PUBLIC LAW 94-419—SEPT. 22, 1976
90 STAT. 1293
than $2.50 per day: Provided further, That for the purposes of this section payments for meals at the rates established hereunder may be made in cash or by deduction from the pay of civilian employees: Provided further, That members of organized nonprofit youth groups sponsored at either the national or local level, when extended the privilege of visiting a military installation and permitted to eat in the general mess by the commanding officer of the installation, shall pay the commuted ration cost of such meal or meals. SEC. 711. No part of any appropriation contained in this Act shall Fiscal year remain available for obligation beyond the current fiscal year unless limitation. expressly so provided herein. SEC. 712. Appropriations of the Department of Defense available Reimbursable for operation and maintenance may be reimbursed during the current appropriations. fiscal year for all expenses involved in the preparation for disposal and for the disposal of military supplies, equipment, and materiel, and for all expenses of production of lumber or timber products pursuant to section 2665 of title 10, United States Code, from amounts received as proceeds from the sale of any such property: Provided, Report to That a report of receipts and disbursements under this limitation Congress. shall be made quarterly to Congress: Provided further, That no funds 50 USC 100a. available to agencies of the Department of Defense shall be used for the operation, acquisition, or construction of new facilities or equipment for new facilities in the continental limits of the United States for metal scrap baling or shearing or for melting or sweating aluminum scrap unless the Secretary of Defense or an Assistant Secretary •, *i* of Defense designated by him determines, with respect to each facility involved, that the operation of such facility is in the national interest. SEC. 713. (a) During the current fiscal year, the President may Funds, exempt appropriations, funds, and contract authorizations, available apportionment for military functions under the Department of Defense, from the exemption. provisions of subsection (c) of section 3679 of the Revised Statutes, as amended, whenever he deems such action to be necessary in the 31 USC 665. interest of national defense. (b) Upon determination by the President that such action is neces- Airborne alert sary, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the cost expenses. of an airborne alert as an excepted expense in accordance with the provisions of Revised Statutes 3732 (41 U.S.C. 11). (c) Upon determination by the President that it is necessary to Military increase the number of military personnel on active duty subject to personnel existing laws beyond the number for which funds are provided in this increases, Act, the Secretary of Defense is authorized to provide for the cost expenses. of such increased military personnel, as an excepted expense in accordance with the provisions of Revised Statutes 3732 (41 U.S.C. 11). (d) The Secretary of Defense shall immediately advise Congress Report to of the exercise of any authority granted in this section, and shall Congress. report monthly on the estimated obligations incurred pursuant to subsections (b) and (c). SEC. 714. No appropriation contained in this Act shall be available Lommissary in connection with the operation of commissary stores of the agencies stores. of the Department of Defense for the cost of purchase (including commercial transportation in the United States to the place of sale but excluding all transportation outside the United States) and maintenance of operating equipment and supplies, and for the actual or estimated cost of utilities as may be furnished by the Government and of shrinkage, spoilage, and pilferage of merchandise under the control of such commissary stores, except as authorized under regulations promulgated by the Secretaries of the military departments concerned with the approval of the Secretary of Defense, which regu-
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