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 107 STAT. 1804 PUBLIC LAW 103-160—NOV. 30, 1993 (2) The cost of carrying out the program authorized by subsection (a) may not exceed $8,000,000 in any fiscal year, (k) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: (1) The term '1t>ase closure law" means the following: (A) Title II of the Defense Authorization Amendments and Base Closure and Realignment Act (Public Law 100- 526; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note). (B) The Defense Base Closure and Realignment Act of 1990 (part A of title XXIX of Public Law 101-510; 10 U.S.C. 2687 note). (2) The term 'iiazardous substance research centers" means the hazardous substance research centers described in section 311(d) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (42 U.S.C. 9660(d)). Such term includes the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain Hazardous Substance Research Center, the Northeast Hazardous Substance Research Center, the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic Hazardous Substance Research Center, the South and Southwest Hazardous Substance Research Center, and the Western Region Hazardous Substance Research Center. (3) The term ''institution of higher education" has the same meaning given such term in section 1201(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 1141(a)). 10 USC 2701 SEC. 133S. TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT OF DEPARTMENT OF note. DEFENSE EMPLOYEES TO CARRY OUT ENVIRONMENTAL RESTORATION AT MILITARY INSTALLATIONS TO BE CLOSED. r (a) TRAINING PROGRAM.—The Secretary of Defense may establish a program to provide such training to eligible civilian employees of the Department of Defense as the Secretary considers to be necessary to qualify such employees to can^ out environmental assessment, remediation, and restoration activities (including asbestos abatement) at military installations closed or to be closed. (b) EMPLOYMENT OF GRADUATES.—In the case of eligible civilian employees of the Department of Defense who successfully complete the training program established pursuant to subsection (a), the Secretary may— (1) employ such employees to carry out environmental assessment, remediation, and restoration activities at military installations referred to in subsection (a); or (2) require, as a condition of a contract for the private performance of such activities at such an installation, the contractor to be engaged in carrying out such activities to employ such employees. (c) EuGiBLE EMPLOYEES.— E ligibility for selection to participate in the training program under subsection (a) shall be limited to those civilian employees of the Department of Defense whose employment would be terminated by reason of the closure of a mihtary installation if not for the selection of the employees to participate in the training program. (d) PRIORITY IN TRAINING AND EMPLOYMENT. — The Secretary shall give priority in providing training and employment under this section to eligible civilian employees employed at a military installation the closure of which will directly result in the termination of the employment of at least 1,000 civilian employees of the Department of Defense.

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