96 STAT. 162 Waiver.
Notification to congressional committees.
PUBLIC LAW 97-214—JULY 12, 1982 ation) may not exceed the amount specified by law as the maximum annual foreign family housing unit lease amount. That maximum lease amount may be waived by Secretary concerned with respect to not more than a total of 200 such units that are leased for incumbents of special positions or for personnel assigned to Defense Attache Offices or that are leased in countries where excessive costs of housing would cause undue hardship on Department of Defense personnel. "(2) The maximum number of family housing units that may be leased in foreign countries under this section at any one time shall be specified by law. "(f) A lease for family housing facilities, or for real property related to family housing facilities, in a foreign country for which the average estimated annual rental during the term of the lease exceeds the amount specified by law for such purpose may not be made under this section until (1) the Secretary concerned provides to the appropriate committees of Congress written notification of the facts concerning the proposed lease, and (2) a period of 21 days elapses after the notification is received by those committees. "§ 2829. Multi-year contracts for supplies and services "The Secretary concerned may make contracts for periods of up to four years for supplies and services for the management, maintenance, and operation of military family housing and may pay the costs of such contracts for each year out of annual appropriations for that year.
"Uniformed services."
Transfer of funds.
"§ 2830. Occupancy of substandard family housing units "(a)(1) A member of the uniformed services with dependents may, without loss of the member's basic allowance for quarters, occupy a substandard family housing unit under the jurisdiction of the Secretary of a military department.
- (2) Occupancy of a family housing unit under paragraph (1) shall
be subject to a charge against the member's basic allowance for quarters in the amount of the fair rental value of the housing unit. However, such a charge may not be made in an amount in excess of 75 percent of the amount of such allowance. "(b) Subject to regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Defense, the Secretary of a military department may lease substandard family housing units to members of any of the uniformed services for occupancy by such members. "(c) In this section, 'uniformed services' means the armed forces and the commissioned corps of the Public Health Service and of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "§ 2831. Military family housing management account "(a) There is on the books of the Treasury an account known as the Department of Defense Military Family Housing Management Account (hereinafter in this section referred to as the 'account'). The account shall be used for the management and administration of funds appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense for military family housing programs. "(b) The account shall be administered as a single account. There shall be transferred into the account— "(1) appropriations made for the purpose of, or which are available for, the payment of costs arising in connection with the construction, acquisition, leasing, relocation, operation and
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