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 PUBLIC LAW 109–163—JAN. 6, 2006

119 STAT. 3405

uniform standards, appropriate to the medical needs of the residents, for access to health care services during and after the daily business hours of the facility. ‘‘(d) TRANSPORTATION TO MEDICAL CARE OUTSIDE RETIREMENT HOME FACILITIES.—(1) With respect to each facility of the Retirement Home, the Retirement Home shall provide daily scheduled transportation to nearby medical facilities used by residents of the facility. The Retirement Home may provide, based on a determination of medical need, unscheduled transportation for a resident of the facility to any medical facility located not more than 30 miles from the facility for the provision of necessary and urgent medical care for the resident. ‘‘(2) The Retirement Home may not collect a fee from a resident for transportation provided under this subsection.’’. (b) COMPTROLLER GENERAL ASSESSMENT.—Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Comptroller General shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives a report containing— (1) an assessment of the regulatory oversight and monitoring of health care and nursing home care services provided by the Armed Forces Retirement Home; and (2) such recommendations as the Comptroller General considers appropriate in light of the results of the assessment.

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Subtitle B—Space Activities SEC. 911. SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS STRATEGY AND SPACE CONTROL MISSION REVIEW.

(a) FINDINGS.—The Congress finds that— (1) the Department of Defense has the responsibility, within the executive branch, for developing the strategy and the systems of the United States for ensuring freedom to operate United States space assets affecting national security; and (2) the foundation of any credible strategy for ensuring freedom to operate United States space assets is a comprehensive system for space situational awareness. (b) SPACE SITUATIONAL AWARENESS STRATEGY.— (1) REQUIREMENT.—The Secretary of Defense shall develop a strategy, to be known as the ‘‘Space Situational Awareness Strategy’’, for ensuring freedom to operate United States space assets affecting national security. The Secretary shall submit the Space Situational Awareness Strategy to Congress not later than April 15, 2006. The Secretary shall submit to Congress an updated, current version of the strategy not later than April 15 of every odd-numbered year thereafter. (2) TIME PERIODS.—The Space Situational Awareness Strategy shall cover— (A) the 20-year period from 2006 through 2025; and (B) three separate successive periods, the first beginning with 2006, designed to align with the next three periods for the Future-Years Defense Plan. (3) MATTERS TO BE INCLUDED.—The Space Situational Awareness Strategy shall include the following for each period specified in paragraph (2):

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