113 STAT. 1272 PUBLIC LAW 106-79—OCT. 25, 1999 required to be carried out as part of such a penalty shall be considered to be a payment of the penalty. SEC. 8150. Section 8145 of the Department of Defense Appropriations Act, 1999 (Public Law 105-262; 112 Stat. 2340), is Eimended by inserting before the period at the end the following: ", and for such additional environmental restoration activities at such former base as may be accomplished within such total amount". SEC. 8151. Of the funds made available in this Act under the heading "Operation and Maintenance, Defense-Wide", up to $5,000,000 shall be avgiilable to provide assistance, by grant or otherwise, to public school systems that have unusually high concentrations of special needs military dependents enrolled: Provided, That in selecting school systems to receive such assistance, speciEd consideration shall be given to school systems in States that Eire considered overseas assignments. SEC. 8152. Funds appropriated by the psiragraph under the heading "MILITARY CONSTRUCTION TRANSFER FUND" in the 1999 Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act (Public Law 106- 31; 113 Stat. 85) may be treinsferred to mihtary construction accounts, as authorized by that paragraph, and shall be merged with and shall be available for the same purposes and for the SEime time period as the account to which trsuisferred. SEC. 8153. Section 127 of the Military Construction Appropriations Act, 1995 (Public Law 103-307; 108 Stat. 1666) is amended— (1) in subsection (B)(1), by striking "an amount" and EQI that follows and inserting "$3,400,000."; and (2) by adding at the end the following: "(i) COMPLETION OF CONVEYANCE BY END OF FISCAL YEAR Deadline. 2000.— The Secretary shall endeavor to complete any conveyance under this section not later than September 30, 2000.". SEC. 8154. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, funds appropriated in this Act xuider the heading "Operation and Mainteuance, Army shall be available for expenses associated with characterization and remediation activities at the Massachusetts Military Reservation, Cape Cod, Massachusetts, resulting from environmental problems pertaining to use of Camp Edwards as a training range and impact EU'ea and any administrative orders issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to address those problems. SEC. 8155. (a) IN GENERAL. —Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Secretary of the Air Force may convey at no cost to the Air Force, without consideration, to Indian tribes located in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota relocatable military housing units located at Grand Forks Air Force Base and Minot Air Force Base that Eire excess to the needs of the Air Force. (b) PROCESSING OF REQUESTS.— The Secretary of the Air Force shall convey, at no cost to the Air Force, military housing units under subsection (a) in accordance with the request for such imits that Eire submitted to the Secretary by the Operation WEdking Shield Program on behalf of Indian tribes located in the States of North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, and Minnesota. (c) RESOLUTION OF HOUSING UNIT CONFLICTS. —The Operation WgOking Shield program shall resolve Einy conflicts among request of Indian tribes for housing units under subsection (a) before
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