COUNTERPROLIFERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM.

SEC. 231. COUNTERPROLIFERATION SUPPORT PROGRAM. (a) Funding.— Of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense under section 201(4), $186,200,000 shall be available for the Counterproliferation Support Program, of which $75,000,000 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 1997 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 (22 U.S.C. 2751 note). 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. (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 of transfers made under the authority of this subsection. (c) Limitation on Use of Funds for Technical Studies and Analyses Pending Release of Funds.— (1) None of the funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1997 for program element 605104D, relating to technical studies and analyses, may be obligated or expended until the funds referred to in paragraph (2) have been released to the program manager of the tactical anti-satellite technology program for implementation of that program. (2) The funds for release referred to in paragraph (1) are as follows: (A) Funds authorized to be appropriated by section 218(a) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104–106; 110 Stat. 222) that are available for the program referred to in paragraph (1). (B) Funds authorized to be appropriated to the Department for fiscal year 1997 by this Act for the Counterproliferation 110 STAT. 2462Support Program that are to be made available for that program.