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 PUBLIC LAW 95-101—AUG. 15, 1977

91 STAT. 839

to this account and made available for obligation and expenditure for the Army; For the Air Force: Construction, $8,155,000; For Defense agencies: Construction, $208,000; For Department of Defense: Debt payment, $151,440,000; Operation, maintenance, $1,265,000,000; Energy consumption metering, $8,500,000: Provided, That the amounts provided under this head for construction, for debt payment, and for energy consumption metering shall remain available until expended: Provided further, That of the amounts appropriated for operations and maintenance, not less than $550,000,000 shall be available only for the maintenance of real property facilities. HOMEOWNERS ASSISTANCE FUND, DEFENSE

For use in the Homeowners Assistance Fund established pursuant to section 1013(d) of the Demonstration Cities and Metropolitan Development Act of 1966 (Public Law 89-754, as amended), 42 USC 3374. $1,500,000. GENERAL PROVISIONS

SEC. 101. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for construction in prior years are hereby made available for construction authorized for each such department by the authorizations enacted into law during the first session of the Ninety-fifth Congress. SEC. 102. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended for payments under a cost-plus-a-fixed-fee contract for work, where cost estimates exceed $25,000, to be performed within the United States, except Alaska, without the specific approval in writing of the Secretary of Defense setting forth the reasons therefor. SEC. 103. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be expended for additional costs involved in expediting construction unless the Secretary of Defense certifies such costs to be necessary to protect the national interest and establishes a reasonable completion date for each project, taking into consideration the urgency of the requirement, the type and location of the project, the climatic and seasonal conditions affecting the construction, and the application of economical construction practices. SEC. 104. None of the funds appropriated in this Act shall be used for the construction, replacement, or reactivation of any bakery, laundry, or drycleaning facility in the United States, its territories, or possessions, as to which the Secretary of Defense does not certify, in writing, giving his reasons therefor, that the services to be furnished by such facilities are not obtainable from commercial sources at reasonable rates. SEC. 105. Funds herein appropriated to the Department of Defense for construction shall be available for hire of passenger motor vehicles. SEC. 106. Funds appropriated to the Department of Defense for construction may be used for advances to the Federal Highway Administration, Department of Transportation, for the construction of access roads as authorized by section 210 of title 23, United States Code, when projects authorized therein are certified as important to the national defense by the Secretary of Defense.

Prior appropriations.

Contracts.

Construction costs, expedition.

Service facilities.

Motor vehicles, hire. 31 USC 638f. Access roads, construction. 31 USC 700b.

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