Division A · Title XVI: Space Activities, Strategic Programs, and Intelligence Matters · Subtitle C: Nuclear Forces
The Navy must keep exclusive and priority use of Space Launch Complex 46 until the Chief of Naval Operations confirms that Space Launch Complex 51 has matching test capabilities and infrastructure and that the facilities there have been officially accepted and certified. Only after this notification can the Air Force reduce or change the Navy's use of Complex 46.
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the test capabilities and infrastructure at Space Launch Complex 51 are equivalent to such capabilities and infrastructure at Space Launch Complex 46 with respect to meeting the mission needs of the Secretary of the Navy; and
the Director of Navy Strategic Systems Programs has issued a final acceptance and certification of the facilities at Space Launch Complex 51.