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 112 STAT. 2118 PUBLIC LAW 105-261—OCT. 17, 1998 Records. Deadline. collected by a military department on or after the date of the enactment of this Act. Subtitle B—Naval Vessels and Shipyards SEC. 1011. REVISION TO REQUIREMENT FOR CONTINUED USTING OF TWO IOWA-CLASS BATTLESHIPS ON THE NAVAL VESSEL REGISTER. In carrying out section 1011 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 421), the Secretary of the Navy shall list on the Naval Vessel Register, and maintain on that register, the following two Iowa-class battleships: the U.S.S. IOWA (BB-61) and the U.S.S. WISCONSIN (BB- 64). SEC. 1012. TRANSFER OF U.S.S. NEW JERSEY. The Secretary of the Navy shall strike the U.S.S. NEW JERSEY (BB-62) from the Naval Vessel Register and shall transfer that vessel to a non-for-profit entity in accordance with section 7306 of title 10, United States Code. The Secretary shall require as a condition of the transfer of that vessel that the transferee locate the vessel in the State of New Jersey. SEC. 1013. HOMEPORTING OF THE U.S.S. IOWA IN SAN FRANCISCO, CAUFORNIA. It is the sense of Congress that the U.S.S. IOWA (BB-61) should be homeported at the Port of San Francisco, California. Clifton B. Gates. SEC. 1014. SENSE OF CONGRESS CONCERNING THE NAMING OF AN LPD-17 VESSEL. It is the sense of Congress that, consistent with section 1018 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 425), the Secretary of the Navy should name the next vessel of the LPD-17 class of amphibious vessels to be named after the date of the enactment of this Act as the U.S.S. Clifton B. Cates, in honor of former Commandant of the Marine Corps Clifton B. Cates (1893-1970), a native of Tennessee whose distinguished career of service in the Marine Corps included combat service in World War I so heroic that he became the most decorated Marine Corps officer of that war, exemplary combat leadership in the Pacific theater during World War II from Guadalcanal to Tinian and Iwo Jima and beyond, and appointment in 1948 as the 19th Commandant of the Marine Corps with the rank of lieutenant general, a position from which he led the efficient and alacritous response of the Marine Corps to the invasion of the Republic of South Korea by Communist North Korea. SEC. 1015. REPORTS ON NAVAL SURFACE FIRE-SUPPORT CAPABILI- TIES. (a) NAVY REPORT.— (1) Not later than March 31, 1999, the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on National Security of the House of Representatives a report on battleship readiness for meeting requirements of the Armed Forces for naval surface fire support. (2) The report shall contain the following:

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