DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide (including transfer of funds) For an additional amount for “Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide”, $708,000,000 for emergency National Guard support to the Department of Homeland Security, including operating surveillance systems, analyzing intelligence, installing fences and vehicle barriers, building patrol roads, and providing training, to remain available until September 30, 2007: Provided, That the Secretary of Defense may transfer these funds to appropriations 120 STAT. 481 for military personnel, operation and maintenance, and procurement to be available for the same purposes as the appropriation or fund to which transferred: Provided further, That this transfer authority is in addition to any other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense: Provided further, That upon a determination that all or part of the funds so transferred from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation, to be merged with and made available for the same purposes and for the time period provided under this heading: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, not more than five days after making transfers from this appropriation, notify the congressional defense committees in writing of any such transfer.