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[CITE: 10USC1557]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                           PART II--PERSONNEL
 
               CHAPTER 79--CORRECTION OF MILITARY RECORDS
 
Sec. 1557. Timeliness standards for disposition of applications 
        before Corrections Boards
        
    (a) Ten-Month Clearance Percentage.--Of the applications received by 
a Corrections Board during a period specified in the following table, 
the percentage on which final action by the Corrections Board must be 
completed within 10 months of receipt (other than for those applications 
considered suitable for administrative correction) is as follows:

                                         The percentage on which final  
  For applications                          Correction Board action     
  received during--                          must be completed within   
                                           10 months of receipt is--    
    the period of fiscal years 2001 and 
    2002................................                             50 
    the period of fiscal years 2003 and 
    2004................................                             60 
    the period of fiscal years 2005, 
    2006, and     2007..................                             70 
    the period of fiscal years 2008, 
    2009, and     2010..................                             80 
    the period of any fiscal year after 
    fiscal     year 2010................                             90.

    (b) Clearance Deadline for All Applications.--Effective October 1, 
2002, final action by a Corrections Board on all applications received 
by the Corrections Board (other than those applications considered 
suitable for administrative correction) shall be completed within 18 
months of receipt.
    (c) Waiver Authority.--The Secretary of the military department 
concerned may exclude an individual application from the timeliness 
standards prescribed in subsections (a) and (b) if the Secretary 
determines that the application warrants a longer period of 
consideration. The authority of the Secretary of a military department 
under this subsection may not be delegated.
    (d) Failure To Meet Timeliness Standards Not To Affect Any 
Individual Application.--Failure of a Corrections Board to meet the 
applicable timeliness standard for any period of time under subsection 
(a) or (b) does not confer any presumption or advantage with respect to 
consideration by the board of any application.
    (e) Reports on Failure To Meet Timeliness Standards.--The Secretary 
of the military department concerned shall submit to the Committee on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the 
House of Representatives a report not later than June 1 following any 
fiscal year during which the Corrections Board of that Secretary's 
military department was unable to meet the applicable timeliness 
standard for that fiscal year under subsections (a) and (b). The report 
shall specify the reasons why the standard could not be met and the 
corrective actions initiated to ensure compliance in the future. The 
report shall also specify the number of waivers granted under subsection 
(c) during that fiscal year.
    (f) Corrections Board Defined.--In this section, the term 
``Corrections Board'' means--
        (1) with respect to the Department of the Army, the Army Board 
    for Correction of Military Records;
        (2) with respect to the Department of the Navy, the Board for 
    Correction of Naval Records; and
        (3) with respect to the Department of the Air Force, the Air 
    Force Board for Correction of Military Records.

(Added Pub. L. 105-261, div. A, title V, Sec. 544(a), Oct. 17, 1998, 112 
Stat. 2021; amended Pub. L. 106-65, div. A, title X, Sec. 1067(1), Oct. 
5, 1999, 113 Stat. 774.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsec. (e). Pub. L. 106-65 substituted ``and the Committee on 
Armed Services'' for ``and the Committee on National Security''.
