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 118 STAT. 2034 PUBLIC LAW 108–375—OCT. 28, 2004 (2) The total amount of authorizations that the Secretary may transfer under the authority of this section may not exceed $3,500,000,000. (b) LIMITATIONS.—The authority provided by this section to transfer authorizations— (1) may only be used to provide authority for items that have a higher priority than the items from which authority is transferred; and (2) may not be used to provide authority for an item that has been denied authorization by Congress. (c) EFFECT ON AUTHORIZATION AMOUNTS.—A transfer made from one account to another under the authority of this section shall be deemed to increase the amount authorized for the account to which the amount is transferred by an amount equal to the amount transferred. (d) NOTICE TO CONGRESS.—The Secretary shall promptly notify Congress of each transfer made under subsection (a). SEC. 1002. UNITED STATES CONTRIBUTION TO NATO COMMON FUNDED BUDGETS IN FISCAL YEAR 2005. (a) FISCAL YEAR 2005 LIMITATION.—The total amount contrib uted by the Secretary of Defense in fiscal year 2005 for the common funded budgets of NATO may be any amount up to, but not in excess of, the amount specified in subsection (b) (rather than the maximum amount that would otherwise be applicable to those contributions under the fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation). (b) TOTAL AMOUNT.—The amount of the limitation applicable under subsection (a) is the sum of the following: (1) The amounts of unexpended balances, as of the end of fiscal year 2004, of funds appropriated for fiscal years before fiscal year 2005 for payments for those budgets. (2) The amount specified in subsection (c)(1). (3) The amount specified in subsection (c)(2). (4) The total amount of the contributions authorized to be made under section 2501. (c) AUTHORIZED AMOUNTS.—Amounts authorized to be appro priated by titles II and III of this Act are available for contributions for the common funded budgets of NATO as follows: (1) Of the amount provided in section 201(1), $756,000 for the Civil Budget. (2) Of the amount provided in section 301(1), $222,492,000 for the Military Budget. (d) DEFINITIONS.—For purposes of this section: (1) COMMON FUNDED BUDGETS OF NATO.—The term ‘‘common funded budgets of NATO’’ means the Military Budget, the Security Investment Program, and the Civil Budget of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (and any successor or additional account or program of NATO). (2) FISCAL YEAR 1998 BASELINE LIMITATION.—The term ‘‘fiscal year 1998 baseline limitation’’ means the maximum annual amount of Department of Defense contributions for common funded budgets of NATO that is set forth as the annual limitation in section 3(2)(C)(ii) of the resolution of the Senate giving the advice and consent of the Senate to the ratification of the Protocols to the North Atlantic Treaty of 1949 on the Accession of Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic (as

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