Pub. L. 100-463, tit. VIII, sec. 8117

Sec. 8117. None of the funds appropriated by this or any other Act with respect to any fiscal year for the Navy may be used to carry out an electromagnetic pulse program in the Chesapeake Bay area in connection with the Electromagnetic Pulse Radiation Environment Simulator for Ships (EMPRESS) program unless or until the Secretary of Defense certifies to the Congress that conduct of the EMPRESS program is essential to the national security of the United States and to achieving requisite military capability for United States naval vessels, and that the economic, environmental, and social costs to the United States of conducting the EMPRESS program in the Chesapeake Bay area are far less than the economic, environmental, and social costs caused by conducting the EMPRESS program elsewhere.