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 98 STAT. 2550

PUBLIC LAW 98-525—OCT. 19, 1984

LIMITATION ON TRANSPORTATION OF MOTOR VEHICLES THROUGH GUAM

Effective date. Termination date.

Report.

Japan.

SEC. 652. (a) Regulations of the Department of Defense providing for transportation at Government expense of motor vehicles owned by members of the Armed Forces incident to a permanent change of duty station may not authorize the transportation at Government expense from Guam during any month of more than 100 motor vehicles that are owned by members of the Armed Forces who are making permanent changes of duty station from locations outside the United States (other than in Guam) and who are using Guam as an alternate port of shipment. (b) Subsection (a) shall apply with respect to the transportation of motor vehicles during the period beginning with the month after the month in which this Act is enacted and ending with September 1985, After that period transportation of motor vehicles from Guam under the circumstances described in subsection (a) may be provided at Government expense only as specifically authorized by law after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Not later than February 15, 1985, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report with respect to the transportation through Guam of motor vehicles owned by members of the Armed Forces. The report shall include— (1) a description of the nature and extent of the burden imposed on members of the Armed Forces by assignment to Japan because they may not (under Japanese law) take into Japan a motor vehicle not manufactured for use in Japan; (2) a review of alternative programs that could be provided to alleviate the burden of assignment to Japan described in clause (1), including a review of the existing policy to which the limitation in subsection (a) is applicable under which a member of the Armed Forces making a permanent change of station from Japan may purchase a motor vehicle through Guam; and (3) an analysis of the impact on Guam (including the economy of Guam) of the termination of such policy. PERSONAL VEHICLES OF UNITED STATES MILITARY PERSONNEL IN JAPAN

SEC. 653. (a) The Congress finds that— (1) the Government of Japan does not permit members of the Armed Forces of the United States to take their motor vehicles into Japan for their personal use while assigned to a duty station in Japan unless such vehicles are modified to satisfy certain requirements of the Government of Japan; (2) as a result of the restriction referred to in clause (1), members of the Armed Forces typically need to sell their personal motor vehicles before departing the United States to report to a duty station in Japan, to purchase vehicles in Japan for personal use while stationed in Japan, to sell such purchased vehicles before departing Japan to return to the United States, and to purchase vehicles in the United States upon the return; (3) members of the Armed Forces incur a substantial financial burden in connection with the repeated sale and replacement of personal vehicles; (4) the United States permits members of the Armed Forces of foreign nations to bring unmodified vehicles into the United

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