PUBLIC LAW 105-85—NOV. 18, 1997 111 STAT. 1959 SEC. 1402. FUNDING ALLOCATIONS. (a) IN GENERAL.— Of the fiscal year 1998 Cooperative Threat Reduction funds, not more than the following amounts may be obligated for the purposes specified: (1) For strategic offensive arms elimination in Russia, $77,900,000. (2) For strategic nuclear arms elimination in Ukraine, $76,700,000. (3) For fissile material containers in Russia, $7,000,000. (4) For planning and design of a chemical weapons destruction facility in Russia, $35,400,000. (5) For dismantlement of biological and chemical weapons facilities in the former Soviet Union, $20,000,000. (6) For planning, design, and construction of a storage facility for Russian fissile material, $57,700,000. (7) For weapons storage security in Russia, $36,000,000. (8) For development of a cooperative program with the Government of Russia to eliminate the production of weapons grade plutonium at Russian reactors, $41,000,000. (9) For activities designated as Defense and Military-to- Military Contacts in Russia, Ukraine, and Kazakhstan, $8,000,000. (10) For military-to-military programs of the United States that focus on countering the threat of proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and that include the security forces of the independent states of the former Soviet Union other than Russia, Ukraine, Belarus, and Kazakstan, $2,000,000. (11) For activities designated as Other Assessments/ Administrative Support $20,500,000. (b) LIMITED AUTHORITY TO VARY INDIVIDUAL AMOUNTS. — (1) If the Secretary of Defense determines that it is necessary to do so in the national interest, the Secretary may, subject to paragraphs (2) and (3), obligate amounts for the purposes stated in any of the paragraphs of subsection (a) in excess of the amount specified for those purposes in that paragraph. However, the total amount obligated for the purposes stated in the paragraphs in subsection (a) may not by reason of the use of the authority provided in the preceding sentence exceed the sum of the amounts specified in those paragraphs. (2) An obligation for the purposes stated in any of the paragraphs in subsection (a) in excess of the amount specified in that paragraph may be made using the authority provided in paragraph (1) only after— (A) the Secretary^ submits to Congress notification of the intent to do so together with a complete discussion of the justification for doing so; and (B) 15 days have elapsed following the date of the notification. (3) The Secretary may not, under the authority provided in paragraph (1), obligate amounts appropriated for the purposes stated in any of paragraphs (3) through (11) of subsection (a) in excess of 115 percent of the amount stated in those paragraphs. (c) LIMITED WAIVER OF 115 PERCENT CAP ON OBLIGATION IN EXCESS OF AMOUNTS AUTHORIZED FOR FISCAL YEARS 1996 AND 1997. —(1) The limitation in subsection (b)(1) of section 1202 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 (Public Law 104-106; 110 Stat. 469), that provides that the authority
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