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 114 STAT. 1654A-90 PUBLIC LAW 106-398—APPENDIX (f) LIMITATION ON EXPENDITURES. —The Secretary of Defense and the Secretaries of the military departments may not expend more than a total of $5,000,000 to conduct both the assessment under subsection (a) and all of the demonstration projects under subsection (b). SEC. 390. DEMONSTRATION PROJECT TO INCREASE RESERVE COMPO- NENT INTERNET ACCESS AND SERVICES IN RURAL COMMUNITIES. (a) AUTHORIZATION AND PURPOSE OF PROJECT.— The Secretary of the Army, acting through the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, may carry out a demonstration project in rural communities that are unserved or underserved by the telecommunications medium known as the Internet to provide or increase Internet access and services to units and members of the National Guard and other reserve components located in these communities. (b) PROJECT ELEMENTS.— In carrying out the demonstration project, the Secretary may— (1) establish and operate distance learning classrooms in communities described in subsection (a), including any support systems required for such classrooms; and (2) provide Internet access and services in such classrooms through GuardNet, the telecommunications infrastructure of the National Guard. (c) REPORT. —Not later than February 1, 2005, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the demonstration project. The report shall describe the activities conducted under the demonstration project and include any recommendations for the improvement or expansion of the demonstration project that the Secretary considers appropriate. SEC. 391. ADDITIONAL CONDITIONS ON IMPLEMENTATION OF DEFENSE JOINT ACCOUNTING SYSTEM. (a) REPORT ON DEPLOYMENT OF SYSTEM.— The proposed Defense Joint Accounting System is not prohibited, but the Secretary of Defense may not grant a Milestone III decision for the system unless and until the Secretary of Defense submits to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report— (1) explaining the reasons for the withdrawal of the Department of the Air Force from the proposed Defense Joint Accounting System and the effect of the withdrawal on the development of the system; (2) explaining the reasons why the Department of the Navy is not required to participate in the system; (3) identifying business process reengineering initiatives reviewed, considered, or undertaken by the Department of the Air Force and the Department of the Navy before the decisions were made to exclude the Department of the Navy from the system and to allow the Department of the Air Force to withdraw from the system; and (4) containing an analysis, prepared with the participation of the Secretaries of the military departments, of alternatives to the system to determine whether the system warrants deployment. (b) CERTIFICATION.—I f the Secretary of Defense determines that the proposed Defense Joint Accounting System warrants a Milestone III decision, the Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed

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