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 102 STAT. 2270-26

National Guard. Employment and unemployment.

Health and medical care. Handicapped persons.

PUBLIC LAW 100-463—OCT. 1, 1988

tarian and civic assistance costs incidental to authorized operations and pursuant to authority granted in section 403(b) of chapter 20 of title 10, United States Code, and these obligations shall be reported to Congress on September 30 of each year: Provided, That funds available for operation and maintenance shall be available for providing humanitarian and similar assistance by using Civic Action Teams in the Trust Territories of the Pacific Islands and freely associated states of Micronesia, pursuant to the Compact of Free Association as authorized by Public Law 99-239. SEC. 8052, Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretaries of the Army and Air Force may authorize the retention in an active status until age sixty of any officer who would otherwise be removed from an active status and who is employed as a National Guard or Reserve technician in a position in which active status in a reserve component of the Army or Air Force is required as a condition of that emplojntnent. SEC. 8053. It is the sense of the Congress that competition, which is necessary to enhance innovation, effectiveness, and efficiency, and which has served our Nation so well in other spheres of political and economic endeavor, should be expanded and increased in the provision of our national defense. SEC. 8054. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to pay a dislocation allowance pursuant to section 407 of title 37, United States Code, in excess of one month's basic allowance for quarters. SEC. 8055. None of the funds available to the Department of Defense shall be obligated or expended to contract out any activity currently performed by the Defense Personnel Support Center in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Provided, That this provision shall not apply after notification to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate of the results of the cost analysis of contracting out any such activity. SEC. 8056. Funds available for operation and maintenance under this Act, may be used in connection with demonstration projects and other activities authorized by section 1092 of title 10, United States Code. SEC. 8057. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be used to make contributions to the Department of Defense Education Benefits Fund pursuant to section 2006(g) of title 10, United States Code, representing the normal cost for future benefits under section 1415(c) of title 38, United States Code, for any member of the armed services who, on or after the date of enactment of this Act, receives an enlistment bonus under section 308a or 308f of title 37, United States Code; nor shall any amounts representing the normal cost of such future benefits be transferred from the Fund by the Secretary of the Treasury to the Administrator of Veterans' Affairs pursuant to section 2006(d) of title 10, United States Code; nor shall the Administrator pay such benefits to any such member. SEC. 8058. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, during fiscal year 1989, the Department of Defense shall conduct an expanded pilot project of providing home health care as part of an individualized case-managed range of benefits that may reasonably deviate from otherwise payable types, amounts and levels of care, in up to four geographic areas containing no more than one-fourth of the Department's beneficiaries, for dependents entitled to health care under sections 1079 and 1086 of title 10, United States Code, with the patients selected from those with exceptionally serious.

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