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[CITE: 10USC228]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
            PART I--ORGANIZATION AND GENERAL MILITARY POWERS
 
                    CHAPTER 9--DEFENSE BUDGET MATTERS
 
Sec. 228. Monthly reports on allocation of funds within 
        operation and maintenance budget subactivities
        
    (a) Monthly Report.--The Secretary of Defense shall submit to 
Congress a monthly report on the allocation of appropriations to O&M 
budget activities and to the subactivities of those budget activities. 
Each such report shall be submitted not later than 60 days after the end 
of the month to which the report pertains.
    (b) Matters To Be Included.--Each such report shall set forth the 
following for each subactivity of the O&M budget activities:
        (1) The amount of budget authority appropriated for that 
    subactivity in the most recent regular Department of Defense 
    Appropriations Act.
        (2) The amount of budget authority actually made available for 
    that subactivity, taking into consideration supplemental 
    appropriations, rescissions, and other adjustments required by law 
    or made pursuant to law.
        (3) The amount programmed to be expended from such subactivity.

    (c) Identification of Certain Fluctuations.--(1) If, in the report 
under this section for a month of a fiscal year after the first month of 
that fiscal year, an amount shown under subsection (b) for a subactivity 
is different by more than $15,000,000 from the corresponding amount for 
that subactivity in the report for the first month of that fiscal year, 
the Secretary shall include in the report notice of that difference.
    (2) If, in the report under this section for a month of a fiscal 
year after a month for which the report under this section includes a 
notice under paragraph (1), an amount shown under subsection (b) for a 
subactivity is different by more than $15,000,000 from the corresponding 
amount for that subactivity in the most recent report that includes a 
notice under paragraph (1) or this paragraph, the Secretary shall 
include in the report notice of that difference.
    (d) Report on Fluctuations.--If a report under this section includes 
a notice under subsection (c), the Secretary shall include in the report 
with each such notice the following:
        (1) The reasons for the reallocations of funds resulting in the 
    inclusion of that notice in the report.
        (2) Each budget subactivity involved in those reallocations.
        (3) The effect of those reallocations on the operation and 
    maintenance activities funded through the subactivity with respect 
    to which the notice is included in the report.

    (e) O&M Budget Activity Defined.--For purposes of this section, the 
term ``O&M budget activity'' means a budget activity within an operation 
and maintenance appropriation of the Department of Defense for a fiscal 
year.

(Added Pub. L. 105-85, div. A, title III, Sec. 321(a)(1), Nov. 18, 1997, 
111 Stat. 1672.)


                              First Report

    Section 321(b) of Pub. L. 105-85 provided that: ``The first report 
under section 228 of title 10, United States Code, as added by 
subsection (a), shall be for the month of December 1997.''
