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SEC. 8033. During the current fiscal year and thereafter, of the funds appropriated, reimbursable expenses incurred by the Department of Defense on behalf of the Soviet Union or its successor entities in monitoring United States implementation of the Treaty Between the United States of America and the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics on the Elimination of Their Intermediate-Range or Shorter-Range Missiles ("INF Treaty"), concluded December 8, 1987, may be treated as orders received and obligation authority for the applicable appropriation, account, or fund increased accordingly. Likewise, any reimbursements received for such costs may be credited to the same appropriation, account, or fund to which the expenses were charged: Provided, That reimbursements which are not received within one hundred and eighty days after submission of an appropriate request for payment shall be subject to interest at the current rate established pursuant to section 2(b)(1)(B) of the Export-Import Bank Act of 1945 (59 Stat. 526). Interest shall begin to accrue on the one hundred and eighty-first day following submission of an appropriate request for payment: Provided further, That funds appropriated in this Act may be used to reimburse United States military personnel for reasonable costs of subsistence, at rates to be determined by the Secretary of Defense, incurred while accompanying Soviet Inspection Team members or inspection team members of the successor entities of the Soviet Union engaged in activities related to the INF Treaty: Provided further, That this provision includes only the in-country period (referred to in the İNF Treaty) and is effective whether such duty is performed at, near, or away from an individual's permanent duty station.

SEC. 8034. Funds available in this Act may be used to provide transportation for the next-of-kin of individuals who have been prisoners of war or missing in action from the Vietnam era to an annual meeting in the United States, under such regulations as the Secretary of Defense may prescribe.

SEC. 8036. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense may, by Executive Agreement, establish with host nation governments in NATO member states a separate account into which such residual value amounts negotiated in the return of United States military installations in NATO member states may be deposited, in the currency of the host nation, in lieu of direct monetary transfers to the United States Treasury: Provided, That such credits may be utilized only for the construction of facilities to support United States military forces in that host nation, or such real property maintenance and base operating costs that are currently executed through monetary transfers to such host nations: Provided further, That the Department of Defense's budget submission for fiscal year 1995 shall identify such sums anticipated in residual value settle

ments, and identify such construction, real property maintenance or base operating costs that shall be funded by the host nation through such credits: Provided further, That all military construction projects to be executed from such accounts must be previously approved in a prior Act of Congress: Provided further, That each such Executive Agreement with a NATO member host nation shall be reported to the Committees on Appropriations and Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate thirty days prior to the conclusion and endorsement of any such agreement established under this provision.

SEC. 8056.3 During the current fiscal year and thereafter, there is established, under the direction and control of the Attorney General, the National Drug Intelligence Center, whose mission it shall be to coordinate and consolidate drug intelligence from all national security and law enforcement agencies, and produce information regarding the structure, membership, finances, communications, and activities of drug trafficking organizations: Provided, That funding for the operation of the National Drug Intelligence Center, including personnel costs associated therewith, shall be provided from the funds appropriated to the Department of Defense.

SEC. 8063. During the current fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense may accept burdensharing contributions in the form of money from Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the State of Kuwait for the costs of local national employees, supplies, and services of the Department of Defense to be credited to applicable Department of Defense operation and maintenance appropriations available for the salaries and benefits of national employees of Japan, the Republic of Korea, and the State of Kuwait, supplies, and services to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes and time period as those appropriations to which credited: Provided, That not later than 30 days after the end of each quarter of the fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Congress a report of contributions accepted by the Secretary under this provision during the preceding quarter.

SEC. 8069. (a)(1) If the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the United States Trade Representative, determines that a foreign country which is party to an agreement described in paragraph (2) has violated the terms of the agreement by discriminating against certain types of products produced in the United States that are covered by the agreement, the Secretary of Defense shall rescind the Secretary's blanket waiver of the Buy American Act with respect to such types of products produced in that foreign country.

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(2) An agreement referred to in paragraph (1) is any reciprocal defense procurement memorandum of understanding, between the United States and a foreign country pursuant to which the Secretary of Defense has prospectively waived the Buy American Act for certain products in that country.

(b) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report on the amount of Department of Defense purchases from foreign entities in fiscal year 1994. Such report shall separately indicate the dollar value of items for which the Buy American Act was waived pursuant to any agreement described in subsection (a)(2), the Trade Agreement Act of 1979 (19 U.S.C. 2501 et seq.), or any international agreement to which the United States is a party.

(c) For purposes of this section, the term "Buy American Act" means title III of the Act entitled "An Act making appropriations for the Treasury and Post Office Departments for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1934, and for other purposes", approved March 3, 1933 (41 U.S.C. 10a et seq.).

SEC. 8099. (a) FINDINGS.-The Congress finds that

(1) the United States Government has not made adequate efforts to seek the payment of compensation by the government of Peru for the death and injuries to United States military personnel resulting from the attack by aircraft of the military forces of Peru on April 24, 1992, against a United States Air Force C-130 aircraft operating off the coast of Peru; and

(2) in failing to make such efforts adequately, the United States Government has failed in its obligation to support the servicemen and their families involved in the incident and generally to support members of the Armed Forces carrying out missions on behalf of the United States.

(b) SEMIANNUAL REPORT.-The Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to Congress on December 1 and June 1 of each year on the efforts made by the Government of the United States during the preceding six-month period to seek the payment of fair and equitable compensation by the Government of Peru (1) to the survivors of Master Sergeant Joseph Beard, Jr., United States Air Force, who was killed in the attack described in subsection (a), and (2) to the other crew members who were wounded in the attack and survived.

(c) TERMINATION OF REPORT REQUIREMENT.-The requirement in subsection (b) shall terminate upon certification by the Secretary of Defense to Congress that the Government of Peru has paid fair and equitable compensation as described in subsection (b).

SEC. 8119. The Secretary of Defense is authorized to use, for foreign military sales otherwise authorized under Chapter 39, title 22, United States Code, or for transfer to United States Army, Army National Guard, or Army Reserves, articles and services procured for the implementation of the Italian air defense agreements: Provided, That the term "Italian air defense agreements" has the

meaning given such term in section 1050 of Public Law 102-190 (105 Stat. 1469): Provided further, That upon notification of the Government of the United States by the Government of Italy of its desire to withdraw from the Italian air defense agreement or 180 days from the enactment of this Act, section 1050 of Public Law 102-190 (105 Stat. 1469) is repealed.

SEC. 8123. The Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence shall deliver, in conjunction with the fiscal year 1995 budget request, a report providing the following information about all research and development projects involving the implementation, monitoring, or verification of current and projected international arms control agreements: (a) annual and total budgets, goals, schedules, and priorities; (b) relationships among related projects being funded by the Department of Defense, the National Foreign Intelligence Program, and other departments and agencies of the Federal Government; and (c) comments by the Arms Control and Disarmament Agency about the relevance of each project to the arms control priorities of the United States.

SEC. 8125. None of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used (1) to transfer to the United Nations a facility in the continental United States for use as a United Nations peacekeeping facility, or (2) for the renovation of such a facility in preparation for such a transfer.

SEC. 8129. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense in this Act shall be used by the Secretary of a military department to purchase coal or coke from foreign nations for use at United States defense facilities in Europe when coal from the United States is available.

SEC. 8140. It is the sense of the Senate that the Government of the United States and the Government of Saudi Arabia should work diligently and without delay to resolve satisfactorily the outstanding commercial disputes identified in the Department of Commerce letter; date May 27, 1992: Provided, That not later than February 1, 1994, the Secretary of Defense, after consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce, shall submit a report to the Congress on the status of the process for the resolution of commercial disputes in Saudi Arabia and the prognosis for any of the disputes which remain unresolved.

SEC. 8144. The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a report containing information on the cost to the United States of

transporting supplies for the Army, Navy, Air Force, or Marine Corps by sea on United States-flag commercial vessels pursuant to the cargo preference laws of the United States, including the amount of the cost savings that could have been realized if such supplies had been transported at competitive international shipping rates available from non-cargo preference vessels, the subsidization of foreign-flag vessels, and the impact on the viability of the United States merchant marine if the cargo preference requirements were ended. The report shall cover a cargo preference year which shall be a 12-month period defined by the Secretary.

SEC. 8146. (a) It is the sense of Congress that none of the funds appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act should be available for the purposes of deploying United States Armed Forces to participate in the implementation of a peace settlement in Bosnia-Herzegovina, unless previously authorized by the Congress. (b) It is the sense of Congress that the limitation set forth in subsection (a) should not preclude missions and operations initiated on or before October 20, 1993, including the provision of any humanitarian assistance by the Department of Defense.

SEC. 8147. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON THE USE OF FUNDS FOR UNITED STATES MILITARY OPERATIONS IN IN HAITI. (a) STATEMENT OF POLICY.-It is the sense of the Congress that

(1) all parties should honor their obligations under the Governors Island Accord of July 3, 1993 and the New York Pact of July 16, 1993;

(2) the United States has a national interest in preventing uncontrolled emigration from Haiti; and

(3) the United States should remain engaged in Haiti to support national reconciliation and further its interest in preventing uncontrolled emigration.

(b) LIMITATION.-It is the sense of Congress that funds appropriated by this Act should not be obligated or expended for United States military operations in Haiti unless

(1) authorized in advance by the Congress; or

(2) the temporary deployment of United States Armed Forces into Haiti is necessary in order to protect or evacuate United States citizens from a situation of imminent danger and the President reports as soon as practicable to Congress after the initiation of the temporary deployment, but in no case later than forty-eight hours after the initiation of the temporary deployment; or

(3) the deployment of United States Armed Forces into Haiti is vital to the national security interests of the United States, including but not limited to the protection of American citizens in Haiti, there is not sufficient time to seek and receive Congressional authorization, and the President reports as soon as practicable to Congress after the initiation of the deployment, but in no case later than forty-eight hours after the initiation of the deployment; or

(4) the President transmits to the Congress a written report pursuant to subsection (c).

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