Sec. 1022. Refueling and complex overhaul of Nimitz-class aircraft carriers
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The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to carry out a nuclear refueling and complex overhaul on each of the following Nimitz-class aircraft carriers: U.S.S. George Washington (CVN–73). U.S.S. John C. Stennis (CVN–74). U.S.S. Harry S. Truman (CVN–75). U.S.S. Ronald Reagan (CVN–76). U.S.S. George H.W. Bush (CVN–77). Each such refueling and overhaul shall be carried out from amounts appropriated or otherwise made available within Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, for refueling the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers.
Unless expressly prohibited in a continuing resolution enacted after this date, if advance procurement funds are appropriated for a fiscal year to begin a refueling and complex overhaul on a Nimitz-class aircraft carrier identified in subsection (a), then Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy, appropriations in the amounts contained in the President’s Budget for that refueling and complex overhaul for the following Fiscal Year shall be available for obligation under a continuing resolution enacted for the following fiscal year to continue the refueling and complex overhaul on that aircraft carrier.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to incrementally fund contracts entered into for a nuclear refueling and complex overhaul authorized in subsection (a), for a period not to exceed six years after advance procurement funds for the nuclear refueling and complex overhaul effort are first obligated, from amounts appropriated or otherwise made available within Shipbuilding and Conversion, Navy for refueling the Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. A contract entered into under subsection
(c)shall provide that any obligation of the United States to make a payment under a contract for carrier refueling in a fiscal year subsequent to the initial year of contract execution is subject to the availability of appropriations.