duty for such support; and (3) active-duty personnel voluntarily agreeing to remain on active duty for such support for less than one year. Limits the extent of such coverage to 30 days after the contingency operation is concluded or until the person is covered by another plan, whichever is earlier. Provides exclusions. Title VIII: Acquisition Policy, Acquisition Management, and Related Matters - Part A: Industrial and Technology Base Initiatives - Directs the Secretary to conduct a program providing for the establishment of cooperative arrangements (partnerships) between DOD and certain entities in order to encourage and provide for R&D of dual-use critical technologies (technologies having both military and nonmilitary commercial applications). Allows such entities (at least two participating jointly with DOD) to include one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State governmental agencies, and other appropriate participants, as determined by the Secretary. Requires the joint participants to have a lead institution other than DOD to direct the activities of the partnership. Requires the non-DOD participants to contribute at least 50 percent of the total cost of the partnership activities. Provides for the protection of information disclosed concerning the R&D activities of the participants. Requires the Secretary to evaluate proposals for partnerships on a merit basis using a competitive selection process. Outlines selection criteria. Directs the Secretary, in consultation and coordination with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to provide assistance for the activities of eligible regional critical technology application centers (centers) in the United States. Outlines provisions concerning eligible centers, program participants, and assistance authorized, including financial and technical assistance for authorized center activities. Limits such assistance period to six years. Requires: (1) the sponsoring agency of a center to pay at least 30 percent of the total costs incurred for center activities; and (2) the eligible firms participating in a center to pay at least 40 percent of such costs. Requires a center to operate under a management plan that requires participating firms to have the primary responsibility for directing the activities of the center and to exercise such responsibility through majority voting membership of such firms on the board of directors of the center. Outlines provisions concerning program administration as well as selection criteria for centers receiving such assistance. Establishes within the Office of the Director of Defense Research and Engineering the Clearinghouse of Foreign Defense Technology Monitoring and Assessment (Clearinghouse) to: (1) maintain within DOD a central library for the compilation and dissemination of information and assessments regarding significant foreign activities in the R&D and applications of defense critical technologies; (2) establish and maintain data bases on such information and assessments; (3) perform certain liaison activities; (4) provide for public availability of such information and assessments; and (5) cooperate with the Department of Commerce in the dissemination of information and assessments regarding defense critical technologies having potential commercial uses. Directs the Secretary to establish a foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment grant program for the awarding of grants to participating organizations for the establishment of foreign critical technology monitoring and assessment offices in Europe, Pacific Ocean border foreign countries, and other countries as considered appropriate by the Secretary. Makes eligible for such grants any nonprofit industrial or professional organization that has economic and scientific interests in R&D and applications of commercial critical technologies. Requires each grantee to collect, evaluate, and disseminate to its organization and to the Departments of Defense and Commerce assessments of significant activities in R&D and applications of critical technologies that are conducted in the geographic area in which the office is located. Provides funding for FY 1992 and 1993 for critical technology programs and activities. Directs the Secretary to submit to the Congress at least biennially a multiyear strategic road map for each critical technology. Requires each road map to: (1) cover at least four fiscal years; (2) provide an assessment of current strengths and weaknesses in the national capability to develop and apply the technologies covered in the road map, and the sources of such strengths and weaknesses which enhance or hinder the development and application of such technologies; (3) ensure that results of federally-funded and conducted R&D of national critical technologies covered by the road map are appropriately disseminated to U.S. industry; and (4) include a discussion of the achievements of the activities conducted pursuant to the road map. Requires the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to establish one or more national critical technologies advisory committees. Directs the President to establish a schedule for the submission of such road maps at regular intervals between the enactment of this Act and October 1, 1996. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements (partnerships) with certain entities to encourage and provide for R&D of advanced manufacturing technologies with the potential for having a broad range of applications. Requires each partnership to be composed of participants from two or more eligible firms. Allows the inclusion of one or more Federal laboratories, institutions of higher education, State entities, and other participants as deemed appropriate by the Secretary. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and participant selection criteria. Requires the Secretary to establish three or more partnerships within one year after the enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish a program: (1) to support manufacturing extension programs of States, local governments, and private, non-profit organizations; (2) to promote the development of a broad range of such extension programs, including programs that provide for productivity and quality improvement activities; and (3) to increase the involvement of appropriate segments of the private sector in such programs. Establishes a Council on Manufacturing Extension to: (1) prescribe policies and procedures for the implementation of the program; (2) serve as a means for coordinating such program with related programs conducted by various Federal departments and agencies; and (3) develop a long-range strategic plan for the manufacturing extension activities of the Federal Government. Outlines application procedures for persons wishing to receive financial assistance for participation in the program, as well as criteria for choosing program participants. Limits the amount of financial assistance awarded to 50 percent of the cost of the program for the period in which the assistance is provided. Provides such assistance for at least five years, unless it is terminated earlier for good cause as determined by the Secretary. Allows a program participant to reapply after a terminated period of assistance. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Directors of the National Science Foundation (NSC) and the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP), to establish a program for making grants to institutions of higher education to support the: (1) enhancement of existing programs in manufacturing engineering education that are conducted by grantee institutions and meet specified requirements; and (2) establishment of new programs in manufacturing engineering education that meet such requirements. Requires at least one-third of the grants to be awarded for the latter purpose. Directs the Secretary to avoid geographical concentration of such awards. Directs the Secretary and the Director of NSC to enter into an agreement for carrying out the grant program. Outlines grant program requirements. Directs the Secretary to solicit from institutions of higher education proposals for grants to be awarded for the support of programs of manufacturing engineering education. Requires applications to be evaluated on a merit basis under competitive procedures. Outlines grantee selection criteria. Limits the Federal contribution of such assistance to 50 percent of the estimated cost of the activities involved. Directs the Secretary, in consultation with the Secretary of Commerce, to conduct a program to support specified activities of one or more manufacturing managers and experts at the institution of higher education involved. Outlines provisions concerning program administration and applicant selection criteria. Limits the Federal support of such program to 50 percent of the costs of activities to be supported by such assistance. Requires the Secretary to award at least ten such grants within one year after enactment of this Act. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Allows the Secretary to authorize the Secretaries of the military departments to enter into cooperative agreements and other transactions for advanced research projects. (Currently, only the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is authorized to enter into such agreements or transactions.) Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to enter into such agreements. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for collecting and assessing information on the extent to which the defense industrial base of the United States: (1) procures weapon systems, subsystems, and components of such systems from foreign sources; and (2) is dependent upon such foreign sources for such procurement. Directs the Secretary to report to the defense committees a plan for the removal of barriers to the effective integration of the commercial and defense sectors of the U.S. industrial base. Requires the Secretary to designate an official within his Office to develop the plan. Requires annual development and submission to the Congress by the Secretary of a National Defense Manufacturing Technology Plan. Places FY 1992 and 1993 funding limitations on manufacturing technology-related R&D not specifically included in such annual Plan. Directs the Secretary to conduct a program for the development and use of advanced flexible computer integrated manufacturing capabilities in each of the military departments and the U.S. defense industrial base. Requires the continued development of Rapid Acquisition of Manufactured Parts technologies and applications as part of such program. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding for such program, with a specified capabilities-duplication prohibition within the military departments. Directs the Secretary, acting through the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition (Under Secretary), to establish a program to award grants on a competitive basis to U.S. institutions of higher education and other non-profit organizations for the conduct of programs for U.S. scientists, engineers, and managers to learn Japanese language and culture. Directs the Secretary, at the same time as the submission of the President's budget to the Congress, to submit to the Congress a plan for providing DOD support for science, mathematics, and engineering education at all levels of education in the United States for such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to award grants to programs that are conducted on a national basis for the improvement of science and mathematics education in primary and secondary schools. Requires any program receiving such a grant to derive at least 50 percent of its funding and other resources from non-Federal sources. Requires a report. Provides FY 1992 and 1993 funding. Part B: Other Acquisition Policy Matters - Earmarks specified FY 1992 and 1993 funds authorized under this Act for the mentor-protege program established under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (a program which provides incentives for DOD contractors to employ and use small and disadvantaged businesses and historically Black colleges and universities in defense contracts and related activities). Earmarks funds for the same fiscal years for infrastructure assistance to historically Black colleges and universities for defense research activities under the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1987. Authorizes the continued one-year extensions on research and development contracts awarded by a military department, requiring the Secretary to give the Congress advance notice of any such contract extensions. Requires the Assistant Secretary of Defense with responsibility for manpower (currently, the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition) to carry out all the powers, functions, and duties of the Secretary with respect to the defense acquisition workforce in DOD. Extends from October 1, 1991, to October 1, 1993, the time after which there must be a measurable (currently, substantial) increase in the proportion of civilians serving in critical acquisition positions and in division head positions. Authorizes the Secretary to postpone the effectiveness of any requirement established in or pursuant to specified Federal provisions relating to the defense acquisition workforce for up to one year if the Secretary provides the defense committees with 45 days' notice. Earmarks specified funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act for FY 1992 and 1993 for the procurement technical assistance cooperative agreement program for specified programs within such program. Repeals specified Federal provisions concerning post-employment restrictions on certain DOD and Department of Energy defense procurement and contracting personnel. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend through FY 1993 a program under which certain bonding requirements are waived in order to aid small and disadvantaged business concerns in obtaining military construction contracts. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to use such bond waiver authority (as provided under the Small Business Act) in the awarding of Air Force construction contracts to participants in the Minority Small Business and Capital Ownership Development Program of the Small Business Administration (SBA). Requires protection bonds provided to DOD in compliance with the Miller Act (an Act requiring a construction bond to be posted in connection with any construction of Federal buildings or public works) to be made available upon request to any potential subcontractor or supplier of a contractor. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 1991 to revise provisions relating to the certified cost and pricing data threshold for subcontracts of DOD contracts. Authorizes the Secretary to waive a Federal provision prohibiting severance pay paid to foreign nationals from being included as an allowable defense contractor cost under specified circumstances. Prohibits such waiver from applying with respect to a contractor that is owned or controlled directly or indirectly by citizens or nationals of a foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to continue to conduct a specified personnel demonstration project at the Naval Weapons Center, China Lake, California, and at the Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, California. Repeals the requirement of a manpower estimate report before the Secretary may approve the full-scale engineering development, or the production and deployment, of a major defense acquisition program. Revises from October 1, 1994, to October 1, 1992, the date after which the Secretary may terminate in the national interest a Buy American restriction with respect to the acquisition of carbonyl iron powders. Requires the Secretary, no later than June 1, 1992, to prescribe final regulations defining the legitimate interest of the United States and its contractor or subcontractor in technical data pertaining to an item or process. Requires the Secretary, 30 days before implementing such regulations, to notify the defense committees and publish such regulations in the Federal Register. Directs the Secretary, within 30 days after enactment of this Act, to establish an advisory committee to make recommendations to the Secretary with respect to the final regulations. Requires the advisory committee to report to the Secretary on proposed regulations and legislation. Title IX: Department of Defense Organization and Management - Part A: General Matters - Includes the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS) within the JCS. Establishes within DOD a Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Policy. Directs the Secretary to credit an officer performing combat duty in the Persian Gulf theater that provided significant experience in joint matters or involved frequent professional interaction with either members of another military department or with an allied armed force as having completed a full tour of duty in a joint duty assignment for purposes of promotion due to joint duty experience. Makes inapplicable to such crediting certain Federal reporting and policy requirements. Requires information on the use of such crediting authority to be included in an annual report required for FY 1992 on expenditures, work, and accomplishments of DOD. Continues for FY 1992 and 1993 the separate budget account in DOD known as the CINC Initiative Fund, allowing the Chairman of JCS to use such account to provide funds to the commanders of the unified and specified combatant commands and the commander of the U.S. element of the North American Aerospace Defense Command for certain authorized activities. Requires the Chairman to give funding priority to activities that would enhance the warfighting capability, readiness, and sustainability of the forces assigned to the commander requesting the funds. Limits CINC Fund spending for each fiscal year. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to extend through FY 1993 the authorization for certain support provided to other Federal departments and agencies for counter-drug activities. Extends the provision of such support to State, local, and foreign law enforcement agencies. Cites the Deputy Secretary of Defense as the principal civilian adviser to the Secretary on special access (secret or classified) programs, and, after the Secretary, as the principal special access programs official within the senior management of DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary relating to special access programs for all such programs within DOD. Requires the Deputy Secretary to supervise the management of, prescribe the policies, standards, and procedures for, and approve the establishment of, all special access programs. Provides for the Deputy Secretary a Principal Assistant for Special Access Programs, to be appointed by the President by and with the advice and consent of the Senate. Prohibits funds from being obligated or expended for such special access programs until certain congressional oversight requirements have been met. Provides for the designation of access to information regarding such programs within the Congress. Includes one representative each from the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Coast Guard within the membership of the Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program Council. Part B: Intelligence Matters - Reorganizes the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Requires the DIA Director to be the senior military intelligence adviser to the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the Director of the CIA. Requires the DIA Director to report directly to such officials on all matters concerning military intelligence. Outlines Director duties. Requires the Director to take certain steps to strengthen the roles and authorities of functional managers within the DIA. Requires the Secretary to maintain within the District of Columbia a single and joint intelligence center for the armed forces. Outlines provisions with respect to functions and management of such center. Requires the center to be fully responsive to the intelligence needs of the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the commanders of the combatant commands. Requires the Secretary, the JCS Chairman, and the combatant command commanders to regularly and periodically exercise the use of the national intelligence collection systems as defined in the classified annex. Requires the Secretary and the Director of the CIA to report to specified congressional committees describing the use of such collection systems. Requires the Secretary to assign to the CIA Director the responsibility of managing all imagery intelligence processing, exploitation, and dissemination activities within DOD. Allows the CIA Director to delegate the performance of routine imagery intelligence management functions to appropriate functional managers. Outlines manager functions with respect to such imagery intelligence matters. Requires the Secretary and the CIA Director to: (1) consider establishing a joint imagery planning and procurement committee; and (2) report to specified congressional committees on joint decisions made concerning the establishment of such a committee. Title X: Supplemental Authorization of Appropriations for Operation Desert Storm - Extends through FY 1992 the authorization of appropriations to the Defense Cooperation Account (Account) and the Persian Gulf Working Capital Account for payment of costs associated with Operation Desert Storm (the Operation). Renames the Persian Gulf Working Capital Fund the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund (Fund). Authorizes supplemental appropriations to DOD for FY 1991 and 1992 in the form of current and future balances in the Account and the Fund for incremental costs associated with the Operation and for replenishment of the Fund by transfer from the Account. Authorizes additional appropriations for: (1) FY 1991 and 1992 for procurement; (2) FY 1991 for research, development, test, and evaluation; and (3) FY 1991 and 1992 for operation and maintenance and working capital funds. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1991 for military personnel, Army National Guard. Provides additional transfer authority from other appropriation accounts. Requires amounts expended from the Fund to be replenished to the extent possible from amounts available in the Account. Requires monthly reports concerning such transfers. Amends the Persian Gulf Conflict Supplemental Authorization and Personnel Benefits Act of 1991 to include Operation Provide Comfort within the definition of Operation Desert Storm for purposes of eligibility for appropriations under such Act. Title XI: General Provisions - Part A: Financial and Budget Matters - Authorizes the Secretary to transfer amounts of authorizations made available in this Division for any fiscal year between any such authorizations for such fiscal year. Limits the total fiscal year amounts that may be so transferred. Requires the Secretary to notify the Congress of any transfers made. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to revise the annual due date of a joint OMB/CBO outlay report. Requires the Director of OMB, for each of FY 1991 through 1996, to report to the Congress on the effect on the Federal deficit of payments and adjustments made with respect to Federal appropriation accounts, with separate estimates for each Federal agency. Eliminates the permanent requirement for such report. Part B: Miscellaneous - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete naval aircraft carrier Oriskany to a certain foundation for cultural and educational purposes. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to transfer the obsolete research vessel Gyre to Texas A&M University for educational and research purposes. Directs the President to report annually to the Congress on developments in the transfer of weapons, technology, and materials that can be used to deliver, manufacture, or weaponize nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons (NBC weapons) to any country that is not a Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR) adherent, with specified exceptions, or any other missile system that the Secretary has reason to believe may be used to deliver NBC weapons. Prohibits funds available to DOD before FY 1994 from being used to deactivate specified Naval Reserve helicopter mine countermeasures squadrons. Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to: (1) repeal a provision requiring the transfer of certain aircraft to the Air Force Reserve; and (2) terminate the requirement to replace Marine Corps OV-10 aircraft with Air Force A-10 aircraft. Provides that whenever the United States participates in a cooperative project with any friendly foreign country or NATO on a cost-sharing basis, any contribution from such country or NATO to meet its share of project costs may be credited to appropriations available to an appropriate military department or defense agency, as determined by the Secretary. Outlines payments for which such amounts are made available. Authorizes the Secretary to accept cash contributions from the Republic of Korea in return for the costs of: (1) compensation for local national employees of DOD; and (2) DOD military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to provide certain supplies and services relating to equipment, vessels, and aircraft to foreign countries (currently only to "friendly" foreign countries) if similar supplies and services are provided to the United States by the foreign country. Amends the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 to make permanent (currently authorized during FY 1987 through 1991) the authority to transfer excess defense equipment to certain nations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out the Italian air defense agreements and to provide articles and services to Italy as specified in the agreements. Outlines provisions concerning administration of the agreements. Allows the Secretary to enter into contracts under such agreements only to the extent that appropriated funds are available for such purpose. Authorizes the commander of any unified or specified combatant command to pay, or authorize payment for, the expenses of training or deploying special operations forces being trained or deployed with forces of a friendly foreign country. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to use funds appropriated to DOD to transfer technical data packages, or to provide technical data assistance, to a friendly foreign country. (Currently, such transfer is authorized for a member nation of NATO or a country designated as a major non-NATO ally.) Authorizes the side-by-side testing of conventional weapons and nondevelopmental items by the United States and other friendly foreign countries (currently authorized for the U.S. and its major allies). Division B: Military Construction Authorizations - Title XXI: (SIC) Army - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, military family housing functions within the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to increase the amount authorized for a military construction project at Fort Riley, Kansas. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to make a direct grant to the Fairbanks North Star Borough School District in Fairbanks, Alaska, for the construction of a public elementary school facility sufficient to accommodate dependents of DOD personnel assigned to Fort Wainwright, Alaska. Limits the maximum authorized grant and provides fund sources. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Army for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, military family housing functions of the Department, and the homeowners assistance program. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXII: Navy - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into long-term contracts for the construction, management, and operation of facilities pursuant to authorized architectural and engineering services and construction design in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units in specified amounts at specified locations. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Housing Rental Guaranty Program of the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984, at specified locations. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, defense access roads, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to reduce the amount authorized to be appropriated for a military construction project at the Silverdale Strategic Weapons Facility, Pacific. Specifies the type of military construction authorized for the Marine Corps Reserve Support Activity, Kansas City, Missouri, under the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Navy for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIII: Air Force - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts at specified installations. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing units; and (2) enter into rental guaranty agreements for military family housing under the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, and defense access roads. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Extends certain FY 1989 and 1990 military construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to terminate the authority to carry out certain military construction projects in Alaska. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into a contract for the construction of any facility related to the permanent basing of B-2 aircraft until 180 days after the Secretary has supplied the Congress with specified information concerning the basing of such aircraft. Requires the Comptroller General to report to the Congress on certain cost comparisons with respect to such aircraft. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installatioins and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to construct or acquire military family housing units, to carry out architectural and engineering services and construction design, and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to the Air Force for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXIV: Defense Agencies - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects in specified amounts at specified installations and locations. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire one military family housing unit and to improve existing military family housing units in specified amounts. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for military construction projects, unspecified minor construction projects, architectural and engineering design services, certain base closure and realignment activities, an energy conservation program, conforming storage facilities, and military family housing functions of DOD. Authorizes prior-year unobligated funds to be made available for military construction projects authorized in this title. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Authorizes the Secretary, in advance of appropriations, to contract for the design and construction of a military construction project at Fort Belvoir, Virginia. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects for certain Special Operations Command centers in North Carolina and other classified locations. Earmarks specified funds appropriated under this Act for the construction of a headquarters facility for a special operations battalion at Fort Bragg, North Carolina. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to acquire real property and carry out a military construction project at a specified installation in a specified amount. Authorizes appropriations to DOD for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of DOD. Limits the total cost of construction projects authorized by this title. Title XXV: North Atlantic Treaty Organization Infrastructure - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make contributions for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for such contributions. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes the Secretary to make contributions for the NATO Infrastructure Program. Authorizes appropriations to the Secretary for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for such contributions. Authorizes the use of excess NATO Infrastructure funds for military construction projects authorized by this or any other Act. Title XXVI: Guard and Reserve Forces Facilities - Part A: Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1991 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Part B: Fiscal Year 1993 - Authorizes appropriations for fiscal years beginning after 1992 for acquisition, architectural and engineering services, and construction of facilities for the Guard and reserve forces in specified amounts. Title XXVII: Expiration of Authorizations - Terminates all authorizations contained in titles XXI through XXVI of this Division on October 1, 1994, or the date of enactment of an Act authorizing funds for military construction for FY 1995, whichever is later, with specified exceptions. Terminates the approval of military construction projects in this Division at military installations which are closed or realigned pursuant to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990. Title XXVIII: General Provisions - Part A: Defense Base Closure and Realignment - Amends the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 to terminate the process by which military installations are selected for closure or realignment under such Act if the President does not transmit to the Congress by certain dates in 1993 and 1995 the nominations for appointment to the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Commission (Commission). Adds provisions relating to the employment and detailing of Commission staff employees. Revises certain notification and publication dates with respect to selection criteria utilized in making recommendations for base closures and realignments and recommendations made by DOD and the Commission. Prohibits funds appropriated to DOD for environmental restoration and management from being used for such activities at military installations closed or realigned under such Act. Applies Federal whistleblower protection for military personnel making certain disclosures to communications made to the Commission. Provides that in the case of each military installation considered for closure or realignment by the Commission, the Secretary shall ensure that the amount of the authorization requested by DOD for each military construction project in each of FY 1992 through 1999 for the following fiscal year does not exceed the estimate of the cost of the project that was provided to the Commission by DOD. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress the reasons for any differences between the requested amount and the estimated cost of any such project. Requires the DOD Inspector General to investigate each project for which the Secretary is required to submit an explanation and report his findings to the Secretary. Amends the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 to make eligible for certain homeowners assistance benefits provided under such Act DOD civilian employees and members of the armed forces who were employed or assigned to a military installation at the time of public announcement of its closure or transferred from such installation before such public announcement. Part B: Military Construction Program Changes - Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to make grants to States to acquire or construct facilities for the joint use of two or more components of the reserves. Increases from $200,000 to $300,000 the maximum amount for an authorized project for the acquisition or construction of such facilities that may be carried out with funds available for operation and maintenance. Repeals a Federal provision prohibiting the Secretary concerned from entering into more than five long-term construction contracts for the construction of certain military support facilities (child care, troop housing, hospital or medical facilities) at or near a military installation. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to enter into a contract for the procurement of products or services (currently, may only contract for construction, management, or operation of such facilities) in connection with such facilities. Requires all such projects to be authorized by law. Adds provisions to such contracts with respect to their being subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such contracts. Allows the Secretary concerned, or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard, to enter into contracts for the leasing of military family housing to be constructed or rehabilitated to residential use on or near a military installation in which there is a deficit of such housing only if specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Extends through FY 1993 the authority to enter into such leases. Repeals Federal provisions which: (1) prohibit the Secretary concerned from entering into more than three contracts per fiscal year for authorized military construction projects using one-step turn-key selection procedures; and (2) terminate the use of such procedures for such contracts on October 1, 1991. Increases to $1,500,000 the cost limitation threshold for a military construction project to be considered a minor construction project. Increases to $300,000 the maximum amount authorized to be spent from operation and maintenance funds by the Secretary concerned for such minor construction projects. Provides an increased maximum square footage allowance for military family housing located where harsh climatological conditions severely restrict outdoor activity for a significant part of each year, as determined by the Secretary concerned. Makes permanent (currently expires September 30, 1991) the authority to obligate certain funds from the DOD Base Closure Account to the homeowners assistance program under the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to carry out a military construction project not otherwise authorized by law when such project is vital to the protection of health, safety, or quality of the environment. Authorizes the Secretary concerned to acquire options for the lease of real property (currently, such Secretaries may only acquire options on a purchase) when such property is required for military construction projects. Provides the monetary consideration for such lease options. Requires the Secretary concerned, before exercising either type of option, to review the most recent inventory of real property assets published by the Resolution Trust Corporation to determine whether any such property is suitable for such construction projects. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act, 1984 with respect to the military housing rental guarantee program to allow the Secretary concerned (or the Secretary of Transportation with respect to the Coast Guard) to enter into agreements for military housing rental guaranty projects only when such projects are specifically authorized by law and subject to the availability of specific appropriations for such purpose. Requires budget materials submitted to the Congress to include proposed rental guaranty projects. Extends the rental guaranty program through FY 1993. Authorizes the Secretary concerned who compensates a landlord for breach of lease or damages by a member of the armed forces under the military housing rental guaranty program to withhold from the pay of such member an amount equal to the amount of such compensation. Revises provisions with respect to the authority of the Secretaries concerned to lease certain nonexcess property. Authorizes the Secretary to acquire any leasehold interest in real property considered necessary for national security purposes to facilitate special operations forces activities. Sets a maximum rental cost of any property so acquired at $500,000. Allows facilities acquired to be modified to facilitate such activities. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts as of the end of FY 1992. Requires the Secretary to report to the defense committees concerning leasehold interests so acquired. Empowers law enforcement authorities employed at the Pentagon Reservation with the same powers as sheriffs and constables upon such property. Part C: Land Transactions - Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to the New Mexico State Armory Board all rights and interests in real property in Santa Fe, New Mexico, currently used as a U.S. Army Reserve Center, under specified terms and conditions, including the construction by the Board of a Reserve Center replacement facility. Authorizes the Secretary of the Air Force to convey to Saint Clair County, Illinois, all rights and interests in the Cardinal Creek Housing Complex, Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, under specified terms and conditions. Amends the Military Construction Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 to revise the sale payment amount with respect to the conveyance to Burlington, Vermont, of the Naval Reserve Center located there. Directs the Secretary of the Navy to release a reversionary interest held on certain real property within Berrien County, Michigan. Authorizes the Secretary of the Navy to acquire by fee simple real property located at Outlying Landing Field Barin, Baldwin County, Alabama. Authorizes the Secretary of the Army to convey to New Bedford, Massachusetts, all rights and interests to certain parcels of real property in such city. Requires the city to conduct any remedial action necessary to prevent the release of any oil or other hazardous material contained there and to indemnify the United States against all claims arising with respect to such parcels of land. Requires the Secretary to permit city officials to enter upon such property to prepare the area for construction of a waste water treatment plant. Division C: Department of Energy National Security Authorizations and Other Authorizations - Title XXXI: (SIC) Department of Energy National Security Programs - Part A: National Security Programs Authorizations - Authorizes appropriations to the Department of Energy (DOE) for FY 1992 for operating expenses incurred, and for plant and capital equipment necessary, in carrying out national security programs in the following areas: (1) weapons activities; (2) defense nuclear materials production; (3) verification and control technology; (4) nuclear materials safeguards and security technology development programs; (5) security investigations; (6) Office of Security evaluations; (7) new production reactors; (8) naval reactors and naval reactors development; and (9) capital equipment not related to construction. Authorizes appropriations to DOE for FY 1992 for carrying out environmental restoration and waste management programs necessary for national security programs in the following areas: (1) operating expenses; (2) plant projects; and (3) capital equipment. Earmarks specified FY 1992 funding for the defense inertial confinement fusion program. Directs the Secretary of Energy (Secretary, for purposes of this title) to use FY 1992 and 1993 DOE funds to reimburse specified Colorado cities for costs incurred in implementing a required water management program. Provides reimbursement amounts for each such fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to make available to the States of Washington, Oregon, and Idaho specified FY 1992 through 1994 DOE funds for implementing and operating the Hanford Health Information Network. Prohibits any funds appropriated or otherwise made available to DOE for FY 1992 from being used for modifying the W-79 atomic fired artillery projectile. Reduces the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this Part. Part B: Recurring General Provisions - Prohibits the use of funds appropriated pursuant to this title for the costs of a program exceeding 105 percent of the program authorization or $10,000,000 more than the amount authorized, whichever is less, or for programs which have not been presented to, or requested of, the Congress, unless the Secretary transmits to the appropriate congressional committees a full and complete statement of the action proposed and 30 days have elapsed. Prohibits the total funds obligated pursuant to this title from exceeding the total amount authorized to be appropriated by this title. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out any general plant project only if the maximum estimated cost of the project does not exceed $2,000,000. Requires reports to specified committees by the Secretary when the costs exceed such amount. Sets forth procedures for the approval of projects which exceed by more than 25 percent their estimated cost or authorized amount. Exempts from such procedures any projects which have an estimated cost of less than $5,000,000. Allows for the transfer of funds from specified projects to other Government agencies for the performance of work for which the funds were appropriated. Authorizes the Secretary of Defense to transfer to the Secretary specified FY 1992 DOD R&D funds for the performance of work on SDI. Authorizes an additional transfer for the inertial confinement fusion program. Authorizes the Secretary to perform advance planning and construction design services in connection with any proposed construction project if the total estimated cost for such services does not exceed $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to notify the defense committees whenever the estimated cost of such planning and design exceeds $300,000. Requires specific authorization by law whenever such estimated cost exceeds $2,000,000. Authorizes the Secretary to perform emergency construction planning and design in order to meet the needs of national defense or to protect property or human life. Makes funds appropriated for management and support activities and for general plant projects under this title available for all national security programs of DOE. Part C: Miscellaneous - Directs the Secretary to conduct a scholarship and fellowship program to enable individuals to qualify for employment in environmental restoration and waste management (ERW) positions in DOE. Requires the Secretary to award at least 20 each of scholarships (for undergraduates) and fellowships (for graduate students) during FY 1992. Outlines eligibility requirements. Requires the Secretary and any such recipient to enter into an agreement under which the Secretary agrees to provide the participant with educational assistance for a specified number of school years in return for the participant's agreement to complete the educational program and to serve full-time as a DOD employee in an ERW position for 12 months for each school year in which such educational assistance was provided. Outlines provisions concerning repayment of such educational assistance by the participant if he or she does not complete such education or work the required period thereafter. Requires such repayment within a specified period. Authorizes the Secretary to waive such payment recovery if found to be against equity and good conscience or contrary to the best interests of the United States. Authorizes the Secretary, in awarding such scholarships and fellowships, to give a preference to individuals who are entitled to or accepted for enrollment in an educational institution that has a cooperative education program with DOE. Directs the Secretary to report to the Congress on activities under the program. Provides funding for such program from ERW funds authorized under this Act. Directs the Secretary to carry out the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Program under which the Secretary carries out ERW activities at DOE nuclear facilities. Establishes in DOE the Office of Environmental Restoration and Waste Management through which the Secretary shall carry out the Program. Directs the Secretary to issue annually a five-year plan for ERW activities to be conducted at DOE nuclear facilities under the Program. Requires such plans to be submitted to the President and the Congress, published in the Federal Register, and made available to the public. Outlines matters to be included in each five-year plan. Requires preliminary plans to be provided to affected States and Indian tribes for coordination, review, and comment. Requires the first five-year plan to be issued in 1992. Establishes in the Treasury the Defense Environmental Restoration and Waste Management Account for the deposit of sums used to carry out the Program. Requires the President to include in his annual budget submission to the Congress certain information with respect to the Program. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, affected States and Indian tribes to assist their participation in the development of the five-year plans. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into a long-term contract for the procurement of products and services that are determined to be necessary to support waste cleanup and modernization activities at DOE facilities. Authorizes such contract to extend for up to 30 years, with two ten-year contract extension options. Outlines contract requirements. Directs the Secretary, in awarding such contract, to: (1) use competitive procedures; (2) encourage the development of new and innovative technologies; and (3) enter into contracts with diverse contractors. Authorizes the Secretary, upon the termination of such a contract, to pay the balance of the cost of any special facility acquired or constructed if the acquisition or construction constitutes a significant portion of the investment by the contractor under the contract. Authorizes the Secretary to lease Federal lands at a DOE facility in connection with a contract. Provides authorized lease periods. Prohibits the Secretary from entering into such contracts until the Secretary submits to the Congress a justification and analysis and complies with a notification requirement. Terminates the authority to enter into such contracts on September 30, 1996. Amends the Department of Energy Organization Act to direct the Secretary to conduct a program in DOE to encourage the career development of non-Federal employees of DOE national laboratories. Makes eligible for such program employees who have demonstrated exceptional talent or skill in their positions and whose service in positions considered critical to the national defense or national energy security would likely result in professional contributions beneficial to such activities in DOE. Requires the Secretary to publish in the Federal Register the name, position, and duties of each individual serving in such program. Prohibits the Secretary from resuming plutonium operations at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Weapons Plant, Golden, Colorado, until the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board (Board) has determined that the Secretary has responded to specified Board recommendations relating to the Rocky Flats plant. Requires certain congressional notification and certification requirements to be met before the resumption of warhead production activities except at one specified building at the plant. Requires the Defense Science Board and the Nuclear Weapons Council to report to the defense committees jointly on each type of warhead proposed to be produced at Rocky Flats. Requires the Secretaries of Defense and Energy to both certify to the defense committees that production of recommended types of warheads at such plant is necessary in the national security interest before production may resume. Authorizes the Secretary of Energy to award grants to certain non-profit organizations to: (1) provide training and education to persons whose duties are or include response to hazardous substance releases or similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities; and (2) develop curricula for such training and education. Makes eligible for such grants nonprofit organizations that have demonstrated significant capabilities in: (1) implementing and conducting training and education programs relating to the general health and safety of workers; (2) identifying groups of workers whose duties include response to hazardous substances releases or similar emergencies; and (3) conducting effective training programs for such workers. Requires the Secretary to give grant award preference to organizations and programs that are grant recipients under a specified provision of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act of 1986. Authorizes the Secretary to assess civil penalties against any DOE contractor who employs individuals to respond to hazardous substance releases or other similar emergencies at DOE nuclear weapons facilities and fails to provide for such training or to certify to DOE that such employees are adequately trained by other means. Provides FY 1992 funding for such program from funds authorized to be appropriated under this Act. Directs the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with participants from two or more eligible firms and one or more DOE laboratories (allows inclusion of institutions of higher education) in order to encourage and provide for the conduct of R&D of dual-use (both commercial and military applications) critical technologies selected by the Secretary, to be known as Department of Energy Critical Technology Partnerships. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into cooperative arrangements with the same type of participants for R&D and utilization of advanced manufacturing technologies potentially having a broad range of applications, to be known as Department of Energy Advanced Manufacturing Technology Partnerships. Directs the Secretary to establish four or more Advanced Materials Processing, Synthesis, and Commercialization Partnerships in order to facilitate the development and commercialization of advanced materials processing, synthesis, and technology in the United States. Title XXXII: Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board Authorization - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for the operations of the Defense Nuclear Facilities Safety Board. Amends the Atomic Energy Act of 1954 to: (1) allow the Board to employ up to 150 full-time employees (currently 100); and (2) give the Board access to any information on atomic weapons within DOE that is necessary for the Board to carry out its functions. Title XXXIII: National Defense Stockpile - Part A: Changes in Stockpile Amounts - Authorizes the National Defense Stockpile (NDS) Manager to dispose of specified materials and to obligate out of the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund (Fund) specified amounts for the acquisition of materials and for R&D programs of the Strategic and Critical Materials Stockpiling Act. Part B: Programmatic Changes - Amends such Act to allow moneys from the Fund to be used for materials development and research. Revises the conditions under which the President may make changes in the quantity of any material in the NDS. Removes a prohibition on disposals from the NDS which would result in an unobligated balance in the Fund in excess of $100,000,000. Extends until expended (currently two fiscal years) the availability of funds appropriated for the transportation, processing, refining, storage, security, maintenance, rotation, and disposal of materials contained in or acquired for the NDS. Authorizes the rotation of stockpile materials in order to prevent technological obsolescence. Authorizes expenditures from the Fund for the maintenance and disposal of materials. Changes from semiannually to annually the required frequency for a report on stockpile operations. Repeals a provision prohibiting stockpile disposals when there is a vacancy in the position of NDS Manager or when the authority of the President under such Act has not been delegated to that position. Title XXXIV: Civil Defense - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 and 1993 for carrying out the Federal Civil Defense Act of 1950. Title XXXV: Panama Canal Commission - Panama Canal Commission Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1992 - Authorizes the Panama Canal Commission (Commission) to make such expenditures as necessary for the operation, maintenance, and improvement of the Panama Canal for FY 1992. Limits the amount of funds available to the Commission for FY 1992 that may be expended for official reception and representation expenses. Authorizes the use of FY 1992 Commission funds for the purchase of passenger motor vehicles used to transport personnel of the Commission across the Isthmus of Panama, without regard to vehicle price limitations. Authorizes FY 1992 Commission funds to be obligated for authorized pay increases for Commission officers and employees. Allows such pay increases to be made only in accordance with specified Federal law. Places the Administrator of the Commission at Level IV of the Executive Schedule.
Bill· SS. 1499 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Pell Grant Expansion Act of 1991 - Amends the Higher Education Act of 1965 to extend through FY 1997 the Pell Grant program authority. Revises the formula for and increases the amount of an individual Pell Grant. Sets the maximum amount at $4,500 for award year 1992-1993. Determines the amount as follows: (1) an allowance for living expenses, not to exceed $2,750; plus (2) an amount equal to 25 percent of the cost of tuition at the institution, not to exceed $1,750; minus (3) the expected family contribution. Provides, for academic years 1993-1994 through 1996-1997, for specified inflation adjustments for such specified maximum amounts. Raises to $400 the minimum amount which a student must be eligible for before a Pell Grant may be awarded. Revises Pell Grant program provisions for adjustments for insufficient appropriations. Requires the Secretary, in such cases, to expend from the next succeeding fiscal year's appropriation sums necessary to meet any such insufficiences. Revises the Pell Grant program definition of cost of attendance to eliminate certain limitations, for specified types of students, on the allowance for room and board costs, books, supplies, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses.
Bill· SS. 1498 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Base Community Recovery Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to treat any former employee of a Federal military installation whose job was terminated by reason of its closing or realignment as a member of a targeted group for purposes of the target jobs credit allowed to employers. Allows such employees a terminated employee tax credit of up to ten percent of wages attributable to private employment within the base closure region for one year. Reduces the depreciation recapture rate for businesses that acquire buildings on such bases, and increases the amount which may be expensed for the cost of new equipment placed in service. Prescribes the treatment of qualified base closure bonds by: (1) making termination dates for qualified small issue bonds inapplicable to them; (2) not taking into account certain capital expenditures; and (3) increasing the State ceiling on the volume cap.
Bill· SS. 1492 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide a complete tax exemption (currently a 75 percent tax exemption) for bonds used to finance high-speed intercity rail facilities.
Law· HRH.R. 2950 (102nd)enacted
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Intermodal Surface Transportation Infrastructure Act of 1991 - Declares that: (1) it is a goal of the United States to develop a national intermodal transportation (IT) system that moves people and goods in an energy efficient manner; and (2) the nation's future economic direction is dependent on its ability to confront directly the challenges of the global economy, declining productivity growth, energy vulnerability, air pollution, and the need to rebuild the nation's infrastructure. Title I: Federal-Aid Highways - Declares that the authorizations of appropriations and apportionments for construction of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways (Interstate System - IS) made by this Act are the final authorizations of appropriations and apportionments for completion of construction of the IS. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to apportion for all States (other than Massachusetts) for FY 1993 specified sums authorized for such year by the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1956 for expenditure on the IS, based on the apportionment factors contained in Committee Print 102-10 of the House Committee on Public Works and Transportation. Extends specified apportionments for the IS through FY 1997. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) obligation ceilings for Federal-aid highways and highway safety construction programs for FY 1992 through 1996, with exceptions; and (2) the distribution of, limitation on, and redistribution of unused, obligation authority. Authorizes appropriations from the Highway Trust Fund (HTF) for: (1) the State flexible program; (2) the National Highway System (NHS); (3) the urban mobility system (UMS); (4) the rural mobility system (RMS); (5) the combined highway safety improvement program; (6) the bridge program; (7) Indian reservation roads; (8) forest highways; (9) public lands highways; (10) parkways and park highways; (11) Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) safety programs; and (12) FHWA safety research and development programs. Requires: (1) that not less than ten percent of the amounts authorized to be appropriated under titles I and III of this Act be expended with small business concerns owned and controlled by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals, with exceptions; (2) each State to annually survey and compile a list of disadvantaged business enterprises and the location of such concerns in the State, and notify the Secretary, in writing, of the percentage of such concerns which are controlled by women, by socially and economically disadvantaged individuals other than women, and by individuals who are women and also otherwise socially and economically disadvantaged individuals; and (3) the Secretary to establish minimum uniform criteria for State governments to use in certifying whether a concern qualifies as a disadvantaged business enterprise. Specifies that: (1) with respect to highway, safety, and motor carrier budget authority, $5,200,000,000 provided in each of FY 1992 through 1995, and $5,600,000,000 in FY 1996, shall be attributed to estimated revenues resulting from four cents of a five-cent increase in the gas tax effective FY 1992, as provided in this Act; (2) with respect to transit budget authority, $1,300,000,000 provided in each of FY 1992 through 1995, and $1,400,000,000 in FY 1996, shall be attributed to estimated revenues resulting from one cent of such gas tax increase; and (3) excess budget amounts and accompanying outlays shall be considered direct spending for pay-as-you-go and deficit control purposes of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985. Prohibits the use of excess revenues for other purposes. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to the apportionment of funds and the designation and use of pay-as-you-go funds. Restructures the Federal-aid highway program by reorganizing it into four Federal-aid systems: (1) the IS; (2) the NHS; (3) the UMS; and (4) the RMS. Requires: (1) each State to functionally reclassify the roads and streets in such State; and (2) the Secretary to approve and submit a report to the Congress containing such reclassification by September 30, 1992. Directs the Secretary to establish a flexible program under which a State may expend funds apportioned to it for carrying out any project or activity for which Federal funds may be obligated under Federal highway provisions. Includes among eligible NHS projects: (1) construction, resurfacing, and rehabilitation of segments of such system; (2) highway safety improvements for segments of such system; (3) highway-related technology transfer activities; (3) public transportation; (4) fringe and corridor parking; (5) carpool and vanpool projects; and (6) bicycle transportation. Includes among eligible UMS and RMS systems: (1) construction, resurfacing, and rehabilitation of segments of such system; (2) highway safety improvements; (3) public transportation; (4) transportation planning; (5) highway-related and public transportation-related technology transfer activities; (6) bicycle transportation and and pedestrian walkways; (7) landscaping, scenic enhancement, and planting of wild flowers; and (8) participation in wetland mitigation banks and statewide programs to create, conserve, or enhance wetland habitat. Authorizes appropriations under the interstate substitute program for highway and transit projects. Sets forth provisions with respect to apportionments: (1) under the interstate substitute program; and (2) for the NHS, RMS, UMS, and the State flexible program. Limits the transferability of NHS apportionments, but provides special transferability rules for nonattainment areas for carbon monoxide or ozone under the Clean Air Act (CAA). Revises program and project approval provisions to bar the Secretary from approving: (1) projects after September 30, 1992, which are not included in a transportation improvement program (TIP); (2) any program of projects in an urbanized area not based on the planning process (under Federal highway provisions) and without consideration by the State of the views of responsible public officials of the affected area; (3) a highway project (other than a project for construction of high occupancy vehicle lanes) in an urbanized area of more than 200,000 population which will significantly increase the motor vehicle carrying capacity of a highway facility unless the project is consistent with a congestion management system for such area; and (4) a highway project which has associated with it a project for the construction of a pedestrian walkway or a bicycle transportation facility under the State TIP unless the Secretary first approves such pedestrian walkway or bicycle transportation project, with exceptions. Directs the Secretary, in approving programs for: (1) NHS projects in non-urbanized areas, to require that such projects be selected by the State in consultation with appropriate local officials; (2) RMS projects, to require that such projects be selected by the State highway department, appropriate local officials, and Indian tribal governments in cooperation with each other, with exceptions; (3) NHS projects, to give preference to such projects as will expedite the completion of an adequate and connected system of highways interstate in character; (4) UMS projects, to require that such projects be selected by the designated metropolitan planning organization (MPO) in consultation with the State; and (5) Federal-aid systems, to give priority to projects which incorporate improved standards and features with safety benefits. Authorizes the Secretary, in approving programs, to give priority of approval to, and expedite the construction of, projects that are recommended by specified officials as important to the national defense. Specifies that, in preparing programs to submit for approval, the Secretary and the State: (1) shall give consideration to projects providing direct and convenient public access to public airports, public ports for water transportation, new town communities, and new town-intown communities; and (2) may give priority to projects for the reconstruction, resurfacing, restoration, or rehabilitation of highways which are incurring a substantial use as a result of transportation activities to meet national energy requirements and which will continue to incur such use. Sets forth provisions with respect to preconstruction activities and contracting for engineering and design services. Requires the Secretary to report to the Congress a national list of rights-of-way identified by the MPOs and the States, including a strategy for preventing further loss of rights-of-way and the desirability of creating a Transportation Right-of-Way Land Bank to preserve vital corridors. Authorizes the States, MPOs, or units of local government (using NHS, UMS, or RMS funds) to purchase threatened rights-of-way subject to certain limitations. Directs the Secretary, in approving such purchases, to give priority to those rights-of-way most imminently threatened with being lost to transportation purposes. Sets forth provisions regarding the availability of Federal funds, set asides for discretionary and 4R (resurfacing, restoring, rehabilitating, and reconstructing) projects, and the Federal share of IS and other Federal-aid highway projects. Bars States from allowing a longer combination vehicle (LCV) to be operated on the IS within its boundaries without having its apportionment of funds withheld, unless authorized under this Act. Authorizes a State to continue to allow LCVs lawfully operated on June 1, 1991, to operate on the IS within its boundaries, subject to specified requirements. Establishes separate requirements for the State of Wyoming. Makes additional exceptions with respect to the operation of certain specialized hauling vehicles on Interstate Route 68 in Garrett and Allegany Counties, Maryland. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of State and Federal regulations pertaining to transporters of water well drilling rigs on public highways to identify requirements which place a burden on such transporters without enhancing safety or preservation of public highways and to report to the Congress within two years on the results of such study. Exempts firefighting vehicles from axle weight limitations and the bridge formula for vehicles using the IS for two years, subject to renewal for an additional year. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of State laws regulating the use on the IS of such vehicles and the issuance of permits by States exempting such vehicles from such requirements to determine whether or not: (1) such State laws and Federal highway provisions need to be modified; (2) a permanent exemption should be made for such vehicles; or (3) the bridge formula should be modified as it applies to such vehicles. Sets forth reporting requirements. Directs the Secretary to permit Federal participation in initial construction (current law authorizes such participation in construction) and 4R projects with respect to toll highways, bridges, or tunnels, and conversion of toll-free bridges or tunnels to toll facilities on the same basis as Federal participation is permitted in the construction of free highways. Sets forth provisions with respect to ownership of such facilities, limitations on the use of revenues and on the Federal share, and modification of agreements to allow Federal participation. Eliminates the public operation requirement for toll ferries. Directs the Secretary to void certain agreements with respect to: (1) the Fort McHenry Tunnel, Maryland; and (2) the I-78 Delaware River Bridge. Replaces railway-highway crossing provisions with provisions for a combined highway safety improvement program, under which each State shall: (1) conduct and systematically maintain an engineering survey of all highways to identify hazardous locations, as well as railroad crossings which may require separation, relocation, or protective devices; (2) assign priorities for correction; and (3) establish and implement a schedule of projects for improvements so identified. Sets the Federal share for projects under such program at 80 percent of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to classify the various types of projects involved in the elimination of hazards of railway-highway crossings and set for each classification a percentage of the costs of construction deemed to represent the net benefit to the railroads for the purpose of determining the railroads' share of construction costs. Sets forth provisions with respect to liability for construction costs, discharge of liability, and enforcement of Act requirements. Provides for the apportionment of funds. Directs the Secretary to set aside $300,000 for Operation Life Saver (a public information and education program to prevent and reduce motor vehicle accidents, injuries, and fatalities, and to improve driver performance at railway-highway crossings). Authorizes the use of funds by local governments for the improvement of railway-highway crossings under specified circumstances. Requires each State to: (1) establish an evaluation process to assess results achieved by highway safety improvement projects and develop cost-benefit data for various types of corrections and treatments which shall be used in setting priorities for such projects; and (2) submit progress reports to the Secretary by December 30 of each year. Directs the Secretary to: (1) initiate a rulemaking proceeding to revise the guidelines and standards for the installation of roadside crash cushions; and (2) coordinate the field testing of the vehicle proximity alert system and comparable systems to determine their feasibility for use by priority vehicles as an effective railroad-highway grade crossing safety device (and, if feasible, to develop and implement programs to install such devices). Sets forth provisions with respect to the control of outdoor advertising. Directs MPOs, in cooperation with the State, to develop transportation plans and programs for urbanized areas of the State which provide for the development of transportation facilities (including pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities) which will function as an IT system for the State and such urbanized areas. Provides for the designation or redesignation of MPOs for each urbanized area of the State. Sets forth provisions with respect to the area covered by the transportation planning process and the factors to be considered in developing transportation plans and programs, such as: (1) applicable Federal, State, and local energy conservation programs, goals, and objectives; (2) applicable CAA requirements; (3) methods to reduce traffic congestion; (4) the effect of transportation decisions on land use and development; (5) the use of innovative mechanisms for financing projects; and (6) long-range needs of transportation systems in the urbanized area. Sets forth special rules for urbanized areas of greater than 200,000 population. Requires MPOs designated for urbanized areas, in cooperation with the State, to develop a long range transportation plan and a TIP for such area. Requires biennial review and approval of TIPs. Directs the Secretary to establish in the Department of Transportation (DOT) an advisory committee to review: (1) the planning process being utilized by MPOs; (2) the composition and organization of such MPOs; (3) the impact on such MPOs of changing demographics and increased responsibilities under Federal highway provisions and under the CAA; and (4) the relationship between the MPO and statewide planning processes. Sets forth reporting requirements. Sets forth provisions with respect to statewide planning that are analogous to those for metropolitan planning. Authorizes: (1) the Secretary to develop highway construction training and assistance programs in cooperation with Indian tribal governments; and (2) the States to implement a preference for employment of Indians on projects carried out under this title near Indian reservations. Authorizes: (1) the use of RMS or UMS funds for capital improvement to provide access and coordination between intercity and rural bus service, and for construction of facilities to provide connections between highway transportation and other modes of transportation; and (2) the Secretary to approve as a project on any Federal-aid system modifications to existing highway facilities on such system necessary to accommodate other modes of transportation if such modifications will not adversely affect automotive safety or future highway improvements. Makes public mass transportation projects in urbanized areas subject to metropolitan planning requirements under this Act. Directs the Secretary to: (1) inventory all highway bridges on Indian reservation roads and park bridges; (2) classify them according to serviceability, safety, and essentiality for public use; (3) assign each a priority for replacement or rehabilitation; and (4) determine the cost of replacing each such bridge with a comparable facility or of rehabilitating such bridge. Authorizes the Secretary to approve Federal participation in the painting of, or application of calcium magnesium acetate to, the structure of highway bridges upon application by a State for assistance. Provides for the apportionment of discretionary bridge program funds. Authorizes the expenditure of certain funds to rehabilitate, paint, or apply calcium magnesium acetate to highway bridges located on public roads other than those on the Federal-aid system. Requires a set-aside for such activities with respect to Indian reservation bridges. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified high cost bridge projects. Authorizes appropriations. Makes permanent the extension of the 65 miles per hour speed limit demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations with respect to: (1) the monitoring of programs conducted by the States to ensure uniformity; (2) the placing of devices and equipment at such locations on maximum speed limit highways on a scientifically random basis which takes into account the relative risk of motor vehicle accidents occurring, considering the classes of such highways and the speeds at which vehicles are traveling. Sets forth a formula for the transfer of a State's apportionment of Federal highway funds if such State fails to adequately enforce the speed limit. Requires a State to obligate at least 50 percent of any funds transferred under this title for a fiscal year for speed limit enforcement and public information and education. Requires the Secretary to carry out such provisions through the National Highway Transportation Safety Administration (NHTSA). Provides for the transfer of certain FHWA personnel to the NHTSA to carry out such provisions. Directs the Secretary, on October 1 or as soon as possible thereafter in FY 1992 and each succeeding fiscal year, to allocate among the States amounts sufficient to ensure that a State's percentage of the total apportionments in each fiscal year under Federal highway provisions shall not be less than 90 percent of the percentage of estimated tax payments attributable to highway users in such State paid into the HTF (other than the Mass Transit Account) in the latest fiscal year for which data is available. Authorizes a State, subject to approval by the Secretary, to obligate: (1) UMS and flexible program funds for the construction of pedestrian walkways and bicycle transportation facilities on land adjacent to any highway on a Federal-aid system (other than the IS); and (2) NHS funds for such construction adjacent to any highway funds, at the discretion of the department charged with the administration of such funds, for the construction of such walkways and facilities in conjunction with trails, roads, highways, and parkways on Federal lands. Requires each State receiving an apportionment under this title to fund, in the State transportation department, a position of bicycle and pedestrian coordinator. Authorizes, with respect to highway bridge deck replacement or rehabilitation, such replacement or rehabilitation so as to provide for the safe accommodation of bicycles, subject to certain conditions. Sets the Federal share of pedestrian walkway and bicycle transportation facility construction at 80 percent. Requires such walkways and facilities to be located and designed pursuant to an overall plan with due consideration for safety and contiguous routes. Limits the use of motorized vehicles on pedestrian walkways and trails under this title. Requires that: (1) two percent of funds made available for Indian reservation roads for each fiscal year be allocated to those Indian tribal governments applying for transportation planning; and (2) the Indian tribal government develop a TIP that includes all Indian reservation road projects proposed for funding. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a study on differences between the use of funds out of the HTF on, and the designation of roads as, Indian reservation roads and rural mobility highways; and (2) report to the Congress on the results, together with any recommendations for correcting inequities identified. Requires the Secretary, within one year, to issue regulations for State development, establishment, and implementation of a system (which may include a compliance schedule and minimum standards) for managing: (1) highway pavement of the Federal-aid system; (2) bridges on and off such system; (3) highway and transportation safety; (4) traffic congestion; (5) public transportation facilities and equipment; and (6) IT facilities and systems. Directs the Secretary to issue guidelines and requirements for the State development, establishment, and implementation of a traffic monitoring system for highways and public transportation facilities and equipment. Sets forth additional provisions with respect to State requirements, intermodal requirements, reporting requirements, and funding. Authorizes appropriations for congestion relief projects. Directs the Secretary to: (1) carry out research, development, and technology transfer activities to promote the safe operation and maintenance of commercial motor vehicles in interstate commerce; and (2) make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, a not-for-profit membership organization that has been engaged exclusively in truck-related research and education since 1985. Sets the Federal share of such activities at 100 percent. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. Prohibits: (1) the discovery (current law only bars the admission as evidence) of certain reports and surveys compiled to develop a highway safety construction improvement project to enhance the safety of potential accident sites or hazardous conditions; and (2) the Secretary from using iron in highway or urban transit projects (current law specifies only steel and manufactured products used in such projects) that has not be produced in the United States. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) relocation assistance regulations relating to the Rural Electrification Administration; (2) a temporary matching fund waiver regarding qualifying State projects; (3) repayment of increases in the Federal share; and (4) deductions from State apportionments where a State has not made the required repayment on or before March 30, 1994. Identifies high priority corridors on the NHS. Directs the Secretary to: (1) include all such corridors on the proposed NHS submitted to the Congress; (2) prepare a long-range plan for the upgrading of each corridor to the appropriate standard for highways on the NHS, including separate plans for developing the corridor and financing the development; (3) prepare feasibility and design studies, as necessary, for those corridors for which such studies have not been prepared; and (4) use procedures for acceleration of projects in carrying out projects on high priority corridors. Requires each State in which a priority segment is located to prepare a detailed plan for completion of construction of such segment and for financing such construction. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth criteria for States to use in selecting high priority segments of corridors of national significance. Authorizes appropriations out of the HTF for feasibility and design studies under this title. Directs the Secretary to establish a Priority Corridor Revolving Loan Fund. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants under a highway bridge research and demonstration program. Directs the Secretary to: (1) take such action as necessary to ensure that information and technology resulting from such research is made available to State and local transportation departments and other interested persons; and (2) make grants to States for construction of highway timber bridges on the RMS. Sets forth provisions with respect to applications, approval criteria, the Federal share, and funding for such grants. Requires the Secretary to carry out a program for ferry boat construction. Bars the Secretary from disapproving, for five years, a highway project solely on the ground that it includes the use of asphalt containing recycled rubber. Directs the Secretary to: (1) gather information and recommendations concerning such use in highway projects from those States that have extensively researched and experimented with such use and make available such information and recommendations to interested States; and (2) conduct a study on such use, the benefits of such use, and the utilization of other recycled materials in asphalt and report the results within two years to the Congress. Directs the Secretary to carry out highway use tax evasion projects, subject to specified limitations. Authorizes the Secretary to allocate specified funds to the Internal Revenue Service and the States for such purposes. Requires the Secretary to establish an advisory committee to prepare a plan to carry out and coordinate highway use tax evasion projects, monitor the results, provide progress reports to the Secretary, and make recommendations to the Secretary for the distribution of funds. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) termination of such committee; (2) State certification requirements (that the State will maintain motor fuel tax enforcement activities at a certain level); (3) reporting requirements; and (4) funding of such projects. Authorizes the Secretary to approve substitute highway, bus transit, and light rail transit projects in lieu of construction of the I-94 East-West Transitway project in Milwaukee and Waukesha counties, Wisconsin. Directs the Army Corps of Engineers, the Environmental Protection Agency, and the FHWA to suspend, for a period of five years from completion of Interstate Route 287 in New Jersey (NJ), the enforcement or implementation of the requirement of the Corps' permit, with respect to the construction of such route, that a wetland mitigation site in Wayne, New Jersey, be in place prior to the opening of the route. Directs the Secretary to: (1) establish within DOT an advisory committee to assist the Secretary with respect to the establishment of a national scenic byways program; and (2) provide technical assistance and make grants to the States for the planning, design, and development of State scenic byways programs. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the membership, function, and reporting requirements of such committee; (2) the Federal share (80 percent); and (3) additional funding provisions. Directs the Secretary to carry out a highway project in Arkansas to demonstrate: (1) the benefits of providing training to county and town traffic officials in the need for and application of uniform traffic control devices; and (2) the safety benefits of providing for adequate and safe warning and regulatory signs. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified: (1) rural access projects; and (2) urban access and mobility projects. Authorizes appropriations. Directs: (1) the Secretary to carry out a project to make modifications to bridges necessary for the Secretary of the Army to carry out a project for flood control at Molly Ann's Brook, New Jersey; and (2) the Governor of New Jersey to carry out all the responsibilities of the Secretary with respect to a highway construction project in Passaic County, New Jersey. Sets forth provisions with respect to certain regulatory interpretations concerning: (1) the coating of steel; and (2) the funding of fusees and flares. Directs the Secretary to conduct a study of the progress being made by the States in adopting and implementing a uniform system for handicapped parking. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires: (1) not less than five percent of the mileage of roadside barriers installed along Federal-aid highways within the boundaries of a State in each calendar year to be innovative safety barriers; and (2) each State to annually certify to the Secretary the Secretary compliance with such requirement. Directs the Secretary to conduct a survey to identify current State standards (to determine the necessity of upgrading such standards to enhance highway safety) relating to geometric design, traffic control devices, roadside safety, safety appurtenance design, uniform traffic control devices, and sign legibility and directional clarity for all Federal-aid highways, taking into consideration posted speed limits as they relate to highway design. Sets forth reporting requirements. Sets forth: (1) the effective date of this title; and (2) provisions with respect to the availability and transferability of unobligated balances. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified advanced technology projects. Authorizes appropriations. Title II: Highway Safety - Requires (as a prerequisite to the Secretary's approval) that each State's highway safety program include the following programs: (1) drunk driving; (2) speeding; (3) occupant protection; (4) emergency medical services; (5) uniform data collection and reporting; (6) accident location; (7) highway design, construction, and maintenance; and (8) traffic engineering. Permits the Secretary to approve a State's highway safety program only if it includes three or more of the following programs: (1) bicycle safety; (2) pedestrian safety; (3) school bus safety; (4) traffic record system; (5) police traffic services; (6) motorcycle safety; and (7) such other programs as the Secretary may establish by regulation. Bars the Secretary from approving a State highway safety program that does not provide: (1) that at least 40 percent of Federal funds apportioned to the State for a fiscal year be expended by the political subdivisions of the State, including Indian tribal governments (current law makes no mention of tribal governments); and (2) adequate and reasonable access for the safe and convenient movement of individuals with disabilities (currently, physically handicapped persons). Authorizes the Secretary to waive the 40 percent requirement whenever the Secretary determines that there are an insufficient number of local highway safety programs to justify the expenditure in the State of such percentage of Federal funds during the fiscal year. Directs the Secretary to issue regulations establishing minimum standards for State highway safety programs to be approved under this title which: (1) with respect to the drunk driving, speeding, occupant protection, and police traffic services programs, must include public information, education, and law enforcement components; and (2) may require a State highway safety program to include adoption and enforcement of State law authorizing the use of automatic speed detection devices by law enforcement officers. Specifies that such highway safety requirements and regulations shall, to the extent deemed appropriate by the Secretary, be applicable to federally administered areas where a Federal agency controls the highways or supervises traffic operations. Applies provisions of this title to Indian reservations. Specifies that 95 percent of the funds apportioned to the Secretary of the Interior under this title shall be expended by Indian tribes to carry out highway safety programs within their jurisdictions. Bars the admission as evidence, or use in any action for damages, of traffic record system data. Sets forth reporting requirements with respect to legislation necessary to implement programs developed by the Secretary to reduce traffic-related deaths and injuries. Revises highway safety research and development provisions to authorize the Secretary to: (1) use appropriated funds to engage in research on all phases of highway safety and traffic conditions; and (2) undertake, on a cost-shared basis, collaborative research and development with non-Federal entities which may include crash data collection and analysis, driver and pedestrian behavior, and demonstrations of technology. Bars the Secretary from agreeing to provide more than 50 percent of the cost of any such research and development project. Revises drunk driving provisions to authorize the Secretary to make grants to States which adopt and implement effective programs to reduce traffic safety problems resulting from persons driving while under the influence of alcohol or a controlled substance. Requires States, to be eligible for basic grants, to provide for: (1) the prompt suspension, for a period of not less than 90 days for a first offender and one year for a repeat offender, of the driver's license of any individual who a law enforcement officer has probable cause under State law to believe has committed an alcohol-related traffic offense and who is determined, based on one or more chemical tests, to be intoxicated or who refuses to submit to such a test; (2) a mandatory sentence, not subject to suspension or probation, of imprisonment for not less than 48 consecutive hours or not less than 100 days of community service, of any person convicted of driving while intoxicated (as defined by this Act) more than once in any five-year period; (3) a statewide program for stopping motor vehicles on a nondiscriminatory, lawful basis to determine whether or not operators of such vehicles are driving while under the influence of alcohol; and (4) a self-sustaining drunk driving prevention program under which a significant portion of the fines or surcharges collected from individuals apprehended and fined for operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol are returned, or an equivalent amount of non-Federal funds are provided, to those communities which have comprehensive programs for the prevention of such operation of motor vehicles. Modifies or adds provisions with respect to supplemental grants, limits on administrative expenses, apportionment of funds, and reapportionment of noneligible State funds. Authorizes the Secretary, in the case of a local highway program carried out by an Indian tribe with insufficient funds to meet the non-Federal cost of such program, to increase the Federal share of the cost. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to States which have in effect specified State motorcycle helmet and safety belt use laws, to: (1) educate the public about motorcycle and passenger vehicle safety, and motorcycle helmet, safety belt, and child restraint system use and to involve public health education and other related agencies in such efforts; and (2) train law enforcement officers in the enforcement of, monitor the rate or compliance with, and enforce, such laws. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) the maintenance of State expenditures for traffic safety programs; (2) the Federal share of the cost; (3) eligibility requirements; (4) measuring rates of compliance; and (5) penalties for failing to have in effect such laws. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes appropriations for: (1) NHTSA highway safety programs; and (2) the alcohol traffic safety incentive grant program. Directs the Secretary, acting through the NHTSA, to establish a regional program for implementation of drug recognition programs and for training law enforcement officers to recognize and identify individuals who are operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of alcohol or one or more controlled substances or other drugs. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the National Driver Register Act of 1982 to make authorizations of appropriations for highway safety educational programming and a study of the use of mass media to educate the public about ways of reducing the number and severity of highway accidents. Title III: Federal Transit Act of 1991 - Federal Transit Act of 1991 - Amends Federal law to rename the Urban Mass Transportation Administration of the Department of Transportation the Federal Transit Administration. Amends the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964 (the Act) to delete specified provisions relating to the authority of the Secretary of Transportation (Secretary) to issue letters of intent with respect to grants and loans for mass transportation projects. Directs the Secretary to apportion certain amounts for FY 1992 through 1996 for rail and guideway modernization for certain urbanized areas. Earmarks a portion of the funds made available for construction of new fixed guideway systems and extensions for obligation at the Secretary's discretion for systems planning, alternative analysis, and preliminary engineering. Earmarks a specified amount at the Secretary's discretion for grants to States and local public bodies and agencies to prevent crime and to increase security in existing and future transit systems. Revises certain criteria to prohibit the making of grants or loans for construction of new fixed guideway systems or extensions unless such proposed projects: (1) have undergone a cost-effectiveness analysis; and (2) are included, after September 30, 1992, in a transportation improvement program. Requires the Secretary to report annually to specified congressional committees on factors which the Secretary considers they should use in authorizing such projects. Allocates on a percentage basis grants or loans for mass transportation projects for FY 1992 through 1996 for: (1) rail modernization; (2) construction of new fixed guideway systems and extensions to such systems;(3) replacement, rehabilitation, and purchase of buses and related equipment and the construction of bus-related facilities; and (4) apportionments to States for eligible capital projects and Federal highway programs. Prohibits States (other than the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and the Virgin Islands) from receiving for any fiscal year beginning after September 30, 1991, less than one-third of one percent of funds available from the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for transportation projects under this Act. Treats such named territories together as one State. Makes provisions of title 23 of the United States Code (relating to Federal-aid highway projects) applicable to State projects that are funded under this Act. Sets at 80 percent (or any lower percentage mandated) the Federal share of costs with respect to Federal-aid highway and mass transportation projects. Authorizes the remainder of net project costs of a planned extension to a fixed guideway system to include the cost of rolling stock previously purchased if an applicant demonstrates that such purchase was made: (1) solely with non-Federal funds; and (2) for use on such extension. Increases the percentages of block grant funds available for expenditure for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas with more than, and less than, a population of 200,000, respectively. Extends the Secretary's authority to investigate safety conditions of mass transportation projects financed under the block grant program. Redefines the term "associated capital maintenance items" to include supplies. Provides for an annual increase in the amount of mass transportation funds that may be used for operating assistance by urbanized areas regardless of size (currently, for urbanized areas with less than a population of 200,000). Authorizes States to transfer their apportionment of mass transportation block grant funds for urbanized areas with populations with less than 200,000 to their apportionment for Federal-aid highway projects. Requires contracts for engineering and design services with respect to mass transportation projects to be performed and audited in compliance with cost principles contained in the Federal acquisition regulations of the Code of Federal Regulations. Defines "transit" to mean mass transportation. Authorizes the Secretary to transfer to any public body for any public purpose facilities and equipment and other assets (including land) acquired by a recipient of Federal transportation funds but no longer needed. Sets forth specified determinations to be made by the Secretary with respect to the transfer of such assets for purposes other than for mass transportation. Defines a turnkey system project as a vendor-specific project under which a recipient contracts with a vendor to build a transit system that meets specific performance criteria and which is operated by such vendor for a period of time. Authorizes the Secretary to allow the solicitation for a turnkey system project to be conditionally awarded before Federal requirements are met so long as such award is made without prejudice to such requirements. Authorizes transit service providers who receive Federal transportation assistance under programs for elderly and handicapped persons and rural transportation programs to assist in providing meal delivery service for homebound persons if such service does not conflict with the provision, or result in a reduction, of mass transportation services. Authorizes States to transfer portions of their apportionment of formula grants for public transportation projects in rural areas to their apportionment for Federal-aid highway projects. Requires the Secretary, before apportioning any such formula grants after September 30, 1991, to set aside a specified amount for the development and support of intercity bus transportation. Defines the term "construction" with regard to transportation construction projects to include acquisition of materials and supplies. Authorizes appropriations from the Treasury and the Mass Transit Account of the Highway Trust Fund for FY 1992 through 1996 for: (1) block grants for mass transportation projects in urbanized areas; (2) formula grants for public transportation projects in rural areas; (3) mass transportation and construction projects; (4) rural transportation programs; (5) mass transportation services for elderly and handicapped persons; (6) projects for the deployment of innovative techniques and methods in the management and operation of public transportation services; (7) transportation research, development, and demonstration projects; (8) long-range transportation planning programs and technical studies; (9) grants to public and private nonprofit educational institutions to assist in establishing comprehensive research in the problems of transportation urban areas; (10) rural transit assistance programs; (11) human resources programs in public transportation activities; (12) administrative expenses of the Secretary; and (13) university transportation centers. Makes funds available from the Highway Trust Fund (other than the Mass Transit Account) for FY 1992 through 1996 for such transportation centers. Makes specified Federal transportation funds available to the Secretary for making grants, or entering into contracts, for: (1) transportation research, development, and demonstration projects; (2) long-range transportation planning programs and technical studies; (3) fellowships for training of personnel employed in managerial, technical, and professional positions in the public transportation field; (4) public and private nonprofit educational institutions to assist in establishing comprehensive research in the problems of transportation in urban areas; (5) rural transit assistance programs; or (6) human resources programs in public transportation activities. Requires the Secretary to make a specified amount of such funds available for transit-related technical assistance, demonstration programs, special demonstration initiatives, research, public education, and other activities that the Secretary deems appropriate to help transit providers comply with the Americans With Disabilities Act of 1990. Authorizes the Secretary to undertake a program of transit technology development. Requires the Secretary to establish an industry technical panel to assist in identifying priority technology development areas and in establishing guidelines for project development, project cost sharing, and project execution. Earmarks a specified amount of funds for: (1) State transit cooperative research programs; and (2) State and local transportation planning, research, and training in urbanized areas. Requires the Secretary, as part of the transit cooperative research program, to establish an independent governing board to recommend transit research, development, and technology transfer activities. Authorizes the Secretary to make grants to, and enter into cooperative agreements with, the National Academy of Sciences to implement such activities. Requires the Secretary to report biennially to specified congressional committees an estimate of the future transit needs of the Nation, including in rural areas (particularly access to health care facilities). Requires the Secretary to enter into a full funding grant agreement for the provision of Federal transportation assistance to the New Jersey Urban Core Project. Exempts such project from certain requirements under the Act relating to criteria for new construction of fixed guideway systems. Directs the Secretary to complete a draft environmental impact statement for an extension of the San Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit District (BART) to the San Francisco International Airport. Directs the Secretary to make grants to BART and to Santa Clara County Transit District (SCCTD) to conduct preliminary engineering and complete environmental impact statements on the locally preferred alternative for the extension of Bart to the San Francisco International Airport and for the Tasman Corridor Project. Sets forth a schedule for approval of the construction of such projects. Directs the Secretary, upon such approval, to execute a multiyear grant agreement with BART to permit the expenditure of funds for the construction of the BART San Francisco International Airport Extension and with SCCTD for the construction of the Tasman Corridor Project. Requires the Secretary to execute full funding grant agreements (consistent with Metropolitan Transportation Commission Resolution No. 1876) with BART for Colma and the San Francisco International Airport, and with SCCTD for the Tasman Corridor Project. Directs the Secretary to enter into a full funding grant agreement with a public transportation authority for construction of a suspended light rail system technology pilot project in Altoona, Pennsylvania. Requires the Secretary, not later than April 1, 1992, to complete and publish in the Federal Register a final supplemental environmental impact statement for Minimum Operable Segment-3 (other than the East Side Extension) of the Los Angeles Metro Rail Project. Requires the Secretary to negotiate with the Los Angeles County Transportation Commission on an amendment to a specified full funding contract for construction of Minimum Operable Segment-2 of the Los Angeles Metro Rail Project in order to include construction of Minimum Operable Segment-3, including a commitment for Federal funding for the East Side Extension, in such contract. Directs the Secretary to enter into multiyear grant agreements with certain States for the construction of specified transportation projects. Directs the Federal Transit Administration to allow petroleum violation escrow account funds spent by the New Jersey Transit Corporation on transit improvements to be applied as credit towards the non-Federal match for any transit project funded under the Act. Increases the limitation on operating assistance for the Niagara Frontier Transit Authority by $4,000,000 to provide assistance for the World University Games. Forgives the outstanding balance on a specified grant agreement made to the Fayettville Transit Authority, North Carolina. Extends the repayment period on the outstanding balances due on certain loans made to the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transit Authority. Title IV: Motor Carrier Act of 1991 - Motor Carrier Act of 1991 - Amends the Surface Transportation Assistance Act of 1982 to add as conditions for approval of State plans (to be eligible for commercial motor vehicle safety enforcement grants) that such plans ensure that: (1) activities funded under such Act do not diminish the effectiveness of development and implementation of commercial motor vehicle safety programs; (2) fines imposed and collected by the State for violations of commercial motor vehicle safety regulations will be reasonable and appropriate; and (3) the designated State agency will coordinate the plan with respect to commercial motor vehicle safety with the State highway safety plan. Requires State plans to provide for maintenance of the level of expenditures for enforcement of commercial motor vehicle size and weight limitations, drug interdiction, and State traffic safety laws and regulations as conditions for approval of such plans. Authorizes a State, subject to specified limitations, to use grant funds for: (1) enforcement of commercial motor vehicle size and weight limitations at locations other than fixed weight facilities, at specified geographical locations (such as steep grades or mountainous terrains), or at seaports where intermodal shipping containers enter and exit the United States; (2) detecting the unlawful presence of controlled substances in a commercial motor vehicle or on the person of any occupant of such vehicle; and (3) enforcement of State traffic laws and regulations designed to promote safe operation of commercial motor vehicles. Authorizes appropriations. Makes grants available for expenditure by States for a period of three (currently, one) years, to be available until expended (currently, for the fiscal year and the three succeeding fiscal years). Authorizes the Secretary to deduct up to one (currently, one half) percent of funds made available for administering the grant program in specified fiscal years. Directs the Secretary, on October 1 of each fiscal year, or as soon thereafter as is practicable, to allocate (after making such deduction) among the States whose applications for grants have been approved, the funds authorized to be appropriated for such fiscal year pursuant to criteria established by the Secretary. Requires the Secretary to obligate funds for specified fiscal years for: (1) training of hazardous materials inspectors; (2) commercial motor vehicle information system review; (3) the truck and bus accident data grant program; and (4) research, development, demonstration, and training manuals. Authorizes appropriations for motor carrier safety functions of the FHWA. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to: (1) establish, as part of the motor carrier safety information network system of DOT and similar State systems, an information system (paid for by user fees) which will serve as a clearinghouse and depository of information pertaining to State registration and licensing of commercial motor vehicles and the safety fitness of the registrants of such vehicles; and (2) authorize the operation of such system by contract, through an agreement with a State or States, or by designating a third party which represents the interests of the States. Directs the Secretary to: (1) conduct a review of State motor vehicle registration systems pertaining to license tags for commercial motor vehicles; (2) establish standards to ensure uniform data collection and reporting by all States; and (3) include, as part of the information system established under this title, information on the safety fitness of the registrant of the commercial motor vehicle and such other information as the Secretary considers appropriate. Directs the Secretary to make grants to States: (1) to carry out a project to demonstrate methods of establishing an information system which will link the motor carrier safety information network system of DOT and similar State systems with the motor vehicle registration and licensing systems of the States; (2) which agree to adopt, or have adopted, the recommendation of the National Governors' Association with respect to police accident reports for truck and bus accidents; (3) and to other persons for research, development, demonstrations, and information systems designed to promote commercial motor vehicle safety and which will be beneficial to all U.S. jurisdictions; and (4) to assist in educating the motoring public on its shared responsibility with operators of commercial motor vehicles for highway safety. Authorizes the Secretary to pay for the development, printing, and publication of manuals or other materials used in training roadside inspectors of commercial motor vehicles. Prohibits any State, effective January 1, 1994, from requiring a motor carrier holding a certificate or permit (certificate) issued under this title to: (1) file and maintain such certificate; (2) register motor vehicles operated under such certificate; (3) display or carry on any vehicle a decal, stamp, cab card, or other means of identification evidencing the lawfulness of any transportation or service provided under such certificate; or (4) pay a fee with respect to any such activities. Specifies that nothing in this title shall be construed as limiting the authority of a State to require a motor carrier to file and maintain proof of insurance or qualification as a self-insurer. Provides for reimbursements to States for specified loss revenues in FY 1992, subject to certain requirements. Bars States from allowing on the IS and those classes of qualifying Federal-aid primary system highways as designated by the Secretary any commercial motor vehicle with two or more cargo carrying units (not including the truck tractor), whose cargo carrying units are of a length greater than were authorized by State statute or regulation and were being lawfully operated on the IS and such classes of highways on or before June 1, 1991, with specified exceptions. Makes separate requirements for Wyoming. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) additional State restrictions; (2) the publication of State laws governing such vehicles; and (3) State certifications (of such vehicles which are permitted), review of certifications, and related requirements. Directs: (1) the Secretary to initiate a rulemaking (within 60 days) and issue a final regulation (within two years) establishing minimum training requirements for operators of LCVs; (2) the Comptroller General to conduct a study of the safety of LCVs; (3) the Secretary to conduct a study comparing the effects of driving LCVs and driving other truck-trailer combination vehicles on drivers, including driver fatigue; and (4) the Secretary to conduct tests with respect to the operations of LCVs. Sets forth reporting requirements. Requires the Secretary to establish a working group to: (1) establish procedures for resolving disputes among States participating in the International Registration Plan (the interstate agreement for the apportionment of vehicle registration fees paid by motor carriers, developed by the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators); (2) provide technical assistance to States participating in the Plan; and (3) make grants to States and appropriate persons to facilitate participation in the Plan. Sets forth reporting requirements. Specifies that, after September 30, 1996, no State (other than a State which is participating in the Plan) shall establish, maintain, or enforce any law or regulation which limits the operation of any commercial motor vehicle within its borders which is not registered under the laws of the State if the vehicle is registered under the laws of any other State. Authorizes: (1) and directs the Attorney General, upon the request of the Secretary, to institute a civil action for injunctive relief to assure compliance with such vehicle registration requirement; and (2) the court to issue a mandatory injunction (and directs the court to issue a temporary restraining order or preliminary or permanent injunction, upon a proper showing) to assure such compliance. Authorizes appropriations. Permits a common carrier to establish a rate and related rule equal to the rate charged for the transportation of one individual when that rate is for the transportation of: (1) a disabled individual and accompanying attendant (as under current law) or animal trained to assist the individual, or both, when required because of the disability; or (2) a hearing-impaired individual and a dog trained to assist the individual. Title V: Intermodal Transportation - Declares it to be Government policy to encourage and promote a national IT system in the United States. Includes among the duties of the Secretary to coordinate Federal policy on IT and initiate policies to promote efficient IT in the United States. Requires: (1) the Secretary to establish within DOT an Office of Intermodalism, headed by a Director; and (2) the Director to develop and maintain an IT data base (and make information from such data base available to private individuals and public agencies), to be responsible for coordinating Federal research on IT and for carrying out research needs identified by the National Commission on Intermodal Transportation (established pursuant to this Act), and to provide technical assistance to States and MPOs in urban areas having a population of 1,000,000 or more in collecting data relating to IT to facilitate the collection of such data. Directs the Secretary to make grants to not more than six States for the purpose of developing model State IT plans, including systems for collecting data relating to IT, subject to specified requirements. Establishes a National Commission on Intermodal Transportation to investigate and study IT in the United States and internationally, including: (1) intermodal standardization; (2) intermodal impacts on public works infrastructure; (3) legal impediments to efficient IT; (4) financial impediments; (5) new technologies; (6) documentation; (7) research and development; and (8) productivity. Sets forth provisions with respect to the membership and qualifications, and termination, of such Commission, compensation, terms of office, vacancies, travel expenses, staff, administrative support, and obtaining official data. Sets forth reporting requirements. Authorizes the Secretary to carry out specified priority IT projects. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2957 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Scenic Byways Act of 1991 - Establishes in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) an Office of Scenic Byways to: (1) maintain, and provide to States, information regarding Federal and State activities and programs for scenic byways; (2) promote the existence and use of Federal and State assistance for scenic byways and all-American roads; (3) establish and maintain an inventory of highways for designation as scenic byways and all-American roads; and (4) carry out the planning, research, and technical assistance duties of the Department of Transportation (DOT) with respect to the national scenic byways program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish in DOT an advisory committee to assist the Secretary with respect to the establishment of such a program. Requires the committee to recommend, and the Secretary to establish, minimum criteria for designating highways as scenic byways and as all-American roads, including scenic beauty and historic significance considerations, operation and management standards, and standards for signs, safety, facilities, and landscaping. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1992 and 1993, to make grants to any State which has a scenic highway program for carrying out eligible projects on highways which the Secretary considers highly likely to be designated as scenic byways and to any State which does not have such a program for the purpose of developing such a program. Directs the Secretary to give priority to eligible projects: (1) which are included in a corridor management plan for maintaining scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, and archeological characteristics of the corridor while providing for accommodation of increased tourism and development of related amenities; (2) for which a strong local commitment is demonstrated; (3) which are included in programs which can serve as models for other States; and (4) in multi-State corridors where the States submit joint applications. Specifies that: (1) the maximum Federal share payable for the costs of carrying out such projects and developing such programs shall be 75 percent; and (2) approval by the Secretary of grant funds shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the United States for payment of the Federal share of the cost of the project or program (such provisions apply both to the interim program for FY 1992 and 1993 and to the program after September 30, 1993). Makes specified sums available to the Secretary out of the Highway Trust Fund for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to establish a national scenic byways program. Requires the Secretary, after September 30, 1993, to make grants to States for purposes of: (1) developing a scenic byway program; (2) carrying out eligible projects on highways which are designated as part of the scenic byways system; and (3) carrying out programs to promote the use of, and provide the public with information concerning, such system. Sets forth requirements with respect to State nominations of highways for designation as scenic byways, such designation by the Secretary of highways meeting the minimum criteria (and termination of such designation under specified circumstances), priority projects, and eligible projects. Requires each State to incorporate planning for scenic byways and recreational travel in its urban and statewide transportation planning. Bars the Secretary from: (1) making grants for projects which would not protect the scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, natural, and archeological integrity of the highway and adjacent area; and (2) using more than five percent of the funds made available in any fiscal year to carry out (through the Office of Scenic Byways) planning, research, and technical assistance activities with respect to such program. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) public participation and comment in the designation of scenic byways and all-American roads and in the development of corridor management plans; (2) funding under this Act; and (3) limitations on the use of apportioned funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 2958 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code to reduce the alternative capital gains tax for corporations by establishing a scale for determining such tax rates based on owning assets for one to three years. Reduces the alternative minimum tax for individuals by establishing alternative rates for capital gains based on a two-year or three-year gain.
Bill· HRH.R. 2960 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Clean Domestic Fuels Enhancement Act of 1991 - Title I: Nonvehicular Oil and Natural Gas Provisions - Directs the Secretary of the Energy to expand research and demonstration programs regarding: (1) certain natural gas recovery and cofiring techniques; and (2) natural gas heating and cooling technologies. Authorizes appropriations for such programs and for Federal fuel cells research and development. Amends the Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Technology Competitiveness Act of 1989 to direct the Secretary to: (1) solicit proposals for, and provide financial assistance to, joint ventures for fuel cell technology demonstration; and (2) conduct a program to promote the early commercial application of fuel cell systems for the production of electricity by demonstrating such systems in Federal buildings. Authorizes appropriations. Authorizes specified aggregate appropriations for enhanced oil recovery research and development. Directs the Secretary to implement a research, demonstration and commercialization program for high efficiency heat engines. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the National Academy of Sciences to study and report to the Congress on factors affecting the domestic natural gas industry and its role in worldwide gas production. Amends the Internal Revenue Code with respect to domestic oil and natural gas production. Allows independent producers to deduct from alternative minimum taxable income intangible drilling costs in the same amount as allowed in computing ordinary income. Allows the enhanced oil recovery credit to be offset against the minimum tax. Title II: Alternative Fuels and Fuel Economy - Authorizes appropriations for research and development of natural gas vehicles. Directs the Secretary to implement a research and demonstration program on techniques related to improving natural gas and other alternative-fuel vehicle technology. Authorizes appropriations. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to provide an investment tax credit for certain property, facilities, and vehicles related to clean-burning fuels. Amends the Natural Gas Act to declare its provisions inapplicable to the sale or transportation of Vehicular Natural Gas (VNG) by an entity that is: (1) not otherwise a natural gas company; or (2) subject primarily to regulation by a State commission. Declares that a company shall not be considered a gas utility company under the purview of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 solely because it owns or operates facilities used for retail distribution of vehicular natural gas. Authorizes the Secretary to enter into coopertive agreements and joint ventures with governmental or regional transit authorities to demonstrate the feasibility of using alternative-fueled vehicles. Authorizes appropriations. Sets forth a timetable for the attainment of certain percentages of alternative-fueled vehicles in Federal agency fleets and certain State government fleets. Requires the Secretary of Labor to implement a technician training and certification program with respect to the installation of equipment which allows either dual-fuel vehicles, or alternative-fueled vehicles. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Secretary of Energy to implement a program and provide financial assistance for the development and commercialization of natural gas and other alternative fuels for use in passenger fleets, light-duty trucks, and heavy-duty trucks. Authorizes appropriations. Directs the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to establish: (1) carbon dioxide emission target levels for specified motor vehicle model years; and (2) a fee and rebate program related to carbon dioxide emissions compliance standards. Directs the Secretary of Energy to: (1) conduct a study to determine whether the use of alternative fuels in nonroad vehicles would contribute substantially to reduced reliance on imported energy sources; (2) institute certain programs to promote VNG; and (3) report to the Congress on selected aspects of Federal, State and local governmental policies concerning alternative-fueled vehicles. Declares that the Clean Air Act shall not apply to vehicles converted to operate exclusively on alternative fuels until the effective date of certain EPA rules. Prohibits enforcement of any State anti-tampering rule with respect to any vehicle converted to operate exclusively on clean alternative fuels.
Bill· HRH.R. 2955 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Amends the Internal Revenue Code and title II of the Social Security Act (Old-Age, Survivors and Disability Insurance) to allow the social security exemption for election officials and election workers employed by State and local governments if such officials and workers perform service on ten or fewer days during a calendar year. (Currently, such exemption is based on the amount of remuneration paid such individuals.)
Bill· HRH.R. 2948 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 18 July 1991
Foreign Income Tax Reform Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to repeal the limitation of 90 percent of tax applied to the alternative minimum tax foreign tax credit. Limits the application to foreign persons of the uniform capitalization rules in determining earnings and profits. Provides that the look-through rules for controlled foreign corporations do not apply to companies with less than $1,000,000 (for five percent of gross income, if lower) in all of its separate categories. Allows the use of earnings and profits depreciation or adjustments to base the allocation and apportionment of deductible interest expenses on the adjusted basis of assets. Requires that both the assets of and the interest paid by foreign affiliates be considered in the process of allocating interest when determining the taxable foreign source income of an affiliated group. Amends source rules with respect to the sales of stock of affiliates. Provides for the treatment of gain from the sale of stock in a section 902 corporation (a domestic corporation which owns ten percent or more of voting stock of a foreign corporation) as income in a separate category in a certain proportion of earnings and profits over a three-year period. Provides that gain from the sale of a qualifying partnership interest shall not be treated as income in a separate category. Provides that in the case of any sale of a qualifying partnership interest, the sale shall be treated as a sale of the partner's proportionate share of each of the assets of the partnership for purposes of determining the source of the income from such sale. Revises the tax rules applicable to corporations that meet the 80 percent foreign business requirements. Permits a taxpayer to treat any dividend paid out of the earnings or profits of any noncontrolled section 902 corporation as income in a separate category in proportion to the ratio of earnings and profits attributable to income in such separate category to the total amount of earnings and profits. Makes the special rules on passive foreign investment companies inapplicable to a taxpayer with respect to a corporation if such corporation is a controlled foreign corporation and the taxpayer is a United States shareholder with respect to such corporation. Revises the definition of a passive foreign investment to base it on gross receipts in lieu of gross income. Provides, with respect to subpart F income (types of income generally suited to tax haven activity) of a controlled foreign corporation, that all pre-1987 (post-1962) accumulated deficits shall offset similar subpart F income earned after 1986. Amends foreign tax credit provisions to provide for recapture of the amounts by which a taxpayer's gross income from U.S. sources is exceeded by the amount of the deductions properly allocated to such sources. Requires that subsequent U.S.-source income, in an amount related to the recaptured domestic loss, be treated as income from foreign sources. Makes permanent the rules on qualified research and experimental expenditures. Requires that foreign tax credits claimed on foreign income be translated in U.S. dollars at the same rate as the income. Prohibits the allocation or apportionment of any deduction for State or local income or franchise tax to gross income from sources outside the United States. Modifies the foreign tax credit carryover rules to allow a three-year carryback and a 15-year carryforward of excess tax paid. Revises provisions concerning tentative carryback and refund adjustments for the foreign tax credit. Repeals the special rules relating to such credit with respect to limitations on a credit or refund. Revises provisions governing section 902 corporations which own ten percent or more of the voting stock of a second foreign corporation for determining deemed paid foreign tax credits. Allows the use of a three-year average in determining deemed paid credit on current dividends.
Bill· SS. 1490 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1991
Scenic Byways Act of 1991 - Establishes in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) an Office of Scenic Byways to: (1) maintain, and provide to States, information regarding Federal and State activities and programs for scenic byways; (2) promote the existence and use of Federal and State assistance for scenic byways and all-American roads; (3) establish and maintain an inventory of highways for designation as scenic byways and all-American roads; and (4) carry out the planning, research, and technical assistance duties of the Department of Transportation (DOT) with respect to the national scenic byways program. Directs the Secretary of Transportation to establish in DOT an advisory committee to assist the Secretary with respect to the establishment of such a program. Requires the committee to recommend, and the Secretary to establish, minimum criteria for designating highways as scenic byways and as all-American roads, including scenic beauty and historic significance considerations, operation and management standards, and standards for signs, safety, facilities, and landscaping. Authorizes the Secretary, during FY 1992 and 1993, to make grants to any State which has a scenic highway program for carrying out eligible projects on highways which the Secretary considers highly likely to be designated as scenic byways and to any State which does not have such a program for the purpose of developing such a program. Directs the Secretary to give priority to eligible projects: (1) which are included in a corridor management plan for maintaining scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, and archeological characteristics of the corridor while providing for accommodation of increased tourism and development of related amenities; (2) for which a strong local commitment is demonstrated; (3) which are included in programs which can serve as models for other States; and (4) in multi-State corridors where the States submit joint applications. Specifies that: (1) the maximum Federal share payable for the costs of carrying out such projects and developing such programs shall be 75 percent; and (2) approval by the Secretary of grant funds shall be deemed a contractual obligation of the United States for payment of the Federal share of the cost of the project or program (such provisions apply both to the interim program for FY 1992 and 1993 and to the program after September 30, 1993). Makes specified sums available to the Secretary out of the Highway Trust Fund for such purposes. Directs the Secretary to establish a national scenic byways program. Requires the Secretary, after September 30, 1993, to make grants to States for purposes of: (1) developing a scenic byway program; (2) carrying out eligible projects on highways which are designated as part of the scenic byways system; and (3) carrying out programs to promote the use of, and provide the public with information concerning, such system. Sets forth requirements with respect to State nominations of highways for designation as scenic byways, such designation by the Secretary of highways meeting the minimum criteria (and termination of such designation under specified circumstances), priority projects, and eligible projects. Requires each State to incorporate planning for scenic byways and recreational travel in its urban and statewide transportation planning. Bars the Secretary from: (1) making grants for projects which would not protect the scenic, historic, recreational, cultural, natural, and archeological integrity of the highway and adjacent area; and (2) using more than five percent of the funds made available in any fiscal year to carry out (through the Office of Scenic Byways) planning, research, and technical assistance activities with respect to such program. Sets forth provisions with respect to: (1) public participation and comment in the designation of scenic byways and all-American roads and in the development of corridor management plans; (2) funding under this Act; and (3) limitations on the use of apportioned funds.
Bill· HRH.R. 2922 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1991
Lead-Based Paint Hazard Abatement Act - Title I: Abatement of Lead-Based Paint Hazards - Amends the Public Health Service Act to establish a program of formula allotments to States and city and urban entities for abatement of lead-based paint hazards. Sets requirements for annually increasing matching funds. Describes grant purposes, including inspection of residential and child day-care structures for lead hazards, removal of hazards, housing for displaced occupants, and counseling on lead poisoning. Allows grant abatement expenditures only if the income of a residential structure's occupants is 80 percent or less of the median income of the geographic area; or, for other eligible structures, only if a public health service agency has determined the structure is a significant-hazard structure. Prescribes rulemaking procedures for the issuance of program standards, requiring the use of specified regulations of the State of Massachusetts if a final rule is not issued within one year. Requires the establishment of an advisory council to supply advice on the administration of the program. Sets forth additional standards regarding authorized grant activities, planning requirements, annual reports, and allotment reallocations. Title II: Lead Abatement Trust Fund - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to impose a tax on lead removed from any U.S. smelter and imported lead and lead products of 75 cents per pound for primary lead and 37 cents per pound for secondary lead. Terminates the tax after ten years. Establishes the Lead Abatement Trust Fund in the Treasury. Title III: General Provisions - Sets forth the effective dates for the formula grants and the imposition of the excise tax.
Bill· HRH.R. 2933 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1991
Amends the National School Lunch Act to extend through FY 1994 the eligibility of certain school districts to receive, under a pilot project, all cash payments or all commodity letters of credit in lieu of entitlement commodities for school lunch programs.
Bill· HRH.R. 2932 (102nd)open
United States · United States Congress · 17 July 1991
Amends the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1990 and 1991 to extend vocational and technical education and training benefits to any member of the Selected Reserve or National Guard who agrees to a six-year service commitment any time after July 1, 1985 (currently, October 1, 1990).
Bill· SS. 1477 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1991
Senior Nutrition Act of 1991 - Amends the Older Americans Act of 1965 to require the Commissioner of the Administration on Aging to ensure that the Administration employ at least one individual as a National Dietary Professional (NDP). Makes the NDP responsible for the administration of the congregate and home delivered nutrition services programs. Directs the Commissioner to establish a task force to develop recommendations for minimum criteria and guidelines of efficiency and quality for furnishing congregate and home delivered nutrition services. Authorizes the Commissioner and the Secretary of Agriculture to provide technical assistance and appropriate material to agencies carrying out nutrition education programs. Sets forth dietary guidelines for congregate and home delivered nutrition services programs. Requires nutrition services projects to: (1) provide nutrition education to program participants; and (2) comply with applicable State or local law regarding the sanitary handling of meals. Provides for an annual adjustment for inflation in the elderly meals reimbursement rate for surplus commodities. Authorizes appropriations for FY 1992 through 1995 for food donated to nutrition services programs for older individuals. Prohibits the cents per meal level under the program for donating surplus commodities to older individuals from being reduced below 56.76 cents per meal in any fiscal year.
Bill· HRH.R. 2919 (102nd)reported
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1991
New England Groundfish Restoration Act of 1991 - Title I: New England Groundfish Restoration Program - Amends the Magnuson Fishery Conservation and Management Act (Magnuson Act) to mandate an amendment to the Northeast Multispecies Fisheries Management Plan that establishes conservation and management so as to double the spawning biomass of New England groundfish (including cod, flounder, pollock, and hake) by five years after enactment of this Act. Encourages preparers to include controls and limits on commercial and recreational fishing. Provides for civil penalties for violation of the Plan amendment. Requires the New England Fishery Management Council to vote on the establishment of a five-year moratorium on new (but not on renewal or replacement) permits for fishing for New England groundfish. Establishes: (1) a program for the use of amounts in the Sport Fish Restoration Account to purchase fishing vessels, authorized to participate in fisheries covered by the Plan, to reduce the number of fishing vessels and the fishing effort in those fisheries; and (2) an advisory panel. Repeals provisions of this Act relating to the vessel purchase program on the date of the termination of the moratorium. Provides for enforcement by the States with reimbursement by the Secretary of Commerce. Authorizes the Sea Sampler Program for stationing individuals on vessels engaged in New England groundfish fishing to collect information for the conservation and management of fisheries managed under the Plan. Prohibits: (1) requiring a vessel to have such an individual on board; and (2) using information for enforcement of the Magnuson Act. Authorizes and encourages negotiations with the Government of Canada for an international fishery agreement for the conservation and management of fisheries of mutual concern in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean, with emphasis on transboundary groundfish. Mandates establishment of a consultative committee to assist in the development and implementation of such an agreement. Establishes a program of joint ventures to: (1) promote development and harvest of underutilized species; (2) reduce New England groundfish fishing; and (3) provide financial assistance to make such joint ventures for underutilized species economically viable. Requires, as a condition for participation, temporary surrender of permits for groundfish fishing. Directs the Secretary to use amounts available under specified provisions of Federal law ( commonly referred to as the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act) to fund grants for development of fisheries for underutilized species in the Northwest Atlantic Ocean. Amends the Saltonstall-Kennedy Act to require giving priority, in making grants to promote the free flow of domestically produced fishery products, to promoting the development of fisheries for underutilized species. Amends the Magnuson Act to require restoration of New England groundfish to be included in the strategic fisheries research plan mandated by existing provisions. Title II: Loan Guarantees, Diesel Fuel Taxes on Certain Commercial Fishing Boats, and Capital Construction Fund Provisions - Amends the Merchant Marine Act of 1936 with regard to Federal ship mortgage insurance provisions, to: (1) prohibit guarantees inconsistent with the Northeast Multispecies Fishery Management Plan; and (2) encourage guarantees which promote the development of fisheries for underutilized species in New England. Amends the Internal Revenue Code to suspend, during the moratorium provided for in title I of this Act, the exemption from taxes on diesel fuel for vessels holding permits for fish conserved and managed under the Plan. Applies to such vessels provisions imposing a tax on certain diesel fuel. Deposits receipts resulting from these provisions in the Sport Fish Restoration Account in the Aquatic Resources Trust Fund. Allows expenditures from the Account, to the extent covered by such deposits, for: (1) the Sea Sampler, Vessel Purchase, and joint ventures programs established by this Act; and (2) storage, care, and other costs associated with the enforcement of the Magnuson Act under existing provisions. Amends provisions of the Merchant Marine Act, 1936 and the Internal Revenue Code relating to capital construction funds to specify those matters for which withdrawals are and are not allowed for a vessel: (1) holding a permit to harvest any species conserved and managed under the Plan; and (2) prohibited under amendments made by this Act from fishing. Title III: Fisheries Employment Assistance - Amends the Job Training Partnership Act to authorize grants to: (1) provide training, adjustment assistance, and employment services to individuals who are unemployed as a result of compliance with the Magnuson Act; and (2) make needs-related payments to certain individuals to complete training or education. Authorizes appropriations.
Bill· HRH.R. 2913 (102nd)referred
United States · United States Congress · 16 July 1991
Domestic Corporation Taxation Equality Act of 1991 - Amends the Internal Revenue Code to prohibit, with specified exceptions, the States from imposing tax on corporate taxpayers on a worldwide unitary basis, unless a taxpayer unconditionally elects to be taxed that way. Includes an express prohibition against the unitary method with respect to a domestic corporation whose average U.S. payroll, property, and sales represent less than 20 percent of its total payroll, property, and sales. Permits a State to tax dividends received by domestic corporations from their foreign affiliates only to the extent that the State excludes from the tax base of the U.S. corporation: (1) at least 85 percent of such dividends; or (2) the portion of such dividends that effectively bears no Federal income tax after application of the foreign tax credit.