OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE Operation and Maintenance, Navy For an additional amount for “Operation and Maintenance, Navy”, $24,000,000. Strategic Reserve Readiness Fund (including transfer of funds) In addition to amounts provided in this or any other Act, for training, operations, repair of equipment, purchases of equipment, and other expenses related to improving the readiness of non-deployed United States military forces, $1,615,000,000, to remain available until September 30, 2009; of which $1,000,000,000 shall be transferred to “National Guard and Reserve Equipment” for the purchase of equipment for the Army National Guard; and of which $615,000,000 shall be transferred by the Secretary of Defense only to appropriations for military personnel, operation and maintenance, procurement, and defense working capital funds to accomplish the purposes provided herein: Provided, That the funds transferred shall be merged with and shall be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as the appropriation to which transferred: Provided further, That the Secretary of Defense shall, not fewer than 30 days prior to making transfers under this authority, notify the congressional defense committees in writing of the details of any such transfers made pursuant to this authority: Provided further, That funds shall be transferred to the appropriation accounts not later than 120 days after the enactment of this Act: Provided further, That the transfer authority provided in this paragraph 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 transferred 121 STAT. 134 from this appropriation are not necessary for the purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred back to this appropriation.