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 PUBLIC LAW 98-557—OCT. 30, 1984

98 STAT. 2861

(1) For active duty military personnel, not less than 39,150 for fiscal years 1985 and 1986, which shall not include members of the Ready Reserve called to active duty under the authority of section 712 of title 14, United States Code, or Public Health Service officers on active duty with the Coast Guard. (2) For civilian employees of the Coast Guard, not less than 5,484 for fiscal years 1985 and 1986. MILITARY TRAINING

SEC. 4. For fiscal years 1985 and 1986, the Coast Guard is authorized average military training student loads as follows: (1) For recruit and special training, 3,500 student-years. (2) For flight training, 118 student-years. (3) For professional training in military and civilian institutions, 556 student-years. (4) For officer acquisition, 1,038 student-years. TRANSFER OF FUNDS

SEC. 5. (a) Whenever the Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating determines it to be in the national interest, the Secretary may transfer not to exceed 5 percent of the funds appropriated for the purposes described in paragraph (1) or (2) of section 2 of this Act for use for any purpose described in any paragraph of section 2, except that the total available for the purposes for which the funds are transferred shall not be increased by more than 10 percent as a result of the transfer. (b) No transfer of funds may occur under subsection (a) of this section until 15 days after the Secretary has provided written notification to the Chairman of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate and the Chairman of the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries of the House of Representatives stating the reasons for the determination and a description of the purposes for which the funds proposed to be transferred will be used.

Effective date.

POLAR I C E B R E A K I N G

SEC. 6. (a) It is the sense of the Congress that the United States has important security, economic, and environmental interests in developing and maintaining a fleet of icebreaking vessels capable of operating effectively and independently in the heavy ice regions of the Arctic and Antarctic. Ob) The Secretary of the department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall prepare design and construction plans for the purchase of at least 2 new polar icebreaking vessels to be operational by the conclusion of fiscal year 1990, and shall provide detailed reports to the Congress describing the status of those plans in January 1985 and January 1986. In preparing such plans, the Secretary shall consult with other interested Federal agencies for the purpose of ensuring that all appropriate military, scientific, economic, and environmental interests are taken into account.

Reports.

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