PUBLIC LAW 103-337—OCT. 5, 1994 108 STAT. 2703 (A) designates each region as high, medium, or low priority based on the probable need for Navy operations in such regions; and (B) for each region, is annotated to identify— (i) the date of the most recent detailed survey; and (ii) the extent to which that survey provides insight into the region's properties identified pursuant to paragraph (1). (3) An assessment of the Nav^s current and projected access to each region for surveying purposes. (4) An assessment of the ability of current oceanographic survey and reseeirch assets to develop the information identified in paragraph (1). SEC. 253. LANSCE/LAMPF UPGRADES. Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 201(1), $20,000,000 shall be available to complete the Los Alamos Neutron Scattering Center/Los Alamos Meson Physics Facility upgrades at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico. SEC. 254. STUDY REGARDING LIVE-FIRE SURVIVABILITY TESTING OF F-22 AIRCRAFT. (a) REQUIREMENT.— The Secretary of Defense shall request the National Research Council of the National Academy of Sciences— (1) to conduct a study regarding the desirability of exercising the authority under subsection (c) of section 2366 of title 10, United States Code, to waive for the F-22 aircraft program the survivability tests required pursuant to subsection (a) of such section; and (2) to submit to the Secretary and Congress, within 180 Reports, days after the date of the enactment of this Act, a report containing the conclusions of the Council regarding the desirability of waiving such tests. (b) CONTENT OF REPORT.— The report shall contain the following matters: (1) Conclusions regsirding the practicality of full-scale, fullup testing for the F-22 aircraft program. (2) A discussion of the implications regarding the affordability of the F-22 aircraft program of conducting and of not conducting the survivability tests, including an assessment of the potential life cycle benefits that could be derived from full-scale, full-up live fire testing in comparison to the costs of such testing. (3) A discussion of what, if any, changes of circumstances affecting the F-22 aircraft program have occurred since completion of the milestone II program review to cause the program manager to request a waiver of the survivability tests for the F-22 aircraft program that was not requested at that time. (4) The sufficiency of the F-22 siircraft program testing plans to fulfill the same requirements and purooses as are provided in subsection (e)(3) of section 2366 of title 10, United States Code, for realistic survivability testing for purposes of subsection (a)(1)(A) of such section. (5) Any recommendations regarding survivability testing for the F-22 aircraft program that the Council considers appropriate on the basis of the study.
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