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 90 STAT. 1366 42 USC 4321 note.

"Military installation."

PUBLIC LAW 94-431—SEPT. 30, 1976 with the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, in connection with such installation and such potential use as may be necessary to provide information sufficient to make sound conclusions and recommendations regarding the possible use of such installation. (b) Any study conducted under authority of this section shall be submitted to the President and the Congress together with such comments and recommendations as the Secretary of Defense may deem appropriate. Such studies shall also be available to the public. (c) As used in this section, the term "military installation" includes any camp, post, station, base, yard, or other installation under the jurisdiction of any military department. (d) There are authorized to be appropriated such sums as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of this section. IMPACT ASSISTANCE, NOXPROFIT COOPERATI'V'ES

SEC. 611. Notwithstanding section 7 of the Act of August 23, 1912 (31 U.S.C. 679), the Secretary of Defense is authorized to use any funds appropriated to carry out the provisions of section 610 of the Military Construction Act, 1971 (84 Stat. 1224), to reimburse nonprofit, mutual aid telephone cooperatives for their capital expenditures for the purchase and installation of nontactical communications equipment and related facilities, to the extent the Secretary determines that (1) such expenditures are not otherwise recoverable by such cooperatives, (2) such expenditures were incurred as the direct result of the construction, installation, testing, and operation of the SAFEGUARD Antiballistic Missile System, and (3) such cooperatives, as a result of the deactivation and termination of such system, would sustain an unfair and excessive financial burden in the absence of the financial assistance authorized by this section. BASE REALIGNMENTS

Congress, notification.

Congress, written notification.

SEC. 612. (a) Notwithstanding any other provision of law, no funds authorized to be appropriated in this Act may be used to effect or implement— (1) the closure of any military installation; (2) any reduction in the authorized level of civilian personnel at any military installation by more than one thousand civilian personnel or 50 per centum of the level of such personnel authorized as of March 1, 1976, or the end of the fiscal year immediately preceding the fiscal year in which the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies the Congress that such installation is a candidate for closure or significant reduction, whichever occurs later; or (3) any construction, conversion, or rehabilitation at any other military installation (whether or not such installation is a military installation as defined in subsection (b)) which will or may be required as a result of the relocation of civilian personnel to such other installation by reason of any closure or reduction to which this section applies; unless— (A) the Secretary of Defense or the Secretary of the military department concerned notifies the Congress in writing that such military installation is a candidate for closure or significant reduction; and then

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