General Provisions—Chapter I

General Provisions—Chapter I (including transfer of funds) Sec. 101. The authority provided in this chapter to transfer funds from the Defense Cooperation Account and the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund is in addition to any other transfer authority contained in any other Act making appropriations for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1991: Provided, That any amounts so transferred shall be merged with and available for the same purposes and the same time period as the appropriations to which transferred. The costs for which transfers are provided herein are costs associated with Operation Desert Storm: Provided further, That any limitations applicable to the amounts that may be transferred to individual appropriations of the Department of Defense from the Fund are hereby increased by the amount of transfers made pursuant to this provision. Sec. 102. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the balance of the $15,000,000,000 corpus to be maintained in the Persian Gulf Regional Defense Fund shall be reduced by the amount of transfers from such fund made to support Operation Provide Comfort and other humanitarian relief efforts as provided in this chapter.