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 113 STAT. 638 PUBLIC LAW 106-65—OCT. 5, 1999 specified in paragraphs (1) and (2). Any such definition may not take effect until 90 days after the date on which the Secretary notifies the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives of the revised standard definition of deployment. "(c) RECORDKEEPING. —The Secretary of each military department shall establish a system for tracking and recording the number of days that each member of the armed forces under the jurisdiction of the Secretary is deployed. "(d) NATIONAL SECURITY WAIVER AUTHORITY.—The Secretary of the military department concerned may suspend the applicability of this section to a member or any group of members under the Secretary's jurisdiction when the Secretary determines that such a waiver is necessary in the national security interests of the United States. "(e) INAPPLICABILITY TO COAST GUARD. — T his section does not apply to a member of the Coast Guard when the Coast Guard is not operating as a service in the Navy.". (b) PER DIEM ALLOWANCE FOR LENGTHY OR NUMEROUS DEPLOY- MENTS. — Chapter 7 of title 37, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end the following new section: "§ 435. Per diem allowance for lengthy or numerous deploy- ments "(a) PER DIEM REQUIRED. —The Secretary of the military department concerned shall pay a high-deployment per diem allowance to a member of the armed forces under the Secretary jurisdiction for each day on which the member (1) is deployed, and (2) has, as of that day, been deployed 251 days or more out of the preceding 365 days. "(b) DEFINITION OF DEPLOYED. —In this section, the term 'deployed', with respect to a member, means that the member is deployed or in a deployment within the meaning of section 991(b) of title 10 (including any definition of'deployment' prescribed under paragraph (3) of that section). " (c) AMOUNT OF PER DIEM.— The amount of the high-deployment per diem payable to a member under this section is $100. "(d) PAYMENT OF CLAIMS.— A claim of a member for payment of the high-deployment per diem allowance that is not fully substantiated by the recordkeeping system applicable to the member under section 991(c) of title 10 shall be paid if the member furnishes the Secretary concerned with other evidence determined by the Secretary as being sufficient to substemtiate the claim. "(e) RELATIONSHIP TO OTHER ALLOWANCES.—^A high-deployment per diem payable to a member under this section is in addition to any other pay or allowance payable to the member under any other provision of law. "(f) NATIONAL SECURITY WAIVER.— NO per diem may be paid under this section to a member for any day on which the applicability of section 991 of title 10 to the member is suspended under subsection (d) of that section.". (c) CLERICAL AMENDMENTS. — (1) The tables of chapters at the beginning of subtitle A of title 10, United States Code, and the beginning of part II of such subtitle are amended by inserting after the item relating to chapter 49 the following new item: "50. Miscellaneous Command Responsibilities 991".

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