Sec. 2803. Authorized cost variations for unspecified minor military construction
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Section 2853 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— in subsection (a)— by striking the cost authorized for a military construction project and all that follows; by adding a new subsection (a)(1) as follows: the cost authorized for a military construction project or for the construction, improvement, and acquisition of a military family housing project may be increased or decreased by not more than 25 percent of the amount appropriated for such project or 200 percent of the minor construction project ceiling specified in section 2805(a) of this title, whichever is less, if the Secretary concerned determines that such revised cost is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual variations in cost and that such variations in cost could not have reasonably been anticipated at the time the project was authorized by Congress; and ; and by adding a new subsection (a)(2) as follows: the cost of an unspecified minor military construction project undertaken pursuant to section 2805(b)(1) or section 2805(d) of this title may be increased above the applicable ceiling in section 2805(a)(2) or section 2805(d)(1) of this title by not more than 25 percent of such ceiling, if the Secretary concerned determines that such revised cost is required for the sole purpose of meeting unusual and unanticipated variations in cost occurring after award of the project. ; by redesignating subsection
(c)as subsection (c)(1); in the newly redesignated subsection (c)(1)— by striking The limitation on and inserting The limitations on the amount of ; by striking or and inserting and ; by striking does and inserting do ; by redesignating paragraphs
(1)and
(2)as subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)respectively; and in the redesignated subparagraph (A), by redesignating subparagraphs
(A)and
(B)as clauses
(i)and
(ii)respectively; and by adding a new subsection (c)(2) as follows: An unspecified minor military construction project undertaken pursuant to section 2805(b)(1) or section 2805(d) may be decreased in cost or reduced in scope at the discretion of the Secretary concerned. .