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 PUBLIC LAW 107-107—DEC. 28, 2001 115 STAT. 1251 "(2) The Secretary may delegate the authority under paragraph (1) only to the Deputy Secretary of Defense and to one other official of the Department of Defense. " (d) RETENTION OF FUNDS COLLECTED BY THE UNITED STATES. — Amounts collected by the United States from a party using a test facility of the United States pursuant to a memorandum or other agreement under this section shall be credited to the appropriation accounts from which the costs incurred by the United States in providing such test facility were paid. "(e) DEFINITIONS. —In this section: "(1) The term 'direct cost', with respect to the use of a test facility pursuant to a memorandum or other agreement under subsection (a)— "(A) means any item of cost that is easily and readily identified to a specific unit of work or output within the test facility where the use occurred, that would not have been incurred if such use had not occurred; and "(B) may include costs of labor, materials, facilities, utilities, equipment, supplies, and any other resources of the test facility that are consumed or damaged in connection with— "(i) the use; or "(ii) the maintenance of the test facility for purposes of the use. "(2) The term 'indirect cost', with respect to the use of a test facility pursuant to a memorandum or other agreement under subsection (a)— "(A) means any item of cost that is not easily and readily identified to a specific unit of work or output within the test facility where the use occurred; and "(B) may include general and administrative expenses for such activities as supporting base operations, manufacturing, supervision, procurement of office supplies, and utilities that are accumulated costs allocated among several users. "(3) The term 'test facility means a range or other facility at which testing of defense equipment may be carried out.", (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT.— The table of sections at the beginning of such subchapter is amended by adding at the end the following new item: "23501. Cooperative agreements for reciprocal use of test facilities: foreign countries and international organizations.". SEC. 1214. SENSE OF CONGRESS ON ALLIED DEFENSE BURDEN- SHARING. It is the sense of Congress that— (1) the efforts of the President to increase defense burdensharing by allied and friendly nations deserve strong support; and (2) host nation support agreements with those nations in which United States military personnel are assigned to permanent duty ashore should be negotiated consistent with section 1221(a)(1) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 (Public Law 105-85; 50 U.S.C. 1541(a)(1)), which sets forth a goal of obtaining from any such host nation financial contributions that amount to 75 percent of the nonpersonnel

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