PUBLIC LAW 104-201—SEPT. 23, 1996 110 STAT. 2765 improve existing military family housing units in an amount not to exceed $105,350,000. SEC. 2104. AUTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS, ARMY. (a) IN GENERAL.—Funds are hereby authorized to be appropriated for fiscal years beginning after September 30, 1996, for military construction, land acquisition, and military family housing functions of the Department of the Army in the total amount of $1,942,557,000 as follows: (1) For military construction projects inside the United States authorized by section 2101(a), $394,250,000. (2) For military construction projects outside the United States authorized by section 2101(b), $121,800,000. (3) For unspecified minor military construction projects authorized by section 2805 of title 10, United States Code, $5,000,000. (4) For architectural and engineering services and construction design under section 2807 of title 10, United States Code, $50,538,000. (5) For military family housing functions: (A) For construction and acquisition, planning and design, and improvement of military family housing and facilities, $158,503,000. (B) For support of military family housing (including the functions described in section 2833 of title 10, United States Code), $1,212,466,000. (b) LIMITATION ON TOTAL COST OF CONSTRUCTION PROJECTS. — Notwithstanding the cost variations authorized by section 2853 of title 10, United States Code, and any other cost variation authorized by law, the total cost of all projects carried out under section 2101 of this Act may not exceed— (1) the total amount authorized to be appropriated under paragraphs (1) and (2) of subsection (a); (2) $31,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under section 2101(a) for the construction of the National Range Control Center at White Sands Missile Range, New Mexico); and (3) $22,000,000 (the balance of the amount authorized under section 2101(a) for the whole barracks complex renewal at Fort Knox, Kentucky). SEC. 2105. LAND ACQUISITION, NATIONAL GROUND INTELLIGENCE CENTER, CHARLOTTESVILLE, VIRGINIA. (a) ACQUISITION AUTHORIZED.— Subject to subsection (b), the Secretary of the Army may acquire real property for the National Ground Intelligence Center, Charlottesville, Virginia. (b) REQUIREMENT RELATING TO ACQUISITION. — The Secretary may not acquire real property pursuant to the authorization in subsection (a) until the Secretary certifies to the congressiongJ defense committees, based on the results of an assessment of property currently owned or operated by the Federal Government in the vicinity of Charlottesville, Virginia, that the acquisition of the property would provide the most cost-effective means of securing a location for the National Ground Intelligence Center that satisfies the mission requirements of the center. (c) FUNDING.— Of the amounts authorized to be appropriated by section 2104(a)(1), $1,000,000 shall be available for the acquisi-
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