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[CITE: 10USC6976]

 
                         TITLE 10--ARMED FORCES
 
                    Subtitle C--Navy and Marine Corps
 
                    PART III--EDUCATION AND TRAINING
 
                CHAPTER 603--UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY
 
Sec. 6976. Operation of Naval Academy dairy farm

    (a) Discretion Regarding Continued Operation.--(1) Subject to 
paragraph (2), the Secretary of the Navy may terminate or reduce the 
dairy or other operations conducted at the Naval Academy dairy farm 
located in Gambrills, Maryland.
    (2) Notwithstanding the termination or reduction of operations at 
the Naval Academy dairy farm under paragraph (1), the real property 
containing the dairy farm (consisting of approximately 875 acres)--
        (A) may not be declared to be excess real property to the needs 
    of the Navy or transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Navy or 
    any Federal agency; and
        (B) shall be maintained in its rural and agricultural nature.

    (b) Lease Authority.--(1) Subject to paragraph (2), to the extent 
that the termination or reduction of operations at the Naval Academy 
dairy farm permit, the Secretary of the Navy may lease the real property 
containing the dairy farm, and any improvements and personal property 
thereon, to such persons and under such terms as the Secretary considers 
appropriate. In leasing any of the property, the Secretary may give a 
preference to persons who will continue dairy operations on the 
property.
    (2) Any lease of property at the Naval Academy dairy farm shall be 
subject to a condition that the lessee maintain the rural and 
agricultural nature of the leased property.
    (c) Lease Proceeds.--All money received from a lease entered into 
under subsection (b) shall be retained by the Superintendent of the 
Naval Academy and shall be available to cover expenses related to the 
property described in subsection (a), including reimbursing 
nonappropriated fund instrumentalities of the Naval Academy.
    (d) Effect of Other Laws.--Nothing in section 6971 of this title 
shall be construed to require the Secretary of the Navy or the 
Superintendent of the Naval Academy to operate a dairy farm for the 
Naval Academy in Gambrills, Maryland, or any other location.

(Added Pub. L. 105-85, div. B, title XXVIII, Sec. 2871(a)(1), Nov. 18, 
1997, 111 Stat. 2014; amended Pub. L. 106-65, div. B, title XXVIII, 
Sec. 2814, Oct. 5, 1999, 113 Stat. 851.)


                               Amendments

    1999--Subsecs. (c), (d). Pub. L. 106-65 added subsec. (c) and 
redesignated former subsec. (c) as (d).
