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(c) When determined to be necessary by the Secretary 5 of Defense, the Secretary may impose a moratorium on 6 the acquisition of new material for the National Defense 7 Stockpile for the purpose of reducing existing excess mate8 rial in the Stockpile.

9 (d) Except to the extent provided in advance in Ap10 propriations Acts, none of the funds available in the Na11 tional Defense Stockpile Transaction Fund may be obli12 gated or expended to finance any grant or contract to con13 duct research, development, test, and evaluation activities 14 for the development or production of advanced materials. 15 SEC. 307. NATIONAL DEFENSE SEALIFT FUND.

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(a) SHORT TITLE.-This section may be cited as the 17 "National Defense Sealift Improvement Act".

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21 "82218. National Defense Sealift Fund

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"(a) There is established on the books of the Treas23 ury a fund entitled the 'National Defense Sealift Fund'. 24 "(b) The Secretary of Defense shall administer the 25 Fund, consistent with the provisions of this section.

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"(1) research and development relating to national defense sealift;

"(2) construction, purchase, lease, alteration, conversion, or operation and maintenance of sealift vessels for national defense purposes; and

"(3) such other purposes relating to national

defense sealift as may be authorized by law.

"(d)(1) There is authorized to be appropriated to the

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"(2) All receipts from the disposition of national de13 fense sealift vessels, excluding receipts from the sale, ex14 change, or scrapping of National Defense Reserve Fleet 15 vessels under sections 508 or 510 of the Merchant Marine 16 Act of 1936 (46 App. U.S.C. 1158, 1160), shall be depos17 ited in the Fund.

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"(3)(A) The Secretary of Defense may accept from 19 any person, foreign government, or international organiza20 tion any contribution of money, real or personal property, 21 or assistance in kind for support of the sealift functions 22 of the Department of Defense.

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"(B) Any contribution of property accepted under 24 subparagraph (A) may be retained and used by the De25 partment of Defense or disposed of in accordance with

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1 procedures established by the Secretary of Defense. Any 2 real property accepted under subparagraph A shall be dis

3 posed of in accordance with the Federal Property and Ad4 ministrative Service Act of 1949, as amended.

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"(C) The Secretary of Defense shall deposit in the

6 Fund money and receipts from the disposition of any 7 property accepted under subparagraph (A).

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"(4) Funds deposited into the Fund shall not be 9 made available for obligation or expenditure except to the 10 extent and in the manner provided in subsequent appro11 priations Acts.

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lished by this section; and

"(2) the term 'national defense sealift vessels'

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"(A) Department of Defense-owned fast sealift ships, maritime prepositioning ships, afloat prepositioning ships, aviation maintenance support ships, hospital ships, tanker ships, and such other ships owned by the De

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fense may designate; and

"(B) National Defense Reserve Fleet vessels, including Ready Reserve Force vessels, maintained under section 11 of the Merchant.

Ship Sales Act of 1946 (50 App. U.S.C. 1744).".

(c) FAST SEALIFT PROGRAM RECEIPTS.-Receipts

9 from the charter of vessels under section 1424(c) of Public 10 Law 101-510 (104 Stat. 1683) shall be deposited in the 11 National Defense Sealift Fund, established by this Act. 12 (d) AUTHORIZATION OF FUNDING.-To the extent 13 provided in advance in appropriations Acts, the Secretary 14 of Defense may transfer to the National Defense Sealift 15 Fund not to exceed $1,875,100,000 from unobligated bal16 ances of appropriations made for fiscal years 1990, 1991, 17 and 1992 under the heading "Shipbuilding and Conver18 sion, Navy".

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(e) TITLE OR MANAGEMENT OF VESSELS.-Nothing 20 in this Act shall be construed to affect or modify title to 21 or management of any vessel in the National Defense Re22 serve Fleet, or assigned to its Ready Reserve Force com23 ponent, as established by section 11 of the Merchant Ship 24 Sales Act of 1946 (50 App. U.S.C. 1744).

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(f) CONFORMING AND CLERICAL AMENDMENTS.-(1)

2 The item relating to section 11(b) of the Act of March

3 8, 1946 (50 App. U.S.C. 1744(b)) in section 307(12) of

4 Public Law 101-225 (103 Stat. 1908) is repealed.

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(2) Section 11(b) of the Act of March 8, 1946 (50 6 App. U.S.C. 1744(b)) as that section was in effect on De

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(3) The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 131 of title 10, United States Code, is amended by adding after the item relating to section 2217 the following new item:

"2218. National Defense Sealift Fund.".

(g) EFFECTIVE DATE.-The amendment made by 13 subsection (b) of this section shall be effective December

18 SEC. 401. END STRENGTHS FOR ACTIVE FORCES.

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The armed forces are authorized strengths for active

20 duty personnel as of September 30, 1993, as follows: