ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEES OF A NONAPPROPRIATED FUND INSTRUMENTALITY ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY BASE CLOSURES

SEC. 331. ASSISTANCE PROGRAM FOR EMPLOYEES OF A NONAPPROPRIATED FUND INSTRUMENTALITY ADVERSELY AFFECTED BY BASE CLOSURES Section 1013 of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (42 U.S.C. 3374) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)(1), by inserting after “time limitation)” the following: “, a nonappropriated fund instrumentality employee employed at a nonappropriated fund instrumentality operated in connection with such base or installation,”; (2) in subsection (b)(1), by adding at the end the following: “or employed by a nonappropriated fund instrumentality operated in connection with such base or installation,”; (3) in subsection (k), by striking “and (n) of this section” and inserting “(n), and (o)”; and (4) by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(o) (1) Assistance under this section shall be provided by the Secretary of Defense with respect to nonappropriated fund instrumentality employees adversely affected by the closure of a base or installation ordered to be closed, in whole or in part, after December 31, 1988. “(2) Notwithstanding subsection (b), a civilian employee who is serving overseas and is entitled to reemployment by the Federal Government (including a nonappropriated fund instrumentality of the United States) at or in connection with a base or installation ordered to be closed, in whole or in part, shall be entitled to the benefits of this section to the same extent as an employee employed at or in connection with that base or installation. “(3) All payments to a nonappropriated fund instrumentality employee under this section shall be made from the funds available to the Secretary of Defense under subsection (d). “(4) For purposes of this section: “(A) The term ‘nonappropriated fund instrumentality employee’ means a civilian employee who— 104 STAT. 1536 “(i) is a citizen of the United States; and “(ii) is paid from nonappropriated funds of Army and Air Force Exchange Service, Navy Resale and Services Support Office, Marine Corps exchanges, or any other instrumentality of the United States under the jurisdiction of the Armed Forces which is conducted for the comfort, pleasure, contentment, or physical or mental improvement of members of the Armed Forces. “(B) The term ‘civilian employee’ has the meaning given the term ‘employee’ in section 2105(a) of title 5, United States Code.”.