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[CITE: 10USC4553]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                            Subtitle B--Army
 
                PART IV--SERVICE, SUPPLY, AND PROCUREMENT
 
                 CHAPTER 434--ARMAMENTS INDUSTRIAL BASE
 
Sec. 4553. Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support 
        Initiative
        
    (a) Authority for Initiative.--The Secretary may carry out a program 
to be known as the ``Armament Retooling and Manufacturing Support 
Initiative''.
    (b) Purposes.--The purposes of the ARMS Initiative are as follows:
        (1) To encourage commercial firms, to the maximum extent 
    practicable, to use eligible facilities for commercial purposes.
        (2) To increase the opportunities for small businesses 
    (including socially and economically disadvantaged small business 
    concerns and new small businesses) to use eligible facilities for 
    those purposes.
        (3) To maintain in the United States a work force having the 
    skills in manufacturing processes that are necessary to meet 
    industrial emergency planned requirements for national security 
    purposes.
        (4) To demonstrate innovative business practices, to support 
    Department of Defense acquisition reform, and to serve as both a 
    model and a laboratory for future defense conversion initiatives of 
    the Department of Defense.
        (5) To the maximum extent practicable, to allow the operation of 
    eligible facilities to be rapidly responsive to the forces of free 
    market competition.
        (6) To reduce or eliminate the cost of Government ownership of 
    eligible facilities, including the costs of operations and 
    maintenance, the costs of environmental remediation, and other 
    costs.
        (7) To reduce the cost of products of the Department of Defense 
    produced at eligible facilities.
        (8) To leverage private investment at eligible facilities 
    through long-term facility use contracts, property management 
    contracts, leases, or other agreements that support and advance the 
    policies and purposes of this chapter, for the following activities:
            (A) Recapitalization of plant and equipment.
            (B) Environmental remediation.
            (C) Promotion of commercial business ventures.
            (D) Other activities approved by the Secretary.

        (9) To foster cooperation between the Department of the Army, 
    property managers, commercial interests, and State and local 
    agencies in the implementation of sustainable development strategies 
    and investment in eligible facilities made available for purposes of 
    the ARMS Initiative.
        (10) To reduce or eliminate the cost of asset disposal that 
    would be incurred if property at an eligible facility was declared 
    excess to the needs of the Department of the Army.

    (c) Availability of Facilities.--The Secretary may make any eligible 
facility available for the purposes of the ARMS Initiative.
    (d) Consideration for Leases.--Section 321 of the Act of June 30, 
1932 (40 U.S.C. 303b), shall not apply to uses of property or facilities 
in accordance with the ARMS Initiative.
    (e) Program Support.--(1) Funds appropriated for purposes of the 
ARMS Initiative may be used for administrative support and management.
    (2) A full annual accounting of such expenses for each fiscal year 
shall be provided to the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee 
on Appropriations of the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives not 
later than March 30 of the following fiscal year.

(Added Pub. L. 106-398, Sec. 1 [[div. A], title III, Sec. 344(a)(1)], 
Oct. 30, 2000, 114 Stat. 1654, 1654A-68.)
