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 97 STAT. 678 PUBLIC LAW 98-94—SEPT. 24, 1983 (A) Procurement. (B) Operations and maintenance. (C) Military construction. (D) Military personnel. (E) Research, development, test, and evaluation. (2) The Secretary of Defense shall also include in such report a separate breakout of the fiscal year 1983 Department of Defense expenditures in each of the categories specified in paragraph (1) for the Armed Forces of the United States assigned to permanent duty ashore in the European member nations of NATO and the expendi- tures projected to be incurred by the Department of Defense in each of those categories in each of the fiscal years 1984 through 1989 for personnel of the Armed Forces of the United States planned to be assigned to permanent duty ashore in such nations during each of those fiscal years. The Secretary of Defense shall also include in such report similar separate breakouts for all classes of United States forces reflected in the data submitted to the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and printed in part 1, pages 61-68, of that Committee's hearings on Department of Defense Authorization For Appropriations For Fiscal Year 1982. (3) The Secretary of Defense shall also include in such report the estimated percentage growth in each of the five categories specified in paragraph (1) of subsection (b), after allowing for inflation, from one year to the next for the fiscal years 1983 through 1989. In the case of each category of expenditures for which the annual projected rate of expenditure growth after fiscal year 1983 exceeds 3 percent, after allowing for inflation, over the previous fiscal year, the Secre- tary shall include his assessment of the impact on NATO of limiting the growth of expenditures in that category to 3 percent real growth. TITLE XII—GENERAL PROVISIONS PART A—FINANCIAL MATTERS TRANSFER AUTHORITY SEC. 1201. (a)(1) Upon determination by the Secretary of Defense that such action is necessary in the national interest, the Secretary may transfer amounts of authorizations made available to the De- partment of Defense in this Act between any such authorizations (or any subdivisions thereof). Amounts of authorizations so transferred shall be merged with and be available for the same purposes as the authorization to which transferred. (2) The total amount of authorizations that the Secretary of Defense may transfer under the authority of this section may not exceed $1,500,000,000. (b) The authority provided by this section to transfer authoriza- tions— (1) may only be used to provide authority for higher priority items than the items from which authority is transferred; and (2) may not be used to provide authority for an item that has been denied authorization by Congress. Notification of (c) The Secretary of Defense shall promptly notify Congress of Congress. transfers made under the authority of this section. Ante, p. 625. (d) Transfers between paragraphs of a subsection of section 301 may be made without regard to the requirements of this section.

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