Ryan, It is my understanding from Sen Craig's office that the 1062
provisions came from Sen Levin from MI. Are there any MV'ers from that
state on list??? Please contact this gentlemen's office and voice your
opposition and remember this when the ballot box comes around. I find the
committee recommendation interesting in that they concider WWII items not
to be of a threat, yet why are they consider SME? Seems to me they are
talking out og both sides of their mouths on this one.
> [Original Message]
> From: Ryan M Gill <rmgill@mindspring.com>
> To: <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Date: 10/8/01 5:51:17 PM
> Subject: [MV] Demil Bill (S1438/Sec 1062)
>
> I did some poking around on the Thomas web server this evening, I
> found a few specific mentions of section 1062. One member of the
> Senate (Senator Craig) noted the problems with the section. See page
> 10050 of the congressional record.
>
> http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query Search for S10050 (a
> Congressional Record Page) on the word search.
>
> I also searched sub-committee reports and found the following...
>
> Authority to ensure demilitarization of significant military
> equipment formerly owned by the Department of Defense (sec. 1062)
>
> The committee recommends a provision that would provide authority to
> ensure demilitarization of significant military equipment formerly
> owned by the Department of Defense (DOD).
>
> The possession of improperly demilitarized DOD property by
> individuals and business entities was the subject of a recent study
> of the Defense Science Board and has raised considerable public
> concern. Section 1051 of the Strom Thurmond National Defense
> Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1999 required DOD to develop a plan
> for improving the demilitarization of excess and surplus defense
> property and propose appropriate legislation to clarify the authority
> of the government to recover critical defense property that has not
> been properly demilitarized. The Department complied with this
> requirement and proposed legislation addressing this issue.
>
> The provision recommended by the committee would make it unlawful for
> any person to possess significant military equipment formerly owned
> by DOD that has not been demilitarized, without proper authorization.
> Under this provision, the Secretary of
>
> Defense would be required to notify the Attorney General of potential
> violations of this prohibition, and the Attorney General would be
> authorized to take appropriate steps to ensure that the equipment is
> demilitarized or returned.
>
> The committee notes that military equipment would be covered by this
> provision only if it is specifically designated as significant
> military equipment. Public safety should be the foremost
> consideration in making any such designation, but the Secretary may
> also take into consideration the historic or cultural significance of
> certain equipment. For example, the committee does not believe that
> civil war cannon would or should be designated as significant
> military equipment. Similarly, the committee does not expect that
> World War II aircraft from which all weapons systems have been
> removed would or should be designated as significant military
> equipment.
>
>
> From what I've been able to determine, the section (1062) is
> something that Senator Strom Thurmond proposed as part of the
> original S1416 bill. If someone is in his district, you may want to
> give him a call and ask him what he was thinking.
>
>
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