COUNTERPROLIFERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM.

SEC. 218. COUNTERPROLIFERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM. (a) Funding.— Of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense under section 201(4), $138,237,000 shall be available for the Counterproliferation Support Program, of which $30,000,000 shall be available for a tactical antisatellite technologies program. (b) Additional Authority To Transfer Authorizations.— (1) In addition to the transfer authority provided in section 1001, upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary may transfer amounts of authorizations made available to the Department of Defense in this division for fiscal year 1996 to counterproliferation programs, projects, and activities identified as areas for progress by the Counterproliferation Program Review Committee established by section 1605 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103–160; 107 Stat. 1845). Amounts of authorizations so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. (2) The total amount of authorizations transferred under the authority of this subsection may not exceed $50,000,000. 110 STAT. 223 (3) The authority provided by this subsection to transfer authorizations— (A) may only be used to provide authority for items that have a higher priority than the items from which authority is transferred; and (B) may not be used to provide authority for an item that has been denied authorization by Congress. (4) A transfer made from one account to another under the authority of this subsection shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized for the account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to the amount transferred. (5) The Secretary of Defense shall promptly notify Congress Notification, of transfers made under the authority of this subsection.