A bill making appropriations for Military Construction for the Department of Defense for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1988, and for other purposes.

Summary

Appropriates funds for FY 1988 for military construction operations administered by the Department of Defense (DOD) in specified amounts for the following purposes: (1) military construction, Army; (2) military construction, Navy; (3) military construction, Air Force; (4) military construction, defense agencies; (5) North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Infrastructure; (6) military construction, Army National Guard; (7) military construction, Air National Guard; (8) military construction, Army Reserve; (9) military construction, Naval Reserve; (10) military construction, Air Force Reserve; (11) family housing, Army; (12) family housing, Navy and Marine Corps; and (13) family housing, Air Force. Rescinds a specified amount of budget authority for each of the above accounts as contained in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1986. Appropriates funds also for: (1) family housing, defense agencies; (2) the homeowners assistance fund, defense; and (3) foreign currency fluctuations, construction, defense. Authorizes funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) the hire of passenger motor vehicles; and (2) the construction of defense access roads. Prohibits funds appropriated in this Act from being used for: (1) payments under certain cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contracts, with a specified exception; (2) construction of new bases inside the continental United States for which specific appropriations have not been made; (3) the purchase of certain land or easements in excess of 100 percent of their value as determined by the Corps of Engineers or the Naval Facilities Engineering Command; (4) acquiring land, site preparation, or the installation of any utilities for family housing, except for housing specifically appropriated for under this Act; (5) transferring or relocating any activity from one base or installation to another, without certain prior notification; (6) the procurement of steel for any construction project or activity for which American steel producers have been denied the opportunity to compete; (7) the performance of dredging work in the Indian Ocean by foreign contractors; (8) the payment of real property taxes in any foreign nation; (9) payments to any alien for certain work performed if such alien has not been lawfully admitted into the United States; (10) expenditures for consulting services, unless such expenditures are a matter of public record and available for public inspection; (11) initiation of a new installation overseas, without prior congressional notification; (12) certain architect and engineer contracts to be accomplished in Japan or in any NATO-member country; or (13) the award of any contract in excess of $1,000,000 to a foreign contractor, with specified exceptions. Directs the Secretary of Defense to notify the Senate and House Armed Services and Appropriations Committees of the plans and scope of any proposed military exercise involving U.S. personnel 30 days prior to its occurrence if amounts expended for such exercise are anticipated to exceed $100,000. Transfers certain funds of the Military Family Housing Management Account to the appropriations for family housing provided in this Act. Prohibits more than 20 percent of the funds appropriated in this Act from being obligated during the last two months of the fiscal year. Transfers certain prior year funds for construction authorized in the first session of the 100th Congress. Directs the Secretary of Defense, by February 15, 1988, to provide the Appropriations Committees a report detailing the specific actions proposed to be taken by DOD during FY 1988 to encourage other members of NATO and Japan to assume a greater share of the common defense burden of such nations and the United States. Permits certain expired or lapsed funds to be used to pay certain overhead and other costs associated with military construction or family housing projects. Requires the Secretaries of each of the military departments to maintain legislative liaison to the Senate and House Appropriations Subcommittees on Military Construction in a manner identical to the method employed as of September 30, 1986. Directs the Secretary of the Army to provide funds for the design of access roads for the New Cumberland Army Depot, Pennsylvania, and for the Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, with funds provided in this Act.

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• Passed Senate amended

  summary · EN · 27 October 1987

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• Reported to Senate with amendment(s)

  summary · EN · 16 October 1987

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• Introduced in House

  summary · EN · 9 July 1987

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