PROHIBITION ON CONSOLIDATION OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RETAIL SYSTEMS.

SEC. 367. PROHIBITION ON CONSOLIDATION OR OTHER ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGES OF DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE RETAIL SYSTEMS. (a) Defense Retail Systems Defined.— For purposes of this section, the term “defense retail systems” means the defense commissary system and exchange stores and other revenue-generating facilities operated by nonappropriated fund activities of the Department of Defense for the morale, welfare, and recreation of members of the Armed Forces. (b) Prohibition.— The operation and administration of the defense retail systems may not be consolidated or otherwise merged unless the consolidation or merger is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Effect on Existing Study.— Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit the study of defense retail systems, known as the “Joint Exchange Due Diligence Study, which is underway on the date of the enactment of this Act pursuant to a contract awarded by the Department of the Navy on April 21, 1998, except that any recommendation contained in the completed study regarding the operation or administration of the defense retail systems 112 STAT. 1988may not be implemented unless implementation of the recommendation is specifically authorized by a law enacted after the date of the enactment of this Act.