[Milsurplus] demill law H. R. 1588 to affect mil rads.

[Joe Foley]

IT'S BACK!!

Let's all make it go away again, this time for good?



> DEMILL LAW rears its ugly head again.
> 
> Yes, they would seek to confiscate our green radios
> and vehicles.
> 
> It's a danger to our hobby of collecting military
> radios. 
> 
> please read on:
> 
> 
> GENTLEMEN,
>                 Once again we must put aside our
> differences, and
> unite as one against the common enemy we have
> defeated twice in the
> past
> three years, only to see it rise again to challenge
> us.
> 
>                 The 'National Defence Authorization
> Act for Fiscal
> Year 2004' has been
> put on the congressional calendar as Senate Bill 
> S.747, and House of
> Representatives Bill H. R. 1588.   
>                 S.747 contains Section 1047.    H.
> R. 1588 contains
> Section 1044.
> There is no need for me to tell you what these two
> (2) sections are
> about.
> 
>                 Following my head's up is the
> unedited text of Sec.
> 1047.    At the
> bottom of the page I have proved URL's to the
> Library of Congress web
> site of both House and Senate versions of the DEMIL
> Section.   Fiscal
> Year 2004 starts 1 October 2003, which means this
> bills have to be
> voted
> upon by Congress during the months of July and
> August 2003.
>                 By the way, July is next week.
> 
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>                                         S.747
> National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
> 2004 (Introduced in
> Senate)
>
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> SEC. 1047. AUTHORITY TO ENSURE DEMILITARIZATION OF
> SIGNIFICANT
> MILITARY
> EQUIPMENT FORMERLY OWNED BY THE DEPARTMENT OF
> DEFENSE.
> 
> (a) IN GENERAL- Chapter 153 of title 10, United
> States Code, is
> amended
> by inserting after section 2582 the following new
> section:
> 
> `Sec. 2583. Continued authority to require
> demilitarization of
> significant military equipment after disposal
> 
> `(a) AUTHORITY TO REQUIRE DEMILITARIZATION- The
> Secretary of Defense
> may
> require any person in possession of significant
> military equipment
> formerly owned by the Department of Defense--
> 
> `(1) to demilitarize the equipment ;
> `(2) to have the equipment demilitarized by a third
> party; or
> `(3) to return the equipment to the U.S. Government
> for
> demilitarization.
> 
> `(b) COST AND VALIDATION OF DEMILITARIZATION- When
> the
> demilitarization
> of significant military equipment is carried out by
> the person in
> possession of the equipment pursuant to paragraph
> (1) or (2) of
> subsection (a), the person shall be solely
> responsible for all
> demilitarization costs, and the United States shall
> have the right to
> validate that the equipment has been demilitarized.
> 
> `(c) RETURN OF EQUIPMENT TO THE UNITED STATES
> GOVERNMENT- When the
> Secretary of Defense requires the return of
> significant military
> equipment for demilitarization by the United States
> Government, the
> Secretary shall bear all costs to transport and
> demilitarize the
> equipment . If the person in possession of the
> significant military
> equipment obtained the property in the manner
> authorized by law or
> regulation and the Secretary determines that the
> cost to demilitarize
> and
> return the property to the person is prohibitive,
> the Secretary shall
> reimburse the person for the fair market value of
> the property or, if
> the
> fair market value is not readily ascertainable, the
> purchase cost of
> the
> property and for the reasonable transportation costs
> incurred by the
> person to purchase the equipment .
> 
> `(d) ESTABLISHMENT OF DEMILITARIZATION STANDARDS-
> The Secretary of
> Defense may prescribe by regulation what constitutes
> demilitarization
> for
> each type of significant military equipment .
> 
> `(e) EXCEPTIONS- This section does not apply--
> 
> `(1) when a person is in possession of significant
> equipment formerly
> owned by the Department of Defense for the purpose
> of demilitarizing
> the
> equipment pursuant to a United States Government
> contract;
> 
> `(2) to small arms weapons issued under the Defense
> Civilian
> Marksmanship
> Program established in title 36, United States Code;
> 
> `(3) to issues by the Department of Defense to
> museums where
> demilitarization has been performed in accordance
> with departmental
> regulations; and
> 
> `(4) to other issues and un demilitarized
> significant military
> equipment
> under the provisions of departmental regulations.
> 
> `(f) DEFINITION OF SIGNIFICANT MILITARY EQUIPMENT -
> In this section,
> the
> term `significant military equipment' means--
> 
> `(1) an article for which special export controls
> are warranted under
> the
> Arms Export Control Act (22 U.S.C. 2751 et seq.)
> because of its
> capacity
> for substantial military utility or capability, as
> identified on the
> United States Munitions List maintained under sect
> 121.1 of title 22,
> Code of Federal Regulations; and
> 
> `(2) any other article designated by the Department
> of Defense as
> requiring demilitarization before its disposal.'.
> 
> (b) CLERICAL AMENDMENT- The table of sections at the
> beginning of such
> chapter is amended by adding at the end the
> following new item:
> 
> `2583. Continued authority to require
> demilitarization of significant
> military equipment after disposal.'
> 
>
http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/F?c108:1:./temp/~c108hvCVmt:e292968:
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>                                         H.R.1588
> National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year
> 2004 (Introduced in
> House)
>
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