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 10 USC 2709 note. 113 STAT. 562 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 "(4) The term 'environmental quality program' means a program of activities relating to environmental compliance, conservation, pollution prevention, and such other activities relating to environmental quality as the Secretary concerned may designate for purposes of the program. "(5) The term 'major activities', with respect to an environmental quality program, means the following activities under the program: "(A) Environmental compliance activities. "(B) Conservation activities. "(C) Pollution prevention activities.". Public SEC. 323. DEFENSE ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM AND ilf°TMation. INVESTMENT CONTROL PROCESS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES. (a) PURPOSES. — The purposes of this section are— (1) to hold the Department of Defense and the military departments accountable for achieving performance-based results in the management of environmental technology by providing a connection between program direction and the achievement of specific performance-based results; (2) to assure the identification of end-user requirements for environmental technology within the military departments; (3) to assure results, quality of effort, and appropriate levels of service and support for end-users of environmental technology within the military departments; and (4) to promote improvement in the performance of environmental technologies by establishing objectives for environmental technology programs, measuring performance against such objectives, and making public reports on the progress made in such performance. (b) INVESTMENT CONTROL PROCESS. —(1) Chapter 160 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: ^'§2709. Investment control process for environmental technologies "(a) INVESTMENT CONTROL PROCESS.— The Secretary of Defense shall ensure that the technology planning process developed to implement section 2501 of this title and section 270(b) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1997 (Public Law 104-201; 110 Stat. 2469) provides for an investment control process for the selection, prioritization, management, and evaluation of environmental technologies by the Department of Defense, the military departments, and the Defense Agencies. "(b) PLANNING AND EVALUATION.—The environmental technology investment control process required by subsection (a) shall provide, at a minimum, for the following: "(1) The active participation by end-users of environmental technology, including the officials responsible for the environmental security programs of the Department of Defense and the military departments, in the selection and prioritization of environmental technologies. "(2) The development of measurable performance goals and objectives for the management and development of environmental technologies and specific mechanisms for assuring the achievement of the goals gmd objectives.

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