PUBLIC LAW 96-29—JUNE 27, 1979
93 STAT. 79
(B) identifiable taxes, customs duties, and other charges levied within the United States on the program; and (C) the United States share of the unfunded termination liability. (b) Authority under this section to enter into contracts shall be effective for any fiscal year only to such extent or in such amounts as are provided in appropriation Acts. TITLE II—RESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION SEC. 201. In addition to the funds authorized to be appropriated under title II of the Department of Defense Appropriation Authorization Act, 1979, funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for 92 Stat. 1612. fiscal year 1979 for the use of the Armed Forces for research, development, test, and evaluation, as authorized by law, in amounts as follows: (1) For the Army, $43,700,000. (2) For the Navy, $3,000,000. (3) For the Air Force, $253,800,000. SEC. 202. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that maintaining a 10 USC 139 note, survivable land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system is vital to the security of the United States and that development of a new basing mode for land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles is necessary to assure the survivability of the land-based system. To this end, the development of the MX missile, together with a new basing mode for such missile, should proceed so as to achieve Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for both such missile and such basing mode at the earliest practicable date. (b) In addition, it is the sense of the Congress that the basing mode for the MX missile should be restricted to location on the least productive land available that is suitable for such purpose. (c) In accordance with the sense of Congress expressed in subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall proceed immediately with full scale engineering development of the missile basing mode known as the Multiple Protective Structure (MPS) system concurrently with full scale engineering development of the MX missile, unless and until the Secretary of Defense certifies to the Congress that an alternative basing mode is militarily or technologically superior to, and is more cost effective than, the MPS system or the President informs the Congress that in his view the MPS system is not consistent with United States national security interests. (d) Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit or restrict the study of alternative basing modes for land-based intercontinental ballistic missiles. Approved June 27, 1979. LEGISLATIVE HISTORY: HOUSE REPORTS: No. 96-90 accompanying H.R. 2575 (Comm. on Armed Services) and No. 96-282 (Comm. of Conference). SENATE REPORTS: No. 96-62 (Comm. on Armed Services) and No. 96-223 (Comm. of Coiif©rGiiC6)
CONGRESSIONAL RECORD, Vol. 125 (1979): May 2, 3, considered and passed Senate. May 31, H.R. 2575 considered and passed House; passage vacated and S. 429, amended, passed in lieu. June 18, Senate agreed to conference report. June 21, House agreed to conference report.
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