Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 93.djvu/841

 PUBLIC LAW 96-107—NOV. 9, 1979

93 STAT. 809

(b) The amendments made by this section shall apply only with respect to administrative functions performed after September 30, 1980. TITLE V—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL

37 USC 309 note.

AUTHORIZATION OF END STRENGTH

SEC. 501. (a) The Department of Defense is authorized a strength in civilian personnel, as of September 30, 1980, of 983,600. Q3) The strength for civilian personnel prescribed in subsection (a) Report to shall be apportioned among the Department of the Army, the Congress. Department of the Navy (including the Marine Corps), the Department of the Air Force, and the agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments) in such numbers as the Secretary of Defense shall prescribe. The Secretary of Defense shall report to the Congress within sixty days after the date of the enactment of this Act on the manner in which the initial allocation qf civilian personnel is made among the military departments and the agencies of the Department of Defense (other than the military departments) and shall include the rationale for each allocation. (c) In computing the strength for civilian personnel, there shall be included all direct-hire and indirect-hire civilian personnel employed to perform military functions administered by the Department of Defense (other than those performed by the National Security Agency) whether employed on a full-time, part-time, or intermittent basis, but excluding special employment categories for students and disadvantaged youth such as the stay-in-school campaign, the temporary summer aid program and the Federal junior fellowship program, and personnel participating in the worker-trainee opportunity program. Whenever a function, power, or duty, or activity is transferred or assigned to a department or agency of the Department of Defense from a department or agency outside of the Department of Defense, or from another department or agency within the Department of Defense, the civilian personnel end strength authorized for such departments or agencies of the Department of Defense affected shall be adjusted to reflect gmy increases or decreases in civilian personnel required as a result of such transfer or assignment. (d) When the Secretary of Defense determines that such action is Personnel necessary in the national interest, he may authorize the employment increase, of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized by subsection limitation. (a), but such additional number may not exceed VA percent of the total number of civilian personnel authorized for the Department of Defense by subsection (a). The Secretary of Defense shall promptly Notification notify the Congress of any authorization to increase civilian person- Congress. nel strength under the authority of this subsection. (e) During fiscal year 1980, the Secretary of Defense shall manage the manpower resources of the Department of Defense in a manner that will insure that those functions of the Department of Defense involving maintenance, construction, engineering acquisition, or repair activities will be provided civilian manpower resources sufficient to fulfill the work requirements for which funds have been appropriated on a schedule consistent with the requirements of national security and military readiness.

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