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 PUBLIC LAW 102-484—OCT, 23, 1992 106 STAT. 2481 (2) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 9 of such title is amended by striking out the item relating to section 221 and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "221. Future-years defense program: submission to Congress; consistency in budgeting. "222. Future-years mission budget. "226. Scoring of outlays.". SEC. 1003. TREATMENT OF CERTAIN "M" ACCOUNT OBLIGATIONS. (a) LIMITATION.— The Secretary of Defense may not reobligate any sum in a merged (or so-called "M") account of the Department of Defense until the Secretary has identified an equal sum under section 1406 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1680) that can be canceled. (b) REQUIREMENT FOR RECIPROCAL CANCELLATION.— W henever the Secretary of Defense reobligates funds from a merged (or socalled "M") account of the Department of Defense, the Secretary shall at the same time cancel with the Treasury of the United States a sum in the same amount as the reobligation from a merged account of the Department of Defense. (c) MONTHLY REPORTS.— The Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees a monthly report, for each month beginning after the date of the enactment of this Act through September 1993, on the amount of funds reobligated during the month from merged accounts of the Department of Defense and the amount of funds canceled during the month from such accounts. Each report shall be submitted not later than the 21st day of the month after the month covered by the report. (d) NOTICE-AND-WAIT.—(1) Whenever the Secretary of Defense proposes to reobligate from a merged (or so-called "M") account of the Department of Defense any sum in an amount greater than $10,000,000, the reobligation may not be made until— (A) the Secretary notifies Congress of the amount to be reobligated, the source of the funds to be reobligated, and the purpose the funds will be reobligated for; and (B) a period of 30 days passes after the notice is received. (2) The limitation in paragraph (1) applies to reobligations for a single purpose in a sum greater than the amount specified in that paragraph. Such a reobligation may not be divided into several smaller sums to avoid such limitation. (e) DURATION OF LIMITATIONS.—Subsections (a) and (b) shall cease to apply when all audits and cancellations of balances required by section 1406 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (Public Law 101-510; 104 Stat. 1680) have been completed. SEC. 1004. ADDITIONAL TRANSITION AUTHORITY REGARDING CLOS- ING APPROPRIATION ACCOUNTS. Section 1405(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1991 (31 U.S.C. 1551 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new paragraph: "(8) OBLIGATIONS AND ADJUSTMENTS OF OBLIGATIONS FOR EXPIRED BUT NOT CLOSED ACCOUNTS. — (A) Subject to subparagraphs (B), (C), and (D), in the case of an appropriation account for a fiscal year before fiscal year 1992 for which the period of availability for obligation has expired but which has not been closed under the provisions oi section 1552(a) of title

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