Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 95.djvu/1135

 PUBLIC LAW 97-86—DEC. 1, 1981

95 STAT. 1109

Uniform Code of MUitary Justice. The Secretary of Defense shall submit the results of such study to the Congress not later than February 1, 1982. EXTENSION OF AUTHORITY FOR SELECTED RESERVE APFIUATION BONUS

SEC. 505. Section 308e(e) of title 37, United States Code, is amended by striking out "September 30, 1981" and inserting in lieu thereof "September 30, 1985^'. TITLE VI—CIVILIAN PERSONNEL AUTHORIZATION OF END STRENGTHS

SEC. 601. (a) The Department of Defense is authorized a strength in civilian personnel, as of September 30, 1982, of 1,024,500. (b)(1) The strength for civilian personnel prescribed in subsection (a) shall be apportioned among the Department of the Army, the Department of the Navy, 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 Report to within sixty days after the date of the enactment of this Act on the Congress. manner in which the initial allocation of 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 such allocation. (2)(A) Of the number of civilian personnel allocated to the Department of the Army pursuant to paragraph (1), the Secretary of the Army shall use not less than 16,800 of such number to relieve military personnel for the performance of other duties. Not more than 5,000 of such 16,800 personnel may be indirect hires. (B) The Secretary of the Army shall submit a written report to the Report to Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Repre- congressional sentatives not later than February 1, 1982, specifying how the 16,800 committees. civilian personnel referred to in subparagraph (A) are to be utilized. The Secretary shall also indicate in such report (i) the extent to which such civilian personnel will be used to fill positions currently held by noncommissioned officers, and (ii) the number of such noncommissioned officers who will be assigned to combat units by virtue of the use of such civilian personnel in such positions. (c) In computing the strength for civilian personnel, there shall be Employment. 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. Personnel employed under a part-time career employment program established by section 3402 of title 5, United States Code, shall be counted as prescribed by section 3404 of that title. Whenever Transfer of a function, power, or duty, or activity is transferred or assigned to a functions. department or agency of the Department of Defense from a department or agency outeide 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

�