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 92 STAT. 1612

PUBLIC LAW 95-485—OCT. 20, 1978 TITLE II—EESEARCH, DEVELOPMENT, TEST, AND EVALUATION

SEC. 201. Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1979 for the use of the Armed Forces of the United States for researeli, development, test, and evahiation, as authorized by law, in amounts as follows: For the Army, $2,661,701,000. For the Navy (including the Marine Corps), $4,504,268,000. For the Air Force, $4,164,500,000, of which $10,000,000 may be obligated and expended only for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) program, but such $10,000,000 may not be obligated or expended until at least one member country of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (other than the United States) enters into a contract to purchase the AWACS aircraft. For the Defense Agencies, $933,400,000, of which $27,600,000 is authorized for the activities of the Director of Test and Evaluation, Defense. EXTREMELY LOW FREQUENCY Presidential certification to Congress.

( E L F) COMMUNICATION SYSITSM

SEC. 202. None of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act for the development of the Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) communication system may be obligated or expended for the development of such system unless the President certifies to the Congress in writing that the use of funds for such purpose is in the national interest, that a site has been selected for the deployment of such system, and that the President has approved such site for the deployment of such system, and in no event may any of the funds authorized to be appropriated by this Act be used for full scale development or construction of another test-bed facility for an Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) communication system. REPORT RELATING TO DEVELOPMENT OF SURVIVABLE LAND-BASED INTERCONTINENTAL BALLISTIC MISSILE SYSTEM

Report to congressional committees.

SEC. 203. The Secretary of Defense shall, not later than October 31, 1978, report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives the decision of the executive branch regarding full scale development of a survivable land-based intercontinental ballistic missile system. In the event that no final decision regarding such matter has been reached by the executive branch by such date, the Secretary of Defense shall— (1) notify such committees on or before such date that no final decision has been reached and the reasons why such decision has not been made; (2) inform such committees of the technical, political, or other considerations necessitating a delay in making such decision; (3) indicate the date the Secretary believes a final decision will have been made with respect to such matter; and (4) submit a report to such committees once overy 30 days on the status of the decision on such matter (including in each such report information relating to the matters contained in clauses (2) and (3) of this section) until a final decision by the executive branch has been made and such committees have been informed of such decision.

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