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[CITE: 10USC116]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
                    CHAPTER 2--DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE
 
Sec. 116. Annual operations and maintenance report

    (a)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall submit to Congress a written 
report, not later than February 15 of each fiscal year, with respect to 
the operations and maintenance of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine 
Corps for the next fiscal year. The Secretary shall include in each such 
report recommendations for--
        (A) the number of aircraft flying hours for the Army, Navy, Air 
    Force, and Marine Corps for the next fiscal year, the number of ship 
    steaming hours for the Navy for the next fiscal year, and the number 
    of field training days for the combat arms battalions of the Army 
    and Marine Corps for the next fiscal year;
        (B) the number of ships over 3,000 tons (full load displacement) 
    in each Navy ship classification on which major repair work should 
    be performed during the next fiscal year; and
        (C) the number of airframe reworks, aircraft engine reworks, and 
    vehicle overhauls which should be performed by the Army, Navy, Air 
    Force, and Marine Corps during the next fiscal year.

    (2) The Secretary shall also include in each such report the 
justification for and an explanation of the level of funding recommended 
in the Budget of the President for the next fiscal year for aircraft 
flying hours, ship steaming hours, field training days for the combat 
arms battalions, major repair work to be performed on ships of the Navy, 
airframe reworks, aircraft engine reworks, and vehicle overhauls.
    (b) In this section:
        (1) The term ``combat arms battalions'' means armor, infantry, 
    mechanized infantry, air assault infantry, airborne infantry, 
    ranger, artillery, and combat engineer battalions and armored 
    cavalry and air cavalry squadrons.
        (2) The term ``major repair work'' means, in the case of any 
    ship to which subsection (a) is applicable, any overhaul, 
    modification, alteration, or conversion work which will result in a 
    total cost to the United States of more than $10,000,000.

(Added Pub. L. 96-342, title X, Sec. 1001(b)(3), (c)(2), Sept. 8, 1980, 
94 Stat. 1118, 1119, Sec. 138(e), (f)(2); amended Pub. L. 96-513, title 
V, Sec. 511(4)(B), Dec. 12, 1980, 94 Stat. 2920; Pub. L. 97-86, title 
III, Sec. 302, Dec. 1, 1981, 95 Stat. 1104; renumbered Sec. 116 and 
amended Pub. L. 99-433, title I, Secs. 101(a)(2), 110(b)(6), (7), (9), 
(10), Oct. 1, 1986, 100 Stat. 994, 1002; Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title 
X, Sec. 1073(a)(3), Nov. 18, 1997, 111 Stat. 1900.)


                               Amendments

    1997--Subsec. (b)(2). Pub. L. 105-85 substituted ``subsection (a)'' 
for ``such subsection''.
    1986--Pub. L. 99-433 successively redesignated subsecs. (e) and 
(f)(2) of section 138 of this title as subsecs. (e) and (f)(2) of 
section 114 of this title and then as subsecs. (a) and (b), 
respectively, of this section, added section catchline, and made minor 
conforming changes in text.
    1981--Subsec. (a)(3), (4), formerly Sec. 138(e)(3), (4). Pub. L. 97-
86 struck out pars. (3) and (4) which required the Secretary to include 
in each report a projection of the combat readiness of specified 
military units proposed to be maintained during the next fiscal year.
    1980--Subsec. (b), formerly Sec. 138(f)(2). Pub. L. 96-513 
substituted ``In subsection (e)'' for ``In subsection (f)''.


                    Effective Date of 1980 Amendment

    Amendment by Pub. L. 96-513 effective Dec. 12, 1980, see section 
701(b)(3) of Pub. L. 96-513.
