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 PUBLIC LAW 102-396—OCT. 6, 1992 106 STAT. 1939 reuse entity submits to the Secretary of a military department for approval a proposed interim lease of a facility at a closing installation under the jurisdiction of that Secretary, the Secretary shall approve or disapprove the proposed interim lease within 60 days after the proposed interim lease is submitted to the Secretary, (b) For purposes of this section, the term "closing", with respect to an installation, means an installation that is being closed pursuant to— (1) the Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 102-510; 104 Stat. 1808; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note); (2) title II of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100-526; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note); or (3) section 2687 of title 10, United States Code. SEC. 9140. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING UNRESOLVED COMMER* CIAL DISPUTES IN SAUDI ARABIA. (a) FINDINGS. —The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Commerce has identified "18 major unsettled cases, involving 14 American firms with claims of approximately $500 million", in Saudi Arabia in a letter dated May 27, 1992, to the House Subcommittee on Europe and the Middle East; (2) the Department has testified that many of these disputes **go back 8 to 10 years"; (3) the Department of Commerce has testified that "Saudi Arabia's commercial law has not kept pace with its great economic strides. The Kingdom's system of commercial regulation lacks an effective internationaly accepted mechanism to resolve disputes with foreign firms."; (4) the Department of Commerce has testified that "The United States nas trading relationships with virtually all the nations in the Near East region. The only country in which we encounter a continual problem with unresolved commercial disputes is Saudi Arabia."; and (5) failure to resolve these contractual disputes results in great hardship for the American businesses involved and their employees. (b) SENSE OF CONGRESS.— It is the sense of Congress that the Government of the United States and the Government of Saudi Arabia should work diligently and without delay to resolve satisfactorily the outstanding commercial disputes identified in the Department of Commerce letter. (c) REPORT. — Not later than February 1, 1993, the Secretary of Defense, afi^r consultation with the Secretary of State and the Secretary of Commerce, shall submit a report to the Congress on the status of the process for the resolution of commercial disputes in Saudi Arabia and the prognosis for any of the 18 such disputes which remain iinresolved. SEC. 9141. (a) Of the funds appropriated in this Act under the heading "Research, Development, Test and Evaluation, Arm/* 35 percent of the funds made available for each of the Comanche Light Armed Scout Helicopter, Apache-Longbow, and Apache-C programs may not be obligated and expended until the Secretary of Defense submits a report addressing the military and fiscal validity of the programs.

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