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PUBLIC LAW 99-000—MMMM. DD, 1985

PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985

99 STAT. 725

(I) The legal basis for and propriety of the operation by an instrumentality of the United States of a commercial business on a military installation under a franchise arrangement, (c) PRIOR NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—(1) An officer or employee of the

Department of Defense may not enter into a contract for the construction of a facility for or operation of a commercial franchise business on a military installation in the United States until the Secretary of Defense notifies Congress of the intention to enter into the contract. (2) Paragraph (1) shall expire at the end of the two-year period beginning on the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 1210. PRIORITY FOR AIR FORCE SHUTTLE OPERATIONS AND PLANNING COMPLEX

(a) DATES FOR IOC.—(1) The Secretary of the Air Force shall give sufficient priority to the completion of the Air Force Shuttle Operations and Planning Complex (SOPC) to ensure an initial operational capability (IOC) date for mission control a t such complex in November 1992. (2) In order to meet that IOC date, the Secretary is encouraged to maximize, to the extent feasible and practicable, commonality of design and equipments at the SOPC with the planned modernization of shuttle control facilities a t the Johnson Space Flight Center. (b) REPORT.—At the time of the submission to Congress of the President's budget for fiscal year 1987, the Secretary of the Air Force shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report setting forth a program plan by which the IOC date as specified in subsection (a) may be met. SEC. 1211. PROVISION OF URANIUM TETRAFLUORIDE TO CONTRACTORS FOR PRODUCTION OF CONVENTIONAL AMMUNITION

(a) IN GENERAL,—Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of the Army, during fiscal year 1986, may provide uranium tetrafluoride (green salt) from stockpile materials available to the Secretary to a contractor for the production of conventional ammunition for the Army. (b) CERTIFICATION BY THE SECRETARY.—The Secretary may not

provide uranium tetrafluoride to a contractor under this section until the Secretary certifies to Congress that— (1) such action is necessary to meet the fiscal year 1986 ammunition production requirement because neither uranium tetrafluoride nor depleted uranium metal of the appropriate quality is available to the contractor from commercial sources— (A) in the quantity needed by the contractor; (B) during the period in which the materied is needed by the contractor; and (C) at a reasonable price (to be determined by the Comptroller General of the United States after taking into account an appropriate profit and the investment made in facilities as a consequence of the decision of the Secretary to discontinue providing uranium tetrafluoride to contractors beginning in fiscal year 1986); (2) the contractor has agreed to repay to the United States a quantity of uranium tetrafluoride equivalent to the quantity provided to the contractor by the Secretary and has presented

Contract.