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 PUBLIC LAW 95-485—OCT. 20, 1978

92 STAT. 1623

(2) striking out the period at the end of subsection (a)(4) and inserting in heu thereof a semicolon and the word "and"; (3) adding after subsection (a)(4) a new clause (5) as follows: " (5) the Commandant of the Marine Corps."; (4) striking out subsection (c); and (5) redesignating subsections (d) and (e) as subsections (c) and (d), respectively. ASSIGNMENT OF WOMEN TO NAVAL VESSELS

SEC. 808. The last sentence of section 6015 of title 10, United States Code, relating to restrictions on the assignment of women members of the Navy, is amended to read as follows: "However, women may not be assigned to duty on vessels or in aircraft that are engaged in combat missions nor may they be assigned to other than temporary duty on vessels of the Navy except hospital ships, transports, and vessels of a similar classification not expected to be assigned combat missions.". MILITARY TRAINING FOR FEMALE UNDERGRADUATES AT MILITARY C0IXEGE8

SEC, 809. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall require that any col- 10 USC 2102 lege or university designated by the Secretary of Defense as a military note. college shall, as a condition of maintaining such designation, provide that qualified female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university be eligible to participate in military training at such college or university, but, notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of Defense may not require that, as a condition of maintaining such designation or for any other purpose, such college or university require female undergraduate students enrolled in such college or university to participate in military training. (b) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe such regulations as the Regulations Secretary determines necessary or appropriate to carry out the provisions of this section. NAVY SHIPBUILDING POLICY

SEC. 810. (a) It is the policy of the United States to modernize the 10 USC 7291 combatant forces of the United States Navy through the construction note. of advanced, versatile, survivable, and cost-effective combatant ships in sufficient numbers and having sufficient combat effectiveness to defend the United States against enemy attack and to carry out such other missions as may be assigned to the Navy by law. In order to Plans and achieve such policy, the Navy should develop plans and programs programs. for the construction and deployment of weapon systems, including naval aviation platforms, that are more survivable, less costly, and more effective than those presently in the Navy. (b) In order that the Congress may be kept currently informed Presidential regarding compliance with the policy expressed in subsection (a), the conclusions and President shall include in all requests made to the Congress for the recommendauthorization of any ship for the combatant forces, including any air- tions. craft carrier, (1) his conclusions with respect to the survivability, cost effectiveness, and combat effectiveness of such ship, (2) a recommendation whether such ship should be nuclear or conventionally powered, and (3) the reasons for such conclusions and recommendations. (c) Title VIII of the Department of Defense Appropriation Repeal. Authorization Act, 1975 (88 Stat. 408), is repealed. 10 USC 7291 note.

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