102 STAT. 2270-24
PUBLIC LAW 100-463—OCT. 1, 1988
SEC. 8038. None of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to convert a position in support of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard, and Air National Guard occupied by, or prc^rammed to be occupied by, a (civilian) military technician to a position to be held by a person in an active Guard or Reserve status if that conversion would reduce the total number of petitions occupied by, or programmed to be occupied by, (civilian) military technicians of the component concerned, below 70,325: Provided, That none of the funds appropriated by this Act shall be available to support more than 47,292 positions in support of the Army Reserve, Army National Guard or Air National Guard occupied by, or programmed to be occupied by, persons in an active Guard or R ^ e r v e status: Provided further. That none of the funds appropriated by this Act may be used to include (civilian) military technicians in computing civilian personnel ceilings, including statutory or administratively imposed ceilings, on activities in support of the Army Reserve, Air Force Reserve, Army National Guard or Air National Guard. SEC. 8039. (a) The provisions of section 115(b)(2) of title 10, United States Code, shall not apply with respect to fiscal year 1989 or with respect to the appropriation of funds for that year. (b) During fiscal year 1989, the civilian personnel of the Department of Defense may not be managed on the basis of any endstrength, and the management of such personnel during that fiscal year shall not be subject to any constraint or limitation (known as an end-strength) on the number of such personnel who may be employed on the last day of such fiscal year. (c) The fiscal year 1990 budget request for the Department of Defense as well as all justification material and other documentation supporting the fiscal year 1990 Department of Defense budget request shall be prepared and submitted to the Congress as if subsections (a) and (b) of this provision were effective with regard to fiscal year 1990. SEC. 8040. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be used in any way for the leasing to non-Federal agencies in the United States aircraft or vehicles owned or operated by the Department of Defense when suitable aircraft or vehicles are commercially available in the private sector: Provided, That nothing in this section shall affect authorized and established procedures for the sale of surplus aircraft or vehicles: Provided further. That nothing in this section shall prohibit the leasing of helicopters authorized by section 1463 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act of 1986. SEC. 8041. None of the funds made available by this Act shall be used in any way, directly or indirectly, to influence congressional action on any l^islation or appropriation matters pending before the Congress. SEC. 8042. No funds available to the Department of Defense during the current fiscal year may be used, to enter into any contract with a term of eighteen months or more or to extend or renew any contract for a term of eighteen months or more, for any vessel, aircraft or vehicles, through a lease, charter, or similar agreement without previously having been submitted to the Committees on Appropriations of the House of Representatives and the Senate in the budgetary process: Provided, That any contractual agreement which imposes an estimated termination liability (excluding the estimated value of the leased item at the time of
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