AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR BOSNIA PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999.

SEC. 1004. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS FOR BOSNIA PEACEKEEPING OPERATIONS FOR FISCAL YEAR 1999. (a) Authorization of Appropriations.— Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999 for incremental costs of the Armed Forces for Bosnia peacekeeping operations in the total amount of $1,858,600,000, as follows: (1) For military personnel, in addition to the amounts authorized to be appropriated in title IV of this Act: (A) For the Army, $297,700,000. (B) For the Navy, $9,700,000. (C) For the Marine Corps, $2,700,000. (D) For the Air Force, $33,900,000. (E) For the Naval Reserve, $2,200,000. (2) For operation and maintenance for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund, in addition to the total amount authorized to be appropriated for that fund in section301(24) of this Act, $1,512,400,000. (b) Designation as Emergency.— Funds authorized to be appropriated in accordance with subsection (a) are designated as emergency requirements pursuant to section 251(b)(2)(A) of the Balanced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 (2U.S.C. 901(b)(2)(A)). (c) Limitation.— (1) Funds available for the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1999 for military personnel for the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, or Naval Reserve or for operation and maintenance for the Overseas Contingency Operations Transfer Fund may not be obligated or expended for Bosnia peacekeeping operations in excess of the amount authorized to be appropriated for that purpose under subsection (a). (2) The President may waive the limitation in paragraph (1)after submitting to Congress the following: (A) The President’s written certification that the waiver is necessary in the national security interests of the United States. 112 STAT. 2113 (B) The President’s written certification that exercising the waiver will not adversely affect the readiness of United States military forces. (C) A report setting forth the following: (i) The reasons that the waiver is necessary in the national security interests of the United States. (ii) The specific reasons that additional funding is required for the continued presence of United States military forces participating in, or supporting, Bosnia peacekeeping operations for fiscal year 1999. (iii) A discussion of the impact on the military readiness of United States Armed Forces of the continuing deployment of United States military forces participating in, or supporting, Bosnia peacekeeping operations. (D) A supplemental appropriations request for the Department of Defense for such amounts as are necessary for the additional fiscal year 1999 costs associated with United States military forces participating in, or supporting, Bosnia peacekeeping operations. (d) Transfer Authority.— The Secretary of Defense may transfer amounts of authorizations made available to the Department of Defense in subsection (a)(2) for fiscal year 1999 to any of the authorizations for that fiscal year in section 301. Amounts of authorizations so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. The transfer authority under this subsection is in addition to any other transfer authority provided in this Act. (e) Bosnia Peacekeeping Operations Defined.— For the purposes of this section, the term “Bosnia peacekeeping operations”— (1) means the operation designated as Operation Joint Forge and any other operation involving the participation of any of the Armed Forces in peacekeeping or peace enforcement activities in and around the Republic of Bosnia and Herzegovina; and (2) includes, with respect to Operation Joint Forge or any such other operation, each activity that is directly related to the support of the operation.