PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 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. SEC. 1005. PARTNERSfflP FOR PEACE INFORMATION SYSTEM MANAGE- MENT. Funds authorized to be appropriated under titles II and III of this Act shall be available for the Partnership for Peace Information Management System as follows: (1) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 201(4) for Defense-wide activities, $2,000,000. (2) Of the amount authorized to be appropriated under section 301(5) for Defense-wide activities, $3,000,000. SEC. 1006. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO NATO COMMON-FUNDED BUDGETS IN FISCAL YEAR 1999. (a) FISCAL YEAR 1999 LIMITATION:—The total amount contributed by the Secretary of Defense in fiscal year 1999 for the commonfunded budgets of NATO may be any amount up to, but not in excess of, the amount specified in subsection (b) (rather than the maximum amount that would otherwise be applicable to those contributions under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation). (b) TOTAL AMOUNT.— The amount of the limitation applicable under subsection (a) is the sum of the following:
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