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 99 STAT. 728

PUBLIC LAW 99-145—NOV. 8, 1985 (1) to an individual assigned or detailed to the Central Intelligence Agency or to any expert or consultant under a contract with the Central Intelligence Agency; (2) to (A) an individual employed by or assigned or detailed to the National Security Agency, (B) an expert or consultant under contract to the National Security Agency, (C) an employee of a contractor of the National Security Agency, or (D) an individual applying for a position in the National Security Agency; or (3) to an individual assigned to a space where sensitive cryptologic information is produced, processed, or stored. SEC. 1222. REDUCTION IN SECURITY CLEARANCE BACKLOG

(a) FINDING.—The Congress finds that there are many persons with a security clearance at a level of top secret or above who have not been investigated for more than five years as a result of delays in the program of the Department of Defense for periodic reinvestigations of persons with clearance at such a level. (b) REDUCTION IN CLEARANCE BACKLOG.—The Secretary of Defense shall take such action as may be necessary to achieve a substantial reduction in the backlog under such periodic-reinvestigation program by the end of fiscal year 1986. The Secretary should seek to obtain a 25-percent reduction in that bstcklog in fiscal year 1986. (c) AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year 1986 for operation and maintenance of defense agencies $25,000,000 which may be used only for the purpose of carrying out actions required by subsection (b). (d) REPORT.—Not later than April 1, 1986, the Secretary shall submit to Congress a report on the level and manner of obligating the funds appropriated pursuant to the authorization in subsection (c) and on the level of reductions of the backlog achieved at the time of the report. Such report also shall include a description of resources and the funding level which would be needed in order to reduce by the end of fiscal year 1987 such backlog by 50 percent below the level of such backlog on the date of the enactment of this Act. SEC. 1223. AUTHORITY FOR INDEPENDENT CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS BY NAVY AND AIR FORCE INVESTIGATIVE UNITS

The Secretary of the Navy shall prescribe regulations providing to the Naval Investigative Service authority to initiate and conduct criminal investigations on the authority of the Director of the Naval Investigative Service. The Secretary of the Air Force shall prescribe regulations providing to the Air Force Office of Special Investigations authority to initiate and conduct criminal investigations on the authority of the Commander of the Air Force Office of Special Investigations. Alcohol and alcoholic beverages.

SEC. 1224. ESTABLISHMENT OF MINIMUM DRINKING AGE ON MILITARY INSTALLATIONS

(a) MINIMUM DRINKING AGE BASED ON STATE LAW.—Section 2683 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding at the end thereof the following new subsection: "(c)(1) Except as provided in paragraphs (2) and (3), the Secretary concerned shall establish and enforce as the minimum drinking age on a military installation located in a State the age established by the law of that State as the State minimum drinking age. "(2)(A) In the case of a military installation located—

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