115 STAT. 1270 PUBLIC LAW 107-107—DEC. 28, 2001 Deadline. of the Department of Defense and for the use of the National Nuclear Security Administration. SEC. 1504. AUTHORIZATION OF USE OF FUNDS FOR MILITARY CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. (a) AUTHORITY FOR USE OF FUNDS. — Qualified emergency defense appropriations may be used to acquire real property and carry out military construction projects not otherwise authorized by law that the Secretary of Defense determines are necessary to respond to or protect against acts or threatened acts of terrorism or to respond to the terrorist attacks on the United States that occurred on September 11, 2001. (b) PROJECT AUTHORIZATION. — Any project with respect to which the Secretary makes a determination under subsection (a) and that is to be carried out using qualified emergency defense appropriations is hereby authorized for purposes of section 2802 of title 10, United States Code. (c) QUALIFIED EMERGENCY DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS.— For purposes of this subsection, the term "qualified emergency defense appropriations" means emergency appropriations available to the Department of Defense that are authorized by section 1502 or 1503. SEC. 1505. TREATMENT OF TRANSFERRED AMOUNTS. Amounts transferred under authority of section 1502 or 1503 shall be merged with, and shall be available for the same purposes and for the same time period as, the accounts to which transferred. The transfer authority under those sections is in addition to the transfer authority provided by section 1001 or any other provision of law. SEC. 1506. QUARTERLY REPORTS. (a) QUARTERLY REPORT.— Promptly after the end of each quarter of a fiscal year, the Secretary of Defense and the Director of Central Intelligence shall each submit to the congressional defense committees a report (in classified and unclassified form, as needed) on the use of funds authorized by this subtitle. Each such report shall, at a minimum, specify the following: (1) Any balance of funds remaining in the Defense Emergency Response Fund as of the end of the quarter covered by the report. (2) The accounts to which funds have been transferred or are to be transferred and the amount of each such transfer. (3) Within such accounts, each project to which any such funds have been transferred or are to be transferred and the amount of funds obligated and the amount expended for each such project as of the end of the quarter covered by the report. (b) INITIAL REPORT.— The first report under subsection (a) shall be submitted not later than January 2, 2002. (c) FINAL REPORT. — No further report under subsection (a) is required after all funds made available to the Department of Defense pursuant to such Act have been obligated. ^
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