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 Ill STAT. 2000 PUBLIC LAW 105-85 —NOV. 18, 1997 Program, the Job Training Partnership Act, and any other federally funded job training program. (6) Costs associated with military health care. (7) Savings attributable to changes in military force structure. (8) Savings due to lower support costs with respect to military installations that are closed or realigned. (d) DEADLINE.— The Secretary shall submit the report under subsection (a) not later than the date on which the President submits to Congress the budget for fiscal year 2000 under section 1105(a) of title 31, United States Code. (e) REVIEW.— The Congressional Budget Office and the Comptroller General shall conduct a review of the report prepared under subsection (a). (f) PROHIBITION ON USE OF FUNDS. —Except as necessary to prepare the report required under subsection (a), no funds authorized to be appropriated or otherwise made available to the Department of Defense by this Act or any other Act may be used for the purposes of planning for, or collecting data in anticipation of, an authorization providing for procedures under which the closure and realignment of military installations may be accomplished, until the later of— - (1) the date on which the Secretary submits the report required by subsection (a); and (2) the date on which the Congressional Budget Office and the Comptroller General complete a review of the report under subsection (e). (g) SENSE OF CONGRESS.—I t is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Secretary should develop a system having the capacity to quantify the actual costs and savings attributable to the closure and realignment of military installations pursuant to the base closure process; and (2) the Secretary should develop the system in expedient fashion, so that the system may be used to quantify costs and savings attributable to the 1995 base closure round. SEC. 2825. SENSE OF SENATE REGARDING UTILIZATION OF SAVINGS DERIVED FROM BASE CLOSURE PROCESS. (a) FINDINGS. —The Senate makes the following findings: (1) Since 1988, the Department of Defense has conducted four rounds of closures and realignments of military installations in the United States, resulting in the closure of 97 installations. (2) The cost of carr)ang out the closure or realignment of installations covered by such rounds is estimated by the Secretary of Defense to be $23,000,000,000. (3) The savings expected as a result of the closure or realignment of such installations are estimated by the Secretary to be $10,300,000,000 through fiscal year 1996 and $36,600,000,000 through 2001. (4) In addition to such savings, the Secretary has estimated recurring savings as a result of the closure or realignment of such installations of approximately $5,600,000,000 annually. (5) The fiscal year 1997 budget request for the Department assumed a savings of between $2,000,000,000 and $3,000,000,000 as a result of the closure or realignment of such installations, which savings were to be dedicated to the

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