114 STAT. 2763A-198 PUBLIC LAW 106-554—APPENDIX D be necessary to verify the entitlement of such individual to have any service credited under this subsection or to have an annuity recomputed under paragraph (3). (C) INFORMATION. —Any department, agency, or other instrumentality of the United States which possesses any information with respect to an individual's performance of any service described in paragraph (1) shall, at the request of the office, furnish such information to the Office. (6) EXCLUSION OF CERTAIN EMPLOYEES. —An individual is not eligible for credit under this subsection if the individual served as an employee of the House of Representatives for an aggregate period of 5 years or longer after the individual's final period of service as an employee of a legislative service organization of the House of Representatives. (7) MEMBER DEFINED.— In this subsection, the term "Member of the House of Representatives" includes a Delegate or Resident Commissioner to Congress. SEC. 902. (a) The Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001 is amended under the subheading "MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS" under the heading "SENATE" under title I by striking "$8,655,000" and inserting "$25,155,000". (b) The amendment made by subsection (a) shall take effect as if included in the enactment of the Legislative Branch Appropriations Act, 2001. SEC 903. Beginning on the first day of the 107th Congress, the Presiding Officer of the Senate shall apply all of the precedents of the Senate under Rule XXVIII in effect at the conclusion of the 103d Congress. Further that there is now in effect a Standing order of the Senate that the reading of conference reports is no longer required, if the said conference report is available in the Senate. CHAPTER 10 GENERAL PROVISIONS—THIS CHAPTER SEC 1001. In addition to amounts appropriated or otherwise made available in the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 2001, $43,500,000 is hereby appropriated to the Department of Defense, to remain available until September 30, 2005, as follows: "Military Construction, Army", $27,000,000; "Military Construction, Air Force", $12,000,000; "Mihtary Construction, Army National Guard", $4,500,000: Provided, That notwithstanding any other provision of law, such funds may be obligated or expended to carry out planning and design, military construction, and family housing projects not otherwise authorized by law. SEC 1002. TRANSFER OF JURISDICTION, MELROSE AIR FORCE RANGE, NEW MEXICO, (a) TRANSFER REQUIRED.— (1) The Secretary of the Interior shall transfer, without reimbursement, to the administrative jurisdiction of the Secretary of the Air Force the surface estate in the real property described in paragraph (2), which consists of 6,713.90 acres of public domain lands in Roosevelt County, New Mexico. (2) The transfer of administrative jurisdiction under paragraph (1) encompasses the following sections (or portions thereof):
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