Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 106 Part 3.djvu/144

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106 STAT. 1938 PUBLIC LAW 102-396—OCT. 6, 1992 Reports. Intergovernmental relations. " (5) The Secretary shall establish, after notice and opportunity for public comment, appropriate limitations, terms, and conditions for awarding grants under this subsection, including provisions specifying the means by which applicants must demonstrate claimed losses and limiting the ag^egate amounts that may be paid to persons that are amliated with each other or under common ownership. "(6) As used in this subsection, the term 'person' means any individual or any corporation, partnership, trust, association, or other nongovernmental entity.". SEC. 9136. Of the funds appropriated for drug interdiction and counter narcotics, $35,000,000 shall be appropriated for the purposes of modifying with improved radars ana FLIRs and leasing up to 15 T-47 aircraft. SEC. 9137. It is the sense of the Congress that— (1) the Corps of Engineers of the Army should evaluate new concrete construction technologies in order to identify technologies that, if used in the construction of Department of Defense facilities in regions susceptible to hurricanes, would prevent future hurricanes striking those regions from causing the extensive level of damage to those facilities that Hurricane Andrew and Hurricane IniM caused at installations and facilities of the Department of Defense in Florida and Hawaii, respectively; and (2) the Secretary of Defense shoiild ensure that, to the extent that it is cost effective to do so, concrete construction technologies identified in accordance with paragraph (1) be used in the construction of facilities of the Department of Defense in those regions in the future. SEC. 9138. (a) The Secretary of Defense shall transmit to Congress a report on whether the United States should participate with other countries of the Western Hemisphere in an international rapid deployment force for use in international crises in the Western Hemisphere. (b) The report shall include a discussion of, and the Secretary's recommendations regarding, the following matters: (1) Whether a rapid deployment force should be established. (2) The circumstances under which the rapid deployment force should be used for intervention in international crises in the Western Hemisphere. (3) Whether the establishment of a rapid deployment force with the mission to engage in military operations in the Westem Hemisphere in such an intervention is prohibited by, or inconsistent with, the Charter of the Organization of American States. (4) How to ensure that the elements of the Armed Forces of the United States in the rapid deployment force are not introduced into situations involving life-threatening dangers without the specific approval of the United States under the laws of the United States, including the War Powers Resolution (50 U.S.C.1541 etseq.). (c) The Secretary shall submit the report req[uired by subsection (a) at the same time as the President submits to dongress the budget for fiscal year 1994 piirsuant to section 1105 of title 31, United States Code. SEC. 9139. (a) During the current fiscal year, whenever a State or local development authority or other State or local installation