OPERATION ENHANCED SOUTHERN WATCH.

SEC. 1005. OPERATION ENHANCED SOUTHERN WATCH. (a) Authorization of Amounts Available.— Within the total amounts authorized to be appropriated in titles III and IV, there is hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1996 for costs associated with Operation Enhanced Southern Watch— (1) $433,400,000 for operation and maintenance costs; and (2) $70,400,000 for incremental military personnel costs. (b) Report.— (1) Of the amounts specified in subsection (a), not more than $250,000,000 may be obligated until the Secretary of Defense submits to the congressional defense committees a report designating Operation Enhanced Southern Watch, or significant elements thereof, as a forward presence operation for which funding should be budgeted as part of the annual defense budget process in the same manner as other activities of the Armed Forces involving forward presence or forward deployed forces. (2) The report shall set forth the following: (A) The expected duration and annual costs of the various elements of Operation Enhanced Southern Watch. (B) Those elements of Operation Enhanced Southern Watch that are semi-permanent in nature and should be budgeted 110 STAT. 419in the future as part of the annual defense budget process in the same manner as other activities of the Armed Forces involving forward presence or forward deployed forces. (C) The political and military objectives associated with Operation Enhanced Southern Watch. (D) The contributions (both in-kind and actual) by other nations to the costs of conducting Operation Enhanced Southern Watch. (c) Operation Enhanced Southern Watch.— For purposes of this section, the term “Operation Enhanced Southern Watch” means the operation of the Department of Defense that as of October 30, 1995, is designated as Operation Enhanced Southern Watch.