95 STAT. 1202
31 USC 1351.
PUBLIC LAW 97-92—DEC. 15, 1981
session of the Ninety-seventh Congress, the level of budget authority for the Department of Defense shall be the level of the conference agreement on the Department of Defense Appropriation Act, 1982, and this section shall not apply to that level. If such agreement has not been reached by the conclusion of the first session of the Ninetyseventh Congress, the level shall be as set forth in section 101(a) of this joint resolution, and this section shall not apply to that level. (e) The reduction made by this section shall be applied so that the budget authority provided in this joint resolution within any appropriation account for any program or project shall not be reduced by more than 6 per centum. (f) The reduction made by this section shall be applied so that no program or project shall be terminated. (g) The reduction made by this section shall not apply to budget authority made available by this joint resolution for: the Food Stamp program; the Veterans' Administration medical care account; any account, program or project involving spending authority defined in section 401(c)(2)(C) of the Congressional Budget and Impoundment Control Act of 1974 (Public Law 93-344); the Payment to State and Local Government Fiscal Assistance Trust Fund (31 U.S.C. 1221-1263); accounts of the Veterans' Administration where budget authority otherwise provided by this joint resolution would be at or below the revised budget estimates; the Internal Revenue Service, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the Drug Enforcement Administration in the Department of Justice, the law enforcement activities of the Customs Service and the Secret Service in the Department of the Treasury, and the law enforcement activities of the Coast Guard, (h) This section shall not apply to any appropriation account, program or project for which budget authority is provided by a 1982 appropriation Act enacted into law subsequent to the enactment of this joint resolution.
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