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 118 STAT. 1884 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 order to meet emerging training requirements in the Army reserve components in connection with unit and force structure conversions and preparations for wartime deployment. (3) The nature and effectiveness of efforts by the Army to reallocate the 3,500 personnel assigned as active component Reserve support personnel to higher priority requirements and to expand the use of reservists on active duty to meet reserve component training needs. (4) Whether the Army is planning further reductions in the number of active component Reserve support personnel and, if so, the scope and rationale for those reductions. (5) Whether an increase in Army reserve component full time support personnel will be required to replace the loss of active component Reserve support personnel. (d) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘active component Reserve support personnel’’ means the active component Army per sonnel assigned as advisers to units of the Selected Reserve of the Ready Reserve of the Army pursuant to section 414 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Years 1992 and 1993 (10 U.S.C. 12001 note). SEC. 516. AUTHORITY TO ACCEPT CERTAIN VOLUNTARY SERVICES. Section 1588 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— (1) in subsection (a), by adding at the end the following new paragraph: ‘‘(8) Voluntary services to support programs of a committee of the Employer Support of the Guard and Reserve as author ized by the Secretary of Defense.’’; and (2) in subsection (f)(1), by striking ‘‘subsection (a)(3)’’ and inserting ‘‘paragraph (3) or (8) of subsection (a)’’. SEC. 517. AUTHORITY TO REDESIGNATE THE NAVAL RESERVE AS THE NAVY RESERVE. (a) AUTHORITY OF SECRETARY OF THE NAVY.—The Secretary of the Navy may, with the approval of the President, redesignate the reserve component known as the Naval Reserve as the ‘‘Navy Reserve’’. Any such redesignation shall be effective on a date speci fied by the Secretary, which date may not be earlier than the date that is 180 days after the date on which the Secretary submits recommended legislation under subsection (c). (b) PUBLICATION OF REDESIGNATION.—If the Secretary of the Navy exercises the authority to redesignate the Naval Reserve under subsection (a), the Secretary shall promptly publish in the Federal Register and submit to the Congress notice of the redesigna tion, including the effective date of the redesignation. (c) CONFORMING LEGISLATION.—If the Secretary of the Navy exercises the authority to redesignate the Naval Reserve under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Congress rec ommended legislation that identifies each specific provision of law that refers to the Naval Reserve and sets forth an amendment to that specific provision of law to conform the reference to the new designation. (d) REFERENCES.—If the Secretary of the Navy exercises the authority to redesignate the Naval Reserve under subsection (a), then on and after the effective date of the redesignation, any ref erence in any law, map, regulation, document, paper, or other record of the United States to the Naval Reserve shall be deemed to be a reference to the Navy Reserve. Federal Register, publication. Effective date. 10 USC 10101 note.

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