Congressional Record: November 28, 2001 (House)
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             DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE APPROPRIATIONS ACT, 2002

  The SPEAKER pro tempore. Pursuant to House Resolution 296 and rule
XVIII, the Chair declares the House in the Committee of the Whole House
on the State of the Union for the consideration of the bill, H.R. 3338.

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                                TITLE IX

   COUNTER-TERRORISM AND DEFENSE AGAINST WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION

        Counter-Terrorism and Operational Response Transfer Fund


                     (including transfer of funds)

       For urgent enhancements to intelligence and military
     capabilities in order to prosecute Operation ENDURING
     FREEDOM; to discover, infiltrate, and deter terrorist groups;
     to protect against terrorist attacks that might employ either
     conventional means or weapons of mass destruction, and to
     prepare against the consequences of such attacks; to deny
     unauthorized users the opportunity to modify, steal,
     inappropriately disclose, or destroy sensitive military
     intelligence data or networks, and to accelerate improvements
     in information networks and operations, $1,670,000,000, to
     remain available until expended, of which $451,000,000 shall
     be made available to the Director of Central Intelligence,
     and of which $1,219,000,000 shall be made available to the
     Secretary of Defense: Provided, That of the amounts made
     available under this heading for the Department of Defense,
     $474,000,000 is available only for improving chemical and
     biological defense capabilities of the Department of Defense:
     Provided further, That of the amounts made available under
     this heading for the Department of Defense, $275,000,000 is
     available only for improving the effectiveness of Department
     of Defense and intelligence agency capabilities in the areas
     of information assurance, critical infrastructure protection,
     and information operations: Provided further, That in order
     to carry out the specified purposes under this heading, funds
     made available under this heading may be transferred to any
     appropriation account otherwise enacted by this Act: Provided
     further, That the funds transferred shall be merged with and
     shall be available for the same purposes and for the same
     time period, as the appropriation to which transferred:
     Provided further, That the transfer authority provided under
     this heading is in addition to any other transfer authority
     available to the Department of Defense: Provided further,
     That upon a determination that all or part of the funds
     transferred from this appropriation are excess for the
     purposes provided herein, such amounts may be transferred
     back to this appropriation: Provided further, That of the
     amounts provided under this heading, $10,000,000 shall be
     transferred to the Department of Justice, only for enhanced
     terrorism-related financial and money laundering
     investigation operations: Provided further, That
     notwithstanding any other provision of law, of the amounts
     provided under this heading, the Secretary of Defense is
     authorized to transfer $70,000,000 to other activities of the
     Federal Government: Provided further, That within 90 days of
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense and the
     Director of Central Intelligence shall each provide to the
     Congress a classified report specifying the projects and
     accounts to which funds provided under this heading are to be
     transferred.