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 PUBLIC LAW 95-485—OCT. 20, 1978

92 STAT. 1625

of such contract claim, request for equitable adjustment to contract terms, request for relief under Public Law 85-804, or other similar 50 USC 1431. request, that such claim or request is made in good faith and that the supporting data are accurate and complete to the best of such official's knowledge and belief. The requirements of this section shall not apply to claims, requests for equitable adjustment to contract terms, requests for relief under Public Law 85-804, or other similar requests submitted before the date of enactment of this Act. RESTRICTION

ON CONTRACTING

OUT COMMERCIAL

AND INDUSTRIAL

TYPE FUNCTIONS

SEC 814. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall submit a report to Report to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of congressional Representatives providing the details of any proposed change in committees. policy or regulations, from those in effect before June 30, 1976, regard- 10 USC 2304 note. ing the determination of whether commercial or industrial type functions at Department of Defense installations located in any State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, and Guam should be performed by Department of Defense personnel or by private contractors during the period beginning on October 1, 1978, and ending on September 30, 1979. (b) No commercial or industrial type function at any Department of Defense installation referred to in subsection (a) shall be performed by private contractors unless such contractor performance began before the date of the enactment of this Act or performance would have been allowed by the policy and regulations in effect before June 30, 1976. The prohibition in the preceding sentence shall apply until the end of the sixty-day period beginning on the date the report required by subsection (a) is received by the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives. PROHIBITION ON SALE OF CERTAIN DEFENSE ARTICLES FROM DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STOCKS

SEC. 815. (a) Chapter 49 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new section: "§ 975. Prohibition on the sale of certain defense articles from the 10 USC 975 stocks of the Department of Defense "(a)(1) Except as provided in subsections (b) and (c), the sale outside the Department of Defense of any defense article designated or otherwise classified as Prepositioned Material Configured to Unit Sets, as decrement stock, or as Prepositioned War Reserve Stocks for United States Forces is prohibited. "(2) In this section, 'decrement stock' means such stock as is needed "Decrement to bring the armed forces from a peacetime level of readiness to a stock." combat level of readiness. "(b) The President may authorize the sale outside the Department of Defense of a defense article described in subsection (a) if— "(1) he determines that there is an international crisis affecting the national security of the United States and the sale of such article is in the best interests of the United States; and " (2) he reports to the Congress not later than 60 days after the Report to transfer of such article a plan for the prompt replenishment of Congress. the stocks of such article and the planned budget request to begin implementation of that plan.

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