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 96 STAT. 1294 10 USC 2400.

PUBLIC LAW 97-295—OCT. 12, 1982

«§ 2400. Limitation on procurement of buses "Funds appropriated for use by the armed forces are available to acquire a multipassenger motor vehicle (bus) only if the vehicle is manufactured in the United States. However, the Secretary of Defense may prescribe regulations authorizing the acquisition of a multipassenger motor vehicle (bus) not manufactured in the United States, but only to ensure that compliance with this section will not result in an uneconomical procurement action or adversely affect the national interest.". (B) The analysis of chapter 141 is amended by striking out items 2394 and 2395 (as enacted by section 2(b)(4) of Public Law 97-258) and substituting the following: "2395. Availability of appropriations for procurement of technical military equipment and supplies. "2396. Advances for payments for compliance with foreign laws, rent in foreign countries, tuition, and pay and supplies of armed forces of friendly foreign countries. "2397. Employees or former employees of defense contractors: reports. "2398. Procurement of gasohol as motor vehicle fuel. "2399. Limitation on availability of appropriations to reimburse a contractor for the cost of commercial insurance. "2400. Limitation on procurement of buses.".

(30)(A) Chapter 145 is amended by adding at the end thereof the following: 10 USC 2457.

"§2457. Standardization of equipment with North Atlantic Treaty Organization members "(a) It is the policy of the United States to standardize equipment, including weapons systems, ammunition, and fuel, procured for the use of the armed forces of the United States stationed in Europe under the North Atlantic Treaty or at least to make that equipment interoperable with equipment of other members of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. To carry out this policy, the Secretary of Defense shall— "(1) assess the costs and possible loss of nonnuclear combat effectiveness of the military forces of the members of the Organization caused by the failure of the members to standardize equipment; "(2) maintain a list of actions to be taken, including an evaluation of the priority and effect of the action, to standardize equipment that may improve the overall nonnuclear defense capability of the Organization or save resources for the Organization; and "(3) initiate and carry out, to the maximum extent feasible, procurement procedures to acquire standardized or interoperable equipment, considering the cost, function, quality, and availability of the equipment. "(b) Progress in realizing the objectives of standardization and interoperability would be enhanced by expanded inter-Allied procurement of arms and equipment within the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Expanded inter-Allied procurement would be made easier by greater reliance on licensing and coproduction cooperative agreements among the signatories of the North Atlantic Treaty. If constructed to preserve the efficiencies associated with economies of scale, the agreements could minimize potential economic hardship to parties to the agreements and increase the survivability, in time of war, of the North Atlantic Alliance's armaments production base

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