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CHAPTER 645-PROCUREMENT OF SUPPLIES AND

SERVICES

Sec.

[7521.

7522.

7523.

7524.

Repealed.]

Contracts for research.

Tolls and fares: payment or reimbursement.

Marine mammals: use for national defense purposes.

[§ 7521. Repealed. P.L. 103-355, §2001(j)(3)(C), Oct. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 3303]

§ 7522. Contracts for research

(a) The Secretary of the Navy and, by direction of the Secretary, the Chief of Naval Research and the chiefs of bureaus may, without advertising, make contracts or amendments or modifications of contracts for services and materials necessary to conduct research and to make or secure reports, tests, models, or apparatus. A contractor supplying such services or materials need not be required to furnish a bond.

(b) This section does not authorize the use of the cost-plus-apercentage-of-cost system of contracting.

(Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 464; Dec. 12, 1980, P.L. 96–513, §513(38), 94 Stat. 2934; Sept. 13, 1982, P.L. 97-258, §3(b)(9), 96 Stat. 1064; Oct. 19, 1984, P.L. 98-525, § 1405(56)(B), 98 Stat. 2626; Oct. 13, 1994, P.L. 103–355, § 2001(j)(2), 108 Stat. 3303.)

§ 7523. Tolls and fares: payment or reimbursement

Naval appropriations chargeable for transportation or travel are available for the payment or reimbursement of ferry, bridge, and similar tolls and of streetcar, bus, and similar fares. (Aug. 10, 1956, ch. 1041, 70A Stat. 464.)

§ 7524. Marine mammals: use for national defense purposes (a) AUTHORITY. Subject to subsection (c), the Secretary of Defense may authorize the taking of not more than 25 marine mammals each year for national defense purposes. Any such authorization may be made only with the concurrence of the Secretary of Commerce and after consultation with the Marine Mammal Commission established by section 201 of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1401).

(b) HUMANE TREATMENT REQUIRED.-A mammal taken under this section shall be captured, supervised, cared for, transported, and deployed in a humane manner consistent with conditions established by the Secretary of Commerce.

(c) PROTECTION FOR ENDANGERED SPECIES.-A mammal may not be taken under this section if the mammal is determined to be a member of an endangered or threatened species under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act of 1973 (16 U.S.C. 1533).

89-263 95-12

(d) APPLICATION OF OTHER ACT.-This section applies without regard to the provisions of the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972 (16 U.S.C. 1361 et seq.).

(Added P.L. 99–661, § 1354(a), Nov. 14, 1986, 100 Stat. 3996.)

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CHAPTER 931—CIVIL RESERVE AIR FLEET

[9501 to 9507. Repealed.]

9511. 9512.

9513.

Definitions.

Contracts for the inclusion or incorporation of defense features.

Use of military installations by Civil Reserve Air Fleet contractors.

[§§ 9501-9507. Repealed. P.L. 103-160, §§ 822(a)(2), (b)(3), (c)(2), 823(1), 827(c), Nov. 30, 1993, 107 Stat. 1705, 1706, 1707, 1713]

$9511. Definitions

In this chapter:

(1) The terms "aircraft", "citizen of the United States", "civil aircraft", "person", and "public aircraft" have the meanings given those terms by section 40102(a) of title 49.

(2) The term "passenger-cargo combined aircraft" means a civil aircraft equipped so that its main deck can be used to carry both passengers and property (including mail) simultaneously.

(3) The term "cargo-capable aircraft" means a civil aircraft equipped so that all or substantially all of the aircraft's capacity can be used for the carriage of property or mail.

(4) The term "passenger aircraft" means a civil aircraft equipped so that its main deck can be used for the carriage of individuals and cannot be used principally, without major modification, for the carriage of property or mail.

(5) The term "cargo-convertible feature" means equipment or design features included or incorporated in a passenger aircraft that can readily enable all or substantially all of that aircraft's main deck to be used for the carriage of property or mail.

(6) The term "Civil Reserve Air Fleet" means those aircraft allocated, or identified for allocation, to the Department of Defense under section 101 of the Defense Production Act of 1950 (50 U.S.C. App. 2071), or made available (or agreed to be made available) for use by the Department of Defense under a contract made under this title, as part of the program developed by the Department of Defense through which the Department of Defense augments its airlift capability by use of civil aircraft.

(7) The term "contractor" means a citizen of the United States (A) who owns or controls, or who will own or control, a new or existing aircraft and who contracts with the Secretary under section 9512 of this title to modify that aircraft by including or incorporating specified defense features in that aircraft and to commit that aircraft to the Civil Reserve Air Fleet, (B) who subsequently obtains ownership or control of a civil

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