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H.J.RES.157

Agreed to November 27, 1991

One Hundred Second Congress of the United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Thursday, the third day of
January,

one thousand nine hundred and ninety-one

Joint Resolution


Making dire emergency supplemental appropriations and transfers for relief from the effects of natural disasters, for other urgent needs, and for incremental costs of "Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm" for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, \\That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to provide dire emergency supplemental appropriations for the fiscal year ending September 30, 1992, and for other purposes, namely:


SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

TITLE I--EMERGENCY SUPPLEMENTAL APPROPRIATIONS

CHAPTER I

DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE--MILITARY

(INCLUDING TRANSFER OF FUNDS)

(TRANSFER OF FUNDS)


Sec. 108. In addition to other transfer authority available to the Department of Defense, the Secretary of Defense may transfer from amounts appropriated to the Department of Defense for fiscal year 1992 for operation and maintenance or from balances in working capital accounts established under section 2208 of title 10, United States Code, not to exceed $400,000,000, to the appropriate accounts within the Department of Defense for reducing the Soviet nuclear threat and for the purposes set forth in the Soviet Nuclear Threat Reduction Act of 1991 contained in H.R. 3807, as passed the Senate on November 25, 1991, and under the terms and conditions of such Act: //Provided,\\ That the readiness of the United States Armed Forces shall not be diminished by such transfer of funds.

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