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Military technicians.

Automobile procurement, requirement.

Civilian personnel ceilings.

Transfer of funds.

PUBLIC LAW 97-377—DEC. 21, 1982

effect on September 30, 1982, had been increased by 8 per centum on October 1, 1982. SEC. 784. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to convert a position in support of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard occupied by, or programed to be occupied by, a military technician to a position to be held by a person in an active Guard or Reserve status if that conversion would reduce the total number of positions occupied by, or programed to be occupied by, military technicians of the component concerned, below the number of positions occupied by military technicians in that component on September 30, 1982. SEC. 785. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to pay claims for inpatient mental health services provided under the Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services in excess of sixty days per patient per year: Provided, That the foregoing limitation shall not apply to inpatient mental health services (a) provided under the Program for the Handicapped; (b) provided as residential treatment care; (c) provided as partial hospital care; (d) provided to individual patients admitted prior to January 1, 1983 for so long as they remain continuously in inpatient status for medically or psychologically necessary reasons; or (e) provided pursuant to a waiver for medical or psychological necessities, granted in accordance with the findings of current peer review, as prescribed in guidelines established and promulgated by the Director, Office of Civilian Health and Medical Program of the Uniformed Services. SEC. 786. During the current fiscal year the Department of the Air Force will transfer from aircraft assigned to the active Air Force one C-130H aircraft in good condition to the Coast Guard without reimbursement. SEC. 787. None of the funds provided in this Act to any department or agency shall be obligated or expended to procure passenger automobiles as defined in 15 U.S.C. 2001 with an EPA estimated miles per gallon average of less than 22 miles per gallon. This section does not apply to security or special mission automobiles. Sec. 788. None of the funds provided in this Act may be used to impose civilian personnel ceilings on Department of Defense industrially funded activities: Provided, That any increase in civilian personnel of such industrial funds in excess of the number employed on September 30, 1982, shall not be counted for the purposes of any statutory or administratively imposed civilian personnel ceiling otherwise applicable during fiscal year 1983. SEC. 789. Appropriations or funds available to the Department of Defense during the current fiscal year may be transferred to appropriations provided in this Act for research, development, test, and evaluation to the extent necessary to meet increased pay costs authorized by or pursuant to law, to be merged with and to be available for the same purposes, and the same time period, as the appropriation to which transferred. SEC. 790. Notwithstanding the budget authority levels provided in title IV of this Act for the procurement appropriation accounts, the sum total of such budget authority levels is hereby reduced by $386,000,000: Provided, That not more than $2,100,000,000 of the remaining budget authority provided in title IV of this Act and as further reduced herein for the procurement appropriation accounts may be obligated or expended to pay independent research and

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