Public Law 92–156

Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated during the fiscal year 1972 for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States for research, development, test, and evaluation, as authorized by law, in amounts as follows:

For the Army, $1,880,000,000;

For the Navy (including the Marine Corps), $2,418,700,000 of which amount not more than $4,492,000 may be used to carry out research and development in connection with the Navy’s Project Sanguine, and of which amount $150,000 shall be available only for carrying out an environmental compatibility program in connection with the Sanguine project, and of which amount $300,000 shall be available only for biological and ecological effects research in connection with the Sanguine project;

For the Air Force, $2,979,000,000; and

For the Defense Agencies, $465,700,000.

Section 40 of Public Law 1028, approved August 10, 1956 (70A Stat. 636; 31 U.S.C. 649c) is amended to read as follows:

“Sec. 40.

Unless otherwise provided in the appropriation Act concerned, moneys appropriated to the Department of Defense (1) for the procurement of technical military equipment and supplies and the construction of public works, including moneys appropriated to the Department of the Navy for the procurement and construction of guided missiles, remain available until spent, and (2) for research and development remain available for obligation for a period of two successive fiscal years.”

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None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act

Sanguine project, restriction.

may be used to carry out any research and development work in connection with a deep underground system for the Sanguine project.

Section 270(a) of title 10, United States Code, is

Training requirements, exception.

72 Stat. 1438.

amended by adding below clause (2) thereof a new sentence as follows:

“However, no member who has served on active duty for one year or longer shall be required to perform a period of active duty for training if the first day of such period falls during the last one hundred and twenty days of his required membership in the Ready Reserve.”

Section 502(a) of title 32, United States Code, is amended by

70A Stat. 610.

adding below clause (2) thereof a new sentence as follows: “However, no member of such unit who has served on active duty for one year or longer shall be required to participate in such training if the first day of such training period falls during the last one hundred and twenty days of his required membership in the National Guard.”

Military construction for the Safeguard anti-ballistic missile system is authorized for the Department of the Army as follows:

There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of this section not to exceed $109,570,000, of which not more than $5,200,000 shall be available for community impact assistance as authorized by

84 Stat. 1224.

section 610 of Public Law 91–511.

Authorization contained in this section (except subsection (b)) shall be subject to the authorizations and limitations of the Military

Ante, p. 394.

Construction Authorization Act, 1972, in the same manner as if such authorizations had been included in that Act.

two hundred family housing units at Malmstrom Safeguard site, Montana.

two hundred family housing units at Grand Forks Safeguard site, North Dakota.

None of the funds authorized by this or any other Act may be obligated or expended for the purpose of initiating deployment

Warren and Whiteman AFB, advanced preparation.

of an anti-ballistic missile system at any site; except that funds may continue to be obligated or expended for the purpose of advanced preparation (site selection, land acquisition, site survey, and the procurement of long leadtime items) for antiballistic missile system sites at Francis E. Warren Air Force Base, Cheyenne, Wyoming, and

Grand Forks and Malstrom AFB, continuation.

Whiteman Air Force Base, Knobnoster, Missouri. Nothing in this section shall be construed as a limitation on the obligation or expenditure of funds in connection with the deployment of an anti-ballistic missile system at Grand Forks Air Force Base, Grand Forks, North Dakota, or Malmstrom Air Force Base, Great Falls, Montana.

Section 402 of Public Law 91–441 (84 Stat. 905, 909) is hereby repealed.

The amount of $325,100,000 authorized to be appropriated by this Act for the development and procurement of the C–5A aircraft may be expended only for the reasonable and allocable direct and indirect costs incurred by the prime contractor under a contract entered into with the United States to carry out the C–5A aircraft program. No part of such amount may be used for—

Any of the costs referred to in the preceding sentence which would otherwise be allocable to any work funded by such $325,100,000 may not be allocated to other portions of the C–5A aircraft contract or to any other contract with the United States, but payments to C–5A aircraft subcontractors shall not be subject to the restriction referred to in such sentence.

Any payments from such $325,100,000 shall be made to the prime contractor through a special bank account from which such contractor may withdraw funds only after a request containing a detailed justification of the amount requested has been submitted to

Defense Department and GAO audits.

and approved by the contracting officer for the United States. All payments made from such special bank account shall be audited by the Defense Contract Audit Agency of the Department of Defense and,

Report to Congress.

on a quarterly basis, by the General Accounting Office. The Comptroller General shall submit to the Congress not more than thirty days after the close of each quarter a report on the audit for such quarter performed by the General Accounting Office pursuant to this subsection.

The restrictions and controls provided for in this section with respect to the $325,100,000 referred to in subsections (a) and (b) of this section shall be in addition to such other restrictions and controls as may be prescribed by the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the Air Force.

Notwithstanding any other provision of law. no funds authorized to be appropriated by this or any other Act may be expended in any amount in excess of $350,000,000 for the purpose of carrying out directly or indirectly any economic or military assistance, or any operation, project, or program of any kind, or for providing any goods, supplies, materials, equipment, services, personnel, or advisers in, to, for, or on behalf of Laos during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1972.

In computing the $350,000,000 limitation on expenditure authority under subsection (a) of this section in fiscal year 1972, there shall be included in the computation the value of any goods, supplies, materials, or equipment provided to, for, or on behalf of Laos in such

“Value.”

fiscal year by gift, donation, loan, lease, or otherwise. For the purpose of this subsection, “value” means the fair market value of any goods, supplies, materials, or equipment provided to, for, or on behalf of Laos, but in no case less than 33蔱 per centum of the amount the United States paid at the time such goods, supplies, materials, or equipment were acquired by the United States.

No additional expenditures in excess of the limitation prescribed in subsection (a) of this section may be made for any of the purposes described in such subsection in, to, for, or on behalf of Laos in any fiscal year beginning after June 30, 1972, unless such expenditures have been specifically authorized by law enacted after the date of enactment of this Act. In no case shall expenditures in any amount in excess of the amount authorized by law for any fiscal year be made for any such purpose during such fiscal year.

The provisions of subsections (a) and (c) of this section shall not apply with respect to the expenditure of funds to carry out combat air operations in or over Laos by United States military forces.

After the date of enactment of this Act, whenever any request

Report to Congress.

is made to the Congress for the appropriation of funds for use in, for, or on behalf of Laos for any fiscal year, the President shall furnish a written report to the Congress explaining the purposes for which such funds are to be used in such fiscal year.

The President shall submit to the Congress within thirty days

Report Congress.

after the end of each quarter of each fiscal year, beginning with the fiscal year which begins July 1, 1971, a written report showing the total amount of expenditures in, for, or on behalf of Laos during the preceding quarter by the United States Government, and shall include in such report a general breakdown of the total amount expended, describing the different purposes for which such funds were expended and the total amount expended for such purposes, except that in the case of the first two quarters of the fiscal year beginning July 1, 1971, a single report may be submitted for both such quarters and such report may be computed on the basis of the most accurate estimates the Secretary of Defense can make taking into consideration all information available to him.

Beginning with the calendar year 1972, the Secretary

Report to Congress.

of Defense shall submit to the Congress each calendar year, at the same time the President submits the Budget to the Congress pursuant to section 201 of the Budget and Accounting Act, 1921, a written report

64 Stat. 832; 84 Stat. 1169.

31 USC 11.

regarding development and procurement schedules for each weapon system for which fund authorization is required by section 412(b) of Public Law 86–149, as amended, and for which any funds for

83 Stat. 207; 84 Stat. 912.

10 USC 133 note.

procurement are requested in such budget. Beginning with the calendar year 1973, there shall be included in the report data on operational testing and evaluation for each such weapon system for which funds for procurement are requested (other than funds requested only for the procurement of units for operational testing and evaluation and/or long lead-time items). A weapon system shall also be included in the annual report required under this subsection in each year there after until procurement of such system has been completed or terminated, or until the Secretary of Defense certifies in writing that such inclusion would not serve any useful purpose and gives his reasons therefor.

A supplemental report shall be submitted to the Congress by the

Report to Congress.

Secretary of Defense not less than thirty nor more than sixty days before the awarding of any contract or the exercising of any option in a contract for the procurement of any such weapon system (other than procurement of units for operational testing and evaluation and/or long lead-time items) unless (1) the contractor or contractors for that system have not yet been selected, and the Secretary of Defense determines that the submission of such report would adversely affect the source selection process and notifies the Congress in writing, prior to such award, of such determination, stating his reasons therefor, or (2) the Secretary of Defense determines that the submission of such report would otherwise adversely affect the vital security interests of the United States and notifies the Congress in writing of such determination at least 30 days prior to such award, stating his reasons therefor.

Any report required to be submitted under subsection (a) or (b) of this section, as the case may be, shall include detailed and summarized information with respect to each weapon system covered by such report, and shall specifically include, but shall not be limited to—

In the case of any weapon system for which procurement funds have not been previously requested and for which funds are first requested by the President in any fiscal year after the Budget for such fiscal year has been submitted to the Congress, the same reporting requirements shall be applicable to such system in the same manner and to the same extent as if funds had been requested for such system in such Budget.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the United States to terminate at the earliest practicable date all military operations of the United States in Indochina, and to provide for the prompt and orderly withdrawal of all United States military forces at a date certain, subject to the release of all American prisoners of war held by the Government of North Vietnam and forces allied with such Government and an accounting for all Americans missing in action who have been held by or known to such Government or such forces. The Congress hereby urges and requests the President to implement the above expressed policy by initiating immediately the following actions: