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[CITE: 10USC2577]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle A--General Military Law
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
CHAPTER 153--EXCHANGE OF MATERIAL AND DISPOSAL OF OBSOLETE, SURPLUS, OR 
                           UNCLAIMED PROPERTY
 
Sec. 2577. Disposal of recyclable materials

    (a)(1) The Secretary of Defense shall prescribe regulations to 
provide for the sale of recyclable materials held by a military 
department or defense agency and for the operation of recycling programs 
at military installations. Such regulations shall include procedures for 
the designation by the Secretary of a military department (or by the 
Secretary of Defense with respect to facilities of a defense agency) of 
military installations that have established a qualifying recycling 
program for the purposes of subsection (b)(2).
    (2) Any sale of recyclable materials by the Secretary of Defense or 
Secretary of a military department shall be in accordance with the 
procedures in section 203 of the Federal Property and Administrative 
Services Act of 1949 (40 U.S.C. 484) for the sale of surplus property.
    (b)(1) Proceeds from the sale of recyclable materials at an 
installation shall be credited to funds available for operations and 
maintenance at that installation in amounts sufficient to cover the 
costs of operations, maintenance, and overhead for processing recyclable 
materials at the installation (including the cost of any equipment 
purchased for recycling purposes).
    (2) If after such funds are credited a balance remains available to 
a military installation and such installation has a qualifying recycling 
program (as determined by the Secretary of the military department 
concerned or the Secretary of Defense), not more than 50 percent of that 
balance may be used at the installation for projects for pollution 
abatement, energy conservation, and occupational safety and health 
activities. A project may not be carried out under the preceding 
sentence for an amount greater than 50 percent of the amount established 
by law as the maximum amount for a minor construction project.
    (3) The remaining balance available to a military installation may 
be transferred to the nonappropriated morale and welfare account of the 
installation to be used for any morale or welfare activity.
    (c) If the balance available to a military installation under this 
section at the end of any fiscal year is in excess of $2,000,000, the 
amount of that excess shall be covered into the Treasury as 
miscellaneous receipts.

(Added Pub. L. 97-214, Sec. 6(b)(1), July 12, 1982, 96 Stat. 172; 
amended Pub. L. 98-525, title XIV, Sec. 1405(37), Oct. 19, 1984, 98 
Stat. 2624.)


                               Amendments

    1984--Subsec. (a)(1). Pub. L. 98-525 substituted ``purposes'' for 
``puposes''.


                             Effective Date

    Section effective Oct. 1, 1982, and applicable to military 
construction projects, and to construction and acquisition of military 
family housing authorized before, on, or after such date, see section 
12(a) of Pub. L. 97-214, set out as a note under section 2801 of this 
title.
