TRANSFER AUTHORITY.

SEC. 306. TRANSFER AUTHORITY. (a) Authority.—The Secretary of Defense, to the extent provided in appropriations Acts, may transfer funds as provided in this section during fiscal year 1993. (b) From the Defense Business Operations Fund.—(1) Not more than $3,054,000,000 may be transferred from the Defense Business Operations Fund to appropriations for operations and maintenance for fiscal year 1993 in amounts as follows: (A) For the Army, $2,229,000,000. (B) For the Navy, $94,500,000. (C) For the Marine Corps, $58,500,000. (D) For the Air Force, $672,000,000. (2) (A) A transfer under this subsection may be made only to the extent that the military department concerned has received credit on the books of the Defense Business Operations Fund for unneeded secondary items returned to the Fund by that military department. (B) If the Secretary of Defense certifies to the congressional defense committees that a military department has, to the greatest extent practicable, returned for credit on the books of the Defense Business Operations Fund all secondary items not needed by such military department that were under the control of such military department on October 1, 1992, then on and after the date of the certification the limitation in subparagraph (A) shall not apply to transfers to that military department (c) From the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund.—Not more than $400,000,000 may be transferred from the National Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund to appropriations for operation and maintenance for fiscal year 1993 in amounts as follows: (1) For the Army, $100,000,000. (2) For the Navy, $100,000,000. (3) For the Air Force, $100,000,000. (4) For the Defense Agencies, $100,000,000. (d) Treatment of Transfers.—Amounts transferred under this section— 106 STAT. 2364 (1) shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes and the same period as the amounts in the accounts to which transferred; (2) shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized to be appropriated for the account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to the amount transferred; and (3) may not be expended for an item that has been denied authorization of appropriations by Congress. (e) Relationship to Other Transfer Authority.—An increase under subsection (d)(2) in an amount authorized to be appropriated is in addition to an increase in that amount that results from a transfer of an authorization of appropriations pursuant to section 1001.