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 Ill STAT. 1704 PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 and at private sector facilities, as a result of the determinations made for purposes of paragraphs (1), (2), and (3). SEC. 366. REVIEW OF USE OF TEMPORARY DUTY ASSIGNMENTS FOR SHIP REPAIR AND MAINTENANCE. (a) FINDINGS.— Congress makes the following findings: (1) In order to reduce the time that the crew of a naval vessel is away from the homeport of the vessel, the Navy seeks to perform ship repair and maintenance of the vessel at the homeport of the vessel whenever it takes six months or less to accomplish the work involved. (2) At the same time, the Navy seeks to distribute ship repair and maintenance work among the Navy shipyards (known as to "level load") in order to more fully utilize personnel resources. (3) During periods when a Navy shipyard is not utilized to its capacity, the Navy sometimes sends workers at the shipyard, on a temporary duty basis, to perform ship repairs and maintenance at a homeport not having a Navy shipyard. (4) This practice is a more efficient use of civilian employees who might otherwise not be fully employed on work assigned to Navy shipyards. (b) COMPTROLLER GENERAL REVIEW AND REPORT.— (1) The Comptroller General shall review the Navj^s practice of using temporary duty assignments of personnel to perform ship maintenance and repair work at homeports not having Navy shipyards. The review shall include the following: (A) An assessment of the rationale, conditions, and factors supporting the Navy's practice. (B) A determination of whether the practice is cost-effective. (C) The factors affecting future requirements for, and the adherence to, the practice, together with an assessment of the factors, (2) Not later than May 1, 1998, the Comptroller General shall submit a report on the review to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives. SEC. 367. SENSE OF CONGRESS REGARDING REALIGNMENT OF PERFORMANCE OF GROUND COMMUNICATION-ELEC- TRONIC WORKLOAD. It is the sense of Congress that the transfer of the ground communication-electronic workload to Tobyhanna Army Depot, Pennsylvania, in the realignment of the performance of such function should be carried out in adherence to the schedule prescribed for that transfer by the Defense Depot Maintenance Council on March 13, 1997, as follows: (1) Transfer of 20 percent of the workload in fiscal year 1998. (2) Trsmsfer of 40 percent of the workload in fiscal year 1999. (3) Transfer of 40 percent of the workload in fiscal year 2000.

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