INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 1988 DEFENSE FUNDS TRANSFER AUTHORIZATION

SEC. 1202, INCREASE IN FISCAL YEAR 1988 DEFENSE FUNDS TRANSFER AUTHORIZATION Section 1201 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989 (Public Law 100–180; 101 Stat. 1153) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) by inserting “of this Act or any prior defense authorization Act” in paragraph (1) before “for any fiscal year”; and (B) by striking out “$2,000,000,000” in paragraph (2) and inserting in lieu thereof “$4,000,000,000”; and (2) by striking out subsection (d) and inserting in lieu thereof the following: “(d) Specified Purposes.—In determining the purposes for which the authority provided by subsection (a) will be used, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that to the extent that the total dollar amount of transfers under such authority exceeds $2,000,000,000, an appropriate portion of that authority is used to transfer to military personnel accounts and operation and maintenance accounts of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1988 (1) funds for depot maintenance activities in amounts sufficient to reduce service backlogs which would otherwise occur, (2) funds for pay of civilian personnel in amounts sufficient to reduce furloughs, reductions-in-force, or release of on-call employees into a non pay status which would otherwise be required due to insufficient funding for civilian personnel of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1988, and (3) funds for pay of military personnel. “(e) Notice to Congress.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress notice of each transfer made under the authority of this section. After the total dollar amount of such transfers equals or 102 STAT. 2051exceeds $2,000,000,000, the notice required by the preceding sentence with respect to any transfer shall be submitted not less than 15 days before the transfer is made, and any such notice shall then include identification of specific actions that the Secretary is taking in order to ensure that the transfer is made in compliance with subsection (f). “(f) Control of Outlays.—In the case of any transfer under the authority of this section after the total dollar amount of such transfers equals or exceeds $2,000,000,000, the Secretary of Defense may carry out such transfer only to the extent that such transfer, and the expenditure of funds so transferred, do not result in an increase in outlays by the Department of Defense during fiscal year 1988.”.