To authorize appropriations for fiscal year 1998 for intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, the Community Management Account, and the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System, and for other purposes.
TABLE OF CONTENTS:
Title I: Intelligence Activities
Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and
Disability System
Title III: General Provisions
Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency
Title V: Department of Defense Intelligence Activities
Title VI: Miscellaneous Community Program Adjustments
Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1998 - Title I: Intelligence Activities - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1998 for the conduct of intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the: (1) Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); (2) Department of Defense; (3) Defense Intelligence Agency; (4) National Security Agency; (5) Departments of the Army, Navy, and Air Force; (6) Departments of State, the Treasury, and Energy; (7) Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI); (8) Drug Enforcement Administration; (9) National Reconnaissance Office; and (10) National Imagery and Mapping Agency.
Specifies that the amounts authorized to be appropriated and the authorized personnel ceilings as of September 30, 1998, for such activities are those specified in the classified Schedule of Authorizations, which shall be made available to the Senate and House Appropriations Committees and the President.
Allows the Director of Central Intelligence (DCI), with the approval of the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to authorize employment of civilian personnel in excess of the number authorized for FY 1998 when the DCI determines that such action is necessary to the performance of important intelligence functions, subject to specified limitations. Requires notification of the Senate and House Intelligence Committees whenever such authority is exercised.
Authorizes appropriations for the Community Management Account of the DCI for FY 1998. Authorizes full-time personnel for the Community Management Staff of the DCI as of September 30, 1998. Provides for the reimbursement of any U.S. officer or employee, or member of the armed forces, who is detailed to such Staff. Earmarks Account funds for the National Drug Intelligence Center.
Title II: Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability System - Authorizes appropriations for FY 1998 for the Central Intelligence Agency Retirement and Disability Fund.
Title III: General Provisions - Permits appropriations authorized by this Act for salary, pay, retirement, and other benefits for Federal employees to be increased by such additional amounts as may be necessary for increases in such compensation or benefits authorized by law.
Specifies that the authorization of appropriations by this Act shall not be deemed to constitute authority for the conduct of any intelligence activity which is not otherwise authorized by the Constitution or laws of the United States.
(Sec. 304) Amends the National Security Act of 1947 to authorize the detail of employees within the intelligence community to positions in the Intelligence Community Assignment Program, for a maximum of three years with an additional one-year extension in the public interest. Requires an annual report from the DCI to the intelligence committees. Terminates the detail program on September 30, 2002.
(Sec. 305) Extends through January 6, 1999, the authority of the President to stay the application of certain sanctions against a foreign country, organization, or person upon a determination of an adverse effect of such sanction on the conduct of ongoing intelligence activities.
(Sec. 306) Requires entities receiving funds pursuant to this Act to comply with the Buy American Act. Expresses the sense of the Congress that such entities should purchase only American-made equipment and products. Requires notice to such entities of such requirement.
(Sec. 308) Makes ineligible for the receipt of any funds provided under this Act any person found to have intentionally affixed a fraudulent "Made in America" label to any product sold in or shipped into the United States.
(Sec. 309) Requires the DCI and the FBI Director to jointly submit to the Congress an annual report on those intelligence activities of the People's Republic of China which affect U.S. interests.
(Sec. 310) Directs the CIA Inspector General to conduct a review of, and report to the intelligence committees on, any CIA knowledge concerning the presence or use of chemical weapons in the Persian Gulf theater during the Persian Gulf War.
Title IV: Central Intelligence Agency - Amends the Central Intelligence Agency Act of 1949 to authorize the DCI to enter into multiyear leases for periods of up to 15 years, subject to the availability of appropriations.
(Sec. 402) Authorizes the DCI to: (1) establish a program to provide CIA central services (equipment, salaries, maintenance, operation and other services); and (2) make transfers to and expenditures from the central services working capital fund (established by this section) for central services payments and expenditures. Provides for: (1) fund assets and reimbursement; (2) DCI imposition of a fee for central services provided from the fund; (3) fund audits by the CIA Inspector General; (4) the authorization of appropriations to the fund; and (5) fund termination on March 31, 2000, unless reauthorized by an Act of Congress.
(Sec. 403) Extends to the streets, sidewalks, and open areas within 500 feet of the CIA compound the area authorized to be protected for security purposes by CIA employees. (Currently, such area includes only the CIA installations.) Requires the DCI to report annually to the intelligence committees on the exercise of such authority.
Title V: Department of Defense Intelligence Activities - Authorizes the award of the degree of Bachelor of Science in Intelligence by the president of the Joint Military Intelligence College.
(Sec. 502) Prohibits the unauthorized use of the name, initials, or seal of the Defense Intelligence Agency, National Reconnaissance Office, National Imagery and Mapping Agency, or Defense Mapping Agency.
(Sec. 503) Amends the Intelligence Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1996 to extend through FY 1999 the authority for the use of Army operation and maintenance funds to enhance the capabilities of the Bad Aibling and Menwith Hill Army Stations.
Title VI: Miscellaneous Community Program Adjustments - Prohibits the Secretary of a military department or the head of a defense agency from obligating or expending funds for any information security program without the concurrence of the Director of the National Security Agency.
(Sec. 602) Allows amounts appropriated for intelligence information data broadcast systems to be obligated or expended by a DOD intelligence element only with the concurrence of the DOD official designated as the executive agent of the Integrated Broadcast Service.
(Sec. 603) Transfers to the Secretary of the Air Force, as of the beginning of FY 1997, all functions related to the Predator Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.
(Sec. 604) Requires the Secretary to ensure that at least 11 U-2 aircraft are equipped with certain sensor suites and appropriately maintained to counter available threat technologies until their retirement or replacement.
(Sec. 605) Outlines information to be included in the congressional budget justification books for any element of the intelligence community submitted to the Congress in support of a presidential budget for a fiscal year.
(Sec. 606) Prohibits the Secretary of the Air Force from modifying, amending, or altering an Air Force joint airborne signals program without appropriate coordination with the Secretary of any affected military department. Prohibits such Secretary from entering into a contract for development under such program without such coordination.
(Sec. 607) Directs the Secretary, no later than October 1, 1999, to: (1) discontinue the Defense Space Reconnaissance Program; and (2) close the Defense Space Program Office.
(Sec. 608) Terminates the Defense Airborne Reconnaissance Office. Transfers specified Office functions to the Defense Intelligence Agency. Requires a report from the Secretary to the defense and intelligence committees concerning the plans for such termination and transfer of functions.
Became Public Law No: 105-107.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
DEBATE - Pursuant to a unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with forty minutes of debate on the Conyers amendment and all amendments thereto.
Mr. Goss moved that the committee rise.
On motion that the committee rise Agreed to by voice vote.
Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union rises leaving H.R. 1775 as unfinished business.
Mr. Goss asked unanimous consent that during the further consideration of the bill pursuant to H. Res. 179 the Chairman of the Committee of the Whole may postpone until a request for a recorded vote on any amendment, and reduce to a minimum of five minutes the time for an electronic vote after the first 15 minute vote in any series of votes; that the time for debate on the Frank (MA), and all amendments thereto, be limited to 30 minutes; and the time for debate on the Waters amendment Nos. 6, and 7, and all amendments thereto, be limited to one hour each. Agreed to without objection.
Considered as unfinished business.
The House resolved into Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union for further consideration.
DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with 30 minutes of debate on the Frank amendment.
At the conclusion of debate, the Chair put the question on agreeing to the Frank amendment and announced that, by voice vote, the amendment was not agreed to. Mr. Frank objected to the vote on grounds that a quorum was not present and made a point of order that a quorum was not present. Pursuant to a previous unanimous consent agreement, further proceedings were postponed and the point of no quorum was withdrawn.
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DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Waters amendment.
DEBATE - The Committee of the Whole resumed debate.
DEBATE - Pursuant to a previous unanimous consent agreement, the Committee of the Whole proceeded with one hour of debate on the Waters amendment.
The House rose from the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union to report H.R. 1775.
The previous question was ordered pursuant to the rule.
The House adopted the amendment in the nature of a substitute as agreed to by the Committee of the Whole House on the state of the Union.
Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed by voice vote.
On passage Passed by voice vote.
Motion to reconsider laid on the table Agreed to without objection.
The Clerk was authorized to correct section numbers, punctuation, and cross references, and to make other necessary technical and conforming corrections in the engrossment of H.R. 1775.
Laid on the table. See S. 858 for further action. (consideration: CR H5413)