base realignments

base realignments Sec. 612. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds authorized to be appropriated in this Act may be used to effect or implement— (1) the closure of any military installation; (2) any reduction in the authorized level of civilian personnel at any military installation by more than one thousand civilian personnel or 50 per centum of the level of such personnel authorized as of March 1, 1976, or the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies the Congress that such installation is a candidate for closure or significant reduction, whichever occurs later; or (3) any construction, conversion, or rehabilitat ion at any other military installation (whether or not such installation is a military installation as defined in subsection (b)) which will or may be required as a result of the relocation of civilian personnel to such other installation by reason of any closure or reduction to which this section applies; unless— (A) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies the Congress in writing that such military installation is a candidate for closure or significant reduction; and then 90 STAT. 1367 (B) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned complies with all terms, conditions and requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act; and then (C) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned submits to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate his final decision to close or significantly reduce such installation and a detailed justification for his decision, together with the estimated fiscal, local economic, budgetary, environmental, strategic, and operational consequences of the proposed closure or reduction; and then (D) a period of at least sixty days expires following the date on which the, justification referred to in clause (C) has been submitted to such committees, during which period the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned may take no irrevocable action to implement the decision. (b) For purposes of this section, the term “military installation” means any camp, post, station, base, yard, or other facility under the authority of the Department of Defense— (1) which is located within any of the several States, the District of Columbia., the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or Guam; and (2) at which not less than five hundred civilian personnel are authorized to lie employed. (c) For purposes of this section, the term “civilian personnel” means direct-hire permanent civilian employees of the Department of Defense. (d) This section shall not apply to any closure or reduction if the President certifies to Congress that such closure or reduction must be implemented for reasons of any military emergency or national security or if such closure or reduction was publicly announced prior to January 1, 1976.