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PUBLIC LAW 98-000—MMMM. DD, 1984

PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

98 STAT. 2515

formance of the activity is no longer required for national defense reasons. Such regulations shall include criteria for determining whether Government performance of a logistics activity identified under subsection (a)(2) is no longer required for national defense reasons. (3) A waiver under paragraph (2) may not take effect until— (A) the Secretary has submitted a report on the waiver to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives; and (B) a period of 20 days of continuous session of Congress or 40 calendar days has passed after the receipt of the report by those committees. (4) For purposes of paragraph (3)(B), the continuity of a session of Congress is broken only by an adjournment sine die, and the days on which either House is not in session because of an adjournment of more than three days to a day certain are excluded in the computation of such 30-day period. (c) Identification of logistics activities that are necessary to maintain the logistics capability described in subsection (a)(1) shall be completed, and a report describing those activities (including a detailed specification or listing) shall be submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives, not later than April 1, 1985.

Report.

Report.

LIMITATION ON CONSULTING AND RELATED SERVICES

SEC. 308. Of the funds appropriated to or for the use of the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1985 pursuant to an authorization contained in this Act or any other law, not more than $1,302,599,000 may be obligated or expended for consultants, studies and analyses, management support contracts, and contract systems and technical engineering. RESTRICTION ON REDUCTION IN PORTS OF ORIGIN FOR CERTAIN CARGO CARRIED ON VESSELS OF THE MILITARY SEAUFT COMMAND

SEC. 309. (a)(1) Except as provided in subsection (b), funds appropriated to the Department of Defense pursuant to an authorization of appropriations in this Act may not be used to carry out a permanent consolidation or reduction, to a number less than the base number, in the number of ports at which cargo shipments originate that— (A) are shipments of breakbulk cargo; (B) are carried through the Panama Canal on vessels operated by or for the Military Sealift Command; and (C) have a destination at a port on the Pacific Ocean outside the continental United States. (2) For the purposes of paragraph (1), the base number is the number of ports which were being used to originate cargo shipments described in paragraph (1) as of January 1, 1984. (b) The limitation in subsection (a) shall cease to apply with respect to a proposed consolidation or reduction 30 days after the date on which Congress receives a report from the Secretary of Defense describing the proposed consolidation or reduction, but not before February 1, 1985.

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