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[CITE: 10USC2349]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
CHAPTER 138--COOPERATIVE AGREEMENTS WITH NATO ALLIES AND OTHER COUNTRIES
 
        SUBCHAPTER I--ACQUISITION AND CROSS-SERVICING AGREEMENTS
 
Sec. 2349. Overseas Workload Program

    (a) In General.--A firm of any member nation of the North Atlantic 
Treaty Organization or of any major non-NATO ally shall be eligible to 
bid on any contract for the maintenance, repair, or overhaul of 
equipment of the Department of Defense located outside the United States 
to be awarded under competitive procedures as part of the program of the 
Department of Defense known as the Overseas Workload Program.
    (b) Site of Performance.--A contract awarded to a firm described in 
subsection (a) may be performed in the theater in which the equipment is 
normally located or in the country in which the firm is located.
    (c) Exceptions.--The Secretary of a military department may restrict 
the geographic region in which a contract referred to in subsection (a) 
may be performed if the Secretary determines that performance of the 
contract outside that specific region--
        (1) could adversely affect the military preparedness of the 
    armed forces; or
        (2) would violate the terms of an international agreement to 
    which the United States is a party.

    (d) Definition.--In this section, the term ``major non-NATO ally'' 
has the meaning given that term in section 2350a(i)(3) of this title.

(Added Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1431(a)(1), Nov. 30, 
1993, 107 Stat. 1832.)


                            Prior Provisions

    A prior section 2349, added Pub. L. 96-323, Sec. 2(a), Aug. 4, 1980, 
94 Stat. 1018, Sec. 2330; renumbered Sec. 2349, Pub. L. 99-145, title 
XIII, Sec. 1304(a)(3), Nov. 8, 1985, 99 Stat. 741; Pub. L. 101-189, div. 
A, title IX, Sec. 931(e)(1), Nov. 29, 1989, 103 Stat. 1535, directed 
Secretary of Defense to submit a report to Congress annually relating to 
agreements under this chapter, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 101-510, 
Sec. 1301(11).
    Provisions similar to those in this section were contained in Pub. 
L. 101-510, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1465, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 1700, 
as amended, which was set out as a note under section 2341 of this 
title, prior to repeal by Pub. L. 103-160, Sec. 1431(b)(1). Other prior 
similar provisions, formerly set out under section 2341 of this title, 
were contained in the following authorization or appropriation acts:
    Pub. L. 102-396, title IX, Sec. 9130, Oct. 6, 1992, 106 Stat. 1935, 
as amended by Pub. L. 103-160, div. A, title XIV, Sec. 1431(b)(2), Nov. 
30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1833.
    Pub. L. 102-172, title VIII, Sec. 8122, Nov. 26, 1991, 105 Stat. 
1205.
    Pub. L. 101-511, title VIII, Sec. 8003, Nov. 5, 1990, 104 Stat. 
1873.
    Pub. L. 100-180, div. A, title X, Sec. 1021, Dec. 4, 1987, 101 Stat. 
1143.
