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 8 9 STAT. 538

10 USC 4342 note.

10 USC 140.

Report to cong committees.

Repeal.

PUBLIC LAW 94-106—OCT. 7, 1975 ing, graduation, and commissioning of female individuals shall be the same as those required for male individuals, except for those minimum essential adjustments in such standards required because of physiological differences between male and female individuals. (b) Title 10, United States Code, is amended as follovrs: (1) Sections 4342, 6954, and 9342 are each amended by striking out the word "sons" wherever it appears therein and inserting in place thereof in each instance the word "children". (2) Section 6956(d) is amended by striking out the word "men" wherever it appears therein and inserting in place thereof in each instance the word "members". (c) I t is the sense of Congress that, subject to the provisions of subsection (a), the Secretaries of the military departments shall, under the direction of the Secretary of Defense, continue to exercise the authority granted them in chapters 403, 603 and 903 of title 10, United States Code, but such authority must be exercised within a program providing for the orderly and expeditious admission of women to the academies, consistent with the needs of the services, with the implementation of such program upon enactment of this Act. SEC. 804. (a) Chapter 4 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by a d d i n g the following new section after section 139 and inserting a corresponding item in the chapter analysis: " (a) Subject to the limitations of subsection (c) of this section, and within the limitation of appropriations made for the purpose, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of a military department within his department, may provide for any emergency or extraordinary expense which cannot be anticipated or classified.' When it is so provided in such an appropriation, the funds may be spent on approval or authority of the Secretary concerned for any purpose he determines to be proper, and such a determination is final and conclusive upon the accounting officers of the United States. The Secretary concerned may certify the amount of any such expenditure authorized by him that he considers advisable not to specify, and his certificate is sufficient voucher for the expenditure of that amount. " (b) The authority conferred by this section may be delegated by the Secretary of Defense to any pereon in the Department of Defense or by the Secretary of a military department to any person within his department, with or without the authority to make successive redelegations. " (c) I n any case in which funds are expended under the authority of subsections (a) and (b) of this section, the Secretary of Defense shall submit a report of such expenditures on a quarterly basis to the Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives.". (b) Section 7202 of title 10, United States Code, and the corresponding item in the analysis of such chapter are repealed. SEC. 805. Section 139(b) of title 10, United States Code, is amended by deleting the word "sixty" and inserting in lieu thereof the word "ninety". SEC. 806. Section 1401a of title 10, United States Code, is amended by a d d i n g at the end thereof a new subsection as follows: " (f) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the monthly retired or retainer pay of a member or a former member of an armed force who initially became entitled to that pay on or after January 1, 1971, may not be less than the monthly retired or retainer pay to which he would be entitled if he h a d become entitled to retired or retainer
 * '§ 140. Emergencies and extraordinary expenses

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