HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM

SEC. 2831. HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (a) In General.—Section 2832 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) by inserting “(a)” before “The Secretary”; and (2) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(b)(1) Subject to paragraph (2) and notwithstanding subsection (i) of section 1013 of the Act referred to in subsection (a)— “(A) the Secretary of Defense may transfer not more than $31,000,000 from the Department of Defense Base Closure Account, established by section 207 of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100–526; 102 Stat. 2627), to the fund established pursuant to subsection (d) of such section 1013 for use as part of such fund; and “(B) any funds so transferred shall be available for obligation and expenditure for the same purposes that funds appropriated to such fund are available, except that such funds may not be obligated after September 30, 1991. “(2) Amounts may be transferred under paragraph (1) only after the date on which the Committees on Armed Services and the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and of the House of Representatives receive from the Secretary written notice of, and justification for, the transfer.”, (b) Effective Date.—The amendments made by subsection (a) shall apply only to funds appropriated or transferred to, or otherwise deposited in, the Department of Defense Base Closure Account for, or during, fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1989.